Thursday, August 11, 2022

Reading archive 2022-08-11

FBI: Armed man tried to breach Cincinnati field office, sparked chase and shootout: SR-73 shut down, lockdown in place for buildings in area

With Feds Circling, Trump Asks Allies: Who’s ‘Wearing a Wire’?: As the investigations heat up, the former president and his advisers are pointing fingers — and looking for “rats”

Hyperbolic GOP claims about IRS agents and audits

Opinion  Gay men can fight monkeypox ourselves — by changing how we have sex

Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering: When Biden met with historians last week at the White House, they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before World War II

What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste?: Antiquities reproduced in vivid color, now on view in ‘Chroma’ exhibition at the Met, may look garish to modern eyes

Beto O’Rourke confronts heckler laughing during speech on Uvalde shooting: The Democratic candidate for Texas governor lashed out, telling the heckler: ‘It may be funny to you ... but it’s not funny to me’

What Is Really Unprecedented Is the Criminality: Republican outrage to the raid on Trump is telling. - "While it is factually true that there is no history of a former American president being raided by the Feds, these observations implicitly treat the FBI’s behavior as the source of the historic break. The reason Donald Trump is the first former president to be treated like a criminal is that he is the first former president who is a criminal.

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"If a Trump prosecution risks setting off some deeper crisis in the system, that is because Republicans formed a loyalty to a man who rose to his position by flouting the law."

In the Ukraine war, a battle for the nation’s mineral and energy wealth

FBI searched Trump’s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say: Attorney General Merrick Garland wouldn’t discuss the search but said he personally signed off on asking a judge to approve it

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