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<\/a><\/p>\nJames Eagle: African life expectancy has risen sharply<\/a><\/h2>\nA chart like this is worth pausing over because it pushes against the easiest story about Africa. The long-run picture is not only crisis. It is millions of lives extended year by year.<\/p>\n
The upward movement reflects vaccination, malaria control, lower child mortality, better food security, urbanisation, basic medicine and public-health systems reaching more people than before. Some countries still lag badly, but the direction is unmistakable.<\/p>\n
Life expectancy is an average, not a guarantee of good lives. War, poverty and weak healthcare still matter enormously. The point is not to soften reality. It is to remember that African development has also produced one of the great human gains of the modern era.
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Thom Hartmann: Thought Crimes: The Knock on the Door Has Arrived<\/a><\/h2>\nThe pre-crime apparatus is no longer theoretical. Americans are now being prosecuted for meetings, messages, and protest activity\u2026<\/em><\/p>\nBack in April I wrote here about what I called the Department of Thought Crimes<\/a>, the pre-crime apparatus the Trump regime had quietly stood up inside the FBI and DOJ to hunt for Americans who might someday break a law because of what they believe.<\/p>\nKen Klippenstein first identified the GOP\u2019s hit list<\/a> in Trump\u2019s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, often referred to as \u201cNSPM-7,\u201d which is apparently the basis for these arrests. It identified as potential \u201cdomestic terrorist\u201d threats those Americans who espouse:<\/em><\/p>\n\u201c[A]nti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, \u2026 extremism on migration, extremism on race, extremism on gender, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Klippenstein then, three months later, discovered<\/a> that the Trump regime \u2014 specifically, Bondi\u2019s DOJ and Patel\u2019s FBI \u2014 was already busily compiling lists of such potential terrorists, sharing the responsibility with some 200 FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) working collaboratively with local police departments across America.<\/em><\/p>\nAnd Bondi had instructed them to go back as far as five years in their scrubbing of social media and searching out our thoughts and opinions to find Americans who presumably may oppose Christianity, billionaires, or tradwives.
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Brian Allen: The FBI Interview Trump’s Own Justice Department Buried in the Epstein Files<\/a><\/h2>\nA woman told federal agents that men operating out of Trump Tower recruited her for sex with Trump, and that the invitation carried Jeffrey Epstein’s address. The document sat inside the files the administration released.<\/em>
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\nWhat those quotations describe, if accurate, is not a rumor. It is not an allegation passed through a handler or a partisan attorney. It is a woman sitting across from federal agents and giving a sworn account, knowing that lying to those agents is a crime, describing a recruitment operation for sex with the sitting president of the United States, operating out of his signature property, tied to his long-documented associate Jeffrey Epstein.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 18, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nOvernight, Ukraine launched its biggest attack on Moscow, the capital of Russia, since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine\u2019s waves of drone strikes on a major Moscow oil refinery have shrouded the city in flames and black smoke. Last week, Russia struck one of Ukraine\u2019s most important religious and cultural landmarks, the thousand-year-old Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The ancient monastery, with its churches and bell towers, is a UNESCO World Heritage site, described by the United Nations agency as a \u201cmasterpiece of Ukrainian art.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russia denied responsibility for the strike. After the Moscow strikes, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky released a video saying: \u201cIf Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn too.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the U.S., President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance are trying hard to sell the administration\u2019s memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran …<\/p>\n
The leaders trying to dictate a new global order seem brittle and breaking, while in the United States the crowds jamming the streets in New York City in a ticker tape parade for the NBA Championship winners, the New York Knicks, suggested the momentum has shifted back to the American people. …<\/p>\n
The theme farther west, in Chicago\u2019s Jackson Park, was the same: community, hope, and the power of individuals to create change. For the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, former first lady Michelle Obama and former president Barack Obama welcomed living presidents and first ladies, except the Trumps, who were not invited: President Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary Clinton, President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush, and President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden.
