<p>The U.S. government shutdown could become longest ever as Trump says he "won’t be extorted" by Democrats.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AssociatedPress</span></a></span> reports: "Millions of people stand to lose food aid benefits, health care subsidies are set to expire and there are few real talks between the parties over how to end it."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/Odluvo" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/Odluvo</a></p><p><a href="/tags/shutdown/" rel="tag">#Shutdown</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a></p>
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<p>Hilfsprogramm SNAP </p><p><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/shutdown/" rel="tag">#ShutDown</a> <a href="/tags/snap/" rel="tag">#SNAP</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/karikatur/" rel="tag">#karikatur</a></p>
<p>Exclusive: <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> ousts <a href="/tags/watchdog/" rel="tag">#watchdog</a> of US housing regulator involved in mortgage probes of his foes, sources say</p><p>The internal watchdog for the US Federal Housing Finance Agency [<a href="/tags/fhfa/" rel="tag">#FHFA</a>] is being removed from his role, four people familiar with the matter said, at a time when the housing regulator is playing a role in Trump's targeting of perceived enemies.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/revengepolitics/" rel="tag">#RevengePolitics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/tyranny/" rel="tag">#tyranny</a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/watchdog-being-ousted-us-housing-regulator-involved-trump-crackdown-sources-say-2025-11-03/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/world/us/watchdog-being-ousted-us-housing-regulator-involved-trump-crackdown-sources-say-2025-11-03/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/world/us/watch</span><span class="invisible">dog-being-ousted-us-housing-regulator-involved-trump-crackdown-sources-say-2025-11-03/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement</span></a></p>
<p>Oh FFS</p><p><a href="/tags/lauraloomer/" rel="tag">#LauraLoomer</a> is now *credentialed* to cover the <a href="/tags/pentagon/" rel="tag">#Pentagon</a><br>
The <a href="/tags/farright/" rel="tag">#FarRight</a> activist & former congressional candidate has repeatedly criticized defense officials on her website & social media accounts while boasting of her close ties to <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/fourthestate/" rel="tag">#FourthEstate</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/propaganda/" rel="tag">#propaganda</a> <a href="/tags/statemedia/" rel="tag">#StateMedia</a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/03/laura-loomer-pentagon-credentials/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/03/laura-loomer-pentagon-credentials/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/2025/11/03/laura-loomer-pentagon-credentials/</span></a></p>
<p>Trump is completely incoherent when talking about one of his signature policies. </p><p>Meanwhile, the press is hectoring <a href="/tags/kamalaharris/" rel="tag">#KamalaHarris</a> over her "price controls." </p><p>WaPo's run one opinion piece about tariffs in the last six months. It was headlined, "How <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> taught <a href="/tags/biden/" rel="tag">#Biden</a> to love tariffs."</p><p>They've run a grand total of one opinion piece this year about the central policy proposal of his campaign, rounding up and deporting 15 million people. </p><p><a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/election2024/" rel="tag">#Election2024</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/giftarticle/" rel="tag">#GiftArticle</a></p><p>Judge scolds <a href="/tags/comey/" rel="tag">#Comey</a> prosecutors for ‘indict first & investigate second’ approach<br>
U.S. Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick described the <a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a>’s approach to James B. Comey’s prosecution as “highly unusual.”</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/legalethics/" rel="tag">#LegalEthics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/revengepolitics/" rel="tag">#RevengePolitics</a> <a href="/tags/retribution/" rel="tag">#retribution</a> <br><a href="https://wapo.st/4orYWUJ" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>wapo.st/4orYWUJ</a></p>
<p>Is anyone paying attention?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/global-dev</span><span class="invisible">elopment/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content</span></a></p><p>"Campaigners have accused Meta of being condescending and unresponsive, with the company offering only vague reasons why certain accounts were taken down – and appearing unwilling to engage."</p><p>These interventions "...reinforce the power imbalance that allows big tech to decide whose voices are amplified and whose are silenced."</p><p>That is why we should all move to the Fediverse.</p><p><a href="/tags/guardian/" rel="tag">#Guardian</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#Queer</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
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<p>Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool, no doubt no doubt.</p><p>Exclusive: <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> may cut <a href="/tags/airtraffic/" rel="tag">#AirTraffic</a> 10% by Friday without <a href="/tags/shutdown/" rel="tag">#shutdown</a> deal</p><p>The shutdown has forced 13,000 <a href="/tags/airtrafficcontrollers/" rel="tag">#AirTrafficControllers</a> & 50,000 Transportation Security Administration [<a href="/tags/tsa/" rel="tag">#TSA</a>] officers to work WITHOUT <a href="/tags/pay/" rel="tag">#PAY</a> & snarled tens of thousands of <a href="/tags/flights/" rel="tag">#flights</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/orchestratedshutdown/" rel="tag">#OrchestratedShutdown</a> <a href="/tags/powergrab/" rel="tag">#PowerGrab</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-may-cut-air-traffic-10-by-friday-without-shutdown-deal-sources-say-2025-11-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-may-cut-air-traffic-10-by-friday-without-shutdown-deal-sources-say-2025-11-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/business/aeros</span><span class="invisible">pace-defense/us-may-cut-air-traffic-10-by-friday-without-shutdown-deal-sources-say-2025-11-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement</span></a></p>
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<p>"Trump’s 'Gatsby' gala wasn’t homage but autopsy — a champagne-soaked dirge for a nation that once believed in class, grace, and conscience. ...</p><p>Trump, the man who once wrapped himself in the mantle of populism, threw a party mocking the very people who once believed him."</p><p>~ David Shuster</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/maralago/" rel="tag">#MaraLago</a> <a href="/tags/greatgatsby/" rel="tag">#GreatGatsby</a> <a href="/tags/ballroom/" rel="tag">#ballroom</a> <a href="/tags/epsteinballroom/" rel="tag">#EpsteinBallroom</a> <a href="/tags/corruption/" rel="tag">#corruption</a> <a href="/tags/economicelites/" rel="tag">#EconomicElites</a> <a href="/tags/shutdown/" rel="tag">#shutdown</a> <a href="/tags/snap/" rel="tag">#SNAP</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#food</a> <a href="/tags/hunger/" rel="tag">#hunger</a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/the-great-gatsby-of-garbage-trumps" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/the-great-gatsby-of-garbage-trumps"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/the-great-gat</span><span class="invisible">sby-of-garbage-trumps</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> has accused boat crews of being *narco-terrorists*. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced</p><p>One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a fmr military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/murder/" rel="tag">#murder</a> <a href="/tags/extrajudicialkillings/" rel="tag">#ExtrajudicialKillings</a> <a href="/tags/dueprocess/" rel="tag">#DueProcess</a> <a href="/tags/warpowers/" rel="tag">#WarPowers</a> <a href="/tags/propaganda/" rel="tag">#propaganda</a> <a href="/tags/abuseofpower/" rel="tag">#AbuseOfPower</a> <a href="/tags/internationallaw/" rel="tag">#InternationalLaw</a> <a href="/tags/crimesagainsthumanity/" rel="tag">#CrimesAgainstHumanity</a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-AP+Investigation" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-AP+Investigation"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-venez</span><span class="invisible">uela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-AP+Investigation</span></a></p>
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<p>Very displeased with one of my Alma Maters!</p><p><a href="/tags/cornell/" rel="tag">#Cornell</a> Reaches Deal with <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Admin to Restore <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/funding/" rel="tag">#Funding</a></p><p>The Ivy League <a href="/tags/university/" rel="tag">#university</a> had warned of <a href="/tags/layoffs/" rel="tag">#layoffs</a> after the Trump admin stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/firstamendment/" rel="tag">#FirstAmendment</a> <a href="/tags/academicfreedom/" rel="tag">#AcademicFreedom</a> <a href="/tags/extortion/" rel="tag">#extortion</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/cornell-deal-trump-administration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/cornell-deal-trump-administration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/</span><span class="invisible">cornell-deal-trump-administration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
<p>Heartless <a href="/tags/billionaire/" rel="tag">#billionaire</a> assholes</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin seeks to halt <a href="/tags/snap/" rel="tag">#SNAP</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#food</a> <a href="/tags/aid/" rel="tag">#aid</a> payments after a <a href="/tags/courtorder/" rel="tag">#CourtOrder</a></p><p>Trump’s admin asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP benefits amid a <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> govt <a href="/tags/shutdown/" rel="tag">#shutdown</a>, even as at least some states said they were moving quickly to get the money to people.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/judiciary/" rel="tag">#judiciary</a> <a href="/tags/foodstamps/" rel="tag">#FoodStamps</a> <a href="/tags/hunger/" rel="tag">#hunger</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#poverty</a> <a href="/tags/wealthgap/" rel="tag">#WealthGap</a> <a href="/tags/socialcleansing/" rel="tag">#SocialCleansing</a> <a href="/tags/healthyifyourewealthy/" rel="tag">#HealthyIfYoureWealthy</a> <a href="/tags/economicdiscrimination/" rel="tag">#EconomicDiscrimination</a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-Breaking+News" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-Breaking+News"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/snap-food-g</span><span class="invisible">overnment-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-Breaking+News</span></a></p>
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<p>Yeah, I don't think this is going to exactly help us recover from the massive drop in <a href="/tags/tourism/" rel="tag">#tourism</a> since his term started.<br>===<br><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Wants People to Submit DNA Just to Get a <a href="/tags/touristvisa/" rel="tag">#TouristVisa</a></p><p>Want to visit the USA? CBP will make you submit your social media history—and your family history & <a href="/tags/dna/" rel="tag">#DNA</a> too.</p><p><a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> would become a “mandatory data element” , and all applicants would be required to submit a social media history going back five years.<br><a href="/tags/biometrics/" rel="tag">#biometrics</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-wants-people-submit-dna-212517547.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-wants-people-submit-dna-212517547.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-wants-people-submit-dna-212517547.html</span></a></p>
<p>Monday morning. Too much news. Went to bed to someone standing up to the Bully-in-Chief, but seem to have backed down. Gutted. </p><p><a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/mondaymorninggrump/" rel="tag">#MondayMorningGrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
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<p>Pope Leo's recent criticisms of <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> anti-<a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> policies are emboldening <a href="/tags/catholic/" rel="tag">#Catholic</a> efforts to help <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#immigrants</a> caught up in the admin's hardline crackdown, snr US Church leaders say.</p><p>After Leo called on Tues for "deep reflection" in the <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> about the admin's treatment of <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#immigrants</a>, several top bishops as well as the country's main network of Catholic nuns & its national charity federation told Reuters they would step up their work.</p><p>[<a href="/tags/popeleo/" rel="tag">#PopeLeo</a> is from <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a>]<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-leos-critique-trump-emboldens-top-us-catholics-help-immigrants-2025-11-07/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-leos-critique-trump-emboldens-top-us-catholics-help-immigrants-2025-11-07/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/world/europe/p</span><span class="invisible">ope-leos-critique-trump-emboldens-top-us-catholics-help-immigrants-2025-11-07/</span></a></p>
<p>As they should, <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> hold out for <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> talks as Thune says 'time is now' to reopen government</p><p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune asked Democrats on Friday to “end these weeks of misery” without offering anything in return, which is the way of democratic government: compromise.</p><p>Dems pledged to vote against reopening the government until <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> & <a href="/tags/republicans/" rel="tag">#Republicans</a> negotiate with them on an extension of <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/care/" rel="tag">#care</a> benefits.</p><p><a href="/tags/republicansdontgiveashitaboutyoy/" rel="tag">#RepublicansDontGiveAShitAboutYoy</a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-democrats-trump-senate-7cc1938d861b396fab07b5d2b7b28e62" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-democrats-trump-senate-7cc1938d861b396fab07b5d2b7b28e62"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/government-</span><span class="invisible">shutdown-democrats-trump-senate-7cc1938d861b396fab07b5d2b7b28e62</span></a></p>
<p>For all you <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/isolationists/" rel="tag">#isolationists</a>, <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> is putting <a href="/tags/bootsontheground/" rel="tag">#BootsOnTheGround</a></p><p><a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> steps up presence in <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> to support fragile <a href="/tags/ceasefire/" rel="tag">#ceasefire</a><br>
The <a href="/tags/usmilitary/" rel="tag">#USmilitary</a> *led* “coordination center” charged with implementing Trump’s *peace* plan in Gaza is replacing <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a> as the overseer of *humanitarian aid* to the enclave, even as multiple people familiar with the cell’s first weeks of operations have described it as chaotic, indecisive & ineffective.</p><p><a href="/tags/geopolitics/" rel="tag">#geopolitics</a> <a href="/tags/humanitariancrisis/" rel="tag">#HumanitarianCrisis</a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/07/us-centcom-gaza-israel-trump-peace/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/07/us-centcom-gaza-israel-trump-peace/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/nationa</span><span class="invisible">l-security/2025/11/07/us-centcom-gaza-israel-trump-peace/</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/transportation/" rel="tag">#Transportation</a> Secy Sean Duffy warned Friday the government could force airlines to cut up to 20% of <a href="/tags/flights/" rel="tag">#flights</a> if the <a href="/tags/shutdown/" rel="tag">#shutdown</a> did not end as US airlines on Friday scrambled to make unprecedented <a href="/tags/governmentimposed/" rel="tag">#GovernmentImposed</a> reductions.</p><p><a href="/tags/orchestratedshutdown/" rel="tag">#OrchestratedShutdown</a> <a href="/tags/faa/" rel="tag">#FAA</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/american-airlines-warns-problems-faa-flight-cuts-increase-2025-11-07/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/business/american-airlines-warns-problems-faa-flight-cuts-increase-2025-11-07/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/business/ameri</span><span class="invisible">can-airlines-warns-problems-faa-flight-cuts-increase-2025-11-07/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement</span></a></p>
