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NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
How to suck a whole country dry IMF + US way. Step by step.
A must read for people with GDP enthusiast friends.
The bailout of a friend of Trump’s just cost as much as the annual budget of USAID.
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Apparently $20B of our taxpayer money wasn't enough to bail out Argentina.
Now Trump wants U.S. banks to divert ANOTHER $20B away from lending to American businesses, farmers, and families to prop up Milei's corrupt presidency and failing economy.
So much for America First.
What the fuck are we doing?
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Wondering why? popular.info/p/trumps-arg...
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Cecil atop a birdhouse
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New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown.
Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...
Milei w RFK Jr and a chainsaw
Trump has cancelled $18B of spending in blue states. He fired more than 4,000 federal employees the same day he sent $20B to Argentina. He is propping up the government of the guy on the left, while firing government officials working for the guy on the right. But those employees also work for us!
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Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Lets break this down a bit. Because of the way RIFs work, entire units were cut. Once the administration found that people they knew and liked, including people who had decades of experience in managing what to do when shit hits the fan, were being fired, they restored the entire unit. This speaks to the arbitrary nature of the RIFs. Someone who does not know the core tasks of the agency, or the science behind what they do, decided “hey, we don’t really need this.” Then they realize that they do. This is echoes the firing of nuclear weapon security staff that happened a few months ago. These are careless people, but sometimes they cuts are so obviously dangerous that they have to walk things back.
RFK Jr. greenlighted Vought further gutting the CDC, which no longer has any scientists or public health specialists in leadership.
RIFs were so chaotic (firing disease detectives during an Ebola breakout) than many were reversed.
Shutdown shitshow. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...
What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.
15.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 5261 🔁 1236 💬 133 📌 28Bessent Text Leak: Message Suggests Argentina Bailout Is Backfiring - Forbes
www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
Daily Beast: "The conservative-leaning Supreme Court signaled that it could limit the use of race as a factor in drawing congressional districts, a move that could allow red states to redraw districts, potentially giving Republicans control of Congress for decades."
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The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
🎁 ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Watch Argentine President Milei handing Musk a chainsaw... "WATCH: Elon Musk waves chainsaw on stage at CPAC" on YouTube
youtu.be/nkMVb0RNptA
Mock cover for 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand "Ayn Rand Atlas Needs You To Spot Him Like 20 Billion Dollars 1st Argentinian Edition"
14.10.2025 19:51 — 👍 679 🔁 156 💬 6 📌 2Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."
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President Trump can’t seem to explain why Americans are the ones responsible for making “Argentina great again" to the tune of $20 billion in taxpayer dollars. trib.al/p3jpDN2
14.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 121 🔁 34 💬 6 📌 1SEN. @gallego.senate.gov on the terrible Milei rock concert: “Millions of Americans are about to lose their health care and have their insurance premiums double, but Trump & Republicans are giving this idiot $20 BILLION. Good job. Way to make America First, guys.”
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Lo de Milei de ayer con Trump.
15.10.2025 08:29 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Trump on Milei: "He's MAGA all the way."
14.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 286 🔁 81 💬 68 📌 21Argentina is already defaulting on a $20 billion dollar bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund, but this $20 billion dollar bailout loan from the US Treasury will work out great. For Milei.
Stephanie Ruhle lays out the summary:
Same day that the US announced a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will benefit Trump's political allies and donors.
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PBS: How the latest round of federal layoffs could impact public health (YouTube)
youtu.be/YM6mwQ8VPxQ
"Even achieving emissions reduction targets consistent with the ambitious goal of 1.5°C of global warming under the Paris Agreement will result in the further loss of 70–90% of reef-building corals compared to today, with 99 corals being lost under warming of 2°C or more"
www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/...
“The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...
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“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope Leo turned to and quoted extensively from Hannah Arendt in his remarks, endorsing her detailed analysis of the factors that give rise to authoritarianism and totalitarian rule. He made clear that this analysis is again appropriate to developments found around the world, and notably in the US
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