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Wow! Hegseth covered up that Iran wiped out our main resupply base in Bahrain. That's why the Lincoln couldn't get what it needed. Sailors dealing with shortages and breaking mentally after 9 months. And tRump? "Fake news." Anyone surprised?
https://www.ms.now/money-power-politics/watch/uss-lincoln-wasn-t-resupplied-because-hegseth-hid-that-iran-destroyed-main-u-s-base-rohde-2511362627825
tRump offered every adult $5,000 if Republicans keep Congress. He calls it a dividend. It would cost $1.2 trillion. Offering money to sway votes is a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 597. That is not a dividend. That is a bribe.
Seriously? Idaho is voting on an official state gun this November. Like we need a state Winchester or Colt Peacemaker. Same ballot as reproductive rights. The legislature passed it without a single no vote. That's the culture they're selling.
https://ballotpedia.org/Idaho_Official_State_Gun_Question_(2026)
Rhea Data is trying to turn 3,700 acres of Idaho public BLM land by Blacks Creek into a mega data center & gas plant. Cattle graze it, birds use desert reservoir, fish depend on the inflows, & wildlife crosses through. That's lost habitat, more emissions, & more pressure on water we don't have.
Censorship getting worse in the US.
Republicans love turning Election Day into a mess. Vote early and lock it in. Once those ballots are counted they can’t pull the usual stunts. Don’t wait for November if you don’t have to.
https://racebannon.substack.com/p/the-early-vote-advantage-locking?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
Not sci-fi.
Anthropic spent a year warning everyone AI surveillance would wreck our rights… then built their own pre-crime unit to track anti-AI protesters. They even called cops on a guy venting to Claude. 🙄
https://www.commondreams.org/news/anthropic-pre-crime-surveillance
tRump’s people are yelling censorship at the UK for trying to fight misinformation. Meanwhile a Democratic congressman just said the FBI tapped his phone because he was investigating tRump.
The tRump cabal doesn't care about free speech. They care about control.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/united-kingdom-misinformation-censorship-openai-hugging-face-subramanyam
tRump's old mouthpiece Karoline Leavitt paused for effect and said "I like to speak the truth." Ma'am you spent 19 months being his professional liar. Truth was never your brand. What a joke. 🙄
https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/karoline-leavitt-speak-truth-mocked-2021240?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target
tRump: "zero tax dollars for the ballroom. zero tax dollars…This is going to be great. I'm giving you a ballroom free of charge, and I hope you enjoy it."
Truth: Taxpayers are expected to fund at least $307 million of the White House ballroom.
Texas Republicans don’t want the truth about what their abortion bans did to women. So the state committee that reviews maternal deaths is skipping 2022 & 2023, the exact years the bans took hold. You can’t claim to care about life & refuse to count the dead.
https://www.texasobserver.org/maternal-mortality-committee-roe-deaths-lawmakers-politics/
They sold Dallas as a packed 20k Trump-a-palooza. Videos from inside show empty upper decks and a floor that looks like a high school assembly. Folks standing in 95-degree heat, some already left. tRump might not wanna look. 😂
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rnc-convention-crowd-size-video-dallas_n_6aa1e103e4b03076360705f2/amp
They hid more Epstein emails from the dump. FBI notes on Maxwell’s prison interview. Patel looking up people he met at tRump’s golf club who were tied to Epstein and the royals. The cover-up continues...
https://radaronline.com/p/secret-epstein-emails-kept-out-file-dump-fbi-ghislaine-maxwell-interview-patel/
tRump’s DOJ is sending 1,000 “monitors” to watch us vote. Same day they lost their 23rd straight court fight over our voter data. This isn’t protection, it’s intimidation dressed up as democracy. They’re already building the next big lie & don't even try hiding it anymore.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EZjBec39uNg&is=n6Hb3FMPGAREH24T
Only three states still approve of tRump. Idaho, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
And I live in one of them. 😢
Feels pretty lonely out here being blue in this deep red state while the rest of the country has finally had enough.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-only-three-states-that-approve-of-donald-trump-12333143
tRump doesn’t want a better deal with Canada. He wants their economy to “effectively fold.” That’s the assessment from a White House reporter. tRump’s said for over a year Canada couldn’t survive without us. We're seeing tRump economic warfare against our closest ally.
https://www.ms.now/on-the-line/watch/trump-wants-canada-s-economy-to-effectively-fold-hillyard-2512111171657
tRump said the arena was "packed" and that photos that showed seats being empty were because people went to the bathroom. 🤣
https://www.newsweek.com/were-seats-empty-at-rnc-midterm-convention-what-photos-videos-show-12423679
tRump’s whole look is cheap orange bronzer from a Bronx supply shop. He slaps it on every morning and sometimes again at night. No makeup and he looks like an open can of Spam. Even Scaramucci’s makeup-artist mom hates it. tRump thinks he looks fantastic. (of course)
https://www.shefinds.com/collections/anthony-scaramucci-donald-trump-makeup-routine/
While tRump’s helping the people closest to him rake in the big bucks, his tariff tweets keep torching the market. One post wiped out $2 trillion in a single afternoon. He’s flipped the rules more than 50 times. Everyone else just rides the chaos.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/09/05/donald-trumps-tariff-policy-has-repeatedly-trigger/?source=iedfolrf0000001
The White House is melting down hard over Ossoff. tRump’s people are calling him a “cuck loser” & “feminine theatre kid,” while tRump himself goes with “Pee-Wee Herman.” When the personal attacks get this wild, it usually means they’re trying to bury a real scandal.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magas-attacks-on-jon-ossoff_l_6a846277e4b05886dff6b48b/amp
tRump is about to revoke up to 200,000 visas in the largest mass cancellation in US history. People who entered legally and later sought asylum are the target. On top of that, a $103,000 fee on H-1B visas. This isn’t reform, it’s cruel overreach.
https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/trump-administration-moves-to-revoke-200000-visas-impose-103k-h-1b-fee-temporary-asylum-claims-marco-rubio
Spoiled brat tRump is melting down again. Just threatened to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” and posted a map with the name crossed out in gold letters. All because Canada won’t bend over on trade. This is what passes for diplomacy now in the tRump regime. Pathetic.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/25/trump-french-language-canada-lake-ontario
During a 9/11 ceremony.
tRump falls asleep...
