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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.
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President Donald Trump's family has invested heavily in crypto ventures during Trump's second term, a move that has alarmed two analysts.
'Straight up scam': Analyst shocked as Trump family rakes in billions with new 'grift'
President Donald Trump's family has invested heavily in crypto ventures during Trump's second term, a move that has alarmed two analysts. On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the family's new token, WLFI, began trading and made the family $5 billion richer, which surpasses the value of t...
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You did this.
You did this.
"Imagine that you are a first-rate grifter: the president of the United States, say. Your grift is that you pretend to be a successful businessman, and use that supposed expertise to make your case for the presidency, which office you then use to make money."
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The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse
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November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Imagine that you are a first-rate grifter: the president of the United States, say. Your grift is that you pretend to be a successful businessman, and use that supposed expertise to make your case for the presidency, which office you then use to make money."
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A Catskill man was issued several traffic tickets following a train collision in Voorheesville on Saturday, according to the Albany County Sheriff's Office.
Car struck by train in Voorheesville
A Catskill man was issued several traffic tickets following a train collision in Voorheesville on Saturday, according to the Albany County Sheriff’s Office.
www.news10.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A Catskill man was issued several traffic tickets following a train collision in Voorheesville on Saturday, according to the Albany County Sheriff's Office.
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Anne Applebaum as usual on the mark. I would add: most elected Republicans quietly fold the millisecond this happens to them. So in speaking up MTG is GOP unusual.
Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”
@mediaite.com #GA14
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@mediaite.com #GA14
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November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Anne Applebaum as usual on the mark. I would add: most elected Republicans quietly fold the millisecond this happens to them. So in speaking up MTG is GOP unusual.
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Once you learn what bittersweet is, you will start seeing it everywhere here, it is a true menace
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Once you learn what bittersweet is, you will start seeing it everywhere here, it is a true menace
Will Manny's Deli on Chicago's south side reach their funding goal to help out regular people who are being hurt by these tRump Brand tariff and economic disasters being deployed by the most corrupt White House ever? You can help right now! gofund.me/f5235aecd
Donate to SNAP Benefits Relief Fund, organized by Dan Raskin
With the recent incredible outpouring of support, many of you have asked how you can help us supp… Dan Raskin needs your support for SNAP Benefits Relief Fund
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November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Will Manny's Deli on Chicago's south side reach their funding goal to help out regular people who are being hurt by these tRump Brand tariff and economic disasters being deployed by the most corrupt White House ever? You can help right now! gofund.me/f5235aecd
Thanks The Village of Voorheesville for posting this item about Herderberg-Hudson Rail Trail plans to cut back invasive species of plants in the next few weeks when such efforts can be most effective.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Thanks The Village of Voorheesville for posting this item about Herderberg-Hudson Rail Trail plans to cut back invasive species of plants in the next few weeks when such efforts can be most effective.
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The people who built the tech destroying society are antisocial weirdos, which is why their products are socially corrosive. But as tools have advanced, incidental pro-social functions (Facebook as Rolodex, Twitter as news hub) have decayed and it’s just “you consume slop, you talk to computer” etc.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The people who built the tech destroying society are antisocial weirdos, which is why their products are socially corrosive. But as tools have advanced, incidental pro-social functions (Facebook as Rolodex, Twitter as news hub) have decayed and it’s just “you consume slop, you talk to computer” etc.
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Creating the US SA was always and obviously the idea.
"what began as a way to increase the pace of deportations has come to look like a national police force, answerable to the president, that is at least as focused on bullying the residents of Democrat-run cities as it is on deporting undocumented migrants" www.economist.com/interactive/...
See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force
Immigration agents are operating in cities with few legal constraints
www.economist.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Creating the US SA was always and obviously the idea.
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NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
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"I am tired of losing and worse, I am tired of expecting to lose. We need Democrats who will use their positions of power not to constantly capitulate, compromise, and cave, but to fight-- not to say the word ‘fight’ because it’s the popular thing to do, but to actually do it and mean it."
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Senate Democrats have validated our worst fears about a party unwilling to meet the moment
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November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"I am tired of losing and worse, I am tired of expecting to lose. We need Democrats who will use their positions of power not to constantly capitulate, compromise, and cave, but to fight-- not to say the word ‘fight’ because it’s the popular thing to do, but to actually do it and mean it."
