Community effort to help residents buy Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park could inform regional strategy, but challenges remain

Residents of Cavern Springs Mobile Home Park have until June 13 to secure financing and submit an offer to purchase the land beneath their homes. The effort could preserve affordable housing for hundreds of residents while shaping future mobile home park preservation strategies across Colorado.

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Purchased With Blood and Lies

Another Memorial Day: boasts, insults, "self-defense strikes," cheap clichés from a "Secretary of War" prattling about dead boys "delivered from the battlefield into the arms of a loving Lord and savior." Spare us. And maybe revisit the war to end all wars, which didn't - its "infinity of waste" and trenches with skulls in the sides where "he who had a corpse to stand on was lucky." Pat…

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John Fetterman Single-Handedly Tanks Effort to Rein Trump in on Iran

Senator John Fetterman was the deciding vote Wednesday to dismiss the Democrats’ seventh attempt to advance a resolution under the War Powers Act to stop President Donald Trump’s disastrous military campaign in Iran.

It was the first time the Senate has voted on a measure to end the war in Iran since the conflict crossed the 60-day deadline. After that point, the War Powers Act requires the…

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The Right’s Upside-Down Argument Against the Abortion Pill

Over the last few days, the courts have contributed yet again to the ongoing American whiplash about abortion access. On Friday, a ruling from the super-conservative Fifth Circuit appeals court essentially overrode Food and Drug Administration guidelines for mifepristone, one of two drugs used for medication abortion, so that it could no longer be prescribed by a telehealth provider.…

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Transcript: Trump’s Losing Streak Takes a Truly Humiliating Turn

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 27 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.**
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Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republi c, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.

Donald Trump has been losing on a lot of fronts lately. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed. His attack on the Fed chair…

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Netanyahu Reveals Trump Reports to Him Every Day on Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the Trump administration reports to him every day about the ongoing war in Iran.

In a meeting with Israel’s Cabinet ministers, Netanyahu said, “I spoke yesterday with Vice President JD Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the…

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PSX sheds 6,600 points after Trump announces Hormuz blockade

The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark index KSE-100 shed 6,600 points on Monday in a turbulent session, after weekend peace talks between the United States and Iran failed and the US president ordered a blockade of Iranian ports.

The KSE-100 index opened on a low note of around 161,000 points, compared to the previous close of 167,191.37.

The market fluctuated throughout the session,…

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No One Is Intimidated by Trump Anymore

A quiet fell upon the Supreme Court chamber on Wednesday as Donald Trump arrived and sat in the public gallery with his soon-to-be-dismissed attorney general, Pam Bondi, and White House counsel David Warrington. He was purportedly there, in a presidential first, to witness oral arguments for _Trump v. Barbara,_ a case concerning Trump’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship. In reality,…

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Choose Class War, Not Boomer Resentment

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.


“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

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The War on Iran Is More Expensive Than You Think

In the first two weeks of its war on Iran, the US spent an estimated $2.1 billion a day. It’s no wonder Donald Trump is saying that the cost of war means the federal government can’t afford to spend money to help Americans meet their basic needs.


The Trump administration refuses to disclose how much its war on Iran has cost and prefers the topic not be discussed. The best estimate is…

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Contra Pope Leo, Catholic Just War Doctrine Supports Iran Strikes

Over the weekend, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican by condemning those who “wage war” and insisting that God unequivocally rejects war and the prayers of those who wage it. In recent weeks, other influential Catholic leaders have loudly voiced opposition to Operation Epic Fury; amid an academic conference at the Vatican Apostolic Library on March 26, Vatican Secretary of…

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This Is How Forever Wars Begin

In the final year of President George W. Bush’s second term, his administration asked Congress for $190 billion to continue funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that had long since turned into quagmires. On Wednesday, the Pentagon asked the White House for $200 billion to fund the war on Iran, which is not even three weeks old.

That amount doesn’t go as far as it did two decades ago, of…

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Israel Has Nuclear Weapons. It May Use Them.

There is little sign that Israel is achieving its war aims against Iran. But Israel is the only state in the region with nuclear weapons — and it may use them if it feels like it has run out of options.


Israel has started a war with Iran that is quickly spiraling out of control. We need to take seriously the possibility that Israel could deploy nuclear weapons in the conflict. (Kobi…

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Anti-DEI bill threatening Florida Pride events gains momentum in GOP legislature

LGBTQ+ advocates in Florida fear the Republican-controlled Legislature will advance severe anti-diversity legislation supported by outgoing Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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The Florida Senate on Thursday took up and passed legislation barring any diversity, equity, and inclusion…

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Pakistan cricket’s lack of T20 evolution exposed by World Cup exit

Pakistan’s shortcomings were laid bare during their lacklustre T20 World Cup campaign which ended on Saturday when the team failed to reach the semi-finals.

From the captain Salman Agha, who was criticised for not being a T20 player, to slow batting rates and the use of all-rounders not up to the job, the Green Shirts were shown to be behind the times in the rapid-fire format.

Former…

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A world reimagined in Black

By placing Kwame Nkrumah at the center of a global Black political network, Howard W. French reveals how the promise of pan-African emancipation was narrowed—and what its failure still costs Africa and the diaspora.


Kwame Nkrumah (left), Ghana’s prime minister, with Martin Luther King Jr. during King’s visit to Accra for Ghana’s independence celebrations, March 1957. Photo courtesy of…

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