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A giant aluminum smelter recently decided to locate in Oklahoma rather than Kentucky. Why?

OK has cheap wind power. KY is stuck with increasingly expensive fossil power.
Loss of green smelter highlights Kentucky’s need for clean electricity
Century Aluminum chose Oklahoma, not Kentucky, for a new smelter. Some say it’s a "wake-up call" for the Bluegrass State to modernize – and decarbonize –…
www.canarymedia.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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A federal security contractor that received millions from the Department of Agriculture hired notorious Patriot Front enforcer Ian Michael Elliott to work security patrols for the US Forest Service last year.

My latest with Sean Craig for @theguardian.com 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.
Live updates: White House blames 'staffer' for racist Obamas post shared by Trump
Trump administration live updates: New Jersey's special House primary too close to call
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
February 5, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Charles Evers met with Trump at the WH back in 2017, so naturally the president waited after he died to desecrate the memory of his brother. appalling
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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WHY DOES NO ONE EVER POINT OUT THE LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TRUMP *DOESN'T* MURDER?!?!?!?
Trump: I hate even talking about ICE. 2 people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity.

Host: But it was 2 Americans who died—

Trump: We have the smallest trucks. We've been very tough on the waters

Host: The waters?

Trump: The waters where we knock out boats
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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February 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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I wish I could interview the artist behind this
A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.

It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.

“ICE GTFO OF MN”

Minneapolis February 4, 2026
February 5, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
February 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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Now more than ever it is essential that we hold on to these facts
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 3, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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NYT publishes soft-focus feature on the shithheel provocateur who led to the terrorizing of Minneapolis. Why? WHY?
As an influencer, Nick Shirley had struggled to expand his reach. But after a missionary trip pushed him to try a new approach, he caused a sensation with a video claiming to expose fraud at Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota. nyti.ms/45GzJi4
February 3, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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February 2, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
February 1, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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Bloomberg Law reporting is about as staid and boring as it gets (complimentary). This is basically the equivalent of the A.P. calling for a coup.
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.

Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
January 31, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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“What they’re talking about is a facility between 5,000 to 10,000 humans who will be warehoused in something that was built as an Amazon distribution facility … And the attractiveness of the site is because it’s next to railroads. I don’t like big encampments next to train tracks and all of that.”
Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas continues push against ICE detention facility in city
Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas continued his push Wednesday to turn back plans for an ICE detention facility in his city.
www.kshb.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:03 PM
It was inappropriate in Scott County, KY.
"I think it's completely inappropriate to have someone from the Trump administration speaking directly to our children."

Fairfield Public Schools announces, then abruptly cancels, school visit by Linda McMahon
Fairfield Public Schools announces, then abruptly cancels, school visit by Linda McMahon
The visit was part of a tour involving right-wing political groups.
www.ctpublic.org
January 29, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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A Catholic organization honoring Tom Homan is a moral disgrace. A Catholic bishop imparting his blessing on a man responsible for such wanton destruction and desolation is a profound scandal.

My latest for @ncronline.bsky.social.
Fringe MAGA Catholic group crowns US border czar Tom Homan 'Protector of America'
In their latest act of sacrilege, the nationalist group is honoring a ferocious advocate and architect of the first Trump administration's family separation policy and the main animator of the aggress...
www.ncronline.org
January 21, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Nursing home industry donated almost $5m to Trump's super PAC over summer of 2025. They then, over lunch at Trump's golf club, urged the president to repeat the minimum staffing mandate in nursing homes. Less than one month after the lunch meeting, Trump administration lawyers ...

TAT: [Corruption]
After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff
Executives who donated to the president’s super PAC met privately with him and urged a repeal of the rule, which was intended to prevent neglect of patients.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”
Um, holy shit? This has gotta be up there in the most crass & worse things Trump has ever said
January 28, 2026 at 4:48 AM