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Medicare has negotiated lower prices for 15 new drugs, including Ozempic.

This comes despite Trump pushing to repeal the law that made this possible — the Inflation Reduction Act — and his Big Ugly Bill exempting other high-price drugs from negotiations altogether.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Israel still won’t let international journalists into Gaza.
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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President Donald Trump’s personal travel routine has generated an estimated $70.8M in taxpayer costs this year, and projections based on federal audit data show the total could exceed $300M if the pattern continues.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trumps-gol...
Trump’s Golf-Related Travel Costs Are Outpacing His First-Term Levels, Hitting $70.8 Million in 2025
Federal records show presidential golf travel consuming tens of millions in public funds at a pace unmatched in modern administrations.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The Trump admin has decided it will no longer commemorate December 1st, World AIDS Day. Fed employees have been instructed to refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches, or other public-facing messaging.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Even members of his own party are now publicly urging him to stop because they’re increasingly worried about their own safety.
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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“The TN-7 race is a matter of life and death.”

- @aftynbehn.bsky.social to @wkrnnews2.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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The victim was found at the scene of the burglary on Granada Avenue, police said.
S.F. residential burglary turns into homicide in Ingleside neighborhood
The victim was found at the scene of the burglary on Granada Avenue, police said.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Scammers are posing as immigration attorneys or government officials and demanding large upfront payments and in some cases, it’s hard to tell whether they’re scammers or untrained ICE personnel. Once they get the money, they disappear, leaving families without real help and with even fewer options.
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

-FDR, 1937
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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My SATURDAY RUBRICS are now up at SES/SUMS IT UP. They area about unlikely friendships this weekend. Check it out. Thanks.
SATURDAY RUBRICS: 11/22/25
Unlikely Friendships
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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November 21, 2025
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Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Trump and RFK Jr's CDC just added a page that is full of disinformation about vaccines and autism.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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He’s got a point and his team is doing hugely valuable work
Good morning everyone!

Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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The Trump admin is taking final steps to dismantle Dept of Education. Any news outlet that reports this fact without leading with fact that president has no authority to do so and is violating the Constitution is committing journalistic malpractice.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Crown Prince Bone Saw is having dinner at Trump's tomorrow. In the meantime, he is busy filling Trump's pockets with all sorts of presents. The flow from the Saudi treasury into the Trump and Kushner operations now exceeds $4 bn and is rising every day. The Emoluments Clause forbids this.
Trump family and Saudi partner unveil tokenised Maldives resort
Project unveiled on eve of Saudi Crown Prince’s visit to White House
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Trump targets his critics. I say their names.

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November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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No words.

No words that aren't profane, anyway.
The Trump Organization is reportedly in talks to bring a Trump-branded property to one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest state-owned real estate projects.

In unrelated news, MBS is meeting Trump on Tuesday, in his first visit to the WH since the brutal murder of Khashoggi
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Rain or shine, we were out today to let the oligarchs know #NoTrillionaires! Musk already has too much influence in politics so we can't let him become the world's first trillionaire, especially in an era of worsening income inequality and economic uncertainty.

@teslatakedown.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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We can win the midterms *AND* build a Democratic Party that fights as hard as we do: indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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lol😂

"Zuegel does not appear to have much previous experience with real estate development. This fits a Network State pattern of recruiting inexperienced people to build its cities of tomorrow."
Cloverdale, a tiny town in Sonoma County, California, is being invaded by secretive investors who want to build a new "town."

Of course, the backers of "Esmeralda" have very deep ties to the Network State cult and Peter Thiel.

My notes:

www.thenerdreich.com/esmeralda-ne...
Esmeralda: Network State comes for Cloverdale
The questions no one is asking about strange new California ‘town’
www.thenerdreich.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM