Carlynn Capps

Editorial: Hello, world. An open letter from ‘war-ravaged’ Portland Despite President Donald Trump's grim characterizations, the protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building don't remotely match what's happening, the editorial board writes. While ...

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I survived a visit to #WarRavagedPortland today

ACOG Affirms Safety Benefits Acetaminophen Pregnancy "The data from numerous studies have shown that acetaminophen plays an important—and safe—role in the well-being of pregnant women."

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Taking Stephen Miller Seriously. And Literally. He declares Democrats "a domestic terrorist organization."

Today, we could focus on what Trump is doing to the CDC, the Fed, the FBI, the DOJ., Alligator Alcatraz, masked ICE agents, or his occupation of major American cities.

But let’s talk about Stephen Miller, the Rasputin behind Trump’s offensives.

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Hegseth’s Pentagon to reinstall Confederate general’s portrait at West Point library Despite Hegseth’s rhetoric about “lethality,” his Pentagon finds time for other priorities — such as helping Confederate names, monuments and paintings.

For all of Hegseth’s chest-thumping about being “laser-focused on warfighting,” his Pentagon finds time for other priorities — such as restoring Confederate names, reinstalling Confederate monuments, and rehanging a portrait of a Confederate general at West Point. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Taking Stephen Miller Seriously. And Literally. He declares Democrats "a domestic terrorist organization."

This is not (merely) the ranting of a fevered extremist. This is the man who has the ear of the President of the United States. And we are seeing the consequences rolled out on a daily basis.

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Wow.

I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.

Why is the Trump administration detaining green card holders without cause, blocking legal counsel, and refusing to tell families where they are?

Will Kim has lived here since he was five. He’s getting his PhD, researching a Lyme disease vaccine at Texas A&M—and ICE disappeared him at SFO.

Sigh. Here we go again. So once more, to add to the "myths that do not die," the older voters who are the mainstay of Trump's support were educated during the supposed golden age of public education. People my age, who went to good public schools and cheap colleges. /1

Democratic senators should ignore GOP attacks over not confirming Trump's nominees, and instead go on the offensive: Attack Republican senators for not voting to release the Epstein files. And urge voters to go to Republican senators' town halls or find them elsewhere to challenge them on this.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich | Netflix Official Site Stories from survivors fuel this documentary series examining how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used wealth and power to carry out his abuses.

They talk about it in this documentary & how it was very common for Epstein to "take" girls from Mar-a-Lago www.netflix.com/title/80224905

“He stole her.”

Trump saw it as a property transfer. Like a real estate deal.

The late Virginia Giuffre was a teenager at the time, about 17 years-old. And Epstein began sexually abusing and trafficking her.

At some point, the Republican project shifted from attacking scientific consensus on particular subjects that ran counter to their political interests to trying to shut down all scientific inquiry wherever it might be headed.

Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.

Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?

Trump: I think so. He stole her.

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As page 12 of the government’s sentencing memo in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case reflects, sex-abuse victim Virginia (Roberts) Giuffre was 17 years old when Maxwell, as Donald Trump put it today, “stole” Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago.

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He thinks this makes him sound good

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

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The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

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Rising This Week: Trump's tariffs head to appeals court This week, an appeals court will review a ruling that Trump's tariffs are illegal, and the DOJ must explain why Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records should be unsealed.

Important context largely missing from reports of Trump's trade deal with the EU:

Trump's DOJ is heading to court this week to appeal a ruling that his tariffs are illegal.

The week ahead, @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-tari...

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - Orwell

BREAKING via Bloomberg

A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against journalist Bob Woodward and a publishing house over the release of interview recordings from his first term in office.

Gabbard threatens prosecution against Obama administration officials for ‘treasonous conspiracy’ The Trump administration has repeatedly targeted critics of the president and has sought to relitigate the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.

Gabbard called for several Obama admin officials to face criminal prosecution for participating in a “treasonous conspiracy” surrounding the 2016 election.

It’s the latest example of the Trump admin targeting critics of the president.

Susan Collins will shake her head and register concerns and may even vote against the bill, but only after Thune has reassured her that her vote is not necessary

The Week Ahead June 8, 2025

I held off on what I had planned to discuss in “The Week Ahead” tonight to try and give us some baselines for understanding what is happening in Los Angeles. And in the White House. There is a lot of territory to cover here, and it’s complicated, so bear with me. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Opinion | Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency

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Ran across this normal seeming pamphlet from the 1940s in the archive today...but because I research the US right, you'll probably be unsurprised by the truly bizarro, proto-MAHA direction it goes. 1/x