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"More than fifteen years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare) into law, congressional Republicans are still squabbling with each other and struggling to put together a coherent replacement. And proving incapable of actually getting anything passed."
~ Joe Perticone
#Trump #Republicans #healthcare #ACA #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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Concepts of Health Care Plans → Humiliation Trying to Pass Them
They still haven’t figured out this health care thing. Don’t hold your breath.Joe Perticone (The Bulwark)
"The Danish Defense Intelligence Service released a new report that warns the United States can no longer be counted on not to use military force against its own allies.
'The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies,' the report said."
#Trump #Europe #NSS #tourists #travel #NATO
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Pam Bondi Is Low-Key Defying Federal Judges Over DQ’d US Attorneys
INSIDE: Alina Habba ... Lindsey Halligan ... Abrego GarciaDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Nobody is coming here. Canadian tourism to the US has gone down 18 percent, and those staying in the Western Hemisphere are going to South America, Central America, or the Caribbean instead. Europeans aren’t coming here. Asians are going to Europe. As of September, we were set to lose out on somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 billion in tourism bucks this year. …
Shithole country status: activated."
#Trump #tourists #Europe #Asia #LatinAmerica
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~ Evan Hurst
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Nobody Wants To Come To Donald Trump’s Sh*thole Country
Not anybody who matters, anyway.Evan Hurst (Wonkette)
"In a notice published on Tuesday, the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) said it would also require any telephone numbers used by visitors over the same period, and any email addresses used in the last decade, as well as face, fingerprint, DNA and iris biometrics. It would also ask for the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members, including children."
#Trump #visas #tourists #FreeSpeech
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"Tourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans.
The mandatory new disclosures would apply to the 42 countries whose nationals are currently permitted to enter the US without a visa, including longtime US allies Britain, France, Australia, Germany and Japan."
~ Chris Michael
#Trump #visas #tourists #FreeSpeech
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Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Plan would apply to countries not currently required to get visas to the US, including Britain and FranceChris Michael (The Guardian)
"An official government webpage promises US residency 'in record time' with the new 'Trump Gold Card' – once applicants have paid a $15,000 processing fee to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), passed a background check and paid up $1m."
#Trump #immigrants #visas
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"Donald Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US 'golden visa' for $1m, and trailed a 'platinum' version for $5m.
'A direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent,' Trump wrote on Wednesday on social media."
~ Marina Dunbar
#Trump #immigrants #visas
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Trump launches $1m ‘gold card’ visa scheme amid immigration crackdown
Wealthy immigrants will be able to buy residency, and $5m ‘platinum card’ will exempt holders from some US taxesMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
"Per a draft for an action memo outlining options for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the administration is weighing a move to revoke the visas of Former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #Europe #NSS #ElonMusk #FreeSpeech
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"Donald Trump’s administration is in high-level talks to revoke the visas of two European green card holders, according to documentation seen by Zeteo. Both are prominent critics of Twitter (also known as 'X'), the social media site owned by on-again-off-again Trump pal, Elon Musk."
~ Prem Thakker and Asawin Suebsaeng
#Trump #immigrants #visas #Europe #NSS #ElonMusk #FreeSpeech
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Trump May Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Donald Trump may try to revoke the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
Landry Ayres offers a "collection of clips on the White House's brutal boat strikes—and what they reveal about this president's governing ethos."
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #Murder #DoubleTap
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The Trump Administration’s Killing Rampage on Open Seas: A Video Roundup
Our mid-December collection of clips on the White House's brutal boat strikes—and what they reveal about this president's governing ethosLandry Ayres (The UnPopulist)
"Here’s what we’ve been reminded of by yesterday’s [seizure of a Venezuelan vessel]: The U.S. government has the ability to seize boats, sailors, and cargo without killing anyone. The Coast Guard does this routinely and has for years. The military is able to coordinate with and support law enforcement in such efforts. Steps can be taken ahead of time to ensure such efforts are legal."
~ William Kristol
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #Murder #DoubleTap
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The Caribbean Killings Were Unnecessary. Trump Just Proved It.
If we can seize an oil tanker, why did eighty people have to die?William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"If Pete Hegseth believes the strike was lawful and necessary, why is he so afraid to let the country see the video? Until that question is answered, his refusal will worsen his standing, if that is even possible."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #Murder #DoubleTap
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Why Congress Must Compel Hegseth To Release The Entire Video
he is literally getting away with murderMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
"Defense Department officials were keen to make sure survivors didn’t end up in a U.S. court where the administration’s insistence that the men were an immediate danger to the U.S. because they were trafficking drugs would come under legal scrutiny.
Shocked, lawyers for the State Department refused, and the two men were sent back to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador."
"Yesterday, Damien Cave, Edward Wong, and Maria Abi-Habib of the New York Times reported that lawyers for the Pentagon proposed sending two survivors from an October strike against a small boat in the Caribbean to the notorious CECOT terrorist prison in El Salvador, where prisoners previously rendered there reported widespread torture and abuse."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #Murder #DoubleTap
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December 10, 2025
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-seven years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"You are locking up and deporting children with cancer, mothers with babies in the NICU. There are many problems with your leadership, but the biggest problem is this you don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys.”
Then Noem ran out of the hearing claiming she had somewhere else to be.
#Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #immigrants
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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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