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Conservative radio host who called himself ‘Mr. Anti-Vax’ dies of COVID-19
Yet another right-wing radio host who spent months railing against public health and vaccination efforts succumbed to COVID-19 this weekend after a protracted battle with the virus. Marc Bernier, who called himself "Mr. Anti-Vax" at one point, died Satur ...[Read more]
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Trump Sues to Restore Twitter Account Ahead of Likely 2024 Presidential Run
Advisers warned Trump that an announcement before the midterms could hurt Republicans' chances of winning Congress. ...[Read more]
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“Economic Freedom” Rankings Don’t Tell Us Anything About Capitalism
Conservatives and libertarians love to cite studies ranking different countries’ levels of “economic freedom” as evidence for the glories of capitalism. There’s just one problem: the rankings are nonsense. ...[Read more]
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Chinese engineers plan 1,000km tunnel from Tibet to Xinjiang
Chinese engineers are testing techniques that could be used to build a 1,000km tunnel – the world’s longest – to carry water from Tibet to Xinjiang, experts involved in the project say. The proposed tunnel, which would drop down from the world’s h ...[Read more]
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Americans are Broke and Hungry, as Politicians Have Sat on Their Hands
Covid-19 not only killed over 300,000 Americans, it also bankrupted millions. When it first attacked, congress and the white house rushed billions to rich corporations, while the Fed turned on the money spigot to keep the stock market afloat. But this lar ...[Read more]
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Trumper DC protester arrested with 11 Molotov cocktails, several guns had list of ‘good guys,’ ‘bad guys’: DOJ
Federal prosecutors submitted chilling new evidence in their case against Capitol siege suspect Lonnie Coffman on Tuesday, including a list the protester had in his possession naming "good guys" and "bad guys," including the names of a federal judge and a ...[Read more]
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Joe Biden wants to spend $2 trillion on infrastructure and jobs. These 4 charts show where the money would go.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday introduced a sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that looks to reshape the American economy and make the most significant domestic U.S. investments in generations. His far-reaching American Jobs Plan inclu ...[Read more]
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New body camera footage shows officers kneeling on a California man’s back for 5 minutes before he died
The family of a 26-year-old man, Mario Gonzalez, is demanding an independent investigation into the California man's death following the release Tuesday of body camera footage by the Alameda Police Department which shows three officers kneeling on his bac ...[Read more]
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How Bill Gates set the stage for Modi’s COVID-19 disaster in India
While the incompetence of the Indian government is starkly visible in its handling of the second wave of the COVID-19 crisis, its performance has been far worse on the vaccine front. The BJP-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which seems to b ...[Read more]
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Three key forces seek to end American democracy and QAnon gives them the opportunity
There are people in this world who don't like ”and even hate€” democracy. They're on the move against it, particularly here in America, and the Qanon religion/cult is the glue that's bringing them all together. ...[Read more]
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‘We Are in Deep, Deep Sh*t’: Climate Experts Shocked at Severity of Floods in Germany and Belgium
Climate scientists on Friday were stunned by the intensity of flooding in Germany and Belgium that killed at least 120 people and damaged tens of thousands of homes, with experts saying they did not expect such extreme weather to result from the human-cau ...[Read more]
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