Baby tRump is threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center if he doesn’t get his renovations & his name on the building. His board already voted to inscribe “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.” tRump is acting like a misbehaved toddler yet again.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/politics/demolish-kennedy-center-renovations
tRump’s DOJ is so focused on political payback that real cases are falling apart. Juries don’t trust them anymore, and an alleged MS-13 ringleader might walk free because of the corruption. The hidden cost of tRump's vendettas is hitting public safety.
https://www.rawstory.com/department-of-justice-2677777961/
Justice Jackson didn’t hold back. She says the Supreme Court is “jeopardizing” a fair election by greenlighting tRump’s mail ballot executive order. Pre-election chaos right before the midterms. tRump's being handed the tools to steal the vote for Republicans.
https://www.newsweek.com/justice-jackson-warns-supreme-court-jeopardizing-fair-election-12361561
tRump is panicking about the midterms, so he & Vance want to grab the childcare money working parents actually need & hand it to married couples so one spouse can stay home. About $9k a kid. Single moms who rely on daycare to keep a job get cut out.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-vance-stay-home-parent-tax-credit-republicans-12416747
Canada is matching tRump’s 50% tariffs dollar for dollar after he blew up the talks. His trade bullying is already backfiring — higher costs for Americans while Canada shifts to other markets and partners. tRump's idiotic campaign isn’t working.
https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/canada-to-match-us-tariffs-as-idiotic-us-trade-bullying-fails-badly/
tRump’s 50% tariffs blew up Canada trade deal. Now Ontario’s premier is threatening to cut the electricity that powers 1.5 million US homes & businesses. Part of New York could go dark. This is yet another disaster tRump started with our closest ally.
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/canada-threatens-cut-new-yorks-1995579?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target
This ballot measure would give Idahoans basic reproductive rights again. So naturally the Republican Party is already plotting to kill it if voters pass it. They talk freedom nonstop until it means women controlling their own bodies.
https://ballotpedia.org/Idaho_Proposition_1,_Reproductive_Freedom_and_Privacy_Act_Initiative_(2026)
tRump “won” on tariffs?
😂
The bar is now “didn’t crash the global economy.”
Prices up, manufacturing flat, small businesses crushed, courts tossing his illegal tariffs… but sure, victory lap.
Only in this clown show does “not a total disaster” count as winning.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-won-on-tariffs-lol-trade-prices-manufacturing-economy
Rand Paul, the guy who never shuts up about the debt and government waste, was just caught putting his staff on an $18k private jet on our dime... For a one hour flight. Everyone else on the committee drove or flew coach. These people... 😡
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/11/rand-paul-private-jets-01071502
Tim Scott turned the MAGA convention into a sermon attacking James Talarico for saying God is non-binary. This is what Tim Scott was like: “Jeeeeeeesus says that God has a penis!”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tim-scott-speech-trump-republican-convention-dallas-b3047661.html
tRump just blew up trade with Canada. 50% tariffs after the talks failed, so Carney is matching them dollar for dollar. Vance is mocking Canada as a “state” that needs us. Our closest ally & tRump’s raising prices for US citizens just to flex. Bottom line, he's an idiot.
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/500341/us-canada-trade-war-tariffs-trump-carney
tRump says he heard from a retired admiral that the USS Lincoln is “beautifully maintained.” 🤥
Meanwhile our sailors are stuck out there over 240 days with mold in the showers, eating gray mystery meat, and some so broken they’re trying to jump off the damn ship. 😢
https://www.newser.com/story/394797/trump-says-hes-heard-lincoln-is-being-beautifully-maintained.html
tRump claims last night's convention speech was packed house that "beat the NFL" with yuge numbers. Fox only did 2.5 million — down from what Gutfeld & Hannity normally get. Arena wasn't full either. Dude offered people $5,000 & made jerk-off joke. Typical tRump BS.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-speech-ratings_n_6aa3c680e4b09fd4319e67c6/amp
Idaho’s got 126,000 veterans & Sen. Jim Risch voted against the PACT Act five times. That’s the one that finally covers burn pits & Agent Orange so sick vets don’t have to fight the VA. Passed 86-11. He still said no. Photo ops on Veterans Day, no on the care.
https://www.magareportcards.com/blog/risch-pact-act-five-no-votes/?fbclid=Iwb21leAUO6jZjbGNrBQ7qKHBkb2YBZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeOJEQx4o7_DJV80mgFT4MKdk40JIYlEnvkR-enpLyyrlUVl7UW4cYzVx9BLQ_aem_-mbKL47MXNImss5C-VUtaw
tRump got another gift from HIS Supreme Court today. They’re letting him move forward with the executive order cracking down on mail ballots. Blue states have to deal with DHS voter lists & new USPS rules with the midterms weeks away. This is textbook voter suppression! 😡
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/24/politics/supreme-court-mail-ballots-elections
