Dana Milbank’s Uncivil War on GOP ‘Destructionists’
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was sounding the alarm in multiple national TV and radio interviews: The rage-filled tone of pro-Trump commentary after the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago was going to lead to violence, possibly catastrophic violence, like the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, which killed 168 Americans. In […]
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DOJ Subpoenaed Docs Back in June, Prior to Mar-a-Lago Raid on Monday
Federal investigators quietly retrieved classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in June after obtaining a grand jury subpoena to return the documents to the National Archives, months prior to the search warrant that was executed on the property earlier this week. Trump voluntarily complied with the subpoena requestHe met with federal officials […]
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Detained Immigrants in California Strike Over $1 a Day Pay, Working Conditions
More than 50 workers from Mexico are striking at two federal detention facilities in California over unsafe working conditions, low wages, and other issues. “We are being exploited for our labor and are being paid $1 per day to clean the dormitories,” said strikers at a central California detention center in a June statementKQED, public […]
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Pharma Claims Drug Price Reform Hurts Innovation. Experts Say That’s “Bullshit.”
The drug industry has been yelling bloody murder every time Congress considers a regulatory measure that could threaten its profits for decades. In recent weeks, however, the hyperbole has reached a new pitch as the Senate adopted modest drug pricing negotiation measures under the Inflation Reduction Act. The bill “could propel us light-years back into […]
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Trump Explodes Over Report That FBI Was Searching His Home for Nuclear Secrets
Former President Donald Trump on Friday cried “hoax” over a report that FBI agents that raided his Mar-a-Lago residence were searching for classified documents related to nuclear weapons. FBI agents searched for highly secret documents related to nuclear weapons “belonging to the United States or some other nation,” The Washington Post reported, though it’s unclear […]
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On the Trump Front, This Week Has Been a Year. What Will Come of It?
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen,” reads a quotation often attributed to Vladimir Lenin (although he may never have said it). Whoever came up with that sentence, it captures the past week perfectly — from the eruption of new legislation to the FBI visit of a former president’s […]
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Nuclear Weapons Info Among Docs DOJ Was Concerned Were at Mar-a-Lago — Report
Sources familiar the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estateAgents were investigating whether the former president had improperly seized documents pertaining to nuclear weapons earlier in the week. Much of the materials believed to have been at the Palm Beach, Florida, estate — documents that were relocated from the White House by Trump […]
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US Sanctions Worsen Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis as Taliban Targets Women
One year after the Taliban seized power again in Afghanistan, we look at the new government’s crackdown on women’s rights while millions of Afghans go hungry. Matthieu Aikins (journalist) visited Kabul’s capital for the first time since the U.S. evacuated it one year ago. He writes the country is being “kept on humanitarian life support” […]
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Tenants Call on Biden to Act as Rent Increases Reach a 35-Year High
President Joe Biden and vulnerable Democrats had reason to celebrate the cooling off of inflation and the fact that it remained stable during July. On Wednesday, however, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released their consumer price index. It reported that rent costs increased by 6.3 percent in the past year. This is the largest […]
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FBI, R.I.P.?
The FBI is being disintegrated before our eyes and becoming a rogue security agency akin to those who served Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Take the FBI’s deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump—an historical first. A huge phalanx FBI agents invaded Trump’s […]
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