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US politics
fromSlate Magazine
18 hours ago

Trump Is Borrowing All His Ideas About the Law From a Surprising Source

American political culture prioritizes legal permissibility over moral judgment, enabling administrations to justify harmful policies solely through legalistic memos.
fromDefector
3 weeks ago

ICE Is Modeling Its Brutality After The IDF | Defector

Call it recency bias, personal interest, or perhaps just a general concern for society's trajectory right now, but as I followed Wednesday's news of an ICE agent killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, then watched the federal government flatly lie about the sequence of events, the indignant language and informational smokescreens felt nauseatingly familiar. It was as if someone had taken Israel's playbook for Gaza and tested it out stateside.
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