August 11, 2025 Fox News, State Television
“Of course, he got a sweetheart deal, because that’s how he’s grown up as a fancy lad, living a life of privilege in the lap of luxury. His parents are millionaires! His wife is also very wealthy. We don’t know what she makes. I don’t care. I don’t know. This is a great argument against rent-stabilized apartments, because what happens …
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August 11, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New Republic reports: President Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., was directly inspired by the homeless people he saw from his motorcade window on the way to his golf course. “We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move …
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August 11, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Hill reports: The Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” will make the poorest Americans even poorer, while padding the wallets of the highest earners the most, according to an analysis released Monday by Congress’s budget arm. The assessment, conducted by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) at the request of top Democrats, found that the top 10 percent of earners in the …
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August 11, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
CNN reports: Roughly 800 DC National Guard soldiers will provide administrative and logistical support, as well as physical support to law enforcement, during their mobilization in Washington, DC, a statement today from the Army said. “There will be about 800 Soldiers activated. During this activation, between 100-200 Soldiers will be supporting law enforcement at any given time,” the statement said. …
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August 11, 2025 Russia, Ukraine
Politico reports: U.S. President Donald Trump will join European leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an emergency virtual summit on Wednesday. The call, organized by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, comes ahead of Friday’s summit in Alaska between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the war in Ukraine. The virtual summit will focus on pressure options against Russia, questions …
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August 11, 2025 Christianists, Republicans
CBS News reports: In the midst of an already controversial special legislative session, lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would allow lawsuits to target anyone who manufactures, mails, delivers, prescribes or distributes abortion pills. The bill would also permit people to file a wrongful death lawsuit if the medication results in harm or death of a fetus or the mother, …
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August 11, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Raw Story reports: Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) faced jeers and heckling at a town hall event over his support for President Donald Trump and the One Big Beautiful Bill. LaMalfa began the event on Monday by noting that one member of the audience had insulted President Donald Trump by calling him “the big orange man.” “No fascism in America!” a …
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August 11, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Washington Post reports: Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) called President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the D.C. police department “unsettling and unprecedented,” her first public statement since Trump announced the move, along with a deployment of National Guard troops, earlier Monday. “I can’t say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised,” Bowser said. …
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August 11, 2025 China, Trump Administration
CNBC reports: President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will prevent high U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods from snapping back into effect for another 90 days, a White House official told CNBC on Monday afternoon. The order was signed just hours before midnight, when the pause on Trump’s tariffs was set to expire. If the deadline was not …
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August 11, 2025 Fake News, Homocons
Mediaite reports: Vice President JD Vance praised The Gateway Pundit, a far-right fake news site, in an interview with founder and editor Jim Hoft published on Sunday. Vance’s adulatory comments came after Hoft said that he had “heard some news” about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D), Vance’s Democratic counterpart in the 2024 election. “The FBI and DHS was covering for …
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