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New Bunting analysis: Trump Administration Backs Down on Controversial $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Bunting Rating: 55% — Moderate Polarization
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A federal judge ordered Donald Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center. Whether that ruling was about a president overstepping his legal authority, or about blocked repairs to a leaking building, depended almost entirely on which outlet you were reading.
U.S. strikes on Iranian-linked targets continued. Coverage of whether those strikes broke a ceasefire or enforced one split almost perfectly along partisan lines, and the split was not incidental. It went to the factual core of the story.
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New Bunting analysis: Virginia Court Strikes Down Democratic Gerrymander, Reshaping 2026 Map Bunting Rating: 83% — Extreme Polarization Whether the ruling is presented as a legal correction or a partisan manoeuvre determines how readers understand the legitimacy of both the court… 🧵 Thread below
Rep Jim McGovern (D-MA) when GOP pulled an Iran War authorization vote off the schedule
NBC Miniseries Interlude - Love Can Build a Bridge Recorded May 14, 1995 on WDIV/NBC 4 in Detroit, MI #NBC #miniseries #television #entertainment
“He doesn’t even have to look at them” If Reform UK and the Scottish Conservatives have a chance to elect Labour’s Anas Sarwar as First Minister, will they do so? Andy Maciver explains why he thinks that they won’t have a choice.
Americans are getting crushed by rising costs, yet Trump is focused on his billion-dollar ballroom and $1.8 billion MAGA slush fund. Via @whitehouse.senate.gov
Finally... Smith: "The supreme law of the land is the Constitution. Lots of videos of masked ICE agents, no identification, saying 'you have to answer my questions, no option to walk away.'" Rogan:"You can't accept masked people, that don't have a warrant, on the streets in militarized situations."
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The US Constitution is 7,500 words. You could read it in under an hour. He apparently couldn't be bothered. Or more likely can't read. New piece. Trump vs the Constitution. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/austinsi... #Constitution #Trump #Emoluments #WarPowers
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A 16-year-old young man named Şükrü Dağlı with Down syndrome has been working as a barber apprentice.🤗🩵
Was life in the UK really like this in the #1970s? Yes! Well, the TV advertising version. It's got to be (sort of) real... Here's what I made.
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Just days before the TX primary election (3/3), Sen. John Cornyn tells me, “[the] Republican-held Senate seat is too valuable to gamble on somebody like the attorney general, Ken Paxton… he would jeopardize our ability as Republicans to hold on to the Senate seat.” @graydcbureau.bsky.social
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Millions of kids are going to lose health care so that billionaires like Trump’s Secretary of Education will get a tax cut. So I asked her to explain how that is ok.
Portland deserves leaders who know how to work together to get stuff done, and that's exactly what my experience, education, and work has always been about!
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