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It’s going to be a long Presidency. Let’s get through it together.
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Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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Over 1/3 of Project 2025 has been completed. A reminder that Project 2025, when completed planned for America to be a Theocratic Authoritarian State.
The hypocrisy is rampant in the GOP.
Republican woman who questioned ‘if females should be in office’ is running
‘I get home, and I don’t want to do anything else. Like, women aren’t built for this. I just want to be a wife. I just want to be a mom,’ Mylie Biggs said previously
www.independent.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The hypocrisy is rampant in the GOP.
Pictures of Trump with the slogan “Defend the Homeland” are being circulated. This very much feels like a dark parody of America.
ICE entices new recruits with patriotism pitch and promise of $50,000 signing bonuses
The agency responsible for President Trump's mass deportations agenda is launching a recruiting campaign. U.S.
apnews.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Pictures of Trump with the slogan “Defend the Homeland” are being circulated. This very much feels like a dark parody of America.
“Agency employees may seek to "persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views" in the office, wrote Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. government's human resources agency.”
This feels like we are about to go down another dark road in America.
This feels like we are about to go down another dark road in America.
US Justice Department files 'misconduct complaint' against prominent judge
The Justice Department filed a misconduct complaint Monday against U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg, a prominent Washington, D.C., judge who has drawn President Donald Trump's ire, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X.
www.reuters.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“Agency employees may seek to "persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views" in the office, wrote Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. government's human resources agency.”
This feels like we are about to go down another dark road in America.
This feels like we are about to go down another dark road in America.
Because no countries picked up the phone to make a deal. This is, in his mind, a way to save face.
Trump: "We're gonna be setting a tariff essentially for the rest of the world, and that's what they're gonna pay if they want to do business in the United States, because you can't sit down and make 200 deals."
July 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Because no countries picked up the phone to make a deal. This is, in his mind, a way to save face.
The fight over the president’s power to fire could prompt the court to consider overturning a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey’s Executor. In that case from 1935, the court unanimously held that presidents cannot fire independent board members without cause.
Supreme Court allows Trump to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who had been fired by President Donald Trump and then reinstated by...
apnews.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The fight over the president’s power to fire could prompt the court to consider overturning a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey’s Executor. In that case from 1935, the court unanimously held that presidents cannot fire independent board members without cause.
Right now, We the People, are all we have left in defiance of this administration. Please speak out. Stand up!
Supreme Court Lets Trump Enact His Authoritarian Agenda on Its 'Shadow Docket'
The Supreme Court granted Trump’s emergency requests in 17 straight cases, reversing lower courts that temporarily blocked the admin’s overreach.
www.rollingstone.com
July 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Right now, We the People, are all we have left in defiance of this administration. Please speak out. Stand up!
What’s in the Database: Aggregated data starting on February 10, 2023, and running through one week after May 16, 2024, the date on which the number of individuals in the database exceeded 10,000 cases.
Who's Making News?
Tracking News Reporting of Sex Crimes Against Minors
www.whoismakingnews.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What’s in the Database: Aggregated data starting on February 10, 2023, and running through one week after May 16, 2024, the date on which the number of individuals in the database exceeded 10,000 cases.
“Toppling Trump is by no means out of reach… An autocratic regime is in mortal peril when 3.5% of the people register civil resistance…Doing the math we need a bit more than 12 million Americans to do this…So, people, we have to get that many more into the streets. Full stop.”
SCOTUS v. Democracy: 7 Supreme Court Decisions Brought Fascism to America | Common Dreams
Trump v. CASA, Inc. was the coup de grace, capping six earlier and toxic SCOTUS decisions which, scattered over two centuries, collectively enabled this moment.
www.commondreams.org
July 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Toppling Trump is by no means out of reach… An autocratic regime is in mortal peril when 3.5% of the people register civil resistance…Doing the math we need a bit more than 12 million Americans to do this…So, people, we have to get that many more into the streets. Full stop.”
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Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
“Voting for a political party when that same party has given us 10 out of the last 11 recessions since 1953, and is in charge of the poorest states and counties, is insane behavior.”
Thank you #CaliforniaGuy
Thank you #CaliforniaGuy
July 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“Voting for a political party when that same party has given us 10 out of the last 11 recessions since 1953, and is in charge of the poorest states and counties, is insane behavior.”
Thank you #CaliforniaGuy
Thank you #CaliforniaGuy
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Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.
“…a man who had urged violence against police officers was now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.”
Why is this ok???????? 🤬
“…a man who had urged violence against police officers was now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.”
Why is this ok???????? 🤬
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.
“…a man who had urged violence against police officers was now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.”
Why is this ok???????? 🤬
“…a man who had urged violence against police officers was now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.”
Why is this ok???????? 🤬
Capitalism is for capital not humans.
July 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Capitalism is for capital not humans.
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Rep. Dean: "The senators voted on this not knowing exactly what was in the bill. I bet they loved the part about no sales tax on silencers. Really, folks? We want to make silencers more plentiful in this country at the behest of the representative who owns gun stores? Conflicts of interest abound."
July 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Rep. Dean: "The senators voted on this not knowing exactly what was in the bill. I bet they loved the part about no sales tax on silencers. Really, folks? We want to make silencers more plentiful in this country at the behest of the representative who owns gun stores? Conflicts of interest abound."
This is a concentration camp. America was complicit and wants to expand a literal concentration camp. How do we make this any clearer?
Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is a concentration camp. America was complicit and wants to expand a literal concentration camp. How do we make this any clearer?
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50 Republican Senators and JD Vance just voted to slash healthcare, education, and food assistance for millions of working people to fund tax cuts skewed to the ultra-wealthy.
Don't fall for the GOP's "working-class party" rebrand.
