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Musk Shuts Down USAID After Trump Illegally Freezes Foreign Aid for 90 Days
The Failure of the Democrats and the American Left In Allowing a Disastrous Misanthrope to Be Elected President Not Just Once, But Twice
Do 76 Million Americans Not Want a Functioning Government and Prefer to be Entertained by a Reality TV Star?


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Republican Senators Who Know Better Appear to Roll Over For Trump, Poised to Confirm the Disastrous Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard
Rather Than Fix the FAA, Our Reality TV President Blames DEI For the Potomac Plane Crash


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Will Republican Senators Watch the Video Caroline Kennedy Sent Them Describing Her Cousin RFK Jr. as a “Predator?”
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Trump Has Already Violated His Oath of Office on the 14th Amendment Birthright and the Funding Freeze He Had to Rescind


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Michelle García / Sam Quinones / Thomas Berger

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01.29.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Reality TV Theatre of Cruelty Underway
Trump Will Hurt the Construction Industry, Now in Demand to Rebuild Houses Lost to Hurricanes and Wildfires
Can Musk Buy Elections in the UK and Germany As He Just Did Here?


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Dharna Noor / Herb Lin / Natalie Melnyczuk

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01.28.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry, Which Spent $445 Million to Elect Him and the Republican Congress
China’s DeepSeek AI Model Threatens U.S. Dominance, as Tech Stocks Tumble
Will Trump Fall For Putin’s Flattery?


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01.24.25 - 5:00am

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A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump’s Firehose of Reactionary Initiatives
Trump Threatens to Sanction Putin and Calls on OPEC to Lower Oil Prices to Force Russia to End Its War On Ukraine
The Tech-Industrial Complex’s Plans to Capture the Defense Budget


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Anthea Butler / Loch Johnson / Craig Unger

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01.23.25 - 5:00am

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A Real Christian Confronts Trump, Unlike the Christo-Fascists and Evangelical Hucksters Who Worship the False Idol
Trump’s Choices to Head American Intelligence Might As Well Have Been Chosen By Putin
The Treason That Helped Elect Nixon, Reagan, and Trump


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Michael Podhorzer / Elizabeth Goitein / Spencer Sunshine

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How the Roberts Court Laid the Groundwork For a Plutocratic and Theocratic Takeover of American Democracy
Trump’s Plans From 1798 Law to Use the U.S. Military Against Migrants and Drug Cartels
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Today Trump Issued a Death Sentence to Our Children and Grandchildren
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The Crypto Grift of $Trump, Even Before He Became the Grifter-in-Chief


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An Analysis of the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal
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