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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Trump Purge Set to Force Out More Top Homeland Security Officials – The New York Times – Wants people willing to break the law at his whim! And GOP Senate keeps going along with killing American democracy

As President Trump expresses frustration with his own administration, at least five senior Department of Homeland Security officials have been pushed out or are expected to leave.

Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress

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Revealed: federal support to research centers cut off as scientists fear years of successful work will go ‘down the drain’

Scientists and officials around the US have told the Guardian that the Trump administration has withdrawn funding for a large, successful conservation program – in direct contradiction of instructions from Congress.

Unique in scale and ambition, the program comprises 22 research centers that tackle big-picture issues affecting huge swaths of the US, such as climate change, flooding and species extinction. They are known as Landscape Conservation Cooperatives – or were, because 16 of them are now on indefinite hiatus or have dissolved.

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‘Very smart people’: Trump adviser defends Cain and Moore Fed picks

Defends sex abuser and deadbeat? Pimping for profit!

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Larry Kudlow insisted Herman Cain and Stephen Moore are worthy and brushed off questions about their qualifications

Donald Trump’s controversial picks for the board of the Federal Reserve are “very smart people” worthy of the honour, a senior economic adviser insisted on Sunday while brushing off questions about the two men’s qualifications and past behaviour.

Related: Officials forced way in to Stephen Moore home after failure to pay ex-wife debts

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Trump under fire over Islamophobia after man threatens to kill Ilhan Omar

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Ocasio-Cortez also makes direct link between controversial remarks by Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro and threat against Omar

Donald Trump and Fox News are coming under fire for contributing to a climate of Islamophobia, following the arrest of a supporter of the president who threatened to kill Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota who was one of the first Muslim women elected to the US Congress.

Related: Ilhan Omar: man arrested after he made death threat – then left contact details

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