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🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. Thursday for unfettered access to the states’ voter registration records. The federal government has now filed lawsuits against 21 states, plus D.C.

This is a developing story...
DOJ Sues Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin and DC, Expanding Campaign of Voter Data Lawsuits to 22
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Trump promised to lower costs “one day one.”

But CPI data shows that inflation is still higher than when he started his chaotic trade war in April.

Donald Trump is standing in the way of lower prices for you.
December 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Suozzi: "In my district, if you make $130,000 & you're a family of 4, you now pay 8.5% of your income for health insurance - $10k to $11,000 a year. That's gonna go up to $30k a year, which means your premium is going to increase $1,500 a month. That's crazy. People are not gonna buy the insurance"
December 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
projects.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Everything Trump does seems to be either a scam, a con job, a fraud, a lie, or pure bullshit.
He takes Congressionally approved funds from one area and reallocates them to another, all to mislead the nation into believing he's providing the troops with something extra.
December 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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👇👇
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Putting his name on everything like a mom sending kindergarteners to school knowing they will loose their stuff.
December 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Pretty hard to deny MAGA isn't a white supremacist movement at this point.

Source: www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Fox News' host presses Howard Lutnick over Trump's claim that he is cutting pharmaceutical prices by more than 100%:

“If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to zero. If you cut it by 400% or 500%…the drug companies are actually paying you to take their products.”
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The Trump administration is trying to root out what it sees as rampant left-wing domestic terrorism, raising concerns among security experts and lawmakers that broad categories of Americans’ speech could come under surveillance.
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hand-picked board that ALSO includes TRump.

I’m sure he will write the press release just like the presidential plaques.

Congrats to President Kennedy🙃
December 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Congrats to President Kennedy!
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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In two weeks.
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Johnson, Steil brief lawmakers on new plan to address insider trading on the Hill
Capitol agenda: Congress leaves health mess for January
Lawmakers will return after the holidays to resume their health care fight — and stare down another funding cliff. Congress is about to leave town for the holidays — and put off their health care troubles until January. The House and Senate will take their last votes of the year Thursday, officially allowing Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire Dec. 31. The House passed its GOP-led health care package Wednesday night, though the Senate has no plans to take it up. Speaker Mike Johnson vowed to work “much more” on health care in the new year, after moderate Republicans joined a Democrat-led discharge petition for a clean three-year extension of the subsidies. Johnson said “it’s inevitable” that the discharge petition comes up after lawmakers return. “We’ll deal with it in January,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told reporters Wednesday. “These things take a lot of twists and turns. Just this week, we’ve had a lot of twists and turns.” The Democrats’ discharge petition is a shell bill, which means lawmakers could add Senate-passed language to it — though it’s not clear what could reach 60 votes in the Senate. GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania said the plan for now is to send the clean three-year extension. Meanwhile, moderate rank-and-file members in both chambers are trying to come up with a last-minute consensus plan that could pass the House and Senate. But nothing could come together until January, when Congress will have less than a month until the next funding cliff. At the center of these health care talks is Fitzpatrick, who is working behind the scenes to get an ACA fix even after the subsidy expiration date. “I think it’s a mistake,” Fitzpatrick told POLITICO of allowing the credits to lapse. “I’m going to exhaust every single option I have to get this done.” It’s unclear if they can pull it off. The lawmakers already failed to secure an extension before the expiration date — it’ll be much harder to revive them after. In the meantime: Interest groups on both sides are diving furiously into the blame game over the subsidies lapse. It’s an early test of the messaging battle over health care — an issue that could define the 2026 midterms. What else we’re watching: — Appropriations movement: Senate GOP leaders have won over all the Republicans who objected to moving a five-bill package of government funding measures this week. Now it’s Democrats’ turn to check for holds on their side for the “minibus,” which contains the Labor-HHS-Education, Defense, Transportation-HUD, Commerce-Justice-Science and Interior-Environment bills. — Stock trading talks: Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) expect to meet with Johnson Thursday to discuss a ban on congressional stock trading. So far, their discharge petition is nowhere close to the 218 signees necessary to force a vote in the House. — A fight over broadband money: Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) will introduce a bill Thursday that would give states access to an estimated $20 to $22 billion in broadband deployment funding — a proposal at odds with efforts from Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) that would claw back the funding entirely. Benjamin Guggenheim, Meredith Lee Hill, Nicholas Wu, Amanda Chu, Jennifer Scholtes and Katherine Tully-McManus contributed to this report.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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So… he’s giving them their own money?

Where’s the tariff money?
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Kelly: I wish someone would tell him how math works. You know, that the prices are going to go down 500 or 600%. Anyone who's been through like the sixth grade by then knows that that is not a thing.
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Jeffries: "Every single House D and at least 4 House Rs support a straightforward extension of the ACA credits. Time has run out. Rs have had all year to deal with this issue & chose not to bc they were focused on passing their big ugly bill... the largest cut to Medicaid in American history"
December 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Crockett: As he stood up today in front of the American people, he sounded like a used car salesman. Like, let me just shout it out. Buy what I'm selling. Yes. This is a lemon. Yes. He is selling nothing but lemons
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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A state service branded to the leader is a hallmark of personalist governance. Benefits appear to flow from Trump, not the institution. Citizens are repositioned as clients. Well-being becomes linked to political allegiance. The Constitution recedes, and Trump becomes the perceived gatekeeper.
December 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Apparently no low income people voted for Trump.
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79

McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49

Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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🚨 CDC supervisors are instructing employees with disabilities to email their *personal medical records directly to the CDC Chief Operating Officer*, Lynda Chapman, to obtain temporary telework -- because the formal reasonable accommodation system is overwhelmed.

Yes. Really. 🧵⬇️
As HHS restricts telework, CDC asks employees to ‘bypass’ reasonable accommodation process
Multiple CDC supervisors are raising concerns that a new HHS reasonable accommodation policy conflicts with federal disability law.
federalnewsnetwork.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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It was never about drugs. It was always about oil.
December 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I don’t know, maybe it wasn’t the best idea to appoint a right-wing conspiracy theorist nut job podcaster as deputy director of the FBI.
December 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM