Over the weekend, US forces struck Venezuela and captured Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, taking them to New York City to stand trial. Now the question is: why are we intervening in Venezuela like this? What is the Monroe Doctrine and why is Trump newly obsessed with it? Here's what history tells us about intervention in Latin America.

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Nick Shirley's viral video about the fraud scandal rocking Minnesota and its Somali community misses the mark, is a lazy excuse for investigative journalism, and relies on racism and Islamophobia to scare people and get clicks. Here's what's REALLY happening in the great state of Minnesota.

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The new rules from Medicare and Medicaid, supported by HHS director RFK Jr, are based on a faulty white paper commissioned by the HHS that lacks transparency and cherry-picks data to support an ideological narrative. The rules, which ban hospitals from providing gender affirming care to trans youth, are being pushed by a group of unqualified quacks with deep ties to Peter Thiel and bunk scientific backgrounds. This will only lead to increased stigmatization of trans youth and will not help or protect children like they claim it will.

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Within hours of the bombshell Vanity Fair article quoting from extensive interviews with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, the entire Trump regime had fallen in line, voicing support for Wiles and unflinching loyalty to the President. This is the making of a fascist state, not a pluralistic democracy. But that's entirely the point.

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Over the weekend, two mass shootings on opposite sides of the world: one at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. A second at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. One will likely elicit rapid change to gun reform laws. The other will be met with complete inaction, nothing more than thoughts and prayers. And the attack at Bondi Beach is an incredibly rare incident of violence in a country that, three decades ago, made massive reforms that have been largely successful at curbing the threat of gun violence for all Australians. Could the same ever happen in the US?

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Paramount Skydance, owned by David Ellison, son of billionaire Larry Ellison, has announced a hostile takeover bid of Warner Brothers Discovery after it was revealed they had reached a merger deal with Netflix. The big picture here is that Larry Ellison is a creep who wants all your data. 

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Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case called Trump v. Slaughter, seeking to overturn 90 years of precedent (Humphrey's Executor) in favor of putting more power in the hands of Trump. This is important for EVERYONE to know because it could have wide-reaching implications for every aspect of our lives and the functioning of government including, importantly, the integrity of our elections.

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Today we discuss Pete Hegseth's alleged order to "kill everyone" on an alleged narcotrafficking boat, leading to a double strike that killed victims actively clinging to burning shrapnel in the middle of the ocean. This IS a war crime. But what does that even mean? 

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The shooting of National Guard troops in Washington DC last week allegedly by an Afghan national has sparked backlash against Muslim immigrants. The Trump regime was swift to enact sweeping restrictions on immigration even beyond what was already put in place since January. It appears we have entered a new phase of the immigration crackdown in the US.

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The Pentagon has promised to investigate Senator Mark Kelly and the other congressmembers who appeared in a video reminding the troops that they don't have to obey illegal orders. This comes after Trumps unhinged Truth Social ramblings called for the sitting members of Congress to be put to death. Turns out the video wasn't as controversial as the regime's propaganda machine wants you to think.

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