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What’s more American these days than throwing a democratic ally under the bus for Russia?
What’s more American than throwing a democratic ally under a bus for Russia? #trump #putin
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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March 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What’s more American these days than throwing a democratic ally under the bus for Russia?
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HHS has reversed an obscure requirement called the Richardson Waiver, which requires a period of notice and an opportunity for public comment on a wide range of decisions related to “agency management or personnel or to public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.”
Kennedy moves to eliminate notice and public comment requirements for certain HHS decisions | CNN
The US Department of Health and Human Services has reversed an obscure requirement called the Richardson Waiver, which requires a period of notice and an opportunity for public comment on a wide range...
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March 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
HHS has reversed an obscure requirement called the Richardson Waiver, which requires a period of notice and an opportunity for public comment on a wide range of decisions related to “agency management or personnel or to public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.”
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Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump’s second presidency.
The US is ‘no longer the America we used to know,’ warns Germany’s Merz
“The way they’re pardoning people who have been sentenced to years in prison, that will have consequences for America,” Merz cautioned.
www.politico.eu
February 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump’s second presidency.
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Gordon Monson: “If Trump’s intentions run counter to what Jesus preached — and they do — and the church offers a tepid, ambiguous, lawyered-up reaction instead of a strong, clear-cut, Christlike counterstatement, how should the faithful react to that display of duplicity?”
Gordon Monson: LDS immigration response to Trump needs to sound more like Jesus, less like lawyers
Tribune columnist Gordon Monson sees shortcomings in LDS Church statement on undocumented immigrants.
www.sltrib.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Gordon Monson: “If Trump’s intentions run counter to what Jesus preached — and they do — and the church offers a tepid, ambiguous, lawyered-up reaction instead of a strong, clear-cut, Christlike counterstatement, how should the faithful react to that display of duplicity?”
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"I stand before this monument of mutilated dreams, and I cannot help but think, eight decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, how much has humankind actually changed?"
On Inauguration Day, I visited Auschwitz, where my relatives were murdered. It still has a lot to teach us.
Eighty years after its liberation, the camp stands as a monument to leaving unrestrained our basest, darkest tendencies.
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January 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"I stand before this monument of mutilated dreams, and I cannot help but think, eight decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, how much has humankind actually changed?"
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A group founded by the billionaire Koch brothers is on a mission: to extend the massive tax cuts Trump instituted in his first term, and to convince working-class Americans that those cuts benefit them, too—despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Trump tax cuts not just good for billionaires, say billionaires
A memo obtained by the Guardian shows Charles Koch's dark-money network spending big on—sorry, against—class warfare.
www.motherjones.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A group founded by the billionaire Koch brothers is on a mission: to extend the massive tax cuts Trump instituted in his first term, and to convince working-class Americans that those cuts benefit them, too—despite ample evidence to the contrary.
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"If you're at work, do it now and see what happens..."
@mrjamesob.bsky.social has a challenge for anyone that doesn't think Elon Musk performed a Nazi salute at the inauguration.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social has a challenge for anyone that doesn't think Elon Musk performed a Nazi salute at the inauguration.
January 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"If you're at work, do it now and see what happens..."
@mrjamesob.bsky.social has a challenge for anyone that doesn't think Elon Musk performed a Nazi salute at the inauguration.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social has a challenge for anyone that doesn't think Elon Musk performed a Nazi salute at the inauguration.
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Whatever your opinion is of these people, the outgoing president should not feel compelled to issue preemptive pardons to protect people who defended democracy from prosecution - yet another warning sign on our path of democratic erosion www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
January 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Whatever your opinion is of these people, the outgoing president should not feel compelled to issue preemptive pardons to protect people who defended democracy from prosecution - yet another warning sign on our path of democratic erosion www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
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Trump’s inauguration shows the oligarchy is stronger than ever.
Nearly $1 Trillion: The Staggering Combined Net Worth Cheering at Trump’s Inauguration
The ultra-rich have long held immense influence in U.S. politics. But Trump’s inauguration shows oligarchy is stronger than ever.
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January 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Trump’s inauguration shows the oligarchy is stronger than ever.
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Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025
January 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025