Don't fall for the GOP's "working-class party" rebrand.
Republicans Are Anti-Working Class
The GOP keeps calling itself as a working-class party. But their budget plan calls for huge tax cuts for the ultra-wealt
www.youtube.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
50 Republican Senators and JD Vance just voted to slash healthcare, education, and food assistance for millions of working people to fund tax cuts skewed to the ultra-wealthy.
Don't fall for the GOP's "working-class party" rebrand.
Don't fall for the GOP's "working-class party" rebrand.
"These funds are critical to ensuring our classrooms are fully staffed, our schools are safe, and our scholars receive the support and enrichment they deserve,"
Trump administration withholds $169M from NC public schools amid review
Nearly every North Carolina public school system or public charter school receives funding from at least one of the programs, and more than 70 organizations receive funding for before- and after-schoo...
www.wral.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"These funds are critical to ensuring our classrooms are fully staffed, our schools are safe, and our scholars receive the support and enrichment they deserve,"
“Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the country's 249th birthday, three-quarters of Americans say democracy is under serious threat, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
Nearly three-quarters also see politically motivated violence as a major problem.”
Nearly three-quarters also see politically motivated violence as a major problem.”
Poll: Most feel democracy is threatened and political violence is a major problem
76% of Americans think that democracy is under a serious threat, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And their faith in political leadership in the White House and Congress is low.
www.npr.org
July 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the country's 249th birthday, three-quarters of Americans say democracy is under serious threat, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
Nearly three-quarters also see politically motivated violence as a major problem.”
Nearly three-quarters also see politically motivated violence as a major problem.”
Follow-up video to breakdown the “big beautiful bill”. This is why the Trump administration wants to defund PBS. They report facts and news.
PBS News Hour | Breaking down Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' and its impact | Season 2025
Breaking down Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' and its impact on the deficit and national debt
www.pbs.org
July 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Follow-up video to breakdown the “big beautiful bill”. This is why the Trump administration wants to defund PBS. They report facts and news.
A quick breakdown of how the “big beautiful bill” will affect the average American.
Who gains and who loses under Trump’s big budget bill
President Trump’s big budget bill faces a significant test as the Senate prepares to start voting as soon as Friday. It comes as the Senate parliamentarian ruled that some major Medicaid changes in th...
www.pbs.org
July 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A quick breakdown of how the “big beautiful bill” will affect the average American.
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The law is clear. Members of Congress have the authority to conduct oversight at any facility, unannounced. This is illegal and it won’t deter us.
DHS keeps denying access to members of Congress attempting oversight. Experts say it's illegal
DHS keeps denying access to members of Congress attempting oversight. Experts say it's illegal
Members from California, Illinois and New Jersey have been denied access in recent weeks to immigrant detention facilities in their states. Oversight experts say that's a substantial departure from past practice.
www.latimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The law is clear. Members of Congress have the authority to conduct oversight at any facility, unannounced. This is illegal and it won’t deter us.
“Donald Trump's approval rating is underwater in 15 states he won in 2024, including all seven swing states, according to analysis by The Economist.”
Donald Trump's approval rating underwater in 15 states he won
Donald Trump's approval rating is underwater in 15 states he won in 2024, including all seven swing states.
www.newsweek.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Donald Trump's approval rating is underwater in 15 states he won in 2024, including all seven swing states, according to analysis by The Economist.”
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Raleigh braces for downtown protests against moves to step up immigration enforcement
Protestors are set to take to the streets of downtown Raleigh Wednesday night, voicing opposition to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies. This demonstration is part of a growing wave of ...
Protestors are set to take to the streets of downtown Raleigh Wednesday night, voicing opposition to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies. This demonstration is part of a growing wave of ...
Raleigh braces for downtown protests against moves to step up immigration enforcement
Protestors are set to take to the streets of downtown Raleigh Wednesday night, voicing opposition to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies. This demonstration is part of a growing wave of protests sweeping the nation, fueled locally by recent legislative actions.
www.wral.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Raleigh braces for downtown protests against moves to step up immigration enforcement
Protestors are set to take to the streets of downtown Raleigh Wednesday night, voicing opposition to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies. This demonstration is part of a growing wave of ...
Protestors are set to take to the streets of downtown Raleigh Wednesday night, voicing opposition to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies. This demonstration is part of a growing wave of ...
Kennedy’s decision to “retire” the previous 17-member panel was widely decried by doctors’ groups and public health organizations, who feared the advisers would be replaced by a group aligned with Kennedy’s desire to reassess — and possibly end — longstanding vaccination recommendations.
Kennedy names 8 vaccine committee replacements, including COVID shot critic
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.
apnews.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Kennedy’s decision to “retire” the previous 17-member panel was widely decried by doctors’ groups and public health organizations, who feared the advisers would be replaced by a group aligned with Kennedy’s desire to reassess — and possibly end — longstanding vaccination recommendations.
"What I think is so remarkable about Bragg is that it's really a breakdown on the military side," Risa Brooks, an expert of civil-military relations at Marquette University, told Military.com.
"It shows it's possible -- that the military's professional ethics could fail," she said.
"It shows it's possible -- that the military's professional ethics could fail," she said.
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance | Military.com
www.military.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"What I think is so remarkable about Bragg is that it's really a breakdown on the military side," Risa Brooks, an expert of civil-military relations at Marquette University, told Military.com.
"It shows it's possible -- that the military's professional ethics could fail," she said.
"It shows it's possible -- that the military's professional ethics could fail," she said.
Jesse Watters looks like if Ross Geller lost his soul to the devil from a game of badminton.
June 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Jesse Watters looks like if Ross Geller lost his soul to the devil from a game of badminton.