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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Despite a brief market scare, the richest 10 Americans got $365 billion richer over the past year, according to a new analysis from Oxfam. The stunning increase in wealth amounts to a gain of roughly $1 billion per day for those billionaires. read more


A federal judge slammed the Department of Justice Wednesday for its "hasty arrest" of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and agreed to dismiss the ridiculous trespassing charge against the Democratic mayor. U.S. Judge Andre Espionosa questioned why federal prosecutors would arrest Baraka only to retract the charges days later.


Two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were killed Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said. read more


Wednesday, May 21, 2025

The Trump administration is moving to dismiss federal oversight agreements in Louisville and Minneapolis reached following the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor and police killing of George Floyd, and dropping investigations into several major US police departments.

The move, announced by the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, reflects the administration's opposition to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the DOJ found a pattern of misconduct.


He's completely crashed to the ground'

Florida governor stands isolated from Trump and is feuding with Republicans at home " is he drifting to irrelevance?


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"Gareth Newham, who heads a justice and violence prevention program at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.

"As an independent Institute tracking violence and violent crime in South Africa, if there was any evidence of either a genocide or targeted violence taking place against any group based on their ethnicity this, we would be amongst the first to raise (the) alarm and provide the evidence to the world."

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"The stated reasons for [Trump's actions] are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation," read the letter from white South African religious leaders, which included among its four authors an Anglican priest.

"As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims."

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Trump's lies are like music to the Cult's big floppy ears.


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