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Weirdly this doesn't mention that the woman Trump put in charge of reviewing the Smithsonian is his Florida criminal defense attorney who didn't like some of the museum's exhibits when she visited after the inauguration so she convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge

Latest inflation data just arrived came in right at the consensus forecast. Headline inflation of 0.2% in the month, running at 2.7% over the year. Core rose 0.3% in July, and 3.1% over the year.

For two years inflation was declining toward the Fed's target. That seems to be over.

August 12, 2025 Liberal commentator Jessica Tarlov nailed it this morning when she wrote: “He’s doing everything EXCEPT releasing the Epstein files.” Her comment was in reference to President Donald Trump’s social me...

August 12, 2025

Texas Democrats to return home for second special session, ABC13 sources confirm It's unclear when they will be in Austin at the Capitol, but the Democrats believe they've accomplished their mission and will push for Hill Country flooding relief to be a priority.

On November 3, 2026, we are going to either win or lose by a number of seats. And that number is very likely going to come down to what we did to stop what’s happening in Texas

🚨 New Filing in Callais v. Landry Read the latest filing in Callais v. Landry.

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court will hear oral argument in critical rehearing in Louisiana redistricting case on October 15. This timing raises the threat that the Court could be looking to limit or strike down VRA Section 2 in advance of 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...

Rep. Adam Smith: "Look, it's pretty clear the president wants his own domestic police force and step by step he's trying to create it. We should be deeply alarmed by that regardless of how you feel about crime in DC or any other city ... it's a huge step toward an autocratic government."

@neeratanden.bsky.social

Leavitt confirms that monthly jobs reports may be suspended "until they can get the data and methodology in order"

Trump has halted or dropped enforcement actions against 160+ corporations, including:

-42 consumer protection cases at CFPB
-20 foreign bribery cases at DOJ
-6 employment discrimination cases at EEOC
-7 crypto cases at SEC

It's a new golden age for corporate criminals.

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro: "I'm not going to bore you with the facts."

I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history"

It is propaganda, pure and simple.

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

Reporter: You said it’s guns on the street that’s causing this problem. Are you concerned that the DOJ’s funding cuts to gun violence prevention programs undermine the—

Pirro: Oh stop it!

Talarico owns Will Cain so hard that he has to tap out of their interview based on "time"

Others of us are releasing our own stories of American history for the 250th. My team's videos are on my YouTube channel and Instagram, and honor "unity and progress" and "American values" just like Trump wants. Here, for example, is Mary McLeod Bethune defending the Constitution....

(8/12) uh oh Spaghetti-o, Donnie!! #politics TikTok video by Amanda Nelson

Ah yes Trump IS in the Epstein files

@amandamildtakes

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What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.

August 11, 2025 President Donald J.

August 11, 2025

There you have it.

“This is just the beginning” — US Attorney Pirro

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

TRUMP: Thanks as well to Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick, wherever you may be

LUTNICK: I'm right behind you

TRUMP: Oh, there you are

Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.

Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

August 10, 2025 On Friday, Democracy Forward Foundation sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to make it respond to its request for the release of the Epstein files, as we...

August 10, 2025

No, Good People Don't Still Support Him Everyone believes they're essentially a good human being.

To all my new Fox News followers after their coverage of this piece,

Your vulgar, vile, and hateful wishes of illness, violence, death, and eternal suffering upon me and those I love have done much to refute the premise of this piece.

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Welp

August 8, 2025 (Friday) During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed he could stop Russia’s war on Ukraine with a single phone call.

August 8, 2025

August 9, 2025 Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a video in which Christian nationalist pastors express their opposition to the idea of women voting.

August 9, 2025

(8/8) COMMIT TO THE BIT, BABY! CALL ME DONNIE! I’M ON THE ROOF TikTok video by Amanda Nelson

The roof lol

@amandasmildtakes

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