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Big news at COURIER this week: COURIER's new show — How Is This Better? — in partnership with Akilah Hughes aired its first episode on COURIER's YouTube on Friday. In our first episode, Akilah takes a look at why Trump's trying to privatize our country's national parks — and what it means for you. 

If you haven't already, give How Is This Better? a follow on Instagram and TikTok.

And ICYMI ... the first episode of REPRESENT, a docuseries following 25-year-old activist and candidate Deja Foxx, also dropped on COURIER's YouTube this past Monday. 

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On social week ... COURIER's TikTok received 36+ million views last week alone, with TikTok users leaving over 366,000 comments on our posts and sharing content over 266,000 times! 

On COURIER's TikTok, you can see the top post of the week here with 4.2+ million views and 495,000+ likes. On COURIER's Instagram, you can see the top post of the week here with 89,000+ likes and 2.3+ million views.

The far-right is lashing out after reports that Trump plans on working with Palantir to merge data on Americans from different agencies to a single location. COURIER's Instagram took a look at MAGA's response.

In COURIER's most viewed post this week, federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security are seen handcuffing and detaining a staff member in Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler’s Manhattan district office. 

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) was caught on camera saying 'the best health care is a job' as the Senate debates a bill attacking Medicaid. His comments came on the heels of Republican Joni Ernst telling constituents, "Well, we are all going to die."

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In this week's Grave Injustice, Lisa Graves looks at the Federalist Society's Leonard Leo and his role in shaping the United States Supreme Court — and Trump's surprising rejection of him earlier this week. 

"As the Trump regime tries to bum-rush our democracy with one outrageous move after another, the media scramble to cover them all," writes Mark Jacob in this week's Stop the Presses. 

Executive Director at MOVE Texas, Claudia Yoli Ferla, writes about the nationalization of Project 2025 and how Texans have been resisting a slow-moving authoritarian takeover for years in her new op-ed for COURIER. 

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"Memorial Day traffic plummeted at one of Pennsylvania’s largest lakes thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE’s cuts to the US Army Corps of Engineers," writes COURIER's Pennsylvania outlet, The Keystone.

In a shocking email, Republican Rep. Travis Corcoran wrote that 'violence isn't associated with the presence of guns, but with the presence of African Americans.' COURIER's Granite Post has the scoop.

COURIER's Iowa outlet, Iowa Starting Line, covered the passage of a bill that will require students across the state to watch a medically inaccurate video on fetal development as part of their human growth and development instruction.