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Trump attacks Somali immigrants. And, CDC to address vaccine schedule for kids Trump is targeting Somalis with racist remarks ahead of expected immigration enforcement activity in Minnesota. And, a CDC advisory panel will revisit long-standing vaccine recommendations.

Trump is targeting Somalis with racist remarks ahead of expected immigration enforcement activity in Minnesota. And, a CDC advisory panel will revisit long-standing vaccine recommendations. n.pr/4pkhoz3

In a post on X tonight, the State Department says it “renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history.”

“Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves “Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

Trump says he doesn't understand how talks with Russia failed. 1) Witkoff has a track record of getting things wrong. 2) They are in over their head and fail to understand how the terms of negotiation are a reflexive control operation designed to divide the US from its allies.

U.S. health care is broken. Here are 3 ways it's getting worse One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care is intensifying — even for the companies and investors who make money from it.

One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care is intensifying — even for the companies and investors who make money from it. n.pr/4rDglLU

BREAKING: The New York Times is suing the Department of Defense over the Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access. The Times is seeking a declaration that the new policy is unconstitutional on its face and an injunction barring its enforcement.

Trump Rants: ‘Let Them Go Back to Where They Came From’ President Trump has attacked Somalis with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in recent days.

President Trump on Tuesday delivered blatantly xenophobic public remarks, which included attacking Somali immigrants in Minnesota and calling them “garbage.”

Listen to "The Daily."

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

YouTube video by C-SPAN President Trump: "I think you're going to find that this is war..."

1/ Trump’s claim that “they’re guilty” is irrelevant to legality. War-crimes standards depend entirely on a person’s status at the moment force was used — not moral guilt, not political narratives, not the drug epidemic.

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Sean Duffy articulates with clarity what America's golden age will look like: you will drive a Ford station wagon that guzzles gasoline, pollutes the environment, and will kill you dead if you get into an accident... and you will love it.

OK I’ve put together the list. Shame on all of them:

Ford CEO Jim Farley
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
General Motors plant manager John Urbanic
National Auto Dealers Association Chairman Tom Castriota
Transportation Sec Sean Duffy
Deputy transportation Sec Steven Bradbury
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who asked for this?

Top Democrat files complaint over '60 Minutes' interview with President Trump Jamie Raskin wrote to CBS's ombudsman, a role created in an agreement with FCC during Paramount merger to address 'media bias'.

@raskin.house.gov: "President Trump directed CBS to edit his own interview after suing the network for editing his opponent’s interview, and CBS complied with his requests and omitted its anchor’s questions about President Trump’s pardons." @poynterinstitute.bsky.social mailchi.mp/poynter/top-...

Bears repeating that one of Russia’s first major social media influence campaigns in the US promoted antivax views. Why? For it’s a way to do clear material harm to the country.

And here we are.

STEWART: “Turns out, Trump is for YOU… if you’re a personal friend… or if you donated a lot of money to him… or if you promised not to reveal anything incriminating about him…”

The most corrupt regime in our nation’s history.

UPDATE: Van Epps getting immediately sworn in today because they can count on him to do the bidding of the rich and powerful, whereas Rep. Grijalva had to wait because she was not going to protect powerful pedophiles 🤔 @SpeakerJohnson

Car nostalgia like this is just nuts to me.
Many older cars, of course, look cool. But they're also less fuel efficient and much less safe, with fewer creature comforts and also generally much less reliable.

Democrats Press Firms About Trump Ballroom Donations Lawmakers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, ask if Nvidia, Apple, Meta and others made donations in exchange for favorable treatment.

Exclusive: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats are pressing leaders of Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon.com and Meta for details on their donations to support President Trump’s White House ballroom.

This is either really good news (Paramount is out on WBD) or really bad news (previewing government intimidation into taking a bad deal to appease the president).

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

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About time. Curious to see who this was, and if it’s a Republican, how quickly they get pardoned

Scoop: Louisiana's fish/wildlife agency is detaining people not guilty of any crimes & transferring them to ICE. It's one of 1000+ state + local agencies that started doing so this year.

ICE couldn't provide any info on people the wildlife agency has detained for them:
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Trump and the Republicans’ push to put right wing billionaire allies like Lee Beaman on the Tennessee Valley Authority board and privatize it to enrich themselves and their allies should trouble us all.

www.tennessean.com/story/money/...

The Trump Administration says its recent military strikes near Venezuela are about stopping drug traffickers, but what’s really driving this?

Reporting shows Venezuela isn’t a major source of drugs entering our country. 🧵

Trump: “Our economy is so hot”

Our economy:

Trump Pardons Developer Prosecuted by His Administration This summer, Trump administration officials had lauded the indictment of Timothy J. Leiweke as an effort to root out corruption and unfair business practices.

President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Timothy Leiweke, a real estate developer who had been charged by the president’s own Justice Department earlier this year with rigging the bidding process for a sports arena.

This week's Onion issue from 20 years ago contains one of my all-time favorite headlines: "Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan."

I love all the wordplay: "rufflelutionaries," "cheesekeeping forces," "funyunmentalists," and more.

onion20.substack.com/p/2005-frito...

JUST NOW: Van Epps immediately sworn in by Speaker Johnson, vows to support and defend the constitution*

(* = whatever Trump tells him to)

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Pride and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Prejudice

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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being There