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The One Thing That Should Worry Trump: The Housing Crisis

He vowed to bring costs down, but mortgage rates are climbing in response to his tax and tariff proposals.
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Donald Trump is now (1) below 50% popular vote and (2) has a margin of popular vote victory roughly HALF of Hillary's victory in 2016. They believe the left has to lay down and shut up because of this "landslide" victory.

*“Mr Gaetz ’s likely nomination as AG is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events,” John Clune wrote Thursday on X. “We would support the House Ethics Committee immediately releasing their report. She was a high school student and there were witnesses.”*

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Raw Story - 'A high school student': Attorney for Matt Gaetz's alleged victim claims to have witnesses

John Clune, an attorney for an alleged victim of sexual misconduct, called on the House Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

Lawyer of alleged Gaetz victim: Release House ethics report ‘immediately'

Mr. Gaetz's likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events,” wrote attorney John Clune.

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Attorney John Clune, representing an alleged victim of Matt Gaetz, urged the House Ethics Committee to release its report on Gaetz, now Trump’s AG nominee. Clune claims his client was a high school student with witnesses to the misconduct.
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Take a wild guess who appointed that judge.

That’s right — Donald Trump.

Thanks to him, 4 million people will no longer get a raise.

It’s far from the first time he’s cheated working class people out of their money, and it certainly won’t be the last.

Really don’t recall a lot of talk about a giant national shift to the left in 2008. And Obama didn’t even win by vomiting lies as if demon possessed.

Russia did exactly this to HRC in 2016, aiming to suppress her vote, and probably did. Musk no doubt did suppress Harris voting as well with these demotivation techniques. This should be illegal.
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This is not a mandate.

Pete Hegseth’s tattoos are the ones that white nationalists get. Federal law enforcement know these symbols well. Hegseth was banned from national guard duty at Biden’s inauguration for those tattoos. The Senate should consider this disqualifying for a nominee for Secretary of Defense—will they?

Oklahoma schools have gone from 7th in the nation to 49th in the nation in the ~12 years Republicans have controlled the school system.

Thread: Republicans won the Senate in 2024 despite Democrats winning more votes & representing more people nationwide.

Republicans last won more support than Democrats in the 1990s but won the Senate anyway in 7 of 13 elections since 2000.

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