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Mandy Patinkin on Gaza: “Unconscionable and unthinkable”
The actor Mandy Patinkin and his wife, playwright and actor Kathryn Grody, address the policies of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and reflect on what it means to be Jewish…
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Alligator Alcatraz ‘an internment camp’
For the first time, Democratic lawmakers were allowed to tour U.S. President Donald Trump's sprawling Everglades immigrant detention center on Saturday. They said what they witnessed…
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ALBA denounces sanctions on Cuban president
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) strongly condemned the latest U.S. sanctions imposed on senior Cuban officials, calling them "infamous" and politically…
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The theater of cruelty: America’s immigration shame
On a sweltering July afternoon in the Florida Everglades, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Kristi Noem stood before a newly constructed immigration detention center newly built with…
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86 – 47
The term "86 47" refers to a message posted on social media by James Comey, where he arranged shells on a beach to spell "86 47". The "47" is understood to mean President Trump, the…
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Marco Rubio impersonator contacted officials using AI voice deepfakes
By The Conversation
Someone used artificial intelligence technology to produce a voice clone, or deepfake, of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and used it to leave voice messages for…
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Masked agents snatching people off the street in Trump’s America
“I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation’s…
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‘These deaths are on Trump’s hands’
Deadly flooding caused by torrential rain in central Texas late last week called attention to U.S. President Donald Trump's full-scale assault on the climate research and monitoring…
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We didn’t fight a revolution for a king
The Fourth of July marks the day America declared our independence from the idea that one man should hold unchecked power over an entire people and from a system that placed loyalty to…
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Billionaire oligarchs are dancing in the street
The reconciliation bill that Republicans passed in the U.S. Senate by one vote on Tuesday will give the top 1% a trillion dollars in tax breaks.
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