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Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right? How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science

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Doug Jones will enter 2026 Alabama governor’s race Campaign paperwork is to be filed this week.

Against Tommy Tuberville.

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BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:

"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke What the Georgia representative learned in Washington

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Number of children abducted in Nigerian school attack raised to more than 300 Gunmen abducted 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from St. Mary’s School in Niger state, Nigeria, according to an updated tally issued Saturday by the Christian Association of Nigeria.

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The Ghislaine Maxwell Emails Extra toilet paper is just one of the privileges the former Epstein associate is enjoying in prison.

"The dozens of emails that I obtained, part of a cache of communications that a nurse at the facility provided to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, are notably free of regret, remorse, shame, self-doubt."

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Trump Told a Woman, ‘Quiet, Piggy,’ When She Asked Him About Epstein The comment continues the president’s long-standing pattern of denigrating female journalists.

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Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians Pending bills targeting decennial census and American Community Survey would make results less reliable

Part of the GOP agenda to undermine the US Government:

"Steube’s bill, the Freedom from Government Surveys Act, would remove potential criminal penalties for not answering the seven-page survey, in effect making the ACS voluntary."

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Sorry, America. Tommy Tuberville might sue you. Other senators have said they won't use a sweetheart provision in the budget resolution to enrich themselves. But not Tuberville.

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Opinion | I’m a Psychoanalyst. This Is What Technology Is Doing to Us.

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Michael Wolff’s Unsatisfying Explanation for Cozying Up to Epstein The writer insists that it’s normal to “ingratiate” oneself with sources—even if that means serving as a de facto media adviser to the late sexual predator.

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The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal When QAnon meets Veep

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I see Megyn Kelly is at the “raping 15 year-olds isn’t as bad as toddlers” stage of grief.”

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

Families of 9 Camp Mystic flooding victims file lawsuits alleging gross negligence after 27 girls and counselors died | CNN The families of seven campers and two counselors who died in the catastrophic flooding that swept through Camp Mystic this summer are suing the Texas camp and its owners, accusing them of gross neglig...

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Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent | CNN Politics The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates ...

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Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

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"The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families..."

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Is Burying the Trees Killed by Wildfires a Climate Solution? - Inside Climate News Proponents tout biomass burial to create carbon credits as a win-win-win for the climate, fire-scarred landscapes and those looking to offset their emissions.

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14th UPS plane crash victim found, NTSB shares new details on final moments in cockpit The bell could be heard 37 seconds into the UPS plane's final cockpit audio recording.

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I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

“Treasury has clearly been enacting unlegislated tax cuts,” said Kyle Pomerleau, a tax economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank.

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US troops given German food bank advice amid shutdown – DW – 11/05/2025 The US Army Garrison Bavaria removed references to German food banks and other discounted food provision services from its "shutdown guidance" web page.

How embarrasing...

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"We're Norman Rockwell's family. Trump's DHS has shamefully misused his work. | Opinion"

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Boeing won't face criminal charge over 737 Max crashes that killed hundreds of people A federal judge in Texas has dismissed a criminal conspiracy charge against Boeing related to two 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people. U.S.

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Prosecutors Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Can They Convict? What happens when you indict a ham sandwich?

Prosecutors Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Can They Convict?
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Mamdani Is the Foil Trump Wants Prepare to hear a lot about New York’s new mayor.

No Paywall... inconceivable that a president of the United States could contemplate taking such actions because of politics but he has proved again and again that he will take them and worse...

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A Confederacy of Toddlers The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

"Americans have learned that guardrails are easily destroyed. Restoring them will take time—because they have to be repaired by each of us, one person at a time, making small but important decisions about how we want to live."

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November 1, 2025 Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J.

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

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