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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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The defunding of the NEA, the gutting of the NEH, and the capture of the Kennedy Center are straight from the authoritarian playbook. My piece in TIME explores the chilling implications.
Trump’s Campaign to Defund the Arts—and Rewrite History
"The campaign to defund the arts, capture our museums, and rewrite our history is a prelude to silencing dissent."
time.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The defunding of the NEA, the gutting of the NEH, and the capture of the Kennedy Center are straight from the authoritarian playbook. My piece in TIME explores the chilling implications.
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said in a hearing on Wednesday that the agency was not independent, stunning Democratic lawmakers concerned that President Trump could use the government office as a tool for censorship.
Brendan Carr Says FCC ‘Isn’t Independent’ Amid Concerns of How Trump Might Use the Agency
The comment from Brendan Carr, a Republican, raised concerns from lawmakers about how President Trump might use the agency.
nyti.ms
December 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said in a hearing on Wednesday that the agency was not independent, stunning Democratic lawmakers concerned that President Trump could use the government office as a tool for censorship.
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"Widespread job losses, with declines in employment among manufacturers, construction companies and professional services firms. Losses were concentrated among small businesses..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
Private Employers Cut Jobs in November, the Latest Sign of a Slowdown
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Widespread job losses, with declines in employment among manufacturers, construction companies and professional services firms. Losses were concentrated among small businesses..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
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Breaking News: President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who was convicted in a sweeping drug case last year.
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Breaking News: President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who was convicted in a sweeping drug case last year.
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This should be the the top headline on every major paper and news site right now.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This should be the the top headline on every major paper and news site right now.
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As air traffic controllers face a second missed paycheck next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sounds the alarm that the system is nearing its breaking point.
Travelers Could Face ‘Mass Chaos’ If Shutdown Lasts Another Week, Transportation Secretary Says
As air traffic controllers face a second missed paycheck next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sounds the alarm that the system is nearing its breaking point.
www.forbes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
As air traffic controllers face a second missed paycheck next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sounds the alarm that the system is nearing its breaking point.
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Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.
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Mike Johnson: "On Saturday, things are gonna become very dire."
October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Mike Johnson: "On Saturday, things are gonna become very dire."
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When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
Exclusive: The U.S. government asked a judge to deport a man to Afghanistan, where he expects the Taliban to kill him. Legal experts say the case could have consequences for Afghans the U.S. rescued and promised to support.
Trump administration makes misleading case in high-stakes asylum hearing
Homeland Security asked a judge to deport a man to Afghanistan, where he expects the Taliban to kill him. The case could affect thousands of asylum seekers.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
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🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.
DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.
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As the government shutdown nears the one-month mark, the lapse in federal funding is a looming crisis for vulnerable Americans. For 42 million people who rely on SNAP, also known as food stamps, it means the loss of grocery assistance when food banks are already stretched thin.
Government Shutdown Imperils SNAP and Other Antipoverty Programs
Within days, tens of millions of low-income Americans may lose assistance for food, child care and utilities if the federal government remains shut down.
nyti.ms
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
As the government shutdown nears the one-month mark, the lapse in federal funding is a looming crisis for vulnerable Americans. For 42 million people who rely on SNAP, also known as food stamps, it means the loss of grocery assistance when food banks are already stretched thin.
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“The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.
“The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.
Opinion | Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires
As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.
nyti.ms
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
In Opinion
“The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.
“The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.
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It's Roger Moore's birthday...
I love this quote.
It's like Mr Benn - Hunter.
Shoot animals with a camera.
Never a gun.
I love this quote.
It's like Mr Benn - Hunter.
Shoot animals with a camera.
Never a gun.
October 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It's Roger Moore's birthday...
I love this quote.
It's like Mr Benn - Hunter.
Shoot animals with a camera.
Never a gun.
I love this quote.
It's like Mr Benn - Hunter.
Shoot animals with a camera.
Never a gun.
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It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.
October 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.
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And if you give a mouse a plane….
Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
October 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
And if you give a mouse a plane….
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Reported Trump plan to cut more than 750,000 older Americans off disability:
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare
“I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump vowed in 2024. I have bad news for voters who believed him.
www.msnbc.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reported Trump plan to cut more than 750,000 older Americans off disability:
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
apnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
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Users of Sora, a new app from OpenAI, have deployed artificial intelligence to create strikingly realistic videos of events that never took place. The app, and other tools like it, could become increasingly fertile breeding grounds for disinformation and abuse, experts said.
OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Users of Sora, a new app from OpenAI, have deployed artificial intelligence to create strikingly realistic videos of events that never took place. The app, and other tools like it, could become increasingly fertile breeding grounds for disinformation and abuse, experts said.
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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Tom Homan took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag.
The DOJ shuttered the investigation. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi is chasing down political opponents like NY AG Letitia James.
This is the biggest political corruption scandal in modern history.
The DOJ shuttered the investigation. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi is chasing down political opponents like NY AG Letitia James.
This is the biggest political corruption scandal in modern history.
September 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tom Homan took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag.
The DOJ shuttered the investigation. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi is chasing down political opponents like NY AG Letitia James.
This is the biggest political corruption scandal in modern history.
The DOJ shuttered the investigation. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi is chasing down political opponents like NY AG Letitia James.
This is the biggest political corruption scandal in modern history.
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"As a result of the internal turmoil, 131 leases expired without the government actually vacating the properties. The situation has exposed the agencies -- and therefore taxpayers -- to steep fees..."
www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
September 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"As a result of the internal turmoil, 131 leases expired without the government actually vacating the properties. The situation has exposed the agencies -- and therefore taxpayers -- to steep fees..."
www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
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As Texas flooded, key staff say FEMA’s leader could not be reached
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting administrator, David Richardson, is often inaccessible, several current and former officials say, raising concerns within the agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM