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  • Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

    10/19/2025 11:20:37 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 28 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Sat 18 Oct 2025 | Edward Helmore
    Republican voices were mostly silent as No Kings rallies and marches against Trump administration policies unfurled on Saturday, many in the spirit of a street party that countered the “hate America” depiction advanced by senior members of the party. Instead of provocation, there were marching bands, huge banners with “we the people” references to the US constitution, and protesters wearing inflatable costumes, particularly frogs, which have emerged as a sign of resistance. It was the third mass mobilization since Trump’s return to the White House and came against the backdrop of a government shutdown that not only has closed federal...
  • DNC Chair Says Voters Have Forgiven Jay Jones for Violent Texts, but Polls in Virginia AG Race Say Otherwise

    10/18/2025 4:59:42 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 32 replies
    Most Virginians have “accepted the apology” of state attorney general nominee Jay Jones for his disturbing, violent threats about a Republican legislator, a top Democrat is saying. However, recent polling and betting odds cast doubt on that claim. Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said in an interview published Friday in Politico that Jones’s violent texts in 2022 about killing Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert were “reckless and unacceptable.” However, he also said that Virginia voters were forgiving. “I believe that most Virginians have accepted that apology and that they’ll elect Jay Jones as the next attorney general,” Martin...
  • The Most Desired Job of 2025 Isn't in Tech or Finance — and It's Been Searched 21 Million Times

    10/18/2025 9:28:20 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 42 replies
    International Business Times ^ | 10/18/2025 | Carson Beale
    For years, Silicon Valley and Wall Street seemed to have a monopoly on ambition. Tech and finance were the dream industries, places where ambition met prestige and paychecks stretched into six figures. But in 2025, that dream looks different.According to a new Click Intelligence report, the most desired job in the world right now isn't in AI, crypto, or venture capital. It's nursing.The study analyzed global Google search data across four categories: 'how to be [job title]', '[job title] courses', '[job title] career opportunities', and '[job title] salary.' When those numbers were combined, 'nurse' came out on top with more...
  • Heightened sense of urgency around this ‘No Kings Day’

    10/18/2025 1:55:28 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 96 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Oct. 18, 2025 3 AM PT | Jenny Jarvie and Nathan Solis
    More than 2,700 “No Kings Day” demonstrations are scheduled nationwide Saturday, four months after the first protests drew five million people. Organizers say Trump’s actions have escalated since June, including expanded immigration raids, prosecutions of political opponents and pressure on universities. Trump allies brand them “anti-American” When millions of demonstrators took to the streets in June for “No Kings Day” — depicting President Trump as a wannabe monarch intent on violating American democratic norms — it was still fairly early in his administration. The immigration raids in Los Angeles were just getting under way and Trump had deployed military troops...
  • The fear driving Trump and the GOP's attacks on the 'No Kings' rallies

    10/18/2025 12:26:21 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 57 replies
    MSNBC.com ^ | 10/17/2025 5:00 AM CDT | Jill Lawrence
    Republicans’ fictional portrait is part of a strategy to stop the resistance before it flexes its growing power.You might find this hard to believe, but Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are making stuff up. This is a go-to move when they fear their power and corrupt authoritarian plans are at risk, and that’s happening a lot lately. Now, with millions of people signed up to attend thousands of “No Kings” demonstrations Saturday across America, the GOP’s desperation meter is at DEFCON 1.The alarm is clear from the overwrought Republican leaders spouting hallucinatory talking points in which “No Kings” protests...
  • Chtistian Zionism is destroying our Gospel witness in the Middle East

    10/18/2025 9:16:23 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 95 replies
    Christian Daily ^ | Oct 3, 2025 | Jack Sara
    “Many of us Jews feel these evangelicals love us for the wrong reasons. Because of their end-times views, they want to bring us all here so that a global war will come, we will be killed, and their Messiah will arrive.” She paused, then gave an image so striking I will never forget it: “It feels like a man who fattens a duck, feeding her daily and taking care of her—not because he loves her, but so that one day he can slaughter her.” Her words capture the deep suspicion and unease many Jews feel toward the false love of...
  • WAR IN THE SOUTH Trump deploys 10k troops including ‘Night Stalkers’ unit near Venezuela as Maduro readies country for war in Caribbean

