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Representative Rep. Seth Magaziner told Trump's Department of Homeland Security person Kristi Noem today:
“You promised America that you would go after the worst of the worst. But these people are not the worst of the worst. A Purple Heart recipient, a military spouse, the father of three Marines. And it’s not just veterans and military families."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #immigrants
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 268. 12/11/25
… A contentious exchange took place today between Kristi Noem and Rep.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"Subsidies for ACA premiums are set to expire on December 31, 2025. The subsidies were killed by Republicans to pay for the billionaire tax cut in the Big Ugly Bill."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"Democrats are likely to emphasize that the cost for extending the ACA premium tax credits—which benefit everyday Americans & which the Republicans did not extend in their One Big Beautiful Bill Act—would be about $350 billion over ten years. The cost for extending the 2017 tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy and corporations and which they did extend, will be more than $4 trillion over the same time period."
#Trump #Republicans #HealthInsurance #ACA #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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"The Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill of July—the one they call the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”—did not extend the premium tax credits for healthcare insurance bought on the Affordable Care Act market that subsidizes that insurance. Today, Senate Republicans voted against the Democrats’ measure to extend the premium tax credits for three years."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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"Now I'm seeing that attitude kind of infect the healthcare debate ... Republican legislators are coming out and just saying explicitly, like, hey, if you're healthy, you're fine. If you're not, there's something wrong with you and you deserve not to get coverage. You know, you deserve to be sick and meet your fate because it's all your fault."
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"Over the last year, it has become more and more common to hear Republicans say things that usually, you know, in years past, you would have seen them having to resign over it, like Trump's rants over Somali immigrants in Minneapolis, just completely racist garbage."
Susan J. Demas
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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Sicker, Poorer, & Hopeless: The MAHA Master Plan | Dr. Rob Davidson joins Susan Demas
Will 2026 be an election about the GOP's giant health care cuts?Paging America (Lincoln Square)
"This is what it’s come to in Donald Trump’s America. Partisan politics has rarely been this destructive or painful. And for so many Americans, it’s a feeling of helplessness unlike anything they’ve felt before. The government is bankrupting and endangering its citizens."
~ Dan Rather
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"The Senate managed to fail at passing both a Republican and a Democratic plan — meaning life-saving subsidies for more than 20 million Americans will expire in 2026. Families could see premiums jump by $1,000 or more. This is the cost of Republican dysfunction: fake proposals, political stunts, and real people paying the price."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"The Senate rejected dueling health care bills Thursday, all but guaranteeing that Obamacare subsidies used by more than 20 million Americans will lapse at the end of the year."
~ Jordain Carney
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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"Premiums will, on average, spike by 114% for millions of people—leaving them with the horrible choice of paying thousands more for their coverage or going uninsured."
~ Emily Singer
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts #cruelty
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Thanks, Republicans! Your Obamacare premiums are going to skyrocket.
Senate Republicans blocked a bill Thursday that would have extended enhanced tax credits to help Americans afford health insurance, virtually guaranteeing that they will expire at the end of the ...Daily Kos
"Meanwhile, millions of average, harmless travelers — fans coming for the World Cup, families planning a California road trip, Canadians who used to drive across the border to buy gas and discount Oreos — are instead being greeted with a digital strip-search and a bill for extra fees, background checks, and biometrics more suited to a dystopian sci-fi reboot."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"Human rights violators who make the TSA look like the Girl Scouts. People who do not care what nonsense the CBP (Customs and Border Protection) asks for, because their 'online activity' doesn’t exist or is conveniently curated by a PR team large enough to staff a minor embassy."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"What kind of person has both $5 million in liquid assets and a pressing need for American residency without scrutiny?
I’ll tell you who.
Money launderers. Drug traffickers. Russian oligarchs whose yachts have been seized more times than Trump has contradicted himself in a single sentence."
~ Michael Cohen
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption
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Your Profile Pic Better Be Patriotic
A surveillance circus with Trump selling backstage passes, America now demands your DMs, biometrics, and dignity; unless you’ve got a million dollars to buy your innocence.Michael Cohen (Meidas+)
"More than 20 members of Congress are demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and homeland security officials after the Guardian revealed the VA is compiling a report on all non-US citizens 'employed by or affiliated with' the government agency that will then be shared with other federal agencies, including immigration authorities."
~ José Olivares and Aaron Glantz
"The war in the GOP is between those who can do math and those who keep bragging about how many dementia tests they've passed."
