Yes, gifts are more expensive. Yes, it’s inflation. Yes, it’s Trump’s tariffs. Believe your eyes and your wallets
December 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Yes, gifts are more expensive. Yes, it’s inflation. Yes, it’s Trump’s tariffs. Believe your eyes and your wallets
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Stop voting for people who refuse to pass any gun safety legislation
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Stop voting for people who refuse to pass any gun safety legislation
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The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter. nbcnews.to/4pRUOh8
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter. nbcnews.to/4pRUOh8
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The total cost in salaries, benefits for up to 1,000 Tennessee National Guard personnel in Memphis could reach $26M annually, according to a federal memo filed in court, reports @awadwhani.bsky.gmail.
Feds ink millions of dollars in contracts to feed, house National Guard in Memphis • Tennessee Lookout
The federal government has entered millions of dollars of contracts to purchase food and lodging for the Tennessee National Guard in Memphis.
tennesseelookout.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The total cost in salaries, benefits for up to 1,000 Tennessee National Guard personnel in Memphis could reach $26M annually, according to a federal memo filed in court, reports @awadwhani.bsky.gmail.
Grateful that Lee Harris, the county mayor, brought this lawsuit questioning the state constitutionality of calling up the National Guard. Millions spent to have them stand around at tourist spots and not where crime occurs
Tennessee state judge blocks National Guard deployment to Memphis reut.rs/3K72v3G
Tennessee state judge blocks National Guard deployment to Memphis
A Tennessee state court judge temporarily blocked on Monday Republican Governor Bill Lee's deployment of National Guard troops to the city of Memphis, ruling that the use of troops was likely not legal under the state's militia law.
reut.rs
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Grateful that Lee Harris, the county mayor, brought this lawsuit questioning the state constitutionality of calling up the National Guard. Millions spent to have them stand around at tourist spots and not where crime occurs
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For those keeping track at home, this make 18 politicians convicted of corruption charges now pardoned by President Trump.
President Trump pardons former TN House Speaker Glen Casada, chief of staff, after corruption convictions
President Donald Trump has pardoned the disgraced former Speaker of the Tennessee House Glen Casada and his co-conspirator after their corruption convictions and sentencing.
www.wsmv.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
For those keeping track at home, this make 18 politicians convicted of corruption charges now pardoned by President Trump.
Citizens get arrested when they are targeting people based on skin color and accents
📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Citizens get arrested when they are targeting people based on skin color and accents
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"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."
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The East Wing Obscenity
This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
The East Wing Obscenity
Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The East Wing Obscenity
This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
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Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is insane. Pure megalomania
October 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is insane. Pure megalomania
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
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In Mississippi, thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration today in Corinth, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Hernando, Jackson, Oxford, Starkville and Tupelo.
Here's what you need to know about today's rallies.
www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippia...
Here's what you need to know about today's rallies.
www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippia...
Mississippians to Protest Trump at 'No Kings' Rallies in 8 Cities Saturday
Big crowds of protesters are expected across the United States, including in eight Mississippi cities, against President Trump.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In Mississippi, thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration today in Corinth, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Hernando, Jackson, Oxford, Starkville and Tupelo.
Here's what you need to know about today's rallies.
www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippia...
Here's what you need to know about today's rallies.
www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippia...
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🎯 SEN. YARBRO: “Historically bad decision by Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in the hell this is.”
October 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🎯 SEN. YARBRO: “Historically bad decision by Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in the hell this is.”
So disappointing
US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’
Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
So disappointing
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👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
September 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals!
Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗
Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals!
Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗
Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗
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Today @annamerlan.bsky.social and I have a piece about Trump's autism announcement, along with its weird connections to wellness people who are obsessed with folate deficiencies (and selling supplements for this supposed problem, naturally): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The bonkers wellness myths that fueled Trump’s autism announcement
Tylenol, folate deficiency, and other still-undetermined “environmental factors” were all to blame.
www.motherjones.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Today @annamerlan.bsky.social and I have a piece about Trump's autism announcement, along with its weird connections to wellness people who are obsessed with folate deficiencies (and selling supplements for this supposed problem, naturally): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...
Brendan Carr Isn't Going to Stop Until Someone Makes Him
Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop.
www.wired.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...
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Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.
September 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.
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David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.