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Initial Impression: Headlines for July 29
Your once-weekly, wide-ranging headline digest featuring linked stories and quick takes to help you cut through the noise and stay informed.
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Brie McReynolds
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WORTHY OF BRAINSPACE: July 27, 2025
Worthy of Brainspace is a NEW weekly drop of the stuff that lived rent-free in my head. It’s multimedia, occasionally explicit... and 100% certified…
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Brie McReynolds
The Cost of Falling, The Hatred of Humanity, and the Ugliness of Cruelty
From personal collapse to political reckoning — what it's like to need help in a country hellbent on punishing humanity.
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Brie McReynolds
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MAGA v. U.S. Constitution: The Semblance of Normalcy Feels Naïve
Whistleblowers, prosecutors, and public servants describe a second-term Trump administration using fear, loyalty tests, and legal defiance to…
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Brie McReynolds
Department of Labor Proposes 60+ Rule Changes Reducing Protections for Workers, Claims They Are 'Obsolete'
One such proposal would allow home health care workers to make less than minimum wage.
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Brie McReynolds
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Welcome to MAGAmerica: Senate Passes Trump's Big Blatant Betrayal
Working-Class Americans (especially those under age 40) are being forced to sacrifice our social safety net to benefit billionaires.
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Brie McReynolds
Supreme Court Limits Nationwide Injunctions in Win for Trump Administration
The decision was 6-3, with Justices voting along party lines.
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Brie McReynolds
June 18, 2025: A Bad Day for Truth, Transparency, and (Probably) Tehran
A day of rising tensions abroad, eroding legal norms at home, and a president increasingly untethered from reality. Institutions hold their ground—or…
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Brie McReynolds
The Utter WEIRDNESS of This Birthday Party
And the blatant, despicable hypocrisy of running a corporate ad during a birthday party the army didn't want, days after getting public media over its…
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Brie McReynolds
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World's Most Powerful Crybaby.
His supporters are being betrayed so BRUTALLY at this point that I almost, almost, ALMOST feel bad for them..
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Brie McReynolds
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Crybaby-In-Chief: 99 Days of Trumpism
I thought we’d do something a little different for Day 99; let’s hear the news from The President of the United States himself.
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Brie McReynolds
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U.S. Democracy in Crisis: Firings, Deportations, and Disappearances
The headlines sound dystopian — because they are. The U.S. is shifting faster than we’re willing to admit.
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Brie McReynolds
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