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🚨 In Nov., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers.

A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers.

The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025.

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me, for @forbes.com
Trump Vineyard Seeks To Hire Foreign Workers At Lower Wages
Records show the Trump Organization has requested over 2,000 foreign workers since 2008. Its latest request seeks a $13.90 hourly wage—the lowest the winery has offered since 2021.
www.forbes.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”
January 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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was your visa revoked? or do you know someone impacted by this decision? @wired.com wants to know -- feel free to signal me at leahfeiger.86
January 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.

(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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NEW: GoFundMe's rules forbid fundraisers tied to legal funds for violent crimes. One for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, currently nearing $500K, changed the language in its description after @wired.com reached out (but not in the images at the top of the page, oops) @dell.bsky.social reports:
GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
www.wired.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Ukrainian children are growing up in a reality where air alerts have become part of everyday life, and safety is a matter of survival.

Join the Merry Kidsmas fundraiser — let's support children so that even in the darkest times, they can still enjoy their childhood.

u24.gov.ua/merry-kidsma...
January 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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The higher the court, the likelier Trump was to win rulings in 2025:

District courts: 25%
Appeals courts: 51%
Supreme Court: 88%
January 11, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June 2025)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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🚨Call to Action🚨: Emergency rally in response to the ICE murder in Minneapolis, Jan 7, 6PM, Foley Square, NYC. #3E #EndImpunity
January 7, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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January 7, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller
The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller
The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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If not enough people sign up, Amazon won't have to pay the full $1.5 billion.
10 million Americans can claim cash next from huge Amazon settlement
If not enough people sign up, Amazon won't have to pay the full $1.5 billion.
bit.ly
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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⚡️ 1 killed, 4 injured in a massive attack on Kyiv, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Russian drone hit a hospital and killed a person who was being treated there.

📷 DSNS via Telegram
January 5, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.
January 4, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
January 4, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Corporations Invested In Lawsuits Before Venezuela Invasion.
Corporations Invested In Lawsuits Before Venezuela Invasion
Trump’s removal of President Nicolas Maduro could tilt international court proceedings and provide a windfall to corporate plaintiffs.
www.levernews.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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Public Domain, an environmental news outlet, earlier reported some of the details of Mr. Falen’s financial relationship with Thacker Pass

www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...
SCOOP: A Top Trump Official Has Financial Ties To Controversial Nevada Lithium Project
Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.
www.publicdomain.media
January 3, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Other donors to MAGA Inc in the 2nd half of 2025 were seeking or received nominations from Trump for themselves or their family members:
▶️Jared Isaacman (tapped as NASA head): $1m
▶️Benjamin Landa (tapped as ambassador to Hungary): $5m
▶️Elizabeth Brodie (son serving as ambassador to Hungary): $1m
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January 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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"One of the undercover agents remarked to Homan as he made the hand-off: 'We both know there’s no CAVA in that bag'...”

www.ms.now/news/border-...
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.
www.ms.now
January 3, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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Stop using food delivery.
January 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM