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Donald Trump and congressional republicans clearly can’t govern. They are entirely responsible for this shutdown.
October 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Donald Trump and congressional republicans clearly can’t govern. They are entirely responsible for this shutdown.
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Elon Musk was scheduled to visit Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private island in 2014, according to files just released.
Flight logs and daily schedules show that Epstein had vacation plans with Musk, plus meetings with Peter Thiel & Steve Bannon. trib.al/Dq7Un2P
Flight logs and daily schedules show that Epstein had vacation plans with Musk, plus meetings with Peter Thiel & Steve Bannon. trib.al/Dq7Un2P
This Is Why Republicans Are Blocking the Epstein Files
Elon Musk was scheduled to visit Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private island in 2014, according to files released on Friday.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Elon Musk was scheduled to visit Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private island in 2014, according to files just released.
Flight logs and daily schedules show that Epstein had vacation plans with Musk, plus meetings with Peter Thiel & Steve Bannon. trib.al/Dq7Un2P
Flight logs and daily schedules show that Epstein had vacation plans with Musk, plus meetings with Peter Thiel & Steve Bannon. trib.al/Dq7Un2P
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Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly.
Democracy won 🙌🏼
Democracy won 🙌🏼
September 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly.
Democracy won 🙌🏼
Democracy won 🙌🏼
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ICYMI, the eye-popper in today's PPI: a 39% rise in wholesale fresh vegetable prices.
It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season.
With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com
www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...
It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season.
With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com
www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...
Veggie-flation strikes, with a warning for grocery prices
No matter what the official data shows, consumers "feel" inflation when grocery prices rise.
www.axios.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
ICYMI, the eye-popper in today's PPI: a 39% rise in wholesale fresh vegetable prices.
It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season.
With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com
www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...
It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season.
With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com
www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...
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He's not just tacky and tasteless. He's a monarchist, and so he's desecrating our iconic national symbol of having a republican head of state. Any of the Founders would have immediately clocked his Oval Office as vulgar Versailles wannabe crap, wholly incompatible with American norms and values.
August 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
He's not just tacky and tasteless. He's a monarchist, and so he's desecrating our iconic national symbol of having a republican head of state. Any of the Founders would have immediately clocked his Oval Office as vulgar Versailles wannabe crap, wholly incompatible with American norms and values.
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Could you imagine a president of the United States tanking the bond market to distract from a sex scandal?
Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?
Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?
July 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Could you imagine a president of the United States tanking the bond market to distract from a sex scandal?
Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?
Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?
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The staredown says it all. @lisamurkowski knows she sold out America.
She could’ve voted NO. She didn’t. That will be her legacy.
She could’ve voted NO. She didn’t. That will be her legacy.
July 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The staredown says it all. @lisamurkowski knows she sold out America.
She could’ve voted NO. She didn’t. That will be her legacy.
She could’ve voted NO. She didn’t. That will be her legacy.
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Yup. The mainstream media is beyond pathetic.
July 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Yup. The mainstream media is beyond pathetic.
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CNBC lets Russ Vought get away with lying that Trump's big bill is "fiscally responsible" with no pushback
July 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
CNBC lets Russ Vought get away with lying that Trump's big bill is "fiscally responsible" with no pushback
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From the getgo, Vance attacked irresponsible poor whites, so it's possible to see a consistent thread, even as he ends up in opposite-ville. Such are the wonders of the "intellectual" right.
Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class:
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
newrepublic.com/article/1954...
July 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
From the getgo, Vance attacked irresponsible poor whites, so it's possible to see a consistent thread, even as he ends up in opposite-ville. Such are the wonders of the "intellectual" right.
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So let me get this straight…
Under Hegseth’s leadership, the Army is rolling out a policy that could kick out Black men for razor bumps—a medical condition that disproportionately affects us.
Meanwhile, troops who refused the COVID vaccine? They got waivers. Sympathy. Career protection.
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Under Hegseth’s leadership, the Army is rolling out a policy that could kick out Black men for razor bumps—a medical condition that disproportionately affects us.
Meanwhile, troops who refused the COVID vaccine? They got waivers. Sympathy. Career protection.
🧵
July 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
So let me get this straight…
Under Hegseth’s leadership, the Army is rolling out a policy that could kick out Black men for razor bumps—a medical condition that disproportionately affects us.
Meanwhile, troops who refused the COVID vaccine? They got waivers. Sympathy. Career protection.
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Under Hegseth’s leadership, the Army is rolling out a policy that could kick out Black men for razor bumps—a medical condition that disproportionately affects us.
