Slide into autocracy 34.
January 8, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Slide into autocracy 34.
In the 11 months since he was confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has wreaked steady havoc on the nation’s vaccination policies and programs, including the cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal investment for mRNA vaccines...
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Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year
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January 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
In the 11 months since he was confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has wreaked steady havoc on the nation’s vaccination policies and programs, including the cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal investment for mRNA vaccines...
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Trump administration said it planned to freeze $10 billion in funding for child care subsidies, social services and cash support for low-income families in 5 states controlled by Democrats, claiming without evidence that programs in the states are riddled with fraud.
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Health Dept. Freezes $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
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January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Trump administration said it planned to freeze $10 billion in funding for child care subsidies, social services and cash support for low-income families in 5 states controlled by Democrats, claiming without evidence that programs in the states are riddled with fraud.
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Here are 500 videos posted to Parler from January 6. See for yourself.
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What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Here are 500 videos posted to Parler from January 6. See for yourself.
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"Trump justified his pardons by arguing, "most of the people were absolutely innocent," which runs counter to many defendants' decision to plead guilty and admit to crimes... and the conviction rate of 100% in jury trials held for defendants who pleaded not guilty."
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Jan. 6 riot's basic facts cause stubborn fights 5 years later
In a letter to colleagues last week, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced a public meeting, with witness testimony, is being held Tuesday.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
"Trump justified his pardons by arguing, "most of the people were absolutely innocent," which runs counter to many defendants' decision to plead guilty and admit to crimes... and the conviction rate of 100% in jury trials held for defendants who pleaded not guilty."
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Raskin (D-MD) : "Trump’s incoherent revisionist mythology of Jan. 6 has become an organizing policy commitment of his administration.... [His] moves at the Justice Department reduced our government to the moral level of a gangster state."
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Opinion | Jamie Raskin: Jan. 6 Never Ended
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January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Raskin (D-MD) : "Trump’s incoherent revisionist mythology of Jan. 6 has become an organizing policy commitment of his administration.... [His] moves at the Justice Department reduced our government to the moral level of a gangster state."
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HCR is worth reading every day, and particularly today, January 6. Good luck, USA.
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January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
HCR is worth reading every day, and particularly today, January 6. Good luck, USA.
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Trump administration said it planned to freeze $10 billion in funding for child care subsidies, social services and cash support for low-income families in 5 states controlled by Democrats. Trump officials claim, without evidence, that programs are riddled with fraud.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...
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Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
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January 6, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Trump administration said it planned to freeze $10 billion in funding for child care subsidies, social services and cash support for low-income families in 5 states controlled by Democrats. Trump officials claim, without evidence, that programs are riddled with fraud.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...
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W. Post : Trump dropped support for Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize instead of insisting it was his. “If she said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Trump’s,’ she’d be the president today,” said one source.
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U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion
In Washington and Caracas, the vision for administering Venezuela in the weeks and months ahead appears uncertain and stubbornly complex.
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January 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
W. Post : Trump dropped support for Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize instead of insisting it was his. “If she said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Trump’s,’ she’d be the president today,” said one source.
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Did you hear Jack Smith's testimony under oath of "proof beyond reasonable doubt" that Trump was guilty of attempting to overturn the 2020 election and possessing classified documents ? Released by Republicans on New Year's Eve to avoid press coverage. PS Epstein.
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Jack Smith told House committee he had ‘proof beyond reasonable doubt’ in cases against Trump
Ex-special counsel testified in front of judiciary committee about aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump
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January 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Did you hear Jack Smith's testimony under oath of "proof beyond reasonable doubt" that Trump was guilty of attempting to overturn the 2020 election and possessing classified documents ? Released by Republicans on New Year's Eve to avoid press coverage. PS Epstein.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
A former Syrian security official accused of torture hid in plain sight in Europe for years, protected by Israeli and Austrian intelligence agents. For years, attempts to set up an international tribunal to try war crimes in Syria were blocked by Russia.
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War Crimes Indictment Reveals a Hard Road to Justice for Syria
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January 2, 2026 at 5:23 PM
A former Syrian security official accused of torture hid in plain sight in Europe for years, protected by Israeli and Austrian intelligence agents. For years, attempts to set up an international tribunal to try war crimes in Syria were blocked by Russia.
