Putin forced to raise taxes again as Ukraine war drains finances. After raising personal income taxes sharply at the start of the year, the widening budget deficit is causing inflation of over 8%. 8% inflation is a very serious problem for Russia's economy. www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

Financial Times reports the US Dollar is having its worst year in decades and has lost significant value.

A new Trump administration rule bars immigrants living in the United States under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from buying health insurance from Affordable Care Act marketplaces. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/22/r...

Bonds: 10-year Treasury yield hits 2-week high despite Fed rate cut this week Apparently the market doesn't believe that inflation in the US is under control. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/19/u...

France beats the world record for fusion plasma duration - Earth.com Source: Earth.com share.google/TfCUA5sHjekC...

Geography. Don’t skip it in school.

A record number of congressional lawmakers aren't running for reelection in 2026. Here's the list Source: NPR share.google/KxCkjMnui20U...

JD Vance: “Charlie Kirk never said Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. He never uttered those words.” Charlie Kirk: “Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson — you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously.”

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated. For years, only a small portion of the people experiencing long spells of joblessness were college graduates. That’s starting to change. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Unlike Florida, Ohio will stay the course on vaccines, governor says ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/11/u...

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Ukraine will not cede land that could be Russian springboard for new war, Zelenskyy says

Ohioans continue to raise concerns that they will lose their health care access or food assistance benefits now that the Trump/Republican massive spending bill has been passed by Congress signed into law ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/01/i...

BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement that the company decided against building “anywhere in the United States” due to “massive economic uncertainty at the national level … concerns about potential worsening economic conditions and threats of higher tariffs” www.ourmidland.com/news/article...

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows. "The [CBO] estimates that 8.2 million people who get ACA insurance ... will become uninsured due to the expiration of the enhanced tax credits ... ." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I've said it before, I'll say it again: pitch it as increasing SCOTUS to at least 100 Justices, with randomly selected pools of 9 to hear each case, such that no single Justice matters so much.

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

H.R. 3798 has been introduced into Congress to establish a “strategic Bitcoin reserve and United States digital asset stockpile.” Treasury Secretary to administer accounts for digital assets forfeited or for any civil penalty. The assets cannot be sold. www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...

Chinese Satellite Produces Much Faster Data Transmission than Starlink With a 2-Watt Laser 36,000 KM From Earth dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/chin...

Ireland has officially pulled the plug on coal power – the country shut down coal operations at its only coal-fired power station and largest electricity generation station. That makes Ireland the sixth European country to fully kick coal out of its electricity mix. electrek.co/2025/06/20/i...

NEW: After firing expert scientists on the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, RFK Jr. has named their replacements. The new committee contains many figures known for spreading disinformation about vaccines and COVID including Robert Malone and Martin Kulldorff. This is bad.

Banks Challenge Treasury on Cybersecurity Failures A coalition of financial institutions has issued a demand to the U.S. Treasury on how regulators handle sensitive financial data. This follows a series of cybersecurity breaches. www.theglobaltreasurer.com/2025/06/10/b...

Whew, good thing I retired from teaching at a military school before they caught me

It should be a priority for these guys to be informed somehow that ICE gets hotel rooms. Where are the Marines going to bunk?

Reinforcing my friend @radiofreetom.bsky.social. We’re required to refused to obey illegal orders. The military is trained on that, starting in basic. It’s also unfair to National Guard and active Marines to even put them in that circumstance against fellow citizens if not a true emergency.

Bass: If you want to go back in time, where was LA on Thursday? Fine, peaceful. Nothing was happening. The minute ICE rolled into town, that's when the chaos started and then add to that—bringing in federal troops.

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

@atrupar.com a fourth thing: bsky.app/profile/greg...

The Fed: "Our goal should not be to prevent banks from failing ... Our goal should be to make banks safe to fail . . ." Safe to fail? Anyone else think this might be a tad oblivious? www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Someone told Kristi Noem that she needed to weed out terrorists, and things went south from there ...

Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

MAJOR BREAKING Democrat Keishan Scott WINS the special election for South Carolina's 50th State House District, defeating Republican William Oden by over 41 points in a district Kamala Harris won by about 5 in 2024. 🔵 Scott - 70.6% 🔴 Oden - 29.4% 🔵 Harris 51% 🔴 Trump 45.8%

Commentary: What problem is Senate Bill 153 is trying to solve? None. Ohio Republicans know rampant voter fraud and mass noncitizen voting are not Ohio problems. It's a fake issue they're using as a false pretext to attack voters and ballot initiatives buff.ly/e9gcHjz

Now even someone on ketamine, mushrooms and Ecstasy can see it.

A modest suggestion: The White House should mind its own f__ing business.

[Is] Crypto Is About to Cause the Next Great American Financial Crisis [?] slate.com/technology/2...

Trump just announced his wasteful military parade. Let's contact Congress right now, tell them to stop it! Send your letters here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Honestly, I don't think it's Trump driving this so much as people around Trump who hate elite institutions because they wish they were part of those elite institutions.

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel is still considering a run for governor, saying that the state GOP's endorsement of Vivek Ramaswamy won't affect his decision buff.ly/WVDYubC

A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported, according to a Reuters review reut.rs/4kcHp0M

Yet another “Garcia”-like case www.justsecurity.org/113554/doj-c...

Jeff Toobin on why lawyers gain nothing by groveling at the feet of the kleptocrat: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

Exclusive: Hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government

Unreal. The Trump administration is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin countries, then refusing to say which countries they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say *why* the info is classified: