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  1. Today in Paired Articles: indyweek.com/culture/duke...

    At the end of the school year, a lot gets tossed by Duke students at my downtown Durham apartment building. This year I decided to dive in.

    I Salvaged $6,000 of Luxury Items Discarded by Duke Students. Why Did It Make Me Feel So Terrible?

    At the end of the school year, a lot gets tossed by Duke students at my downtown Durham apartment building. This year I decided to dive in.

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  2. NEW: How a Lafufu in a shot glass tells a stark story about the dangers of this moment.

    It's a serious story about the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission — not to mention Trump, SCOTUS, RFK Jr., and more.

    Tonight, at Law Dork —>

    It's a serious story about the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, truly. Also: Tuesday at Law Dork, a discussion with California A.G. Rob Bonta.

    How a Lafufu in a shot glass tells a key story about the dangers of this moment

    It's a serious story about the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, truly. Also: Tuesday at Law Dork, a discussion with California A.G. Rob Bonta.

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  3. Hopefully they're in protective custody. In jail, the general population would edam alive.

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  4. Someone get this man into the most expensive, best-fitting, sharpest suit possible to pointedly over-comply with this ridiculous request and to also outshine his host.

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  5. The @apnews.com story on the past 24 hours feels like malpractice to me.

    I don't understand how this credulous presentation works, journalistically.

    Half of these opening four paragraphs is just taking the Trump administration's absurd presentation as fact.

    BY MATT BROWN AND MIKE PESOLI
Updated 10:37 PM EDT, August 16, 2025
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Three Republican-led states said Saturday that they were deploying hundreds of National Guard members to the nation's capital to bolster the Trump administration's effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness.
West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 Guard troops, while South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio says it will send 150 in the coming days, marking a significant escalation of the federal intervention.
The moves came as protesters pushed back on federal law enforcement and National Guard troops fanning out in the heavily Democratic city following President Donald Trump's executive order federalizing local police forces and activating about 800
District of Columbia National Guard members.
By adding outside troops to the existing D.C. Guard deployment and federal law enforcement presence, Trump is exercising even tighter control over the city. It's a power play that the president has justified as an emergency response to crime and homelessness, even though city officials have noted that violent crime is lower than it was during Trump's first term in office.
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