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Retired translator, writer, and editor with a 1970-vintage BS in physics.

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Judge Cannon Ordered to Get Moving on Jack Smith’s Trump Report The president’s favorite judge was called out by a panel of judges for slow-walking a case that would release the special counsel’s full report on Donald Trump.

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'A panel of judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Judge Aileen Cannon needs to rule on motions to release Volume II of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case within 60 days, noting an “undue delay” thus far.'

03.11.2025 23:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Treasury Dept. says inflation is running 'above target' as Trump insists there is 'no inflation' Treasury said the mass departure of federal workers, President Trump's immigration policy and artificial intelligence are all impacting the labor market.

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'The Treasury Department said Monday that inflation "remained above the target of 2 percent in the third quarter," even as President Donald Trump and administration officials continue to assert that there is "no inflation."'

03.11.2025 23:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Altercation With ICE Prompts a Police Chief to Push Back

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'[T]he Colorado Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the incident in Durango, putting ... Colorado on a potential collision course with the Trump administration, which has threatened to prosecute any local officials if they charge federal agents.'

03.11.2025 23:49 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump's National Guard deployments aren't random. They were planned years ago President Trump and several others now high up in his second administration have been talking about using the National Guard to help with mass deportations — and possibly invoking the Insurrection Act...

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03.11.2025 23:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A major question for the Supreme Court: Will it treat Trump as it did Biden? A major question hangs over the Supreme Court’s closely watched case on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs: Will the conservative majority hold the Republican president to the same exacting sta...

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03.11.2025 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump threatens Nigeria with military action, escalating claims of Christian persecution US President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his threat of a possible military attack against Nigeria after accusing the country of allowing the killing of Christians by Islamists. Trump alleged on so...

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Will Nigeria be this century's Sudetenland?

03.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My oath was to defend the Constitution — not to let Alabama rewrite it: op-ed This amendment isn’t just bad policy. It’s unconstitutional. It’s un-American.

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01.11.2025 22:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Warnock Grills Trump Nominee Who Called Food Bank Funding a “Slush Fund” Today, Senator Reverend Warnock grilled Trump Administration nominee about his involvement in the Trump Administration’s decision to cancel $500 million of funding for food banks in March 2025 Trump A...

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01.11.2025 00:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Heritage Foundation Staff Revolt Over Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes The conservative think tank behind Project 2025 has joined the Republican civil war over Tucker Carlson’s softball interview with a neo-Nazi.

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01.11.2025 00:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Good lord': Trump's 'spluttering' DOJ mocked as hearing marred by 'embarrassing' failures The Justice Department was back in court on Friday as part of the ongoing court battle with Portland, Oregon, where federal agents and National Guard soldiers have been dispatched to carry out Preside...

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DoJ tried to introduce evidemce that *their* witness said he had no knowledge of and tried to exclude evidence that it had already stipulated to.

31.10.2025 23:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk The person refused to even tell health officials their address.

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This [expletive deleted] is keeping health officials from, among othrr actions, notifying persons who mihht have been exposed to the illness.

31.10.2025 23:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Inhumane' conditions at Chicago-area ICE facility, advocates allege in new lawsuit Attorneys with the ACLU of Illinois and the MacArthur Justice Center say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have denied people being held at the Broadview facility private calls with atto...

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'... and have blocked members of Congress, faith leaders and journalists from entering the building, creating a “black box” they say has allowed authorities to act “with impunity.”'

Blocking Congress members is probably illegal due to Congress' oversight duties.

31.10.2025 22:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DHS asked Texas for driver’s license data for citizenship checks - The Texas Tribune It’s the latest step to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/31/d...

31.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voting form President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced. U.S.

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'“Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her opinion.'

31.10.2025 22:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
ICE agents looming over several children, saying "It's easier putting children in zip ties than it was storming the Capitol."

ICE agents looming over several children, saying "It's easier putting children in zip ties than it was storming the Capitol."

