Portland’s Bizarre Experiment With Not Policing Proud Boys Rampage Ends in Gunfire

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Portland’s Bizarre Experiment With Not Policing Proud Boys Rampage Ends in Gunfire

Robert Mackey

Portland’s police force chose to stand back and stand by as Proud Boys who came to the city to fight with anti-fascists assaulted protesters and a right-wing gunman opened fire.

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Little-Known Federal Software Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship

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Known as ATLAS, the software mines various federal databases for derogatory information. It runs autonomously on Amazon servers.

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USAID’s Samantha Power Reaches New Summit of Cynicism About International Criminal Court

Jon Schwarz

Power recently celebrated Sudan for voting to join the ICC. She discreetly did not mention who hasn’t joined: the United States.

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The EPA’s Rationale for Banning Chlorpyrifos May Make it Harder to Eliminate Other Brain-Harming Pesticides

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The lawyer who helped ban chlorpyrifos on food crops warns that the EPA decision creates obstacles to banning other dangerous pesticides.

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Already, Cracks Emerge in Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s “Unbreakable Nine”

Ryan Grim, Sara Sirota

House Democrats passed a budget resolution to trigger the reconciliation process on Tuesday, putting a pin in Gottheimer’s resistance.

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