Joan Beverstock
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This is one piece of gold that President Trump is never going to get his short, stubby fingers on: an 18-karat gold medal with three naked men embracing, awarded to those who promote peace, democracy and human rights.

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Opinion | Peace in Trump’s Time — Except Here
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Judge Faruqui, who has accused federal prosecutors of executing an “end run” around the normal course of justice, it came as federal grand juries have repeatedly declined to indict people ensnared in Trump’s campaign boost arrests and prosecutions in Washington.”
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Judge Rejects ‘Unprecedented’ Indictment Amid Trump’s D.C. Clampdown
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CBS News reports federal agents in Chicago were throwing tear gas out car windows, assumably to create chaos and provoke violence. Trump is trying to escalate tensions to justify military invasion blue cities so he can block elections next year. CBS News
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seniors are missing out on crucial help paying for Medicare — and the recently enacted federal budget law blocks an effort to help them get it. "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/business/medicare-medicaid-low-income-seniors.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE8.6UwE.zVWhwmME1pQN&smid=url-share
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On Monday, Hugo Lowell of The Guardian reported that Stephen Miller has directed the administration’s strikes on Venezuelan boats, taking precedence over secretary of state and national security advisor Marco Rubio.
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October 3, 2025
Although President Donald J.
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"Donald Trump is a vulgar bigot and a reprehensible human being. He is unworthy to serve in any high office in this country, let alone its highest. If anything, it makes the obligation to call him out in these moments that much greater. " B Kristol www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-ai-...
Trump’s AI Brain Rot
Plus: Trump’s increasingly dumb, and undoubtedly painful, global tariff loop.
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