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Average US families now pay $700 more monthly for basics under Trump, as Democratic lawmakers link rising inflation to his tariffs and trade policies.
Average US Family Is Now Paying $700 More Per Month on Basic Needs Under Trump
A report by Democrats on the congressional Joint Economic Committee blames the president’s tariffs for inflation.
truthout.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Average US families now pay $700 more monthly for basics under Trump, as Democratic lawmakers link rising inflation to his tariffs and trade policies.
“Given Odyssey’s track record of operational mismanagement and misuse of state funds in much smaller voucher programs, Texans should sound the alarm about the Comptroller’s decision to entrust Odyssey with $1 billion of our taxpayer dollars and the educational outcomes of our children”
New from @byjustinmiller.bsky.social: Even as the lege debated school vouchers, corporate voucher vendors were already competing behind the scenes for the lucrative contract. A closer look at how Odyssey became the big winner... and whose influence helped make the decision.
Texas’ Top Voucher Vendor Taps Abbott Allies in Contract Bid, Program Rollout
The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.
www.texasobserver.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“Given Odyssey’s track record of operational mismanagement and misuse of state funds in much smaller voucher programs, Texans should sound the alarm about the Comptroller’s decision to entrust Odyssey with $1 billion of our taxpayer dollars and the educational outcomes of our children”
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Liberal Radio Host Forces Hannity To Talk About Epstein, Trump's Cognitive Decline
crooksandliars.com
Liberal Radio Host Forces Hannity To Talk About Epstein, Trump's Cognitive Decline | Crooks and Liars
twp.ai
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Liberal Radio Host Forces Hannity To Talk About Epstein, Trump's Cognitive Decline
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I love how these idiots are talking about it like it's some kind of policy issue.
He raped minors ffs, act accordingly.
He raped minors ffs, act accordingly.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I love how these idiots are talking about it like it's some kind of policy issue.
He raped minors ffs, act accordingly.
He raped minors ffs, act accordingly.
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The whole war on “woke” and “cancel culture” was contrived to protect the worst people in our society and make it possible for them to keep doing despicable things to other people.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The whole war on “woke” and “cancel culture” was contrived to protect the worst people in our society and make it possible for them to keep doing despicable things to other people.
"This lawsuit is a cheap political stunt," Menefee said…
"At a time when the president has unleashed ICE agents to terrorist immigrant neighborhoods, deport U.S. citizens and trample the law, it's shameful that Republican state officials are joining in instead of standing up for Texans."
"At a time when the president has unleashed ICE agents to terrorist immigrant neighborhoods, deport U.S. citizens and trample the law, it's shameful that Republican state officials are joining in instead of standing up for Texans."
There is nothing illegal—or unconstitutional—about funding legal support to ensure fairness in the courts. This lawsuit is a political stunt, wasting taxpayer dollars at a time when our communities need integrity, not spectacle.
Full article: www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
Full article: www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
Texas sues Harris County over $1.35M deportation defense fund - UPI.com
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Harris County for allocating $1.35 million to oppose federal deportation efforts.
www.upi.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"This lawsuit is a cheap political stunt," Menefee said…
"At a time when the president has unleashed ICE agents to terrorist immigrant neighborhoods, deport U.S. citizens and trample the law, it's shameful that Republican state officials are joining in instead of standing up for Texans."
"At a time when the president has unleashed ICE agents to terrorist immigrant neighborhoods, deport U.S. citizens and trample the law, it's shameful that Republican state officials are joining in instead of standing up for Texans."
“Research by Round and her colleagues found that TWC ordered $99 million in wages ordered due across over 57,000 cases between 2010 and 2020, but 80 percent of those wages had yet to be recovered as of 2024.”
Featured story: Texas workers have long struggled with wage theft and the state’s willingness and ability to crack down on scofflaw employers has been relatively minimal. Now, rates of suspected wage theft are increasing, and the state labor law enforcement system is straining to keep up.
Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints
State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at stake.
www.texasobserver.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
“Research by Round and her colleagues found that TWC ordered $99 million in wages ordered due across over 57,000 cases between 2010 and 2020, but 80 percent of those wages had yet to be recovered as of 2024.”
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Fox News is VERY upset with politicians who make unrealistic promises
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Fox News is VERY upset with politicians who make unrealistic promises
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In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.
In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.
August 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🧵🧵🧵
In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.
In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.