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Federal courts have created a patchwork of rules for forensic device searches. In 18 states, including CA, MA and VA, agents need reasonable suspicion to conduct a forensic search. In 10 states, including FL and GA, agents do not need R.S. Elsewhere, no clear rule.
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Phone Searches at the Border Are Up: How to Protect Your Privacy
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January 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Federal courts have created a patchwork of rules for forensic device searches. In 18 states, including CA, MA and VA, agents need reasonable suspicion to conduct a forensic search. In 10 states, including FL and GA, agents do not need R.S. Elsewhere, no clear rule.
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In the 80s, Michael Alig launched a NY party scene known as Club Kids and fell into a spiral of drugs and excess, which finished when he killed his roommate/dealer, cut off his legs and threw the rest in the East River (in a box). Two films followed, both on YouTube.
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Party Monster: The Shockumentary. 🎥
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January 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
In the 80s, Michael Alig launched a NY party scene known as Club Kids and fell into a spiral of drugs and excess, which finished when he killed his roommate/dealer, cut off his legs and threw the rest in the East River (in a box). Two films followed, both on YouTube.
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Elon Musk’s "DOGE" did not do what he said it would : reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October. On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up.
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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
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January 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Elon Musk’s "DOGE" did not do what he said it would : reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October. On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up.
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Are you next ? : After posting a political meme on FB, a retired Tennessee cop was held in jail for more than a month.
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Retired cop jailed for 37 days over Charlie Kirk meme sues, saying his First Amendment rights were violated | CNN Politics
A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer was held in jail for more than a month this fall after police arrested him because of a Facebook post of a meme related to the September assassination of co...
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December 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Are you next ? : After posting a political meme on FB, a retired Tennessee cop was held in jail for more than a month.
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“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,” she told me in her Capitol Hill office one afternoon in early December. “You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what."
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‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump
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December 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,” she told me in her Capitol Hill office one afternoon in early December. “You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what."
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“I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island,” Trump posted on Truth Social in January 2024. But this week, the documents released by Trump’s own Justice Department—including flight logs and emails—told a different story.
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So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files
The latest batch includes many new references to Trump—and enough ammunition for Congress to keep pressing.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island,” Trump posted on Truth Social in January 2024. But this week, the documents released by Trump’s own Justice Department—including flight logs and emails—told a different story.
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Hahaha fantastic ! DEVO opened for themselves disguised as a Christian-rock band called DOVE !
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Dove, the Band of Love: DEVO’s Christian alter-ego
The dawn of the ‘80s was an amazing time for DEVO. After a late-1979 Saturday Night Live appearance made them notorious among the normals, the resolutely weird and misanthropic Akron, OH band managed ...
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December 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hahaha fantastic ! DEVO opened for themselves disguised as a Christian-rock band called DOVE !
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Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” Trump presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like. Both the order and the memo are ungrounded in fact and law.
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Trump’s Orders Targeting Anti-Fascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition
Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” Trump presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like. Both the order and the memo are ungrounded in fact and law.
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Trump for $ale : In Trump's second term, he and his allies have raised nearly $2 billion for his favored political causes and passion projects...a level of transactionalism for which it is difficult to find obvious comparisons in modern American history.
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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Trump for $ale : In Trump's second term, he and his allies have raised nearly $2 billion for his favored political causes and passion projects...a level of transactionalism for which it is difficult to find obvious comparisons in modern American history.
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No room to list all the lies, but here are the top 25 !!! Champion !!!
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Analysis: Donald Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025 | CNN Politics
It was hard to pick only 25. But it was easier than it used to be.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
No room to list all the lies, but here are the top 25 !!! Champion !!!
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Great idea : The proposal calls for California residents worth more than $1 billion to be taxed the equivalent of 5 percent of their assets. Those proposing it said the measure could raise up to $100 billion from about 200 billionaires.
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A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
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December 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Great idea : The proposal calls for California residents worth more than $1 billion to be taxed the equivalent of 5 percent of their assets. Those proposing it said the measure could raise up to $100 billion from about 200 billionaires.
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