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Excellent: EPA head says he'll roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules on climate change

A bit of legal shenanigans involved: Judge slams EPA’s climate grant cancellations: ‘You have to have some kind of evidence’ - POLITICO

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Part of why our politics are so infuriating: The GOP’s Tariff Emergency Dodge - WSJ

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Unsurprising: Colorado joins suit against Trump over Department of Education firings

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Follow-up to yesterday's Pimp Cane edition of the Ross Kaminsky Show: Why Pimps Need Canes - The History and The Swagger (h/t Listener Andy)

(If you want to know what we're talking about: Lauren Boebert Defends Attack on Al Green: 'Are There No White Pimps?' - Newsweek

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Usually it's the Dems shrieking that a GOP-caused shutdown will cause the sky to fall. This is as nuts as Trump telling people not to watch the stock market when that was always what he loved TRUMP-eting: Senate Democrats say they will reject GOP's funding bill as shutdown draws near

Government shutdown likely Friday night after Schumer says Senate Dems will block GOP funding bill

Semafor Principals: Democrats dig in | Semafor

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The stuff of a horror story: Kimberly Sullivan held stepson captive for decades in home: Waterbury police

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I love this stuff: Ambitious effort to document marine life reveals 866 new species and counting

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Somehow 6 years doesn't seem like enough: Man gets 6 years for scamming Highlands Ranch woman out of life savings (may require subscription)

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I realize that people and institutions get addicted to this money but how the heck is any of this a proper role or responsibility of the federal government? Colorado loses $13.1M for schools, food banks as USDA slashes programs

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This is a huge test for whether the new rulers of Syria have the capability and will to live up to its claims of supporting tolerance of all non-violent non-revolutionary citizens of Syria regardless of religion or ethnicity: Syria’s New Rulers Tortured Me. Now They Are Targeting My Friends.

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Wouldn’t it be weird if Tesla vehicles went from the preferred virtue signal of the left to that of the MAGA right? How Tesla Became the New MAGA Hat - by Ethan Dodd

‘I’m selling the Nazi mobile’: Tesla owners offload cars after Musk’s fascist-style salutes. “We feel lighter not being saddled with a symbol of hate.” : r/electricvehicles

I'm slightly tempted to get one if there's one at a fire-sale price from an angry liberal, but I don't want to be perceived as engaging in politics-by-automotive-choice. I don't mean I don't want to be seen as pro-Trump (or as pro-climate change alarmist nonsense) but rather that I just don't want to get caught up in any of that nonsense. But I might look to see if there's a cheap Tesla available.

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The cost of being “welcoming”: Colorado's health care costs spike for undocumented immigrants - Axios Denver

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Seether

The Surface Seems So Far Tour

with Mammoth WVH and Nonpoint