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Scott Horton

Scott Horton

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Scott Horton 25m

83 years ago today, Willi Graf, a member of the White Rose and a student at LMU, was murdered by the Nazis after 8 months in custody. During his imprisonment, he remained silent despite relentless interrogations and torture by the Gestapo. In doing so, he saved the lives of many who battled Hitler.

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Kash Patel is traveling to Moscow and St Petersburg as a guest of the FSB in order to take instruction from his masters. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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Elon Musk firmly believes that he can buy whatever election result he wants or needs, anywhere in the world. But now he's particularly focused on Texas, and horrified by the prospect that the Texas GOP, who are his de facto sock puppets, will lose power. He's opened his check book as never before.

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At this point, it's important to see the representations made by an FBI agent to the judge who issued the warrant. It's very difficult to understand how probable cause could be found, and the circumstances—in immediate proximity to elections—make the whole process highly suspect. There is

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Who funds the Neo Nazi AfD? Overwhelmingly, it's the Kremlin and Russian interfaces.

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For both Elon Musk and Donald Trump, blocking all efforts to rein in malicious Russian bots on the internet was a high priority from the start. We should ask why.

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Max Boot: While Witkoff and Kushner say they would not benefit from the Lukoil sale, the deal reeks of conflicts of interest at best and outright corruption at worst. It is emblematic of the de facto Trump Doctrine — mixing private and public interests to an unprecedented degree. wapo.st/47gE6Rf

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Instead of an energy ceasefire, Putin has launched a massive campaign across Ukraine targeting six different energy sites. This is known in international law as perfidy, and it's a signature Putin move. In this case enabled by Trump.

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Rule by racism, sleaze and stealth. How Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton joined forces to use sheer racism, fabrication and lies to attack a Muslim community in North Texas. Call it target practice for use against people who don't look like us (which is 62% of all Texans, by the way).

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In Lord Keynes' 1930 essay on the economic problems of our grandchildren, he makes clear that a billionaires tax will eventually (as in right now) become essential to maintaining and safeguarding democracy because without it the descent into plutocracy will be stark and steep.

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