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There's not really an excerpt I can paste that covers the full extent of the grift, so I'll let it be an exercise for the reader just how bad this is.

Donald Trump has launched a mobile phone service and $499 gold smartphone, the latest monetization of his presidency by a family business empire now run by his sons.

Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump.

San Francisco-based Wildtype will be the first company to launch cultivated seafood in the US after securing an FDA ‘no questions’ letter regarding the safety of its cell cultured salmon.

Not going to provide an excerpt here, as this is a developing story.

The “No Kings Day” nationwide rallies against Donald Trump/for democracy on Saturday turned out millions of people.

For years, the Los Angeles County jail has been known as the United States’ largest mental health institution.

As super-contagious measles continues to spread and nears a six-year U.S. record, cases in its original epicenter of West Texas may be subsiding as hesitant residents become more concerned and willing to vaccinate, while North Dakota is a new focus with the highest rate of any state.

Two law enforcement officials told CNN the suspect is 57-year-old Vance Boelter. Officials found a “manifesto” identifying “many lawmakers and other officials” in his vehicle, police said. A law enforcement official told CNN Boelter works for a security company.

Local news stations identified the victims as state senator John Hoffman and state representative Melissa Hortman. Both are members of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party. There is little information on the suspect at this time.

Kennedy named microbiologist Robert Malone to the reconstituted advisory committee. Malone contributed to research that eventually would pave the way for the development of mRNA vaccines. He claims—falsely, experts say—to be the creator of the RNA technology at the heart of prominent COVID-19 vaccines. During the pandemic he became a leading voice against that technology, a star on right-wing media platforms who spread false claims alleging, for one example, that mRNA COVID vaccine maker Moderna had admitted that its vaccines can insert DNA into genomes and cause cancer. According to Factcheck.org, the claim led to social media posts saying the shots could cause “turbo cancer.”

On a glimmering May morning, Tom Briggs pilots a 45ft aluminium barge through the waters of Casco Bay for one of the final days of the annual kelp harvest. Motoring past Clapboard Island, he points to a floating wooden platform where mussels have been seeded alongside ribbons of edible seaweed.

In a bid to confront mounting food insecurity, the City of Chicago announced last year that it was exploring the creation of a municipally-owned grocery store, an unprecedented move for a major American city. The proposal was a response to the persistent exodus of private grocers from the city’s South and West Sides, where decades of disinvestment have left entire neighborhoods with few reliable options for fresh, affordable food.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Well, that's fucking ominous.

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Politico’s new AI product has generated garbled or made-up Washington intelligence, including a lobbying effort by a fictional basket-weaver guild, the outlet’s unionized staff has complained.

A wave of bills in state legislatures across the country aim to classify climate-heating methane gas as a source of “green” or “clean” energy to prevent communities from transitioning away from fossil fuels — and secretive dark money groups connected to the gas industry are behind the effort.

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Linked via the Street Medics Discord.

Donald Trump’s “Border Czar” Tom Homan said Saturday the administration is planning to send in the National Guard Saturday evening to quell protests in Los Angeles.

Kilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the US on Friday to face criminal charges.

Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history. Residents of Independence Towers, an 11-story building with a troubled history, won a contract with their landlord that stabilizes rents and imposes deadlines to complete plumbing and other major repairs.

Shane Lamond, the former leader of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s intelligence division, will spend 18 months in prison for leaking information ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys.

Melissa “Missy” Sims is an attorney with a long history of confronting powerful fossil fuel interests. Now she’s part of a legal team representing more than three dozen municipalities in a landmark lawsuit against Exxon and more than a dozen other oil and gas companies. The suit seeks damages tied to the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017 – storms that, according to recent science, were intensified by warming oceans and increased atmospheric moisture caused by climate-warming pollution. (You may have seen news of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico dropping its lawsuit against oil companies, but 37 Puerto Rican municipalities are continuing the fight in a separate suit).

In San Diego on Friday, an angry crowd grew outside the Buona Forchetta restaurant as about 20 heavily armed ICE agents handcuffed and interrogated employees inside, arresting four of them.

The Washington Post is working on plans to get content from alternative sources like Substack contributors and “nonprofessional writers” aided by an AI editor and writing coach, reported The New York Times’ media reporter Ben Mullin.

On the afternoon of June 2, sex workers and allies marched the streets of downtown Minneapolis for “Dancing in the Streets,” in honor of International Sex Worker’s Day, or International Whores Day, for its 50th anniversary. This year’s march was themed “Saints and Sluts” with attendees dressed in feathered angel wings, nuns habits, and sparkly devil horns. The marchers were met with supportive honks from passing pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles, including a postal service truck driver and a Metro Transit bus driver.

A police officer’s sense of timing seemed to illuminate the Rev William Barber’s moral mission with startling clarity.

Millions of legal immigrants may be left unable to work after the US Social Security Administration quietly instituted a rule change to stop automatically issuing them social security numbers.

Nearly 1 in 2 Americans has had an immediate family member incarcerated, with Black people being more likely than white and Hispanic people to experience this. That's a problem, in part, because having a relative in prison is expensive.

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Sure, let's just add that to the pile. It's frankly the most impactful timing the union could achieve.

Wannabe tyrant desperate.

Edit: Replaced the source with better one.

Forecasters expected the country's gross domestic product — the total value of goods and services produced in the U.S. — to come in at 2.6% in the three-month period ended in September, according to a survey of economists by the data firm FactSet. The latest GDP figure is down slightly from the second quarter's growth of 3%.

Elections for state supreme courts have finally begun to receive more of the attention they deserve, but thousands of other judicial elections in the United States—which have an enormous impact on how justice is dispensed—remain largely overlooked.

More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

This is the craziness we face in Texas in one tidy package. There are a lot of well-meaning public servants below the state level. (And yes, I know this could easily trigger ACAB responses, but I like to reserve those for when someone is actually being a bastard. It's not like we're lacking opportunity.)

Mrs. Hedge and I are trying to figure out the best way to psychologically prepare ourselves for a 2nd Trump term . . . any suggestions for this would be greatly appreciated. 😵‍💫😵‍💫

I really wish every part of this was somehow surprising.

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that NOAA is designating 4,543 square miles of coastal and offshore waters along 116 miles of California’s central coast as America’s 17th national marine sanctuary. Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary will conserve the area’s diverse range of marine life and celebrate Indigenous peoples’ connections to the region. It is the third largest sanctuary in the National Marine Sanctuary System.

“The recent decision by commissioner-appointed committee members has outraged not just our community, but the country as a whole,” said Teresa Kenney, a Montgomery County resident and founder of the Village Books store. “Nowhere in the approved policy is it under the committee’s purview to determine whose history is fact or fiction.”

I haven't donated money, but I can confirm that the messages are constant and very pleading in tone. Honestly they turn me off from donating at all.

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I have no words.