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Here it comes ... a ballroom for every school, the only way to keep students safe in America.

Hearing erika kirk say 'I just want to go home' doesn't move me because those were likely the last words of hundreds of school children who never made it home because unlike her they didn't have a security detail.

Anyone suggesting we should stop accurately pointing out factual ways that the president is wrecking this country on a daily basis, or expressing an opinion about that, because of something a random nut does is espousing a profoundly un-American concept that I completely reject.

The aftermath of the WHCD shooting: Trump is still corrupt, still in the Epstein files, still a war criminal, still fucking over everyone worldwide. The economy is still in shambles. Job loss still increasing. Debt rising. War with Iran continues. ICE still ethnic cleansing.

It's estimated that US oil companies could gain a windfall of $60B this year if crude prices maintain the levels they have hit since the start of Trump's war on Iran. Remember that Big Oil spent spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024. That investment is paying off quite well for them.

Heard Qatar gave one a plane

But only in America does it happen that NO high level political figures will step down over Epstein ties. The MAGA/GOP is without shame.

The Grand Old Philistines busy themselves every day making life miserable for others.

If ICE were just going after the "worst of the worst" then the local community wouldn't be living in fear, but would be *helping* ICE.

"Resistance to Trump 2.0 is getting more confrontational" because just phoning it in to the White House isn't working.

"The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement."

Filling up your gas tank with 15 gallons of e10 ethanol blended fuel amounts to about 30 pounds of soil lost to erosion, if the ethanol was produced with Iowa corn. Fill up 1x week, that's 1500 pounds per year, 2300 pounds if you use e15, and about 13,000 pounds if you use e85.

Appeasing a bully has never given anyone protection for very long -- it's like trying to save yourself from a tiger by throwing quarter-pound hamburgers to it.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Reminder, one can get the Purple Heart award for bone spurs, too. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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ProPublica could not find evidence Trump ever lived at either of the two Florida properties he claimed as principal residences in the 1990s. Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.

Our investigation showed that levels of benzene, a cancer-causing gas, were 37x higher than what the facility reported in the past. The Trump admin has halted efforts to monitor for benzene near large industrial plants like this one, leaving communities in the dark about the air they breathe. (2/2)

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It’s the Oval Office, reimagined as a Spirit Halloween pop-up for aspiring autocrats. Every inch screams “What if Louis XIV discovered QVC?”

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Hint to readers of Doobie's post: Medical research has dramatically reduced death and disability from cardiovascular disease ... meanwhile, American politicians refuse to even lightly touch the causes of gun violence.

During a press conference, Kristi Noem claimed that ICE has not detained or arrested any US citizens. This isn't true. The reality is that at least 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents, including two kids with cancer.

Lobbyists can vote as often as they want, all year long, with their $$$ but the rest of us can vote only once every few years. 🙁

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has called for an investigation over the White House's shutdown messaging.

SAY HIS NAME: "Robert Morris"

Wouldn't it be lovely if several American media could do the same? If only much of the media CEO class wasn't in bed with the MAGA/GOP ... 😠

Matthew Dowd made a big journalism error -- he should have criticized Donald Trump, America's most prominent person stirring up hate.

GOOD for him!

Pay attention! Trump doesn't even say that he "knows" there is a problem with the data, only that he reflexively "believes" -- no evidence, no study, no explanation, just his reflexive action to unexpected bad news. This is NOT governing; it is another step towards purely authoritarian control.

Reader's note: 1. The White House has a bunker and escape tunnel 2. Your house probably does not.

A Washington Post analysis found President Trump and his appointees allegedly defied court orders in a third of over 160 lawsuits with substantive rulings, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the U.S. legal system.

“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

Trump's going full "Roust the Anti-semites" because Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, is going to be the next Republican candidate for the Presidency, right?

President Trump's financial disclosure shows more than $630 million in income from 2024 including tens of millions from cryptocurrency and Trump-branded products touted on the campaign trail.

96 private jets flew to Venice, Italy, for the Bezos wedding.

NEW: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in an emergency meeting on Monday that the escalating conflict in Iran “risks collapsing the global nuclear non-proliferation regime,” and that if diplomacy is not pursued, “violence and destruction could reach unimaginable levels.”

EPA = Executive Profit Assurance agency

Such tiny hands ...

It's almost as if he wants the criminals to help him out sometime in the future ... 😟

THIS: "Even people with great insurance can’t get emergency care at a hospital that’s shut. Or an appointment with a therapist or practitioner who has moved away for lack of business."

The grease of conservative politics, laid bare: "Commercial carriers typically avoid such work to keep away from politics, but the company's CEO said the money from ICE flights is too good to pass up."

“Unfortunately, right now, it looks like the polluters won.” Experts say that the mass of scientists being forced out of the EPA will slow down any future regulation of chemicals.

Prediction: Iowa Senators Grassley & Ernst and Representatives Nunn, Feenstra, Hinson, & Miller-Meeks will continue to give silent assent to all of the Trump's destruction of all that made America great. WAKE UP, Iowa ... WAKE UP!!! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

WAKE UP, IOWA ! Your Senators Grassley & Ernst and Representatives Nunn, Feenstra, Hinson, & Miller-Meeks give silent assent to all of the Trump family's *massive* graft and grift. Just stop electing Republicans, Iowa -- just STOP doing it.

Prediction: Iowa Senators Grassley & Ernst and Representatives Nunn, Feenstra, Hinson, & Miller-Meeks will continue to give silent assent to all of the Trump family's *massive* graft and grift. WAKE UP, Iowa ... WAKE UP!!!