I said this years ago. It's been obvious. It remains obvious. It's a tragedy for our country.
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I am an artist and have three little dogs and four cats. I am a Type 1 diabetic and have Stage 3 kidney failure. I am elderly I suppose, to the world, but I am the 60s activist and defiant art student and leftist I always was. I am the Resistance.
JUST IN: A Trump-appointed judge blocked sweeping new USPS mail-ballot rules, warning they could cause delays, errors and disenfranchisement weeks before the midterms.
Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks His Mail-Ballot Rules Weeks Before Midterms
A Trump-appointed judge blocked sweeping new USPS mail-ballot rules, warning they could cause delays, errors and disenfranchisement weeks before the midterms.
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Nice try, but if you run up huge deficits by exempting big corporations and billionaires from taxes, markets will react. People collectively worth trillions, and corporations worth tens of trillions, and corrupt Trump, pay virtually no taxes.
Treasury poised to buy up to $6B in bonds as Bessent looks to rein in debt costs
The Treasury secretary is aiming to project strength as he seeks to sway markets. “I am the house now,” he said at an event Tuesday. “Bet against me if you want.”
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This happens with a costume party Cabinet of Idiots. Hard to plug the “billionaires and big corporations don’t have to pay taxes” hole with buybacks. Time for an honest tax code.
Bessent’s Upsized Buybacks Get Hit by Bond Market Reality
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s unusual move to supersize his department’s debt buyback program stumbled on Wednesday, when an announcement on the size of the first enlarged operation proved insuff...
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Climate dangers: In the Rockies it’s impossible to miss the grey belts of what were green forest, killed by pine beetles. Wildfire fodder now.
A Monster Threat Is Coming for America’s Trees—and Scientists Are Racing to Stop It
A surge in insect attacks is already underway, and mild winters are the culprit.
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You mean the Court that indicted war criminal Putin? More Trump/Russia? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
POLITICO Pro: US pressures NATO allies to destroy International Criminal Court
Washington said it "would be watching closely" to see which allies help in its campaign against the court during a closed-door meeting this summer.
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As diesel breaks through $6 a gallon for farmers, Trump wings off in his Qatari “Grift Force One” 747 to Ireland, and: “The real point of Trump’s visit is to showcase his Irish resort.”
Climate issues raising family costs: the cost of insurance for the typical homeowner jumped by 24 percent between 2021 and 2024, according to research by the Consumer Federation of America. Free-to-pollute isn’t free to you.
Illegally making electric consumers pay off Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel donors is now standard practice for Trump scoundrels. apnews.com/article/mich...
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She Won: The FBI Opened a 2016 Probe To Determine If Trump Was a Russian Asset The Epstein-Thiel timeline connecting Russian operatives, the Trump campaign, and the effort to hijack the 2016 election. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
Apple workers could have gotten $4 MILLION each over 8 years. Instead, Apple spent $650 BILLION on stock buybacks. Shareholders got rich. Workers got nothing. This isn't investment. It's theft. Tax the rich.
You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to not understand this.
@amdiabetesassn.bsky.social I am a Type 1 that I was diagnosed with after nearly dying from DKA at age 72. Due to immunotherapy for kidney cancer, specifically Yervoy. I am looking for other Type 1 diabetics to chat with and compare notes. Struggling staying in range.
Israel dropped bunker bombs on a university in Tehran, their equivalent to MIT. It's a war crime to deliberately target civilians and educational entities. I suppose they believe that the university was training PhDs to make nuclear bombs. They are obsessed with that when it is false.
Creators and commentators are reporting their Alex Pretti videos are being taken down on multiple platforms. Download those videos while you can folks.
Doug Stafford is the chief strategist for Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). He tweeted this earlier in the evening and then deleted it. No apparent follow-up or comment on the deletion.
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p... Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of US Southern Command who reportedly clashed with Pete Hegseth over the legality of US military strikes in the Caribbean, officially retired on Friday in a ceremony in Florida where he handed the reins of the command to his deputy.
Commander in charge of US military operations in the Caribbean retires after clashes with Hegseth over boat strikes | CNN Politics
Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of US Southern Command who reportedly clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the legality of the US military strikes in the Caribbean, officially retired on ...
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SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News