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Liam Hughes

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  1. Pritzker: "Gov. Abbott is the joke ... at a time when all of us are concerned about the future of democracy, he's literally helping whittle it away and licking the boots of his leader Donald Trump."

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  2. Is the coming American line going to be that Russia "earned" the parts of Ukraine they stole via an illegal invasion?

    NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker on Ukraine's territorial concessions: "No big chunks or sections are going to be just given that haven't been fought for or earned on the battlefield."

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  3. A core economic truth getting lost in Trump's noise: tariffs are a tax on the country that imposes them. When the U.S. puts a tariff on a product, a U.S. importer pays the bill. And that cost doesn't just disappear—it shows up in the prices we all pay. It’s Donald Trump’s tax on American families.

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  4. 10 August 1909 | Dutch Jewish woman, Jenny Chapon, was born in Amsterdam. She was a telephone operator in the Department of Home Affairs.

    She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in Februrary 1943. She did not survive.

    Vintage black-and-white portrait of a woman wearing glasses and a high-collared blouse, exuding a formal and reflective atmosphere.
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