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Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein boasted of his closeness to Trump and his now-wife Melania by claiming, “the first time he slept with her was on my plane,” which was dubbed the Lolita Express.
Stay classy House GOP.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Stay classy House GOP.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Republicans propose naming Kennedy Center Opera House after Melania Trump
The Kennedy Center’s Opera House may soon be named after First Lady Melania Trump, if an amendment passed Tuesday by House Republicans becomes law.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein boasted of his closeness to Trump and his now-wife Melania by claiming, “the first time he slept with her was on my plane,” which was dubbed the Lolita Express.
Stay classy House GOP.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Stay classy House GOP.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Thanks, GOP!
Thanks, Trump!
"Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium...
plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Thanks, Trump!
"Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium...
plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.
www.npr.org
July 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Thanks, GOP!
Thanks, Trump!
"Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium...
plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Thanks, Trump!
"Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium...
plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
June 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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One of the more important health care cuts in the legislation would affect Medicare beneficiaries: some of the most vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities who are on Medicare.
Yes, They’re Going After Medicare Too
A wonky change in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill would hammer some of the very people Republicans insist they are protecting.
www.thebulwark.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
One of the more important health care cuts in the legislation would affect Medicare beneficiaries: some of the most vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities who are on Medicare.
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Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
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This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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This is a pretty important point!
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
June 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is a pretty important point!
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The Supreme Court decision allowing DOGE full, unfettered access to the public's most sensitive personal data is a loss for all of us.
No one in history -- no commissioner, no president, no one -- has ever had the access that these DOGE minions have.
No one in history -- no commissioner, no president, no one -- has ever had the access that these DOGE minions have.
Supreme Court grants DOGE access to confidential Social Security records
The order, for now, overturns actions that limited DOGE's access to sensitive private information. In a separate case, the court said DOGE did not have to share internal records with a watchdog group.
www.npr.org
June 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The Supreme Court decision allowing DOGE full, unfettered access to the public's most sensitive personal data is a loss for all of us.
No one in history -- no commissioner, no president, no one -- has ever had the access that these DOGE minions have.
No one in history -- no commissioner, no president, no one -- has ever had the access that these DOGE minions have.
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Trump hands Dept of Interior to Russia-linked oil exec:
"... given sweeping powers to overhaul the department that manages public lands
"...hasn’t divested his investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest"
apnews.com/article/hass...
"... given sweeping powers to overhaul the department that manages public lands
"...hasn’t divested his investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest"
apnews.com/article/hass...
Here's what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department
A Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has been tasked with overhauling the federal agency that manages vast tracts of public lands.
apnews.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Trump hands Dept of Interior to Russia-linked oil exec:
"... given sweeping powers to overhaul the department that manages public lands
"...hasn’t divested his investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest"
apnews.com/article/hass...
"... given sweeping powers to overhaul the department that manages public lands
"...hasn’t divested his investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest"
apnews.com/article/hass...
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Gotta meet him with some resistance. 😉 Despite RFK Jr.’s claims, the CDC did not remove COVID vaccines from the childhood immunization schedule.
May 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Gotta meet him with some resistance. 😉 Despite RFK Jr.’s claims, the CDC did not remove COVID vaccines from the childhood immunization schedule.
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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."
My report:
My report:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich
-$700B in Medicaid cuts
-$500B in Medicare cuts
-$300B in SNAP cuts
-Leasing public lands to Big Oil
-Ending IRS Direct File
-Ending clean energy tax credits
-Banning AI regulation in the states
The oligarchy's wish list.
-$700B in Medicaid cuts
-$500B in Medicare cuts
-$300B in SNAP cuts
-Leasing public lands to Big Oil
-Ending IRS Direct File
-Ending clean energy tax credits
-Banning AI regulation in the states
The oligarchy's wish list.
May 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich
-$700B in Medicaid cuts
-$500B in Medicare cuts
-$300B in SNAP cuts
-Leasing public lands to Big Oil
-Ending IRS Direct File
-Ending clean energy tax credits
-Banning AI regulation in the states
The oligarchy's wish list.
