Remove 59 additional duplicate events

Second pass duplicate cleanup based on systematic analysis of 100 potential duplicates:

TRUE DUPLICATES REMOVED:
- Proposition 13 (1978) - kept tax revolt version
- Airline Deregulation (1978) - kept Carter neoliberalism version
- Republican Revolution (1994) - kept Contract with America version
- Asian Financial Crisis (1997) - removed 3 duplicates, kept Thai Baht version
- Kenneth Lay/Cheney (2001) - removed numbered duplicate
- AT&T/NSA (2001) - kept backbone infrastructure version
- NSA Stellar Wind (2001) - kept authorization version
- Microsoft Antitrust (2001) - kept behavioral remedies version
- CSE Split (2004) - kept Koch Network version
- Rybolovlev mansion (2008) - removed wrong-date duplicate
- Wells Fargo/SEC (2010) - removed numbered duplicate
- ALEC Exposed (2011) - kept leak version
- NSA PRISM (2013) - kept WaPo/Guardian version
- Crimea Annexation (2014) - removed numbered duplicate
- Russia Sanctions (2014) - removed numbered duplicate
- Corinthian Colleges (2015) - kept bankruptcy version
- Trump Tower Moscow (2015) - removed numbered duplicate
- Trump University (2016) - kept main settlement version
- Secret Service spending (2017) - kept specific amount version
- Net Neutrality (2017) - kept Ajit Pai version
- Trump Foundation lawsuit (2018) - kept persistent illegal conduct version
- Janus v AFSCME (2018) - kept strikes down version
- Kushner 666 Fifth (2018) - kept Qatar bailout version
- Bernhardt confirmation (2019) - kept extensive conflicts version
- Sinclair 40% (2022) - kept main version
- Thomas/Crow gifts (2023) - kept two decades version
- Student Loan ruling (2023) - kept protects debt system version
- Enforcement decline (2023) - removed 2 weirdly-named duplicates
- Foreign payments (2024) - kept committee report version
- Grok safety (2024) - kept first major incident version
- Loper Bright/Chevron (2024) - kept SCOTUS overrules version
- Mbappé hack (2024) - removed encoding-issue duplicate
- MELANIA coin (2025) - kept suspicious trading version
- Legal resistance (2025) - removed 3 duplicates, kept overview
- Energy emergency (2025) - removed duplicate declaration
- IG firings (2025) - kept 18 version over 17
- Treasury access (2025) - kept explicit 25-year-old title
- Pro bono/DOJ (2025) - removed infrastructure duplicate
- Crypto enforcement (2025) - kept DOJ disbands version
- Legal training (2025) - kept national program version
- USAID (2025) - kept Project 2025 timeline version
- Epstein DOJ (2025) - kept DOJ releases memo version
- Paramount/Skydance (2025) - kept FCC approves version
- Endangerment finding (2025) - kept proposes rescinding version
- SSA breach (2025) - removed 2 duplicates, kept main breach version
- Meta AI PAC (2025) - kept launches super PAC version
- Soros investigation (2025) - kept DOJ orders version
- Binance pardon (2025) - removed 2 duplicates, kept detailed version
- Mellon donation (2025) - removed military payroll duplicate
- Misplaced Project 2025 file (dated 2000-01-01) - removed

DISTINCT EVENTS VERIFIED (36 remaining low-similarity matches):
All remaining flagged pairs are legitimately separate events covering:
- Different aspects of same topic (founding vs org profile)
- Different actors on same date (Feulner vs Simon)
- Cause vs effect (Access Hollywood tape vs GOP response)
- Different programs (trafficking aid vs food aid)
- Pattern vs specific case (court defiance pattern vs Venezuelan case)

Timeline reduced from 4179 to 4120 events.
Total duplicates removed this session: 99 events.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: markramm

timeline/data/api/actors.json

@@ -1,21 +1,19 @@
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