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They love to talk about supporting the troops, hate to actually take care of the troops
Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs will abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
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 1:08 AM
They love to talk about supporting the troops, hate to actually take care of the troops
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Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"
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The Times looks at how Trump business interests overlap with SEC crypto cases in the second term. NYT finds that the SEC inherited 23 crypto cases, of which 14 were dropped, frozen, settled, or conceded. All of those had Trump ties. None of the remaining nine cases do www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
December 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The Times looks at how Trump business interests overlap with SEC crypto cases in the second term. NYT finds that the SEC inherited 23 crypto cases, of which 14 were dropped, frozen, settled, or conceded. All of those had Trump ties. None of the remaining nine cases do www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
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Things we learn:
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Things we learn:
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
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A WSJ interview with Trump on the economy was interrupted multiple times by phone calls, including one from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, “who joined by speakerphone to discuss the administration’s plans for Washington, D.C., golf courses.”
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Trump Isn’t Certain His Economic Policies Will Translate to Midterm Wins
In an interview, he said his efforts to secure investments in the U.S. haven’t fully taken effect and “I cannot tell you how that’s going to equate to the voter.”
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A WSJ interview with Trump on the economy was interrupted multiple times by phone calls, including one from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, “who joined by speakerphone to discuss the administration’s plans for Washington, D.C., golf courses.”
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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The taxpayers paying Trump to run ICE recruitment ads on Truth Social. The government is paying Trump’s company.
December 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The taxpayers paying Trump to run ICE recruitment ads on Truth Social. The government is paying Trump’s company.
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The Trump gold card
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Trump gold card
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Utterly shameless
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Utterly shameless
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“.. The commutation of Mr. Gentile’s sentence undid years of work by prosecutors in Brooklyn to expose a scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes.”
@kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/n...
@kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/n...
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“.. The commutation of Mr. Gentile’s sentence undid years of work by prosecutors in Brooklyn to expose a scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes.”
@kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/n...
@kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/n...
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🇺🇸 Former Trump adviser Bryan Lanza is now consulting for Russian oil giant Lukoil, Politico reports. Lanza is helping sell Lukoil’s non-Russian assets after new U.S. sanctions. He previously called returning Crimea to Ukraine “unrealistic.”
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🇺🇸 Former Trump adviser Bryan Lanza is now consulting for Russian oil giant Lukoil, Politico reports. Lanza is helping sell Lukoil’s non-Russian assets after new U.S. sanctions. He previously called returning Crimea to Ukraine “unrealistic.”
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Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.
Hundreds are quarantined in South Carolina as measles spreads in 2 US outbreaks
Measles outbreaks in South Carolina and on the Arizona-Utah border are growing. In South Carolina, more than 250 people, including students from nine area elementary, middle and high schools are in quarantine.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.
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Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
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It’s all hands on deck today for the MAGA mob threats and intimidation.
December 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s all hands on deck today for the MAGA mob threats and intimidation.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its web site that connected climate change to the burning of fossil fuels.
https://cnn.it/3YofNw4
https://cnn.it/3YofNw4
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its web site that connected climate change to the burning of fossil fuels.
https://cnn.it/3YofNw4
https://cnn.it/3YofNw4
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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NEW: For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha.
For decades, the government cleaned it up.
But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.
With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
For decades, the government cleaned it up.
But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.
With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
The EPA Was Considering a Massive Lead Cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump Shifted Guidance.
The Trump administration says it will speed cleanups, but residents of the largest residential lead Superfund site worry fewer properties will be remediated.
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha.
For decades, the government cleaned it up.
But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.
With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
For decades, the government cleaned it up.
But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.
With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
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Tractor maker Deere has warned that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are backfiring on American farmers, prompting cash-strapped producers to delay replacing aging equipment. Deere has had to cut production and workers and says it is likely to cut more jobs in 2026. www.ft.com/content/523a...
Donald Trump’s tariffs intensify strain on US farmers, Deere warns
Farming equipment giant is scaling back production at flagship tractor plant in Iowa
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Tractor maker Deere has warned that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are backfiring on American farmers, prompting cash-strapped producers to delay replacing aging equipment. Deere has had to cut production and workers and says it is likely to cut more jobs in 2026. www.ft.com/content/523a...
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
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KIMMEL: “.. He’s mentioned me three times in the last four days, and I just want you to know: I’m thinkin’ about you too, girl.”
@jimmykimmel.com @latenightercom.bsky.social
@jimmykimmel.com @latenightercom.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
KIMMEL: “.. He’s mentioned me three times in the last four days, and I just want you to know: I’m thinkin’ about you too, girl.”
@jimmykimmel.com @latenightercom.bsky.social
@jimmykimmel.com @latenightercom.bsky.social
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Finally, a politician with the courage to stand up to Big Pencil.
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Finally, a politician with the courage to stand up to Big Pencil.
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Without accurate evidence, decisions from the FDA could limit access to the shots and undermine public confidence in vaccine safety. Before the shots were widely available, 2% to 3% of all infants in the US were hospitalized for RSV with risk of developing asthma.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US health officials re-examine RSV shots despite documented safety and efficacy
The FDA is reviewing RSV vaccines, which have drastically lowered infant hospitalizations, a spokesperson confirmed
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Without accurate evidence, decisions from the FDA could limit access to the shots and undermine public confidence in vaccine safety. Before the shots were widely available, 2% to 3% of all infants in the US were hospitalized for RSV with risk of developing asthma.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
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".. A measles outbreak that began in South Carolina at the start of October is showing no signs of slowing as officials on Tuesday reported 27 new cases since Friday. Those cases bring the outbreak total to 111."
@arstechnica.com @aaronsojourner.org
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
@arstechnica.com @aaronsojourner.org
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
arstechnica.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
".. A measles outbreak that began in South Carolina at the start of October is showing no signs of slowing as officials on Tuesday reported 27 new cases since Friday. Those cases bring the outbreak total to 111."
@arstechnica.com @aaronsojourner.org
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
@arstechnica.com @aaronsojourner.org
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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Hard to believe we went from the moon landing to this in the span of like two generations.
".. A measles outbreak that began in South Carolina at the start of October is showing no signs of slowing as officials on Tuesday reported 27 new cases since Friday. Those cases bring the outbreak total to 111."
@arstechnica.com @aaronsojourner.org
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
@arstechnica.com @aaronsojourner.org
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
arstechnica.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Hard to believe we went from the moon landing to this in the span of like two generations.
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Dec. 2020: Donald Trump pardons former Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), who was two years into a 10-year sentence for money laundering.
Dec. 2025: Stockman files to return to Congress.
www.justice.gov/pardon/page/...
docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...
Dec. 2025: Stockman files to return to Congress.
www.justice.gov/pardon/page/...
docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Dec. 2020: Donald Trump pardons former Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), who was two years into a 10-year sentence for money laundering.
Dec. 2025: Stockman files to return to Congress.
www.justice.gov/pardon/page/...
docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...
Dec. 2025: Stockman files to return to Congress.
www.justice.gov/pardon/page/...
docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...