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fromIndependent
2 hours ago
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Tanya Sweeney: Just when you think the US President can scrape no lower, he manages to do just that with 'quiet, piggy' jibe

fromIndependent
2 hours ago
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Tanya Sweeney: Just when you think the US President can scrape no lower, he manages to do just that with 'quiet, piggy' jibe

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fromIndependent
2 hours ago
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Tanya Sweeney: Just when you think Donald Trump can scrape no lower, he manages to do just that with 'quiet, piggy' jibe

fromIndependent
2 hours ago
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Donald Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' jibe - 'Just when you think the US President can scrape no lower, he manages to do just that'

fromIndependent
2 hours ago
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Tanya Sweeney: Just when you think Donald Trump can scrape no lower, he manages to do just that with 'quiet, piggy' jibe

fromIndependent
2 hours ago
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Donald Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' jibe - 'Just when you think the US President can scrape no lower, he manages to do just that'

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fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago

You Cannot Do That': Trump's Deputy AG Calls for Probe Into Democrats Who Insisted Military Refuse Trump's Illegal Orders'

Federal investigators should probe six Democratic lawmakers who urged military and CIA members to refuse allegedly illegal orders, focusing on their intent and accountability.
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fromAxios
6 hours ago

"People are pissed": The "Mamdani revolution" is coming for congressional Democrats

A surge of progressive primary challenges is targeting many House Democrats, with numerous New York incumbents facing potential or announced contests and possibly over 30% targeted.
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 hours ago

Former GOP Staffer Who Had TRUMP WHORE' Written on Stomach Is Charged With Fabricating Anti-MAGA Attack

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Natalie Greene, 26, with one count of conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and one count of making false statements to federal law enforcement. In a release, the DOJ said Greene and a co-conspirator staged a faux attack on Greene that they blamed on three men. The co-conspirator claimed the men referenced Greene's employment with Van Drew, who is referred to in the indictment as Federal Official 1.
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fromKqed
7 hours ago

Here's What We Know About ICE Activity Near West Oakland Schools | KQED

Federal immigration enforcement activity in West Oakland led to a vehicle collision near schools, prompting secure-school protocols and community alarm.
fromsfist.com
7 hours ago

ICE Agents Show Up Near West Oakland Elementary School, Resulting in Car Chase and Irate Parents

On Wednesday morning, parents of kids attending West Oakland's Hoover Elementary School got a pretty alarming message on an app some use called ParentSquare. "We got confirmation that there is ICE activity in the neighborhood, the message said, according to KTVU. They are on 31st and Market Street knocking on doors. The kids are safe and secure at school. Please do not come to the school. We will alert you when things are quiet in the neighborhood again.
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fromThe Atlantic
7 hours ago

Trump 2.0 Suddenly Looks Like Trump 1.0

President Donald Trump's administration has been embroiled in scandal and sloppiness. His own party has defied his political pressure. His senior staff has been beset by infighting. He has sparred with reporters and offered over-the-top praise to an authoritarian with a dire human-rights record. A signature hard-line immigration policy has polled poorly. And Republicans have begun to brace themselves for a disastrous midterm election.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
7 hours ago

Almost half of working-age adults experienced conflict at work in the past year

Capability and performance issues are the leading causes of workplace conflict, with stress, anxiety and depression the most common impacts and reduced motivation following.
fromAxios
7 hours ago

Social Security not planning major disability overhaul amid criticism

The proposal would've been the largest-ever cut to the program, per an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. At the time, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration told the paper the agency was working on plans to "propose improvements to the disability adjudication process to ensure our disability program remains current and can be more efficiently administered."
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fromBoston.com
7 hours ago

The middle class doesn't have to keep shrinking, Globe Summit speakers tell audience

Massachusetts must retain and create well-paying middle-class jobs to prevent middle-class decline and strengthen statewide economic stability.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
7 hours ago

White House Lashes Out at 'Democrat Spin Operation' ABC News

The White House accuses ABC News of operating as a Democrat-aligned spin operation that produces biased, inaccurate, and overwhelmingly negative coverage of President Donald Trump.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
6 hours ago

Judge delays Stanford Daily free speech lawsuit against Trump administration

First filed in August, the suit alleges the administration has used immigration policies to suppress protected speech by student activists and journalists. It names Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as defendants. The plaintiffs the newspaper and two individuals using aliases are challenging two provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act that they say let the government punish noncitizens for exercising protected speech.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
2 hours ago

