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Highlighting Indigenous stories from across NPR’s network— Native war heroes were swept up in President Donald Trump’s recent DEI directive at the Pentagon, erasing their legacies from its annals of military history.
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House Republicans worked through the night to advance a massive piece of legislation that might, if enacted, carry out the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history.
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For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families
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What! No Apology?
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Trump Moves to End Union Protections Across Broad Swath of Government
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From His Lips to Your Ears
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Contact Your Elected Officials
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Biden Built Better
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
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Nothing to see here
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Trump Should Fire Pete Hegseth
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Pete…the booze? I get it. But ordering hot wings?
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“A Machinery of Bullshit”
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
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Trump You
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Under New Management
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Columbia Caves
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Born in the RSA
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The fraud is at the other end of the microphone.
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The Lesson for Today
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Ukraine
Aiding and Abetting War Crimes. Shameful.
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Netanyahu says Israeli strikes that killed hundreds in Gaza are ‘just the beginning’
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Coming Soon to a Theater Near You (not)
Borowitz
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JD Unites the West
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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The Great Writ
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Today at 6. Rhode Island State House Lawn.
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All the News That Fits the Narrative
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When is political speech not political speech?
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Trump demands admissions overhaul and control of academic department at Columbia University
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Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
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Doctor and Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order
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Cause you never can tell what goes on down below…
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3 Branches of Government
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Protesting genocide is not a crime.
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Remove, Reverse, Reclaim: Peaceful Protest on Saturday, April 5th.
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Justice Dept. Moving to Downsize Units Investigating Fraud and Corruption
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Pushes Its Way Into India
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Jewish anti-Zionist protesters storm NYC’s Trump Tower in support of Mahmoud Khalil
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Ministry of Truth
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Orwellian
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Palestine
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Louisiana? Cute. Make America Great Again…like before there was a 6th Amendment.
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wealth
Trickle-down economics
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Palestine
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stop
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Respect human rights or…
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Israel’s decision to cut off electricity supply to Gaza desalination plant cruel and unlawful
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social media
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ICE arrests Pro-Palestinian activist involved with Columbia encampment
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Federal Grant Program Opens Door to Elon Musk’s Starlink
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Incompetence
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Stalled Audits and a Skeleton Staff: Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S.
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rule of law
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Trump 2.0
Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Badges!
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Trump 2.0
Trump cuts to VA services has area vets feeling abandoned
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Trump 2.0
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Women’s History Month
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Black History
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Women’s History Month
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Women’s History Month
Margaret Garner (1834-58)
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women
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Women’s History Month
Hannah Crafts
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authoritarianism
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Trump 2.0
Georgetown Law Receives Curricular Demands from U.S. Atty Appointed by Felon-in-Chief Trump
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Black History Month
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Women’s History Month
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Women’s History Month
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Women’s History Month
Harriet Jacobs
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Trump 2.0
…but then again, maybe they are.
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Women’s History Month
Sojourner Truth
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Trump 2.0
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Ukraine
Speaking of suits in the Oval Office
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Trump 2.0
Control. Alt. Delete.
international
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Trump 2.0
…because he won’t give up in the Oval Office what the Russians have unsuccessfully been killing his people for three years to obtain.
Benefits the public how?
,
corruption
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Elon Musk
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posts
Elon Musk’s Open Corruption Revealed in New FAA Plans
25th Amendment
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foreign policy
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Trump Plays Dumb When Asked Whether He Still Thinks Zelensky Is a ‘Dictator’
Nick Anderson
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Oligarchy
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the press
Millions for tribute, not one cent for integrity.
Elon Musk
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posts
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social media
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TechnoMob— On X, Conservative Activists Find a Direct Pipeline to Musk’s Team
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race
Maybe it isn’t a Nazi salute
budget
,
Elon Musk
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posts
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Trump 2.0
One for you, one for me; two for you, one…two for me.
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the press
Jeff Bezos Reveals Sick MAGA Takeover of Washington Post
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Did Russia Invade Ukraine? Is Putin a Dictator? We Asked Every Republican Member of Congress
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Black History Month
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On this day in history
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Nick Anderson
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posts
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Trump 2.0
Another black box checked
America
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Elon Musk
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national security
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posts
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Trump 2.0
DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
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posts
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Supreme Court
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Wrong on the pandemic, right on autocracy
international
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opinion
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posts
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Russia
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Trump’s Actions Are a Victory for Putin*
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AP Sues Trump Citing Freedom of Speech
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Do 10 Things
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Quote of the day
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With All Due Respect, Mr. President—No Sale
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the press
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Trump 2.0
…because he lies so much.
