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    Consequences of firing government employees - USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

    Why? Are there no consequences to the firings? Or are the firings stopping now that DOGE has been pushed to the side?
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    Obama Judge Blocks Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Provision Barring Medicaid Funding For Planned Parenthood

    Religious rights are on the upswing. And the segregation academies started by Rev. Falwell and the like were predicated on religious grounds. I guess we'll see.
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    109 dead in Texas, 161 missing in Kerr County There are 161 known people missing in hard-hit Kerr County, Gov. Greg Abbott said. About 12 are missing in other counties, he said.
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    Is This The New Normal?

    'Show of presence' Exclusive: Operation Excalibur in Los Angeles Was Show of Force Today’s homeland security operation at the 35-acre MacArthur Park in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles was a mere “show of presence,” internal Army documents I’ve obtained say. ICE and Customs agents, many...
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    The rise of menace as a mainstream political tool

    Seattle home potentially targeted in shooting due to 'political and ideological signs' Police are investigating after multiple gunshots were fired into a home in Ballard early Sunday morning. The Seattle Police Department said the house was “potentially targeted due to political and ideological...
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    Johnson Amendment Dead: IRS says church leaders can endorse candidates to their flock without risking tax-exempt status. Other 501c3's still can't.

    I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members. The I.R.S. said on Monday that churches and other houses of worship can...
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    Former Trump supporter Pamela Hemphill refuses Jan. 6 pardon; apparently the only one to do so (ETA: there is another...)

    Jan. 6 Capitol rioter from New Hampshire asks to formally refuse presidential pardon "I caused a lot of hurt by being down there. I hurt a lot of people along the way, I said a lot of nasty things," said Jason Riddle, who is a Navy veteran, told WCVB-TV's sister station WMUR-TV in an exclusive...
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    Trump joint session speech: "So to our farmers, have a lot of fun. I love you too. I love you too."

    NO AMNESTY! HIRE MEDICAID PATIENTS TO PICK LETTUCE! Trump Administration Gives Update on Deporting Migrant Farm Workers Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that there will be "no amnesty" for undocumented immigrant farmworkers when it comes to mass deportations. "There will be...
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    Trump joint session speech: "So to our farmers, have a lot of fun. I love you too. I love you too."

    Farmers who voted for Trump are feeling the pain But they were promised fun! By the president! The op/ed spends most of its time saying 'the left' shouldn't indulge in schadenfreude. I'm really not. I don't think it's funny that farmers are suffering. I think it's funny that President Trump...
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    A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes NWS weather radars are ‘weather weapons’ and is trying to destroy them

    Not necessarily directly related, but... VANDAL DISABLES POWER TO LIFESAVING NEWS 9 WEATHER RADAR Surveillance captures vandal sabotaging News 9's NextGen Live weather radar in Northeast OKC—full story and how services have been restored. Police are now searching for the man seen in the...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    ... while at least one neighboring county issued evacuation orders in the morning hours of July 4, Kerr County officials don’t appear to have done so. A review of typically off-the-record communications from a real-time messaging system operated by the National Weather Service showed that no...
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    Canadian Armed Forces members planned to ‘forcibly take’ land in Quebec, facilitate terror act, RCMP say

    Four Quebecers, including two active members of the Canadian Armed Forces, who were allegedly involved in activities of “ideologically motivated violent extremism” with the intention of “forcibly take possession of land in the Quebec City area” have been arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted...
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    Mike MyPillow Lindell fled stage at his cyber symposium upon news of Dominion billion-$$$ Lawsuit

    'Puzzlingly defiant': Judge sanctions Mike Lindell's lawyers over AI-generated filing rife with cites to nonexistent cases, excoriates their 'troubling' explanation In April, U.S. District Judge Nina Y. Wang accused Lindell's attorneys, Christopher Kachouroff and co-counsel Jennifer DeMaster, of...
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    US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis

    Yemen’s Houthi rebels attack another ship in the Red Sea, killing 3 The attack on the Greek-owned Eternity C follows the Iranian-backed Houthis attacking another vessel on Sunday in the Red Sea that they said subsequently sank.
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    Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and there’s no ‘client list,’ Justice Department says

    It's highly improbable that a conspiracy of any kind has covered up or destroyed names of easily indictable people. I find it plausible that no one else has been indicted because prosecutors do not have any such list. And they don't have it because there isn't one (at least not in the...
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    Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and there’s no ‘client list,’ Justice Department says

    Oh, I'm sorry. By 'it' I meant "the moon is the Earth's largest satellite." Not the thing you were just talking about that I responded to.
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    Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and there’s no ‘client list,’ Justice Department says

    The antecedent to "it" is "the list of Jeffrey Epstein clients", the solitary object of the verb 'release' in the question.
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    Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and there’s no ‘client list,’ Justice Department says

    "list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients" What piffle you're propagating.