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Trump Tears Down the East Wing for a Gilded Ballroom While Government Workers Aren’t Getting Paid–Trump’s Judges Overturn District Court Rulings for Troops to Intimidate Portland and Chicago–Will Trump Attack Venezuela to Please Little Marco?

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Trump Tears Down the East Wing for a Gilded Ballroom While Washington’s Government Workers Aren’t Getting Paid We begin with the vandalism underway at the White House where the East Wing is being torn down to build a vanity project for Trump, a $250 million ballroom gilded with garish gold and glittering chandeliers at a … Continued

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Hamas Moves to Assert Control Over Gaza Making the Prospect of an Arab/Muslim Police Force Taking Over Dubious–As Trump’s Administration Demonization of the American Left is Ludicrous, We Look Into Rifts Between the Fundis and the Realos–How Far Will the Country Sink Into the Trump Abyss of Corruption?

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Hamas Moves to Assert Control Over Gaza Making the Prospect of an Arab/Muslim Police Force Taking Over Dubious We begin with the scant details in the Israel/Hamas peace plan that are more about the destination than how to get there. With Hamas displaying its priority of taking control of Gaza and executing its Palestinian enemies … Continued

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Veteran Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller, DAWN’s Sarah Leah Whitson, and former CIA analyst Paul Pillar join to unpack Trump’s proposed Gaza peace and reconstruction plan, the exclusion of Palestinians from negotiations, and the uncertain prospects for its success.

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A Veteran Middle East Negotiator on the Gaza Peace Deal and Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan We begin with the return of Israeli prisoners minus the remains of many hostages, the release of 1,700 Palestinian prisoners, Donald Trump’s address to the Israeli Knesset and the meeting of regional leaders in Egypt and speak with Aaron … Continued

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On the second anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks, we examine how $21.7 billion in U.S. military aid has fueled Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, how a federal judge pushed back against Trump’s militarized overreach in Portland, and why author Cory Doctorow says the digital world has gone to s**t—and what we can do about it.

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On the Second Anniversary of the October 7 Massacre: The Role of $21.7 Billion in U.S. Military Aid We begin with the anniversary of the horrific attack on Israel by Hamas against mostly civilians two years ago and assess the role of the U.S. in enabling so much death and destruction that has followed, given … Continued

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We assess growing alarm over Trump’s mental state with psychiatrist Dr. Allen Frances, unpack Trump’s contradictory soybean bailouts with political scientist Maria Victoria Murillo, and examine America’s staggering wealth inequality with Chuck Collins, who reveals that 905 billionaires now own more than 66 million U.S. households combined.

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Is Trump Crazier Than Ever Or Has He Always Been Crazy? We begin with increasing alarm at Trump’s mental state and now Governor Pritzker of Illinois is calling for the Vice President to invoke the 25th Amendment which would require the cabinet to agree that the president is not mentally fit to continue in office, … Continued