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Isn't this administration all about cost-cutting? And yet...
Pete Hegseth just ordered the installation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon for him to prepare for his television appearances, which will cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to build.
Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
www.cbsnews.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Isn't this administration all about cost-cutting? And yet...
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Sorry, what?
April 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Sorry, what?
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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
April 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
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The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
thepanorama.shear.org
April 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
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The Empty Library memorial located in the center of Berlin, to remember the book burnings done by Nazis...
How can we honor thousands of web pages erased from US federal servers by Trumpists?
How can we honor thousands of web pages erased from US federal servers by Trumpists?
April 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The Empty Library memorial located in the center of Berlin, to remember the book burnings done by Nazis...
How can we honor thousands of web pages erased from US federal servers by Trumpists?
How can we honor thousands of web pages erased from US federal servers by Trumpists?
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The economy is in free fall.
The markets are collapsing.
Our soldiers are dying.
Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail.
Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons.
And Trump is fucking golfing.
The markets are collapsing.
Our soldiers are dying.
Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail.
Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons.
And Trump is fucking golfing.
April 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The economy is in free fall.
The markets are collapsing.
Our soldiers are dying.
Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail.
Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons.
And Trump is fucking golfing.
The markets are collapsing.
Our soldiers are dying.
Our sensitive information is being leaked over text message and gmail.
Random people are being kidnapped and sent to foreign torture prisons.
And Trump is fucking golfing.
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Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common
April 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common
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Trump: “An old-fashioned term that we use, groceries. I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term, groceries. It sort of says a bag with different things in it.”
April 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Trump: “An old-fashioned term that we use, groceries. I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term, groceries. It sort of says a bag with different things in it.”
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NEW: The chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” touched on “topics of depopulation,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.”
With @texastribune.org
With @texastribune.org
A Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law
The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by…
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April 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: The chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” touched on “topics of depopulation,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.”
With @texastribune.org
With @texastribune.org
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BREAKING: Democrat Mallory McMorrow just launched her Senate campaign in Michigan with this incredible video. This is amazing.
April 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
BREAKING: Democrat Mallory McMorrow just launched her Senate campaign in Michigan with this incredible video. This is amazing.
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Three deaths already, and inhumane conditions at Trump ICE facility in Florida.
www.wptv.com/wptv-investi...
www.wptv.com/wptv-investi...
Immigration attorneys detail 'inhumane' conditions at ICE's Krome Detention Center
An immigration attorney said she's "haunted" by dozens of women banging on doors at the Krome North Service Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility.
www.wptv.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Three deaths already, and inhumane conditions at Trump ICE facility in Florida.
www.wptv.com/wptv-investi...
www.wptv.com/wptv-investi...
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Democracy dies in decorum!
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That moment when you are mad at your dem senator and you can use AI to draw your thoughts...
March 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Democracy dies in decorum!
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March 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Trump’s Pentagon is erasing Navajo Code Talkers—Indigenous warriors who helped win WWII—from military websites. This isn’t about “efficiency.” It’s about whitewashing history and erasing those who don’t fit his MAGA narrative.
MORE: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
MORE: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
March 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Trump’s Pentagon is erasing Navajo Code Talkers—Indigenous warriors who helped win WWII—from military websites. This isn’t about “efficiency.” It’s about whitewashing history and erasing those who don’t fit his MAGA narrative.
MORE: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
MORE: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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Who are the real grifters...
March 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Who are the real grifters...
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Dropkick Murphys just had an epic moment at their show:
They made a friendly wager with a fan in a MAGA shirt—“Let’s see where it’s made.”
Then they checked his MAGA shirt tag…
Made in Nicaragua.
They swapped it with a Made in America Dropkick Murphys tee.
Legendary.
They made a friendly wager with a fan in a MAGA shirt—“Let’s see where it’s made.”
Then they checked his MAGA shirt tag…
Made in Nicaragua.
They swapped it with a Made in America Dropkick Murphys tee.
Legendary.
March 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Dropkick Murphys just had an epic moment at their show:
They made a friendly wager with a fan in a MAGA shirt—“Let’s see where it’s made.”
Then they checked his MAGA shirt tag…
Made in Nicaragua.
They swapped it with a Made in America Dropkick Murphys tee.
Legendary.
They made a friendly wager with a fan in a MAGA shirt—“Let’s see where it’s made.”
Then they checked his MAGA shirt tag…
Made in Nicaragua.
They swapped it with a Made in America Dropkick Murphys tee.
Legendary.
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A cacti-smuggling case with a prickly end: the novel way courts are making poachers pay
A cacti-smuggling case with a prickly end: the novel way courts are making poachers pay
Two Italian cacti smugglers have been fined for illegally trading plants from Chile – and for the cost of restoring the environment. Conservationists hope more cases will follow
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A cacti-smuggling case with a prickly end: the novel way courts are making poachers pay