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What--wait... eliminating tariffs on certain food items will lower their cost in stores?
He has to admit now that WE are paying the tariffs
www.thedailybeast.com/taco-trump-a...
He has to admit now that WE are paying the tariffs
www.thedailybeast.com/taco-trump-a...
TACO Trump Plots Humiliating U-Turn on Beloved Policy
The White House says it’s just being “nimble” and “nuanced.”
www.thedailybeast.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
What--wait... eliminating tariffs on certain food items will lower their cost in stores?
He has to admit now that WE are paying the tariffs
www.thedailybeast.com/taco-trump-a...
He has to admit now that WE are paying the tariffs
www.thedailybeast.com/taco-trump-a...
Bondi: “California’s redistricting scheme is a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process...”
Texas did it first, so where is she on *that*?
Texas did it first, so where is she on *that*?
Justice Department Sues To Block California U.S. House Map In Clash That Could Tip Control Of Congress
The Justice Department has sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters, joining a legal battle that could determine which party wins control of the U.S. House in ...
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Bondi: “California’s redistricting scheme is a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process...”
Texas did it first, so where is she on *that*?
Texas did it first, so where is she on *that*?
"What might have been a wretched, career-threatening crisis for any another political leader became just another passing storm in the room."
This was just the first day. There will be more to come.
This was just the first day. There will be more to come.
Nothing to see here: Trump press chief in full denial mode over Epstein
Karoline Leavitt defied the laws of moral physics to insist that the true wrongdoers were Joe Biden and the Democrats
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"What might have been a wretched, career-threatening crisis for any another political leader became just another passing storm in the room."
This was just the first day. There will be more to come.
This was just the first day. There will be more to come.
This man's narcissism and his cult following's adoration is nauseating. This coin is proposed for America's 250th birthday. Ran out of gift articles.
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This man's narcissism and his cult following's adoration is nauseating. This coin is proposed for America's 250th birthday. Ran out of gift articles.
“squandering an enormous amount of talent.”
Insecure man at the top can't have people with more experience and expertise around--especially if they don't bow down to the man in the WH
Insecure man at the top can't have people with more experience and expertise around--especially if they don't bow down to the man in the WH
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“squandering an enormous amount of talent.”
Insecure man at the top can't have people with more experience and expertise around--especially if they don't bow down to the man in the WH
Insecure man at the top can't have people with more experience and expertise around--especially if they don't bow down to the man in the WH
I want to see every New York paper have this count every day on the front page. Hopefully other papers will follow suit. Get the House GOP back to work!
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @buffalonews.com @timesunion.com @nydailynews.com @nypost.com
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @buffalonews.com @timesunion.com @nydailynews.com @nypost.com
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I want to see every New York paper have this count every day on the front page. Hopefully other papers will follow suit. Get the House GOP back to work!
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @buffalonews.com @timesunion.com @nydailynews.com @nypost.com
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @buffalonews.com @timesunion.com @nydailynews.com @nypost.com
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“At its peak, the enslaved population’s market value exceeded the worth of all the other industrial capital in the country, which would include railroads and factories…Slave owners mortgaged their human property so they could buy or improve land and to carry out other investments…”
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“At its peak, the enslaved population’s market value exceeded the worth of all the other industrial capital in the country, which would include railroads and factories…Slave owners mortgaged their human property so they could buy or improve land and to carry out other investments…”
The dead deserve to be found.
Just thinking back to 9/11 recovery efforts how complicated the process was to find and identify remains in the 1.5 million tons of debris that was transported to Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Around 40% are still unidentified all these years later.
Just thinking back to 9/11 recovery efforts how complicated the process was to find and identify remains in the 1.5 million tons of debris that was transported to Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Around 40% are still unidentified all these years later.
The grim task of recovering thousands of bodies from the rubble of Gaza
Relatives and experts tell of the human and societal need to find and identify the dead, while images and data shed light on the scale of the job
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The dead deserve to be found.
Just thinking back to 9/11 recovery efforts how complicated the process was to find and identify remains in the 1.5 million tons of debris that was transported to Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Around 40% are still unidentified all these years later.
Just thinking back to 9/11 recovery efforts how complicated the process was to find and identify remains in the 1.5 million tons of debris that was transported to Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Around 40% are still unidentified all these years later.
This isn't happening for no reason.
BTW Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands should get statehood.
BTW Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands should get statehood.
How the US is preparing a Caribbean staging ground near Venezuela
The US military is upgrading a Cold War base in the Caribbean it abandoned 20 years ago. Experts say it’s a step towards sustained operations in the region.
www.reuters.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This isn't happening for no reason.
BTW Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands should get statehood.
BTW Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands should get statehood.
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@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
This is bananas
DOJ Suspends 2 Prosecutors Who Said 'Mob Of Rioters' Instigated Jan. 6 Riot
Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White were put on administrative leave hours after filing a sentencing memo for an insurrectionist convicted on separate charges.
www.huffpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is bananas
Ugh--we know what this means...
Trump Purges Commission Overseeing His D.C. Makeover
The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, and is set to replace them with loyalists.
www.huffpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ugh--we know what this means...
Why would NOAA be understaffed, you ask? Well, ask DOGE. And don’t forget to thank the recently fired and forced into retirement for coming back to help out in this hour of need.
Volunteers Step In to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Why would NOAA be understaffed, you ask? Well, ask DOGE. And don’t forget to thank the recently fired and forced into retirement for coming back to help out in this hour of need.
Sounds like good advice.
“...it is 2025. You are the current sitting president. All of your legal challenges failed over and over and over again. You’ve never proven that there was any significant fraud in the 2020 election. Grow up. It is time to govern. Reopen the government. Do your job."
“...it is 2025. You are the current sitting president. All of your legal challenges failed over and over and over again. You’ve never proven that there was any significant fraud in the 2020 election. Grow up. It is time to govern. Reopen the government. Do your job."
Trump Deserter Gives Dems Roadmap to Beat President
Sarah Matthews was Trump’s deputy press secretary from June 2020 to January 2021.
www.thedailybeast.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Sounds like good advice.
“...it is 2025. You are the current sitting president. All of your legal challenges failed over and over and over again. You’ve never proven that there was any significant fraud in the 2020 election. Grow up. It is time to govern. Reopen the government. Do your job."
“...it is 2025. You are the current sitting president. All of your legal challenges failed over and over and over again. You’ve never proven that there was any significant fraud in the 2020 election. Grow up. It is time to govern. Reopen the government. Do your job."
Guess this means $20B coming their way, with a possible additional $20B. Wonder if this had anything to do with how the people voted? Meanwhile, no more SNAP for November.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Javier Milei hails ‘tipping point’ as his far-right party wins Argentina’s midterm elections
Result falls short of giving Milei a congressional majority but surprises many analysts after series of scandals
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Guess this means $20B coming their way, with a possible additional $20B. Wonder if this had anything to do with how the people voted? Meanwhile, no more SNAP for November.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Please help or boost if you're able! One Spirit Lakota is raising funds for the food pantry in anticipation of EBT cards possibly not getting filled for November due to the shutdown.
Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.
Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.
Feeding the Lakota
The Pine Ridge Reservation is a food desert, and many of the Lakota people there struggle with food insecurity. Even when people on the rez can afford food, they often struggle to find healthy, fresh ...
chuffed.org
October 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Please help or boost if you're able! One Spirit Lakota is raising funds for the food pantry in anticipation of EBT cards possibly not getting filled for November due to the shutdown.
Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.
Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.
The plans keeps changing. I hope this never gets built. I hope there's someone or some group who finds a way to keep this project from getting started.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump's Plans for the East Wing Keep Changing. Here's a Look. (Gift Article)
Here’s what we know about Mr. Trump’s plans to remodel the torn-down East Wing.
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The plans keeps changing. I hope this never gets built. I hope there's someone or some group who finds a way to keep this project from getting started.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
House Dems have to get louder about the shady money shifting and spending
Trump Is Making A Shutdown Deal Damn Near Impossible
What’s the point of making a deal when Trump will either refuse to spend money or decide to spend that money on something else?
www.huffpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
House Dems have to get louder about the shady money shifting and spending
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$230 Million.
Funny, that's almost the exact cost of his new "ballroom".
Funny, that's almost the exact cost of his new "ballroom".
October 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
$230 Million.
Funny, that's almost the exact cost of his new "ballroom".
Funny, that's almost the exact cost of his new "ballroom".
@maddow.msnbc.com was right. Imagine how many *more* people would have come out for #NoKings if this demolition had started in the days *before* the march. And how much more anger there would have been.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
@maddow.msnbc.com was right. Imagine how many *more* people would have come out for #NoKings if this demolition had started in the days *before* the march. And how much more anger there would have been.
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This guy. Does he really think Trump is the greatest or does every statement like this that he makes chip away at his psychological/emotional health?
Mike Johnson Praises Trump Poop Video, Craps On 'No Kings' Protesters
The House speaker praised Trump's social media savvy after the president posted a video depicting protesters drenched in liquid excrement.
www.huffpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This guy. Does he really think Trump is the greatest or does every statement like this that he makes chip away at his psychological/emotional health?
Imagine being Zelenskyy, trying to get the support of the US from this man, and being constantly jerked around.
"It is unclear whether this reflects yet another policy shift from Trump or... merely a random idea that popped into his head and will disappear just as quickly."
"It is unclear whether this reflects yet another policy shift from Trump or... merely a random idea that popped into his head and will disappear just as quickly."
Trump Says Putin Should Be Allowed To Keep The Land He Has Seized In Ukraine
The president met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, and later stated that the fighting should end and that territorial lines should be where the battle lines are today.
www.huffpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Imagine being Zelenskyy, trying to get the support of the US from this man, and being constantly jerked around.
"It is unclear whether this reflects yet another policy shift from Trump or... merely a random idea that popped into his head and will disappear just as quickly."
"It is unclear whether this reflects yet another policy shift from Trump or... merely a random idea that popped into his head and will disappear just as quickly."
Got a chance to capture the best sign at #NoKingsNYC at the end of the march
October 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Got a chance to capture the best sign at #NoKingsNYC at the end of the march
So now Trump decides if a sentence is too long or severe for the crime, especially if he's moved by your accounts of horrible treatment published in a local paper.
Next, we'll see Santos installed in the WH in some capacity.
Next, we'll see Santos installed in the WH in some capacity.
Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
So now Trump decides if a sentence is too long or severe for the crime, especially if he's moved by your accounts of horrible treatment published in a local paper.
Next, we'll see Santos installed in the WH in some capacity.
Next, we'll see Santos installed in the WH in some capacity.
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BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.
'Startled' judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes
A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.
bit.ly
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.