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This is a good watch, I you want to see where things started to shift. 1955 vs 2025, who actually had it better? [W]hat these lines all show is that 1980 was kind of this inflection point in our economy where the top earners kind of started to get
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The Washington Post Liz Oyer, the Justice Department’s recently fired pardon attorney, made a staggering claim on social media this week: President Donald Trump’s pardons of people convicted of white-collar crimes have cost Americans $1 billion. Let that sink in. A president, convicted of business fraud, is now
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The Atlantic The justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported. …the Supreme Court upheld part of a lower-court decision ordering the Trump administration to seek to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom—as The Atlantic first reported—the administration has acknowledged it
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Democracy Docket The GOP bill, a direct product of President Donald Trump’s decade-long obsession with illegal voting, would require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration, bar states from counting late-arriving mail ballots, and dramatically infringe on states’ authority to run elections. The SAVE Act still faces a steep
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Chris Murphy the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. This is a pretty dark take on the plan, but even if it is not intentional, it is just as dangerous.
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Ars Technica On social media, rumors swirled that the Trump administration got these supposedly fake numbers from chatbots. On Bluesky, tech entrepreneur Amy Hoy joined others posting screenshots from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok, each showing that the chatbots arrived at similar calculations as the Trump administration. This tracks.
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Texas Monthly Eighteen-year-old Carlos Daniel Terán was taken from his home and shipped to a notorious prison on the charge that he is a gang member. The government hasn't produced evidence supporting the claim, says his lawyer. Using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport a teenager