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12.06.24 - 5:00am

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“It’s Going to Be Fun” Says Ramaswamy, Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare
How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the U.S.


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12.05.24 - 5:00am

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The Champion of Working Class Voters’ Big Con, As Trump Forms a Government Of, By, and For Plutocrats
The Syria Rebels Just Blew Up Secret U.S.-Israel-UAE Efforts to Lure Assad Away From Iran
What Trump’s Pick of Feinberg as Number Two at DOD Means For the Silicon Valley Defense Tech Takeover of the Pentagon Budget


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12.04.24 - 5:00am

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South Korea’s President Yoon Declares Martial Law Then Has to Back Down
Trump Threatens There’ll Be “All Hell To Pay in the Middle East” If Hamas Does Not Release the Hostages Before His Inauguration
Will the Apolitical Rank and File at the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue as Their Director?


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12.03.24 - 5:00am

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The Democrats as a Vision Starved Blob Made up of Candidates, Billionaire Donors and Data Addled Consultants
Trump Wins by Calling the System Rigged, While the Democrats Remain Silent
Will the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue?


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Richard Parker / Moira Donegan / Stephan Schwartz

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11.29.24 - 5:00am

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What We can Be Thankful For in These Bleak Times
How Women Can Resist and Fight Back Against a Regime of Hate and Misogyny
What We As Individuals Can Do to Resist and Overcome the Coming Darkness


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Scott Kennedy / Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera / Habib Battah

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11.27.24 - 5:00am

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Trump Declares a Day One Trade War on China, Mexico, and Canada
Tariffs on Mexico Will Not Solve Immigration or Drug Consumption in the U.S.
An Update on the Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hezbollah


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Asher Kaufman / Nitish Pahwa / Amanda Tyler

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11.26.24 - 5:00am

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A 60-Day Ceasefire Expected Soon Between Israel and Hezbollah
With Elon Musk Musing About Buying MSNBC, We Look Into the Future of Cable TV
Christian Nationalists Make Inroads Into Indoctrinating Texas Schoolchildren


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11.22.24 - 5:00am

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Gaetz Withdraws Attorney General Nomination, as Trump’s Pentagon Choice Faces Sexual Assault Allegations
The International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu, His Former Defense Minister, and an Hamas Leader Presumed Dead
An Update on the House Vote To Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Nonprofits


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11.21.24 - 5:00am

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Can a MAGA Bill to Kill Nonprofits They Don’t Like Disguised as an Anti-Terrorism Bill Be Stopped Tomorrow?
As Comcast Sheds MSNBC, Could Elon Musk Buy it and Turn it Into a Platform For Right Wing Trolls?
The U.S. and NATO Are Poised For Hybrid Warfare Retaliation From Putin, Now that US Missiles are Striking Russia


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11.20.24 - 5:00am

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Evidence of Drug Use and Underage Sex by Matt Gaetz is Cracking Open, as the Senate is Soon to be Put to the Test
With the Focus on Trump’s Appalling Choices, Will RFK Jr Sneak By?
45 Hong Kong Democracy Activists Jailed Under China’s National Security Law


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