Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon and Ms. Founder, Dies at 92 “Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who became the public face of the American women’s movement and helped launch Ms. magazine, died Wednesday at her home in New York City. She was 92.” #RIP #ddrm variety.com/2026/global/...

Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon and Ms. Founder, Dies at 92

Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who became the public face of the American women's movement has died. She was 92.

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‘Epstein and magician David Copperfield appeared to have ‘very close relationship’, newly released files say’ 02 Feb 2026 ‘A 2007 FBI memo said further investigation was needed to determine if they ‘engaged in referring possible victims to each other’….’ #ddrm www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Epstein and magician David Copperfield appeared to have ‘very close relationship’, newly released files say

A 2007 FBI memo said further investigation was needed to determine if they ‘engaged in referring possible victims to each other’. Copperfield has never been charged with illegal conduct and has denied...

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‘Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show’ 03 June 2026 ‘Ben Black’s lawyers deny relationship with disgraced financier, but DoJ records reveal years of interactions’ #BBlack #ddrm www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show

Ben Black’s lawyers deny relationship with disgraced financier, but DoJ records reveal years of interactions

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‘Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries competent to face sex trafficking trial, judge rules’ ‘Jeffries, whose attorneys argue he’s unfit to stand trial due to dementia and Alzheimer’s, pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges.’ #Jeffries #ddrm

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries competent to face sex trafficking trial, judge rules

Jeffries, whose attorneys argue he’s unfit to stand trial due to dementia and Alzheimer’s, pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges.

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‘Judge signals Trump’s defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Journal may be dismissed again’ ‘Obama-appointed judge seemed unmoved by Trump attorneys’ arguments in case also naming Murdoch’ #WSJ #ddrm www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Judge signals Trump’s defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Journal may be dismissed again

Obama-appointed judge seemed unmoved by Trump attorneys’ arguments in case also naming Murdoch

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‘‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation’ ‘Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects’ #MOR #ddrm www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation

Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.

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‘Trump Orders Schools to Make Chilling Change to Sex Ed Programs’ “The Trump administration has canceled millions of dollars worth of federal grants to organizations running #teen pregnancy education programs nationwide, suggesting that the widely effective … #ddrm newrepublic.com/maz/post/213...

The Trump administration has canceled millions of dollars’ worth of federal grants to organizations running teen pregnancy education programs nationwide, suggesting that the widely effective underage pregnancy prevention services were inappropriately promoting premarital sex.

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‘Russia’s Arms Buyers Rejoice Over Trump’s Deal With Turkey’ “Turkey was already under CAATSA sanctions for its purchase of Russia’s S-400 air defense system and needed Trump to lift these restrictions if it was to receive the F-35.” #ddrm apple.news/Ar0vYbvB6T5i...

Russia’s Arms Buyers Rejoice Over Trump’s Deal With Turkey — Foreign Policy

India and other Kremlin customers will benefit from an easing of restrictions.

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‘Did the Brutal Death of Mussolini Contribute to Hitler’s Suicide?’ “Mussolini’s rule of Italy since 1922, and since 1925 as a fascist dictator, had been predicated upon a cult of propaganda that often focused on his body, representations of which dominated the country’s visual culture.” #ddrm

Did the Brutal Death of Mussolini Contribute to Hitler’s Suicide?

Seventy years ago on Tuesday, partisans in the backwoods of northern Italy summarily executed Benito Mussolini after they happened to foil the dictator’s attempted escape…

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‘Canadian wildfire smoke turns air hazardous in the US Midwest. Officials say stay inside’ “… from the Great Lakes to parts of the East Coast, reducing visibility and prompting warnings that breathing the air outside could be dangerous.” #ddrm apnews.com/article/cana...

Canadian wildfire smoke turns air hazardous in the US Midwest. Officials say stay inside

Heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires is darkening skies in parts of the U.S. The smoke on Thursday prompted warnings that breathing the air outside could be dangers for people from the Great Lakes to p...

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‘How Trump’s ‘original oil guy’ boosted US-Israel ties and played down risks of Iran war’ ‘Fracking billionaire Harold Hamm is co-chair of a non-profit that has aggressively pushed for US energy dominance’ Continental Resources founder #Hamm #ddrm www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How Trump’s ‘original oil guy’ boosted US-Israel ties and played down risks of Iran war

Fracking billionaire Harold Hamm is co-chair of a non-profit that has aggressively pushed for US energy dominance

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‘'Explosive diarrhea' cases climb. What to know about symptoms, prevention’ “The cyclosporiasis season, the months when U.S. cases typically spike, runs from May 1 through the end of August #ddrm www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

'Explosive diarrhea' cases climb. What to know about symptoms, prevention

The CDC is warning about a rise in cyclosporiasis cases. Here's how to reduce your risk.

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‘Trump ballroom donor to lead state department’s $200m Armenia fund’ ‘Konstantin Sokolov, who gave undisclosed sum and has not held government job before, to chair Tripp+ trade project’ Konstantin #Sokolov a Russian-born private equity investor in Chicago #ddrm www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump ballroom donor to lead state department’s $200m Armenia fund

Konstantin Sokolov, who gave undisclosed sum and has not held government job before, to chair Tripp+ trade project

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‘Kentucky Governor Demands Health Update on Mitch McConnell’ ‘Senator Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized since June 14. Speculation about his health has spread in recent days.’ 08 July 2026 #KY #Kentucky #ddrm www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

Kentucky Governor Demands Health Update on Mitch McConnell

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‘Court Revives Lawsuits Tying Tylenol Use in Pregnancy to Autism and A.D.H.D.’ ‘A federal appeals court overruled a district court judge who dismissed the lawsuits, citing unreliable scientific evidence.’ Second Circuit 2nd Cir Judges Calabresi Lynch & Lee Ashley Keller / Keller Postman #ddrm

Appeals Court Revives Lawsuits Tying Tylenol Use in Pregnancy to Autism and A.D.H.D.

