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« Reply #570 on: January 18, 2020, 06:15:40 am »

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Ex-Ambassador blasts Pompeo as his silence on Yovanovitch creates a ‘crisis of morale’ at the State Dept

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Nunes aide communicated with Parnas about Ukraine campaign, messages show

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Pence remained silent as a ‘wax museum guy’ as Trump hurled insults at military leaders: report

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How a Hidden Parliamentary Session Revealed Trump's True Motives in Iraq

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Eleven US Troops Were Injured in Jan. 8 Iran Missile Strike

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Why Isn’t Rudy Giuliani on Trump’s Impeachment Team? Depends On Whom You Ask.

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Bill Barr singling out Trump’s enemies for ‘selective’ scrutiny: ‘The pattern is unmistakable’

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Not a Joke: Trump Is Looking Into Making Bribery Legal

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Brazil’s far-right government backed terror plot against Venezuela, top newspaper reveals

thegrayzone.com - Brazil’s far-right government helped support military attacks on Venezuela in hopes of inciting a coup and violently overthrowing the country’s leftist government. This plan was revealed by a major p…

Winter storm takes aim at northern tier, bringing blizzard conditions, wintry mix

washingtonpost.com - The European model’s simulation of the snow totals through Sunday. (WeatherBell) By Matthew Cappucci Matthew Cappucci Meteorologist, Capital Weather Gang Email Bio Follow January 17 at 4:00 PM A wint…

Hackers Are Coming for the 2020 Election -- And We're Not Ready

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Black Americans are deeply pessimistic about the country under Trump, whom more than 8 in 10 describe as ‘a racist,’ Post-Ipsos poll finds

washingtonpost.com - “As a black person, you’ve always seen all the racism, the microaggressions. But as white people, they don't understand this is how things are going for me,” said Courtney Tate, a 40-year-old element…

Are there too many people on Earth... and other questions

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91% of Peer-Reviewed Papers Find Medicare for All Would Save Public Money, Cover Everyone

mintpressnews.com - 91 percent of all peer-reviewed scientific articles find that a single payer healthcare system like Medicare for All would save the country money, according to a meta analysis released Wednesday. The…

FBI arrests three more members of 'The Base'

bbc.com - Three more alleged members of a US neo-Nazi hate group have been arrested in Georgia, authorities say, in what appears to be a national operation. The arrests came on the same day that three suspecte…

Credit Suisse Wealth Report: There Are More Poor People In America Than China

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Our Super(lative) National Forests

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The US and Iran were "incredibly lucky" to avoid a war

vox.com - Last week, Iran attacked two US military sites in Iraq. Now, a week later, one thing has become unmistakably clear: The US and Iran only barely avoided a potentially devastating war. Defense One repo…

National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump

washingtonpost.com - The original, unaltered photo of the 2017 Women’s March in the District. An altered version appears in an exhibit at the National Archives. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) By Joe Heim close Joe Heim Report…

New Chinese virus 'will have infected hundreds'

bbc.com - The number of people already infected by the mystery virus emerging in China is far greater than official figures suggest, scientists have told the BBC. There have been nearly 50 confirmed cases of t…

Spoiler Alert: There Will Be No Impartial Justice for Donald Trump

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The Person Who Changes the Constitution

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Bill Maher Warns of ‘Civil War’ If Dems Don’t Embrace Trumpsters

thedailybeast.com - After two months off for winter break, Bill Maher returned to Real Time on Friday night and, following a cringe-worthy joke or two about things like recharging the batteries in his vape, the comic ad…


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