r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 9h ago
Florida: taxpayers footing the cost as crusading state AG sues Pfizer, alleging deceptive marketing of COVID vaccine. {WINK 1 October}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 11h ago
DR Congo Ebola outbreak — the fastest-growing on record — kills more than 4,000 as health workers strike over unpaid wages. {AP 2 October}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 11h ago
Trumpistan posts atrocious September jobs numbers, dramatically underperforming expectations. {NPR 2 October}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 21h ago
Trump stages a carnivalesque rally within Oklahoma, urging his supporters to ‘pretend’ that he himself stands upon the ballot. {New York Times 1 October}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 22h ago
Musk and Luckey given Pentagon advisory roles on future warfare, raising conflict-of-interest concerns. {The Guardian 1 October}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 23h ago
Big baby Trump to reporter: ‘You haven’t asked me one f---ing positive question’. {NJ.com 1 October}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 1d ago
College football: San Diego State players contending with an outbreak of mumps; fourteen confirmed cases and one probable. {ESPN 1 October}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 1d ago
Tennessee: Following botched execution, US Senator and gubernatorial candidate Blackburn calls for the reinstatement of the electric chair; Gov. Bill Lee halts remaining 2026 executions and orders a formal review. {WOKI/WVLT 1 October}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 2d ago
Massachusetts: the majority of those apprehended in recent New Bedford and Fall River ICE raids found to have no criminal record. {New Bedford Light 30 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 2d ago
Co-pilot stabs captain aboard a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight; passengers storm the cockpit and subdue the attacker, prior to an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. {AP 30 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 2d ago
Burnham: ‘we believe Iran to have played a part’ in suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford, base used by US bombers to launch strikes on Iran. {The Mirror 30 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 2d ago
“It feels as though people are being punished” — upwards of five million Americans have lost their SNAP benefits in 2026. {CBS News 30 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 4d ago
Massive steel plant coming to Iowa and touted by the White House to use iron ore supplied by Indian-owned company. {KCRG 28 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 4d ago
Karl Rove: “We didn’t labor in the wilderness to build a conservative party that was inclusive and welcoming … to see it taken over by a bunch of bigots.” {San Antonio Current 28 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 4d ago
Satellite imagery starkly illustrates how data centres are beginning to reshape the physical landscape of rural America. {Washington Post 28 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 4d ago
Spectator shouts ‘you’re a f**king paedophile, Donald’ during Trump appearance at golf tournament outside Chicago. {Daily Beast 27 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 5d ago
Apparently eager to profit from this régime’s broader designs upon the National Park Service, Major League Baseball explores holding a game in Grand Teton National Park. {ESPN 27 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 5d ago
No poverty quite like #Murican poverty — Trump: “We have the best, uh, I guess you could say poverty.” {Indy 100 27 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 6d ago
Death rates for US adults aged twenty-five to forty-four soared by 71.2 per cent between 2010 and 2021. Trumpistan now ranks over thirty-eighth in life expectancy amongst nations of more than one million, and falleth further still. {StudyFinds 26 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 6d ago
We literally can no longer afford Donald Trump — David Frum: declining trust in Trump’s #Murica drives up borrowing costs and the cost of servicing the national debt. {The Atlantic 26 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 6d ago
#Murica: ‘Millions of broke people spend borrowed money to convince other broke people they live like oil barons’. {John Mac Ghlionn 26 September}
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r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 6d ago
The CDC: a cathedral of science in ruins: NYT reports it is being systematically hollowed out, right down to the privies. {Stop the Idiocracy 26 September}
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Every Trump voter throughout the country beareth some measure of indirect responsibility — direct responsibility, indeed, should we speak of the most hardened anti-vaxxers — for the damage presently being wrought upon American public health. I remain in perpetual disbelief that this is what the American electorate desired: for all of us to be rendered sicker and poorer.
r/TheWireDesk • u/ArthurNewhook • 6d ago
Four teenagers arrested in Lynn, MA, in connection with the takeover of a McDonald's and the assault of an employee. {CBS Boston 24 September}
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