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NY Times: Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance
The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.
Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has dismantled the American government’s efforts to combat foreign disinformation. The problem is that Russia has not stopped spreading it.
How much that matters can now be seen in Moldova, a small but strategic European nation that has since the end of the Cold War looked to Europe and the United States to extract itself from Moscow’s shadow.
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Anne Applebaum: Unilateral Disarmament
America Surrenders in the Information Wars
Register: As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let’s talk about digital presidents-for-life
And maybe even dictator Brain-in-a-box-as-a-Service
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James Eagle: The US jobs machine has ground to a halt
With just 22,000 positions added in August, this is the weakest showing outside of pandemic disruptions since the depths of the Great Recession. What we are seeing is the starkest warning yet from the labour market that something is fundamentally wrong with the US economy.
Manufacturing shed 12,000 jobs for the fourth consecutive month, whilst the unemployment rate climbed to 4.3 per cent, a level not seen since 2021. These are not the numbers of an economy responding to promised stimulus from tax cuts and deregulation; they are the numbers of an economy paralysed by uncertainty.
(James Eagle more…)Jason Easley: Trump’s Hyundai Plant Immigration Raid Massively Backfires
South Korea is investing billions of dollars in US manufacturing, but is now outraged because of Trump’s immigration raid at a plant in Georgia that led to the arrest of 300 South Korean nationals.
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NY Times: Trump Is Met With Mostly Boos at U.S. Open as Security Delays a Match
With the president in attendance at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the men’s final began as hundreds of people were still waiting to go through security screening.
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TFN: Meet the Man Who Led Trump’s Murder of 11 People
Admiral Holsey is the commander of the U.S. Southern Command and obeyed an unlawful command from the commander in chief
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And, so far, the administration itself hasn’t mustered a legitimate rationale for Holsey to order the Tuesday strike in the Caribbean, nor an explanation for how it didn’t constitute an unlawful order to, in any reasonable sense of the word, murder 11 people.The U.S. was not returning fire. There was no war or even combat. The dead were given no chance to surrender. They had no due process in which to mount a legal defense.
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[without Lynn Conway’s 1980 “book that changed everything,” VLSI for phones and computers we have today might not be available] -
Lynn Conway: The Many Shades of ‘Out’
Freedom isn’t just an external concept, framed by our laws. It’s a gift of the spirit that we must give ourselves, in this case by going towards brighter shades of ‘out.’
(Lynn Conway more…)LAWdork: Two cases, involving 20 people, show how dangerous the attack on trans people has gotten
DOJ wants to send 19 trans women to men’s prisons. South Carolina wants to keep one trans boy out of the boys’ restroom.
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Steward Beckham: One Nation, Divisible
Postwar unity was the exception. Our true history is patchwork, uneven, and cruel.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – September 7, 2025
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD: COVID & Health News, 9/7/25
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NY Times: A New War Is Emerging in Colombia
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AXIOS: Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message
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NewsNation: Where the Epstein files fight in Congress goes next
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“We don’t want to see the materials the White House is sending over. We want to see the materials the White House is not sending over,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
(NewsNation more…)Sarah Jones & Jason Easley: The Epstein Files Discharge Petition Now Has The 218 Votes Needed To Force A Vote
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) announced that he and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) have secured promises from the two Democrats who will win special elections this month that they will sign the discharge petition.
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Borowitz: Did JD Vance Really Say That?
People are saying he did.
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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