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Lance Khrome's avatar

How in a sane world is the CBS News capitulation to tRump and his shitty "lawsuit" NOT a simple case of extortion or bribery? Shari Redstone wants a merger, tRump hates "60 Minutes" coz they're "mean" to him, so pay the Orange Mo'Fo' $30-50 million to leave her company alone, AND "tone down" — CENSOR — tRump-critical "60 Min." programming. The entire saga of the Bill Owens/Wendy McMahon purges is so disgraceful, even in an era of cowardly Big Bidness capitulation to tRump, where people's actual jobs in telling the truth are placed in jeopardy, and get few defenders in the bargain for fear of retribution...oy vey!

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Scott Gilbert's avatar

Please stop furnishing LINKS to the Washington Post. They are ALWAYS behind a paywall, and I'm not giving that rag that's now unfit to be a bird cage liner a cent until Bezos sells it to people who will commit journalism, not end it to please a tinpot pos. Quote them if you must, but please please please stop linking to it.

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Tad Richards's avatar

Washington Post, you mean, but I agree completely.

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Scott Gilbert's avatar

Thank you very much. I've fixed it.

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noeire's avatar

Major roundup today; thank you. [Trying to avoid all caps....] In my religious studies as a youth, I missed the parts that explained how placing people in trauma and targeting people based on skin color were fundamental to Christianity. Not in the Sermon on the Mount [ or Baltimore Catechism, btw, see Leo XIV ] -- that's clear.

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Leanne twidwell's avatar

How much did the cartel family pay Trump to cross the border?

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Leftys Lefty's avatar

Will we ever see an actual breakout of which specific programs are to get the axe before the vote - or is that part of the plan?

Thousands of Americans will be sentenced to a cruel death if the Ryan White Act is repealed and taken away (gotta max out those Big Pharma profits - it's the American way!)

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Michael's avatar

You have to hand it to the lawyers of this administration. They are enormously creative in repurposing laws to the administration's advantage. Luckily for us, they seldom succeed.

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Jarno Jokinen's avatar

Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...

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Susan Linehan's avatar

On the "request for certification that all diversity, equity and inclusion programs were consistent with the Trump administration’s views of such initiatives." How does anyone KNOW what the Administration's views are on such initiatives other than the fact that it doesn't like the initials and the words? Removal of references to Jackie Robinson or the Enola Gay? (Those two may have been undone, but only because it is so clear that the Administration has no clue what it actually means when removing them). There are countless other examples

The underlying assumption of the "views" is that if someone other than a white man gets a job or is admitted to college, it must be racial discrimination against white men, since OBVIOUSLY any white man better deserves the position. Is anyone ever going to challenge the "definitions" it is using to decide something is "illegal"--which absent ACTUAL discrimination against a white male, isn't illegal at all.

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Diane Matza's avatar

Habba also linked this prosecution to turning New Jersey Red, sticking her foot in it and violating, once again,, the law.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

David, WSJ is behind a

paywall. It would really

beq nice to be able to

access their breakdown

of the infamous BBB. If

these articles are on the

TPM website, please let

us know so members

can go to.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

More info about Trump's mega bill and the Republicans problems in passing it through Congress.

https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/trumps-ig-ackassward-oondoggle

https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/republicans-start-to-fight-it-out

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