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Opinion | Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her.

Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

A Washington Post editorial defends Trump's odious ballroom Plus: The New York Times (weakly) explains why it didn't put a "No Kings" story on Page One

The Washington Post shamelessly defends Trump's odious ballroom
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Carney: Up until now, more than 70 cents of every dollar of military capital spending by our government has gone to the United States.

With our new Defense Investment Agency, we’ll make sure we build more of our security and defense capabilities here at home

Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”

Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”

Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”

NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

How we locate our No Kings protests in rural America -at the traffic light , the one and only traffic light.

Painting featuring two white women in the act of beheading a white man with a sword as he lies in his bed

Artemesia Gentileschi,
Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #womensart

Milwaukie Man Says ICE Abducted and Held Him for Hours Despite His Proving Citizenship The case may be the first incidence of a documented Oregonian and U.S. citizen being swept up by ICE in an immigration raid.

More, from Willamette Week www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Jim Jordan Loses It as Shutdown Interview Goes off the Rails The Republican representative ended up just exposing his own cluelessness.

He did not actually lose it; he very calmly and repeatedly lied about special election winners not being timely sworn in --unless they are Republicans.

Attorney General Bondi recently threatened to put me in jail. Now, the President has threatened to put the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor in jail.

This is about as authoritarian as it gets.

Worried about splitting up the MMR vaccine into three separate shots? You should be, this doctor says | CNN While President Donald Trump is pushing to split the MMR vaccine into three shots, experts say there’s no scientific reason for it, and it could lead to lower vaccination rates.

Get your medical advice from physicians. We really do have to mention this to folks.

On Tuesday, the Trump admin said furloughed feds were not guaranteed back pay. On Wednesday, it sent notices saying they were Just one day after taking a different argument, the Trump administration notes federal law guarantees back pay for employees sent home during a shutdown.

The lawyers-full-employment act

Six former US surgeons general warn RFK Jr is ‘endangering nation’s health’ Former top doctors condemn health secretary’s vaccine, research policies, saying ideology replaced science at HHS

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Wild rice binds this tribe together. It’s under threat from every direction.

Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’

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File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
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There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41.

Here’s the President of the United States of America.

Medical Groups Warn Against Visa Fees for Foreign Doctors

Rural areas being adversely affected even more, but Wisconsin republicans love limiting HB1 visas because President Miller told them to.

China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.

Tough news for Decatur. And America.

Genius Trump Attorney Submitted Wrong Comey Indictment Docs to Judge Trump-installed DOJ attorney Lindsey Halligan is having a tough time with the indictment from the very start.

Reeking.

Profiteering in health care -what could go wrong?

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ANTIFA HQ

White House scrambles to clear up H-1B visa confusion after panic throws corporate America into chaos overnight | Fortune "This is NOT an annual fee," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. "It’s a one-time fee that applies only to the petition."

No idea how to govern. Just how to grift.

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine panel realizes it has no idea what it’s doing, skips vote With a lack of data and confusing language, the panel tabled the vote indefinitely.

How to not run a meeting/public health/government

Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York Times A federal judge in Tampa dismissed President Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, calling it improper. Judge Steven D. Merryday allowed a new complaint to be filed within 28 days.

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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.
 
Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.
 
Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

The corruption here is mindboggling

Fox News Host Apologizes After His Suggestion That Homeless People Be Euthanized Sparks Outrage

Disgusting.