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Some Senate Republicans are raising concerns about an exclusive dinner and White House tour President Trump is offering top investors in his $TRUMP meme token.
Senate Republicans raise red flags about Trump's private dinner with his meme coin holders
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., a strong Trump backer and a major voice on cryptocurrency regulation in the Senate, said the dinner "gives me pause."
nbcnews.to
May 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Some Senate Republicans are raising concerns about an exclusive dinner and White House tour President Trump is offering top investors in his $TRUMP meme token.
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The proposed Trump budget is brutal, unless you’re the military or Homeland Security.
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
May 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The proposed Trump budget is brutal, unless you’re the military or Homeland Security.
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
Here’s what gets cut:
- State Department: -84%
- National Science Foundation: -56%
- EPA: -54%
- HUD (housing): -44%
- Labor: -35%
- Interior: -30%
- Health & Human Services: -26%
- NASA: -24%
- Education: -15%
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Hard to overstate what censorious bullshit this is. CBS would have 1A protection even if it had edited the interview in a "biased" way. But there was nothing biased or misleading about it. This is about intimidation -- and forcing future compliance with Trump's demands.
FCC chair says 'all options" open in CBS '60 Minutes' news distortion review reut.rs/3EDw4Hs
FCC chair says 'all options" open in CBS '60 Minutes' news distortion review
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said Monday "all options remain on the table" in the agency's ongoing investigation into a "60 Minutes" interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
reut.rs
April 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hard to overstate what censorious bullshit this is. CBS would have 1A protection even if it had edited the interview in a "biased" way. But there was nothing biased or misleading about it. This is about intimidation -- and forcing future compliance with Trump's demands.
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Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it.
Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!
Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it.
Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!
Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!
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The executive director of the Texas State Lottery resigned abruptly on Monday in the latest fallout from the agency’s decision in 2023 to help professional bettors in Europe purchase and print millions of its tickets and guarantee themselves a $95 million jackpot win.
Texas Lottery Director Resigns Amid Scrutiny of Rigged 2023 Draw
Investigators are looking into how bettors were allowed to guarantee themselves a $95 million jackpot win, as state leaders question whether the lottery should go on.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The executive director of the Texas State Lottery resigned abruptly on Monday in the latest fallout from the agency’s decision in 2023 to help professional bettors in Europe purchase and print millions of its tickets and guarantee themselves a $95 million jackpot win.
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Six men who prosecutors said took part in forcibly removing a woman from a town-hall meeting hosted by local Republicans in Coeur d’Alene, a small city in northern Idaho, in February are facing charges including battery and false imprisonment.
Six Men Are Charged After Woman Was Dragged From Idaho Town Hall
The plainclothes guards were involved in the forcible removal of a woman from a meeting hosted by local Republicans in Coeur d’Alene, prosecutors said.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Six men who prosecutors said took part in forcibly removing a woman from a town-hall meeting hosted by local Republicans in Coeur d’Alene, a small city in northern Idaho, in February are facing charges including battery and false imprisonment.
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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
April 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is battling a series of major setbacks that portray the Pentagon as an agency in deep turmoil — including a fresh bombshell report on his use of Signal and the brutal defection of a one-time close ally.
Turmoil engulfs Pentagon as fresh Signal allegations hit Hegseth
The Pentagon denied reports saying Hegseth sent details of planned attacks in Yemen in a Signal chat group that included his wife.
www.axios.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is battling a series of major setbacks that portray the Pentagon as an agency in deep turmoil — including a fresh bombshell report on his use of Signal and the brutal defection of a one-time close ally.
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Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.
April 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV
April 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV
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Trump revamps rule to make it easier to cut federal workers, Axios reports reut.rs/4ikRh6R
April 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Trump revamps rule to make it easier to cut federal workers, Axios reports reut.rs/4ikRh6R
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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.
April 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.
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Jonathan Swan, of the NYT, asks Ms Leavitt (all paraphrased) "The President said that it was a terrible abuse of power for the prior Admin to prosecute him. How is it not then an abuse of power when he directed his own DOJ to investigate two people he doesn't like?"
Leavitt: "That's his policy."
Leavitt: "That's his policy."
April 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Jonathan Swan, of the NYT, asks Ms Leavitt (all paraphrased) "The President said that it was a terrible abuse of power for the prior Admin to prosecute him. How is it not then an abuse of power when he directed his own DOJ to investigate two people he doesn't like?"
Leavitt: "That's his policy."
Leavitt: "That's his policy."
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DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance.
Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
April 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance.
Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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Got a new one today when the press secretary accused him of being a "human trafficker" just absolutely out of thin air!
Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Got a new one today when the press secretary accused him of being a "human trafficker" just absolutely out of thin air!
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The FDA is asking laid-off employees to temporarily return after mass cuts decimated the agency’s ability to penalize stores that sell cigarettes and vapes to minors.
The FDA fired its tobacco enforcers. Now it wants them back.
The agency asked laid-off workers to return after gutting the office that penalizes stores for selling tobacco to minors.
www.politico.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The FDA is asking laid-off employees to temporarily return after mass cuts decimated the agency’s ability to penalize stores that sell cigarettes and vapes to minors.
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There we go.
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
There we go.
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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
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This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
April 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
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Here’s the clip.
April 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s the clip.
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going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
March 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
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Excellent read from @timothysnyder.bsky.social
"Per capita more Danish soldiers were killed in the Afghan war than were American soldiers. Do we remember them? Thank them?"
Oh, how I wish someone had asked this of Vance.
"Per capita more Danish soldiers were killed in the Afghan war than were American soldiers. Do we remember them? Thank them?"
Oh, how I wish someone had asked this of Vance.
March 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Excellent read from @timothysnyder.bsky.social
"Per capita more Danish soldiers were killed in the Afghan war than were American soldiers. Do we remember them? Thank them?"
Oh, how I wish someone had asked this of Vance.
"Per capita more Danish soldiers were killed in the Afghan war than were American soldiers. Do we remember them? Thank them?"
Oh, how I wish someone had asked this of Vance.
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"Two US officials said Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including on Russia/Ukraine and on military operations. They declined to say if classified information was posted in those chats."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House
Although Trump decided not to fire his national security adviser over the Signal group chat, Waltz’s position is tenuous, officials say.
www.wsj.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"Two US officials said Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including on Russia/Ukraine and on military operations. They declined to say if classified information was posted in those chats."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...