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BREAKING: The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/mRYS7FH

The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development

Yayyyy if you erase any knowledge of it then it doesn't happen 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Opinion | Recognize Health Care as an Essential Public Service Raymond Barranco writes about the inefficiencies of the current American health care system and what can be done to improve it.

OPINION: "Right now, our system leaves millions uninsured, leaves many insured people financially strained, and contributes to a ballooning national debt. We cannot afford to keep dismissing universal health care simply because some label it 'socialist,'" Raymond Barranco writes.

I don’t get a chance for a hearty laugh very often these days, but @stephaniemiller.bsky.social sure got me. She quoted a response to Michelle Obama’s famous quote about going high: “Can we go low now?"

You can check out our whole conversation here: www.americaamerica.news/p/can-we-go-...

One of the best ways to celebrate Black History Month is by honoring the Obamas, who made history in the People’s House by bringing us a prosperous economy after the 2008 near-depression and by advancing a positive, uplifting, hopeful vision for our nation.

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I've been swamped with ICE stuff this week but I am really grateful @rosebroderick.bsky.social is on RFK Jr.'s nominations to IACC like a hawk. Follow her.

A screenshot of what looks like a tweet but I got it off Instagram saying, “don’t let my knowledge get in the way of your confidence.”

As a climate scientist I am quite sure I could use this reply at least two dozen times per week.

Boo hoo? He’s walking away from a KILLING and he says BOO HOO?

The Border Patrol agent in Chicago who shot Marimar Martinez five times “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” her lawyer told me.

www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...

AOC: If you can keep people divided, then you can continue to loot the economy.

They are they are trying to distract from the fact that prices have exploded, that people's health insurance is being stripped, $1 trillion out of health care to fund this violence.

#109 in Tincher v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:25-cv-04669) – CourtListener.com DECLARATION of Witness No. 2 re 108 Declaration in Support by John Biestman, Alan Crenshaw, Janet Lee, Abdikadir Noor, Susan Tincher, Lucia Webb . (Fisher, Caitlinrose) (Entered: 01/24/2026)

And another declaration from a medical doctor who was on scene and attempted to treat the man who was shot. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Lawmakers call for an investigation into Interior’s Karen Budd-Falen - High Country News House Democrats are demanding an ethics probe into the high-ranking Interior appointee over her financial ties to the massive Thacker Pass lithium mine.

House Democrats are demanding an ethics probe into the high-ranking Interior appointee over her financial ties to the massive Thacker Pass lithium mine.

“Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law.”

— that was Donald Trump’s solemn commitment a year ago today, in his Inaugural Address.

He has broken every part of that promise.

How Trump intends to hijack the midterms The president is building a system where the outcome is decided before ballots are even counted

Bigger lies coming, paired with infrastructure manipulation: www.salon.com/2026/01/18/h...

The story in Minnesota is not about “clashes” or protests. What is happening here is the clearest example in my life of the government violating every basic principle America is supposedly founded upon. It is lawless, unconstitutional, and un-American.

Trump Is Helping Right-Wing Groups Target Chicago Teachers Union Dark-money groups want a look at the Chicago Teachers Union’s finances. The Trump administration could help them get it.

The union sees it as an attack fueled by conservative dark-money groups aligned with the Trump administration.

“Can I go check a pulse?” a bystander said after Good was shot, his hands in the air.

“No! Back up!” an ICE agent told him.

“I’m a physician!”

“I don’t care!” the agent replied, before another came up and said they had their own EMS on the way.
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A graphic celebrating Abigail Spanberger's gubernatorial inauguration, featuring a photo of Abigail Spanberger in a blue blazer, with the text 'GOVERNOR' and 'SWORN IN 1.17.26'.

For the first time in Virginia’s history, the Commonwealth has a woman governor. Congrats, Governor Spanberger!

We've also confirmed the news that DOJ is probing Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey for conspiring to impede federal officers — prompting renewed fears that DOJ is being weaponized against the president's political adversaries.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened. “There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . “It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.” “Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.

“There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . “It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.” www.theguardian.com/...

MAHA

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The Secret Scam Driving Up Food Prices Our guest this week helped expose how Pepsi and Walmart work hard to keep prices high, local competition down, and the evidence of their likely collusion secret.

Organized Money is back for the new year. We had on Stacy Mitchell to talk about how prices have become a reflection of power, as she uncovered by unmasking a secret lawsuit showing collusion between Pepsi and Walmart to raise prices across the country.
www.organizedmoney.fm/p/the-secret...

'I don't say that lightly': Ex-prosecutor delivers shocking new warning about Trump DOJ A former federal prosecutor sent shockwaves on Wednesday after he issued a chilling warning about President Donald Trump's Department of Justice. Glenn Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., discussed the recent actions of Trump's DOJ on a new episode of "The Legal Breakdow...

A former federal prosecutor sent shockwaves on Wednesday after he issued a chilling warning about President Donald Trump's Department of Justice.

AOC unmasks Republican scheme to hide Congressional stock deals from public House Republicans, led by Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI), have put out what they claim is legislation to put an end to congressional stock trading — but it does nothing of the sort, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said in a lengthy thread on X dismantling the bill. In fact, she argued, it could actual...

AOC unmasks Republican scheme to hide Congressional stock deals from public

"Communism with capitalism characteristics" 😬

We should not understate the significance of what’s happening here. The Trump Administration is just coming out and bluntly saying that corporations’ profits are more important than your life and the lives of everyone you know.

Concerning.

Exactly. *Sigh*

Tell us what you really think, David Stockman. 🔥🔥🔥