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publicintegrity.org/environment/... As climate change accelerates natural catastrophes, a multi-billion dollar disaster-restoration industry capitalizes on low-wage immigrant labor. These workers clear debris and build anew after hurricanes, floods and wildfires. Exposure to toxins is inevitable.

Fun Fact: Trump cheated all three times.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGa... In 2009 President Obama added basketball hoops and court markings to an existing outdoor tennis court on the South Lawn of the White House; preserving the potential to be used for either sport. Paid for privately. The Wounded Warriors taught him some moves.

newrepublic.com/post/217160/... The president’s oil and gas holdings are currently worth between $22.5 million and $81.6 million. At the end of 2025, they were worth between $12.6 million and $46 million. Rising gas prices are making him rich! No wonder the War in Iran isn't over.

aje.news/9gesof Meta employees internal communications admit the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Lula da Silva were negatively affected by restrictions during the country’s election. Lula's 2026 laws increasing platform liability & regulating minors' access are costly to Meta and others.

www.npr.org/2026/10/25/n... A very brave woman, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, returns to Venezuela.

www.reuters.com/world/africa... I'm voting for his trip to the DRC. Yes, they have had 4,757 deaths from Ebola this year, but none of the dead were large older balding white men carrying $50,000 in a paper Cava bag or carrying $50,000 in a paper bag from any other fast-food chain. So, Tom's safe.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/c... New furnaces in Ohio Steel Mills were funded by Biden's infrastructure bill. They'd run on climate-friendly hydrogen, natural gas and electricity instead of coal — and give the Ohio steel company a foot in the future. Trump is trying to cut the $500M funding.

spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/... Trump cut $3.7 billion from 24 projects funded under Biden legislation, including Libbey Glass and O-I Glass. Libbey's $45.1M grant would have replaced 4 gas-powered furnaces with 2 electric furnaces. O-I had $57.3M for an efficient,cost-saving low carbon furnace.

This ad was made by humans. Corrupt Ken Paxton is selling Texans out and selling its land and water to the highest bidder. End corruption. Stop Ken Paxton. Vote Talarico.

You can’t beat some Obama shade to start your day.

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

'Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” provides “expensing,” allowing companies to write off costs of equipment far more quickly than makes sense... It seems to be especially lucrative for companies building out AI infrastructure right now.' 😟 Read more at: itep.org/big-tech-is-... By Matthew Gardner

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c... Trump exempted 202 of the country's worst industrial polluters from clean-air regulations going into effect: chemical manufacturers, copper smelters and coal-burning power plants. Millions live within 3 miles of at least one facility in 39 states and Puerto Rico.

united24media.com/world/sancti... Senior executives at a US liquefied natural gas company resigned after discovering that sanctioned Russian energy giant Novatek was financing and directing a $25 billion gas export project in Alaska, despite lacking US government authorization. #TrumpsAlaskaGiveaway

alaskabeacon.com/2025/07/03/t... Trump has blocked the release of an estimated $6.2 billion in congressionally approved education funding through U.S. Department of Education grant programs, including what one group estimated to be $46.4 million destined for Alaska schools.

alaskabeacon.com/2025/07/03/t... Why would Alaska vote for the GOP? Trump's EPA cancelled $20M to upgrade homes and build new ones in Alaska. Over $280M Biden grants to Alaska were defunded. Trump blocked $6.2B in Biden DOE funds including $46.4M destined for Alaska schools.

www.ktoo.org/2025/03/12/l... Alaska experts on energy, housing and infrastructure said billions of dollars are in limbo from President Donald Trump’s funding freezes – and that uncertainty is affecting local communities.

wapo.st/4dTOKRJ The U.N. says 1,700 people are still trapped in the town destroyed by Russia's brutal assault. After surviving a harrowing escape, survivors of Oleshky say a humanitarian catastrophe looms this winter. Disabled and elderly trapped by Putin face mines that carpet the only road out.

