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More than 800 storm victims around Helene-battered western North Carolina have applied for FEMA’s voluntary program that would enable the government to buy out their properties.
So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.
So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.
Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been approved.
More than a year after applying for a federal buyout, many North Carolina homeowners have heard almost nothing definitive.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
More than 800 storm victims around Helene-battered western North Carolina have applied for FEMA’s voluntary program that would enable the government to buy out their properties.
So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.
So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.
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If only someone had been screaming this from the rooftops for the last seven years. 👋🏼
Relatedly, we obtained an unpublished history of Stephen Miller's ancestors' immigration to the US, written by his grandmother. People like them were attacked in terms very similar to the ones Miller and MAGA use about today's immigrants:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If only someone had been screaming this from the rooftops for the last seven years. 👋🏼
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"President Trump took pardon abuse to a new level this year with a string of dubious clemencies that together present a unique case study in how this unfettered executive power can be used to degrade, corrupt and politicize the justice system." FREE LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
Opinion | I Was the President’s Pardon Attorney. He’s Making a Mockery of the Pardon Process.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"President Trump took pardon abuse to a new level this year with a string of dubious clemencies that together present a unique case study in how this unfettered executive power can be used to degrade, corrupt and politicize the justice system." FREE LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
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You know what every great opera house, concert hall, theater, and show venue in the world has in common?
They don't have marble armrests.
They don't have marble armrests.
December 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
You know what every great opera house, concert hall, theater, and show venue in the world has in common?
They don't have marble armrests.
They don't have marble armrests.
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I hope he receives the help he needs. Santa, that his. Screw the state senator.
December 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I hope he receives the help he needs. Santa, that his. Screw the state senator.
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Trump is busy working hard to bring down rent and housing prices just like he campaigned on
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Trump is busy working hard to bring down rent and housing prices just like he campaigned on
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
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(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Assuming Stephen Miller's Wife Katie Miller Knows Literally Anything About Any Aspect of the So-Called Business Career of Her Boss Donald Trump, She Just Correctly Identified Him As a Career Thief
December 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Assuming Stephen Miller's Wife Katie Miller Knows Literally Anything About Any Aspect of the So-Called Business Career of Her Boss Donald Trump, She Just Correctly Identified Him As a Career Thief
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An Afrikaner, excited by the President Trump’s public embrace of white South Africans, traveled to the U.S. expecting a warm welcome. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention.
An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
An Afrikaner, excited by the President Trump’s public embrace of white South Africans, traveled to the U.S. expecting a warm welcome. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
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Of almost a dozen immigration lawyers and migrants interviewed for this story, initially, no one knew anyone who had actually received the $1,000. Two people later received it as a result of this reporting.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it
People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Of almost a dozen immigration lawyers and migrants interviewed for this story, initially, no one knew anyone who had actually received the $1,000. Two people later received it as a result of this reporting.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I specifically saved this exchange long ago, it is one of my favorites:
Pregerson: And you're a great lawyer.
Voelker: I appreciate you saying that, Your Honor.
Pregerson: I mean, it says so, right there on your web site.
Judge Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court in Prenda appeal
Pregerson: And you're a great lawyer.
Voelker: I appreciate you saying that, Your Honor.
Pregerson: I mean, it says so, right there on your web site.
Judge Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court in Prenda appeal
December 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I specifically saved this exchange long ago, it is one of my favorites:
Pregerson: And you're a great lawyer.
Voelker: I appreciate you saying that, Your Honor.
Pregerson: I mean, it says so, right there on your web site.
Judge Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court in Prenda appeal
Pregerson: And you're a great lawyer.
Voelker: I appreciate you saying that, Your Honor.
Pregerson: I mean, it says so, right there on your web site.
Judge Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court in Prenda appeal
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The Trump administration is widening efforts to screen visa applicants for online speech considered “anti-American” as the government moves to restrict legal migration.
Trump officials move to screen visa applicants’ posts for ‘anti-American’ speech
The administration’s efforts to curtail legal migration have accelerated in a way that immigrant rights advocates say is chilling public discourse.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The Trump administration is widening efforts to screen visa applicants for online speech considered “anti-American” as the government moves to restrict legal migration.
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Sinatra hated racists and would have punched Miller in the mouth.
Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Sinatra hated racists and would have punched Miller in the mouth.
Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
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Why pick material to build new seats if no one will perform or attend?
I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.
December 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Why pick material to build new seats if no one will perform or attend?
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Trump had boasted that “just about everybody” in America requested he host the Kennedy Center Honors.
Trump Humiliated as He Scores Lowest Kennedy Center Ratings Ever
Trump had boasted that “just about everybody” in America requested he host the Kennedy Center Honors.
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Trump had boasted that “just about everybody” in America requested he host the Kennedy Center Honors.
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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But I was told Donald Trump defeated Isis in his first term.
This is a real tweet...the Representative both heralds Trump's deadly strikes and also him for being the "Peace President" in the same tweet
Astonishing how ridiculous this country is right now
Astonishing how ridiculous this country is right now
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
But I was told Donald Trump defeated Isis in his first term.
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Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump’s new envoy admits his goal is to steal territory from a NATO ally.
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Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
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South Carolina GOP candidate Pastor John Lastinger preaches against food assistance for the poor, calling it “socialism.”
Lastinger is running to replace GOP Rep. RJ May who pleaded guilty to distributing sexual abuse material involving children. The election is Tuesday.
Lastinger is running to replace GOP Rep. RJ May who pleaded guilty to distributing sexual abuse material involving children. The election is Tuesday.
December 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
South Carolina GOP candidate Pastor John Lastinger preaches against food assistance for the poor, calling it “socialism.”
Lastinger is running to replace GOP Rep. RJ May who pleaded guilty to distributing sexual abuse material involving children. The election is Tuesday.
Lastinger is running to replace GOP Rep. RJ May who pleaded guilty to distributing sexual abuse material involving children. The election is Tuesday.
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This is stunning. Blanche is claiming, with a straight face, that the only federal prison where a convicted sex offender can adequately be protected from other inmates just so happens to be a minimum security prison that gives her puppy playdates.
Truly preposterous.
Truly preposterous.
WELKER: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved just days after you interviewed her?
BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about
WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it?
BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk
BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about
WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it?
BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk
December 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is stunning. Blanche is claiming, with a straight face, that the only federal prison where a convicted sex offender can adequately be protected from other inmates just so happens to be a minimum security prison that gives her puppy playdates.
Truly preposterous.
Truly preposterous.
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ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
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Trump: "The US Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I'm a very aesthetic person"
December 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Trump: "The US Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I'm a very aesthetic person"
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December 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A prominent economist analyzed Trump's “pharmaceutical deal” and just EXPOSED it as a complete farce:
Jeff Cohen says there are no enforceable price reductions - meaning drug companies can walk away whenever they want. No price guarantees. More empty promises.
Jeff Cohen says there are no enforceable price reductions - meaning drug companies can walk away whenever they want. No price guarantees. More empty promises.
December 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A prominent economist analyzed Trump's “pharmaceutical deal” and just EXPOSED it as a complete farce:
Jeff Cohen says there are no enforceable price reductions - meaning drug companies can walk away whenever they want. No price guarantees. More empty promises.
Jeff Cohen says there are no enforceable price reductions - meaning drug companies can walk away whenever they want. No price guarantees. More empty promises.