    10/17/2025 3:26:53 PM PDT · by thegagline · 42 replies
    The Sun ^ | 10/17/2025 | Juliana Lima
    DONALD Trump has deployed 10,000 US troops, nuclear-capable bombers, and America’s most elite special operations unit — the “Night Stalkers” — to the waters off Venezuela. The Caribbean is now bracing for its most explosive showdown in decades as dictator Nicolás Maduro whips his country into a war footing and vows to repel any US attack. In a dramatic escalation, three B-52 bombers — the same heavy bombers used in Iraq and Syria — flew for hours off Venezuela’s coast this week. Meanwhile, MH-6 Little Birds and MH-60 Black Hawks from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the...
  • Trump’s immigration tactics repel voters. Can Democrats attract them?

    10/17/2025 12:29:53 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 48 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | October 17, 2025 | Matt Bai
    If their plan is just to rely on Trump’s overreach, then they’ll be repeating Biden’s mistakes.Voters certainly seem to be going south on President Donald Trump’s war on non-White immigrants. In a New York Times poll conducted in late September, a slim majority of registered voters said the president had gone too far in aggressively trying to ferret out and deport non-Americans — and that was before federal agents started using tear gas and pepper spray on the streets of Chicago.It’s a rare glimpse of bluer skies for Democrats since last year’s presidential election. But if their plan on immigration...
  • Trump Says Extra 100% China Tariff Is 'Not Sustainable'

    10/17/2025 7:38:21 AM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 13 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 17, 2025 | Caitlin McCabe
    President Trump said his proposed 100% additional tariffs on goods from China were "not sustainable."
  • ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

    10/16/2025 9:32:06 PM PDT · by rmlew · 72 replies
    Politico ^ | 10/14/2025 | Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo
    NEW YORK — Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the...
  • The Right Is Lying About Left-Wing Violence

    10/16/2025 4:25:22 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 37 replies
    MSN.com ^ | October 16, 2025 | Rebecca Solnit
    The Trump administration is using an imagined enemy—“antifa”—to justify turning ICE into an ultra-violent, unaccountable army invading US cities. Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the Trump administration’s lurid claims that Portland, Oregon, is a “war-torn” city under siege by a violent left. It’s hard to portray someone dancing in an inflatable frog or chicken costume as a terrorist. This, of course, hasn’t stopped the Trump administration from officially designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization. Secretary of...
  • 'They kicked me while the flag touched my face': Greta Thunberg details 5 days of abuse in Israeli custody

    10/15/2025 5:54:42 PM PDT · by Cronos · 59 replies
    Aa.com ^ | 15th October 2025 | Gizem Nisa Çebi Demir
    Climate activist describes beatings, threats, dehydration, and deliberate humiliation during detention following Global Sumud Flotilla’s attempt to deliver aid to Gaza, saying Swedish Foreign Ministry failed to act 'What we have been through is only a small part of what Palestinians have experienced,' Greta Thunberg tells Swedish daily Aftonbladet Famed Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has recounted the five harrowing days she spent in Israeli custody earlier this month following the attempt by a humanitarian flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza, according to local media. Describing Israeli forces “beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages,” the climate activist shared...
  • Jack Smith speaks out against the Trump administration in rare interview

    10/15/2025 6:23:57 AM PDT · by Lockbox · 35 replies
    NBCNEWS ^ | 10/14/25 | Gary Grumbach, Gabriel Vasconcellos and Raquel Coronell Uribe
    Smith, who resigned from the Justice Department in January shortly before Trump returned to office as president, warned that attacks on public servants would have an “incalculable” cost on the country. “I think the attacks on public servants, particularly nonpartisan public servants — I think it has a cost for our country that is incalculable, and I think that we — it’s hard to communicate to folks how much that is going to cost us,” Smith said in an interview last week with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman at University College London Faculty of Laws, where Weissman is a visiting...
  • Trump No Longer Taking Questions From 'ABC Fake News'

