Don Haider-Markel

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

Before Alaska flooding, Trump & Vance’s EPA had cancelled a $20 million flood protection grant.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

Missouri appeals court rules against attorney general, allows abortions to continue Abortion will remain available at Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, rejecting a request by the attorney general’s office to reinstate…

Abortion will remain available at Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

via @missouriindependent.com

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

Consumer Reports finds that some protein shakes and powders contain extremely high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Opinion | Remember President Palmer? Exactly.

You can read it for free without a subscription. Lessons from previous anti-immigrant sweeps (AG Palmer Raids during the first Red Scare) don’t look good for the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says. In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Military seizes power in Madagascar following anti-government protests The army in Madagascar seized power on Tuesday, days after the president fled the African island nation saying he feared for his life after several weeks of massive anti-government protests.

The army in Madagascar seized power on Tuesday, days after the president fled the African island nation saying he feared for his life after several weeks of massive anti-government protests. n.pr/4qfA9Vk

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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National Guard troops begin patrols in Memphis Guard members in Memphis are operating under the governor's command — unlike other cities facing troop deployments, including Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago.

Guard members in Memphis are operating under the governor's command — unlike other cities facing troop deployments, including Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago. n.pr/4q3iQX5

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

Bahaha 😂

Yeah, it might not be NG troops, but this build up is only going to provoke some actors

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

With all of the untrained troops being deployed to various cities I fear we are only days away from a Kent State type of incident….

Snapshot: Trump's Threats, Bondi's Disgrace, Miller's Madness Got a Minute or Two? Mad Hattery and Other Outrages

“They can trash the rule of law and the Constitution in their depraved commitment to create a dictatorship led by Trump. But we, the people should be neither afraid nor doubtful that their hostility to America will ultimately win.”
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Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

At least 24 people were killed and 47 wounded while protesting against Myanmar's military government after an army motorized paraglider dropped two bombs on the crowd. This is where this country is headed. 🤬 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Federal government to take ownership stake in Trilogy Metals, which has Alaskan mining claims Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the "ownership in that company will benefit the American people."

WTF .. not even a US comp.....Federal government to take ownership stake in Trilogy Metals, which has Alaskan mining claims - CBS News share.google/rGxNwERsRnnX...

Senate bipartisan move to restrict Trump’s Venezuela war powers fails A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a TK-TK vote.

A bipartisan measure to block the Trump administration’s lethal strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug smugglers fell short in the Senate, in what Democratic lawmakers framed as a failure of Congress to assert its constitutional role to decide whether the country enters war.