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The state has the nation's third-highest unemployment rate.
Oregon’s year of layoffs: 2025’s historic job cuts are shaking the state’s economy
The state has the nation's third-highest unemployment rate.
www.oregonlive.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The state has the nation's third-highest unemployment rate.
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A) They’re not going to do this.
B) If you’re not going to buy into the social contract then don’t expect to be protected by it. This is something past elites at least slightly acknowledged. If today’s elite think they can live apart from the social contract, well, good luck to them I guess.
B) If you’re not going to buy into the social contract then don’t expect to be protected by it. This is something past elites at least slightly acknowledged. If today’s elite think they can live apart from the social contract, well, good luck to them I guess.
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A) They’re not going to do this.
B) If you’re not going to buy into the social contract then don’t expect to be protected by it. This is something past elites at least slightly acknowledged. If today’s elite think they can live apart from the social contract, well, good luck to them I guess.
B) If you’re not going to buy into the social contract then don’t expect to be protected by it. This is something past elites at least slightly acknowledged. If today’s elite think they can live apart from the social contract, well, good luck to them I guess.
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Chicago has been one of the latest stops on the Trump administration’s deportation tour, with ICE and Border Patrol agents terrorizing the city.
Locals fought back.
Locals fought back.
Lessons from Trump’s “war” on Chicago
ICE and Border Patrol agents terrorized the city, and locals fought back.
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Chicago has been one of the latest stops on the Trump administration’s deportation tour, with ICE and Border Patrol agents terrorizing the city.
Locals fought back.
Locals fought back.
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✅ Yes, the White House added commentary plaques beneath portraits in the “Presidential Walk of Fame" that referred derisively to past Democratic presidents. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
White House plaques on 'Presidential Walk of Fame' criticize Biden, Obama
Trump's second-term plaque promised, meanwhile, "THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"
www.snopes.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
✅ Yes, the White House added commentary plaques beneath portraits in the “Presidential Walk of Fame" that referred derisively to past Democratic presidents. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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Rep. Elise Stefanik, the leading GOP candidate for NY governor, just announced that she is DROPPING OUT of the governor's race and will NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION to Congress.
It's a remarkable fall from grace for Stefanik. x.com/EliseStefani...
It's a remarkable fall from grace for Stefanik. x.com/EliseStefani...
December 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Rep. Elise Stefanik, the leading GOP candidate for NY governor, just announced that she is DROPPING OUT of the governor's race and will NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION to Congress.
It's a remarkable fall from grace for Stefanik. x.com/EliseStefani...
It's a remarkable fall from grace for Stefanik. x.com/EliseStefani...
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Kennedy Center wastes no time adding Trump's name to the building reut.rs/48N0iUz
Kennedy Center wastes no time adding Trump's name to the building
Workers at the Kennedy Center began adding Donald Trump’s name to the arts venue on Friday after a board he chairs voted to rename it, a move Democrats called illegal and John F. Kennedy’s family denounced as undermining the slain president's legacy.
reut.rs
December 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Kennedy Center wastes no time adding Trump's name to the building reut.rs/48N0iUz
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When the opening paragraph references Heart’s tribute cover of “Stairway to Heaven” at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony (look it up on YouTube) you know the rest is worth reading.
Another great riff from @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/kennedy-ce...
Another great riff from @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/kennedy-ce...
Kennedy Center board mutes Black woman, 'unanimously' votes to rename building
The White House claims it's the Trump-Kennedy Center now. (It's not.)
www.laura-bassett.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
When the opening paragraph references Heart’s tribute cover of “Stairway to Heaven” at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony (look it up on YouTube) you know the rest is worth reading.
Another great riff from @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/kennedy-ce...
Another great riff from @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/kennedy-ce...
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Banning medical care for trans kids doesn’t stop them from being trans. It just makes their lives into a horrible nightmare.
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Banning medical care for trans kids doesn’t stop them from being trans. It just makes their lives into a horrible nightmare.
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pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
They prosecuted the Capitol rioters. Now the rioters and the DOJ are after them.
After Trump’s mass pardons of the U.S. Capitol rioters, some have gained influence inside the Justice Department. The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting da...
www.reuters.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”
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The White House has installed plaques on the exterior of the building bashing President Trump's predecessors, including Presidents Biden and Obama.
White House installs plaques mocking former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden
The Biden plaque refers to him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and calls him “the worst President in American History.”
nbcnews.to
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The White House has installed plaques on the exterior of the building bashing President Trump's predecessors, including Presidents Biden and Obama.
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Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
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NEWS: White House suggested to me that they’re dismantling the nation’s most important weather research institute bc Trump is mad at CO Gov. Jared Polis
“If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served.”
“If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served.”
Trump Is Mad at Jared Polis. Now He’s Dismantling Colorado’s Leading Weather Research Institution.
“If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served,” a senior White House official told NOTUS.
www.notus.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
NEWS: White House suggested to me that they’re dismantling the nation’s most important weather research institute bc Trump is mad at CO Gov. Jared Polis
“If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served.”
“If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served.”
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BREAKING: Four Republicans defy Speaker Johnson and sign Democratic petition that will force House vote on extending ACA subsidies.
Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to force House vote on extending ACA subsidies
Four centrist Republicans have broken with their party's leadership over health care. They signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vole on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers health insurance costs for millions of Americans.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
BREAKING: Four Republicans defy Speaker Johnson and sign Democratic petition that will force House vote on extending ACA subsidies.
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On Monday, ICE agents violently restrained a woman in Minneapolis, dragging her in the snow and pinning her face down as onlookers shouted the woman was pregnant.
In response, one agent fired a taser into the crowd. “Who wants more?” he taunted, according to a WCCO reporter. trib.al/vdWc3qj
In response, one agent fired a taser into the crowd. “Who wants more?” he taunted, according to a WCCO reporter. trib.al/vdWc3qj
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
On Monday, ICE agents violently restrained a woman in Minneapolis, dragging her in the snow and pinning her face down as onlookers shouted the woman was pregnant.
In response, one agent fired a taser into the crowd. “Who wants more?” he taunted, according to a WCCO reporter. trib.al/vdWc3qj
In response, one agent fired a taser into the crowd. “Who wants more?” he taunted, according to a WCCO reporter. trib.al/vdWc3qj
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Just say women. This is taking forever.
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just say women. This is taking forever.
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BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
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"These films are all foundational texts, endlessly rewatchable entertainments that helped define what I and many others looked for in a movie." lnk.thebulwark.com/3MEHyOs
Rob Reiner, 1947–2025
One of the best and most versatile directors of his era.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"These films are all foundational texts, endlessly rewatchable entertainments that helped define what I and many others looked for in a movie." lnk.thebulwark.com/3MEHyOs
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"If I'm sounding more worried to you than I've sounded in months, it's because I am."
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
Justin Wolfers: These Jobs Numbers Look Like the Start of an Economic Slump
What happens when job growth nearly flatlines, unemployment rises, and the Fed starts quietly worrying about recession?
Economist Justin Wolfers breaks down a tricky but pivotal US jobs report that…
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"If I'm sounding more worried to you than I've sounded in months, it's because I am."
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
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BREAKING trib.al/cz8EehV
It’s official: House Speaker Mike Johnson is letting the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire—and Republicans are pissed. One lawmaker described Johnson’s decision as “absolute bullsh*t.”
It’s official: House Speaker Mike Johnson is letting the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire—and Republicans are pissed. One lawmaker described Johnson’s decision as “absolute bullsh*t.”
December 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
BREAKING trib.al/cz8EehV
It’s official: House Speaker Mike Johnson is letting the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire—and Republicans are pissed. One lawmaker described Johnson’s decision as “absolute bullsh*t.”
It’s official: House Speaker Mike Johnson is letting the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire—and Republicans are pissed. One lawmaker described Johnson’s decision as “absolute bullsh*t.”
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Hours after a Vanity Fair piece in which President Donald Trump’s chief of staff made a series of damaging, on-the-record remarks about the president, his policies, and allies, Susie Wiles appears to be attempting damage control.
Susie Wiles disavows her own on-the-record admissions revealing White House chaos
Trump's chief of staff sat down for 11 interviews with Vanity Fair.
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Hours after a Vanity Fair piece in which President Donald Trump’s chief of staff made a series of damaging, on-the-record remarks about the president, his policies, and allies, Susie Wiles appears to be attempting damage control.
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Sen. Markwayne Mullen (R-Okla.), after a briefing on the Sept. 2 boat strikes in the Caribbean, says DOD shouldn't let all members of Congress see unedited video b/c some will leak details of it -- and names Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)?
“Do you think Omar needs to have all this info? I will say no.”
“Do you think Omar needs to have all this info? I will say no.”
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Sen. Markwayne Mullen (R-Okla.), after a briefing on the Sept. 2 boat strikes in the Caribbean, says DOD shouldn't let all members of Congress see unedited video b/c some will leak details of it -- and names Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)?
“Do you think Omar needs to have all this info? I will say no.”
“Do you think Omar needs to have all this info? I will say no.”
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These men are fragile losers, but it's also instructive because MAGA is now full on white nationalism.
We're seeing an intersection of white Christian nationalists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis. All wanting power and dominance.
Hoods are off.
Don't sleep on this.
We're seeing an intersection of white Christian nationalists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis. All wanting power and dominance.
Hoods are off.
Don't sleep on this.
December 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
These men are fragile losers, but it's also instructive because MAGA is now full on white nationalism.
We're seeing an intersection of white Christian nationalists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis. All wanting power and dominance.
Hoods are off.
Don't sleep on this.
We're seeing an intersection of white Christian nationalists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis. All wanting power and dominance.
Hoods are off.
Don't sleep on this.
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NEW: Mike Johnson says he WON'T call a House vote on extending ACA funding this week
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended.
www.nbcnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
NEW: Mike Johnson says he WON'T call a House vote on extending ACA funding this week
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...