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  1. Donald Trump's long history of getting sued by his own lawyers

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  2. People who typically work the polls—retirees over 60—are also the most at risk for severe illness. Now, with many long-time election workers opting to stay home, officials across the country are scrambling to recruit younger people to take their place.

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  3. Industrial-scale hog and chicken farming—innovated in the United States and rapidly spreading globally—provides an ideal environment for the evolution and transmission of novel pathogens, especially influenza, that can infect people.

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  4. “It is beyond dysfunctional.” “It’s literally the definition of gaslighting.” “Everybody’s scared to death of saying anything.” Donald Trump's war on whistleblowers is worse than anyone imagined.

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  5. Donald Trump's poolside parties in Florida were so creepy

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  6. We live in strange times.

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  7. "[Policies that protect cops] are being written by a private corporation that very clearly aligns with the police narrative that use of force is justified and acceptable, even in cases where it’s unnecessary.”

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  8. Let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we?

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  9. COVID killed the Atlanta drug trade—for a time. This photographer captured the lull.

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  10. ICE guards “systematically” sexually assault detainees in an El Paso detention center, lawyers say. Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them.

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  11. If you want to defund the police, start with their unions

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  12. Fights over the mail aren’t new—but there’s never been one quite like this.

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  13. Flashback: When Trump called his then 4-year-old son, Trump Jr., a "loser"

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  14. “The Clintons have sold out their own people for cold cash,” Bannon said in 2016. “They are grifters.” Fast forward to 2020, Bannon was charged this week with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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  15. “When there was rising anti-Semitism, isolationism, and pro-Nazi sentiment, why did the US not become fascist? Because of FDR. Leaders matter, and the GOP has now completely abdicated its role.”

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  16. Even as crime rates have declined in the last 30 years, police budgets have risen in many cities. We analyzed historical data on police budgets from 1977 to 2017:

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  17. Judge orders Trump to pay Stormy Daniels $44,000 in legal fees

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  18. Trump and Fox News are perhaps the country’s two most influential conservative messengers, and their public affiliation with Q is only one piece of a growing body of evidence that the conspiracy is now either mainstream or rapidly barreling towards it.

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  19. Kevin Sawyer is serving a 48-year-to-life sentence. He’s also associate editor of the San Quentin News, a newspaper produced entirely by incarcerated people, and is determined to continue reporting on the prison's massive COVID-19 outbreak:

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    Maybe Trump is upset about Fauci intervening on blood plasma. Maybe he's angry at Hahn for resisting Mike Lindell's miracle cure. Maybe he's mad an FDA official said he'd resign if White House short-circuits vaccine trials. Whatever the case, this is toxic

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