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Exclusive Video: Horrifying Bodycam Footage Reveals Missouri Cop Firing 9 Shots at Unarmed Black Teen, Continues Shooting As Lifeless Body Lays on Ground

By ● Justice ●
“Trying to find a Black kid at night, that’s always fun,” one of the two officers on the recording can be heard saying on body camera in the minutes before Lafayette County Deputy Kenneth Lewie shot nineteen-year-old Saveion McConnell to death on the shoulder of U.S. 50. The Kansas City Defender has obtained the footage, and the prosecutor’s memo that cleared Lewie. Neither says what the state has been telling the public.

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NUCLEAR GUINEA PIGS: How a Small Kansas Town Became the Site of a Nuclear Experiment to Power AI

By ● Investigation ●
Artificial intelligence needs more power than America will give it, so the industry went looking for ground where nobody gets a vote. In Parsons, Kansas, where one in five residents lives in poverty, that means the first nuclear reactor in history designed to operate underground, drilled through the aquifer, on land where the Army still detonates waste explosives under federal permit.

What to the World is the 4th of July?

By ● World ●
On the eve of the semiquincentennial, we are republishing the speech I gave on July 4, 2020, at the Anti-Independence Day Rally in Westport, steps from a building that held Black people enslaved in its basement. Then we are going to talk about the cookout.

Rubio’s Global War on “Anti-American” Speech Has Its First Prisoners

By ● World ●
A cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio directs every U.S. embassy worldwide to suppress “anti-American propaganda” using Pentagon psyops units and recruited local influencers. Weeks earlier, the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria had already directed the country’s secret police, the DSS, to arrest two citizens over tweets critical of israel & the U.S.

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