-$700B in Medicaid cuts
-$500B in Medicare cuts
-$300B in SNAP cuts
-Leasing public lands to Big Oil
-Ending IRS Direct File
-Ending clean energy tax credits
-Banning AI regulation in the states
The oligarchy's wish list.
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One employee who had taken the deferred resignation deal was furious to learn their job was on that list of vacancies. They had not wanted to resign from their job but felt forced to do so after repeated warnings of mass layoffs ahead.
May 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
One employee who had taken the deferred resignation deal was furious to learn their job was on that list of vacancies. They had not wanted to resign from their job but felt forced to do so after repeated warnings of mass layoffs ahead.
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🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.
Immigration court has always been the one place I could tell people they could feel safe from ICE enforcement... until today.
I have one trusted report of FIFTY ICE officers swarming a CA immigration court. This hasn't hit media yet but advocates have been hearing reports from around the country.
I have one trusted report of FIFTY ICE officers swarming a CA immigration court. This hasn't hit media yet but advocates have been hearing reports from around the country.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL: Plainclothes ICE agents are inside the Immigration court buildings at 26 Federal, 290 Broadway & 201 Varick St, harassing people for their paperwork & detaining them. ALL OUT TO VARICK STREET DETENTION CENTER NOW 2 PM TILL LATE: meet at the garage on the West Houston Street Side
May 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.
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An Atlanta hospital is forcing Adriana Smith—pregnant and declared brain dead—to remain on life support until her fetus can be delivered, possibly months from now.
This isn’t an outlier. Jennifer Weiss-Wolf tells the urgent, harrowing truths of women’s bodies under siege.
This isn’t an outlier. Jennifer Weiss-Wolf tells the urgent, harrowing truths of women’s bodies under siege.
The state of reproductive rights is dire
In the dystopian present, women's bodies are not their own.
contrarian.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
An Atlanta hospital is forcing Adriana Smith—pregnant and declared brain dead—to remain on life support until her fetus can be delivered, possibly months from now.
This isn’t an outlier. Jennifer Weiss-Wolf tells the urgent, harrowing truths of women’s bodies under siege.
This isn’t an outlier. Jennifer Weiss-Wolf tells the urgent, harrowing truths of women’s bodies under siege.
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-WE ARE CURRENTLY DEPORTING TO THIS LOCATION-
The U.S. Department of State has issued a Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory for SOUTH SUDAN, effective March 8, 2025, due to ongoing security threats including crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict. INCLUDES PEOPLE FROM MEXICO, ASIA, ETC.
The U.S. Department of State has issued a Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory for SOUTH SUDAN, effective March 8, 2025, due to ongoing security threats including crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict. INCLUDES PEOPLE FROM MEXICO, ASIA, ETC.
May 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
-WE ARE CURRENTLY DEPORTING TO THIS LOCATION-
The U.S. Department of State has issued a Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory for SOUTH SUDAN, effective March 8, 2025, due to ongoing security threats including crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict. INCLUDES PEOPLE FROM MEXICO, ASIA, ETC.
The U.S. Department of State has issued a Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory for SOUTH SUDAN, effective March 8, 2025, due to ongoing security threats including crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict. INCLUDES PEOPLE FROM MEXICO, ASIA, ETC.
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SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.
FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season
Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.
www.wired.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.
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Their goal is to leave America sicker, poorer, more desperate and less free. Easier to impose Christofascism on a broken people.
May 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Their goal is to leave America sicker, poorer, more desperate and less free. Easier to impose Christofascism on a broken people.
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Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration.
Trump officials say yearly COVID shots will no longer be approved for healthy adults and children
The FDA said Tuesday annual COVID shots will still be regularly approved for seniors and younger people with increased health risks from the virus.
www.pbs.org
May 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration.
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If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.
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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
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Breaking WSJ:
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Breaking WSJ:
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
