Ben Swan
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Ben Swan
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SLPO
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July 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
TACO
🔴 ⚠️ BREAKING: US extends tariff pause on some Chinese goods to August 31st.
June 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Would love someone to do a reported piece on what it means to have a governing class stuffed with guys on Barry-Bonds-in-2001 levels of gear.
May 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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This passed 215-214. We're going to lose our healthcare because 3 senior Dems have died this year. We lost Roe because Ginsburg didn't retire. We lost the election because Joe ran for reelection.

Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.
The Republican-passed “big beautiful bill” takes away health insurance coverage from ALL transgender people, regardless of age.

HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
www.advocate.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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With Connolly's death, six House Democrats have died in office in the past 13 months. Democrats die in office at twice the rate of Republicans: of the 45 members of Congress who have died in office since the year 2000, 30 have been Democrats.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of United States Congress members who died in office (2000–present) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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So instead of trade deals he’s just going to publicly negotiate with himself until he walks back the tariffs?

We get a couple of months of supply chain shock and nothing to show for it besides damaged relationships across the world.
May 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
lol
🔴 Trump: Stop asking how many deals we're signing.
May 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Best news I’ve seen in days.
May 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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BREAKING: U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter, a steep downturn from growth last year
April 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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this is, by definition, not an "immigration crackdown"
April 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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October 26, 2023 at 7:04 PM