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“We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S.,” says Todd Robinson. Read more about Trump's Venezuelan distraction in this NYTimes gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
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November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S.,” says Todd Robinson. Read more about Trump's Venezuelan distraction in this NYTimes gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
To Many Ukrainians, U.S. Peace Plan Looks Like ‘Capitulation’ reads the NYTimes headline. Ukrainians reckon it's better to die fighting than die later as a slave. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
To Many Ukrainians, U.S. Peace Plan Looks Like ‘Capitulation’
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November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
To Many Ukrainians, U.S. Peace Plan Looks Like ‘Capitulation’ reads the NYTimes headline. Ukrainians reckon it's better to die fighting than die later as a slave. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
I saw an "Eat The Rich" banner at yesterday's "No Trillionaires" protest. So... Wikipedia says US income tax reached 94% in 1944 on income over $200,000, equivalent of $2,868,625 in 2018 dollars. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
History of taxation in the United States - Wikipedia
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November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I saw an "Eat The Rich" banner at yesterday's "No Trillionaires" protest. So... Wikipedia says US income tax reached 94% in 1944 on income over $200,000, equivalent of $2,868,625 in 2018 dollars. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
King George III "sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People" accused the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Jamelle Bouie reminds us of the parallels in his Opinion column in this free gift NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
Opinion | There’s a Reason Trump Fears No Kings
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October 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
King George III "sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People" accused the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Jamelle Bouie reminds us of the parallels in his Opinion column in this free gift NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...
Russia wants to connect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to their own power grid. Ukraine's grid connection to the plant was dangerously, conveniently, accidentally broken this week. Read the NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
Danger and Intrigue Hang Over Power Cut at Russian-Held Nuclear Plant
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October 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Russia wants to connect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to their own power grid. Ukraine's grid connection to the plant was dangerously, conveniently, accidentally broken this week. Read the NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
25th amendment requires 2/3 vote of both the House and Senate... Impeachment requires only a majority of the House, but it didn't work the last two times. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleepi...
The sleeping giant is awakening
After a week of authoritarian excess, the nation is turning on Trump
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September 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
25th amendment requires 2/3 vote of both the House and Senate... Impeachment requires only a majority of the House, but it didn't work the last two times. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleepi...
[I]n just one night, Russia sent more than 800 exploding drones and decoys swarming across the border. Read about it in this free NYTimes article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/w...
Russia Made Drone Production a Supreme Priority. Now It Swarms the Skies.
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September 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
[I]n just one night, Russia sent more than 800 exploding drones and decoys swarming across the border. Read about it in this free NYTimes article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/w...
Revolution Wind was expected to generate electricity for more than 350,000 homes at 9.8 cents per kilowatt-hour, [...]cheaper than the average cost of electricity in New England, according to America’s Clean Power. Read about it in this free NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change
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September 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Revolution Wind was expected to generate electricity for more than 350,000 homes at 9.8 cents per kilowatt-hour, [...]cheaper than the average cost of electricity in New England, according to America’s Clean Power. Read about it in this free NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...
Does raiding and deporting the South Korean workers building an EV factory in Georgia boost or bust American manufacturing? Read the free (and brief) NYTimes article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/w...
September 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Does raiding and deporting the South Korean workers building an EV factory in Georgia boost or bust American manufacturing? Read the free (and brief) NYTimes article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/w...
Luciano is a 7-year-old budding soccer star and Spanish - English translator. He and his mom were abducted by ICE from Colorado and sent to a recently reopened South Texas detention facility. Read about it in The Colorado Sun.
What happens when ICE arrests a Colorado family? A teammate disappears. A colleague misses work. Neighbors are gone.
What happens when ICE arrests a Colorado family? A teammate disappears. A colleague misses work. Neighbors are gone.
Carolina Suarez Estrada, who was taken into custody in Salida, and her son Luciano remain in immigration detention in Texas
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September 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Luciano is a 7-year-old budding soccer star and Spanish - English translator. He and his mom were abducted by ICE from Colorado and sent to a recently reopened South Texas detention facility. Read about it in The Colorado Sun.
