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  • Trump considers massive bailout of at least $10 billion for American farmers hurt by his trade war

    10/08/2025 7:13:20 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 73 replies
    CNN Business ^ | 10/07/2025 | Alayna Treene , Bryan Mena
    Washington — American farmers are having a tough year, in no small part because of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Now, the White House is gearing up to extend them a multi-billion-dollar bailout, sources tell CNN. Surging costs and foreign retaliation from tariffs have hurt the US agriculture industry — as have immigration-related labor shortages and plummeting commodity prices. Farm production expenses are estimated to reach $467.4 billion in 2025, according to the Agriculture Department, up $12 billion from last year. Farm bankruptcies rose in the first half of the year to the highest level since 2021, according to US...
  • How Islam and the Bible are fueling France’s ‘baptism boom’

    10/08/2025 7:08:19 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Spectator World ^ | 10/07/2025 | Luke Coppen
    You have probably heard that something extraordinary is happening in the Catholic Church in France. The French bishops’ conference announced in April that more than 10,000 adults were due to be baptized in 2025 – a 45 percent increase on the year before. It’s not just adult baptisms that are booming. A record 19,000 people , many young, attended this year’s Paris to Chartres pilgrimage. An unprecedented 13,500 high school students took part in the 2025 Lourdes FRAT pilgrimage, a major annual youth event. The country is also seeing what French media call a “boom biblique” : a rapid rise...
  • Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown

    10/08/2025 2:41:54 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 49 replies
    Axios ^ | October 8, 2025 | Kate Santaliz , Andrew Solender
    The longer the government stays shut down, the shorter House Republicans' patience seems to be getting with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Why it matters: Johnson's decision to keep his chamber on an indefinite break in the middle of a government shutdown isn't sitting well with some in his conference — and that could put pressure on the speaker to change course. From frustration over the stalled vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, to questions about whether — as Johnson argues — the chamber really has no business to attend to in Washington, GOP lawmakers are beginning to get antsy....
  • Republican Ousted By Democrat in Shock Election Defeat Published

    10/08/2025 5:36:06 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 26 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 10/8/25 | Khaleda Rahman and Shane Croucher
    Alaska's City of Fairbanks Mayor David Pruhs, a Republican, conceded to Mindy O'Neall, a Democrat, in the mayoral election on Tuesday night. According to unofficial election night results made available by the city of Fairbanks, O’Neall received 1,808 votes (54 percent) and Pruhs received 1,528 votes (45.7 percent). Newsweek has contacted Pruhs and O'Neall for comment via emails sent outside regular business hours. Why It Matters The ballot in mayoral elections in Fairbanks does not list party affiliations next to candidates’ names, but Republicans have held the role in Fairbanks for nearly a decade. Pruhs, a conservative backed by local...
  • Trump frets privately he's losing Marjorie Taylor Greene as she calls in sick to Rose Garden invite

    10/08/2025 6:08:56 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 52 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 09 Oct 2025 | VICTORIA CHURCHILL
    Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has been one of MAGA's favorite members of Congress, but that title may be waning. Greene has split from the bulk of her party, as well as President Donald Trump, on several key issues, including signing a petition to release the Epstein Files earlier this year, which she hasn't removed her name from despite reported requests to do so from Trump's allies. Just this week, Greene was praised by Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer who said on Tuesday, 'I think this is the first time I've said this, but on this issue, Representative Greene...
  • Former heads of US Bureau of Labor Statistics say Trump's attacks erode trust in data

    10/08/2025 5:35:10 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    Reuters.com ^ | October 8, 20251:57 PM CDT | Lucia Mutikani
    Summary BLS loses senior leaders as Trump targets agency's integrity About 12 of 35 senior leaders have left amid Trump's criticism Modernizing data collection suggested to improve response rates WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's unwarranted attacks on the integrity of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics were undermining trust in economic data and had accelerated retirements of key personnel at the agency, former BLS commissioners said on Wednesday. During a discussion at the libertarian Cato Institute, Erica Groshen and William Beach, who headed the agency under presidents of both parties, said the BLS had lost 12...
  • Fortis gastroenterologist says this daily drink can dissolve liver fat: Drink 3 to 4 cups daily

    10/08/2025 12:16:47 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 48 replies
    Hindustan Times ^ | October 08, 2025 | Krishna Pallavi Priya
    Dr Vatsya highlights the health benefits of black coffee, stating that it helps dissolve liver fat and improves overall health. Black coffee contains health benefits that can help dissolve liver fat. (Pexels) ================================================================ Coffee is an essential part of many people's daily morning routine. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), caffeine, chlorogenic acid (CGA), trigonelline, diterpenes, and melanoids are compounds in coffee known for their health benefits. However, it matters how you take your coffee to reap all its benefits. A cuppa with loads of added sweeteners or sugars and milk isn't the best choice. It is black...
  • Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News

    10/08/2025 11:16:44 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 50 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Wed 8 Oct 2025 06.00 EDT | Margaret Sullivan
    If you’re old enough to have admired CBS in its heyday, watching its decline has been painful.Decades ago, it was dubbed the Tiffany Network – home of the great journalist Walter Cronkite (“the most trusted man in America”), and innovator of the top-flight magazine program, 60 Minutes.Even outside its news division, the network was a place where the variety-show host Ed Sullivan could break down racial exclusion by inviting outstanding Black entertainers to his Sunday night program; that was controversial in an era of intense racial turmoil. The CBS news department had some of the best journalists in the nation,...
  • Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth

    10/08/2025 11:39:45 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 45 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | October 8, 2025 6:00 a.m. EDT | Kate Selig
    Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.STATE OF SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Across vast stretches of farmland in southern Brazil, researchers at a carbon removal company are attempting to accelerate a natural process that normally unfolds over thousands or millions of years. The company, Terradot, is spreading tons of volcanic rock crushed into a fine dust over land where soybeans, sugar cane and other crops are grown. As rain percolates through the soil, chemical reactions pull carbon from the air and convert it into bicarbonate ions that...
  • Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

    10/08/2025 9:53:47 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 37 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Oct. 7, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET | Thomas B. Edsall
    President Trump has unleashed new weaponry in his war against Democrats, liberals and the left. Over the past four weeks, he has initiated what amounts to a unique form of partisan civil war designed to amass power in a nominal democracy and defang, decimate and defund the opposition. Trump’s assault on the left combines the use of the available tools of violent conflict — the military, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE in particular — with the prosecution of critics (and people he just doesn’t like), cuts of essential funds for liberal institutions, the use of regulation to threaten...
  • Inhalers produce as much carbon emissions as over 500,000 cars each year, study finds

    10/08/2025 4:44:52 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 32 replies
    CBS News ^ | October 7, 2025 | By Sara Moniuszko
    Inhalers that provide fast-acting treatment for people with certain respiratory conditions are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, which can worsen both climate change and the conditions themselves, according to new research. In the study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found inhalers approved for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, generated an estimated 24.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in the United States from 2014 to 2024. This is equivalent to the emissions of about 530,000 gas-powered cars each year, according to the study. "Scaled across tens of millions of...
  • GOP senators increasingly anxious about Trump’s aggressive use of National Guard

    10/08/2025 5:44:55 AM PDT · by RandFan · 58 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/08/25 6:00 AM ET | by Alexander Bolton
    Republican senators are increasingly uneasy about President Trump’s standoff with Democratic governors over deploying National Guard troops from other states to Portland, Ore., and Chicago. The conflict between federal and state authorities escalated dramatically over the weekend when Trump moved to send National Guard soldiers to Oregon and Illinois despite opposition from their respective governors, Tina Kotek and JB Pritzker. Trump’s use of military forces was all the more controversial because a Trump-appointed federal judge for the District of Oregon ruled Saturday that the administration could not federalize Oregon’s National Guard to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in...
  • Greta Thunberg alleges torture in Israeli detention after Gaza flotilla arrest

    10/07/2025 9:06:33 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 82 replies
    Reuters ^ | October 7, 202511:21 PM EDT | Johan Ahlander, Ilze Filks, Tom Little and Pesha Magid
    Swedish activist Greta Thunberg alleged on Tuesday that she and other detainees of the Gaza flotilla were subjected to torture in the Israeli prison they were held. Thunberg told a news conference in Stockholm that she and others were “kidnapped and tortured” by the Israeli military. She declined to elaborate, adding when pressed that she didn’t get clean water and that other detainees were deprived of critical medication. “Personally, I don’t want to share what I was subjected to because I don’t want it to make headlines and ‘Greta has been tortured’, because that’s not the story here,” she said,...
  • US air traffic control staffing hit for second day, delaying flights

    10/07/2025 4:37:42 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 24 replies
    Yahoo ^ | October 7, 2025 | David Shepardson
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying flights for a second straight day at numerous U.S. airports as the government shutdown reaches its seventh day, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice on Tuesday. The FAA said many flights were being delayed at Nashville and Newark airports, among others. Arriving flights were being held for up to 30 minutes at Newark due to the staffing issues. Nashville air traffic control is facing significant staffing issues and will curtail operations later on Tuesday, the FAA said. Approach control will be taken over later by Memphis Center, it added....
  • Charlie Kirk leaked text confirms he was livid about 'bullying' Jewish donors: 'I'm leaving pro-Israel cause'

    10/07/2025 1:37:14 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 291 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | October 7, 2025
    Charlie Kirk furiously criticized 'bullying' Jewish donors and said he was considering 'leaving the pro-Israel cause' before his death, it was confirmed today. The bombshell revelation comes after Candace Owens released a screenshot of Kirk fuming in a group chat that Jewish donors were pulling funding over his links to Tucker Carlson. Turning Point spokesman Andrew Kolvet confirmed the authenticity of the screenshots on Tuesday during the latest episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, In the text messages, Kirk privately complained that a Jewish donor had withdrawn a $2 million investment into the organization because he refused to disinvite Carlson...
  • Hegseth’s ultimatum to generals sparks fears of departures

    10/07/2025 11:57:20 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 61 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/07/25 6:00 AM ET | Ellen Mitchell
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “my way or the highway” message to hundreds of generals and admirals at a summit in Virginia last week has sparked fears that some top leaders may choose to bow out of the U.S. military entirely. The departure of two senior leaders last week stoked those worries, though the Pentagon says they were unrelated to Hegseth’s ultimatum.“His speech directly attacked the values of many of the senior officers and enlisted members in the audience, and I would expect many of them to demonstrate their disgust by retiring,” Don Christensen, a retired Air Force colonel and former...
  • White House May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

    10/07/2025 11:14:34 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 59 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Oct. 7, 2025Updated 12:52 p.m. ET | Tony Romm
    Hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers may not automatically receive back pay once the government reopens, the White House indicated in a draft memo, prompting broad fears that the Trump administration might try to circumvent federal law to maximize the pain of the shutdown. The memo, which was shared by a White House official, could presage a radical break from a policy adopted during President Trump’s first term. It appeared to contradict some of the administration’s own guidance, which by Tuesday still indicated that furloughed employees would receive retroactive pay shortly after Congress strikes a funding deal. Following the...
  • The Theory, Born at Harvard, That Could Remake Right-Wing Jurisprudence

    10/07/2025 10:45:39 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    The Crimson ^ | October 03, 2025 | Sophie Gao and Jocelyn E. Shek
    Over the past five years, common good constitutionalism has taken tenuous root in elite legal academia. It’s now beginning to find its way into courtrooms. But scholars remain divided on its potential to reshape the legal landscape — and whose “common good” it seeks to advance. ***************************************************************** On March 31, 2020, when the United States was on Covid-19 lockdown, The Atlantic published “Beyond Originalism,” a cerebral essay by the Harvard Law professor C. Adrian C. Vermeule ’90. The essay urges legal conservatives to abandon originalism, the dominant school of constitutional interpretation for the conservative legal movement, which posits that the...
  • Two years on, will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war?

    10/07/2025 10:20:39 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    BBC ^ | October 7, 2025 | Jeremy Bowen
    After two years of war, there is a chance of a deal that will end the killing and destruction in Gaza and return the Israeli hostages, living and dead, to their families. It is an opportunity, but it is not certain that it will be seized by Hamas and Israel.It is a grim coincidence that the talks are happening exactly two years after Hamas inflicted a trauma on Israelis that is still acute. The 7 October attacks killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians, and 251 were taken hostage. The Israelis estimate that 20 hostages are still alive and they...
  • Trump's threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities

    10/07/2025 10:32:52 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 16 replies
    Reuters.com ^ | October 7, 202511:39 AM CDT | Emily Schmall
    Summary Democratic leaders oppose Trump's military deployment in cities Legal battles ensue over National Guard deployment in Chicago, Portland National Guard deployment raises concerns over militarization of cities Illinois Governor Pritzker accuses Trump of using troops as political tool Federal judge temporarily blocks Guard deployment to Portland CHICAGO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's threat to invoke a federal anti-insurrection law to expand his deployment of military personnel to U.S. cities has intensified his legal battle with Democratic-led cities over presidential authority, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas on Tuesday prepared to patrol the streets of Chicago. The...