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The Daily Dean: Bondi & Halligan must be disbarred! My latest Daily Dean is focused on: What Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan did was not incompetence--It was intentional misconduct.

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What a topsy-turvy time we live in.

Wowwww… so dirty.

@aftynbehn.bsky.social making Republicans get desperate.

Dismantling the Endangered Species Act will hurt a lot more than just wildlife The Trump administration's proposed rollbacks open the door for more drilling, mining, and logging.

Dismantling the Endangered Species Act will hurt a lot more than just wildlife

Soaring Medicare Part B Premium Takes Big Bite Out of Social Security Increase | Common Dreams "Medicare shouldn’t have premiums... or copays or deductibles," said US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. "Medicare should cover vision, dental, and hearing. And Medicare should cover everyone."

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Bari Weiss: Bounds of ‘Acceptable Debate’ at CBS News Will Range From Alan Dershowitz to Dana Loesch | Common Dreams Bari Weiss says she seeks to use her role at CBS News to "redraw the lines" of "acceptable debate" in US politics. Who does she find acceptable? On the right: NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch. On the left...

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Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.

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ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.

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Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...

NEW: A @propublica.org & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social analysis found dozens of cases in recent months which officers deployed "less lethal" weapons in ways that flout the government’s own rules — like aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin and deploying chemical agents near children.

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Nevada regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of nearly 800 environmental violations in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.”

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‘This is truly insane’: Trump stuns with eye-popping multi-million-dollar purchase Buried within a mountain of financial disclosures made public recently is a potentially multi-million-dollar purchase made by President Donald Trump between August and October, a purchase that has lef...

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'Crisis': Expert slams Trump for deporting student for years-old case she wasn't aware of President Donald Trump's administration summarily shipped a college student out of the country over an order from years ago that she wasn't even aware of, not even giving her time to realize she neede...

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Trump admin 'misstates' key facts to Supreme Court about Chicago ICE raids: report The Trump administration made mistaken and misleading claims over the deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago in an emergency docket to the Supreme Court, according to a new report. A New York ...

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Waiting for Liberation Day at the Supreme Court - Truthdig In a rare shift, the court appears set to use originalism and textualism to strike down at least some of Trump’s overreaching tariffs.

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Is the Tide Starting to Turn Against AIPAC? Backing AIPAC may now be a political liability for candidates facing progressive challengers in Democratic primaries.

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Prosecutors at International Tribunal on Palestine Accuse Israel of Ecocide Prosecutors at the International People’s Tribunal on Palestine decried Israel’s destruction of farms and water sources.

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It’s Not Just MTG: Other Republicans in Congress Are Reportedly Eyeing an Exit Why? According to one GOP House representative, “This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage.”

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Sen. Reuben Gallego Destroys Pete Hegseth Over Sen. Mark Kelly Investigation Sen. Reuben Gallego (D-AZ) called Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth a coward who would never be the man that Sen. Mark Kelly is in response to the military investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly.

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Why Mitch McConnell helped kill the hemp buzz - Salon.com The Kentucky senator helped end a loophole in hemp law he championed. Now a $28 billion industry could be destroyed

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Trump’s threats against Dems show he is unfit to lead The president's vile language and investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly could have dangerous consequences

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Elon Musk's beloved DOGE has closed. But its legacy is deadly DOGE's final tallies include millions of deaths projected by 2030 and over 200,000 job cuts

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RFK Jr. and the inexplicable appeal of repulsive men How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.

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Federal Judge Calls Out Pam Bondi's Attempt at Time Travel While Disqualifying Lindsey Halligan The judge threw out the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James and wrote that Bondi couldn't "reach back in time and rewrite the terms of a past appointment.”

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Just Follow Orders or Obey the Law? What US Troops Told Us About Refusing Illegal Commands As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean allegedly smuggling drugs,

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Quiet, Piggy | Common Dreams Whew. Last week was...a week. Enraging, astounding, often venomous, with flailing small dicktator energy all around. There were pigs, dogs, bonesaws, pedophiles, tumbling polls, charming Marxists, alm...

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Trump Should Be Removed From Office and Prosecuted | Common Dreams Under Trump’s neofascist worldview, the only “legal” act is obedience, while defiance of his whims and illegal orders is a crime.

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Warfare Over Healthcare: My Premium Skyrockets to $2600 Per Month | Common Dreams ​As a nation, we manage to muster up trillions each year to fund global conflict and destruction while claiming the price of keeping our own alive is too much.

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Does Anyone Even Remember Trump Once Favored Medicare for All? | Common Dreams Who's going to pay for covering everybody, including the currently uninsured? "The government's going to pay for it," Trump said in a 2015 interview.

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'Venezuela, for the American Oil Companies, Will Be a Field Day,' Says US Lawmaker Pushing Invasion | Common Dreams US Rep. María Salazar (R-Fla.) discussed President Donald Trump's potential military invasion of Venezuela on Fox Business, and said that it "will be a field day" for the American oil companies.

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Israeli Assault Has Plunged Gaza Into Worst Economic Collapse Ever Recorded: UN Report | Common Dreams UN report reveals Israel's war in Gaza caused worst economic crisis ever recorded, with 2.3 million living in poverty. Gaza faces long road to recovery.

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