Jeffrey Bane
@bane59.bsky.social
Software Developer for 50 years, Photographer, Liberal. Living in the Blue Dot.
May mention Green Bay Packers or Liverpool from time to time.
May mention Green Bay Packers or Liverpool from time to time.
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In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence.
In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence.
In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
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"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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President Donald Trump has astounded viewers of the 126th Army-Navy football game with his unique approach to flipping a coin.
Trump,79, Stuns With Inability to Flip a Coin: ‘Worst in History’
The president’s bizarre attempt at a coin toss has people talking.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
President Donald Trump has astounded viewers of the 126th Army-Navy football game with his unique approach to flipping a coin.
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After once claiming to have destroyed “100% of the ISIS caliphate” in Syria, Trump has now promised vengeance on the group.
Three Americans Killed by Terror Group Trump Claimed He ‘Defeated’
After once claiming to have destroyed “100% of the ISIS caliphate” in Syria, Trump has now promised vengeance on the group.
trib.al
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
After once claiming to have destroyed “100% of the ISIS caliphate” in Syria, Trump has now promised vengeance on the group.
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the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver
December 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver
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Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
December 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tyson is shutting down its Lexington, Nebraska plant in January 2026. That’s 3,200 workers gone in one shot, the largest plant shutdown in company history.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
Blame Trump’s tariff chaos and the lowest cattle inventories in decades. Tariffs jack up costs. Supply shrinks. Plants close. Towns hollow out.
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The Stephen Miller-founded group had filed a similar complaint against the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier this year over its DEI commitments. The Dodgers have not responded to the complaint nor changed their DEI web page. The Dodgers went on to win the World Series.
www.axios.com/2025/07/02/s...
www.axios.com/2025/07/02/s...
Stephen Miller-backed group files complaint against Dodgers over DEI
The move comes as the Dodgers commit to $1 million to help immigrants in raids.
www.axios.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Stephen Miller-founded group had filed a similar complaint against the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier this year over its DEI commitments. The Dodgers have not responded to the complaint nor changed their DEI web page. The Dodgers went on to win the World Series.
www.axios.com/2025/07/02/s...
www.axios.com/2025/07/02/s...
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For its next attack on Covid vaccines, FDA is weighing the use of a label reserved for the most dangerous drugs.
Covid shots may get FDA's strongest warning
The agency's black-box label is meant to flag serious threats to life and health.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
For its next attack on Covid vaccines, FDA is weighing the use of a label reserved for the most dangerous drugs.
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All Republicans in Congress are faced with a choice. They either stand with Trump, Vance and Putin, or they stand with Ukraine, Europe, most Americans, and the civilized world. Of course, there is also a 3rd option which most of them usually choose - cowardly silence.
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
All Republicans in Congress are faced with a choice. They either stand with Trump, Vance and Putin, or they stand with Ukraine, Europe, most Americans, and the civilized world. Of course, there is also a 3rd option which most of them usually choose - cowardly silence.
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"By shouting things like 'our prices are coming down tremendously,' Trump is telling voters to 'reject the evidence of their eyes and ears.' But this is 2025, not 1984, and voters aren’t buying it."
The Hoax of Christmas Present
Polling and focus group data show voters across parties feel crushed by rising costs, even as Trump dismisses affordability concerns as a “hoax” that contradicts Americans’ lived reality.
www.meidasplus.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"By shouting things like 'our prices are coming down tremendously,' Trump is telling voters to 'reject the evidence of their eyes and ears.' But this is 2025, not 1984, and voters aren’t buying it."
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Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
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Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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Trump admits he took another cognitive test.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
December 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Trump admits he took another cognitive test.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
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Sean Hecker, Kilmar's attorney, once hailed how much courage it took Kilmar to challenge what DOJ/DHS is doing to him. That stuck with me. Kilmar Abrego is just some guy, vulnerable in a way most of us are not.
But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.
But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.
"Today’s ruling is a powerful affirmation that the rule of law still matters," Sandoval-Moshenberg said. "The Court made … clear that the govt cannot detain a person indefinitely without legal authority, and that every agency involved must now comply fully and promptly with the Court’s directives."
