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As struggling farmers take on debt, federal bailout may come too late
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
As Struggling Farmers Take On Debt, a Bailout From D.C. May Come Too Late
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Everyone should do this!
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I’m voting yes on prop 50 and I just gave again.
September 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator
June 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Schumer on the Democratic response to Trump's shakedown of Harvard: "We sent him a very strong letter just the other day asking eight very strong questions."
April 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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April 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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ICYMI — SENATOR BOOKER: “I rise to disrupt the business of the senate for as long as I am physically able… because I believe sincerely our country is in crisis.” 🇺🇸
April 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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“In some of these documents, the only thing that was being redacted for the last 20-plus years was someone’s Social Security number...”

"It’s like a first-grade, elementary-level rule of security to redact things like that...”

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Social Security numbers and other private information unmasked in JFK files
The data belongs to more than 200 former congressional staffers and others with connections to decades-old investigations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment.

youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc
Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
March 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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This is so disturbing.
Far-Right Candidate Suggests Murdering Migrants Is 'Cheaper Than Deportation' In Disgusting Post
Absolutely abhorrent.
www.comicsands.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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National Park Service workers who care for the White House were exempt from a wave of mass firings that gutted the agency.

Isn’t that curious?
theintercept.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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It looks like Tesla needs DOGE's services to find fraud and waste

Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing
electrek.co/2025/03/19/t...
Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing
Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...
electrek.co
March 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."
March 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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US may shuttle between sides in drive to achieve quick deal Trump wants, as Moscow sends ex-spy to lead negotiations

Ukraine will have a delegation in Riyadh on the same day the US is holding ceasefire talks there with a Russian negotiating team led by a secretive former FSB chief who played a key…
Ukraine and Russia delegations due in Riyadh on Monday for separate US talks
US may shuttle between sides in drive to achieve quick deal Trump wants, as Moscow sends ex-spy to lead negotiations Ukraine will have a delegation in Riyadh on the same day the US is holding ceasefire talks there with a Russian negotiating team led by a secretive former FSB chief who played a key role in planning Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the delegation would meet with US representatives on Monday and supply a list of energy infrastructure that would be off-limits for strikes by the Russian military. The US representatives would then meet the Russian negotiating team, Zelenskyy said on Thursday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request to block the Department of Government Efficiency's takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace despite being "offended" at how it had transpired.”
www.npr.org/2025/03/18/g...
Judge declines to immediately reverse Trump moves at U.S. Institute of Peace
Founded during the Cold War to project American soft power and foreign policy expertise, the federally funded nonprofit think tank is now in the White House's crosshairs.
www.npr.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM