A Long Walk Home

In Iowa the water would rot out the wood basin in about a week.

FBI searches home and office of former Trump national security adviser John Bolton The search focused on whether Bolton illegally possessed or shared classified information, people familiar with the investigation say.

Hmm . . . the FBI must suspect the Epstein Files are in Bolton’s home.

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The Quiet Part Out Loud: Target Ditching DEI Cost The CEO His Job And Investors $12 Billion It’s time to say the quiet part out loud. Eliminating DEI was very bad for Target's business - costing investors billions and the CEO his job. Here is how it happened.

Do NOT let up on Target!

Buy your stuff somewhere else!!

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Kilowatt Madness Trump’s electricity crisis — and ours

Everyone should read this . . .

Because it impacts everyone.

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RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted.

Vaccine study publishers to RFK Jr . . .

“Go swim in a polluted creek!”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Took my grandson to lunch at a favorite local bar and grill today.

Paid a $1 Trump premium for each of our burgers.

It’s just the start of Republican price increases.

Oh . . . I live in a 71% Trump region.

His own voters are being pressed to increase prices to maintain a margin.

That’s a fact.

Nunn touts 'big, beautiful' law's tax cuts in new ad, prompting Democrat criticism • Iowa Capital Dispatch While Rep. Zach Nunn launched an ad featuring an Iowan who supports the law, other groups have ads criticizing his support for Medicaid cuts.

No need to read the article.

I’ll make this easy for you.

Republicans are lying.

Again.

They’re cutting programs that will hurt working class Americans.

Republicans don’t care about you.

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Trump can only “flood” so many cities.

Nothing sustainable about any of it.

It’s just fraud, waste and abuse.

Simple as that.

This is just one example of the slow but sure erosion of fundamental government services that Trump has enabled.

Problems will grow increasingly with every passing week.

It will impact our domestic wellbeing and national security.

MAGA will come to learn it’s not so cute and funny after all.

The anvil weighing on Iowa's economy Republicans won't tell you the whole story about their economic policies

Why is this woman smiling . . .

When Iowa’s economy is in severe decline at her hand (and Iowa’s Republican congressional delegation and the GOP state legislature)?

Because she doesn’t care about you.

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The anvil weighing on Iowa's economy Republicans won't tell you the whole story about their economic policies

Why is this woman smiling . . .

When Iowa’s economy is in severe decline at her hand (and Iowa’s Republican congressional delegation and the GOP state legislature)?

Because she doesn’t care about you.

open.substack.com/pub/edtibbet...

This is just one example of the slow but sure erosion of fundamental government services that Trump has enabled.

Problems will grow increasingly with every passing week.

It will impact our domestic wellbeing and national security.

MAGA will come to learn it’s not so cute and funny after all.

Trump can only “flood” so many cities.

Nothing sustainable about any of it.

It’s just fraud, waste and abuse.

Simple as that.

Let’s keep the sales falling for the next CEO!!

I have that cover framed and on a wall in my house.

If I spray-paint my head . . . it would look much better than that.

And Kevin . . . you are who?

I love the new Cracker Barrel logo! 🧡
#EpsteinFiles

Nunn touts 'big, beautiful' law's tax cuts in new ad, prompting Democrat criticism • Iowa Capital Dispatch While Rep. Zach Nunn launched an ad featuring an Iowan who supports the law, other groups have ads criticizing his support for Medicaid cuts.

No need to read the article.

I’ll make this easy for you.

Republicans are lying.

Again.

They’re cutting programs that will hurt working class Americans.

Republicans don’t care about you.

iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/08/21/n...

Justices Allow Cuts to Health Research Funding The Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the AP reports...

Let’s hope the majority on this vote remembers this when they’re diagnosed with cancer of the soul.

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Took my grandson to lunch at a favorite local bar and grill today.

Paid a $1 Trump premium for each of our burgers.

It’s just the start of Republican price increases.

Oh . . . I live in a 71% Trump region.

His own voters are being pressed to increase prices to maintain a margin.

That’s a fact.

Oh well . . . wake up earlier to drive to work.

An honest Epstein Report release would start on page 1 and proceed forward.

I don’t anticipate that will happen. Bondi will somehow put her thumb on the scale.

Really, the whole report should be released. All at once.

I hope honest people who have seen the report call foul over any shenanigans.

I guess Miller even wants a bunch of old hippies to be a segregated group.

Using MAGA logic . . .

Texas and Arkansas are freeloaders.

So are all the other “taker” states.

They should be able to live off what they contribute.

Maybe Congress should just cut all those extra payments.

No warning. No discussion. No exceptions.

Just do it.

Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) I will keep repeating this until the war ends

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Get Ready for Higher Car Prices "Car buyers are likely to pay more this fall as tariffs begin to drive up sticker prices — and not just on imported vehicles," Axios reports. "Automakers can't eat the cost of tariffs forever, and

Here we go.

Another milestone in Donald Trump’s economic plan.

Will autoworker layoffs be far behind?

Trump and your Republican representatives in Congress and state legislatures are doing this.

Straight up.

politicalwire.com/2025/08/20/g...

It seems logical to assume that restaurants are not the only businesses experiencing a sales decline.

I guess we’ll see which PGA players bend a knee . . .

And who believes in decency and democracy by taking a pass.

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