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    MO Republicans Repeal Paid Sick Leave & MinWage Inflation Adjustments

    https://missouriindependent.com/2025/07/10/missouri-gov-kehoe-signs-bill-repealing-paid-sick-leave/ Missouri workers who started accruing paid sick leave on May 1 will lose it Aug. 28 under legislation signed Thursday by Gov. Mike Kehoe. The new benefit, linked to an increase in the minimum...
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    Israel Air Strikes Tent Full of Journalists

    Deliberately. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/israel-says-killed-al-jazeera-journalist-claiming-was-hamas-leader-rcna224189 Five Al Jazeera journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Sunday, the network said, with the Israel Defense Forces claiming one was a Hamas...
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    Hegseth Boosts Video of Pastors Saying Women Shouldn't Vote, Advocating Repeal of 19th Amendment

    https://apnews.com/article/women-hegseth-defense-secretary-religion-d962f472910fb47a0c66cd37b01f550d In the post, Hegseth commented on an almost seven-minute-long report by CNN examining Doug Wilson, cofounder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, or CREC. The report featured a...
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    Retirement Benefits Denied for AF Vets Involuntarily Separated for Being Trans

    https://apnews.com/article/air-force-transgender-no-early-retirement-e6a4da806f2cc2bdc05f49438cbd26fd The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without...
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    Ted Cruz Engages in a Bit of Bigot-Baiting

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/nyregion/cruz-hochul-head-scarf-officer-funeral.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cU8.dVNX.cBPZugotoEv9&smid=url-share As New Yorkers mourned the victims of a mass shooting last week in a Midtown Manhattan office building, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas...
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    Swamp Drained: NIH COO Fired for Steering $3m Contract to Wife’s Firm

    https://wapo.st/4nR3jss A $3.3 million NIH contract to a Louisiana company, Argo Chasing, named Trish Duffy Schnabel, the wife of the NIH’s chief operating officer on its list of staff, according to the officials. The award, made in early July, supports work on several matters including autism...
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    Border Patrol Blasts Into House, Likely Retaliation for Car Accident

    https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/huntington-park-border-patrol-agents-door-explosion/3734095/ Last week, a guy (US citizen) rear ended a Border Patrol vehicle while it was engaged in an operation. He was released at the scene. This week, Border Patrol sends an entire tactical unit to...
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    Iran Turns the Other Cheek: Responds to Strikes with Act of Charity to US

    https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/iranian-aligned-hackers-claim-responsibility-for-attack-on-trumps-truth-social-platform/ The non-profit think tank the Center for Internet Security (CIS) and Multiple Social media watchdogs confirmed that an Iranian-aligned hacktivist group called “313 Team”...
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    Senate Budget Provision Would Sell Off USPS' New Fleet of EV's, Costing $1B+

    https://wapo.st/4ei36u2 A little-noticed provision of President Donald Trump and Republicans’ massive tax and immigration legislation would force the government to undo billions of dollars in electric vehicle investments made by the U.S. Postal Service, unwinding much of the Biden...
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    Trump Pardons Vet Who Stole Grenades from Army

    https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jan-6-defendant-who-got-busted-with-illegal-guns-and-army-grenades-gets-the-trump-pardon-treatment/ Jeremy Brown was convicted for his participation in the Jan 6 insurrection. During the investigation, feds discovered a bunch of illegal weapons including a...
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    Analysis: Trump's Yemen Bombings Killed Nearly as Many Civilians as Prior 23 Years' Combined

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/trump-yemen-bombings-killed-civilians-us-attacks-analysis The US bombing campaign of Yemen under Donald Trump led to the deaths of almost as many civilians in two months as in the previous 23 years of US attacks on Islamists and militants in the...
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    Two MN Dem Pols + Spouses Shot in Targeted Shooting

    Rep. Melissa Hortman, Sen. John Hoffman shot in 'targeted' shootings: Sources Two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot by someone impersonating a police officer, sources confirmed to FOX 9. Sen. John Hoffman and Rep. Melissa Hortman, as well as their spouses, were shot in the...
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    Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Trump Pardons Tax-Cheating Son of Donor/Fundraiser

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/trump-pardon-paul-walczak-tax-crimes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KU8.JA6b.kjLjH6R92-nK&smid=url-share Mr. Walczak’s pardon application argued that his criminal prosecution was motivated more by his mother’s efforts for Mr. Trump than by his...
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    Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Trump Pardons Another Corrupt Official

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5319140-trump-pardons-scott-jenkins/ Story from when he was originally convicted: https://wapo.st/4jwvfi8 I suppose the thinking is that abuse works like a criminal conviction - it doesn't count if it's pardoned away. That's how that works, right?
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    RFK Jr Takes Family Swimming in Contaminated River

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/rfk-jr-rock-creek-bacteria.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G08.qPCh.y4qtl3PA6XAp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a...
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    Trump Pushing Starlink Adoption in Trade Negotiations

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/07/elon-musk-starlink-trump-tariffs/ A series of internal government messages obtained by The Post reveal how U.S. embassies and the State Department have pushed nations to clear hurdles for U.S. satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by...
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    $TRUMP Token "Investors" Mostly Foreign: Bloomberg

    https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-trump-memecoin-foreign-crypto-traders/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-meme-coin-top-bu-1235333516/ More than half of the top holders of President Donald Trump's memecoin - who are jockeying for dinner with the president - have...
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    Baltimore On Track for Fewest Murders Since 1970

    https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news/2025-05-01/baltimore-city-hits-new-record-in-homicides-drop Baltimore City hit a new record low for monthly homicides in April with five reported killings. That is the lowest number of monthly homicides since the city began keeping monthly records in 1970...
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    Baltimore County Man Arrested for Attack on Day Workers

    https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/home-depot-explosion-brent-goetz-BHK5K7Q3N5H33MEYNYSNCEJFLU/ https://www.wbaltv.com/article/man-threw-air-soft-grenade-people-dangerous-denied-bail/64635994...
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    Johns Hopkins & AEI Announce DEI Program for Conservative Academics

    https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/21/johns-hopkins-american-enterprise-institute-partnership/ For more than a year, Johns Hopkins University and the American Enterprise Institute—a leading center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C.—have been building bridges to facilitate collaborative work...
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