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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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Atlantic: A Massive Vaccine Experiment

In just seven months, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has undone decades of vaccine synchrony.
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The consequences of the current fracturing may not be apparent right away. Immunity takes time to erode. “If we stop vaccinating today, we would not have outbreaks tomorrow,” Orenstein said. When the fallout lands, Kennedy could be long out of the government, and limiting the damage he’s done will be someone else’s problem.
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WSJ: Hiring Stalled in August, With 22,000 New Jobs

Revised figures show a summer slowdown, with 13,000 jobs lost in June

U.S. job growth continued to slow down in August, a sign that the labor market is deteriorating markedly.

The government also revised its numbers from earlier in the summer, and said the economy lost a net 13,000 jobs in June. It was the first such decline since December 2020.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – September 4, 2025

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Because of Kennedy’s history of repeating debunked lies and breaking promises he made to the Senate, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the highest ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, asked that the committee swear Kennedy in before he began his testimony. Committee chair Mike Crapo (R-ID) declined. Wyden said: “This committee’s unwillingness to swear this witness is basically a message that it is acceptable to lie to the Senate Finance Committee about hugely important questions like vaccines.”
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Al Jazeera: Fact checking Robert F Kennedy’s statements to Senate on COVID, vaccines

WSJ: RFK Jr.’s Operation Warped Memory

The health secretary can’t keep his vaccine story straight.
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Christina Pagel: Trump’s war on his perceived enemies is escalating: faster, broader, harsher

Trump is weaponising the presidency to punish critics, silence dissent, and brand whole states as ‘the enemy’.

Today I want to talk about the dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on its enemies, using whatever means are at its disposal. To date, I’ve logged 172 actions against perceived enemies since Jan 2025. Over half of these actions have come in just the last two months.
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Ken Klippenstein: Los Angeles Troop Deployment Was Illegal, Judge Says

The battle over troops in America’s streets is just beginning.

When Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, a seasoned Army National Guard officer, questioned the way homeland security was carrying out its operations in Los Angeles earlier this year, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino questioned his loyalty to the country.

That fascinating nugget is contained in the 52-page ruling by federal judge Charles Breyer, who today said that President Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a 150-year-old law that severely restricts how the military can engage in domestic law enforcement.
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Closer to the Edge: An Interview with Betty Osceola

On the edge of the Florida Everglades, where ancestral lands meet razor wire, a detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has become the center of a legal and moral battle. Just days after a federal judge ordered the site shut down, our editor-in-chief, Rook T. Winchester, spoke with Betty Osceola — Miccosukee tribal judge, and longtime protector of this land. What follows is a conversation about resistance, and the deeper currents beneath the headlines.
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Rook: Do you feel like people outside Florida understand what’s happening here?

Betty: No. I don’t think they do. Because if they did, there would be more outrage. There would be more people standing with us. There would be more media coverage. When the media ignores it, when the public ignores it, that’s when they get away with things like this. That’s when they bulldoze the land and say, “Oops, sorry, didn’t mean to.” And it’s too late. There are already environmental laws that are supposed to protect the environment. Those laws need to be upheld.
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Allison Gill: The Sooknanan Monologue

The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend until Judge Sooknanan entered an order to stop it.
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“I am trying to do the best I can to fulfill my obligation as an Article III judge. I appreciate you all showing up today, and I particularly appreciate the government’s representation. But I’m going to put it on the record again, just so there’s absolutely no ambiguity…

“These children are going to be deplaned. They’re going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending.”
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Ancient Origins UNLEASHED: The Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: Were Humans the First?

Much of modern science was known in ancient times. Robots and computers were a reality long before the 1940s. The early Bronze Age inhabitants of the Levant used computers in stone, the Greeks in the 2nd century BC invented an analogue computer known as the Antikythera mechanism. An ancient Hindu book gives detailed instructions for the construction of an aircraft –ages before the Wright brothers. Where did such knowledge come from?
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One of the greatest handicaps archaeologists and historians are confronted with is a lack of evidence. If it were not for burning libraries in antiquity, mankind’s history would not have so many missing pages.
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Heron, an Alexandrian engineer, built a steam engine which embodied the principle of both the turbine and jet propulsion. If the library had not been burned, we might have had a plan for a steam-chariot in Egypt. At least we know Heron invented an odometer registering the distance travelled by a vehicle. Such achievements were not surpassed, only copied. The source of modern science lies hidden far back in time.
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Maria Peralta: Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda

Mobilizations will take place at over 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies, demanding an end to wealth inequality amidst a deepening economic squeeze.
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“It’s hard to get ahead,” Dave Pinkham, an IBEW Local 520 journeyman electrician from Austin, Texas, told me. “I’m 40 years old, and I live paycheck to paycheck. In spite of all the volatility I’m OK because of the benefits I get through my union, but broadly speaking our members are struggling. When I look at someone with a spouse and three children, I don’t know how they’re doing it.” Pinkham worked for years in the food service industry but left after being disillusioned by what he said was the lack of respect and poor treatment given to workers.
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