31.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Illegal Boat Strikes Prompts Historic Move from the U.N. The U.N. human rights chief called the strikes “unacceptable.”

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'The U.N. human rights chief has taken the unprecedented step of condemning America’s military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, accusing the U.S. of violating international law.'

31.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ignoring evidence, Kristi Noem says no citizens have been detained by immigration agents Noem’s comments might’ve appeared encouraging to those who don’t know better, but there’s ample evidence to suggest she was lying.

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'According to the ProPublica tally published two weeks ago (which has not been independently verified by MSNBC), more than 170 American citizens had been [detained, including] nearly 20 children ....'

31.10.2025 19:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund The ruling came one day before funding for SNAP, more commonly known as food stamps, was set to lapse.

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'U.S District Judge John McConnell's ruling from the bench came shortly after another federal judge in a separate case said that the Trump administration's plan not to pay out SNAP benefits beginning on Nov. 1 due to the ongoing shutdown was "unlawful" ....'

31.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trump cuts 2026 US refugee admissions to historic low. Most will be White South Africans. The number of refugees allowed into the US will fall to 7,500 from 125,000, under new Trump policy. Most will be White South Africans.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

31.10.2025 00:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Noem rejects Illinois Gov. Pritzker's request to pause immigration actions over Halloween weekend Noem made the comments amid a firestorm of controversy in the Chicago area, as immigration enforcement operations have devolved into chaotic confrontations with residents and activists.

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Noem doesn't care if her agents use tear gas on children ...

31.10.2025 00:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chuck Schumer scolds reporter for spreading lies about SNAP funding: "Who are we kidding here?" - LGBTQ Nation "There's enough money to start feeding people right away."

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'“$6 billion is a lot of money, and they’re using it for other things — $20 billion for Argentina, hundreds of millions for Kristi Noem’s plane — who are we kidding here? ... The bottom line is they can fund it just as in 2019, just as in other shutdowns ....”'

30.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

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30.10.2025 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Trump’s Boat Killings Would Be Hard to Prosecute

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
'It is illegal for the U.S. military to deliberately target civilians — even those suspected of being criminals — who do not pose a threat of imminent violence. ... This is according to U.S. laws ... and international law accepted by the U.S. military.'

30.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...

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'The details of the agreement, which haven’t previously been reported, show it contains alarmingly few guardrails to ensure accuracy and scant specifics on how the data will be kept secure, election and privacy lawyers who have reviewed it say.'

30.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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America’s officially running out of pennies — and it’s costing retailers millions | Fortune “Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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'Merchants in multiple regions of the country have run out of pennies and are unable to produce exact change. Meanwhile, banks are unable to order fresh pennies and are rationing pennies for their customers.'

30.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trump instructs Pentagon to 'immediately' start testing US nuclear weapons Trump's announcement breaks with more than three decades of policy. The last time the United States tested a nuclear weapon was in 1992.

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30.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE deported a man who claims US citizenship after federal judge blocked his removal A federal judge had blocked ICE from deporting Chanthila Souvannarath, warning ‘inherent and obvious harm’ in deporting a citizen

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

'On October 23, a federal judge blocked ICE from deporting him while he challenged his arrest and detention, but he was put on a plane for Laos the next day.'

29.10.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Democratic AGs and governors sue USDA for suspending SNAP benefits More than two dozen Democratic states are suing the Agriculture Department after the Trump administration said it would not use emergency funds to pay SNAP benefits during the shutdown.

www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

28.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Americans deserve affordable home insurance Fed up with skyrocketing home insurance rates? Demand home insurance companies adopt basic protections for all policyholders. Take action by signing Consumer Reports’ petition today.

action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251003-...

27.10.2025 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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America Doesn’t Have Enough Weapons for a Major Conflict. These Workers Know Why. This summer, employees at several big defense companies went on strike. Their grievances highlight a much larger problem brewing beneath the surface.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

27.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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