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Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.
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American inspections of foreign food facilities — which produce everything from crawfish to cookies for the U.S. market — have plummeted to historic lows this year, a ProPublica analysis of federal data shows.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
American inspections of foreign food facilities — which produce everything from crawfish to cookies for the U.S. market — have plummeted to historic lows this year, a ProPublica analysis of federal data shows.
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org
By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org
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In his first term Trump stole, ate, flushed and burned govt documents. Count on any released Epstein material to have been "reviewed" in a similar manner.
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In his first term Trump stole, ate, flushed and burned govt documents. Count on any released Epstein material to have been "reviewed" in a similar manner.
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Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The South Side Community Art Center — a Bronzeville landmark that has been an artistic home for generations of Black creatives — received a $2 million grant to help restore its historic building and construct a major addition.
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Bronzeville's historic arts center's glow-up boosted by new $2 million grant
The Driehaus Foundation gift goes toward restoring and doubling the size of the nation's oldest Black American art center.
trib.al
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The South Side Community Art Center — a Bronzeville landmark that has been an artistic home for generations of Black creatives — received a $2 million grant to help restore its historic building and construct a major addition.
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At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.
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White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
Trump tanked the economy and was best friends with Epstein.
Rep. Jason Smith: "Epstein had been dead for years. It's not something I hear from people when I travel back home in Missouri. They care about the affordability crisis."
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Trump tanked the economy and was best friends with Epstein.
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Congressional Republicans work hard to help Trump usurp Congress’s Constitutional authority, centering all tax, spending, and war-making power in the White House, then wonder why the president isn’t doing anything to help them keep their seats in the midterms.
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Congressional Republicans work hard to help Trump usurp Congress’s Constitutional authority, centering all tax, spending, and war-making power in the White House, then wonder why the president isn’t doing anything to help them keep their seats in the midterms.
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Charlotte reels as immigration raids bring North Carolina city to a ‘standstill’
@us.theguardian.com
@us.theguardian.com
Charlotte reels as immigration raids bring North Carolina city to a ‘standstill’
Thriving business districts in North Carolina city now at a ‘standstill’ after at least 81 were arrested over the weekend
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Charlotte reels as immigration raids bring North Carolina city to a ‘standstill’
@us.theguardian.com
@us.theguardian.com
Credit only, please. No blame.
KERNEN: When Trump keeps saying 'prices are falling,' that's not true. I think you should admit that.
HASSETT: But purchasing power has gone up by about $1,200 this year. It's just astonishing to me that the cost problem is somehow being blamed on us.
HASSETT: But purchasing power has gone up by about $1,200 this year. It's just astonishing to me that the cost problem is somehow being blamed on us.
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Credit only, please. No blame.
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There is an email in which Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos of Donald Trump and “girls in bikinis in my kitchen.”
Kate Bolduan: "The president has not been accused of any crimes or wrongdoing as it relates to Jeffrey Epstein or these files even with these emails being released. That's one thing we need to make clear. There's no accusations of any wrongdoing so far."
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
There is an email in which Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos of Donald Trump and “girls in bikinis in my kitchen.”
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Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality among the elite | Moira Donegan
Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality among the elite | Moira Donegan
Epstein paints Trump as someone he knew intimately. But the documents also reveal how many powerful men confided in him
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality among the elite | Moira Donegan
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"If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship."
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship."
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NEW: Chicago must borrow $283.3M to cover the soaring cost of lawsuits alleging CPD officers committed a wide range of misconduct as part of the city’s 2026 budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson said, calling the move "prudent." @wttw.bsky.social
Chicago Set to Borrow $283.3M to Resolve Police Misconduct Lawsuits
It will likely cost Chicago taxpayers approximately $52 million in interest to borrow that money and pay off during the next five years, according to estimates provided to the Chicago City Council by ...
news.wttw.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
NEW: Chicago must borrow $283.3M to cover the soaring cost of lawsuits alleging CPD officers committed a wide range of misconduct as part of the city’s 2026 budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson said, calling the move "prudent." @wttw.bsky.social
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why is our politics a 24hr reality tv show it is not supposed to be this way.
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
why is our politics a 24hr reality tv show it is not supposed to be this way.
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Trump is now claiming he has “nothing to hide” and that Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files.
The only reason Congress is voting on the Epstein files is because Trump and the DOJ have been blocking their release.
The only reason Congress is voting on the Epstein files is because Trump and the DOJ have been blocking their release.
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Trump is now claiming he has “nothing to hide” and that Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files.
The only reason Congress is voting on the Epstein files is because Trump and the DOJ have been blocking their release.
The only reason Congress is voting on the Epstein files is because Trump and the DOJ have been blocking their release.
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America overwhelmingly supports the survivors’ demand for complete disclosure of what the government knows about the billion-dollar Epstein global trafficking ring. Stop the excuses and deflections—release the file.
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
America overwhelmingly supports the survivors’ demand for complete disclosure of what the government knows about the billion-dollar Epstein global trafficking ring. Stop the excuses and deflections—release the file.
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How she loves her children, she's just like Magda Goebbels
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
How she loves her children, she's just like Magda Goebbels
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I wrote about the stomach clenching reality of work now -- where rolling layoffs are the norm and no one feels secure in their job. Happy Monday! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/r...
It's a rolling layoff world
These silent layoffs are now just a part of doing business.
www.axios.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I wrote about the stomach clenching reality of work now -- where rolling layoffs are the norm and no one feels secure in their job. Happy Monday! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/r...
To achieve greatness again, we must blame Democrats for EVERYTHING.
Brooke Rollins on the Omaha Steaks CEO saying beef prices could rise to $10/pound: "We are suffering from the last administration's literal war on cattle."
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
To achieve greatness again, we must blame Democrats for EVERYTHING.
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US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...