Laura Raymond
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Laura Raymond
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Vote Blue. Trying to get along, learn about life and stuff along the way. Retired researcher and volunteer. Love my husband, my family, my friends, reading, and sewing/quilt making.
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December 4, 2025
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Could The Boat Strikes Sink Hegseth?
Old-fashioned reporting is turning the screws on the Trump administration
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December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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December 3, 2025
Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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A Political Roundup
Yesterday offered symbolic moments of everything that’s wrong with the Trump regime.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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December 2, 2025
The news of last Friday, November 28, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Joint Special Operations commander overseeing an attack on a small vessel carrying 11 people on September 2 to “kill ev...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Bulletproof No More
Pete Hegseth: “I watched that first strike live.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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December 1, 2025
President Donald J.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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November 30, 2025
On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The Week Ahead
November 30, 2025
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December 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come
“You must refuse illegal orders.” That’s what was said in the video made by six Democratic members of Congress.
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November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Just for Skeets and Giggles (11.29.25)
As Trump grows noticeably more erratic, foul mouthed and drowsy—all clear signs of increasing dementia—his defenders are doubling down.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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November 24, 2025
U.S.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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November 23, 2025
“Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum asked ...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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November 22, 2025
On Tuesday, six Democratic lawmakers, themselves veterans of the U.S.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Just for Skeets and Giggles (11.22.25)
With a week like we just saw, it’s hard to know where to begin.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Of all the things not on my 2025 bingo quilt, THIS was ABSOLUTELY NOT on my 2025 bingo quilt.

And I had space alien invasion, Yellowstone eruption, and the return of smallpox on that sucker
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Don't give up the ship.
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November 20, 2025
Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a v...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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November 19, 2025
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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November 18, 2025
For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein survivors just released this incredibly touching Public Service Announcement. Make it go viral! Trump is so disgusting for covering us up.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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November 16, 2025
On Thursday, November 13, Michael Schmidt reported in the New York Times the story of the 17-year-old girl the House Ethics Committee found former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) likely paid to have ...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM