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Heather Richards / Politico:
National parks will remain mostly open in shutdown … The Trump administration will keep most national parks open to the public if the government shuts down Wednesday, according to two people briefed on the plan. — With congressional leaders still gridlocked on a deal to fund …
2025-10-01 05:50:00 UTC
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech — In a blistering opinion, a federal judge in Boston said the Trump administration used the threat of deportations to systematically intimidate certain campus demonstrators into silence.
2025-10-01 05:05:00 UTC
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Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:
Mike Johnson Caught Trashing Trump's Vulgar AI Video — TROUBLE IN PARADISE — The House Speaker was spotted discussing the president's bizarre video with a Democratic colleague. — House Speaker Mike Johnson was recorded criticizing a bizarre AI-generated video posted by President Donald Trump …
2025-10-01 04:50:00 UTC
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Shia Kapos / Politico:
Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin's behalf amid abortion rift — Pope Leo XIV made a direct foray into U.S. politics Tuesday, offering measured support for the Chicago Archdiocese's plan to honor Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who supports abortion rights, with a “lifetime achievement award” for his work on immigration policy.
2025-10-01 04:20:00 UTC
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
WaPo's Ad Chief Wavers … Those departures have drawn the most public attention, but an equally consequential matter has been unfolding on the business side. The task of selling advertising, already a challenge in today's digital media economy dominated by Meta and Google …
2025-10-01 03:40:00 UTC
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It’s been a little over half a year since RFK Jr. was confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services and his tenure thus far has been chaotic, to put it mildly. Listing all of the various forms of fuckery that have already occurred under his watch would be a full length post of its […]
2025-10-01 03:17:07 UTC
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New York Times:
White House Withdraws Nomination of E.J. Antoni, Trump's Pick to Lead BLS — E.J. Antoni, a conservative economist, had faced bipartisan criticism as President Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. — The White House has withdrawn the nomination of E.J. Antoni …
2025-10-01 03:00:01 UTC
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Marcia Brown / Politico:
Trump cancels food research funding popular with Republicans — The White House is canceling millions of dollars that dozens of universities use to research food production, despite budget chief Russell Vought's promise to leave that money untouched. Using a controversial loophole …
2025-10-01 01:15:00 UTC
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Valentina di Donato / The Daily Register:
Pope Leo XIV Wades Into Durbin Debate — The number of bishops who have condemned Cardinal Cupich's decision to honor Durbin with a ‘lifetime achievement award’ has risen to 10, including two bishops emeritus. — Pope Leo XIV responded to controversy over the Chicago cardinal's plans …
2025-10-01 01:00:05 UTC
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.
2025-10-01 00:55:00 UTC
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment — Earlier today we wrote about Trump's extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there's an even more damning story here …
2025-10-01 00:55:00 UTC
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Associated Press:
US government on brink of first shutdown in almost 7 years during partisan standoff — Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a near certain path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday for the first time in almost seven years.
2025-10-01 00:25:01 UTC
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Degenerate Art:
You don't have to swallow frogs — Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played. — Over the weekend, an interview circulated in which New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein talked to Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, among other essays and books.
2025-10-01 00:25:01 UTC
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘Disbelief’: Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech — Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard.
2025-09-30 23:30:01 UTC
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CNN:
White House withdraws Trump's controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data — The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN.
2025-09-30 23:30:01 UTC
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ACLU:
Legal Organizations Across the Ideological Spectrum Urge Court to Reinstate Lawsuit Against Trump Administration's Unconstitutional Attack on Academic Freedom — Federal interference in academic affairs at Columbia University violates the First Amendment, the brief argues
2025-09-30 23:25:00 UTC
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Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even more damning story here: how that revelation almost never saw the light of day because of journalistic cowardice. The smoking gun quote came from Trump’s phone […]
2025-09-30 22:35:26 UTC
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Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov't shutdown — Workers call the partisan email “a vile slap in the face.” … As the federal government teeters on the brink of a shutdown, workers across many agencies received identical emails late Tuesday afternoon blaming Democrats for the possibility.
2025-09-30 22:25:00 UTC
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The annual Indigenous Milk Medicine Week carnival is held in efforts to normalize Indigenous lactation rights while providing resources.
The post How Indigenous Milk Medicine Week Creates Healthy Communities appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.
2025-09-30 22:18:45 UTC
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Elon Musk's Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster — Remember when Grok praised Adolf Hitler? — READING TIME 3 MINUTES — Read Later Read Later — Elon Musk has long complained about Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced encyclopedia that's considered a crown jewel of the internet.
2025-09-30 21:55:02 UTC
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump makes numerous false claims to generals and admirals, some about the military — President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in a rambling Tuesday speech to hundreds of generals and admirals who were summoned to a military base in Virginia to listen to addresses …
2025-09-30 21:55:02 UTC
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
In Unusual Move, Prosecutors Secure Federal Charges From Local Grand Jury — A judge, Zia M. Faruqui, said that what appeared to be a kind of grand jury forum shopping seemed to have broken “decades-long norms and the rule of law.” — In the past month or so, federal prosecutors in Washington …
2025-09-30 21:50:00 UTC
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Joshua McElwee / Reuters:
Pope Leo criticizes ‘inhuman’ treatment of immigrants in US — Pope Leo on Tuesday appeared to offer his strongest criticism yet of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Catholic Church's pro-life teachings.
2025-09-30 21:50:00 UTC
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia — AI Mode uncharacteristically pulls up a list of 10 web links instead of a written explanation. … Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions …
2025-09-30 21:45:01 UTC
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Caroline S. Engelmayer / The Harvard Crimson:
Trump Claims White House Has Struck Deal With Harvard — U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday in the Oval Office that the White House had “reached a deal” with Harvard, before cautioning that the agreement had not been finalized. — “All you have to do is paper it, right …
2025-09-30 21:20:01 UTC
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AM New York:
ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove — ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests …
2025-09-30 21:10:01 UTC
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Politico:
‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting … Defense officials, in the Pentagon and at bases around the world, spent much of Tuesday trying to make sense of the last-minute gathering at the Quantico base in Virginia. Hegseth called out “fat generals,” and …
2025-09-30 20:35:00 UTC
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Seth Simons / The Guardian:
US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: 'They're paying me enough to look the other way' — Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government's human rights abuses — Billed as “the biggest comedy festival in the world” …
2025-09-30 20:05:00 UTC
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Donald Trump is bullying his government to prosecute his political enemies, whether or not there’s actually a criminal case. It may be backfiring.
2025-09-30 20:00:38 UTC
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CNN:
Trump announces ‘TrumpRx’ site for discounted drugs and deal with Pfizer to lower prices — President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a multipronged effort aimed at lowering drug costs in the United States, including the creation of a “TrumpRx” direct-to-consumer website where Americans …
2025-09-30 19:40:00 UTC
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Bloomberg:
Pfizer's Drug Price Cuts Yield Three-Year Trump Tariff Reprieve — Pfizer Inc. secured a reprieve from President Donald Trump's long-threatened tariffs on the pharmaceutical industry Tuesday by agreeing to slash some of its drug prices by up to 85% and selling directly to the American public …
2025-09-30 19:30:00 UTC
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
Trump to announce deal with Pfizer to lower drug prices — The deal is part of Trump's broader effort to tie the amount the government pays for certain drugs to the prices paid overseas. — President Donald Trump will announce Tuesday that his administration has reached an agreement …
2025-09-30 19:10:02 UTC
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There is a moment in every authoritarian takeover when the business elite must choose between principle and profit, between defending the system that made their wealth possible and accommodating the forces destroying that system. That moment has arrived for America’s capitalist class, and they are failing the test so spectacularly that they’re validating every Marxist […]
2025-09-30 19:00:39 UTC
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The Hill:
Republicans refuse to swear in newly elected Democrat, delaying success of Epstein petition — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Republican leaders refused requests from Democrats to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday, saying she will be sworn in when the House returns to regular session.
2025-09-30 18:55:00 UTC
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Joanna Slater / Washington Post:
Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules — The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says. — The Trump administration's push earlier …
2025-09-30 18:50:01 UTC
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump says military should use U.S. cities as “training grounds” — President Trump told the nation's top military officials Tuesday troops should use “dangerous” American cities as “training grounds.” … - Trump has repeatedly floated applying his D.C. blueprint to the Windy City …
2025-09-30 18:30:01 UTC
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida officially hands over land for Trump library … In his post, the president's son lauded both DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier as “incredible partners in this endeavor.” — The foundation working on the library had previously considered Florida International University …
2025-09-30 18:10:00 UTC
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Associated Press:
Trump and Hegseth declare an end to ‘politically correct’ leadership in the US military — President Donald Trump revealed that he wants to use American cities as training grounds for the armed forces and joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday in declaring an end to “woke” …
2025-09-30 18:05:01 UTC
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2025-09-30 17:45:52 UTC
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Politico:
Judge excoriates Trump in blistering decision calling efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal … The ruling is the long-awaited result of a lawsuit brought by university professors who say the Trump administration is illegally chilling free speech by targeting prominent pro …
2025-09-30 17:45:00 UTC
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Nicole Hemmer / New York Times:
The Right Didn't Catch Cancel Culture From the Left — When Vice President JD Vance sat down to host an episode of Charlie Kirk's podcast days after the conservative activist's assassination, he came with a directive. “When you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out,” he said.
2025-09-30 17:05:00 UTC
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Washington Post:
Government shutdown set to begin overnight as Congress hits impasse — The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on extending government funding. If the measure fails, a shutdown would start early Wednesday. — just now — The federal government is on track to shut down just after midnight Wednesday …
2025-09-30 17:05:00 UTC
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The Atlantic:
Trump's Grand Plan for a Government Shutdown — During the first eight months of his second presidency, Donald Trump has tried to hollow out the federal workforce by any means possible, including paying more than 200,000 people not to work, disassembling entire agencies via the Department …
2025-09-30 17:00:05 UTC
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
“It's a war from within.” — If you were expecting Triumph of the Will, you were disappointed because what you got instead was fat, disoriented Elvis stumbling through his set. Except that it wasn't funny. It was dangerous. — I promise you that the flag officers in attendance were more alarmed than amused.
2025-09-30 16:50:00 UTC
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Who’s running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an American city based entirely on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. Tim Cushing had a story yesterday about Trump’s bizarre declaration of war […]
2025-09-30 16:27:39 UTC
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NPR:
Trump, Hegseth to headline a highly unusual gathering of top military officials — President Trump defended the use of U.S. troops in American cities and told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against the “enemy within.” — “This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room …
2025-09-30 16:20:01 UTC
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Wall Street Journal:
White House to Announce ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Website, and Deal With Pfizer — President Trump is expected to unveil the measures Tuesday; Pfizer's CEO expected to attend — WASHINGTON—The White House is planning to unveil a direct-to-consumer website for Americans to buy drugs …
2025-09-30 16:00:04 UTC
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Wall Street Journal:
White House to Announce ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Website, and Deal With Pfizer — President Trump is expected to unveil the measures Tuesday; Pfizer's CEO expected to attend — WASHINGTON—The White House is planning to unveil a direct-to-consumer website for Americans to buy drugs …
2025-09-30 16:00:04 UTC
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Today's links Announcing the Enshittification tour: Come say hi, why dontcha? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: HP defeat device; It Gets…
2025-09-30 15:49:23 UTC
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Reuters:
Trump to preside over unusual military gathering in Virginia — Defense chief emphasizes ‘warrior ethos’ and grooming standards — He criticizes overweight military leaders and diversity policies — Trump executive order renamed Department of Defense to Department of War
2025-09-30 15:35:00 UTC
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