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Understanding Trump's Russia oil deal is simple once you know that Putin invited Jared Kuschner and Steve Witkoff to participate in a buy-out of Russia's oil giant, LukOil.

LukOil stock is currently almost worthless due to sanctions, but if they are lifted (wink, wink) it will be worth $billions.
October 14, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Grim humour in the irony that, despite his administration's attempted boosting of the fossil fuel industry, Trump's war against Iran has been perhaps the key instigating moment in the global transition to renewables.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
An EV sold every 100 seconds: Australian demand for electric cars more than doubles
A record 157,957 new EVs were sold nationally between January and June, according to the Electric Vehicle Council
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Spooky season continues:
Let's meet the undertaker of the prairie, the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus).

They quickly inhume corpses they find, to... uh... keep them SAFE... for... uh, later.

Protecting a dead bird or rodent or larger so they'll have enough food for their babies.💀🍽️
September 29, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire.
September 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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A Republican running for the Maine's open 2nd Congressional District seat expressed outrage that a member of his family is facing deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

MAGA candidate fumes after his relative deported: 'That's not right'

www.rawstory.com/paul-lepage-...
MAGA candidate fumes after his relative deported: 'That's not right'
A Republican running for the Maine's open 2nd Congressional District seat expressed outrage that a member of his family is facing deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Paul LePage, t...
www.rawstory.com
September 23, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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When our military has needed more recruits, immigrants have always answered the call to serve.

Deporting their family members is a slap in the face to these servicemembers who are willing to defend our country in uniform.
As ICE deports service members' families, the Pentagon turns to immigrant communities to fill military ranks
The Pentagon is recruiting from the immigrant community, including legal permanent residents, or green-card holders, at a rapidly growing pace.
abcnews.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer.
"No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
September 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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And if you think this is wrong and needs to be addressed they call you a communist
September 7, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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September 5, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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We need elected Democrats to put their bodies upon the gears and the wheels and the levers of the machine. If they ever listened to Mario Savio's speech they've forgotten about it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7K...
September 4, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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So cool
August 23, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Gas station. Kern County, CA — Dorothea Lange, 1938
August 1, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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THE BULLDOZERS ARE STILL MOVING INSIDE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK.
DHS and CBP leadership want the American people to believe what they're seeing is simply "surveying and planning."
They are lying 🤥
August 16, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse.

A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
www.aiddata.org
August 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Trump isn’t a doctor. He should stop pretending to be one in the Oval Office.

Vaccines save lives. Spreading conspiracy theories about childhood vaccinations puts lives at risk.
August 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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‼️ The Trump admin via the Treasury Department has permanently removed the requirement for US companies to report who actually owns them—and deleted the existing database.

The requirement existed to prevent money laundering and to keep hostile countries and criminal networks from hiding assets.
FinCEN Permanently Ends Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements for Millions of Small Business Owners
Will Delete Information Previously Reported by U.S. PersonsWASHINGTON––Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act.  The final rule is effective on its publication in the Federal Register. FinCEN today also announced that it will delete previously reported information by U.S. persons—now exempt from the reporting requirements—from the beneficial ownership information database. “Today’s action is a victory for common sense and American small businesses,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “President Trump promised to cut red tape, and this final rule delivers. Treasury is eliminating a burdensome reporting requirement for millions of law-abiding business owners without compromising our national security.” The final rule:adopts the exemptions set out in the interim final rule issued in March 2025, making the rollback of beneficial ownership reporting by U.S. companies permanent;exempts U.S. persons who have obtained FinCEN IDs from any obligation to update or correct the information they originally provided to FinCEN to obtain their FinCEN IDs;eliminates the requirement for foreign companies to report U.S. person “company applicants” (i.e., the individuals who helped those foreign companies register to do business in the United States);exempts foreign pooled investment vehicles registered in the United States from reporting the beneficial ownership information of a U.S person in control of the investment vehicle; andconfirms that FinCEN will delete information about any individuals—company applicants, beneficial owners, or recipients of a FinCEN ID—that FinCEN reasonably believes is a U.S. person (e.g., the information is linked to a U.S. passport or U.S. driver’s license).Under the final rule, foreign entities that are reporting companies will still be required to report beneficial ownership information for foreign individuals. In addition to the final rule, FinCEN has issued Frequently Asked Questions, and will be updating guidance on FinCEN.gov to reflect the final rule. ###
home.treasury.gov
August 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Well, would you look at that. He was lying the whole time.
Trump acknowledges 'no video or proof' of alleged vandalism to Reflecting Pool
President Donald Trump acknowledged on Sunday that there was "no video or proof" of alleged vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
abcnews.com
August 12, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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NEW: Harmeet Dhillon swore in 100+ new Civil Rights Division lawyers as "civil rights warriors" for "ALL Americans" — then named exactly none of them.

So we did.

Court filings let us ID 11.

At least 5 arrived with records of misconduct, controversy, or hiring irregularities.

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Meet the attorneys Harmeet Dhillon installed to turn the Civil Rights Division against its mission - Public Citizen
Introduction  On July 8, 2026, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon tweeted that she had sworn in more than 100 new…
www.citizen.org
August 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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I miss the days when no one gave a shit who you voted for and conservatives werent all brain poisoned freaks obsessed with this stuff.
An election judge and DOJ observers work through a disagreement over where federal observers can stand outside Powderhorn Park Recreation Center.
August 12, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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This is how you know we need a wealth tax
August 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Royal Navy spy drones used by Britain’s elite special forces secretly sent data to China, The Telegraph can reveal.

The cameras on the K3 Scout surveillance drones had components made in China which were secretly transmitting information to a device in the country.
August 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Airbus A350 completes record 24-hour flight with plane to be used by Qantas.

Its 23,076-kilometre (14,339-mile) journey -- across three continents and two oceans, and through two sunsets and two dawns -- was one of the most-watched flights shown on the Flightradar24 tracking site

u.afp.com/SrDY
July 29, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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Percent Of People Over 25 Who Have Completed High School In The US

Full data: brilliantmaps.com/over-25-h...
July 24, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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July 20, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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This is election interference.
July 17, 2026 at 6:48 PM