~ Evan Hurst
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"I don’t know whether dog catchers are elected anywhere anymore, but if they were, it’s a safe bet that it will be a Democrat catching dogs before Kristi Noem can shoot them."
~ Robert S. McElvaine
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#Trump #Republicans #Democrats #economy #MentalDecline
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A November to Remember: Hope that the American Experiment Will Survive
After a month of electoral losses and political missteps, Donald Trump is limping into the holiday season.Robert S. McElvaine (Lincoln Square)
A Friday thread of zingy one-liners:
"The most powerful, richest country in all of human existence has voluntarily put itself at the mercy of a man who thinks correctly identifying an elephant drawing is some kind of intellectual achievement."
~ Holly Berkley Fletcher
#Trump #Republicans #MentalDecline #elephants
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2025 Highly Competitive at Worst Year Ever Awards Based on "Pure Imbecility" (satire)
And other Friday "Fun," 12 December 2025Holly Berkley Fletcher (A Zebra Without Stripes)
Philip Bump offers a chart based on UN vote data to show US support for Russia or for Europe from the Reagan presidency through the Trump presidency.
#Trump #UN #Europe #NSS #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #Zelensky #NATO
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Data is anti-fascist
Last week, this newsletter was refreshingly apolitical. Well, that was then. Chapter 1 What they want you to believe about immigrants You don't need to travel too far up the branches of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's …Philip Bump (How To Read This Chart)
"House Oversight Committee Members who went on TV yesterday seemed shocked by what they received this week from the Epstein estate. For among the tens of thousands of photos they received were ones that showed people in sex acts, and this now infamous one of Epstein and top Trump advisor Steve Bannon. Note the passed out woman in the photo on Epstein’s desk." (The photo is below.)
#Trump #Epstein #SteveBannon #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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"I just don’t know he survives what is about to happen. DOJ must, by law, release all the Epstein files by this coming Friday. The small release from the Oversight Committee yesterday put Trump himself right in the middle of it all (again), including this incredible photo (see below):
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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In 2026 Democrats Can Be Both Warriors For Working People Against Oligarchy AND Proud Patriots Fighting For Democracy Here And Abroad
In recent weeks the threat Trump represents to democracy here and abroad has become far more clear. Pro-democracy forces must forcefully rise to the challenge in the months aheadSimon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
"Blaming others for exposing evidence is not a defense. Claiming you had 'nothing' to do with Epstein despite all the evidence to the contrary just raises suspicion."
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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"If the president truly had no meaningful relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, transparency would be the obvious remedy. Release the full files. Let the public see the record. Instead, the White House is attempting to discredit disclosure itself. The images, drawn from Epstein’s own materials, raise disturbing questions about Trump’s proximity to Epstein and the world he inhabited."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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"A new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows that a whopping 70% of Americans believe the regime is hiding information about the Epstein case. And overall, 52% of those surveyed said they disapprove of Trump’s handling of the scandal. Only 23% approve, largely because they have been brainwashed by Fox and the MAGA machine."
~ Scott Dworkin
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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"There’s even a novelty condom with Donald’s face printed on it, captioned 'I’m huge.' It sounds absurd, but nothing about this is humorous. It reflects the culture Epstein built—and the company Donald knowingly chose."
#Epstein #Trump #SteveBannon #BillClinton #AlanDershowitz #WoodyAllen #NoamChomsky #RichardBranson
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"Different settings, different years, same company. The question isn’t why people are asking questions now—it’s why it took this long for this evidence to reach the public.
Some of the most disturbing photos show Donald posing with women and girls—victims whose faces have been redacted for protection."
#Epstein #Trump #SteveBannon #BillClinton #AlanDershowitz #WoodyAllen #NoamChomsky #RichardBranson
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"Donald appears in the images multiple times, as do Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, and Alan Dershowitz.
These are not partisan attacks. These are official materials released through a congressional oversight process—real images, real people, real victims. And something is immediately clear: Donald doesn’t appear once. He appears repeatedly."
#Epstein #Trump #SteveBannon #BillClinton #AlanDershowitz #WoodyAllen #NoamChomsky #RichardBranson
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"Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released new photos provided directly by Epstein’s estate. These aren’t screenshots from the internet or recycled speculation. They are personal photographs from Epstein’s own collection—images of him relaxing, celebrating, and traveling with powerful friends on his properties and private jet."