    10/14/2025 3:20:08 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 22 replies
    Newsmax ^ | October 14, 2025 | Michael Katz
    President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will no longer take questions from "ABC fake news" after Sunday's interview between Vice President JD Vance and George Stephanopoulos, which the "This Week" anchor abruptly ended while Vance was speaking. Trump was addressing reporters after a Cabinet meeting when several shouted "Mr. President" to get his attention. The meeting aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform. Trump pointed at an ABC reporter and said, "You're ABC fake news," before calling on someone else. "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the...
  • China and the US have long collaborated in ‘open research.’ Some in Congress say that must change

    10/14/2025 10:07:44 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 7 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 8:01 PM CDT, October 13, 2025 | DIDI TANG and DAVID KLEPPER
    WASHINGTON (AP) — For many years, American and Chinese scholars worked shoulder to shoulder on cutting-edge technologies through open research, where findings are freely shared and accessible to all. But that openness, a long-standing practice celebrated for advancing knowledge, is raising alarms among some U.S. lawmakers. They are worried that China — now considered the most formidable challenger to American military dominance — is taking advantage of open research to catch up with the U.S. on military technology and even gain an edge. And they are calling for action.“For far too long, our adversaries have exploited American colleges and universities...
  • Global economy shrugs off Trump’s tariffs, at least for now, IMF says

    10/14/2025 10:16:08 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | 10/14/2025 9:00 a.m. EDT | David J. Lynch
    The International Monetary Fund says the global economy is performing better than expected despite Trump’s tariffs, but future growth prospects are at risk.The global economy is performing better than expected amid a historic upheaval in U.S. trade policy, but President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs are beginning to erode prospects for future growth, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday in its latest forecast. Global growth this year is projected at an annual rate of 3.2 percent, up 0.2 percentage points from the fund’s July forecast and 0.4 points higher than April’s, which was prepared as the president finalized his announcement of...
  • From brain drain to ‘brain gain’: India eyes domestic talent boost amid H-1B visa crunch

    10/14/2025 10:50:06 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 17 replies
    American Bazaar ^ | 10/14/2025 | Shubhangi Chowdhury
    Amid the U.S. H-1B visa crunch, India sees an unexpected upside. Nara Lokesh, Andhra Pradesh’s IT minister, told Moneycontrol, “This is an opportunity for India for brain gain,” highlighting the potential for the country to attract skilled professionals who might otherwise head to the United States. The minister emphasized that India’s appeal goes beyond cheap labor. “If you look at Global Capability Centers in India, the product they’re offering, it’s for the globe,” he added. His remarks come against the backdrop of turbulence in the H-1B visa program under the Trump administration. The visa, long criticized for drawing skilled Indians...
  • Trump says six were killed in US strike on another boat allegedly carrying drugs near Venezuela

    10/14/2025 11:05:59 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 42 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Tue 14 Oct 2025 13.59 EDT | Anna Betts
    UN has condemned US strikes on small boats it believes to be trafficking drugs as extrajudicial executionsDonald Trump said the US has struck another small boat that he accuses of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing six people.“The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed,” Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social social media platform.The United Nations has condemned the US strikes on small boats it believes to be trafficking drugs as extrajudicial executions. The US defends the attacks as countering...
  • Trump asked dual citizen Miriam Adelson: “What do you love more, the United States or Israel?”

    10/14/2025 2:05:24 AM PDT · by RandFan · 167 replies
    X ^ | Oct 13 | Rep. Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie Trump asked dual citizen Miriam Adelson, a billionaire running nasty ads against me in Kentucky, “what do you love more, the United States or Israel?” She refused to answer him. He says that might mean she loves Israel more. This isn’t AI, it’s real video…
  • Project 2025: Trump Has Implemented Half of Conservative Plan—Tracker

    10/13/2025 7:47:55 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 6 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Oct 13, 2025 | Andrew Stanton
    President Donald Trump has enacted nearly half of Project 2025 during his first nine months in office, according to a tracker. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email. Why It Matters Project 2025, a 900-page blueprint developed by conservative groups to reshape the federal government, became a major topic during the 2024 presidential election. At the time, Trump sought to distance himself from it amid backlash over parts of the agenda. But critics have said many of the policies of his administration reflect Project 2025, and he touted Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought’s...