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After reading a piece about the rise in coffee prices, I decided to go into my shopping history and check to see what I used to pay for this staple in our household.

Nov 2024 = $15.99 for 36 ounces.

Aug 2025 = $24.99 (!!)

~56% increase. Thanks, 🌮!

Gabbard's Misleading 'Coup' Claim - FactCheck.org Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claims to have uncovered "overwhelming evidence" that former President Barack Obama and others in his administration manipulated intelligence to "lay th...

"Gabbard’s claim relies heavily on an alleged contradiction between a Jan. 6, 2017, intelligence assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an “influence campaign” ... and earlier intelligence assessments that concluded Russia did not successfully use cyberattacks..."

Does Trump's alleged letter to Epstein "sound like" Trump? An investigation. On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report about President Trump's relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Does the WSJ letter "sound" like Trump?

TL/dr: He's used "enigma," "pal," recounts narratives of himself in the third person, has a history with the poet (first line) and is known to draw with a sharpie and sign the bottom.

Among Trump’s ICE Detainees, 72% Have No Criminal Convictions As of June 29, 71.7% of people detained by ICE had no criminal convictions despite Trump’s vow to focus on deporting “the worst of the worst.”

Just in case you've been wondering what the answer to this question is:

71.7% of ICE detainees as of June 29 have no criminal record or pending criminal charges.

www.mississippifreepress.org/among-trumps...

Big Beautiful Bill Projected to Lead to Preventable Deaths - FactCheck.org Contrary to President Donald Trump’s claim that no one will die as a result of the Republican budget bill, an analysis from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University estimated that the legisl...

Factcheck.org: "Contrary to [Trump's] claim that no one will die as a result of the [GOP] budget bill, an analysis from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University estimated that the legislation’s changes to Medicaid and the [ACA] will result in at least 42,500 preventable deaths each year."

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

"What has made Baltimore — which President Trump and other conservatives deride as a 'filthy' Democrat-controlled 'slum' — so successful in making its streets safer?"

popular.info/p/the-secret...

Tell me I'm crazy—I thought all of this was about the price of eggs. (Chart: CNBC).

Iowans rally in Davenport to demand action from Miller-Meeks, Grassley and Ernst after 20-year-old is deported with no due process - Little Village By the time Pascual Pedro Pedro’s grandfather began speaking about how his grandson had been unexpectedly seized by ICE last week and deported to Guatemala without a hearing, there were […]

He had no criminal record and was living with his grandparents in Iowa. Abducted by ICE, imprisoned and shipped off with no due process.

It's simply un-American.

Great work by Little Village.

littlevillagemag.com/iowans-rally...

Gut-wrenching read. Mom abducted at work by ICE. Kids left at home.

15-year-old son: “I don’t know what to tell [my brothers] because I don’t want them to freak out. Because they’re little, they’re little kids.”

Amplify this work by Santa Barbara Independent.

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill Is a Big Brutal Breakup With His MAGA Base He promised them he would Make America Great Again, but like virtually everything Trump has done since retaking the White House, it will be achieve quite the opposite.

"Trump’s supporters are discovering that they have become 77 million Ivanas. They are 77 million Marla Maples. They are 77 million customers of Trump steaks or Trump universities, 77 million of the creditors he left high and dry." - David Rothkopf

Snapshot: "Alligator Alcatraz" is a Concentration Camp Let's not be amused. Let's recognize the regime is escalating its hateful plan.

"... make no mistake: This 3,000-bed facility quickly built with cages and razor-wire by floundering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—who is trying to get back into the cruelty spotlight—should be seen for what it is... a concentration camp. This is no mere hyperbole." -Steven Beschloss

Can anybody tell me why MAGA/GOP/🌮 wouldn’t want to harvest all the American-made solar and wind energy we possibly could?

Doesn’t that make us greater than lying about gas prices being lower?

At IKEA to buy $85 chairs. Got to the warehouse section and they were priced at $125. When we got to the front, we told the sales rep, who scanned them and they rung up $85.

We asked what the deal was. "They're probably marking things up back there for when the tariffs hit next week."

As Tesla Sales Plummet in the U.S. and Europe, Elon Reportedly Fires His Top Salesman It appears that yet another personnel change has occurred at the billionaire's EV company.