~ Mary Trump
#Epstein #Trump #SteveBannon #BillClinton #AlanDershowitz #WoodyAllen #NoamChomsky #RichardBranson
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"When asked about the millions facing higher costs or loss of coverage, Trump dismissed the concern, telling reporters to 'stop being so dramatic.'
That response captures the cruelty at the heart of this moment. A governing party is openly advancing a platform that strips health care away from working families."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Republicans #HealthInsurance #ACA #cruelty
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"a political system that has allowed costs for most goods for most Americans to rise outside their comfort level — and just allowed health costs to spike even further — and an electorate that is screaming for change.
If the midterms are an affordability election, Trump and the Republicans will likely do very poorly."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums
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"This new poll comes after others have shown a nearly all-time low in the University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment, the president falling with independents, and even losing inflation-conscious Republicans.
So the basic backdrop going into the 2026 election year looks like this: We have a president who says 'affordability' is a partisan gimmick, " (continued in /3)
G. Ellliott Morris notes that polls show nearly half of voters say either "jobs and the economy" or "prices and inflation" are the # 1 issue facing the country today. And these "affordability voters" favor Dems by 12 points in the generic ballot:
"In a new poll from the Associated Press and NORC released this week, Trump earned his lowest approval rating on the economy ever in any AP-NORC survey."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability
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Affordability voters favor Democrats over Republicans for 2026 House midterms
Voters who say the economy or inflation are their #1 issue are D+12 in the generic ballot, and give Trump a net job approval rating of -20G. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)
"No president in American history has profited off the presidency the way Donald Trump has—and it’s not close. ...
That’s why we’ve had a hard time picking the worst instances of his corrupt self-enrichment, not to mention that of his cronies and family. So if you don’t see your favorite scheme on this list, don’t worry—there are too many! Here’s our latest Top 10 Worst list…."
~ Norman Eisen and Gabriel Lezra
Jill Marie O'Brien reposts a posting by Amy Siskind noting that even Fox News is turning on the Trump-RFKJr attack on vaccines and vaccination.
#Trump #RFKJr #CDC #vaccines #disinformation #science #research #measles #epidemic #SouthCarolina #MAGA #FoxNews
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"This document basically ... is fundamentally hostile to the European Union because A, it sees it as a potential bulwark against an illiberal United States aligning with autocracies, and B, it really does not want to see an integrated liberal organization succeed."
#Trump #NSS #immigrants #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"It's a very interesting statement to just say the era of mass migration is over as a basis of American foreign policy. The era of mass migration is not over because the problems driving migration are not going away and in many cases they're getting worse."
~ Joe Stieb
#Trump #NSS #immigrants #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The Culture War Eats Foreign Policy
Join Samantha and guest Joe Stieb, assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill, as they talk about Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy. This strange do...YouTube
"Support for Trump’s immigration policies have dropped across nearly every demographic over the first year of Trump’s second term. Today, only 43% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing handling immigration, a decrease of 5 percentage points since March 2025. Notably, the steepest decline in approval over the past year—11 points—comes from political independents. ...
The data shows that Americans overwhelmingly reject Trump’s mass deportation policies."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE
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"While the Catholic bishops may be showing signs of ambivalence, there are signs that Americans overall are sympathetic to these churches who are taking a stand. This week, PRRI released new analysis of American attitudes on immigration reform that show Americans are rejecting Trump’s dehumanizing, racist rhetoric and harsh immigration policies."
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #CatholicBishops
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Robert P. Jones notes that though the US Catholic bishops have issued a rare statement condemning Trump's attacks on Immigrants, the archdiocese of Boston has leaned on a Catholic parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, to take down its Christmas creche, which indicts ICE for cruelty to immigrants.
He writes,
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #CatholicBishops
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ICE and Empty Mangers: New Polling Shows Americans Reject Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda
PLUS, an announcement about my next book.Robert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)
"One key difference between 1930s Germany and 2020s USA is that 1930s Germany didn't have 90 years of books, movies, and documentaries warning it about 1930s Germany."
~ Tom Lennon
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Nazis
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"It tends to pit the kind of middle class white upper middle class white person is the victim you know, the culture is changing and it's, it's toxic and it's terrible. And we have to fight against this, you know, horrible, evil culture. And it, it, it just, it's like a, it's kind of like a, I call it the rollercoaster paranoia."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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