Casie LaBella
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Pope Leo XIV expressed concern about rhetoric used by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shortly after their Sept. 30 meeting with top U.S. military officials.
Pope Leo calls rhetoric from Hegseth, Trump meeting with generals 'worrying'
Pope Leo XIV expressed concern about rhetoric used by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shortly after their Sept. 30 meeting with top U.S. military officials.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Pope Leo XIV expressed concern about rhetoric used by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shortly after their Sept. 30 meeting with top U.S. military officials.
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“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”
@bloomberg.com
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October 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
@bloomberg.com
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Pam Bondi intervenes to protect right-wing influencers arrested for obstruction by Portland Police after they interfered with police operations. Bondi views them as a sort of auxiliary, akin to the Sturmabteilung. www.kgw.com/article/news...
Conservative influencer Nick Sortor among those arrested after fights break out at Portland ICE facility
Sortor posted Friday morning about his arrest on social media, telling PPB to "lawyer up." The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into his arrest.
www.kgw.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Pam Bondi intervenes to protect right-wing influencers arrested for obstruction by Portland Police after they interfered with police operations. Bondi views them as a sort of auxiliary, akin to the Sturmabteilung. www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Both @pullman.wsu.edu and Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs told me they had not been notified of their multimillion-dollar clean-energy grants being canceled. www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
Trump energy department axes funding for Northwest hydrogen hub
The Trump administration announced Wednesday night, the first night of the federal government shutdown, that it is revoking $7.6 billion in funding for clean-energy projects in 16 Democratic-leaning s...
www.kuow.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Both @pullman.wsu.edu and Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs told me they had not been notified of their multimillion-dollar clean-energy grants being canceled. www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
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The Dept. of Energy's stated policy of "unleashing energy dominance" does not include clean energy.
www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
Trump energy department axes funding for Northwest hydrogen hub
The Trump administration announced Wednesday night, the first night of the federal government shutdown, that it is revoking $7.6 billion in funding for clean-energy projects in 16 Democratic-leaning s...
www.kuow.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The Dept. of Energy's stated policy of "unleashing energy dominance" does not include clean energy.
www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
www.kuow.org/stories/trum...
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More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Firings and resignations roil U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting Comey
Four people have been forced out of leadership roles in the U.S. attorney’s Eastern District of Virginia office that secured an indictment against James B. Comey.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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ProPublica obtained records from the USDA of each planned delivery in 2025, detailing the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached hungry people because of the administration’s cut.
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projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ProPublica obtained records from the USDA of each planned delivery in 2025, detailing the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached hungry people because of the administration’s cut.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need.
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need.
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
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White House budget director Russ Vought said the Trump administration will withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, expanding funding fights that have targeted Democratic areas during the government shutdown.
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Trump to withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects amid shutdown battle
The pause affects a long-awaited plan to extend the city's Red Line train. White House budget director Russ Vought wrote on social media Friday that the money was “put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting.”
www.pbs.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
White House budget director Russ Vought said the Trump administration will withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, expanding funding fights that have targeted Democratic areas during the government shutdown.
https://to.pbs.org/48ew4tY
https://to.pbs.org/48ew4tY
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TIRED: The 2019 farmer bailout 🤡
WIRED: The 2025 farmer bailout 🤡
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WIRED: The 2025 farmer bailout 🤡
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October 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
TIRED: The 2019 farmer bailout 🤡
WIRED: The 2025 farmer bailout 🤡
@politico.com @cnbc.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
WIRED: The 2025 farmer bailout 🤡
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FEMA has halted the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency preparedness grants, requiring states to prove their population counts before they can access the money, the agency told CNN.
In unusual move, FEMA halts preparedness grant money, orders states to recount their populations excluding deported migrants | CNN Politics
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has halted the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency preparedness grants, requiring states to prove their population counts before they can ac...
www.cnn.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
FEMA has halted the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency preparedness grants, requiring states to prove their population counts before they can access the money, the agency told CNN.
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The Trump administration is considering delaying the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Doctors warn a delay would lead to more childhood cases and, ultimately, deaths.
Hep-B Is the Only Vaccine Given at Birth. Why Doctors Say It Can’t Wait.
The vaccine has virtually eliminated childhood infections of a disease that doesn’t only transmit through drugs or sex.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The Trump administration is considering delaying the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Doctors warn a delay would lead to more childhood cases and, ultimately, deaths.
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Drone sightings disrupt Munich airport, halt flights and impact thousands reut.rs/4gO0NA0
Drone sightings disrupt Munich airport, halt flights and impact thousands
Germany's Munich airport said early on Friday that drone sightings on Thursday evening had forced air traffic control to suspend operations, leading to the cancellation of 17 flights and disrupting travel for nearly 3,000 passengers.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Drone sightings disrupt Munich airport, halt flights and impact thousands reut.rs/4gO0NA0
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Russian drones appear at Franz Josef Strauss Airport in Munich, forcing suspension of air traffic. www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue...
Flughafen München: Flugausfälle wegen Drohnensichtungen
Flughafen München: Flugausfälle wegen Drohnensichtungen
www.sueddeutsche.de
October 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Russian drones appear at Franz Josef Strauss Airport in Munich, forcing suspension of air traffic. www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue...
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ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
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Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"
California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’
Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"
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Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
Education Department employees' emails automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown
Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
www.nbcwashington.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
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Oregon is set to lose an additional $400 million in federal grants awarded for climate action and is among more than a dozen Democratic states losing federal funding after the Trump administration terminated nearly $8 billion for those states this week.
Oregon to lose an additional $400 million in federal climate grants
Oregon and 15 other Democratic states are losing nearly $8 billion toward climate projects, after the Trump administration terminated multiple federal grants.
www.opb.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Oregon is set to lose an additional $400 million in federal grants awarded for climate action and is among more than a dozen Democratic states losing federal funding after the Trump administration terminated nearly $8 billion for those states this week.
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I mean come the hell on…
The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I mean come the hell on…
The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
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Hospitals and medical groups warn Trump's new $100K visa fee could pummel red state hospitals.
Trump's new $100K visa fee could pummel red state hospitals
Rural areas that overwhelmingly voted for the president employ a high concentration of doctors on H-1B visas.
www.politico.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Hospitals and medical groups warn Trump's new $100K visa fee could pummel red state hospitals.
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Those big Trump cuts to Dem states?
Well, we analyzed them and found loads of similar projects in red and swing states that got to keep their money — even though it came from Biden’s climate agenda, too.
Well, we analyzed them and found loads of similar projects in red and swing states that got to keep their money — even though it came from Biden’s climate agenda, too.
Trump Cut Biden-Era Energy Projects in Blue States. Red States Got to Keep Theirs.
The Trump administration is canceling energy projects that it says are part of the “Green New Scam” — but leaving similar ones intact in Republican-led states.
www.notus.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Those big Trump cuts to Dem states?
Well, we analyzed them and found loads of similar projects in red and swing states that got to keep their money — even though it came from Biden’s climate agenda, too.
Well, we analyzed them and found loads of similar projects in red and swing states that got to keep their money — even though it came from Biden’s climate agenda, too.
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35-year-old Qian Zhang quit her job as vice president at a Boston-based global firm to relocate to Portugal, after ten years on an H-1B visa that she said left her feeling like a “second-class citizen" in America.
Trump’s visa plan pushes H-1B ‘refugees’ to move elsewhere: 'it made me feel like a second-class citizen'
Qian Zhang, 35, quit her job as vice president at a Boston-based global firm to relocate to Lisbon, after ten years on an H-1B visa that, she said, left her feeling like a “second-class citizen" in America.
cnb.cx
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
35-year-old Qian Zhang quit her job as vice president at a Boston-based global firm to relocate to Portugal, after ten years on an H-1B visa that she said left her feeling like a “second-class citizen" in America.
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Nobody is safe--not even the head of Eisenhower's presidential library. www.cbsnews.com/news/sword-t...
Head of Eisenhower library resigns after sword spat with Trump administration
A dispute over a gift given by President Trump to King Charles forced out the museum boss, sources say.
www.cbsnews.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Nobody is safe--not even the head of Eisenhower's presidential library. www.cbsnews.com/news/sword-t...