DEI
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Elon Musk
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free speech
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Orwellian
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posts
‘Terrified’ Federal Workers Are Clamming Up
2024 campaign
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America
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Jan 6
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posts
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the press
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Trump
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Trump 2.0
Fact-check Fact-Checked
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Coinbase Says S.E.C. Will Drop Crypto Lawsuit
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posts
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A Friday-Night Massacre at the Pentagon
Black History Month
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posts
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Trump 2.0
Start the Steal
America
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Today in History
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Black History Month
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Today in history
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Trump 2.0
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
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science
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Censored Science Can’t Save Lives
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posts
Today in History
Black History
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Black History Month
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education
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posts
Today in history
national security
,
Nick Anderson
,
posts
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Trump 2.0
Waste, Fraud, Abuse; More Waste…
Black History Month
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posts
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race
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Trump 2.0
Racism trumps national security—Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event
posts
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tech
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Trump 2.0
Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
America
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Black History Month
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Observe Black History
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How to Be a Bad Cop 101
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Elon Musk
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Trump Admin. Suddenly Cancels Dozens of Education Department Contracts
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Observe Black History Every Month
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Trump 2.0
Waffle House
2025
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Trump 2.0
Consumer Protection—R.I.P.
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Trump 2.0
Sick
Musk
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posts
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Trump 2.0
Musk’s DOGE Teen Minion Was Once Fired for Leaking Company Secrets
posts
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What next?
Don’t Just Sit There…Do Something
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posts
Observe Black History Every Month
posts
GOP, USA, R.I.P.
America
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posts
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Trump 2.0
Into the Memory Hole…
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posts
Observe Black History Every Month
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Trump 2.0
The pump don’t work cause the vandals took the handles
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Celebrate Black History Month— Affirmative Action for Elon’s peeps
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Observe Black History Every Month
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women
Back to Normal— racial gap in perinatal death widens.
America
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the press
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Trump 2.0
How the quiet war against press freedom could come to America
Nick Anderson
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posts
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Trump 2.0
What a tool
posts
,
public safety
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Trump 2.0
Learn to read
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Immigrant labor, both authorized and unauthorized, is integral to the staffing and running of restaurants in the United States.
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Trump 2.0
Mass deportations—red meat
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Trump 2.0
Trump Fires at Least 12 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge
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posts
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Trump 2.0
Bad Air? Suck it Up
posts
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race
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Trump 2.0
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women
Just in Time for Black History Month— Trump’s anti-DEI order yanks air force videos of Tuskegee Airmen
posts
,
Trump 2.0
The Commander-in-Chief. Really.
GOP
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Trump 2.0
Black Trump Supporters…
America
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Shattered in the Fire: A Historic Black Haven
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A Father and Son Called for Help Escaping as Flames Approached. None Came.
posts
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Trump 2.0
Trump’s 2nd Inaugural Address, annotated
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posts
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Trump 2.0
Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization
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Jan 6
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Trump 2.0
Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 Rioters
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Trump 2.0
Equal Justice Under the Boot— Insurrectionists Freed
America
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Trump 2.0
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”*
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MLK Day 2025
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Biden Does the Right Thing. Again.
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TRUMP INAUGURATION OFFICIAL’S “PHONY CHARITY” ALLEGEDLY POCKETED EAST PALESTINE TRAIN DISASTER FUNDS
Jamelle Bouie
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Oligarchy
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Trump 2.0
Manly Men
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satire
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Trump 2.0
Hell Freezes Over
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Biden Farewell Address
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The Biden-Harris Administration Record
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American Hero
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Roadside Justice in Louisiana
national security
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Trump 2.0
Duckworth: Trump’s Pentagon pick has less experience than Applebee’s manager
GOP
,
Nick Anderson
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posts
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social media
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Trump 2.0
But fight it we must!
Jamelle Bouie
,
opinion
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posts
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Trump
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Trump 2.0
Not so fast on that peaceful transfer of power
law and order
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posts
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Trump
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Trump 2.0
Actually, you’re already a felon.
abortion
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human rights
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Trump 2.0
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women
Care Denied
Borowitz
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posts
The Promise of Heaven
foreign policy
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Nick Anderson
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posts
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Trump 2.0
Not Satire
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GOP
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journalism
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posts
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social media
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the press
Zuckerberg conceded there would be more ‘bad stuff’ on his sites. Here’s the latest.
Ann Telnaes
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posts
10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo killings
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Democrats
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Jan 6
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Congress certifies Trump’s presidential victory without melodrama
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