MCCONNELL: “Tariffs make building & buying in 🇺🇸 more expensive — I will vote in favor of ENDING EMERGENCY TARIFF AUTHORITIES.” 👀

Will @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles stand with farmers and do the same? (Spoiler: no)

Full: www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index...

Literally

“Frighteningly easy to sell new wars”

Making Argentina Great Again

MEMPHIS — Trump’s invaders are already using the new Tennessee Republican law to keep people from filming Trump’s invaders up close (media outlets are suing over it)

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Imagine that

Wow — Trump & Russell Vought are trying to stiff furloughed federal workers and not give them back pay for the shutdown… but Speaker Johnson’s own website says they are legally entitled to back pay when the government reopens. 🤔

www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on peripheral immune tolerance.

The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance

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"I think in a free country we should be able to post onto the internet, 'hey, there are masked agents on Broadway and Vine and not have the government or the tech oligarchs prevent us from doing that.' Shame on you, Tim Cook."

@radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

SHUTDOWN STAKES: Democrats want to renew ACA Marketplace tax credits to keep health insurance costs from skyrocketing for 24 million Americans.

Trump & Republicans refuse to negotiate because “iLlEgaL iMmigRaNts.”

Who’s gonna tell them the truth? www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/g...

ARTHUR AIDALA 🤡 : “I actually think it’s refreshing we know Jared Kushner is making all this money.”

PANEL: “hahahahahahahahaha”

Gov. Beshear: “What we're seeing on the other side is the president making threats, almost negotiating through blackmail, saying, 'If you don't agree to exactly what I want, I'm going to fire a whole bunch of people and cause a lot of pain.”

My son specifically wanted to get his Master’s degree at Mills College, Dave Brubeck’s Alma mater. It’s now part of UC Berkeley. Roscoe Mitchell, another jazz great, was his mentor at Mills College.

The Real Reason Trump Is a Threat to the Economy It’s not just the agenda. It’s also the shambolic, vibes-based way he’s pursuing it.

In the MAGA cultural universe, getting power from wind or the sun is somehow less authentically blue-collar than pulling petroleum out of the ground. As renewables get better, Trump is going to damage our economy over that fiction. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-econ...

This morning, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth spoke to 800 high-ranking generals and admirals who had been called away from their stations around the world. At the meeting, Trump said he’d told Hegseth he should use American cities as “training grounds” for the military. 1/6

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“It’s a war from within.” Trump prepares the generals for what comes next.

Focusing on the ridiculous veneer is a mistake because the substance of Trump's speech was as serious as a heart attack. The entire senior leadership of America’s military has been put on notice.
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-a-war-...

The Week Ahead September 28, 2025

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It’s amazing that she thinks anyone is buying this

🧑‍🌾 JUST NOW: Trump gaslights struggling farmers getting crushed by his trade war, blames Biden

Brilliant! 🏆

Breaking: Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters has resigned after porn allegations.

Walters is the guy who directed public schools to incorporate the Christian Bible and Ten Commandments into instruction, which triggered lawsuits over church–state separation.

Trump hands TikTok to his right-wing billionaire allies.

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Ignore The Distractions Trump is in full distraction mode.

Ignore The Distractions
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OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

“Sinclair announced its ABC affiliates will preempt Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show starting Tuesday with news programming.“

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My twin sister, an RN, wouldn’t get the COVID vaccine because her Southern Baptist minister said the same from the pulpit. I sent her a study about it and she and her family got the vaccine. (Sigh)

The Week Ahead September 21, 2025

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SOYBEAN FARMER🧑‍🌾 : “It’s not good for anybody. Best case scenario is we never have to talk about tariffs again. Free trade is the answer.”

China is now buying $0 from us — and soybeans are Tennessee’s #1 cash crop. Why don’t @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn etc. care? 😕