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Corruption on an unimaginable scale

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This story is authored by a reflexively centrist both-sides type, who wrote a bunch of stories about how Hunter Biden was engaged in a lot of sleazy attempted influence-peddling. Which he was, although it seems he never managed to actually peddle anything successfully to his father....

It’s just a shot away

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I don't know what to do about this either: https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3mldyh4jbqk2x Speaking of the prisoner's dilemma, if one party does nothing but defect then the other party has no rational alternative.

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On May 8, 1863, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen was founded at a meeting in Marshall, Michigan. Today, the Engineers are one of the oldest unions in the country. Telling their story gets at many of the limitations of the American labor movement. It...
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Canvas Down!

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ShinyHunters, a black-hat hacking group, has brought down Canvas across a significant portion of America's higher education system: Students were unable to access Canvas on Thursday afternoon after cybercrime group ShinyHunters shut down Penn’s access to the interface.  The May 7 data breach comes after ShinyHunters...
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Mission Accomplished

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030502-N-9214D-002 Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, Calif. (May 2, 2003) -- Sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) man the rails as the ship pulls into NAS North Island to a cheering crowd of family and friends during their port visit to off-load the...
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