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ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder [link removed]

The law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity. And states can prosecute anyone for violations of state law, regardless of their rank or authority. Murder is a felony in the state of Minnesota, as it is in every other state.

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The ICE Murder and the Broader Battle [link removed]

Wednesday’s cold-blooded murder by an ICE agent of a peaceful legal observer brings America one step closer to a civil war between cities and states defending their citizens and a Trump administration using fascist-style tactics to have a secret police force provoke confrontations, arrests, and in this case, a killing.

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Trump’s Cargo Cult Imperialism in Venezuela [link removed]

Donald Trump said outright that his military attack on Venezuela was about oil. There’s just one problem: Stealing Venezuela’s oil makes no sense, even—indeed, especially—from the standpoint of American oil companies.

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Monetizing Regime Change [link removed]

It is trivially easy for administration officials to use prediction markets to bet on the policies they authorize. We may have just seen it in Venezuela: Hours before the U.S. military abducted Maduro, an anonymous user was betting thousands of dollars that an invasion was imminent. [link removed]

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Where Trump’s Imperialism Could Strike Next [link removed]

Now that the U.S. has pulled off the audacious kidnapping of a head of state and essentially taken over a foreign country, could it happen again? Greenland, Colombia, Cuba, Iran … all are at risk from an unchecked president. 

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