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Articles by Dave Levitan
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sports, musings An At Best Half-Baked Theory of How the Calcification of American Political Institutions Mirrors Professional Sports
By Dave Levitan August 22, 2025 | 12:44pm
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immigration, trump-administration Environmental Violations — But Not the Torture — Deal Alligator Alcatraz a Judicial Blow
By Dave Levitan August 22, 2025 | 9:46am
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latest Our Solar System Is Still Hiding Moons, and We're Getting Better at Finding Them
By Dave Levitan August 21, 2025 | 12:15pm
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trump-administration, climate A Retreat to the 19th Century, One 90-Day Coal Plant Extension at a Time
By Dave Levitan August 21, 2025 | 9:12am
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healthcare, climate Is It Bad That Two-Thirds of Drug Manufacturing Facilities Are in Increasingly Disaster-Prone Areas?
By Dave Levitan August 20, 2025 | 1:58pm
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trump-administration, climate Interior Department, Amid Its Deep Concern About Offshore Wind Power, Announces 30 New Offshore Oil Auctions
By Dave Levitan August 20, 2025 | 8:42am
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congress, elections What the Hell Is Going On at the Texas Legislature Now?
By Dave Levitan August 19, 2025 | 2:32pm
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trump-administration, musings The Trump Administration Web Sites I Keep Thinking Will Disappear But Don't
By Dave Levitan August 19, 2025 | 9:35am
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trump-administration, climate 'Brazen Violation': Trump Administration's Disdain for Advisory Committees Has Now Gotten Them Sued
By Dave Levitan August 18, 2025 | 11:47am
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climate Hurricane Season is Awake
By Dave Levitan August 18, 2025 | 8:35am
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trump-administration If Everything Is an Emergency, Nothing Is an Emergency
By Dave Levitan August 15, 2025 | 1:58pm
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trump-administration, climate Trump's Zombie Fossil Fuel Power Plants Could Cost Us $3 Billion — or More
By Dave Levitan August 15, 2025 | 9:13am
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climate The State of the Climate Is: Grim
By Dave Levitan August 14, 2025 | 1:47pm
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climate World-Famous Artist Helps Greenpeace 'Butcher' a Shell Offshore Gas Rig
By Dave Levitan August 14, 2025 | 8:45am
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trump-administration Gosh, I Wonder Which Bits of American History the Trump Administration Will Edit Out of Smithsonian Exhibits
By Dave Levitan August 13, 2025 | 2:04pm
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climate Alaska's Capital Flooded By Melting Glacier
By Dave Levitan August 13, 2025 | 8:59am
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latest, climate It's Early, But Tropical Storm Erin Has Menacing Potential
By Dave Levitan August 12, 2025 | 11:42am
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healthcare, trump-administration RFK Jr. Learns He Is Not Also Denmark's HHS Secretary
By Dave Levitan August 12, 2025 | 7:10am
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climate Climate Change Has Laid Waste to Tropical Bird Populations: Study
By Dave Levitan August 11, 2025 | 12:09pm
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trump-administration Crime-Concerned President to Deploy FBI and National Guard to Increasingly Safe Washington, D.C.
By Dave Levitan August 11, 2025 | 9:20am
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climate, economy Big Banks Don't See Upside in Climate Promises Anymore
By Dave Levitan August 8, 2025 | 11:12am
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climate The 360-Degree Assault on Climate Action Is Impossibly Grim
By Dave Levitan August 8, 2025 | 9:24am
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climate Climate Change Has Pushed California's Fire Season Earlier — By As Much as a Month and a Half
By Dave Levitan August 7, 2025 | 11:08am
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trump-administration Trump Announces New Thing He Is Not Allowed to Do
By Dave Levitan August 7, 2025 | 8:55am
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trump-administration World's Most On-the-Nose 'Coding Error' Erases Some Rather Critical Bits of the Constitution
By Dave Levitan August 6, 2025 | 1:02pm
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healthcare, trump-administration RFK Jr. Wants You to Die
By Dave Levitan August 6, 2025 | 10:46am
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climate Japan Sees Hottest-Ever Temperature, Breaking a Record That Couldn't Last a Week
By Dave Levitan August 5, 2025 | 10:57am
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trump-administration If Anyone Can Put a Functioning Nuclear Reactor On the Moon, It Is the Terrified-of-the-Subway Man
By Dave Levitan August 5, 2025 | 7:52am
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international-affairs UN Report: No One Reads UN Reports
By Dave Levitan August 4, 2025 | 1:49pm
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congress Texas Republicans' Attempt to Mangle the Congressional Map is Getting Tense
By Dave Levitan August 4, 2025 | 8:56am
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climate Study: Hurricanes Can Spark Heart Problems Months After They Hit
By Dave Levitan August 1, 2025 | 1:00pm
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media, trump-administration Which Media Outlets Bought That a World-Historic Cheapskate Will Pay For a White House Ballroom?
