Lori Holaday

🇺🇸🧑‍🌾Soybean Association President: “Unfortunately there’s not enough market competition due to (Trump’s) Trade War - the aid package is putting a band-aid on an open wound.”

@rustygrills @GovBillLee @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @RepChrisTodd @RepFaison are you listening?

It’s an absolute clown circus show.

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

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ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure | The Political Scene | The New Yorker | WNYC The Washington Roundtable discusses how, in the wake of the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, public resistance has a chance to turn the tide against autocratic impulses in today’...

I'm late to this -- came out a couple weeks ago -- sorry -- but this podcast episode is really worth listening to (despite the episode title, it's only incidentally about the Kimmel fiasco).

Highly recommended.

You can listen here for free, or on any podcast app:

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The Guardian: Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

This is good news. It would be even better if Trump wasn't torpedoing the U.S. solar and wind industry and ceding the energy future to China. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why gold is having its best year since 1979 The price of gold hit $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever. It's a bad sign for the U.S. economy

The price of gold hit $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever. It's a bad sign for the U.S. economy n.pr/4mYSvqy

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
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Highest long-term inflation expectations in 18 months. (March 2024)

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

The confabulation is beyond ridiculous. Why can’t these over aged adolescents cos playing idiots be stopped?

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

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The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it "Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now.

In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself.

It's never OK for Dems to call political opponents authoritarians... but totally cool when these guys do it

Americans aren't buying Trump's shutdown blame game Early polls show that most blame Trump and Republicans—and for good reason.

Early polls show that most blame Trump and Republicans—and for good reason.

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’ Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’ | California | The Guardian

Newsom’s office described the offer as “nothing short of a hostile takeover of America’s universities”.

NEW: A 20-year federal prosecutor, fired abruptly this week even as he lead case against Abbey Gate bomber, warns his colleagues: the Trump administration is sacrificing national security to purge Trump's perceived adversaries.

w/ @dnlbrns

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Governor Newsom signs legislation advancing California's dominance in global innovation YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom

LIVE NOW: Governor Newsom signs legislation advancing California’s dominance in global innovation.

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For furloughed workers, Trump's partisan shutdown jabs are just the latest slight “Not only is it insulting to the standards we’re all supposed to abide by, but it’s also insulting to our intelligence.”

“Not only is it insulting to the standards we’re all supposed to abide by, but it’s also insulting to our intelligence.”

For furloughed workers, Trump’s partisan shutdown jabs are just the latest slight.

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

gift link - no paywall.

very much worth reading:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

KIMMEL: “That sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs - he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”

My thoughts when hearing Hegseth live was that there are so many POC and women that serve. Including high ranking Generals and Admirals. How humiliating to sit through that and hear that you aren’t worthy or that you skipped the line because of your skin color.
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Fascists don’t like learning they are fascists.

Comey indictment is ‘vengeance prosecution,’ Klobuchar says "It is not about the law," the Minnesota senator said of the indictment of the former FBI director.

Klobuchar on the Comey indictment: "This is a vengeance prosecution. It is not about the law.”

Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents The House Oversight Committee is continuing to release redacted materials in its ongoing Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents.

These new files are notable in that they suggest all three powerful men had a relationship with Epstein after his controversial plea deal that forced him to register as a sex offender.- POLITICO