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is released from ICE custody following judge's order
Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland ruled that the Trump administration lacked the legal authority to continue holding Abrego.
www.nbcnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Sean Hecker, Kilmar's attorney, once hailed how much courage it took Kilmar to challenge what DOJ/DHS is doing to him. That stuck with me. Kilmar Abrego is just some guy, vulnerable in a way most of us are not.
But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.
But he has taken on Trump and ... thus far at least, prevailed.
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Note: Trump's plummeting rating on the economy has pierced the crucial Darwin Threshhold...the point at which his approval rating on handling the economy (31 percent) is actually lower than the number of Americans who do not believe in evolution (33-37 percent), the once solid core of Trump support.
There's still room to drop further. "Trump’s handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling" apnews.com/article/trum...
With CUSMA negotiations w/Canada & Mexico, as well as the renewal of the one-year tariff truce w/China in 2026, expect more market-moving new tariffs next year.
With CUSMA negotiations w/Canada & Mexico, as well as the renewal of the one-year tariff truce w/China in 2026, expect more market-moving new tariffs next year.
Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling
A new AP-NORC poll finds President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy has fallen substantially since he reentered the White House.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Note: Trump's plummeting rating on the economy has pierced the crucial Darwin Threshhold...the point at which his approval rating on handling the economy (31 percent) is actually lower than the number of Americans who do not believe in evolution (33-37 percent), the once solid core of Trump support.
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Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Step right up and buy your way into America with your new Trump Gold Card, brought to you by the con men selling out America to the highest bidder and wrecking the economy.
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Step right up and buy your way into America with your new Trump Gold Card, brought to you by the con men selling out America to the highest bidder and wrecking the economy.
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I know he’s trying to say deadbeat fed chair… and those are the words that were tumbling around in his brain… but the entire world should be concerned that this is what came out.
“Deadhead Fed hair”.
Maybe time to limit his public events.
Maybe time to limit his public events.
December 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I know he’s trying to say deadbeat fed chair… and those are the words that were tumbling around in his brain… but the entire world should be concerned that this is what came out.
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Unhinged Trump ramping up his threats against Republican state senators in Indiana. The Republican Party is a mafia organization and the mob boss is angry.
December 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Unhinged Trump ramping up his threats against Republican state senators in Indiana. The Republican Party is a mafia organization and the mob boss is angry.
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An incredible admission at how top down the right is and how the oligarchs propagandists view their followers as lemmings to manipulate through social media rage bait. Now they're upset that they have lost control of the manipulation machine.
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
An incredible admission at how top down the right is and how the oligarchs propagandists view their followers as lemmings to manipulate through social media rage bait. Now they're upset that they have lost control of the manipulation machine.
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Couple of things here:
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Couple of things here:
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
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I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
Couple of things here:
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
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🚨This woman was driving to work in Chicago when a double tented suburban swerved into her vehicle. She was pulled from her vehicle and thrown into their vehicle, “beaten, bloodied, and barefoot.” She is a United States citizen. 1/2
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🚨This woman was driving to work in Chicago when a double tented suburban swerved into her vehicle. She was pulled from her vehicle and thrown into their vehicle, “beaten, bloodied, and barefoot.” She is a United States citizen. 1/2
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A judge blamed “deliberate indifference” for the illness of Javier Tomas Muñoz Materano, who was taken into custody by ICE. In the months he was being held, he was not allowed to bathe or change clothes for days at a time as he was transferred 10 times to eight facilities across four states.
Wrenching Pain, a Severe Infection: An ICE Detainee Is Ordered Released
A judge blamed “deliberate indifference” for the illness of a man held by immigration officials. Across the country, several courts have blasted conditions in U.S. facilities.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A judge blamed “deliberate indifference” for the illness of Javier Tomas Muñoz Materano, who was taken into custody by ICE. In the months he was being held, he was not allowed to bathe or change clothes for days at a time as he was transferred 10 times to eight facilities across four states.