No One Had Ever Heard of This': Former U.S. Attorney Can't Believe DOJ Prosecutor Didn't Present Comey Indictment to Full Grand Jury

Comey was indicted in September in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of making a false statement to Congress and obstruction. The case has been suspected from the beginning, when President Donald Trump called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute some of his political nemeses, including Comey. On Monday, a federal magistrate judge said Lindsey Halligan, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who was previously Trump's personal attorney, committed profound investigative missteps when seeking Comey's indictment by the grand jury.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
3 hours ago

Get Off Your Fat Ass': Congressman Lashes Out at Randos Who Flipped Off Trump on TikTok

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) told a group of random people to get off their fat ass on Wednesday after they posted a TikTok video flipping off President Donald Trump. In the video, the people could be seen giving Trump the middle finger as the rap song F*ck Donald Trump played in the background. F*ck Donald Trump all the way around !!!! they captioned the video on TikTok.
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fromAxios
8 hours ago

Scoop: Secret CIA report boasted about tricking Congress in JFK probe, whistleblower says

A CIA inspector general's report and internal memos indicate CIA officers provided sanitized duplicates of Mexico City files and misled congressional investigators about Oswald-related records.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago
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Nancy Pelosi Tells CNN She Could Have Said Much Worse' After Calling Trump The Worst Thing on the Face of the Earth'

fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago
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Nancy Pelosi Tells CNN She Could Have Said Much Worse' After Calling Trump The Worst Thing on the Face of the Earth'

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fromwww.independent.co.uk
7 hours ago

These are Britain's most and least affordable towns to buy a home in this year

The Independent seeks donations to fund accessible journalism without paywalls; Shildon is named Britain's most affordable town for working families in 2025.
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fromAxios
2 hours ago

Electric car sales fuel record-breaking quarter for US clean-energy investments

Third-quarter clean-energy investment surged to $75 billion, driven by a 32% rise in electric vehicle sales despite expiring federal EV tax credits.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
7 hours ago

Trump's Handling of Economy Gets Lowest Mark of All Time in New Fox News Poll

President Donald Trump's approval ratings fell to multi-year lows, with just 38% approving his handling of the economy and 41% approving overall.
fromStreetsblog
2 hours ago

Upstate Transit Agencies are Starving As State Slows Funding - Streetsblog New York City

The state government allocates transit funding to municipalities under the State Operating Assistance program, which receives dedicated funding through such things as the petroleum business tax or state car registration fees. Alas, that funding has lagged; in the last budget cycle, advocates sought a 15-percent hike, but got just a 3.4-percent increase, bringing total State Operating Assistance funding to $344 million for upstate transit.
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fromAxios
12 hours ago

Trump on Fed Chair Powell: "I'd love to fire his ass"

Trump pressured Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the Federal Reserve search, criticized high interest rates, and threatened to fire Bessent if the issue is not resolved.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 hours ago

The Musk-Trump feud is thawing, again

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are reconciling after a public feud, attending the same White House dinner and exchanging public thanks and jokes.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
15 hours ago

Prop 50 unlikely to be impacted after judges block Texas from using its new House map, expert says

Federal court's block of Texas's redrawn U.S. House map is unlikely to affect California's voter-approved Proposition 50, according to some experts.
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fromIntelligencer
9 hours ago

GOP Redistricting May Backfire Due to Team Trump's Incompetence

Federal courts blocked Texas's mid-decade GOP congressional map after a DOJ letter helped show it was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, forcing use of the 2021 map.
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fromAxios
1 day ago

Who's the sole Republican to vote against releasing Epstein files?

The bill would broadly release criminal investigative files, risking harm to innocent people while giving the Justice Department wide discretion and drawing Higgins' opposition.
fromThe Mercury News
12 hours ago

Oakland rejects $2 million contract with surveillance company over concerns of ICE spying

On Tuesday, the city's leaders voted down a $2 million contract with Flock Safety, the company that operates Oakland's existing camera systems, after hundreds rallied against the threat of immigration authorities and other federal law enforcement spying on residents, bypassing the city's sanctuary policies. The issue has grown so contentious that two members of the local Privacy Advisory Commission resigned last week - and one subsequently filed a lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department.
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fromIntelligencer
14 hours ago

