Tag: politics
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Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals
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in GeneralAs the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost. “The question of how this war is going to end is actually an existential question for Europe,” said Wolfgang Ischinger, chair of this month’s Munich Security Conference. “It…
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Will Trump push the US and the world to breaking point?
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in GeneralTrump is also wrestling with another extraordinary potential adventure abroad. Aides have offered him options to enforce his red line with military action against Iran after he warned the US will “start shooting” if the regime cracks downs on rising protests. Despite his threats, hundreds of demonstrators have been killed.
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White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center
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in GeneralThe Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. The center was founded in 1960 and has facilitated generations of breakthroughs in climate and weather science. William Brangham discussed the move with climate scientist Kim Cobb and meteorologist Matthew Cappucci.
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Right-wing media silos leave MAGA flailing on ICE
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in GeneralThe Trump administration made a catastrophic miscalculation: They thought they could control the narrative through sheer force of lying. Now the cracks are showing everywhere. The great irony is that Trump’s 2024 achievement — expanding the Republican coalition — is being destroyed by his signature campaign promise of mass deportation executed with maximum cruelty. The…
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MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus
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in GeneralThe federal government has released multiple recruitment videos featuring scripture verses. “What’s striking is less that the federal government is using Bible verses in its promotional videos than that the agency doing the recruiting is Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” Wehner argues. “The message the Trump administration is sending is not subtle: ICE is doing the…
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Trump e i miliardi dietro la «pace» Ucraina-Russia: dal petrolio di Lukoil alla centrale di Zaporizhzhia
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in GeneralGli affari di grossi investitori americani, in stretta collaborazione con la Casa Bianca e d’intesa con il Cremlino, stanno diventando sempre più leggibili
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Bannon: With MAGA Maximalism, The Civil War Will Play Out Inside The Democratic Party
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in GeneralThis is the age of Trump. He’s totally redefined politics and power in America with no political training because he was a populist and nationalist at the moment when populist nationalism was needed to stop the managed decline of the country by the elites,” Bannon said. “Does he need a third term to see that…
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Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way
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in GeneralThe fentanyl story is based on an argument about history: The United States went from greatness to crisis because open-border Democrats betrayed the honest, hardworking people of America by exporting jobs and allowing in foreign drugs. Stopping the drugs, Mr. Trump wants us to believe, will let the wholesome, traditional American culture that he idealizes…
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Barrett, footnote 2, or Why Mr. Smith should stay in Washington
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in GeneralAcross the history of Supreme Court opinions, some cases are known more for a footnote than for a holding. If the nation is lucky, Jack Smith will follow the cue in footnote 2 of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s concurrence in Trump v. United States, allowing us to forget the mess that is the rest of that…