By Dave Levitan August 1, 2025 | 9:30am
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climate Guess How Far a Record-Setting Lightning Bolt Traveled
By Dave Levitan July 31, 2025 | 12:21pm
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trump-administration, climate DOI: Alaskan Oil Good, Wind Power Bad
By Dave Levitan July 31, 2025 | 9:20am
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climate Swedish Energy Company Hires Samuel L. Jackson to Promote 'Motherfucking Wind Farms'
By Dave Levitan July 30, 2025 | 1:28pm
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trump-administration Russell Vought Is Trying to Take It All From NIH
By Dave Levitan July 30, 2025 | 9:00am
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trump-administration, climate EPA Leadership Is So, So Proud of Its Ignorance
By Dave Levitan July 29, 2025 | 1:57pm
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trump-administration, climate, economy Trump's EU Trade Deal Promises Impossible Fossil Fuels Magic
By Dave Levitan July 29, 2025 | 9:00am
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trump-administration Does the President Know What 'Deadline' Means?
By Dave Levitan July 28, 2025 | 1:51pm
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climate Too Hot, Too Wet, Too On Fire: Climate Changed Summer Bares Its Teeth
By Dave Levitan July 28, 2025 | 9:00am
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trump-administration NOAA Officials Who Led Sharpiegate Investigations Placed on Leave Just as Sharpiegate Villain Nears Senate Vote to Run NOAA
By Dave Levitan July 25, 2025 | 1:05pm
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climate Study: Recent Unprecedented Marine Heat Waves May Signal a Climate Tipping Point
By Dave Levitan July 25, 2025 | 9:47am
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latest, sports A Collection of Moving Eulogies for Hulk Hogan, Who Died at 71
By Dave Levitan July 24, 2025 | 12:34pm
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climate International Court of Justice Makes Climate Damage 'Internationally Wrongful Act'
By Dave Levitan July 24, 2025 | 9:19am
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trump-administration With Whistleblower Complaint, National Science Foundation Employees Join Public Calls For Help
By Dave Levitan July 23, 2025 | 11:20am
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trump-administration, climate The EPA Is A Farce
By Dave Levitan July 23, 2025 | 8:38am
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climate UN Report Highlights Dawn of 'Clean Energy Age' While the US Claws Back Toward the Shadows
By Dave Levitan July 22, 2025 | 12:25pm
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trump-administration Trump Jangling Every Possible Key In Front of Epstein-Obsessed Base
By Dave Levitan July 22, 2025 | 9:32am
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climate Unprecedented Climate Extremes Are Giving Us Unprecedented Food Price Spikes
By Dave Levitan July 21, 2025 | 1:28pm
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trump-administration 'Catastrophic Impacts': NASA Employees Join Parade of Agency Dissenters
By Dave Levitan July 21, 2025 | 9:42am
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musings A Useless, Brief, Sorta-Midway Check-In On Our 2025 Predictions
By Dave Levitan July 18, 2025 | 1:54pm
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congress, healthcare Thank Republicans For a 75-Percent Spike in Some Health Insurance Premiums Next Year
By Dave Levitan July 18, 2025 | 10:31am
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trump-administration, climate Trump Grants 'Regulatory Relief' to Coal Plants in Continuing Effort to Kill People
By Dave Levitan July 18, 2025 | 9:27am
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trump-administration The Situation at the EPA Is Spiraling
By Dave Levitan July 17, 2025 | 2:59pm
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congress 'This Is Outrageous': Senate Democrats Walk Out in Protest as Chuck Grassley Ignores Rules to Force Emil Bove Vote
By Dave Levitan July 17, 2025 | 12:22pm
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musings An At Best Half-Baked Theory of ‘What the Fuck Are You Talking About’
By Dave Levitan July 17, 2025 | 9:52am
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trump-administration, trump-brain-status Aging President Increasingly Can't Remember Which Things Did or Did Not Happen
By Dave Levitan July 16, 2025 | 1:08pm
