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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

This is insane.

“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.”

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Call you state senator now!

The Lesson of 1929 Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis.

The crash of 1929 remains the most significant—and largely misunderstood—financial disaster in modern history. And few people today “perceive the remarkable parallels between that era and today’s political and economic climate,” Andrew Ross Sorkin writes.

October 7, 2025 The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

October 7, 2025

Trump says U.S. will impose new tariffs on heavy trucks, drugs and kitchen cabinets The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the department not to impose new tariffs.

I guess the mad king had a bad few days of getting smacked around by escalators, comedians, the law, and his own dementia so he's going to punish us with new taxes on sofas. Vance is probably speeding to IKEA with a box truck.

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Once the Voting Rights Act’s Champion, DOJ Now Wants SCOTUS To Gut It Once the Voting Rights Act’s Champion, DOJ Now Wants SCOTUS To Gut It

The Justice Department once championed the Voting Rights Act to squash any attempts to racially gerrymander.

Now, under Trump, the department has pulled a 180 and is asking the Supreme Court to gut what’s left of the landmark civil rights law.

Resist, resist, resist!
Disney caved
Others will cave
There is always strength, and power, in numbers.
We must be willing to fight, and sacrifice, to save our democracy.
We must hit the capitulators in the pocketbook.
We must have massive demonstrations in the streets.

Our democracy is worth it!

Judge throws out Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against New York Times A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times for not being a short, plain statement of complaint.

BREAKING: Judge throws out Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against New York Times

A federal judge threw out President Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times by ruling that it didn't provide a succinct complaint for the court to consider.

Trump says he is ready to place 'major' sanctions on Russia if NATO nations stop buying oil Trump said he is ready to place “major” sanctions on Russia only if all NATO nations agree to do the same and if they stop buying Russian oil.

Trump said he is ready to place “major” sanctions on Russia only if all NATO nations agree to do the same and if they stop buying Russian oil.

Time To Play Hardball It’s risky, but allowing Trump to remain unchecked is worse

Trump's march toward authoritarianism is more like a sprint. Dems can't wait for the midterms. He needs to be stopped now.

I’m honored to serve on the new January 6th subcommittee alongside and Rep. Swalwell @repmoskowitz.bsky.social. Together, we will defend the Constitution, protect the truth, and make sure the American people never forget who was responsible for the defilement of the Capitol.

Arizona Court Rejects GOP Lawsuit Targeting Mail Voting Read more here.

An Arizona court rejected a right-wing lawsuit seeking to make mail-in ballot signature verification harder. The ruling will help prevent wrongful ballot rejections for the nearly 90% of Arizonans who vote by mail.

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Epstein Files?

43 cities in the states sending troops to Washington, D.C., have higher rates of violent crime than the capital does.

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TODAY: The Texas House will convene at 11 a.m. ET. A vote on the GOP's gerrymandered map remains stalled due to a lack of quorum from Democrats who left the state. If enough Democrats return today, a vote could occur.

Watch the livestream below👇

August 13, 2025 On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.

August 13, 2025

Gov. JB Pritzker again makes Nazi comparisons after President Trump threatens DC-like takeover in Chicago Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says President Donald Trump “has absolutely no right and no legal ability” to send National Guard troops to Chicago following president’s threat.

“Donald, thanks for the compliment!” before adding: “Let’s not lie to the public, you and I both know you have no authority to take over Chicago. By the way, where are the Epstein files?”

Gotta love JB!

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Extreme heat is driving dramatic declines in tropical birds The numbers of many tropical birds are plummeting, and now it has been shown that heat extremes intensified by global warming are the biggest factor driving these declines

"In tropical regions such as the Amazon & Panama, the populations of some birds have fallen by as much as 90% even in mostly untouched rainforests. Now, research has found that more intense heat extremes are likely to be the main factor behind these declines"
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The Trump admin is moving from denying climate change to rewriting it. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a longtime oil industry executive, announced plans to “update” past National Climate Assessments, the gold-standard, peer-reviewed reports that lay out the risks of the climate crisis in detail.

‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’ CDC staffers saw the violence coming.

Some CDC staff say that they have long feared the day that escalating animosity toward the agency would culminate in actual violence, @landmanspeaking.bsky.social reports:

Hamed AleazizNicholas Nehamas By Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas Aug. 5, 2025, 4:51 p.m. ET On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program. “PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.

🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.