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Kickstarter update! I’ve made my entire selfpubbed backlist (23 ebooks, both from early in my career to my 3 final books in my TDD SEAL Team10 series, the final one, BlameItOnRio from 2023) ebook “add-ons” at $3 each, & backers are grabbing them along w #JulesCassidyPI. Win/win! #Romancelandia
Hey Bluesky #Romancelandia. My Kickstarter for Jules Cassidy, P.I. (Troubleshooters #20) is live. www.kickstarter.com/projects/suz...
Jules Cassidy, PI
A Troubleshooters Bromance Novel featuring Jules Cassidy and Sam Starrett
www.kickstarter.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Kickstarter update! I’ve made my entire selfpubbed backlist (23 ebooks, both from early in my career to my 3 final books in my TDD SEAL Team10 series, the final one, BlameItOnRio from 2023) ebook “add-ons” at $3 each, & backers are grabbing them along w #JulesCassidyPI. Win/win! #Romancelandia
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Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
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New: The families of five Camp Mystic campers and two counselors who died during the July 4 flooding filed a lawsuit against the camp on Monday, alleging that camp officials’ failure to evacuate the camp caused their children’s deaths.
Parents of flood victims suing Camp Mystic for negligence
The lawsuit, filed Monday, alleges Camp Mystic officials’ lack of planning and stalled evacuation contributed to the deaths of several children and counselors.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
New: The families of five Camp Mystic campers and two counselors who died during the July 4 flooding filed a lawsuit against the camp on Monday, alleging that camp officials’ failure to evacuate the camp caused their children’s deaths.
“After the [Austin’s CapMetro Red Line] opened in 2010, areas within a quarter mile of the line saw a 62% increase in jobs and a 154% increase in high-paying jobs.”
A draft of the first-of-its-kind Texas Department of Transportation plan released in October outlines the need for boosted public transportation in rural and smaller urban areas as well as a greater array of travel options, including rail, between the state’s major urban centers.
TxDOT: Car-dominant Texas needs more public transit
As the state’s population grows, more travel options are needed in rural and smaller urban areas and between major cities, according to a draft of the first-of-its-kind plan.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
“After the [Austin’s CapMetro Red Line] opened in 2010, areas within a quarter mile of the line saw a 62% increase in jobs and a 154% increase in high-paying jobs.”
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
In one court they’re arguing a sandwich is practically lethal while standing up in another saying tear gas is no biggie…
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro wasted our money pursuing sandwich thrower
To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.
To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.
Opinion | The sandwich thrower was wrong. But Jeanine Pirro was, too.
To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In one court they’re arguing a sandwich is practically lethal while standing up in another saying tear gas is no biggie…
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The blue colors indicate air temperatures at or below freezing Monday morning. Cover those plants if that includes you! Wind chills will feel even colder.
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The blue colors indicate air temperatures at or below freezing Monday morning. Cover those plants if that includes you! Wind chills will feel even colder.
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reposting here bc it’s only on the other site but…
5 years ago, I worked at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
5 years ago, I worked at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
reposting here bc it’s only on the other site but…
5 years ago, I worked at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
5 years ago, I worked at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
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Here's how to turn it off.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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“Here’s the promise I want every parent and caregiver to hear: your urge is not your identity. Your reflex is not your destiny. Your body learned to equate control with safety because it had to. But you can teach it something better now.”
So many parents ask me how to stop hitting their children. First, you have to understand what’s really happening in your body. Hitting doesn’t “work” because it teaches a child anything. It “works” because it temporarily calms YOU.
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
Hitting a Child ‘Works.’ But Only for the Parent’s Body, and Neuroscience Explains Why.
This Substack is reader-supported.
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“Here’s the promise I want every parent and caregiver to hear: your urge is not your identity. Your reflex is not your destiny. Your body learned to equate control with safety because it had to. But you can teach it something better now.”
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NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
“Texas…has suffered several of the worst gun massacres in recent memory, from a Walmart in El Paso to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, but nonetheless, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the state GOP’s Anti-Red Flag Act into law in June.”
The red flag policy follows the worst mass killing in the state’s history.
Maine voters approve new law to prevent suicides and mass shootings
The red flag policy follows the worst mass killing in the state's history.
www.motherjones.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“Texas…has suffered several of the worst gun massacres in recent memory, from a Walmart in El Paso to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, but nonetheless, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the state GOP’s Anti-Red Flag Act into law in June.”
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At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
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“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.