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congress Josh Hawley, Probably Eying 2028, Introduces Bill to Undo Bill He Just Voted For
By Dave Levitan July 16, 2025 | 9:15am
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trump-administration NIH Is Tightening Its Ideological Noose
By Dave Levitan July 15, 2025 | 1:25pm
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supreme-court The Supreme Court Isn't Even Pretending Anymore
By Dave Levitan July 15, 2025 | 9:04am
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technology Check Out These Images a NASA Probe Grabbed From the Sun's Doorstep
By Dave Levitan July 14, 2025 | 1:11pm
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climate It Is Once Again Smoke Season
By Dave Levitan July 14, 2025 | 8:30am
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healthcare, trump-administration RFK Jr. Might Be Coming For Mammograms and Colonoscopies Next
By Dave Levitan July 11, 2025 | 11:01am
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trump-administration, climate Renewables-Backed Transmission Project Touted as a Trump 'Win' Now Facing the Axe
By Dave Levitan July 11, 2025 | 9:05am
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trump-administration, climate 120 Dead, 161 Still Missing, and the Potentially Catastrophic Federal Response in Texas is Getting Clearer
By Dave Levitan July 10, 2025 | 2:31pm
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trump-administration Area Man Terrified of Subway To Run Space Agency
By Dave Levitan July 10, 2025 | 9:05am
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healthcare, trump-administration A Quarter-Century After Eliminating Measles, RFK Jr. Presides Over a Grim New Record
By Dave Levitan July 9, 2025 | 12:30pm
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trump-administration 'Why Don't You Tell Me': Trump Gets His Hegseth News From the Press Like the Rest of Us
By Dave Levitan July 9, 2025 | 9:25am
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trump-administration Secretary of Agriculture Has Extremely Wrong Ideas About Medicaid Recipients and Ag Workers
By Dave Levitan July 8, 2025 | 2:42pm
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trump-administration, climate Trump Executive Order Continues All-Of-The-Below Energy Strategy, Aims to Speed Up Murder of Wind and Solar
By Dave Levitan July 8, 2025 | 9:47am
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trump-administration Lutnick's Commerce Department Innovating New Ways to Keep Potential Employees Away
By Dave Levitan July 7, 2025 | 12:17pm
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climate 81 People Are Dead and It Is Still Raining in Texas
By Dave Levitan July 7, 2025 | 9:07am
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trump-administration Sources Say Zeldin's EPA Is Retaliating Against Declaration Signers
By Dave Levitan July 3, 2025 | 12:05pm
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congress Republicans Work to Pass Budget Bill When Earth is Conveniently Farthest Away From the Sun
By Dave Levitan July 3, 2025 | 11:19am
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congress, trump-administration Area Dictator Jangles Keys at Lawmakers, Successfully
By Dave Levitan July 3, 2025 | 8:39am
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climate Check Out This Extremely Cool Cloud in Extremely Hot Portugal
By Dave Levitan July 2, 2025 | 2:04pm
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congress Republicans Miraculously Offer Just Enough No-Votes to Still Win
By Dave Levitan July 2, 2025 | 8:13am
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trump-administration, climate Zeroing Out at NOAA
By Dave Levitan July 1, 2025 | 2:20pm
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climate Bad News for Sea Ice: The Ocean Around Antarctica Is Getting Saltier
By Dave Levitan July 1, 2025 | 8:20am
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trump-administration 'Recklessly Undermining the EPA Mission': Staff Issue Public Call for Zeldin to Correct Course
By Dave Levitan June 30, 2025 | 10:41am
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congress For Republicans in Congress, Retirement is a Helluva Drug
By Dave Levitan June 30, 2025 | 8:00am
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congress, trump-administration, international-affairs Is It Good That the Same Intelligence Briefing Creates Two Versions of Reality
By Dave Levitan June 27, 2025 | 8:37am
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elections, billionaires Oh, Does This Quarter-Million-Dollar Donation Suggest SUPPORT To You, You Absolute Rube?
