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This has largely been memory-holed but in Trump 1.0, he picked a big public trade fight with China. They retaliated by cutting off agriculture purchases, farmers got squeezed, Trump mailed them checks and had to go crawling back to Xi for a face-saving "deal".
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This has largely been memory-holed but in Trump 1.0, he picked a big public trade fight with China. They retaliated by cutting off agriculture purchases, farmers got squeezed, Trump mailed them checks and had to go crawling back to Xi for a face-saving "deal".
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
Critical read.
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Critical read.
Just for the record - MAHA is a smokescreen.
NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
They finally got their wish.
They finally got their wish.
Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Threshold for Safe Formaldehyde Exposure
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Just for the record - MAHA is a smokescreen.
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"About 25% of children who develop chronic hepatitis B will die of their infection."
--Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America
--Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America
December 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"About 25% of children who develop chronic hepatitis B will die of their infection."
--Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America
--Dr. Andrew Pavia, pediatric infectious disease specialist, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Utah, and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
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“table-sized”
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“table-sized”
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
Well this is fucking terrifying . . .
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
However, researchers are concerned AI companies could “set the models up to push for one side or another.”
However, researchers are concerned AI companies could “set the models up to push for one side or another.”
Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it.
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Well this is fucking terrifying . . .
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"This explains why the administration refuses to declassify the memo...If the public saw how flimsy the legal footing is, they’d see the president is using wartime powers he does not have to kill civilians he cannot legally target..." open.substack.com/pub/defiance...
NEWS: Leaked memo exposes flimsy legal basis for Trump boat strikes
DOJ's classified, "legal authorization" for the missile attacks is beginning to collapse.
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"This explains why the administration refuses to declassify the memo...If the public saw how flimsy the legal footing is, they’d see the president is using wartime powers he does not have to kill civilians he cannot legally target..." open.substack.com/pub/defiance...
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TRYING TO FLIP” THE BOAT MEANS THE BOAT WAS CAPSIZED AND THEY WERE SHIPWRECKED IN THE WATER.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
TRYING TO FLIP” THE BOAT MEANS THE BOAT WAS CAPSIZED AND THEY WERE SHIPWRECKED IN THE WATER.
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Blatant corruption on full display.
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Blatant corruption on full display.
Small piece of good news. Now if they could do this with all the “cancelled” agencies.
wapo.st/3YbHHeA
wapo.st/3YbHHeA
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order
A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
wapo.st
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Small piece of good news. Now if they could do this with all the “cancelled” agencies.
wapo.st/3YbHHeA
wapo.st/3YbHHeA
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The Trump administration’s escalating use of warrantless immigration arrests in D.C. this year probably violated federal law, a judge ruled in a decision that prohibits such arrests for all migrants in the city except those at risk of escaping.
Federal judge limits warrantless immigration arrests in D.C.
U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell granted a preliminary injunction sought by plaintiffs who were arrested without administrative warrants in August amid President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surg...
wapo.st
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Trump administration’s escalating use of warrantless immigration arrests in D.C. this year probably violated federal law, a judge ruled in a decision that prohibits such arrests for all migrants in the city except those at risk of escaping.
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Immigrants commit fewer crimes.
Immigrants pay taxes.
Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.
The problem isn't immigrants.
Immigrants pay taxes.
Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.
The problem isn't immigrants.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Immigrants commit fewer crimes.
Immigrants pay taxes.
Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.
The problem isn't immigrants.
Immigrants pay taxes.
Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.
The problem isn't immigrants.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Why pardon a convicted drug trafficker you ask?
Why - so the gay tech bro billionaires can continue their sci-fi fantasy of taking down the nation state as an outdated concept! Of course!
Follow the plan! (Also - it’s a good troll.)
Why pardon a convicted drug trafficker you ask?
Why - so the gay tech bro billionaires can continue their sci-fi fantasy of taking down the nation state as an outdated concept! Of course!
Follow the plan! (Also - it’s a good troll.)
Why did Trump pardon the former Honduran president? Follow the Tech Bros.
With Roger Stone taking a victory lap for having come up with the idea in the first place.
www.motherjones.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Why pardon a convicted drug trafficker you ask?
Why - so the gay tech bro billionaires can continue their sci-fi fantasy of taking down the nation state as an outdated concept! Of course!
Follow the plan! (Also - it’s a good troll.)
Why pardon a convicted drug trafficker you ask?
Why - so the gay tech bro billionaires can continue their sci-fi fantasy of taking down the nation state as an outdated concept! Of course!
Follow the plan! (Also - it’s a good troll.)