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There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy (www.nytimes.com)
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Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ for climate, experts warn | ‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say (www.theguardian.com)
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Illinois moves to ‘very high’ flu levels, as federal government decides to no longer recommend flu vaccine for kids (www.chicagotribune.com)
 

Note that the change in federal recommendation is not evidence-based, but is about Kennedy's brain worm

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2,000 federal agents deploying to Minneapolis in immigration crackdown, fraud probe (www.cbsnews.com)
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Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children (www.nytimes.com)
 

Federal health officials now recommend that children be routinely inoculated against 11 diseases, not 17, citing standards in other wealthy nations.

Worth noting: those other countries have universal health care, so its possible to do decent screening for risk, and provide necessary care for the kids who do get sick. The US doesn't, so this is a decision to kill a lot of kids.

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Who Wins From Trump’s Venezuela Oil Gambit? Not Regular Americans. (www.nytimes.com)
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Pentagon to cut Senator Kelly's military retirement pay for misconduct (www.reuters.com)
 

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that he will demote Senator Mark Kelly from his rank as a retired Navy captain for "reckless misconduct" after he and other Democratic lawmakers urged troops to refuse any illegal orders.

Archived copy of the article

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Minnesota day care hoax is fueled by MAGA psychosexual weirdness | The racism underlying MAGA's latest obsession is intertwined with misogyny (www.salon.com)
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The U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana Oil Triangle (drilled.media)
 

The U.S. interest in Venezuela isn’t just about the oil there, but also about the oil next door in Guyana, and the U.S. oil companies that have staked their future on it.

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Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say (www.nytimes.com)
 

A new study found that the court’s Republican appointees voted for the wealthier side in cases 70 percent of the time in 2022, up from 45 percent in 1953.

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Trump circulates false claim about Hortman killing; Democrats condemn post as ‘dangerous, depraved’ (www.mprnews.org)
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