By Dave Levitan June 26, 2025 | 3:33pm
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climate, international-affairs Almost One Third of This Low-Lying Pacific Island Nation Wants Out
By Dave Levitan June 26, 2025 | 8:56am
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healthcare, trump-administration RFK Jr.'s Vaccines Axe Is Starting to Fall
By Dave Levitan June 25, 2025 | 12:43pm
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trump-administration Trump Assault on Science Gets Literal as the NSF Is Kicked Out of Its Headquarters
By Dave Levitan June 25, 2025 | 8:44am
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congress Mike Lee's Public Lands Selloff Extravaganza Apparently Felled By, Uh, Rules
By Dave Levitan June 24, 2025 | 1:35pm
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trump-administration, international-affairs 'Ceasefire' Ends Before It Began, Words, What Do They Mean
By Dave Levitan June 24, 2025 | 8:35am
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trump-administration, climate, international-affairs Oh Hey, It Suddenly Might Be Profitable for Oil Companies to Drill More, Weird
By Dave Levitan June 23, 2025 | 11:41am
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climate The Heat is Coming for Half the Country
By Dave Levitan June 23, 2025 | 8:06am
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sports These NBA Playoffs Had to Go the Distance
By Dave Levitan June 20, 2025 | 1:16pm
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climate Climate Change Is Coming for Our Crops
By Dave Levitan June 20, 2025 | 9:28am
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supreme-court, healthcare SCOTUS Allows GOP War on Trans Kids to Continue
By Dave Levitan June 18, 2025 | 12:13pm
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congress Mike Lee's Public Lands Sell-Off Proposal Adds Insult to Wealth Transfer Injury
By Dave Levitan June 18, 2025 | 9:52am
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trump-administration, climate Even Republican Voters Don't Want Trump's Climate Policies
By Dave Levitan June 17, 2025 | 1:24pm
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trump-administration 'Have We No Shame?': Judge Voids Discriminatory NIH Grant Cuts
By Dave Levitan June 17, 2025 | 9:08am
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trump-administration, climate The EPA Seems Ready to Stop Pretending
By Dave Levitan June 16, 2025 | 12:58pm
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immigration, trump-administration Sad Parade, Enormous Protests: Trump Responds to Nationwide Rebuke With Blue State Immigration Crackdown
By Dave Levitan June 16, 2025 | 9:24am
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trump-administration Trump Will Watch His Tanks in the Rain While Everywhere Else Protests
By Dave Levitan June 13, 2025 | 12:03pm
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climate Heat Advisories Come to Alaska
By Dave Levitan June 13, 2025 | 9:40am
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trump-administration They're Tackling US Senators Now
By Dave Levitan June 12, 2025 | 2:12pm
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media, international-affairs Can the New York Times Homepage Please Stop Autoplaying Plane Crash Videos
By Dave Levitan June 12, 2025 | 9:50am
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trump-administration Report: Trump's Fort Bragg MAGA Rally Sorted Soldiers for Appearance and Political Beliefs
By Dave Levitan June 11, 2025 | 2:13pm
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trump-administration, climate EPA to Announce Sky Is Not Blue
By Dave Levitan June 11, 2025 | 7:55am
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trump-administration Trump Threatens Anyone Who Might Want to Protest His Big Boy Birthday Bash
By Dave Levitan June 10, 2025 | 3:35pm
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healthcare, trump-administration Senator Bill Cassidy Still Hasn't Gotten Wallet Back from Wallet Inspector RFK Jr.
By Dave Levitan June 10, 2025 | 9:12am
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trump-administration Deploying Troops at Home Is a No-Brainer If You Hate Home Like They Do
By Dave Levitan June 9, 2025 | 12:57pm
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trump-administration NIH Staff Issue Public Rebuke to Director's 'Failure' as Assault on Research Continues
By Dave Levitan June 9, 2025 | 9:12am