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David E Manuel
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November 14, 2025
In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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November 13, 2025
We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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November 12, 2025
It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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November 11, 2025
In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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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.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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November 9, 2025
In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Just in from Mar a Lago . . .
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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November 7, 2025
The repercussions from Tuesday’s vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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November 6, 2025
“None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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November 5, 2025
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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November 4, 2025 (Tuesday)
So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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November 3, 2025
At the end of her interview with President Donald J.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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November 2, 2025
Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes for more than two hours, mainstreaming the podcaster whose praise for Hitler, vows to kill Jew...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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November 1, 2025
Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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October 31, 2025
Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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October 30, 2025
House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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October 29, 2025
Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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October 28, 2025
In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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October 26, 2025
Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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October 25, 2025
Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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October 24, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has canceled House business again next week, meaning that over the last 17 weeks, the House of Representatives will have worked on Capitol Hill for just 20 days.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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October 23, 2025
Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program mo...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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October 22, 2025
“It’s not his house.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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October 21, 2025
On this, the twenty-first day of the government shutdown, President Donald J.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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October 20, 2025
Over the weekend, as millions of Americans attended “No Kings” protests, President Donald J.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM