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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had a "quid pro quo" relationship with President Donald Trump after donating millions to get him re-elected.
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Sonia Sotomayor hits Elon Musk with 'quid pro quo' accusation
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had a "quid pro quo" relationship with President Donald Trump after donating millions to get him re-elected.During a Tuesday hearing on campaign finance laws, Sotomayor made the suggestion to an attorney for the National...
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A Utah man who was pardoned for firing a gun inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has been jailed in a kidnapping and sexual assault case.
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Man freed by Trump accused of horrific kidnapping and sexual assault
A Utah man who was pardoned for firing a gun inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has been jailed in a kidnapping and sexual assault case.On Tuesday, a Utah court ordered John Banuelos held in jail until a January hearing. Banuelos was charged with kidnapping and sexual assault in November...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash after a new military artificial intelligence website appeared to fail immediately.
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'Broke in under an hour': Hegseth mocked as he unveils 'future of warfare' — and it fails
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash after a new military artificial intelligence website appeared to fail immediately."The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI," Hegseth said in an announcement posted to X on Tuesday. "And that's why today we are unleashing genAI.mil. Th...
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Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life.
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Trump’s favored health plan has been tried — and it left millions buried in medical debt
Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life.She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance. Then, four years ago, when Monroe was pregnant with twin girls, something started to feel off.“I kept havin...
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President Donald Trump was roundly mocked by political analysts and observers on Tuesday night after giving a meandering speech that was billed to be about affordability.
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'Midterms should be fun': Trump buried in mockery after bizarre 'affordability' speech
President Donald Trump was roundly mocked by political analysts and observers on Tuesday night after giving a meandering speech that was billed to be about affordability. Trump traveled to Monroe Coun...
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Rick Wilson, a former Republican operative and co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, signaled that MAGA is heading for an "extinction-level" event under President Donald Trump.
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'Political asteroid': MAGA warned it's headed full speed toward ‘extinction-level event’
Rick Wilson, a former Republican operative and co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, signaled that MAGA is heading for an "extinction-level" event under President Donald Trump. Wilson wrote in a Substack essay Tuesday that Republicans have a bevy of problems ahead of the 2026 midte...
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Common Dreams
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'Victory for Everyone Who Pays an Electricity Bill': Federal Judge Tosses Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects
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'Victory for Everyone Who Pays an Electricity Bill': Federal Judge Tosses Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects
Federal judge throws out Trump's ban on new wind power projects in the US. Clean energy advocates celebrate victory for affordable, reliable energy.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-wind-power-order?share_id=9081904
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"The Warner Bros. merger was already suspect, but now Trump’s family is getting in on the act."
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Kushner Role in Paramount Scheme Shows US 'Devolving Into Caricature of Crony Capitalism'
"The Warner Bros. merger was already suspect, but now Trump’s family is getting in on the act," said one Democratic senator.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jared-kushner-paramount-warner-bros?share_id=9082139
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The "end state" of GenAI.mil was described as "a Joint Force where generative AI is fully integrated" into US military operations.
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Hegseth Says Pentagon Project Will Put Artificial Intelligence 'Into the Hands of Every American Warrior'
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing backlash for treating military operations "like a video game," as one columnist said. Now, he's launching an AI platform for service members.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hegseth-ai?share_id=9082105
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'Cold Blooded Murder': US Rights Coalition Sues Trump Over Unlawful Boat Strikes
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'Cold Blooded Murder': US Rights Coalition Sues Trump Over Unlawful Boat Strikes
US rights groups sue Trump admin over legal justification for deadly drug boat strikes in Caribbean and Pacific.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aclu-trump-boat-strikes?share_id=9082252
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"It's now taken as a given... that Trump is mulling a ground invasion of Venezuela and a dramatic expansion in his bombing campaign with no congressional authorization," said one critic.
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Trump Says US Ground Attack on Venezuela Imminent
"It's now taken as a given... that Trump is mulling a ground invasion of Venezuela and a dramatic expansion in his bombing campaign with no congressional authorization," said one critic.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-ground-attack-venezuela?share_id=9082102
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"Failure to conduct an oversight hearing on Secretary Kennedy's actions would be an abdication of our responsibility—both from a moral perspective and as a matter of sound public health policy," argue Sen. Bernie Sanders and HELP Committee Democrats.
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Sanders Leads Call for Senate to Force RFK Jr. to Answer for 'War on Science'
"Failure to conduct an oversight hearing on Secretary Kennedy's actions would be an abdication of our responsibility—both from a moral perspective and as a matter of sound public health policy."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rfk-jr-bernie-sanders?share_id=9082582
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Common Dreams
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Millions of low-income borrowers may spend hundreds more per month after Trump's billionaire education secretary killed the SAVE student loan forgiveness program.
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Trump's Billionaire Education Secretary Makes 'Backroom Deal' to Shaft Low-Income Borrowers
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, millions of low-income borrowers may now be forced to spend several hundred more dollars a month paying for student loans.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-kills-save-loans?share_id=9082412
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"The citizens of Missouri have spoken loudly and clearly: They deserve fair maps, not partisan manipulation,” said one campaigner.
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Missouri Voters Submit Signatures for Referendum on Rigged Map
"The citizens of Missouri have spoken loudly and clearly: They deserve fair maps, not partisan manipulation,” said one campaigner.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/missouri-gerrymandering?share_id=9082962
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"A debt is not owed to Chevron. A debt is owed to the Amazonian families still waiting for truth, justice, and full reparation."
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'Defeat for Justice': Ecuador to Pay Amazon-Polluting Chevron $220 Million
"A debt is not owed to Chevron. A debt is owed to the Amazonian families still waiting for truth, justice, and full reparation."
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The Daily Beast
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Katie Miller's insistence that her home was besieged by people making “terroristic threats” was undermined by the official police report.
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Katie Miller’s Claims About ‘Threats’ Fall Apart in Damning Police Report
The report flatly describes the supposedly “terroristic” sidewalk slogans outside the Millers’ home as “non-threatening.”
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Tina Peters, a former official from Mesa County, Colorado, was found guilty last year of seven criminal counts for letting Trump’s allies illegally access the county’s election system.
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Judge Smacks Down Trump’s Desperate Demand to Free Supporter
Former election clerk Tina Peters had filed a petition to be freed on bond while she appeals her felony conviction.
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The Daily Beast
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Legal scholars are worried that Supreme Court decisions are increasingly kneecapping Congress and may enable “aggressive efforts” by the current president and his successors.
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Legal Experts Sound Alarm on ‘Very Bad Sign’ in SCOTUS Case
Legal scholars agree that SCOTUS decisions will be “very hard to recover from.”
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The MAGA firebrand has taken aim at Trump’s White House gatekeeper.
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MTG Picks Fight With Another Member of Trump’s Inner Circle
The former Trump loyalist has taken aim at his White House gatekeeper.
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The torturous methods allegedly used at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” echo one of the most horrific abuses carried out by the CIA after the September 11 attacks.
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ICE Barbie’s Detainees Held in ‘Inhuman’ CIA-Style Torture Box
The U.S. is sliding back into its darkest chapters, human rights experts warn.
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Hegseth’s lack of experience is only the first reason he's unfit to serve. | TDBP 620
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A liberal justice suggested the Trump administration was asking the Supreme Court to upend the U.S. government in a remarkable exchange.
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Liberal Justice Stops SCOTUS With Shock Challenge to Trump
The three liberal justices raised alarms over a case to expand presidential power.
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Why Trump Is Using a Moron to Run His 'War': Wolff | Inside Trump's Head
YouTube video by The Daily Beast
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The secret adviser who is guiding Pentagon Pete Hegseth’s hardline “warrior” approach to the U.S. military is a retired colonel with a controversial past, The Swamp can reveal.
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Hegseth’s Secret ‘Kill Them All’ Aide and Grinch Does Christmas
A highly controversial military figure is secretly whispering into the Defense Secretary’s ear at a time of maximum controversy, our must-read newsletter reveals.
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Many of the “worst of the worst” criminals touted by ICE Barbie Kristi Noem on a new DHS website have only been convicted of “traffic offenses.”
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Embarrassing Truth About ICE Barbie’s ‘Worst of the Worst’ Exposed
The secretary is deporting traffic offenders like...her.
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The Trump administration has ordered visa applicants to make their social media profiles public for so-called “online presence reviews.”
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Visa Appointments Canceled So Trump Goons Can Social Snoop
The Trump administration has ordered visa applicants to make their social media profiles public for so-called “online presence reviews.”
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when you see Trump on camera angrily attacking female reporters for asking straightforward questions, it doesn’t take much to imagine what he does behind closed doors when a woman says ‘No’
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Chris Hayes
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It's vile to kill people with no actual legal justification and also vile to joke about killing those people.
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Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
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Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
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Shapiro: This is an area that voted for him. And yet he comes back now, almost a year after taking office, having screwed over the very people who put him in power. As a result of his policies, their costs have gone up…
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NOW WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES THEM BELIEVE THEY ARE SUPERIOR = ONLY GUN OWNERSHIP The Republicans/Conservatives NeoConfederate Government Conspiracy Must Be Defeated By WeTheAmericanWorkingClassAndWorkingPoorMajority Via All Necessary Means!
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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PRECISELY WhiteConservativeRightWingExtremistBigots KKKers White Inferiors Falsely Claiming to be Superior & Christian They Are Neither
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TheRealWillingDictatorsPuppetTrump
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WeThePeople Recognize TheRealConArtistTrump as The RealLiarTrump TheRealSexualPredatorTrump & TheRealRussianSpyTrump Aka Agent Krasnov WeTheWorkingClassAndWorkingPoorMajorityOfAmericans All Knew he Was, His ConservativeSuckerVoters Are Fully Responsible for Betraying OurAmericanChildren & America
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The Justice Department can release investigative materials used in the sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, a federal judge has confirmed.
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Trove of unseen Epstein files ordered released as Ghislaine Maxwell makes new freedom bid
The Justice Department can release investigative materials used in the sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, a federal judge has confirmed. Maxwell, a close friend of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was put on trial in April 2021 on sex trafficking charges and, in June 2022, was se...
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Because “dosing don” he’s hateful, racist, intolerant, divisive, liar, vulgar, abuser, pedophile, traitor, chaos starter, etc., etc., etc. (I’m sure I forgot some)
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“The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.”
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Stephen Miller’s rhetoric “reminds me” of “Nazis,” says Rep. Ilhan Omar
During a Sunday interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Minnesota congresswoman critiqued the top White House adviser’s “white supremist” comments.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/stephen-miller-nazi-omar-somali-garbage-trump-cbs/
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As SCOTUS hears another case today that could further destroy campaign finance regulation, consider this astonishing fact: political spending by billionaires has increased 160-fold since Citizens United decision
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This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/john-roberts-donald-trump-supreme-court/
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Mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew released from ICE custody
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Mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew released from ICE custody
Bruna Ferreira was arrested and detained last month on the way to pick up her 11-year-old son from school.
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'Corrupt': Kushner’s role in Warner Brothers Discovery takeover bid draws fierce blowback
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'Corrupt': Kushner’s role in Warner Brothers Discovery takeover bid draws fierce blowback
On Sunday, President Donald Trump declared that he will “be involved” in the federal government’s decision on whether to allow the streaming service Netflix to buy mass media and entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery. On Monday, Paramount Skydance, another mass media and entertainment co...
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'Ambitious' MAGA women are waking up to a painful reality
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'Ambitious' MAGA women are waking up to a painful reality
MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) went from being a strident defender of President Donald Trump to complaining that his second term is unfaithful to the American First agenda he ran on in 2024. And in September, she argued that men in the MAGA movement don't take women seriously, saying, ...
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Former DHS chief of staff tells DOJ to 'ignore' judge’s order in Noem inquiry
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Former DHS chief of staff tells DOJ to 'ignore' judge’s order in Noem inquiry
A former Department of Justice chief of staff suggested that the department flout a court order from a federal inquiry, all while said judge pushes an inquiry into whether or not the department advised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to deliberately flout one of his orders from March.On Tues...
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'So unpopular with the public': MAGA governor breaks with Trump on key issue
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'So unpopular with the public': MAGA governor breaks with Trump on key issue
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) became the latest Republican to break with President Donald Trump on a key issue, arguing that a recent order could not override state government authority and that it would be "unpopular with the public."DeSantis took to X to push back against Trump's recently announce...
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Millions of patients ended up in debt when Trump’s idea for healthcare was tried before
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Millions of patients ended up in debt when Trump’s idea for healthcare was tried before
Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life.She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance. Then, four years ago, when Monroe was pregnant with twin girls, something started to feel off.“I kept havin...
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Trump's lies are finally catching up to him
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Trump's lies are finally catching up to him
Young people are furious. A survey released last week by the Harvard Institute of Politics finds that under-30 Americans are “a generation under profound strain” who’ve lost pretty much any confidence in government or corporate institutions.By a 57 percent to 13 percent margin they told pollsters Am...
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"Americans shopping for groceries aren’t guinea pigs and shouldn't have to pay an Instacart tax.”
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Report Exposes Instacart's Hidden AI Price Experiments That Could Cost Families $1,200 Per Year
Consumer advocates are calling for an investigation into Instacart's AI pricing experiments that charge some shoppers up to 23% more for groceries. Are you willing to pay an Instacart tax? It's time for transparency and fair pricing in the grocery industry.
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From the outside, the connection between a half-sunk fishing boat and great-power strategy looks tenuous at best. But that is the disturbing part: not just what happened, but what the public is being prepared to accept next.
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The Caribbean Strikes and the Moral Collapse of American Power
The strikes are more than tactical operations; they are a test of national character: What kind of country do we want to be?
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