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Seeing some beautiful photos of aurorae tonight, so here's a reminder that other planets get them, too!
This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.
This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Seeing some beautiful photos of aurorae tonight, so here's a reminder that other planets get them, too!
This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.
This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.
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McGovern: You don't even have a health care plan. You been promising one for over a decade and we've never seen it, because it doesn't exist.
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
McGovern: You don't even have a health care plan. You been promising one for over a decade and we've never seen it, because it doesn't exist.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In Chicago, masked tRump Brand Brownshirt private army cowards in unmarked cars shoot pepper spray through the open windows of cars with families who have brown skin.
A father and his one-year-old daughter were pepper sprayed by US ICE agents in Chicago while on their way to go grocery shopping.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In Chicago, masked tRump Brand Brownshirt private army cowards in unmarked cars shoot pepper spray through the open windows of cars with families who have brown skin.
A very sad reality... @schumer.senate.gov must leave Senate leadership.
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November 10, 2025
Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A very sad reality... @schumer.senate.gov must leave Senate leadership.
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Chuck gotta go?
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wasn’t one of the eight Democratic senators who voted to back GOP legislation to end the government shutdown. He is still taking most of the blame.
Progressives Blame Schumer After Shutdown Strategy Collapses
The Senate Democratic leader tried to keep colleagues in line as the party sought enhanced ACA subsidies.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Chuck gotta go?
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'His word is good!' Dem senator gushes about trusting GOP leader as she caves on shutdown
www.rawstory.com/government-s...
"The outrage ... has been fierce, with many party loyalists – and even a House Democrat – now calling for ... Chuck Schumer (R-NY) to step down from leadership."
www.rawstory.com/government-s...
"The outrage ... has been fierce, with many party loyalists – and even a House Democrat – now calling for ... Chuck Schumer (R-NY) to step down from leadership."
'His word is good!' Dem senator gushes about trusting GOP leader as she caves on shutdown
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), one of the eight moderate Senate Democrats that had agreed to cooperate with Republicans and cave in the government shutdown fight, defended her decision Monday by insistin...
www.rawstory.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
'His word is good!' Dem senator gushes about trusting GOP leader as she caves on shutdown
www.rawstory.com/government-s...
"The outrage ... has been fierce, with many party loyalists – and even a House Democrat – now calling for ... Chuck Schumer (R-NY) to step down from leadership."
www.rawstory.com/government-s...
"The outrage ... has been fierce, with many party loyalists – and even a House Democrat – now calling for ... Chuck Schumer (R-NY) to step down from leadership."
'His word is good!' Dem senator gushes about trusting GOP leader as she caves on shutdown
www.rawstory.com/government-s...
"The outrage ... has been fierce, with many party loyalists – and even a House Democrat – now calling for ... Chuck Schumer (R-NY) to step down from leadership."
www.rawstory.com/government-s...
"The outrage ... has been fierce, with many party loyalists – and even a House Democrat – now calling for ... Chuck Schumer (R-NY) to step down from leadership."
'His word is good!' Dem senator gushes about trusting GOP leader as she caves on shutdown
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), one of the eight moderate Senate Democrats that had agreed to cooperate with Republicans and cave in the government shutdown fight, defended her decision Monday by insistin...
www.rawstory.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
'His word is good!' Dem senator gushes about trusting GOP leader as she caves on shutdown
www.rawstory.com/government-s...
"The outrage ... has been fierce, with many party loyalists – and even a House Democrat – now calling for ... Chuck Schumer (R-NY) to step down from leadership."
www.rawstory.com/government-s...
"The outrage ... has been fierce, with many party loyalists – and even a House Democrat – now calling for ... Chuck Schumer (R-NY) to step down from leadership."
Large renewable energy projects are blindsiding upstate communities www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
Large renewable energy projects are blindsiding upstate communities
Local governments get lucrative payments from renewable developers but have little say in the siting process.
www.timesunion.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Large renewable energy projects are blindsiding upstate communities www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
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The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the country’s relationship with its chief decision-maker.
Julia Ioffe on Why Putinism Won’t Die With Putin
The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the country’s relationship with its chief decision-maker.
bloom.bg
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the country’s relationship with its chief decision-maker.
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The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him.
Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption
The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him.
interc.pt
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him.
And didn't we name an airport after Mayor LaGuardia?
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
And didn't we name an airport after Mayor LaGuardia?