A federal appeals court overruled a district court judge who dismissed the lawsuits, citing unreliable scientific evidence.

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‘'Hero, legend, sweetheart': Tributes to Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill, who has died aged 78’ “The news was announced by his family, who said his death in Sydney, Australia, was "sudden and unexpected".” #RIP #ddrm www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sam Neill: Tributes to Jurassic Park actor following his death aged 78

Friends, politicians and fellow film stars remember Neill following his "sudden and unexpected" death.

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‘Lindsey Graham, Republican Senator and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71’ ‘He died from “a brief and sudden illness” on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for use of U.S. military power overseas’ #ddrm 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

Lindsey Graham, Republican Senator and Trump Ally, Dies From ‘Sudden Illness’ (Gift Article)

He died from “a brief and sudden illness” on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.

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‘Minnesota Set to Lose Massive Wind Energy Projects Thanks to Trump’ ‘Losing projects like this doesn’t just hurt the climate—it also affects jobs and the economy as a whole.’ “Trump’s attacks on wind power could have a devastating effect on #Minnesota.” #ddrm newrepublic.com/maz/post/212...

The state has four wind energy projects that could bring 1,200 construction jobs, 4,400 other jobs connected to the projects, and over $168 million in economic impacts to the state, the Minnesota Reformer reports, citing the progressive think tank North Star Policy Action.

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‘CRISPR Breakthrough: HIV Successfully Removed from Human Cells’ 06 June 2025 “In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to completely remove HIV-1 DNA from infected human immune cells in laboratory conditions.” engineerine.com/scientists-s...

‘Hunter Biden wins $1.7m in suit over Iran bribery claim by ex-CEO of Overstock [dot] com’ ‘Biden sued Patrick Byrne for defamation over claim that he sought bribe to lobby his father to free $8bn in Iran assets’ #Byrne #Overstock #ddtm www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hunter Biden wins $1.7m in suit over Iran bribery claim by ex-CEO of Overstock.com

Biden sued Patrick Byrne for defamation over claim that he sought bribe to lobby his father to free $8bn in Iran assets

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‘Hunter Biden wins $1.7m in suit over Iran bribery claim by ex-CEO of Overstock [dot] com’ ‘Biden sued Patrick Byrne for defamation over claim that he sought bribe to lobby his father to free $8bn in Iran assets’ #Hunter #HBiden #ddtm www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hunter Biden wins $1.7m in suit over Iran bribery claim by ex-CEO of Overstock.com

Biden sued Patrick Byrne for defamation over claim that he sought bribe to lobby his father to free $8bn in Iran assets

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‘What Is the Point of Patriot Front?’ “Patriot Front is an ethno-nationalist group founded after the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that calls for the United States to become a white ethno-state.” Thomas Rousseau #ddrm www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

What Is the Point of Patriot Front?

The masked men who were in Washington on July 4 are both unserious and threatening.

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To be clear, Moscow Mitch McConnell is one of the most evil corrupt immoral soulless beings in world history and the current fascist MAGA takeover of the United States is in large part because of him, so regardless of his health issues, that is how I’ll always remember him.

‘Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun’ ‘Indictments, subpoenas, and debarments are hitting American scientists embroiled in the controversy over COVID’s #origins.’ #Wuhan Institute of Virology Ralph Baric David Morens Jeffrey Taubenberger Vincent Munster Fauci #ddrm 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun

Indictments, subpoenas, and debarments are hitting American scientists embroiled in the controversy over COVID’s origins.

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‘8 Ancient Archaeological Sites That Pre-Date the Clovis People’ 10 Feb 2025 ‘Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says otherwise.’ #ddrm www.mentalfloss.com/science/arch...

8 Ancient Archaeological Sites That Pre-Date the Clovis People

Exciting discoveries from archaeological sites predating the Clovis culture pose new questions about how, when, and by whom the Americas were first peopled.

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‘MAGA Brands Amy Coney Barrett a Traitor Over Birthright Citizenship’ ‘Barrett voted with the Supreme Court majority on upholding the Fourteenth Amendment.’ #ACB #ddrm newrepublic.com/maz/post/212...

The MAGA world raged Tuesday at Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for voting to uphold birthright citizenship.

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‘Mitch McConnell Is Hospitalized, His Spokesman Says’ 14 June 2026 ‘No details were given about the 84-year-old former majority leader’s condition, but he has had a string of health issues in recent years.’ #McConnell #ddrm www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

Mitch McConnell Is Hospitalized, His Spokesman Says

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‘BBC demands Trump’s diary and phone logs in $10B court battle’ “The BBC has reportedly requested that Trump, 80, hand over his phone records and private schedules from around the time of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots..” #BBC #ddrm thedailybeast.com/bbc-demands-...

BBC Demands Trump’s Diary and Phone Logs in $10B Court Battle

The fight over a Jan. 6 documentary has entered a new phase.

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‘President Narcissus and the Fetid Reflecting Pool’ “With any screw-up, Mr. Trump ducks accountability by blaming nefarious enemies plotting against him.” #pool #ddrm www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/o...

Opinion | President Narcissus and the Fetid Reflecting Pool

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‘How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job’ ‘Bulky “nanobubbler” machines were carted off ahead of a promotional event for President Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championship birthday party.’ #pool #ddtm www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job

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