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At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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🚨A newly uncovered document flagged last week in a federal court filing threatens undocumented immigrant children in government custody with “prolonged” detention if they choose to exercise their legal rights rather than voluntarily depart the United States.
www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...
www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...
Newly Uncovered Document Reveals An 'Alarming And Disturbing' Trump Threat
The Trump administration is turning the screws on kids who’ve arrived in the United States without adults accompanying them.
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🚨A newly uncovered document flagged last week in a federal court filing threatens undocumented immigrant children in government custody with “prolonged” detention if they choose to exercise their legal rights rather than voluntarily depart the United States.
www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...
www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...
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📣📣📣 NEW: If you're an #ACA enrollee living in #WASHINGTON, #ILLINOIS or #ARKANSAS (or one of several other states) and earn between 2x - 4x the federal poverty level, I have some very good news for you:
acasignups.net/25/11/06/pre...
acasignups.net/25/11/06/pre...
Premium Alignment, or how a dozen states are quietly providing ACA enrollees w/better options even in the face of expiring tax credits
I've written multiple times in the past about "Silver Loading," the ACA health insurance policy pricing strategy in which insurance carriers load the extra cost of their Cost Sharing Reduction financi...
acasignups.net
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
📣📣📣 NEW: If you're an #ACA enrollee living in #WASHINGTON, #ILLINOIS or #ARKANSAS (or one of several other states) and earn between 2x - 4x the federal poverty level, I have some very good news for you:
acasignups.net/25/11/06/pre...
acasignups.net/25/11/06/pre...
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"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
Billboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes
“Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans.
taskandpurpose.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
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One fact to add: SNAP benefits have been maintained in every previous shutdown. This is a choice they have made, not an inevitability.
A national disgrace gives us all a chance to do the right thing - Warwick Beacon
It’s galling to watch an American president salivate over plans for a $300-million ballroom on the rubble of the East Wing of the White House while Americans who rely on a little extra …
warwickonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One fact to add: SNAP benefits have been maintained in every previous shutdown. This is a choice they have made, not an inevitability.
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Dems need to do more to broadcast that they're taking actions like this.
BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Dems need to do more to broadcast that they're taking actions like this.
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling
Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in…
www.npr.org
October 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling
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Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
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I want to say that this is a bug in the system but now it’s a feature and it will continue to grow. I can tell you that since trump has come into office the number of food production visits carried out by the @usdagov.bsky.social has basically stopped. www.cbsnews.com/news/listeri...
Listeria recall of food included in federal school breakfast and lunch programs
Frozen foods that are served to students as part of the Department of Agriculture's National School Breakfast and Lunch Programs may be contaminated with listeria, officials said.
www.cbsnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I want to say that this is a bug in the system but now it’s a feature and it will continue to grow. I can tell you that since trump has come into office the number of food production visits carried out by the @usdagov.bsky.social has basically stopped. www.cbsnews.com/news/listeri...
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Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook declared in financial forms that her Atlanta property would be used as a "vacation home" and NOT her primary residence, according to documents obtained by NBC News that undercut allegations of mortgage fraud by the Trump admin. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Lisa Cook's bank documents appear to contradict Trump administration's mortgage fraud allegations
President Donald Trump is seeking to remove Cook, a board member at the Federal Reserve, over claims that she falsified financial forms regarding a secondary home.
www.nbcnews.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook declared in financial forms that her Atlanta property would be used as a "vacation home" and NOT her primary residence, according to documents obtained by NBC News that undercut allegations of mortgage fraud by the Trump admin. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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The more money that flows into politics, the more our government serves the interests of the wealthy instead of the people. It's time for real reform.
September 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The more money that flows into politics, the more our government serves the interests of the wealthy instead of the people. It's time for real reform.
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there is nothing more american than news of a political shooting being interrupted by news of a school shooting
September 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
there is nothing more american than news of a political shooting being interrupted by news of a school shooting
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Is now a good time to have that conversation about gun violence?
September 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Is now a good time to have that conversation about gun violence?
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
This is what we have become. pen.org/why-ban-book...
Why ban books about cats and dogs?
t’s not exactly clear what put these petcare tomes on the removal list, except that they were part of a sweep that pulled more than 574 books off its library shelves, ostensibly to comply with recent ...
pen.org
September 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is what we have become. pen.org/why-ban-book...
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Abortion bans are not about objection to abortion, but about objection to women’s autonomy and freedom from male control. The anti-choice movement often has no objection to abortions that are instigated and commanded by men.
Texas DA once paid for an abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Texas DA who charged abortion patient with murder accused of once paying for one
Three years after Texas prosecutors charged a woman with murder for inducing her own abortion, the local district attorney is accused of paying for an abortion while having an affair decades ago.
www.houstonchronicle.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Abortion bans are not about objection to abortion, but about objection to women’s autonomy and freedom from male control. The anti-choice movement often has no objection to abortions that are instigated and commanded by men.
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Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.
August 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.
A boy and his Himalayan chew.
August 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
A boy and his Himalayan chew.
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While the Department of Justice is meeting in secret with Ghislaine Maxwell to coach her on testimony, it is hiding from us three discs containing court-authorized recordings of her phone calls. [Source: ABC News] That is the REAL evidence. And this is a cover-up.
July 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
While the Department of Justice is meeting in secret with Ghislaine Maxwell to coach her on testimony, it is hiding from us three discs containing court-authorized recordings of her phone calls. [Source: ABC News] That is the REAL evidence. And this is a cover-up.
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"Why Is the World Letting It Happen?": U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children
“Why Is the World Letting It Happen?”: U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children
Dr. Nick Maynard, a surgeon who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza for the past month, describes a pattern reminiscent of “target practice” visible in the injuries medical staff are treating...
www.democracynow.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Why Is the World Letting It Happen?": U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children
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Getting lost in Jeffrey Epstein file is that Pam Bondi was the Attorney General of Florida (2011 to 2019) when Epstein was running his child sex ring in Florida. What is in the Epstein files about Pam Bondi? Did she protect Epstein as Florida AG?!! Did she protect Trump? More reasons we need file!
July 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Getting lost in Jeffrey Epstein file is that Pam Bondi was the Attorney General of Florida (2011 to 2019) when Epstein was running his child sex ring in Florida. What is in the Epstein files about Pam Bondi? Did she protect Epstein as Florida AG?!! Did she protect Trump? More reasons we need file!