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Trump Administration Removed Plaques Honoring Black WWII Heroes from Cemetery In 2025, the Trump administration’s war-memorial agency removed Dutch plaques honoring Black U.S. World War II liberators, an act that coincided with Washington’s rollback of DEI programs.

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‘He’s Actually Weakening the Economy’: Why Trump’s Strategy May Fail A top economist says Trump is doing industrial policy all wrong.

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NEWS: Catholic Bishops Turn on Donald Trump in Historic Condemnation Catholic Bishops turn on Donald Trump in historic condemnation. Donald Trump refuses to answer questions about Epstein again. An Epstein survivor speaks out to me. The news you missed.

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Damn right. Pay ‘em now this America. Who hell does he think he is? Starving people in America.

Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie–Or Hero? The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.

Yesterday, a D.C. jury found the man who threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol officer not guilty on a misdemeanor assault charge.

@mollyroberts.bsky.social reports on the proceedings that led to the acquittal:

Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Trump administration to start funding full SNAP benefits for November A 4% reduction in domestic flights went into effect at 6 a.m. ET following an order last night from the Federal Aviation Administration. Follow for live news updates.

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Supreme Court allows Trump to limit passport sex markers for trans and nonbinary Americans | CNN Politics The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to require the sex designation on US passports to align with a traveler’s biological sex, a blow to transgender and nonbinary Americans w...

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Happy Halloween!

BREAKING: There has been another ICE raid at a Home Depot today — this time in Phoenix.

In this Huddled Masses exclusive, @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social reported that immigration groups are weighing a boycott of the chain.

I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…

Elon Musk's "polarizing and partisan actions" hurt Tesla sales, Yale study finds Elon Musk's partisan stances and foray into politics in recent years have dented the electric vehicle maker's business, Yale researchers say.

Yale economists say the “Musk partisan effect” may have cost Tesla up to 1.26 million vehicle sales, as Musk alienated his most loyal buyers—Democrats, who are far more likely than Republicans to purchase a Tesla.
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Two federal judges require Trump administration tap into emergency funds to partially cover food stamp benefits | CNN Politics Two federal judges said Friday that the Trump administration must tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to at least partially cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in N...

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MAGA Secretary’s TikTok Victory Lap Blows Up in His Face The timeline on a TikTok deal keeps getting pushed back, back, and further back.

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King Charles to remove Prince Andrew's titles and eject him from Royal Lodge The royal will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace has said.

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Supreme Court wants more time and information before deciding if Trump can send National Guard to Chicago

Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help | CNN Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.

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Good Work If You Can Keep It Before Trump dismantled the bureaucracy, working for the government was an honorable job

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National Guard troops in Illinois can remain federalized but can’t be deployed, appeals court rules | CNN A federal US appeals court ruled Saturday the National Guard troops in Illinois can remain under federal control but can’t be deployed as the appeals process continues in the ongoing fight between the...

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Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 10 On Oct. 10 at 4pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bow...

ICYMI: Watch @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, Loren Voss, @annabower.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social discuss the legal challenges to the federalization and deployment of National Guard in Portland and Chicago, the criminal prosecution of James Comey, and more.

Letitia James Indictment Read the Indictment Timeline of Conflict Indic But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria. The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and "corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities. The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms. Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay. This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end. The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

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Biden starts radiation therapy to treat prostate cander | CNN Politics Biden’s personal office revealed in May that he had been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.

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C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

With Social Security’s COLA on the line, the Trump administration plans to release inflation data delayed by the shutdown | CNN Business The Bureau of Labor Statistics is calling some staff back to work to prepare its closely watched inflation gauge, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, despite the government shutdown, a Trump admini...

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JFK And Jackie Kennedy's Washington D.C. Home Listed For Sale At $7.5 Million: See Inside
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These people MUST be held to account.