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www.politico.com/news/2025/11... Under HUD Secretary Scott Turner, Trump WH attempts to redirect over half of the $3.9 billion Continuum of Care program away from permanent housing assistance toward short-term transitional housing with mandates. The cuts put 170,000 people at risk of homelessness.

apnews.com/article/affo... The $60M grant termination is part of a flurry of funding freezes, staffing cuts and contract cancellations by the Trump WH at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Many of the nonprofits had committed funds to pay HVAC techs, local contractors, workers.

www.adn.com/business-eco... Southcentral Alaska residents were devastated in May 2025 when the Trump EPA cancelled a $20M grant to upgrade homes and build new ones. Over $280M in Biden grants to Alaska were defunded by the Trump EPA and billions more terminated nationwide.

wapo.st/4z59heB Matt Gardner @ ITEP 2025 financials show Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla collectively report $315B in U.S. profits and paid 4.9% federal corporate income taxes—Tesla paid zero. Absent Trump's 2017 rate cuts alone they'd have paid $44B more. #BFDeductibleDonation Corporate Welfare

kyivindependent.com/american-gen... The disruption in energy markets has channeled additional oil profits to Russia, which received a temporary sanctions waiver from U.S. President Trump and his GOP majority party legislators, despite Russia's strategic support for Iran in their ongoing war.

I'm a doctor and a dad. I rebuilt Detroit's health department, led Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services. We put glasses on kids, took on corporate polluters, eliminated medical debt. It just shouldn't be this hard to get by in the richest country in the world.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... ICE assaults an Arizona dad, a construction worker building homes in his community, employed, no criminal record. Rammed by ICE vehicles, left with a bullet in his spine, a lacerated liver and lung, detained for months without proper care, deported to Honduras.

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u... A billionaire banker from a prominent Venezuelan family, Mr. Herrera faced felony bribery charges here. His daughter, Isabela Herrera, an American citizen, donated $3.5M to a Trump super PAC and offered Alina Habba $10M a year for 4 years and $10M bonuses #PardonMe

www.farmprogress.com/farming-equi... Trump's Tariffs drive new equipment prices higher. Used inventory drops 28% as farmers navigate rising costs amid sluggish demand and geopolitical trade pressures. CNH Industrial reports ag machinery-related tariffs @ $120M. Caterpillar sees $2B in 2026 tariffs.

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w... Prime Minister Mark Carney received an enthusiastic reception at two large rallies for those supporting remaining in Canada last week in Edmonton and Calgary. With just over a third of votes counted, 76% chose to remain part of Canada with 23% seeking another vote.

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Living in Ypsilanti, Courtney is facing not one, not two, but three proposed new data center projects within just a few miles of her house. I believe there should be no new data centers until guardrails and protections have been established at the federal level.

bridgemi.com/michigan-gov... Nelson Vandermeer lost his job as a product designer at Howard Miller, a clockmaker that sourced some parts overseas. After a century in business in Zeeland, Michigan, it closed its factory, sold off its inventory and brand name, and laid off 200 workers. #GOPTariffs

bridgemi.com/michigan-gov... Winnebago, maker of recreational vehicles like campers, cut 200 jobs after the cost of importing aluminum, steel and electronics increased by tens of millions due to tariffs. Bicycle Corp. of America closed a SC factory, blaming rising prices for parts and tariffs.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... Trump's Tariffs have cost businesses in Michigan and across the country billions of dollars while helping to stoke inflation that has continued to run hot — despite Trump's assurances his business background would wipe it out.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... Michigan has 23 fewer infectious disease workers and 123 fewer county health staff after ​the Trump WH canceled around $12 billion in COVID-era grants to states with no push-back from GOP legislators.

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/o... Kimberly Guilfoyle, Sacrificial Ham. Guilfoyle was an avatar of Trump. Don Junior went unpunished when a Russian with ties to the Kremlin spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on his lavish wedding party in the Bahamas. In Trump's world, only the girls get spanked.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ai-versus-everything-else?r=1zu0z8&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web A chart borrowed from Steve Rattner shows construction of data centers divert funds and resources from the construction of housing, office buildings, and factories — from all non-AI sectors.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-ai-cr... Deploying $8 billion dollars in the non-AI sector will, on average, support 10,000+ jobs. Investing $8 billion in an AI Data Center will support 100 jobs. Money spent on data centers creates 1% as many jobs as investing in other industries would create.

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w... The line between dirty and clean gold is an industry fiction. Wall Street and governments profit off gold from criminals, gangsters and those who exploit children.