A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office.

Think that’s the first photo I see of him in a Tribe uniform. Very cool!

Kaveh Akbar’s brilliant novel Martyr! is very influenced by this horrible tragedy.

6/ Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment.

It’s rooted in the concept of fetal personhood: that a fetus has equal and, in some cases, more rights than the woman sustaining it.

Trump thinks the dangerous part here is the stretch when Iran *didn't* have the means to make a bomb and thinks we should all applaud him for changing that and making all this possible again

Why the Trump-Backed SAVE America Act Threatens Election Security Nationwide - Bucks County Beacon Buried in the legislation is a mandate requiring every state to funnel voter data into a centralized voter-purge system plagued by security and accuracy concerns and controlled by the Trump administra...

“A foundational rule of computer security is to never create a ‘single point of failure,’ meaning a centralized system or node whose compromise wld cause widespread damage.” The Trump administration’s “SAVE” voter purge system—an underreported key part of the “Save America Act”—violates this rule.

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.

Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.

Half are luxury jets.

gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

so in conclusion, the state of the union is actually very bad because a man who tried to end democracy is using the government to personally enrich himself and his buddies while executing citizens and noncitizens alike

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Last weekend.
This weekend.

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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Like a Military Occupation': Clashes Rise With Federal Agents in Minneapolis Arrests and aggressive tactics by ICE and the Border Patrol, many seen on viral videos, have intensified the frustration and fear among residents. An agent broke a passing driver's car window before multiple agents eventually pulled her from her car. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

We've gone from broken windows policing to breaking windows policing.

The party that hates pronouns sure loves to throw around the pronoun “they” to invent claims.

Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

Here is the 255-page Jack Smith deposition transcript.

The House Judiciary Committee just released it.

Don't let it get buried and obscured with all the bs news Trump and his thugs are going to flood us with.

House Republicans release transcript and video of Jack Smith's closed-door testimony before Judiciary Committee The former special counsel who brought charges against Trump during the Biden administration had wanted to testify in public, but Republicans refused his request.

“In the deposition, a confident, candid and straight-to-the-point Smith described in great detail why he believed he had enough evidence to not only try but convict President Donald Trump of conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the electoral votes on Jan. 6…” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

House bill extending health care credits heads to floor — but without support of any Florida Republican Carlos Giménez and María Elvira Salazar favored more modest compromises rejected by House GOP leadership.

House bill extending health care credits heads to floor — but without support of any #Florida Republican, even though FL has more Obamacare sign-ups than any other state. floridapolitics.com/archives/770...

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

What’s the source of this quote?

There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.

One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."

She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter. Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money. What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican.

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Most Trump Ballroom Donors Have Federal Contracts, Watchdog Says A majority of the corporate donors who have been named as donors to President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction project have received government contracts in recent years, according to a report released Monday by a watchdog group.

A majority of the corporate donors who have been named as donors to President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction project have received government contracts in recent years, according to a report released Monday by a watchdog group.