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Trump specifically called out the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal for reporting over the weekend that “five US Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.” Citing two unnamed US officials, the Journal noted that “the tankers were hit during an Iranian missile strike on the Saudi base,” and that the planes were “damaged but not fully destroyed and are being repaired.”

The US president called the story “false reporting” without substantively refuting its content. Trump wrote that four of the refueling planes are “in service” and one “will soon be flying the skies” — none of which is inconsistent with the Journal’s reporting.

Aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump attacked a reporter as “a very obnoxious person” after she asked the president why he’s sending 5,000 US Marines and sailors to the Middle East.

US Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) warned in a letter to Carr on Sunday that the Trump administration is engaged in a “blatant attempt to muzzle the free press” if outlets don’t align their coverage of the Iran war “with Trump’s preferred narrative.”

“Your Saturday post follows that same logic but extends it to the coverage of an active military conflict, where the chilling effect on journalists and the damage to the public’s right to know are most severe,” Markey wrote to Carr

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

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Woops sorry only the votes for the hopeless, valueless centrist were counted. App glitch we are so sorry it is really too bad, next time!

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Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and changing the childhood immunization schedule.

I propose a new rule, if you cannot explain in a brief 1000 word essay why actually naming a defense company after a Lord Of The Rings reference is not really in good taste, especially when you are a bunch of evil motherfuckers who don't understand the basic lessons being expressed in the plot of Lord Of The Rings... than you should not be able to acquire US government defense contracts.

If I need to write essays to get the chance to get a damn job, these people can sure as heck write us some essays for the $20 billion dollar check can't they?

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”It’s difficult, if not impossible, to put food on the table, put gas in the car and pay rent when you are not getting paid,” the letter said.

Consider what survivors are facing at this very moment. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed in late 2025, led to the release of more than 3m pages of documents. The stated goal was transparency and accountability, which survivors deserve. But the justice department’s botched redactions have exposed victim after victim, leaving their names, their stories and the worst moments of their lives searchable on a government website. Attorneys representing more than 200 survivors called it “the single most egregious violation of victim privacy in one day in United States history”.

These women now face a digital reality in which their exploitation may define them for the rest of their lives. Every job application, every new relationship, every Google search of their name carries the possibility of exposure. Erasing digital traces is technically complex and financially prohibitive for most people.

People like Bill Gates have the resources to help.

Gates has $100bn and one of the most sophisticated technology networks on Earth. He could fund digital privacy restoration for survivors whose identities were exposed. He could help pay for the specialized legal work required to scrub records from the internet.

He could do all of this tomorrow.

And it shouldn’t be Gates alone. Every person of means who spent time in Epstein’s world has a moral debt. Not a legal one, but a human one. The kind that an apology doesn’t discharge.

The Energy and Policy Institute — a utility watchdog group — found that energy companies are earning steadily increasing profits even as their customers’ power bills surge.

The report analyzed financial documents from 110 investor-owned utilities, the for-profit companies that serve most Americans. That includes all of Xcel Energy’s operations in eight states, including Colorado.

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