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65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.

Not OK: Before and during the pandemic, lower-income households experienced higher wage growth than other income groups. But that has changed over the past year

Torsten at Apollo

Trump Wines Sold At Coast Guard Stores On Federal Property Exchanges in Washington, D.C., and Virginia have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider, allowing his family’s business to earn revenue from sales on federal property.

Scoop: “Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves”

me, for @forbes.com

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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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KRUGMAN: “.. The Trump tariffs were supposed to bring about a revival of U.S. manufacturing. That’s obviously not happening ..”

@pkrugman.bsky.social @cavandy.bsky.social
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Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

it’s all just a grift

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
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Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 18% - emptywheel Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges aga...

Reup: After deportation "Where's Waldo" figurehead Greg Bovino promised a "Shitshow" on September 27, DHS claimed 11 people were arrested.

Almost two weeks later, only two charges survive, an 18% success rate.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/g...

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Fox propaganda is obvious and only works on the uninformed

Christian nationalist fascism: when they lower masked Gestapo goons from helicopters in the night to smash apartment windows, terrorize residents, and zip-tie and kidnap children for not being white looking enough— and then violate the 1st Amendment by reciting scripture from a government account.

Research shows:
More H-1Bs → more patents
Fewer H-1Bs → more offshoring

Your choice, America.

Trump offers Qatar, which gave him a fancy plane, a NATO-like security guarantee Without bothering to go through Congress, the president signed an executive order this week vowing to defend Qatar in the event of a foreign attack.

This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress.

Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

"So far in 2025 companies have announced 946,426 job cuts, the highest YTD since the pandemic year of 2020... Not a good sign... Add in the huge reversal in both ADP numbers yesterday and some are starting to smell recession... Not us, not here, but we can see it in the yield curve."

- NatAlliance

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

Job description, entry level, no degree required. Duties“Write well-organized, logical, often complex legal decisions and opinions that are clear, consistent with adjudicative standards and legislation, and are applicable to the facts of the case or which communicate USCIS policies and procedures” 🤣

So Trump is defunding the police.

Yeah! So happy you’re here.

Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May)

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.

The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Simon Maechling & @simonmaechling Follow RFK Jr is set to announce Tylenol causes autism. And then he'll push the "cure": leucovorin (folinic acid). Who sells folinic acid? Dr. Oz's supplement company, iHerb. The same Dr. Oz who is now the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Trump's administration. Think about that: A government health official tied to the very supplement company that benefits from RFK Jr's bogus "cure." This isn't public health. It's corruption dressed up as wellness.

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

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