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Musk has funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his PAC since July, building a huge turnout operation for the midterms. “The staggering amount of money makes Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, by far the largest known donor in the midterms” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

EU removes oligarchs from Russia sanctions list as deadline looms

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...

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...

Crypto is going to dump $30 million to sink Sherrod Brown, per: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...

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.

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...

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...

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."

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

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/...

“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...

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.

The fires in southern France are advancing towards Bordeaux with more than 167,000 evacuated, in a situation “never seen before”

The Trump administration is severely limiting U.S. humanitarian refugee and asylum programs that were established by law and embody American values that date back to our nation’s earliest days. bit.ly/4fkmS8Y

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

Fifty years of “Trickle-Down" has turned Millionaires into Billionaires and the Working Class into the Working Poor.

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

Trump, sitting next to Zelenskyy: "In one day, we could knock down every single bridge in Iran. There's not a thing they can do about it ... if we have to, we'll take them out. They have desalinization plants. We'll take them out if we have to ... maybe we'll take over Kharg island."

Riley Gaines is so stupid, she lost all her swimming races because she’d forget to breathe.

WSJ: Walmart “already had plans to reduce prices on many items .. “.. The USDA relayed Walmart’s plans to the White House, and President Trump claimed victory Monday, posting on social media that Walmart would drop prices ‘at my administration’s request.’” $WMT www.wsj.com/business/ret...

A dispute among Cabinet officials over who could ride in fighter jets flying over D.C. on July Fourth escalated to President Trump, who gave the go-ahead to acting attorney general Todd Blanche despite objections from Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy.

Trump says he’s considering selling F-35’s to Turkey. The F-35 is arguably the world’s most advanced fighter. If its capabilities were compromised…the consequences would extend well beyond Turkey…they could affect every F-35 operator…including the United States and many NATO allies.

Speaking of scumbags, Ken Paxton has been caught in London with his mistress instead of campaigning for Senate in Texas. No wonder the GOP Is so freaked out about this race.