David Hemond
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Retired lawyer, ground hog aficionado. Formerly Chief Attorney, Connecticut Law Revision Commission. See Dave Hemond’s Fleet Street davidhemond.wordpress.com Eyes and ears open for the good stuff.
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BREAKING: Flight cancellations accelerate as U.S. airlines comply with an order to cut flights at 40 major airports starting Friday.
Most major US airports are among 40 targeted by shutdown-related flight cuts
Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago along with hubs across the U.S. are among the 40 that will see flights cut starting Friday due to the government shutdown, according to a list distributed to the airlines and obtained by The Associated Press.
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Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
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I agree completely, Steve. For years I’ve argued that America needs a new New Deal. FDR’s policies brought working people to the party until 1980, when Reagan began reversing the gains for workers and the middle class that the New Deal brought.
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UPDATE: U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis said she will issue a sweeping injunction limiting the use of force by federal immigration agents in the Chicago area after she found a litany of violations were committed in recent weeks.
Federal Judge Says Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Lied About Being Hit With a Rock Before Deploying Tear Gas in Chicago
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis said Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino admitted to lying about whether a rock hit him before he used tear gas on Chicagoans in Little Village last month.
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
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By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
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Again, the information environment is broken because it was clear with Miller what was going to happen but most of the press refused to entertain the idea that this would mean mothers being pulled from car windows while picking up kids from school.
I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.”
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
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Armed federal agents in black balaclavas climbed into the car of a U.S. citizen they had detained and drove off with his toddler still strapped into her carseat in the back.
Masked Feds Drive Off in U.S. Citizen’s Car With Toddler in Backseat
A video shows masked and armed agents arresting the man outside a Home Depot, then taking his car with his 1-year-old daughter still in her carseat in back.
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