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Trump administration to issue policy change making deep cuts to homeless housing program
Trump administration to issue policy change making deep cuts to homeless housing program
More than half of the 2026 funding for the program will be shifted from permanent housing to transitional housing with work and service requirements.
dlvr.it
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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U.S. troops across the Middle East are on high alert as Iran and its proxies threaten retaliation following recent escalations.
Can Iran attack the US now and how (and where) can it do it?
U.S. troops across the Middle East are on high alert as Iran and its proxies threaten retaliation following recent escalations.
l.euronews.com
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Court blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms #usnews
Court blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms
The ruling marked a major win for civil liberties groups who say the mandate violates the separation of church and state.
www.live5news.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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BREAKING - The U.S. appeared to maneuver B-2 stealth bombers and multiple refueling tankers in the Pacific ahead of President Donald Trump's decision on taking action in the conflict with Iran. In addition, three more refueling tankers took off from Hawaii around 10:20 a.m. Saturday.
June 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This May 22 dinner is a high crime and misdemeanor. A president of the United States can’t use the office to enrich himself in this way, from potentially anonymous donors for whom he might do favors. This is as textbook as corruption gets.
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.
newrepublic.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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NYT and Washington Post, put your best reporters on this and place their stories on your front pages. MSNBC, hammer on this—you haven’t been. Democrats, talk about this every day, several times a day. Do not let Trump’s sewer standards jade us.
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.
newrepublic.com
May 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s department.
RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s…
wrd.cm
May 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Donald Trump celebrated 100 days in office by hosting a Cabinet meeting that would make Kim Jong Un blush.

It's time for @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social and his American Week:
Pyongyang on the Potomac | Simon Marks' American Week on LBC
YouTube video by LBC
www.youtube.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) broke down in tears while being sentenced to 87 months in prison for fraud, CNN's Brynn Gingras told anchors Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar on Friday.
'Dramatic!' Witness describes judge berating sobbing George Santos in court
Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) broke down in tears while being sentenced to 87 months in prison for fraud, CNN's Brynn Gingras told anchors Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar on Friday.Santos had barely even been elected when it was revealed he had lied about virtually his entire campaign ...
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April 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A charity tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis, gave $10 million to nonprofit political committees that helped the governor defeat a ballot measure.
Why Did a Charity Tied to Casey DeSantis Suddenly Get a $10 Million Boost?
The Hope Florida Foundation quietly gave the money to two nonprofit political committees that helped Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies defeat a ballot measure.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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April 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
April 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Rep. AOC is accusing Trump of manipulating the market to insiders' benefit.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has called for an investigation into Trump’s volatile change of course and Sen. Adam Schiff warned against the "dangerous opportunities for insider trading.”
AOC Calls Out Suspicious Stock Trades in Congress Amid Tariff Fiasco
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is using Trump’s tariffs whiplash to call for an end to insider trading in Congress.
newrepublic.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Trump is openly bragging about just how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his dangerous tariff gambit.

“He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to financial investor Charles Schwab and Roger Penske, a Nascar team owner, respectively.
Trump Brags About How Tariff Pause Made His Friends Even Richer
Donald Trump’s decision to pause his tariffs sent the stock market soaring.
newrepublic.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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In addition to firing researchers and pulling funds, the Trump administration is also inverting science.
The Trump Administration Is Turning Science Against Itself
In addition to firing researchers and pulling funds, the Trump administration is also inverting science.
wrd.cm
April 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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“That’s what the leaders of these foreign countries are learning,” Rampell said. “You don’t actually have to give Trump anything. You have to let him announce victory on TV.”
Trump Roasted Over Huge Catch in His Canada and Mexico Tariff “Wins”
Donald Trump is being hit with a massive fact-check over his claims about the success of his tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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surely there is some system of measurement or something that we can use to see how big these things are?
January 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Dear Greenland:

I invite you to look into how the United States has "cherished" and "protected" Puerto Rico, especially after Hurricane Maria.

You'll thank me.
January 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Proud of @yalesph.bsky.social for this work on vaccine safety. ❤️

Please read, ask questions, and share 🦠🧪🩺🛟😷
January 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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If Republicans had spent as much energy in the past 4 years helping Americans as they did confecting the fiction that what happened on Jan 6, 2021 wasn't a shocking, deadly outrage, ordinary Americans would have universal healthcare by now.

I'm kidding! Republicans don't help ordinary Americans.
January 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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CARTOONS OF THE DAY 🫤

(Cartoonists are rallying around @anntelnaes.bsky.social as she leaves the @washingtonpost.com )
January 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
January 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.
Could Humans Have a Brain Microbiome?
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.
www.wired.com
January 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault!
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January 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM