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QAnon’s Afterlife: A Holy Civil War – CounterPunch.org
The role of QAnon in the January 6 MAGAist insurrection is becoming clearer by the day. Most readers are familiar by now with its unofficial mascot, be-horned “supersoldier” (and perhaps future WWE Trump tag-team member) Q Shaman. In addition, at leas ...[Read more]
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Northern Ireland suspends Brexit checks amid safety fears for port staff
Brexit checks on animal and food products arriving into Belfast and Larne ports have been suspended amid fears over the safety of staff, Northern Ireland’s agriculture ministry has said. The decision came after Mid and East Antrim borough council agreed ...[Read more]
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Biden risks an early major blunder on the world stage
As Congress still struggles to pass a COVID relief bill, the rest of the world is nervously reserving judgment on America's new president and his foreign policy, after successive U.S. administrations have delivered unexpected and damaging shocks to the wo ...[Read more]
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These Trump supporters received $227,000 in PPP funds then vandalized the Capitol
A mob of angry Trump supporters stormed the U.S Capitol on January 6 with a litany of grievances against the U.S. government. But those grievances didn't stop many from benefiting from government-run loan programs designed to help businesses during the CO ...[Read more]
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Video Shows 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo Had His Hands Up When A Police Officer Fatally Shot Him
A 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed in Chicago by a police officer had his hands up when the cop fired his weapon, new videos show. The city's Civilian Office of Police Accountability posted the videos online Thursday along with other recordings and ...[Read more]
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Minnesota to ban cops from affiliating with white supremacist groups: report
"Minnesota's police licensing board on Thursday agreed to pursue new rules for law enforcement responses to protests and a ban on officers affiliating with white supremacist groups," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Thursday. "The 16-member Minnesota ...[Read more]
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Many Deaths During the Pandemic Were Simply Due to Lack of Access to Health Care
In calculating its human toll, a pandemic is similar to a war. The most precise way public health researchers can get a handle on the impact of something like COVID-19 is to compare the number of total deaths recorded in a specific place during the pandem ...[Read more]
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Fascism’s Global Spread Is as Real as the Pandemic’s
When Mussolini and Hitler were still upstarts fighting to barge into the political mainstream in Italy and Germany, politicians of the left, center, and traditional right dismissed them as oddities who would either disappear or be absorbed into the parlia ...[Read more]
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Chomsky: Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power
Today’s Republican Party is an extremist force that no longer qualifies as a mainstream political party and is surely not interested in participating in “normal” politics. In fact, today’s GOP is so wrapped around extreme and irrational beliefs th ...[Read more]
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Trump’s Jesus fascists worry experts following report on Christian GOP churches
'Truly Sick" Experts, journalists, and chroniclers of religious extremism are sounding alarm bells over a Washington Post exposé on "a growing Christian movement that is nondenominational, openly political and has become an engine of former president Don ...[Read more]
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Biden Upholds Last-Minute Trump Memo That Would Send 4,000 People Back to Prison
Marquez is one of over 4,000 people who were released from federal prison to home confinement under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to stem the spread of COVID-19 behind bars. The CARES Act prioritizes the release of people ...[Read more]
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