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Top Trump aides push for regime change in Venezuela

Top Trump aides push for regime change in Venezuela

The New York Times reports: The push by top aides to President Trump to remove Nicolás Maduro as the leader of Venezuela has intensified in recent days, with administration officials discussing a broad campaign that would escalate military pressure to try to force him out, U.S. officials say. It is being led by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser. Mr. Rubio argues that Mr. Maduro is an illegitimate leader who oversees the export of drugs to…

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At Quantico, Hegseth delivered ‘an inane message of little merit.’ It ‘could have been an email’

At Quantico, Hegseth delivered ‘an inane message of little merit.’ It ‘could have been an email’

Politico reports: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech to top generals was supposed to serve as a rallying cry for military exceptionalism — but it didn’t land that way with many of the people it was targeting. Numerous defense officials — who watched senior brass scramble to Washington and then sit through a partisan speech from President Donald Trump and a return to old-school military standards by Hegseth — were left wondering why the event had occurred at all. “More like…

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Adelita Grijalva says Mike Johnson is delaying her swearing-in to prevent Epstein floor vote

Adelita Grijalva says Mike Johnson is delaying her swearing-in to prevent Epstein floor vote

Rolling Stone reports: Adelita Grijalva made history last week, becoming the first Latina woman elected to represent Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives. She won a special election for the seat previously occupied by her father, Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died in March after serving over two decades in office. Despite a blowout, uncontested victory — and a precedent of swearing in the winners of special elections almost immediately after their elections — Grijalva still has no idea…

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Britain may already be at war with Russia, says former head of MI5

Britain may already be at war with Russia, says former head of MI5

The Guardian reports: Britain may already be at war with Russia because of the depth and intensity of cyber-attacks, sabotage and other hostile activity orchestrated by Moscow against the UK, according to a former head of MI5. Eliza Manningham-Buller, who led the domestic spy agency two decades ago, said she agreed with comments made by the Russia expert Fiona Hill, who argued in a Guardian interview earlier this year that Moscow was at war with the west. Lady Manningham-Buller argued…

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An entire generation of Americans is turning against Israel

An entire generation of Americans is turning against Israel

Felicia Schwartz writes: President Donald Trump is often at his most frank when he plays pundit, and so it went with his recent musings about Israel’s war with Hamas and the political fallout. “They had total control over Congress, and now they don’t,” Trump told the Daily Caller in an interview published earlier this month, referring to Israel. “They’re gonna have to get that war over with. … They may be winning the war, but they’re not winning the world…

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Majority of American voters oppose sending additional economic and military aid to Israel, poll finds

Majority of American voters oppose sending additional economic and military aid to Israel, poll finds

The New York Times reports: Nearly two years into the war in Gaza, American support for Israel has undergone a seismic reversal, with large shares of voters expressing starkly negative views about the Israeli government’s management of the conflict, a new poll from The New York Times and Siena University found. Disapproval of the war appears to have prompted a striking reassessment by American voters of their broader sympathies in the decades-old conflict in the region, with slightly more voters…

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U.S. citizens are ending up in Trump’s dragnet because of the color of their skin

U.S. citizens are ending up in Trump’s dragnet because of the color of their skin

A man was just arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too. pic.twitter.com/uvs7p5t3sX — amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17) September 27, 2025 The New York Times reports: U.S. citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers who are carrying out President Trump’s immigration crackdown and who suspect the men are living…

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How Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

How Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

MSNBC reports: Tom Homan, the White House border czar, became entangled in an FBI sting last year after an associate of his suggested to undercover FBI agents that Homan could facilitate future government contracts in exchange for big money, according to four sources familiar with the investigation and a government document. Julian “Jace” Calderas, a former U.S. immigration official who worked under Homan in the Obama administration, allegedly proposed to the agents — who were posing as businessmen — that…

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The war on science being led by the Republican Party

The war on science being led by the Republican Party

Ars Technica reports: We’re about a quarter of the way through the 21st century. Summers across the global north are now defined by flash floods, droughts, heat waves, uncontainable wildfires, and intensifying named storms, exactly as predicted by Exxon scientists back in the 1970s. The United States secretary of health and human services advocates against using the most effective tool we have to fight the infectious diseases that have ravaged humanity for millennia. People are eagerly lapping up the misinformation…

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Trump’s TikTok deal looks like crony capitalism

Trump’s TikTok deal looks like crony capitalism

John Cassidy writes: Donald Trump is a compulsive issuer of executive orders: since January, there have been more than two hundred of them. Some are glorified press releases; others are more significant. “Saving TikTok While Protecting National Security” falls decidedly into the second category. Signed last week, on the same day that the Department of Justice indicted James Comey, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of a social-media platform with a hundred and seventy million American users to a…

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Portland residents scoff at Trump’s threat to send in the military: ‘This is not a war zone’

Portland residents scoff at Trump’s threat to send in the military: ‘This is not a war zone’

The Guardian reports: A visit to downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, hours after Donald Trump falsely declared the city “war ravaged” to justify the deployment of federal troops, made it plain the US president’s impression of the city, apparently shaped by misleading conservative media reports, is entirely divorced from reality. There were just four protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in an outlying residential neighborhood that the president had claimed was “under siege” by antifascists and…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, straying from Trump, reflects an emerging MAGA split

Marjorie Taylor Greene, straying from Trump, reflects an emerging MAGA split

The New York Times reports: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the right-wing Republican from Georgia, did not appreciate being threatened by the White House over her backing for a bill ordering the release of the Epstein files. So after a Trump official put out word that doing so would be viewed as a “very hostile act,” she called a top West Wing aide to push back. “I told them, ‘You didn’t get me elected. I do not work for you; I…

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The rise of the ‘edgelord’ shooter

The rise of the ‘edgelord’ shooter

Ryan Broderick writes: Most American men under 30 at this point have had a 4chan phase — or at least spent time on an equivalent toxic internet community. Even if the ICE shooter did decide to dedicate himself to antifascism at the last minute — like Robinson may have done — he’s still going to talk like a 4channer and filter those ideas through the prism of ironic edgy internet speak. As I’ve written before, this is the water young…

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A field guide to ‘accelerationism’: White supremacist groups using violence to spur race war and create social chaos

A field guide to ‘accelerationism’: White supremacist groups using violence to spur race war and create social chaos

Demonstrators clash with counterdemonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. AP Photo/Steve Helber By Art Jipson, University of Dayton A man named Regan Prater was charged with arson for the burning of Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee, on May 7, 2025. The nonprofit has a long history of involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. The FBI stated in a court document that Prater participated in neo-Nazi Telegram group chats online. Earlier this…

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Trump’s politicized prosecutions may hit a roadblock: juries that refuse to convict

Trump’s politicized prosecutions may hit a roadblock: juries that refuse to convict

Adam Serwer writes: According to the law, Robert Morris was a criminal. The second Black lawyer in the history of the United States, Morris was among a group of abolitionists who, in 1851, stormed a Boston courtroom to free Shadrach Minkins, an escaped slave from Virginia. Minkins had been detained under the Fugitive Slave Act and was to be returned to his master. Morris filed a writ of habeas corpus on Minkins’s behalf, but the effort failed because Minkins was…

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Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to its expanding banned words list

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to its expanding banned words list

Politico reports: The Energy Department has added “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its growing “list of words to avoid” at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, according to an email issued Friday and obtained by POLITICO. The words on the DOE list are at the heart of EERE’s mission: It is the government’s largest investor in technologies that help reduce heat-trapping emissions that cause climate change as well as the hazardous pollution from fossil fuels. It is…

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