NewsReadingGrandma
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👩🏻🏫 Retired teacher tracking the day’s events and posting a nightly rundown with clarity and heart. 🇺🇸 Daughter of a WWII vet who dedicated his life to community service. 🙏🏻 No DMs, please.
Today we got: a maybe-AG who greenlit a Jan 6 slush fund, banks that ran Epstein’s money like it was VIP bottle service, and Trump trying to turn Head Start into daycare with vibes. Plus 11 no-bid icebreaker flex ships. This is not normal governance. ↓
Today we got fake “fixes” for a Trump slush fund, Republicans suddenly defending scientists from Trump’s own culture war, a bizarre threat of “retaliation” on Canada over wildfire smoke, and a literal arch casting a shadow over JFK’s grave. Normal country vibes. ↓
Tax immunity for the Convicted Felon!!? 😳🤯 Are they out of their minds!? 😤 youtube.com/post/UgkxcIq...
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Trump nearly kicked off new Iran strikes, a bank just tied his family biz to money-laundering red flags, he’s paywalling presidential decisions for Wall Street, and his intel chief is a housing guy who gutted the agency then bounced early. Totally normal day. ↓
You can be arrested, tortured, and made to confess to a crime that never happened.
Today was cyberwar on your tap water, Senate Republicans revolting against Trump’s payout slush fund, and Trump yelling at his own DOJ while talking about seizing Greenland like it’s a condo project. Absolutely unhinged mix of 2024 and 1914 vibes. ↓
Trump is trying to erase his only felony conviction, holds a praise‑fest Cabinet at Camp David, Musk quietly wires tens of millions into GOP politics, DOJ admits a Trump‑ordered monument “fix” was the problem, and TPS families get hung out to dry. Today was a lot. ↓
Trump’s Iran war has no clear endgame, his own party is blocking his AG pick over a sketchy tax shield, DOJ just slipped secret Epstein docs to a judge, and FIFA might sell the World Cup to private investors tied to Trump-world. Today was a lot. ↓
Trump “trusts” Xi not to arm Iran, the Pentagon may take troops’ phones, Fauci pleads the Fifth as Rand Paul runs a show trial, a Trump loyalist takes over U.S. intel, and Medicare drug premiums are about to jump. Today was… a lot. ↓
Ukraine is hitting Iranian ships, Zelenskyy is in DC chasing Patriots and sanctions, Trump wants his name on Penn Station and maybe a highway in Western Sahara, and a “Trump‑Epstein Bookmobile” is about to tour the country. Today was… not subtle. ↓
Today we got: Trump trying to rewrite mail voting by emergency Supreme Court shortcut, a tiny safety agency hoarding ER medical records, a $111B media mega‑merger on ice, and a president live‑blogging his own psyche on Truth Social. Just a Monday. ↓
Today we got: Russia allegedly feeding Iran US base intel, Trump saying he “trusts” Putin, proof his admin yanked billions from blue states out of spite, a culture war attack on the Smithsonian, and a $1M ego banner at DOJ. Absolutely feral news cycle. ↓
Tonight in America: Trump bombs a 5‑hour WH press dinner, Oracle lands a $7B Pentagon deal while its MAGA megadonor racks up AI debt, and the White House quietly slaps double‑digit tariffs on basically the entire planet. Absolutely normal country vibes. ↓
House tries to strap a trillion‑dollar Pentagon wishlist to a voter‑restriction bill, Trump gets clipped by a war powers rebuke and a BBC lawsuit, and Congress “bans” insider trading while carving Trump out. Today was messy. ↓
Nothing we can do????? Hope Dems have prepared????? Not hopeful.
Today we got: Jim Jordan trying to criminalize Jack Smith, Russia possibly helping Iran hit CIA sites, and the press planning to “celebrate” the First Amendment in a Trump hotel while he attacks it. American politics is now performance art with subpoenas. ↓
Trump greenlights Saudi nukes, threatens to bomb Iran’s power plants, and floats 200% tariffs on generic meds in the middle of a drug affordability crisis. Plus, ICE deaths and another Epstein-world “mystery” death. Today was… a lot. ↓
Today we got Trump threatening Iran, freelancing Lebanon policy, a $37.5B “not a forever war” that sure looks like one, Epstein’s orbit back in the spotlight, and a federal judge side‑eyeing Trump’s DOJ over a algae‑covered reflecting pool. Buckle up. ↓
Today was pure whiplash: Trump talks “wider war” with Iran while officials say we don’t have the missiles, he’s booed and cropped out at the World Cup he championed, a parasite outbreak traces back to his cuts, and a mega media merger hits a wall. Buckle up ↓
Epstein survivors say the AG nominee was condescending, the FBI quietly tries to stop probing ICE abuses, and Trump is literally selling early access to his presidential posts to Wall Street while mystery millions swirl around his “library.” Today was a lot. ↓
State Dept warns Americans abroad, the U.S. bombs Iran again, Trump blames Canada for our filthy air, DOJ subpoenas giant law firms over pro‑Trump “deals,” and a secret terrorism court gets switched on after 28 years. Absolutely normal country vibes today. ↓
Trump used a prime-time speech to claim “compromised” elections, order DHS into state voter rolls, and float 25th Amendment-level unhinged vibes… while the House GOP face-planted on a veterans bill and Trump quietly built himself a helipad. Wild day. ↓
Today we got: Rubio launching a “far‑left terror” crusade, the FCC trying to blow up media ownership limits while its guy takes VIP gifts, Paramount investors accusing the Ellisons of cutting a secret Trump deal, and more Epstein stonewalling. Wild. ↓
Trump tried to keep his illegal tax “get out of audits free” card, his AG pick got grilled by his own party, his DNI pick dodged 2020 reality, Dems warned about a $111B Saudi‑backed media merger, and mystery men popped up behind his “Freedom Fuels” gas stunt. Today was nuts. ↓
Trump teasing a “really, really big” primetime speech about “free and fair elections” while his sons rake in billions in defense contracts, ICE kills three people in a week, and a mystery parasite wave hits our food. Today was a lot. ↓
Today we got a collapsed US–Iran truce, Trump slapping a toll on one of the world’s key oil chokepoints, Rubio trying to kneecap the ICC, a judge nuking Trump’s IRS deal, and a mega‑media merger fight with CNN in the middle. Totally normal Monday. ↓
Today was unreal: Lindsey Graham dies right after a Ukraine trip, Trump turns grief into a SAVE Act infomercial, Marco Rubio is basically running Venezuela from D.C., and Kash Patel is using the FBI like a personal PR firm. American empire is freestyling. ↓