Judge Leslie H. Southwick wrote “There is no finding that this mass immigration was an armed, organized force or forces.” Read the NYTimes free article here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
September 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Judge Leslie H. Southwick wrote “There is no finding that this mass immigration was an armed, organized force or forces.” Read the NYTimes free article here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia taken by ICE again. Seriously? Gift NYTimes here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Arrested and Will Be Re-Deported, Noem Says
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August 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia taken by ICE again. Seriously? Gift NYTimes here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Amendment proposed by David French: rather than “The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America,” it should read, “A president of the United States of America shall execute laws passed by Congress.” Read gift article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Opinion | One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems
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August 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Amendment proposed by David French: rather than “The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America,” it should read, “A president of the United States of America shall execute laws passed by Congress.” Read gift article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Nicole Collier spent the night inside the Texas State Capitol rather than signing a permission slip allowing for an overnight police escort to assure her return the next day. Read NY times gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Night at the Capitol: One Democrat’s Unexpected Protest Grips Texas
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August 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Nicole Collier spent the night inside the Texas State Capitol rather than signing a permission slip allowing for an overnight police escort to assure her return the next day. Read NY times gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Hooray for Nicole Collier!
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
August 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Hooray for Nicole Collier!
Whoa, my buddy Jake Broe says youtu.be/1-yN4NpO0qY
Russia Sent a Fake Putin to Alaska to Meet Trump
YouTube video by Jake Broe
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August 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Whoa, my buddy Jake Broe says youtu.be/1-yN4NpO0qY
It was a beautiful day for a protest, and we counted upwards of 210 protestors there today. Nice to meet you!
August 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It was a beautiful day for a protest, and we counted upwards of 210 protestors there today. Nice to meet you!
Amazing clean energy figure! The Colorado Sun also says "The budget and policy framework passed by Congress this summer eliminated most development tax credits and electricity production credits that made renewable sources so cheap compared to fossil fuel power."
Holy Cross Energy hits 96% clean energy, wonders if progress might slow
Holy Cross Energy hits 96% clean energy, wonders if progress might slow
Holy Cross Energy co-op hit 96% clean energy delivery in May, though federal subsidy cuts and supply chain costs could slow future progress.
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July 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Amazing clean energy figure! The Colorado Sun also says "The budget and policy framework passed by Congress this summer eliminated most development tax credits and electricity production credits that made renewable sources so cheap compared to fossil fuel power."
Hard to sleep with all that racket and threat of death.
❤️🇺🇦 During the night terror in Kharkiv, rescuers covered a woman, a child, and their pet.
July 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hard to sleep with all that racket and threat of death.
“There is no one in Gaza now outside the scope of famine, not even myself,” said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, who leads the pediatric ward at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. “ I, too, am searching for flour to feed my family.” Free NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Gazans Are Dying of Starvation
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July 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“There is no one in Gaza now outside the scope of famine, not even myself,” said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, who leads the pediatric ward at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. “ I, too, am searching for flour to feed my family.” Free NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
KC Becker, the CEO of the Colorado Solar Energy and Storage Association, is quoted saying "Just the name of the order — Ending Market Distorting Subsidies For Foreign Controlled Energy Sources — is so inaccurate and it tells you that Donald Trump isn’t prioritizing what he ought to be"
Trump v. Colorado: How the president’s energy agenda is clashing with the state’s lofty green ambitions
Trump v. Colorado: How the president’s energy agenda is clashing with the state’s lofty green ambitions
Trump administration has cut off federal subsidies and prioritized fossil fuels, threatening to further delay the state's clean energy goals
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July 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
KC Becker, the CEO of the Colorado Solar Energy and Storage Association, is quoted saying "Just the name of the order — Ending Market Distorting Subsidies For Foreign Controlled Energy Sources — is so inaccurate and it tells you that Donald Trump isn’t prioritizing what he ought to be"
I'm lucky my nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA work well together.
July 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I'm lucky my nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA work well together.
The state of Florida's immigrant concentration camp is now officially named “Alligator Alcatraz” and already has 900 prisoners. Read this free article in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center
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July 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The state of Florida's immigrant concentration camp is now officially named “Alligator Alcatraz” and already has 900 prisoners. Read this free article in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
“We live here, together. Losing immigrants hurts us all” says a billboard in Yamhill County, writes Nicholas Kristoff. Read Gift Article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
Opinion | A Pro-Trump Community Reckons With Losing a Beloved Immigrant Neighbor
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July 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“We live here, together. Losing immigrants hurts us all” says a billboard in Yamhill County, writes Nicholas Kristoff. Read Gift Article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...
I have a kazillion mitochondria flux capacitors, says Nick Lane. nick-lane.net/books/power-...
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life — Nick Lane
What gives us our energy, is behind the origin of two sexes, and directs our ageing and death? The answer in each case lies in mitochondria.
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July 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I have a kazillion mitochondria flux capacitors, says Nick Lane. nick-lane.net/books/power-...