Tag: USA
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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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Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis
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in GeneralThe legacy of structural racism in Minneapolis was laid bare to the world at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street, the location where George Floyd’s neck was pinned to the ground by a police officer’s knee. But it is also imprinted in streets, parks and neighborhoods across the city – the result of…
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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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Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning About the Decline of Scientific Thinking in America
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in GeneralNearly 20 years later, we have reached that point. Under the second Trump administration, DOGE has rushed to dismantle the scientific infrastructure of our government, haphazardly cutting the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA. Next, they’re going after our leading research universities, intentionally weakening the research engine that has fueled the…
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Con Trump una crisi transatlantica «senza precedenti»? Abbiamo dimenticato il 1971 di Nixon
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in GeneralEichengreen pensa tutto il male possibile di Trump però ha il pregio di vedere gli eventi attuali in un arco lungo della storia. Un suo articolo sul Financial Times mi ha riportato alla memoria una crisi dell’alleanza transatlantica che anche allora fu vissuta come terminale, epocale, irrimediabile, definitiva. Risale a 54 anni fa, nientemeno.
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Trump announces new auto tariffs in a major trade war escalation
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in GeneralThe move didn’t come as a huge surprise to automakers. An executive at one of the automakers, who spoke on background to CNN on Wednesday, said they had already been working with the assumption that auto tariffs would take effect next week. “We were all kind of expecting April 2 to be our day,” said…
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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…