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Politico reports that Elon Musk gave another $76 million to Republicans to boost their chances of retaining power in the midterm elections, upping his total donations to $442 million. This is reprehensible on its own, as the richest man in the world continues to try to corr...

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Oscar Belgal, the man shot by an ICE agent in Marble Hill earlier this month, will remain in custody after a federal judge in Brooklyn denied his request for release.  In a ruling Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez found that the 28-year-old Dominican father of two had received adequate medical care in his […]

The post Judge Denies Oscar Belgal’s Request for Release After Marble Hill ICE Shooting appeared first on The City Reporter.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On March 3, 2020, Sen. Lindsey Graham walked into a private dining room at Charlie Palmer Steak in Washington, D.C. Graham’s time was expensive. He was meeting with two executives and a lobbyist from a Hawaiian naval defense contractor called Navatek. And he had required them […]

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Talk & Draw with Liza Donnelly & Heather Cox Richardson

Fortunately, there are signs this moment is exhausting itself.

The Hyundai IONIQ 5 is the most popular EV in America outside of Tesla, but its larger three-row sibling looks like the better deal right now.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, who once ran the city, joins a roster of deep-pocketed donors backing the props.

Here is Joe Mitchell last night awarding Trump the "Man of the Century" award

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Leaked video of Joe Mitchell, GOP nominee for IA-02, discussing his penis size and saying, "I don't like fucking white people"

This article in Nature argues that it’s due to an overfishing of predators and warming sea temperatures.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Pentagon memo: Insider trading gives US enemies key intel on military operations.

Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.

Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land.

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Trump snapped at an NBC reporter for questioning his defense of Vivek Ramaswamy's horrific ad against his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, when her stepfather raped and abused her as a child. "A mother is saying don't put my daughter there because she's a terrible person an...

Trump’s election interference has already begun, and puppet Todd Blanche is there to help.

The same day Blanche refused to rule out helping Trump steal the midterm elections, the Trump lawyer cosplaying as U.S. Attorney General actually did.

On Thursday, Blanche’s Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit in Alaska to block certification of the election if Democrat Mary Peltola wins the U.S. Senate seat. If you have any doubt about why the shady suit was filed, Trump said on Friday, "I'm the one that said 'do it'." Gov. Ron DeSantis laughed gleefully beside him.

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The Trumpian era demands an expanded lexicon from political journalists

The post Depraved Ramaswamy ad is being normalized by news-speak appeared first on Press Watch.

Jassy reflected on how his career wandered before he found Amazon—and why he tells young people to stop chasing the perfect first job.