The median home price in the U.S. is $435,000. At 6.5% interest: 30-Year Mortgage: - Monthly Payment: $2,750 - Total Loan Cost: $989,800 50-Year Mortgage: - Monthly Payment: $2,450 - Total Loan Cost: $1,471,300 $1,036,300 just in interest. This is the definition of broken.

Affordability emerged as a key factor in the Republican Party's defeat in the 2025 elections, with the public expressing heightened sensitivity to prices for goods, healthcare, food, and other essentials. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Kristi Noem ordered ICE to purchase ten Spirit Airlines jets for deportations. Two problems: Spirit doesn’t own the planes, and they don’t have engines. Has there ever been a more incompetent administration? www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.” By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo

Trump: we have no inflation Inflation has risen every month he’s been in office Trump: Prices are going down Prices are going up for everything Trump: The economy is booming For oligarchs only. Small businesses are hurting. Layoffs piling up Trump can’t lie his way out of his mess this time.

Since Trump named himself chairman of the Kennedy Center in February, audiences have stayed away. The NYT reports ticket sales are down about 50% from last year.

There hasn’t been this many people lining up around the country to get food assistance since the last time Trump was president.

Mar-a-Lago guests feasting on fancy meals while a music video falsely claiming Trump won in 2020 plays on the side screens

You know evil looks like? Argentina’s dictator doing the orange felon’s stupid dance at Mar-a-Lago in celebration of the MAGA regime giving him $40B US dollars whilst Americans in the US suffer financially.

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Russia’s recent strikes on thermal and power substations nationwide aim to trigger a nuclear catastrophe, specifically by cutting electricity to the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear plants. Ukraine has called an emergency IAEA Board meeting. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Wendy’s to close 300 ‘underperforming’ locations

AP Confirms Trump Killed Drug Runners — But They Were Not Carrying Fentanyl to The US Mediaite

William Wolfe—a friend of Kevin Roberts & co-editor of the explicit “Statement on Christian Nationalism” manifesto—wants his fellow right wingers to know that “If you’re attacking @JDVance” (whose deputy press secretary is Tucker Carlson’s son), then “you’re not on the team.” Replies are brutal. 1/

A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices

I am fascinated by the growing number of conservatives who claim I should be ‘denaturalized & deported’ because I am apparently anti-American (based on what?); these same folks who hate many of the core freedoms & rights in the American Constitution, including the 1st & 14th Amendments. The irony.

This is a really stupid idea, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone

Republican bigotry has gone loudly mainstream ... www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

This is pissing me off. Are you pissed? You should be! youtube.com/shorts/E93_T...

Trump quietly dishes out tax breaks to rich investors while slashing food aid for millions

The TRILLIONAIRE Technocrats Are REELING Billionaires are gaining all the wealth, Musk might become the first trillionaire, and Trump continues grifting. Still, the majority is fighting back & waking up to the broligarchy's techno-fascist plot. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

News 4 has found “more records showing former State Superintendent Ryan Walters paid his executive staff massive bonuses—this time, offering his chief of staff yearly bonuses worth more than the average OK teacher makes in a year, on top of a nearly $200K salary” 11/5/25 1/ kfor.com/news/oklahom...

There's a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. - William Adama

A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies. n.pr/47wPCJg

This is some dystopian BS. #BoycottTarget

This is hard to watch, but a 'must watch.'

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SHAMELESS & UNSTABLE SYCHOPHANT: "There will never be another like him." SANE AMERICANS: "Promise???"

NYT: The tax cuts come amid “steep cuts to health care for the elderly and food stamps for the poorest Americans.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Donald Trump claims to be "Pro-Life." Indeed, he was the first sitting president to attend the annual March for Life. But this didn't stop him from conspiring with Elon Musk to kill 600,000 (so far) people, 2/3 of them children. You see, when Elon says we need more children he means *white* ones.

NEW: Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued a temporary administrative stay, allowing the block of SNAP benefits while the appeals court considers Trump's application in full. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Over and over, Jesus made it clear: food is not something people need to prove themselves worthy of. This is not about humanity deserving to be fed but about the inhumanity of those withholding the meal. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jesus-fed-...

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari outside of Speaker Mike Johnson's office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Immergut in Portland rules Trump admin CANNOT deploy National Guard to Oregon. Grants state & city a PERMANENT injunction, barring troops indefinitely.

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When Democrats lose an election, we beat ourselves up over it for months. When Republicans lose an election, they convince themselves within 24 hours that they really won.

The Jobs Report Trump Doesn’t Want You to See

Trump Will Not Release New Employment Report

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell P.S. Lovin' all that blue background and that blue tie.

Trump is worried that if he feeds the hungry and he didn’t have to, that he won’t be able to get the money back. Our money. Appropriated by Congress. To feed the hungry.

For two decades, Paul Newby has pushed to make judicial elections in North Carolina explicitly partisan and consistently backed initiatives by Republican lawmakers to strip power away from North Carolina’s governor. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

President Donald Trump’s USDA has ordered grocery retailers not to offer discounts to SNAP recipients as funding delays extend into November, prompting accusations of cruelty. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

James Watson was an extreme misogynist and racist who stole Rosalind Franklin’s DNA research. Full Stop.

we've been expecting you Donnie

If you are furious at #ChuckSchumer about his offer to negotiate with Republicans, you MUST watch this explainer by @hcrichardson.bsky.social. This was much more of a chess move than anyone expected from ol' Chuck. Republicans now COMPLETELY own the #TrumpShutdown www.youtube.com/live/NM8mtDm...