<p>New: "Oil And Gas Industry Spent $250 Million On Elections That Produced The Current U.S. Government—And A Potential Venezuela Windfall"</p><p>88% of that $250M went to Republicans.</p><p>me, for <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsie.social/@Forbes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Forbes</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@opensecrets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>opensecrets</span></a></span>'s analysis</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#venezuela</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2026/01/05/venezuela-oil-gas-election-spending-trump/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2026/01/05/venezuela-oil-gas-election-spending-trump/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.forbes.com/sites/zachevers</span><span class="invisible">on/2026/01/05/venezuela-oil-gas-election-spending-trump/</span></a></p>
<p>Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food.</p><p>“It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/for</span><span class="invisible">eign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#Food</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a></p>
<p>Because commentary on what Trump is doing vis-a-vis Venezuela (and threatening to do to other nations) keeps pouring out, I'm going to create a second thread today, to complement the long one I created earlier today — the link to that is below. </p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#Venezuela</a> <a href="/tags/maduro/" rel="tag">#Maduro</a> <a href="/tags/domination/" rel="tag">#domination</a> <a href="/tags/nationalsecuritystrategy/" rel="tag">#NationalSecurityStrategy</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/violence/" rel="tag">#violence</a> <a href="/tags/narcissism/" rel="tag">#narcissism</a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115842919547899797" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="toad.social/@wdlindsy/115842919547899797"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toad.social/@wdlindsy/11584291</span><span class="invisible">9547899797</span></a></p>
<p>Rebecca Crosby, Noel Sims, and Judd Legum point to six election results that did not make the news: </p><p>"Pennsylvania county ousts sheriff who collaborated with ICE"</p><p>"Progressives win control of Texas school board that censored books"</p><p>"Georgia elects its first Democrat to a non-federal statewide office since 2006"</p><p>"Mississippi Democrats break Republican super majority in the state Senate"</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/election/" rel="tag">#election</a> <a href="/tags/pennsylvania/" rel="tag">#Pennsylvania</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/mississippi/" rel="tag">#Mississippi</a> <a href="/tags/colorado/" rel="tag">#Colorado</a> <a href="/tags/maine/" rel="tag">#Maine</a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="http://popular.info/p/six-election-results-that-didnt-make" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="popular.info/p/six-election-results-that-didnt-make"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">popular.info/p/six-election-re</span><span class="invisible">sults-that-didnt-make</span></a></p>
<p>In <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>’s <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> crackdown, agents raid <a href="/tags/daycare/" rel="tag">#daycare</a>, <a href="/tags/seniorliving/" rel="tag">#SeniorLiving</a> center</p><p>A Spanish-language immersion daycare in a leafy residential neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago was raided by federal immigration agents on Wednesday & a <a href="/tags/teacher/" rel="tag">#teacher</a> was taken away, panicking <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#school</a> administrators & <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#parents</a> of <a href="/tags/infants/" rel="tag">#infants</a>, <a href="/tags/toddlers/" rel="tag">#toddlers</a> & pre-k <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#children</a> at the center, a staff worker at the daycare told Reuters.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/thecrueltyisthepoint/" rel="tag">#TheCrueltyIsThePoint</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/chicago-immigration-crackdown-agents-raid-daycare-senior-living-center-2025-11-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/world/us/chicago-immigration-crackdown-agents-raid-daycare-senior-living-center-2025-11-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/world/us/chica</span><span class="invisible">go-immigration-crackdown-agents-raid-daycare-senior-living-center-2025-11-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/layoffs/" rel="tag">#Layoffs</a> accelerated in October, pushing 2025 job cuts to levels typically seen in a <a href="/tags/recession/" rel="tag">#recession</a>, acc/to newly released data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a private firm that tracks workplace reductions.<br>
<a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> employers have announced 1.1 million layoffs so far this year — the largest reading since the pandemic recession & on par with 2008 & 2009 job cuts during the Great Recession, the firm’s figures show.</p><p><a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/inflation/" rel="tag">#inflation</a> <a href="/tags/trumpcession/" rel="tag">#trumpcession</a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/job-cuts-accelerate-october-layoffs-trump/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/job-cuts-accelerate-october-layoffs-trump/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/2025/11/06/job-cuts-accelerate-october-layoffs-trump/</span></a></p>
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<p>Following a ProPublica investigation, more than two dozen House Democrats are pressing the Trump administration to reverse a new Department of Veterans Affairs policy that makes it harder for male veterans with breast cancer to get health coverage.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-lawmakers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-lawmakers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-lawmakers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/veterans/" rel="tag">#Veterans</a> <a href="/tags/cancer/" rel="tag">#Cancer</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>