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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2h
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) was abruptly stopped mid-sentence Tuesday when CNN's Manu Raju confronted him with a blunt fact-check about rising fuel prices.
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Republican stopped cold mid-sentence as CNN host fact-checks claims to his face
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) was abruptly stopped mid-sentence Tuesday when CNN's Manu Raju confronted him with a blunt fact-check about rising fuel prices.The moment unfolded on "Inside Politics" when the Pennsylvania Republican, who won his battleground district by just one percentage point in 2024,...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2h
Heading into the 2026 midterms, Republicans’ national challenges due to Trump’s low approval ratings — driven by the war in Iran and high consumer prices — have not skipped the Sunshine State, and Democrats see a chance to win a statewide race for just the second time in nearly 15 years.
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Florida Democrats try to regain their mojo after years of Republican dominance
Republicans in Florida maintain large cash and voter registration advantages, making it an uphill climb for Democrats.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2h
DOJ's Civil Rights Division once attracted the best of the best. These are the worst of the worst. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u... Good article, but for the pathetically weak nut graph that says their work histories "might have disqualified them from being hired in the past, former officials said."
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks (Gift Article)
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 7h
It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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bohemiangypsy.bsky.social @bohemiangypsy.bsky.social · 12h
"I just think Trump is the most dependably pro-sexual-abuse president America has ever had," Rothkopf told host Joanna Coles. Read "Why Trump’s Worst Scandal Is About to Haunt Him: Political Guru" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8D3pf9m0/B...
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Why Trump's Worst Scandal Is About to Haunt Him: Political Guru (The Daily Beast)
President Donald Trump's nasty habit of sticking up for men accused of sexual assault illuminates his fears abou...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3h
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is losing employees faster than at any point in its history, with thousands of recent hires quitting or getting fired shortly after joining, according to federal workforce data.
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ICE bleeding staff at record rate as firings and resignations soar: report
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is losing employees faster than at any point in its history, with thousands of recent hires quitting or getting fired shortly after joining, according to federal workforce data.According to the Washington Examiner, roughly 2,900 officers walked out the door in the...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3h
The G7's new 100M barrel release? This is PR , not an energy policy. The real issue is the Strait of Hormuz. youtu.be/Cc21Z2WeWdU
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3h
BREAKING: Christa Pike is awake and speaking after surviving a failed execution attempt by two lethal injection doses in Tennessee, her lawyers say.
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Christa Pike is awake and speaking after failed execution attempt, lawyer says
Pike was rushed to the hospital last week after surviving two lethal injections of pentobarbital in a failed execution attempt in Tennessee. Her prognosis is unclear, her lawyers said.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h
Wow — “the Republican Party has abandoned its base and principles… entanglement with corporations…” Tennessee Stands founder Gary Humble, a prominent right wing conservative voice, joins Sen. Janice Bowling in announcing he does NOT support @MarshaBlackburn for governor 👇🏽👀
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 7h
Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.
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Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?
President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 5h
BREAKING: CIA officer arrested with gold bars admits he exposed secret intelligence source to a foreign official during a plea hearing.
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CIA officer arrested with gold bars admits he exposed secret intelligence source to a foreign official
David Rush, who was fired by the spy agency, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and will be sentenced Jan. 28.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 5h
The function of modern media is laundering and reformatting this insane man's statements for the public so they don't have to confront reality. The fact that *this person* holds the world's most powerful office and we allow it to continue raises so many hard questions we just choose to ignore it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
FOX NEWS: You said in the beginning of the war that 'Iran presents an imminent threat and must not have a nuclear weapon,' and then more recently you said 'the Iran war needs to end to bring costs down.' So which is it? MIKE ROGERS: Well, all of those are true
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 5h
NEW: On September 23rd, Cook Political Report shifted the Kansas senate race from "likely republican" to "lean republican." Today, they changed it to "toss up." www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...
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A Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift Left
Four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h
He said this at the time, as did many, and it remains a bald-faced lie. Not a matter of opinion. It's just completely untrue as an objective factual matter. Civil marriage laws don't work like that and never have. Just like the legality of divorce and remarriage doesn't affect the Catholic Church.
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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
“.. Dalio said the US relies on foreign capital for about a third of its debt, and that Japan and China have already been paring their holdings.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
COOK POLITICAL: “.. We now estimate Democrats will pick up between two and six seats -- squarely within the range of four seats they need.” @cookpolitical.com www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h
"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 5h
"In my 65 years of living, I've never seen the city in such an uproar..." deceleration.news/san-antonio-...
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'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility
Community organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 12h
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the... Thoroughly unprofessional & accidents & lawsuits waiting to happen. I worked with Ben’s mom a very long time ago; she was a meticulous studio legal exec & I’d think she’d be horrified.
