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4/1/2024
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UPDATE: New smear campaign puts first Muslim appellate nominee in jeopardy
Republicans first attempted to sink the nomination of Adeel Mangi, who would be the first Muslim American to serve on a federal appellate court, on allegations that he was an anti-semitic terrorist
3/28/2024
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These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021
Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Then, according to the report of the bipartisan January 6 Commission, Trump engaged in a "multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020
3/27/2024
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Let's chat
March has been a busy month for Popular Information. Here are a few highlights: Today, however, I want to hear from you. What's on your mind? Wh… ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
3/26/2024
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Inside the squatting hysteria
On March 17, a provocateur named Leonel Moreno posted a video on TikTok where he purports to give instructions on how people can successfully "squat" in other people's houses. It was one
3/25/2024
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The secret to changing Trump's mind
On August 6, 2020, then-President Donald Trump issued an executive order "addressing the threat posed by TikTok," the popular social network run by ByteDance, a Chinese company. According to
3/22/2024
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Popular Information's future
In March 2020, I took down Popular Information's paywall. Since then, each edition of Popular Information (767 newsletters!) has been freely available to everyone. And over the last four years, we
3/21/2024
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Georgia's Medicaid system is a disaster. Other states want to copy it.
In 2018, the Trump administration issued a rule allowing states to tie Medicaid eligibility to employment, a first in the program's 50-year history. The policy shift was the result of decades of
3/20/2024
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The Mangi question: A crowd-sourced accountability reporting project
On Monday, Popular Information reported on the nomination of Adeel Mangi to be a federal appeals court judge in the Third Circuit. Mangi's resume would typically result in a quick confirmation. He
3/19/2024
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Congress' stock trading addiction
On March 12, Bloomberg reported that the Department of Defense was canceling a $2.5 billion grant to chip-maker Intel. The money was supposed to make Intel "a dedicated supplier of chips for
3/18/2024
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Will Senate Democrats cave to an Islamophobic smear campaign?
On November 15, 2023, President Biden nominated Adeel Mangi to be a federal appeals court judge in the Third Circuit. Mangi's credentials are unimpeachable. He received his legal training at Oxford
3/15/2024
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Media compounds failure on Hur report
On February 8, Special Counsel Robert Hur released a report describing President Joe Biden as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" and “diminished faculties.” Although Hur
3/13/2024
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UPDATE: Say gay, Florida
This week, the State of Florida agreed to settle a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Parental Rights in Education Act, better known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. The
3/12/2024
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New data explodes myth of crime wave fueled by migrants
Republican politicians and sympathetic media outlets are claiming that America is in the midst of a violent "crime wave," driven in part by undocumented immigrants. New data, however,
3/11/2024
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Trump's $91.6 million question
New York juries have found, by a preponderance of the evidence, that former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-90s and then
3/7/2024
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How millions in corporate cash could help a radical conspiracy theorist become governor
On Tuesday, Mark Robinson (R) won the Republican nomination for Governor of North Carolina. Robinson, currently North Carolina's lieutenant governor, is one of the most radical gubernatorial
3/6/2024
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Did Biden commit treason? Dissecting Elon Musk's public meltdown
On Tuesday, billionaire Elon Musk told his 175 million followers on X that President Biden had committed "treason" by "secretly" flying "320000 illegal immigrants" from
3/5/2024
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Corporate-backed Congressman pushes anti-Semitic attack against journalist
On Sunday, first-term Congressman Mike Collins (R-GA) participated in a vehemently anti-Semitic attack against a Washington Post journalist on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. After
3/4/2024
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How the media failed Nex Benedict
On February 21, 2024, the Owasso Police Department issued a statement on Nex Benedict, the non-binary Oklahoma high school student who was assaulted in a school bathroom and died the following day. It
2/29/2024
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Trump's pick for chair of the Republican Party opposes "the destruction of human embryos"
Former president Trump has endorsed Michael Whatley, a corporate lobbyist and chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, as the next chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). "[M]y
2/28/2024
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Open mic
2024 is not even two months old, but it has already been a busy year for Popular Information. Here are a few highlights from February: Today, ho… ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