The Chuy Garcia Rebuke Shouldn't Tear Democrats Apart

Garcia recently chose to retire from the House due to distressing family and medical concerns, but he timed his announcement so close to the candidate filing deadline for the 2026 Democratic primary that only one would-be successor, his chief of staff, Patty Garcia (no relation to her boss), was able to file. This political-machine-type maneuver drew the attention of Washington Democratic congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who sponsored a resolution of disapproval aimed at Chuy Garcia.
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fromTruthout
14 hours ago

Trump Administration's Plan to Dismantle Department of Education Meets Backlash

The Trump administration signed interagency agreements transferring several Department of Education responsibilities to other federal agencies to shift education control toward states.
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fromwww.esquire.com
9 hours ago

The Justice Department Simply Can't Be Trusted with the Epstein Files Transparency Act

The Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section was dismantled, shrinking from 38 to two prosecutors after pardons and leadership moves that eroded prosecutions and morale.
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fromAxios
14 hours ago

Why the Epstein files won't be released as soon as the law is signed

Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act to force DOJ release of Epstein records, but active investigations and presidential concerns may prevent full public disclosure.
fromwww.mediaite.com
17 hours ago

House Republicans Rip 'Backroom Deal' to Help Cory Mills

Tonight, a handful of Republicans took a dive on a vote to strip Stacy (sic) Plaskett of her position on House intel because of her ties to Epstein, wrote Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) on X. They did it to protect a Republican facing his own ethics issues from a similar vote. This backroom deal sh*t is swampy, wrong and always deserves to be called out.
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fromAxios
9 hours ago

House ethics panel launches investigation into Rep. Cory Mills

Ethics says they are investigating Mills for failure to properly disclose information, violation of campaign finance laws, improperly soliciting or receiving gifts, receiving special favors and allegations of sexual misconduct. In October, a Florida judge granted a protective order against Mills after a former girlfriend accused him of threatening to release sexually explicit photos and videos of her. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) brushed off questions at the time about the order, but told reporters that Ethics would investigate Mills, "if it warrants that."
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fromAbove the Law
11 hours ago

Lindsey Halligan Officially More Stupid Than You Imagined - Above the Law

Lindsey Halligan, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, filed defective indictments and bypassed proper grand jury procedure, creating serious legal flaws.
fromThe Nation
21 hours ago

The Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses

What is preventing American's youngest voters from turning out? While voter enthusiasm is certainly key, systemic mechanisms uniquely hold this constitutionally protected class of voters at bay. In Montana, when the state Supreme Court struck down a 2024 voter suppression law that eliminated same-day registration, banned the use of student identification cards for voting, and prevented those recently turned 18 years old from access to vote-by-mail, the legislature was undeterred, passing a new law requiring aspiring student
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fromwww.esquire.com
11 hours ago

We Have to Stop Electing Angry Idiots Like Clay Higgins to Congress

Rep. Clay Higgins physically shoved an activist at a Capitol press availability and has a prior record of alleged police brutality and false statements.
fromAxios
17 hours ago

Poll shows Democrats with biggest generic ballot lead since 2017

Among 1,291registered voters, 55% said they'd vote for the Democratic candidate in their Housedistrict, compared to 41% who said they'd back the Republican, according to a NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll national survey conducted last week. Another 3% said they would vote for another party's candidate, and 1% were unsure. When voters were last asked the question, back in November of last year, they were evenlydivided, 48% to 48%.
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fromBoston.com
11 hours ago

Federal prosecutor who probed Karen Read case jumps into Norfolk DA race

Former federal prosecutor Adam Deitch is running for Norfolk County district attorney, emphasizing accountability and integrity after investigating the Karen Read case.
fromThe Verge
15 hours ago

Lawmakers want to let users sue over harmful social media algorithms

On Wednesday Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, which amends Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make platforms responsible for preventing their recommendation systems from causing certain foreseeable harms. Section 230 is the law that shields online platforms - including social media sites, digital forums, blogs with comment sections, and their users -
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fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago

Letters: Why doesn't Trump sue Texas over voting maps?

As a senior citizen on Medicare and SNAP, I feel like I can speak to both issues. Our country is now being run by a narcissistic president. He does not care about the poor, working people, homeless people or poor immigrants just trying to make a living. He is letting these people go hungry, and he is trying to take away medical assistance for them, and deporting almost all immigrants.
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fromwww.esquire.com
16 hours ago

Jim Jordan Managed to Look Like a Fool Even While Passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act

The House passed the Jeffrey Epstein Transparency Act 427–1 amid warnings that broad public release of investigative files could expose and harm innocent people without stronger privacy protections.
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