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9+ min ago (326+ words) Obamacare Subsidies Expire This Month: Republicans Shrug Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month. Posted by Dbt2 at 07:31 AM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | The anxiety the GOP has about this has shocked them into a self-protective stupor. The anxiety they will experience when their constituents are forced in poverty by medical bills will hopefully just push all of them fully over the ledge. #1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-03 10:27 AM | Reply "But even if party leaders and President Donald Trump were to rally around a plan in the coming days -- and there's no sign of that happening -- many conservatives are likely to revolt." Dementia Don said he will "look at it" in January, too late to do anything about it. The Guardians of Pedophiles were never serious about doing anything about it at all…...

10+ min ago (1368+ words) Did CBS News and "60 Minutes" edit an interview with President Donald Trump to keep Trump from looking bad? Is Trump throwing his weight around when it comes to CBS News? A leading Democrat wants answers. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has filed a complaint with CBS News" new ombudsman over the way that "60 Minutes" edited a recent interview with Trump. In addition, Raskin questioned if Trump has exerted power over the network following the administration"s approval of the merger between Skydance and Paramount, CBS"s parent company. Raskin wrote to CBS News ombudsman Kenneth Weinstein, "President Trump increasingly appears to be exercising direct control over CBS"s editorial decisions, destroying CBS"s "journalistic integrity" while violating its right to be free from governmental coercion and manipulation." In the interview transcript, Trump said,…...

15+ min ago (72+ words) An Israeli air strike hit the al-Mawasi camp in Gaza's Khan Younis, killing five Palestinians, including two children. Five killed in Israeli strike on Gaza encampment An Israeli air strike hit the al-Mawasi camp in Gaza's Khan Younis, killing five Palestinians, including two children. Israel said the strike targeted a Hamas member after five soldiers were wounded in Rafah. Israeli has killed than 350 Palestinians since the ceasefire...

17+ min ago (632+ words) Guterres said Israel's war has been waged with "total neglect' with respect to civilian deaths and Gaza's destruction. By Alastair McCready and News Agencies United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the way Israel has waged its war on Gaza, describing it as "fundamentally wrong" and saying "there are strong reasons" to believe that Israeli forces have committed war crimes in the Palestinian territory. Guterres made the comments on Wednesday in an interview with Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni at the news agency's NEXT conference in New York. "I think there was something fundamentally wrong in the way this operation was conducted with total neglect in relation to the deaths of civilians and to the destruction of Gaza," Guterres said. "The objective was to destroy Hamas. Gaza is destroyed, but Hamas is not yet destroyed. So there is something fundamentally wrong…...

28+ min ago (123+ words) Watch this explainer to understand the Sudan war. The war in Sudan has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. How did the fighting begin in 2023? Who are the two main sides? And what are the main factors driving the war now? Watch Start Here Sudan explainer with Sandra Gathmann to understand what is happening. Mahitab Mahgoub " Nonresident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Yassmin Abdel-Magied " Writer and activist Hiba Morgan " Sudan correspondent, Al Jazeera English Ahmed Soliman " Senior research fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House Kholood Khair " Founder and director, Confluence Advisory Hager Ali " Doctoral researcher, German Institute for Global and Area Studies Alan Boswell " Project director, Horn of Africa, International Crisis Group Elbashir Idris " Sudan analyst and activist...

35+ min ago (218+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hand with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as they meet to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Near the end of his life, the late conservative Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) vehemently attacked U.S. President Donald Trump's dealings with far-right Russian President Vladimir Putin " arguing that Trump was negotiating from a position of extreme weakness. Trump, at times, criticizes Putin during his second presidency, but his tone is one of disappointment rather than outrage or intense disdain. The New York Times' Thomas L. Friedman, in his December 4 column, calls out MAGA Republicans he considers "useful idiots" when it comes to Putin. Friedman adds, "Russian communists had a term for foreigners who held such views about their leaders: 'useful idiots.'" Friedman not only criticizes Trump and Witkoff…...

38+ min ago (702+ words) Hahahaha, Nancy Mace is thinking about making like MTG and resigning from Congress early? Hate to hear that. [New York Times] Oh, they are going to try to indict Letitia James again. We are sure their second attempt will be just as competent as the first one. [MS NOW] LOL, Donald Trump is still very desperate to believe that he has ended wars and will end wars and one day (one day!) the Nobel Committee will see him as the big peace guy he really is! So we guess that's why he's forcing them to put his name on the building at the Institute of Peace. Fucking loser. [Washington Post] Like any good dementia patient, Donald Trump is excited when he masters A Thing, and he fixates on it " like identifying camel in that dementia test! " so watch this video…...

40+ min ago (273+ words) The latest explanation coming out of the Pentagon over the secondary attack on survivors on a purported drug boat in response to "Kill them all" orders from Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth was thoroughly dismantled on MS NOW on Thursday morning. Late Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Adm. Frank Bradley is poised to tell lawmakers that it was his belief that the two survivors clinging to the side of the flaming boat "were attempting to continue their drug run, making them and the already-damaged vessel legitimate targets for another attack." Not one member of the "Morning Joe" panel bought the story, with co-host Joe Scarborough blurting, "That's today's explanation" over the constantly evolving attempt to put out the firestorm. "The explanation we're hearing in a little bit is that maybe these two guys who survived were attempting to…...

40+ min ago (201+ words) Robert J. O'Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL who took credit for killing Osama Bin Laden, claimed on Wednesday that he had "killed more people" than cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer during an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. During a panel discussion moderated by host Piers Morgan, O'Neill got into an argument with Democratic politician Qasim Rashid over President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's recent lethal strikes on suspected drug smuggling boats. "Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer with his illegal strikes, which are clearly a violation of international law," argued Rashid. O'Neill then responded, "Dude, I've killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer and I don't think I'm a bad guy." Last week, President Trump shared a post by O'Neill claiming Afghans would "chop your head off" if you showed them a Nespresso…...

41+ min ago (305+ words) Pollution from Colossal looms over a small Southern town, potentially exacerbating health concerns A small, primarily Black community in Memphis is fighting back against tech giant Elon Musk, claiming a massive facility he built there is overloading an already beleaguered town with dangerous pollutants. While community leaders and residents insist that the data center is threatening the community's energy and air, Musk's company, xAI, shows no signs of slowing down. Desperate to keep up with the artificial intelligence race, Musk created xAI to compete with ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular chatbot. To power Grok, xAI's chatbot, Musk searched for a city in need of investment where he could establish a massive data center to train and power Grok. It is no coincidence that "if you are African American in this country, you're 75% more likely to live near a toxic hazardous waste facility,…...