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Helen Kennedy

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Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News & Boston Herald.) NYC, North Fork. Francophile fan of Sondheim and Venice. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social) Too sarcastic for my own good. MyName@gmail

  1. The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

    Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.

    The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.

    Stanford newspaper sues Trump administration over student deportations

    The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.

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    Grist @grist.org

    The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances.

    The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy-efficiency program, but bakers, builders, hot tub lobbyists, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

    grist.org/energy/unlik...

    #Appliances #House #Energy

    The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy efficiency program, but bakers, builders, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

    The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances

    The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy efficiency program, but bakers, builders, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

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  3. A somehow underrated element of the mayoral race is how Sliwa, Adams and Cuomo are all very blatantly corrupt, and so far the worst scandal the press could dig up on Mamdani is that he attempted to identify himself correctly on an application for a spot at a school to which he didn't get accepted.

    NEW: GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa's Guardian Angels group is soliciting donations while portraying itself as a tax-exempt charity — even though it lost that status years ago amid tax filing failures and a federal fraud probe ensnaring its treasurer. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/05/g...

    NYC Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa’s crime prevention group, The Guardian Angels, is soliciting donations while portraying itself on its website as a tax-exempt charity — even thou…

    GOP mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa’s group bills itself a charity despite losing tax-exempt status

    NYC Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa’s crime prevention group, The Guardian Angels, is soliciting donations while portraying itself on its website as a tax-exempt charity — even thou…

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  4. I didn't even know this was a thing you could do.

    JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip

    Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

    www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

    Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

    JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip

    Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

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  5. Met a stranger tonight at a restaurant and within five minutes she was showing me photos on her phone of the hot young nurse her doctor husband is banging. And people say New Yorkers aren't friendly.

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  6. Raskin: "What we have is the Trump Justice Department organizing itself not around the interests of the survivors -- the people who were victimized by Maxwell and Epstein -- but rather organizing itself around protecting the perpetrators."

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