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Trump has purchased at least $103 million worth of corporate and municipal bonds since he took office again, according to new filings from the Office of Government Ethics.
 
Trump made about 690 purchases from Jan. 21 through Aug. 1.
 
The active trading by a president of the U.S. is unprecedented.
Trump bought more than $100 million in bonds since January, filings show
The purchases could let the president make money off companies and local entities that could be affected by his agenda.
www.nbcnews.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
August 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell
Big Balls
E.J. Antoni
🔥WATCH: “This is not a TV show. This is real life.”

Turns out Dean Cain’s kryptonite is @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social —spend the 2 mins👇🏽

The policy is self-defeating.
The tactics un-American.

Big difference between controlling the border vs. making this a place nobody wants to come 🇺🇸
August 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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#ICYMI: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…
www.propublica.org
August 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Breaking Bloomberg:

The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files.

"An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter."
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files
The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....
www.bloomberg.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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FLAG: Trump just directed his team to fire the Commissioner of Labor Statistics over the latest jobs numbers reports.
August 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.
Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.
Among other things, he removed $150 million slated to improve modeling, predictions, and public communications.
www.motherjones.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The video of John Spitzberg's arrest has been shared widely across social platforms, becoming a crystalizing moment for those protesting the Trump administration.
The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old veteran John Spitzberg at the Capitol
The video of John Spitzberg's arrest has been shared widely across social platforms, becoming a crystalizing moment for those protesting the Trump administration.
n.pr
June 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump admin broke the law when it withheld funding for the nation's libraries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
Watchdog Finds Trump Administration Broke Law by Withholding Library Funds
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.
When an American Town Massacred Its Chinese Immigrants
In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. A hundred and forty years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.
nyer.cm
June 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Just gonna leave this here...
I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
www.motherjones.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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UPDATE:

Reuters: CBO ESTIMATES TAX AND SPENDING BILL WOULD INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE BY 11 MILLION IN 2034
June 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not exist.
White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' report
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not exist.
n.pr
May 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Wow, WH Liar Barbie drops a whopper about the made-up studies that were cited in RFK Jr.'s MAHA report:

“I understand there were some formatting issues with the MAHA report that are being addressed..."

Making up info = "formatting issues"

How are her pants not blazing w/ fire from all the lies??
The Imaginary Studies Cited In RFK Jr.'s 'MAHA' Report Were 'Formatting Errors,' Karoline Leavitt Helpfully Explains!
Robots dreaming of electric drug studies.
open.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Iowa constituent: "People will die" because of Republicans' cuts to Medicaid.

Joni Ernst: "Well, we all are going to die."

Holy shit. This chick needs to be sent back to castrating hogs.

Nathan Sage, a Marine mechanic raised in a trailer park, is the candidate to do it.

And we can help him!!
May 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst just got heckled at a town hall over Medicaid cuts in the GOP budget bill.

One attendee appeared to yell out: "People are going to die!"

Ernst responded: "Well, we are all going to die."
May 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been called "Trump before there was a Trump." Here's why his reshaping of Hungary's political institutions inspires U.S. conservatives.
Hungary inspires U.S. conservatives. Its leader is seen as running a 'dictatorship'
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been called "Trump before there was a Trump." Here's why his reshaping of Hungary's political institutions inspires U.S. conservatives.
n.pr
May 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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The ruling from a three-judge panel at the New York-based Court of International Trade came after several lawsuits arguing that Trump has exceeded his authority.
Federal trade court blocks Trump's emergency tariffs, saying he overstepped authority
A federal trade court ruled Wednesday that many of the tariffs President Trump has imposed so far exceeded his power under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act.
n.pr
May 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal trade court blocks President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under emergency powers law.
May 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: Court says Trump doesn't have the authority to set tariffs
Trump's sweeping global tariffs blocked by federal court
The U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling could bring the trade war to a screeching halt.
trib.al
May 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission.
70% of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division lawyers are leaving because of Trump's reshaping
Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission.
www.npr.org
May 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM