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Millions of Americans are facing sticker shock this holiday season, thanks to President Trump’s tariffs
How the Tariffs Stole Christmas
Millions of Americans are facing sticker shock this holiday season.
bloom.bg
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Millions of Americans are facing sticker shock this holiday season, thanks to President Trump’s tariffs
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Fact check: Lindsey Halligan is not and never has been US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Fact check: Lindsey Halligan is not and never has been US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Divorced Friend Burning Through New Hobbies At Unsustainable Rate https://theonion.com/divorced-friend-burning-through-new-hobbies-at-unsustai-1819579466/
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Divorced Friend Burning Through New Hobbies At Unsustainable Rate https://theonion.com/divorced-friend-burning-through-new-hobbies-at-unsustai-1819579466/
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December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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BREAKING: Trump set to announce a $12 billion Socialist aid package for U.S. farmers after his idiotic tariffs forced many into financial hardship.
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
BREAKING: Trump set to announce a $12 billion Socialist aid package for U.S. farmers after his idiotic tariffs forced many into financial hardship.
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The White House is threatening to shut off SNAP funding to states — again. Didn't it learn during the shutdown that Americans think that's unfair?
Using SNAP as Leverage Was a Bad Idea the First Time
During this fall’s government shutdown, when food banks faced lines circling the block, President Donald Trump didn’t seem to understand that he’d become the face of his administration’s refusal to fund SNAP food benefits.
bloom.bg
December 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The White House is threatening to shut off SNAP funding to states — again. Didn't it learn during the shutdown that Americans think that's unfair?
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NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
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Ah, but there's a critical legal distinction: Lisa Cook is a Black woman in a job where Trump wants to put some white guy crony. So it's a crime worthy of prosecution for her, but not for <looks at list> oh hey every Trump official and Trump himself, all of whom have done it.
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Ah, but there's a critical legal distinction: Lisa Cook is a Black woman in a job where Trump wants to put some white guy crony. So it's a crime worthy of prosecution for her, but not for <looks at list> oh hey every Trump official and Trump himself, all of whom have done it.
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Update on one of the 29 wars Trump says he personally ended.
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Update on one of the 29 wars Trump says he personally ended.
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They are going after that college students' family now. JFC www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
They are going after that college students' family now. JFC www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
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47 years ago today
Sid Vicious mug shot after he was arrested by New York police on December 8, 1978 for allegedly murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen on October 12.
#punk #punks #punkrock #sidvicious #nancyspungen #lovekills #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Sid Vicious mug shot after he was arrested by New York police on December 8, 1978 for allegedly murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen on October 12.
#punk #punks #punkrock #sidvicious #nancyspungen #lovekills #history #punkrockhistory #otd
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
47 years ago today
Sid Vicious mug shot after he was arrested by New York police on December 8, 1978 for allegedly murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen on October 12.
#punk #punks #punkrock #sidvicious #nancyspungen #lovekills #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Sid Vicious mug shot after he was arrested by New York police on December 8, 1978 for allegedly murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen on October 12.
#punk #punks #punkrock #sidvicious #nancyspungen #lovekills #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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The Alleged Drug Boat Wasn’t Even Heading to the U.S.: Report trib.al/07CIpeB
The Alleged Drug Boat Wasn’t Even Heading to the U.S.: Report
This new detail eviscerates Pete Hegseth’s argument.
trib.al
December 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The Alleged Drug Boat Wasn’t Even Heading to the U.S.: Report trib.al/07CIpeB
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An immigration judge fired by the Trump administration is suing the attorney general for discrimination, in a case that could change civil service forever. trib.al/Z6CTYwH
The government maintains that the executive branch’s constitutional powers override the civil rights law.
The government maintains that the executive branch’s constitutional powers override the civil rights law.
Trump Claims Right to Discriminate as Pam Bondi Hit With Lawsuit
A fired federal worker is suing the attorney general in a case that could change civil service forever.
trib.al
December 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An immigration judge fired by the Trump administration is suing the attorney general for discrimination, in a case that could change civil service forever. trib.al/Z6CTYwH
The government maintains that the executive branch’s constitutional powers override the civil rights law.
The government maintains that the executive branch’s constitutional powers override the civil rights law.
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As snow spreads across more of the U.S. and meteorological winter begins, the National Weather Service remains hampered by a staffing shortage, despite a Trump administration pledge to restore hundreds of positions cut by Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.
Winter is coming. Not all weather offices are ready.
Vacancies remain in National Weather Service offices across the country, including in some of the coldest, snowiest parts of the country.
wapo.st
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
As snow spreads across more of the U.S. and meteorological winter begins, the National Weather Service remains hampered by a staffing shortage, despite a Trump administration pledge to restore hundreds of positions cut by Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.
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Should we trust decades of science and medical research or RFK Jr.?
Hmm… 🤔
Hmm… 🤔
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Should we trust decades of science and medical research or RFK Jr.?
Hmm… 🤔
Hmm… 🤔
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The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy document has the intellectual incoherence “of the angry autodidact, the anti-vaxxer activist, and the anti-Biden conspiracy theorist,” Eliot A. Cohen argues, but it is still revelatory:
Trump’s Security Strategy Is Incoherent Babble
But mixed in with the ranting are three valuable points.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy document has the intellectual incoherence “of the angry autodidact, the anti-vaxxer activist, and the anti-Biden conspiracy theorist,” Eliot A. Cohen argues, but it is still revelatory:
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A clip of Hegseth discussing the strike the next day with Fox News resurfaced online Monday night. trib.al/eV3UYul
In the clip, Hegseth said he watched the second strike, to kill survivors from their initial attack, on September 2, "I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat."
In the clip, Hegseth said he watched the second strike, to kill survivors from their initial attack, on September 2, "I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat."
Pete Hegseth Already Admitted He Knew About That Second Strike
The defense secretary bragged in September that he watched the strike.
trib.al
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A clip of Hegseth discussing the strike the next day with Fox News resurfaced online Monday night. trib.al/eV3UYul
In the clip, Hegseth said he watched the second strike, to kill survivors from their initial attack, on September 2, "I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat."
In the clip, Hegseth said he watched the second strike, to kill survivors from their initial attack, on September 2, "I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat."
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Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.
December 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.
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LOUISIANA — Bovino and Trump’s racist ICE goons casually waddle through a neighborhood terrorizing brown people
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
LOUISIANA — Bovino and Trump’s racist ICE goons casually waddle through a neighborhood terrorizing brown people
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NYC: “I’m born here! Kings County Hospital! Suck my d*ck!”
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
NYC: “I’m born here! Kings County Hospital! Suck my d*ck!”
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
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The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was reportedly engaged in a nasty years-long custody battle with the White House press secretary’s brother before she was detained by Immigration and Customs enforcement last month. trib.al/sueJHCv
Karoline Leavitt’s Brother Had Grim Custody Fight With ICE-Arrested Ex
ICE arrested Bruna Ferreira, the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, in November.
trib.al
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was reportedly engaged in a nasty years-long custody battle with the White House press secretary’s brother before she was detained by Immigration and Customs enforcement last month. trib.al/sueJHCv
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The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was reportedly engaged in a nasty years-long custody battle with the White House press secretary’s brother before she was detained by Immigration and Customs enforcement last month. trib.al/gWALLSw
Karoline Leavitt’s Brother Had Grim Custody Fight With ICE-Arrested Ex
ICE arrested Bruna Ferreira, the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, in November.
trib.al
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was reportedly engaged in a nasty years-long custody battle with the White House press secretary’s brother before she was detained by Immigration and Customs enforcement last month. trib.al/gWALLSw
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The rule against attacking people “out of the fight” is foundational in U.S. and international law. And there’s no doubt it was crossed.
A suspected Venezuelan smuggling boat was destroyed, survivors remained afloat, and a follow-on strike killed them. trib.al/kQNcK8J
A suspected Venezuelan smuggling boat was destroyed, survivors remained afloat, and a follow-on strike killed them. trib.al/kQNcK8J
December 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The rule against attacking people “out of the fight” is foundational in U.S. and international law. And there’s no doubt it was crossed.
A suspected Venezuelan smuggling boat was destroyed, survivors remained afloat, and a follow-on strike killed them. trib.al/kQNcK8J
A suspected Venezuelan smuggling boat was destroyed, survivors remained afloat, and a follow-on strike killed them. trib.al/kQNcK8J
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Some states have begun to address ballooning commissary prices in prisons. In 2023, California prohibited commissaries from charging more than a 35 percent markup. Previously, markups ranged from 65 to 200 percent.
North Carolina Prison Officials Raise Prices for Those Who Can Least Afford It
An increased markup on canteen goods adds to the financial burden on incarcerated people and their families, highlighting how prison systems squeeze them for revenue.
boltsmag.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some states have begun to address ballooning commissary prices in prisons. In 2023, California prohibited commissaries from charging more than a 35 percent markup. Previously, markups ranged from 65 to 200 percent.