Meanwhile, troops who refused the COVID vaccine? They got waivers. Sympathy. Career protection.
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Some of his requests, per NSF staff:
- Dedicated suite for him in the 19th floor
- constructing an Executive Dining Room
- reserved parking space for his 5 cars
- exclusive use of 1 elevator for the Secretary
- hosting the Secretary’s executive assistants in the 18th floor.
- Dedicated suite for him in the 19th floor
- constructing an Executive Dining Room
- reserved parking space for his 5 cars
- exclusive use of 1 elevator for the Secretary
- hosting the Secretary’s executive assistants in the 18th floor.
June 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Some of his requests, per NSF staff:
- Dedicated suite for him in the 19th floor
- constructing an Executive Dining Room
- reserved parking space for his 5 cars
- exclusive use of 1 elevator for the Secretary
- hosting the Secretary’s executive assistants in the 18th floor.
- Dedicated suite for him in the 19th floor
- constructing an Executive Dining Room
- reserved parking space for his 5 cars
- exclusive use of 1 elevator for the Secretary
- hosting the Secretary’s executive assistants in the 18th floor.
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What. An. Absolute. Dick.
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
What. An. Absolute. Dick.
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How Americans feel about the One Big Beautiful Bill:
FOX NEWS: 38% favorable, 59% unfavorable
QUINNIPIAC: 27% favorable, 53% unfavorable
KFF: 35% favorable, 64% unfavorable
PEW: 29% favorable, 49% unfavorable
WaPo-IPSOS: 23% favorable, 42% unfavorable
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
FOX NEWS: 38% favorable, 59% unfavorable
QUINNIPIAC: 27% favorable, 53% unfavorable
KFF: 35% favorable, 64% unfavorable
PEW: 29% favorable, 49% unfavorable
WaPo-IPSOS: 23% favorable, 42% unfavorable
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Polls show Trump's big bill is unpopular as Republicans stare down their deadline for passage
GOP leaders hope to begin votes on the legislation this week in the Senate, where they can afford only three defections.
www.nbcnews.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
How Americans feel about the One Big Beautiful Bill:
FOX NEWS: 38% favorable, 59% unfavorable
QUINNIPIAC: 27% favorable, 53% unfavorable
KFF: 35% favorable, 64% unfavorable
PEW: 29% favorable, 49% unfavorable
WaPo-IPSOS: 23% favorable, 42% unfavorable
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
FOX NEWS: 38% favorable, 59% unfavorable
QUINNIPIAC: 27% favorable, 53% unfavorable
KFF: 35% favorable, 64% unfavorable
PEW: 29% favorable, 49% unfavorable
WaPo-IPSOS: 23% favorable, 42% unfavorable
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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the magnitude of this is genuinely hard to imagine
June 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
the magnitude of this is genuinely hard to imagine
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Just a reminder that Trump was going to announce his sanctions on Russia for not negotiating “in two weeks” about 3.5 weeks ago.
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June 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just a reminder that Trump was going to announce his sanctions on Russia for not negotiating “in two weeks” about 3.5 weeks ago.
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An alarming allegation in this motion—but unsurprising for those who have been keeping tabs on Trump judges for a while:
"The district court in the Northern District of Texas, where Bluebonnet is located, has refused to act on Petitioners’ emergency motion for a TRO or hold a status conference."
"The district court in the Northern District of Texas, where Bluebonnet is located, has refused to act on Petitioners’ emergency motion for a TRO or hold a status conference."
NEW: Venezuelan plaintiffs represented by ACLU ask Judge Boasberg for an IMMEDIATE emergency order to prevent apparently imminent deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. They say people have already been loaded onto buses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
An alarming allegation in this motion—but unsurprising for those who have been keeping tabs on Trump judges for a while:
"The district court in the Northern District of Texas, where Bluebonnet is located, has refused to act on Petitioners’ emergency motion for a TRO or hold a status conference."
"The district court in the Northern District of Texas, where Bluebonnet is located, has refused to act on Petitioners’ emergency motion for a TRO or hold a status conference."
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DOGE surveilling (with a drone?!) and threatening a whistleblower. These people are straight up gangsters.
April 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
DOGE surveilling (with a drone?!) and threatening a whistleblower. These people are straight up gangsters.
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EXCLUSIVE: 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.
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 10:10 AM
EXCLUSIVE: 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.
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Whistleblower reported someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone 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 3:14 PM
Whistleblower reported someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.
April 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.
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This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.