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Kash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s War They were let go during a purge of people who investigated Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

Patel fired FBI team of Iran experts because they had participated the investigation of Trump

newrepublic.com/post/207263/... via @newrepublic.com

03.03.2026 19:43 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

Trump's thugs confiscated children's drawings and crayons at the Dilley, TX concentration camp

www.propublica.org/article/dill...

03.03.2026 02:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Labor Secretary Is a Rare Presence at Department in Turmoil

Just when you think Trump couldn't have possibly picked a worse labor secretary than Alex Acosta... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

02.03.2026 12:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

How a Call From Trump Ignited a Bitter Feud Between Two U.S. Allies

Befuddled and unprepared Trump botched a call and sparked a confrontation between Saudi Arabia and the UAE

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/w...

27.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“A vulnerable man — nearly blind and unable to speak English — was left alone on a cold winter night with no known attempt to leave him in a safe, secure location. That decision from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was unprofessional and inhumane."

www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

26.02.2026 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please tell me there's more to this story :)

24.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Callous Trump and Rubio cutting off life-saving aid to 7 countries because "there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests”

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

23.02.2026 13:28 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1

Denmark Rejects Trump’s Plan to Send Hospital Boat to Greenland

Maybe Trump could send a hospital ship to help the millions of Americans who've lost their health insurance

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

22.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Big baby Trump is throwing a tariff tantrum--10% on everything, no 15% on everything. That'll show us

21.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Why Do So Few African Farmers Have Land Titles?: An APSA Public Scholarship Program Summary In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Deborah Saki, covers the new article by Matthew K. Ribar, Stanford University, "Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa". In developed economies, owning land usually comes with paperwork such as a deed, a title, or some official proof of ownership.

Why do so few African farmers get land titles despite easy access? Matthew Ribar's @apsrjournal article reveals: village chiefs block them in centralized countries, but push them in decentralized ones. Read clear summary by @deborah_saki on PSNow

19.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

Trump's brainworm-addled, bear-corpse-descecrator gives another boost to quacks

www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

18.02.2026 12:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

ICE arrests and deports 5-year-olds but spares Trump's criminal pal (and gives him 5-star treatment)

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

18.02.2026 12:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

How a Trump Tax Break Rescued Horse Racing

Trump cut health care and public assistance--but wealthy horse owners made out okay

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

16.02.2026 12:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Prosecutor Says Federal Officials Gave Wrong Information About ICE Shooting

DHS forced to admit its lies (oops, I mean "material inconsistencies") in another Minnesota shooting and wrongful prosecution--where are the consequences?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

13.02.2026 12:24 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Frustrated, doddering former "Affordability President" moans affordability "is a con job" and “doesn’t mean anything to anybody” before nodding off to sleep at his own cabinet meeting

03.12.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Donald Trump tells reporter "quiet, piggy" when asked about Epstein files The president made the comment during a gaggle with the press aboard Air Force One on Friday.

The doddering misogynist-in-chief barked "quiet, piggy" at a female reporter--he needs to go now

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

18.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms. Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving ...

They're not pro-life, they're anti-woman

www.propublica.org/article/wisc...

17.11.2025 13:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

Noem sent $220 million to her friends

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

14.11.2025 12:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

Trump “knew about the girls” and "spent hours" at Epstein's house with a victim

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

12.11.2025 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...

Listeria and Salmonella must have bought into Trump's crypto

www.propublica.org/article/fore...

07.11.2025 13:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.

Bird flu is surging through U.S. flocks, and Trump has gutted the country's ability to fight it--a new spike in egg prices isn't far off

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

06.11.2025 13:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

U.S. layoffs in October were the HIGHEST for that month in 20 YEARS--no wonder why Trump is suppressing the monthly job report

www.reuters.com/business/wor...

06.11.2025 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

NC Republican Party Communications Director threatens reporter, "I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter...I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

www.propublica.org/article/paul...

30.10.2025 18:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TACO backs down and accepts a one-year cease-fire in the trade war he started with China. All that economic turmoil FOR NOTHING

30.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0