I’m using my executive authority to ban nonferrous mining in the Boundary Waters. As far as my administration is concerned, the fight for the future of the Boundary Waters is over. The verdict is in. The decision is made. We will protect this place.
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I afflict the comfortable, and comfort the afflicted. Nature, gardens, sustainable economics, dogs, cats, and humor. Retired technology executive. She/her.
if i were a dem politician asked about hasan piker i would simply say “i will answer your question about the twitch streamer no one has heard of but first i would like to point out the president was best friends with the worlds most notorious child rapist and yall stopped asking him about that”
Microsoft made more money in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined. But it paid MORE cash tax to Ireland than to the U.S. federal government. The rigged tax code is working exactly as designed. They stash profits offshore. Working people pay the tab.
The Big Ugly Bill, passed by Republicans slashes Medicare by over 500 billion dollars starting January 1. Seniors, veterans, disabled people - all pay the price for billionaire tax cuts. Its past time to vote Trump’s Republican enablers in Congress out of office in November. #RepublicanMedicareCuts
Peter Thiel exchanged 2,000+ emails with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein invested $40 million in Thiel's Valar Ventures funds. They swapped strategies to avoid IRS tracking of hidden wealth. When billionaires teach each other to hide wealth from the IRS, that's not tax planning.
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
@nytimes.com Why do you publish uninformed people writing prevarications? This guy is clueless. The Environmental Case Against Data Centers Is Misguided www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
Opinion | The Environmental Case Against Data Centers Is Misguided
Our animosity toward data centers is really more about our anxieties about A.I.
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Retribution much? Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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The White House posted on Facebook claiming that 198 Democrats voted against banning members of Congress from trading stocks while in office. What they don’t tell you is that House Republicans attached the SAVE Act to the bill.
The Outrageous House Republican Move to Enact Trump’s Vote Suppression Proposals By the Backdoor of Budget Reconciliation talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-out...
The Outrageous House Republican Move to Enact Trump’s Vote Suppression Proposals By the Backdoor of Budget Reconciliation
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
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Antediluvian thinking (and a creepy visage) are more likely the reason the author of this opinion is not getting a lot of attention from the dating pool www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
Trump Derangement Syndrome is getting in the way of my love life | Opinion
A retired professor shares how political polarization is impacting his dating life in modern America.
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Washington County residents are raising concerns that injection wells in southeastern Ohio leaking brine waste will eventually pollute Marietta’s drinking water. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/14/t...
'The precipice of an emergency.' Marietta residents worry drinking water could become contaminated. • Ohio Capital Journal
Washington County residents are raising concerns that injection wells in southeastern Ohio leaking brine waste will eventually pollute Marietta’s drinking water.
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A plan that threatens some historic Washington, D.C., cherry trees to make way for President Trump’s planned golf course is “very unfortunate,” said the great-grandson of William Howard Taft who received the Japanese trees more than a century ago ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/13/p...
President Taft descendent former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft slams Trump plan to devastate D.C. cherry trees • Ohio Capital Journal
A plan that threatens some historic Washington, D.C., cherry trees to make way for President Trump’s planned golf course is “very unfortunate,” said the great-grandson of William Howard Taft who…
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Apple could have given workers $4 million each over the last 8 years. Alphabet: $1.8 million. Microsoft workers: $775,000 each. Bank of America: $672,000 each. They chose buybacks. You got cuts. Nothing trickles down.
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!
Commentary: Before one of the Trump-backed “Freedom Trucks” rolls into the Ohio State Fair at the end of the month, state leaders should demand that the roving 18-wheeler museum, created by right-wing propagandists, includes a disclaimer about bias ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/09/o...
Ohio State Fair will feature 'Freedom Trucks' passing off right-wing propaganda as American history • Ohio Capital Journal
Before one of the Trump-backed “Freedom Trucks” rolls into the Ohio State Fair at the end of the month, state leaders should demand that the roving 18-wheeler museum, created by right-wing…
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Remember Trump's Big Ugly Law? You should. It took from you. Gave to the rich. One year later, hospitals are closing. Families are struggling. Billionaires are richer. Tonight, we're exposing the damage. And building the fight to reverse it. Join us. 7pm ET. RSVP now.
And the Ohio GOP, Senators Moreno, and Husted, and DeWine administration don’t seem to give a damn. #Ohio
Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · last mo.One year ago, the Republican “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” made the largest cuts to food stamps in the history of the program. Now 100,000 Ohioans are going without help and the state is bracing for enormous new costs without federal help. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/08/o...
Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins