TheDeb
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Nobody's coming to save us. We gotta stick together. Dreaming of the PNW.
Americans have just now hit a milestone: $71 billion more spent on gasoline since March 1 (vs a year ago). Adding $41 billion more on diesel costs since March 1 (vs a year ago) leads to a combined total additional cost of $116.1 billion. (link in bio to see real-time clock)
This administration appears intent on making the entire country hate it. Now, they are kicking 750,000 people off their health insurance. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...
Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud
Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.
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Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
In 1995-2013 uranium from 20,000 Soviet warheads supplied 10% of US power. Today, Russia remains America's #1 supplier of nuclear fuel. For @foreignpolicy.com I explore why a 2024 import ban on Russian uranium is theatre and how Moscow makes the most of its leverage foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/21/u...
Nuclear Energy Is the Kremlin’s Latest Leverage Over Washington
The United States has done little to end its dependence on Russia for enriched uranium.
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Crypto is going to dump $30 million to sink Sherrod Brown, per: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
The Crypto Industry Targets Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Top Democratic Senate Candidate
Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
nytimes.com
Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*
BREAKING: Two people have died of measles in Pennsylvania, the state's health department has confirmed. Both people were unvaccinated. They are the first such deaths in the U.S. this year, and the first in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 35 years.
Two die of measles in Pennsylvania outbreak
The deaths are the first measles-related fatalities in the U.S. this year. Both people had not been vaccinated against the illness.
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From the official DHS account. Doesn’t get much more un-American than this. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention.
Darlene Graham just bumbled through one of the worst responses to a question during a political debate you'll ever see
7 people were killed and 24 wounded as a result of overnight russian attack on Zaporizhzhia‼️ Russians launched a massive combined strike using missiles and guided aerial bombs against the city. Tomorrow, August 12, has been declared a Day of Mourning.
NBC News has quietly started paywalling a large chunk of its online stories (especially exclusives and sourced stories), leading to some internal friction with reporters, I'm told. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/nbc-news-p...
The Peacock’s Paywall
NBC News once vowed to keep its best journalism free, but the news outlet is now putting its exclusive and enterprise reporting behind a digital paywall—and not everyone inside the company is thrilled...
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Hegseth’s blocking of promotions for high-ranking women in the military has contributed to the lowest percentage of such nominations for women in at least 25 years, according to a NYT analysis. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
Under Hegseth, Women’s Share of Top Military Promotions Plunged This Year
The percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades.
nytimes.com
The July jobs data are bad: 23,000 jobs lost. But also this: May was revised from +129,000 to +63,000--a reduction of 66,000 jobs. June was revised from +57,000 to 20,000--a reduction of 37,000 jobs. "Employment in May and June combined is 103,000 lower than previously reported."
Ka$h Patel’s FBI has taken a new and dangerous step in its quest to root out alleged voter fraud—tracking down the IP addresses of people who register to vote online. An IP address shows the user’s geographic location, service provider, and the network they’re on. newrepublic.com/post/213812/...
FBI Escalates Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Crusade With Disturbing Move
The Trump administration is getting new voter data from states in its attempt to take over elections.
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“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Colorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says God has given him a "gift" to uncover people's demons and rid them of evil spirits through a specialized prayer. Marx says you, too, can learn how to do it. The eight-part course is $99. www.9news.com/article/news...
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The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"
Trump and Musk promised to shrink the deficit. Instead, it's projected to grow — to $2.5 trillion a year within a decade (in today's dollars). That's a heavier burden for taxpayers, and it pushes up interest rates on credit cards, mortgages and beyond. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
ICE plans to stop renting detention space and build it instead, on land it owns, under a program worth up to $10 billion. 🧵 www.projectsaltbox.com/p/inside-ice...
MeteoÁvila: ⏰14:55h 😔 What a massive pyrocumulus cloud that has formed on the south face of the Burgohondo wildfire. This is how it looks from Navaluenga, Ávila. #Spain #wildfires
After ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.
Brooke Taylor, a Fox News “National Correspondent,” was oh so proud of her scoop a few days ago. Appears to have been all bullshit. She hasn’t updated her feed.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2mo agoAfter ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.