Monica Hahn

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Former federal inmate pardoned by Trump tapped as Bureau of Prisons deputy director Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate rehabilitation.

I know everyone is occupied w authoritarian tactics of Trump sending marines & national guard to LA but wanted to show the hypocrisy of this lawless regime.

Trump is installing a pardoned drug trafficker as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons

The Great Grift

Trump is planning a sell off that will be even worse than the corrupt Russian privatization of the 1990s that created the oligarchs that continue to sustain Putin’s regime.

The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

The image shows a person holding a sign at a protest or rally. The sign reads: "CORY BOOKER'S bladder is stronger than the entire Republican Party." The text on the sign emphasizes the word "stronger" with a starburst effect around it. The image is shared on X by a user with the handle @MakeTexasBlue22 , whose display name is AustinBlue.

And that’s no stretch.

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📊 Back in 2013 (pre-ACA), 85.5% of Americans had #health insurance — leaving 14.5% uninsured. After the ACA took effect in 2014, that uninsured rate dropped to 8.6% by 2016.

🏥 40 states and Washington, DC, have expanded Medicaid, while 10 states have not.

Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump's administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects — according to two people familiar with the incident.

There is no strict constitutional prohibition against giving the nuclear codes to teenagers, so it’s hard to see why liberals are so upset about the DOGE kids taking over the Pentagon.

by Jonathan Turley

Excellent reporting.
"The data the White House has cited to say Canada is responsible for a 'massive” increase in fentanyl flowing across the northern border include a large drug bust that, according to the U.S. border agency, has no known connection to Canada." #cdnpoli

I’m going to keep hitting this until they figure it out, because they are it…the Democrats are THE ONLY political opposition. They had three months to prepare for these acts. And they seem surprised and flat footed.

Trump just pulled back a plan to regulate toxic, cancer-causing PFAS. It’s in hundreds of water systems in North Carolina. PFAS, or “forever chemicals," are linked to cancer, birth abnormalities, and other health ailments. But Trump is pushing back a long-awaited plan to set federal limits on them.

Wherever you live in North Carolina, Trump’s action matters. Hundreds of water systems in the state were found to have elevated levels of PFAS in 2024. It’s estimated that nearly half of the nation’s tap water has PFAS in it.

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#project2025 is being implemented

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I didn’t mean to paste it twice but it can’t be said enough! 🤦🏼‍♀️

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

DOGE: Dangerous Oligarchs Grab Everything What Marc Andreessen revealed about the tech-industrial complex

New, from me: as the Trump administration begins, I try to make sense of what, exactly, DOGE is.

Journalists and policymakers should be skeptical of its claim to be a govt reform commission, and more willing to see it as a form of oligarchic state capture.
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Loudoun Special Election Virtual Phone Bank · The Union The race to secure a 2025 Democratic majority in VA has already begun. We have a special election for SD 32 and HD 26 on January 7th. Please join us over Zoom to phone bank on Thursday, December 12th,...

The race for the majority in the VA Senate and House resumes on January 7th elections for VA SD-32 and VA HD-26. Help get out the vote! Every Special election in 2025 can make a difference. It starts NOW!

It’s about consistently failing to provide good journalism

Thank you for continuing to do your job managing the business of government, despite their chaos. I appreciate you!

How Pam Bondi boosted Trump’s election fraud claims in a key swing state As Trump seeks to elevate Pam Bondi to attorney general, her work battling to overturn the 2020 vote in Pennsylvania is drawing new scrutiny.

PA officials in both parties say "Bondi spread misinformation that helped wreak long-lasting damage to the electoral system."

At a press conference, she criticized a vote canvass city official who was promptly threatened & harassed.

She collaborated w/Giuliani (disbarred re:PA) and ignored AG Barr

Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...

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Hey Front Range peeps!

Here we go!