That should solve it.

Will Trump’s Bombing Raid on Iran Prove Not Just a Bust, But a Disaster? | Washington Monthly An intelligence insider explains why the failure to destroy Iran’s nuclear bunkers may have weakened U.S. power far beyond the Middle East.

Washington Monthly quotes defense intelligence expert:

"As long as we didn’t use [bunker-buster bombs], Iran didn’t know for sure how damaging they could be. That gave us leverage with them. Now the situation is reversed."

Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone The laws surrounding 5th Amendment protections and biometric passwords are still undecided, so just turn it off.

From Gizmodo: "The law is still in flux, so there’s no hard and fast rule for protecting your phone from searches. Still, if you know you will be interacting with police, your best bet is to turn off biometrics before you head out, according to Crocker."

ICE Claims Agents Need to Wear Masks Due to Assaults. Here’s the Truth Do Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents really need to wear masks to prevent assaults?

TNR: "Bump found that assaults on agents had decreased every month since 2024 and, despite repeated requests to ICE, wasn’t given any proof of ICE agents being doxxed, targeted, or assaulted outside the context of an immigration arrest."

Trump's Biggest Economic Burden on the Working Middle Class And the three policies he's pursuing will only worsen it

Robert Reich: "So what’s Trump doing about the slump in new housing? Three things. All will worsen it."

LA Police Chief Did Not Ask for Federal Help - FactCheck.org In defending his decision to deploy the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, President Donald Trump has distorted comments made by Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell.

Factcheck.org: "In defending his decision to deploy the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles... Trump claimed that the police chief said the situation with immigration protests 'had gotten away from them'... that’s not what McDonnell said."

Trump Is Losing the Culture War How Trump’s Hardline Policies Are Dividing His Own Movement

"To have these influential men in particular, who were part of the manosphere — that is how Trump got elected — come out and say what's going on on a policy perspective is wrong is a big f-ing deal. And it's an even bigger deal when you consider that there is nothing for them to gain...."

Oh. My bad. 😂

Eww.

This should become the new phrase. "A pin drop" never made much sense anyway.

YouTube video by Asaki Takaya You'll Be Back - Hamilton (Original Cast 2016 - Live) [HD]

Dan Rather on #NoKings: "A prescient lyric from the song is, perhaps, a moment of art imitating life: 'And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!'

'You’ll Be Back' is an entertaining reminder that no, in fact, we didn’t go back, and we never will."

🤷‍♂️

HHS Misleads on mRNA Vaccine Safety After Pulling Moderna Funding - FactCheck.org The Department of Health and Human Services has defended cuts to vaccine research with statements that mislead on the safety of mRNA technology, despite an extensive history of testing.

FactCheck.org: "The Department of Health and Human Services has defended cuts to vaccine research with statements that mislead on the safety of mRNA technology, despite an extensive history of testing.

HHS recently terminated a $766 million award to Moderna for developing mRNA vaccines..."

Breyer's ruling is a masterclass.

"... this case is not one involving the kind of foreign policy or national security questions that traditionally are left to the President. It instead implicates the President’s domestic use of military force, a matter on which the courts can certainly weigh in."

YouTube video by WAAY 31 News FULL REMARKS: Gavin Newsom addresses LA protests

You've probably seen this, but it also deserves one more post, both in support of the sentiment (that being, you know, "democracy = good") and the history it represents.

Tesla already had big problems. Then Musk went to battle with Trump Tesla has spent much of the year dealing with struggling sales and a deteriorating brand. Now CEO Elon Musk has drawn the ire of the president.

CNBC: "The rift sent Tesla shares plummeting 14% on Thursday, wiping out roughly $152 billion in value, the most for any day in the company’s 15 year-history on the public market. While Musk is still the richest person in the world on paper, his net worth plunged by $34 billion..."

Why millions of Americans would lose health insurance under House GOP megabill With the Senate poised to consider the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, here's who may be vulnerable to health-care coverage losses if the legislation passes.

CNBC: "The [CBO] projected that about 11 million people would lose health-care coverage due to provisions in the bill passed by the House... The CBO estimated that an additional 4 million or so would lose insurance due to expiring Obamacare subsidies, which the bill doesn’t extend."