Patty Beardsley Roker
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Patty Beardsley Roker
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For Rachel - Thought she'd like to see what he's planning for the Caribbean and The Bahamas where EVERYTHING is imported! I am an American who lives here - never miss Rachel's show - keep up the fight!!
Patty Roker
www.thenassauguardian.com/business/pro...
Proposed US port fee on Chinese-built cargo ships could elevate costs
Shipping companies that bring cargo into The Bahamas and the Caribbean are facing a multimillion-dollar threat, as the United States Trade Representative (USTR) proposes trade action that will impose ...
www.thenassauguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The first rule of authoritarian politics is that there’s only one source of authority.

Congress will be expected to give up its role in governing, particularly anything that restrains Trump’s choices and desires.
November 13, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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"'Obviously we're still waiting to see where the administration will go, but it does look like our community has been played...'

"'We are very disappointed,' he said..."

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks
U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his Cabinet picks, they tell Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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"Wherever it eventually falls, Trump’s margin of victory in the national popular vote will be one of the smallest in history. Since 1888, only two other presidents who won the Electoral College and the popular vote had smaller margins of victory:” Kennedy and Nixon
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment
The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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In that gig, he would oversee anti human trafficking law enforcement efforts (while also presumably being wide open to blackmail/extortion by anyone with access to the buried report they're trying to suppress).

USA! USA!
November 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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Just absorbing the fact that the first order of business in the new QAnon-inflected MAGA Republican era is to demand that Congress bury its report on sex trafficking and drug allegations against a Republican member of Congress who they're trying to promote to higher office.
November 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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November 16, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Fact.
November 16, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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Love Albert
November 17, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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"According to nearly complete totals, Trump secured his victory by just a cumulative 237,000 votes in three states that, had they gone the other way, would have meant victory for Harris..."

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment
The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:16 PM