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Mrs. Obama urged Americans to make a choice to change the future. …
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSmall Wars Journal: \u201cIf Ukraine burns, then your Moscow will burn as well\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\nHeather Delaney Reese: Trump\u2019s wildly erratic G7 speech shows a man in steep decline<\/a><\/h2>\nJohn Amato @ Crooks&Liars<\/em>: Michelle Obama’s Incredible Speech Opening Obama’s Presidential Library<\/a><\/a><\/h2>\nCan you imagine Melania giving a speech like this?
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Thom Hartmann: Thought Crimes: The Knock on the Door Has Arrived<\/a><\/h2>\n
The pre-crime apparatus is no longer theoretical. Americans are now being prosecuted for meetings, messages, and protest activity\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n
Back in April I wrote here about what I called the Department of Thought Crimes<\/a>, the pre-crime apparatus the Trump regime had quietly stood up inside the FBI and DOJ to hunt for Americans who might someday break a law because of what they believe.<\/p>\n
Ken Klippenstein first identified the GOP\u2019s hit list<\/a> in Trump\u2019s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, often referred to as \u201cNSPM-7,\u201d which is apparently the basis for these arrests. It identified as potential \u201cdomestic terrorist\u201d threats those Americans who espouse:<\/em><\/p>\n
\u201c[A]nti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, \u2026 extremism on migration, extremism on race, extremism on gender, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Klippenstein then, three months later, discovered<\/a> that the Trump regime \u2014 specifically, Bondi\u2019s DOJ and Patel\u2019s FBI \u2014 was already busily compiling lists of such potential terrorists, sharing the responsibility with some 200 FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) working collaboratively with local police departments across America.<\/em><\/p>\n
And Bondi had instructed them to go back as far as five years in their scrubbing of social media and searching out our thoughts and opinions to find Americans who presumably may oppose Christianity, billionaires, or tradwives.
\n(Thom Hartmann more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Brian Allen: The FBI Interview Trump’s Own Justice Department Buried in the Epstein Files<\/a><\/h2>\n
A woman told federal agents that men operating out of Trump Tower recruited her for sex with Trump, and that the invitation carried Jeffrey Epstein’s address. The document sat inside the files the administration released.<\/em>
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\nWhat those quotations describe, if accurate, is not a rumor. It is not an allegation passed through a handler or a partisan attorney. It is a woman sitting across from federal agents and giving a sworn account, knowing that lying to those agents is a crime, describing a recruitment operation for sex with the sitting president of the United States, operating out of his signature property, tied to his long-documented associate Jeffrey Epstein.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 18, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
Overnight, Ukraine launched its biggest attack on Moscow, the capital of Russia, since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine\u2019s waves of drone strikes on a major Moscow oil refinery have shrouded the city in flames and black smoke. Last week, Russia struck one of Ukraine\u2019s most important religious and cultural landmarks, the thousand-year-old Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The ancient monastery, with its churches and bell towers, is a UNESCO World Heritage site, described by the United Nations agency as a \u201cmasterpiece of Ukrainian art.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russia denied responsibility for the strike. After the Moscow strikes, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky released a video saying: \u201cIf Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn too.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the U.S., President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance are trying hard to sell the administration\u2019s memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran …<\/p>\n
The leaders trying to dictate a new global order seem brittle and breaking, while in the United States the crowds jamming the streets in New York City in a ticker tape parade for the NBA Championship winners, the New York Knicks, suggested the momentum has shifted back to the American people. …<\/p>\n
The theme farther west, in Chicago\u2019s Jackson Park, was the same: community, hope, and the power of individuals to create change. For the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, former first lady Michelle Obama and former president Barack Obama welcomed living presidents and first ladies, except the Trumps, who were not invited: President Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary Clinton, President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush, and President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden.
\n…<\/p>\nMrs. Obama urged Americans to make a choice to change the future. …
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSmall Wars Journal: \u201cIf Ukraine burns, then your Moscow will burn as well\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n
Heather Delaney Reese: Trump\u2019s wildly erratic G7 speech shows a man in steep decline<\/a><\/h2>\n
John Amato @ Crooks&Liars<\/em>: Michelle Obama’s Incredible Speech Opening Obama’s Presidential Library<\/a><\/a><\/h2>\n
Can you imagine Melania giving a speech like this?
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