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Florida Does Trump a Favor He Doesn’t Actually Qualify ForElection officials in Florida have extended the state’s new voter registration protections to Donald Trump—even though he doesn’t qualify for them. The Palm Beach County Office of the Supervisor of Elections confirmed to the Tampa Bay Times Wednesday that it had wiped Trump’s personal info from public facing voter registration records. In doing so, it…

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Marco Rubio, Son of Cuban Immigrants, Praises Western SuperioritySecretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a hypernationalistic speech at the Acropolis in Athens Wednesday in which he lauded the supposed superiority of Western civilization while stoking more fears about immigration. “The heroes of the West are those who choose to remain faithful to their duty precisely when it is most difficult and painful to do so,”…

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Democratic Candidate Reports Being Raped Near Her Campaign SignA Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona says she was sexually assaulted while trying to repair one of her campaign signs. The Phoenix New Times reports that Bernadette Greene-Placentia, the Democratic nominee in Arizona’s 8th congressional district challenging incumbent Republican Representative Abe Hamadeh, reported being hit over the head this…

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MAGA Candidate Brags He Physically Abused His WifeColorado minister and Republican gubernatorial nominee Victor Marx has declared that he shoved his wife in the past—and he’d do it again. The admission came by way of a campaign video call with his supporters Tuesday evening, during which Marx shamelessly confessed that he pushed his wife against a door supposedly to teach her a lesson about…

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Justice Department Hired Criminals as Veteran Employees FledThe Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is combing the bottom of the barrel to fill prosecutor vacancies. The New York Times reports that the office has resorted to hiring lawyers with criminal records, misconduct allegations, and a love of conspiracy theories to fill the void left by the departure of nearly 300 career, nonpartisan employees…

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USPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights AbuseNearly 1,000 armed guards have descended on the United States Postal Service, deploying to at least 55 facilities across the country ahead of Election Day. The security officers were contracted through multinational private security company Prosegur, according to a Raw Story investigation . Prosegur has a history of alleged human rights violations,…

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Leaked Emails Show ICE Slashed Training Time for Partner AgenciesThe Department of Homeland Security radically reduced training requirements for local law enforcement officers whose departments had agreed to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In an email obtained by American Oversight, an ICE official whose name was redacted explained that the training had been reduced from four weeks of in-person instruction…

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ICE Secretly Investigated Hundreds of Nonprofits Across the CountryImmigration and Customs Enforcement investigated hundreds of voter registration groups over the past year as part of their efforts to catch noncitizens voting. The nonprofit organization Democracy Forward obtained government documents showing a wide-ranging probe into the nonprofit groups. The documents also revealed deliberations within Homeland…

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Why the Hell Is Kash Patel’s FBI Making Campaign Ads?Kash Patel’s FBI slammed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a wildly partisan, and likely illegal, propaganda video Tuesday. In a two-minute video posted on social media, the supposedly nonpartisan agency decried “democratic socialist leaders” for calling to defund the police. The video included footage of multiple Democrats calling to defund…

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Man Arrested After Impersonating ICE Agent at Polling SiteA man was arrested Sunday for allegedly impersonating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and intimidating voters at a Miami polling site for Brazil’s presidential elections. According to his arrest report, 46-year-old Danilo Alves Silva was aggressively pacing between polling locations and interacting with people who seemed to be “in fear” of…

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Federal Lawyer Quits, Warns Trump Admin Is Creating “a Shitty Country”John Murdock, a top conservative lawyer at the Department of the Interior, has quit over what he calls an “assault on the rule of law.” Murdock is stepping down after 18 years at the federal agency because, as he wrote in a bombshell resignation letter obtained by The Guardian and Public Domain , “We are headed in the wrong direction.” A self-described…

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Trump’s ICE Has Detained Hundreds of U.S. CitizensThe Trump administration has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens since it began its mass deportation initiative, a ProPublica investigation has found. Trump officials have insisted that U.S. citizens are not at risk under the president’s agenda. “We have said it a million times: ICE does NOT arrest or deport U.S. citizens,” former DHS Assistant…

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FBI Whistleblower: Trump Ordered Probe of Protesters Over a TikTokThe White House pressured the FBI to investigate anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles in violation of the Constitution, a whistleblower alleges. A former supervisory intelligence analyst in the bureau’s field office in Los Angeles, Jill Fields, made a formal complaint to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Trump administration’s response to the…

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40 People at Risk of Losing Citizenship as DOJ Amps Up CrusadeDonald Trump’s Department of Justice is taking action to strip 40 naturalized Americans of their citizenship. According to a DOJ press release published Monday, the department has filed “denaturalization actions” against these individuals after they were accused of “serious offenses,” including “acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing…

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Trump Brings Natalie Harp Onstage at Rally Just to Drool Over HerPresident Donald Trump called Natalie Harp a “perfect person” after showing her off to hundreds of rallygoers. Trump invited a very special guest onstage at his rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, Monday night to deliver an executive order aimed at addressing the elevated fuel prices sparked by his war against Iran. “So, tonight I’m going to sign a historic…

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Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San DiegoAt a rally in Nebraska Tuesday night, President Trump told his supporters exactly what he thinks about the well-being of the American people. Trump first said that the prices of goods and services, which have gone up thanks to his ill-advised Iran war and tariff policies, were “just a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world…

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It’s Time to Bring Back Congress’s Nerd SquadIn the autumn of 2001, a new national security threat arrived by mail. Envelopes carrying a fine, nearly invisible powder had begun traveling through the postal system. One letter reached a tabloid’s newsroom in Boca Raton, Florida, killing a photo editor within a few weeks. Other letters arrived at NBC News and the New York Post. In mid-October, a…

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The Supreme Court Splinters in an Important Climate CaseThe Supreme Court appeared to be splintered over how to decide a major climate litigation case from Colorado at oral arguments on Monday. The eight justices who heard the case—the first of its new term—signaled no clear consensus on how they will resolve the case, though most of them were more skeptical of the fossil fuel companies that asked the court…

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Trump Finds a New Way to Blame Gas Prices on Anyone But HimselfSuddenly, gas prices have absolutely nothing to do with the Iran war, according to the U.S. president. After spending months denying and downplaying the fact that gas and diesel prices have become more expensive, Donald Trump finally conceded Monday. The only catch to his admission: The rising price tag is definitely not his fault. “What’s driving up…

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The Voters Who Won Trump the Presidency Are Abandoning HimTwo recent polls show that the majority of Latino voters have all but abandoned President Trump—reaffirming a development that’s been brewing since he returned to office and began his draconian immigration crackdown. The new NBC News/Telemundo poll has Latinos going for Democrats by a margin of 59 percent in the upcoming midterm elections, almost…

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