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Nation's dumbest senator is back with a new head-scratcher

During a gaggle with reporters on Tuesday, Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma tried to defend the Trump administration barring all of Congress from reviewing unedited footage related to ...

Republican dishes on how his colleagues really feel about health care

December 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121

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Republican dishes on how his colleagues really feel about health care https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/12/18/2359004/-Republican-dishes-on-how-his-colleagues-really-feel-about-health-care?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania on Thursday defended signing a discharge petition to force a House vote on a bill extending enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years.

Calling it enforcement doesn’t change reality: a blockade is war, Congress was bypassed, law was ignored, and American families are left to pay the price.

December 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM

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One Post Away From War
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One Post Away From War

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December 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM

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BREAKING: The EU Just Handed Ukraine $300 Billion in Frozen Russian Assets, Considers MASSIVE US Bond Sell-off
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BREAKING: The EU Just Handed Ukraine $300 Billion in Frozen Russian Assets, Considers MASSIVE US Bond Sell-off

Nice to see the EU grow up this week.

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December 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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Kristi Noem Is Going Home
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Kristi Noem Is Going Home

Kristi Noem’s time may be up: failed enforcement, courtroom defiance, and a scandalous partner have crossed Trump’s line; an unforgivable sin in the boss’s eyes.

Kristi Noem Caught Lying in Brutal Hearing + More Thursday Updates - 12/11/25

December 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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Kristi Noem Caught Lying in Brutal Hearing + More Thursday Updates - 12/11/25
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Your Profile Pic Better Be Patriotic

December 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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Your Profile Pic Better Be Patriotic
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A surveillance circus with Trump selling backstage passes, America now demands your DMs, biometrics, and dignity; unless you’ve got a million dollars to buy your innocence.

December 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM

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BOMBSHELL: Russia Was Planning a Massive Terrorist Attack on Europe and the U.S. in 2024

Shocking new story out of The Financial Times (paywalled) that supports a BBC report from last year: Russia has been conducting a terror war against the rest of Europe for years. Assassinations, acts ...

December 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans mock Trump behind his back

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia sat down with Leslie Stahl on “60 Minutes” Sunday, continuing her public divorce from the MAGA world and President Donald Trump, while blasting fellow ...

And he who causes the darkness

December 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM

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Frankenstein's Monster
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Frankenstein's Monster

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December 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM

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Orange Dick Tater Hater

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Remember that episode of South Park where Cartman fakes his way into the Special Olympics, and still loses, but they give him a prize anyway?

December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM

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Europe Sounds the Alarm as the United States Sides With Putin
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Europe Sounds the Alarm as the United States Sides With Putin

While Russian drones target NATO allies and Ukraine’s president, Trump’s America abandons its commitments and openly embraces a strategy that weakens Europe and empowers the Kremlin.

Emergency Meidas Health: AAP President Dr. Kressly Pushes Back on Hepatitis B Vaccine Changes

December 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM

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Emergency Meidas Health: AAP President Dr. Kressly Pushes Back on Hepatitis B Vaccine Changes
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Experts warn that proposed changes to newborn vaccination guidelines would reverse decades of progress and put America’s children at risk in a new episode of Meidas Health

December 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM

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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump losing both independents and his own voters

POLITICO : Poll: Trump's own voters begin blaming him for affordability crisis Americans continue to say affordability is out of control, and they place the responsibility on Trump, The ...

December 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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In Fox's bizarro world, huge layoffs mean 'good news’ for Trump

Following a report that showed a spike in layoff announcements, a Fox Business reporter said it could be “good news” for President Donald Trump. The consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas ...

December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM

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Republicans still spouting bullsh-t about imaginary health care plans

GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas appeared on Fox Business Thursday, delivering a nonsensical word salad about the GOP’s health insurance plans— none of which would actually reduce the skyrocketing ...

December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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This tech bro hopes Trump's boat bombings will bring big bucks

We sometimes forget that while super gross hyperconservative tech creep Peter Thiel founded Palantir Technologies, the data management/AI/surveillance juggernaut, it was co-founded and is currently .....

December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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Guess what, Dan Bongino? Pipe bomb suspect thought the 2020 election was stolen

In news that is certain to get an FBI source fired by the corrupt clowns that sit atop the Justice Department and the FBI, CNN is reporting that the D.C. pipe bomb suspect, Brian Coles Jr., has told t...

December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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You’ll want to hear Mark Kelly’s latest take on Pete Hegseth

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona isn’t done wiping the floor with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. During a Center for American Progress event in Washington Thursday, Kelly was asked how he ...

A relentless look at the second strike, the lies that followed, and the pathetic political theater that proves this administration fears accountability more than any foreign enemy.

December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM

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Orders Without Honor
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Orders Without Honor

December 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM

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ICE Employees Spill Tea About the Misfit Toy Applicants Rushed Through Hiring Process by Kristi Noem

The Daily Mail has an exclusive on the rampaging incompetence of the hiring process going on at ICE. The nicest thing that can be said about the new applicants at ICE is they are misfit toys. The trut...

December 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM

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JD Vance invites attendees to a VP Hanukkah observance to celebrate"50 Years of Christmas"

In 2008, the Bush administration had to apologize when the White House Hanukkah party invitation featured a Christmas tree. The Trump administration scoffs at that slur as small potatoes. It is now me...

December 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM

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Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Letitia James

A grand jury today refused to indict New York Attorney General Letisha James on mortgage fraud. The return of a "no true bill" is historically exceptionally rare for federal grand juries, but is becom...

December 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM

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Ever on brand, Trump fires his ballroom architect, so perhaps it will never get built.

Like most developers, Trump thinks firing “his” architect gives him some status as a designer, but like his other idiocy, he’s making a hash of his massive ballroom. It will remain a shopping mall’s a...

December 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM

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Minneapolis police chief has a message for Trump's shock troops

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara tried to reassure the city’s immigrant communities during a press conference on Tuesday. Responding to concerns over President Donald Trump’s racist new ...