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December 8, 2025
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December 7, 2025 “I think it’s really important that this video be made public,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said today on Face the Nation. Himes was referring to a video of the September 2 U.S. military strike on...

December 7, 2025
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December 4, 2025 “What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said.

December 4, 2025
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December 3, 2025 Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.

December 3, 2025
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December 3, 2025 Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.

December 3, 2025
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December 2, 2025 The news of last Friday, November 28, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Joint Special Operations commander overseeing an attack on a small vessel carrying 11 people on September 2 to “kill ev...

December 2, 2025
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Trump to Disaster Victims: Drop Dead Sorry, but we don’t help the little people

Trump to Disaster Victims: Drop Dead
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December 1, 2025 President Donald J.

December 1, 2025
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November 24, 2025 U.S.

November 24, 2025
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November 24, 2025 U.S.

November 24, 2025
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DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy Democrats will have to repair the damage

DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy
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Trump Refuses to Pardon Turkey After it Fails to Bribe Him "This turkey is a terrible person," Trump said.

Trump Refuses to Pardon Turkey After it Fails to Bribe Him
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November 20, 2025 Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a v...

November 20, 2025
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November 19, 2025 Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

November 19, 2025
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Reminder: Crypto Is a Trump Trade The industry bought a president. Bad investment?

Reminder: Crypto Is a Trump Trade
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November 18, 2025 For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and...

November 18, 2025
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November 17, 2025 (Monday) President Donald J.

November 17, 2025 (Monday)
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November 16, 2025 On Thursday, November 13, Michael Schmidt reported in the New York Times the story of the 17-year-old girl the House Ethics Committee found former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) likely paid to have ...

November 16, 2025
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November 13, 2025 We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J.

November 13, 2025
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The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations

The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care
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Happy publishing anniversary, Emily Dickinson On this date in 1890, the first volume of her poems appeared in print (posthumously)

Happy publishing anniversary, Emily Dickinson
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November 11, 2025 In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...

November 11, 2025
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The Empire Cracks: UnitedHealth’s $288 Billion Wipeout

The Empire Cracks:
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Tonight Trump attended an NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions after ESPN reported that he wants the Commanders to name their new stadium after him. Attendees soundly booed him.

November 9, 2025 In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...

November 9, 2025
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November 6, 2025 “None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.

November 6, 2025
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November 5, 2025 New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.

November 5, 2025
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November 4, 2025 (Tuesday) So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.

November 4, 2025 (Tuesday)
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Donald Trump is Dick Cheney's Legacy Stating the obvious.

Donald Trump is Dick Cheney's Legacy
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