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Unhinged MAGA Movie Production Shut Down After Backlash
A new right-wing movie takes ICE’s side in the shooting of Renée Good. The Montana town where it’s being filmed is pushing back.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h
Trump stood at a rally and said "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego." Then politicos rushed to explain what he "really meant." We won't sanewash him. Today's midday updates are up, paywall free:
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Tuesday Updates: Media ‘Sanewashes’ Trump, Plague Claims Another Victim, More Tankers Struck – 10/6/26
Important updates. Paywall free.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 6h
Wisconsin Gov. candidate David Crowley: We have MAGA billionaires spending millions of dollars to buy this election for Congressman Tom Tiffany. $34 million from just 3 people. Those billionaires look at Tom Tiffany and they don't see a candidate who's running for governor. They see a sure thing.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h
BREAKING: Former Deputy AG Sally Yates will lead a review of Cornell's handling of sexual assault and harassment reports, the university said.
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Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims
Cornell University trustees have announced that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will review how the university handles sexual misconduct complaints.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 6h
SCOOP: OpenAI has been telling mathematicians it was going to dump at least 100 newly solved problems on Github today. They now say no release time is set, but mathematicians are angry about how the field is being treated; meanwhile, OpenAI workers consider math dead as a field of inquiry.
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OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 6h
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 6h
MAGA is so far gone that Donald Trump can joke about American cities being bombed, and his supporters will laugh along. You know who's not laughing? The millions of Americans living in San Diego and Los Angeles.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 6h
his voters bear the brunt of his insanity...
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Public Opinion Gets to Trump
Taxpayers won’t pay for his silly ads trying to bolster his toxic brand.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h
We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10h
I was told Zohran Mamdani would instantly turn New York into a crime-ridden hellscape. Yet murders are down almost 20%, year over year. 203 people have been slain, about 22.5 per month. In 1990, that average was *251 per month.* NYC has never been this safe.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10h
The people who'll laugh or shrug off the 'nuke Los Angeles & San Diego comment' are the same people who wanted Mamdani to not be at the 9/11 commemoration.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 05/10/2026
if republicans get wiped-out in the midterms the far-right (twitter) will engage in a race to the bottom in terms of who can get closest to going full nazi—sort of a zeno's dichotomy situation at this point, to be fair—because far-right politics cannot fail but only be failed.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
I thought Trump’s tariffs were specifically designed to dramatically reduce this number to zero.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: In 2020, a pharma CEO’s relatives donated to Susan Collins. That company got a $4.5M contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Collins was on the Appropriations subcommittee. …The company went on to pay $47M to settle claims it defrauded US health programs. @andrewperez.bsky.social:
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First Draft: Forget Hasan Piker, Donald Trump Is America’s Worst Campaign Surrogate
The president went to Nebraska – and showed yet again why Democrats including Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed are desperate for him to visit! In Maine, Susan Collins faced more embarrassing reporting.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h
Trump's Ohio rally crowd chanted: "Deport! Deport!" But don't overlook this: New NYT poll finds Trump underwater *on immigration* even in Ohio, which he carried by double digits. MAGA sadists are yelling in a shrinking bubble. Check out our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2162...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 9h
Trump ran $10M+ in TV ads promoting himself, paid for w/ your tax dollars Facing backlash, he now says his super PAC will cover it Small problem: presidents can't direct super PAC spending either I'll get into it w/ @ms.now at 11AM ET👇 -TN
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Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h
Trump looking to appease the "Radical Left" by shifting from one illegal act to another.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9h
Vitol chief warns of tanker shortage and risk of $200-a-barrel oil ft.trib.al/zntHqhv
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Vitol chief warns of tanker shortage and risk of $200-a-barrel oil
Head of world’s largest independent oil trader says shipping squeeze is creating new bottleneck despite increased Gulf flows
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
a smiling DoD official Emil Michael dismisses the obvious conflicts of interest involved in Project Meridian: "There's really nothing to see here"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
As a reminder, Trump is already on National Park passes, and people have been told they will not be admitted if the image is vandalized. At some point, this is not so much branding government services as imposing the images of a personalist regime.
national park pass featuring trump
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h
An unusual ruling in Florida last week could raise questions about the constitutionality of the sweeping voter suppression measure being pushed by the president. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Could a new court ruling undermine Trump's favorite voter suppression bill?
It’s unclear how a federal proof of citizenship law would pass constitutional muster if a federal ban on noncitizen voting could not.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 06/10/2026
Rep. Joyce Beatty is asking a federal judge to force the DOJ to turn over documents about President Trump’s role in the Kennedy Center’s planned two-year shutdown, accusing the administration of improperly shielding evidence behind presidential privilege.
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Rep. Beatty Asks a Judge to Compel Evidence in Kennedy Center Lawsuit
The Justice Department has asserted presidential privilege over requests involving Trump and White House officials.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 05/10/2026
Painful.
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You'll Never Guess Which Political Ideology People With Low Cognitive Ability Are Drawn Toward, According to New Research
A new study found a negative correlation between high cognitive vocabulary and belief in Christian nationalist principles.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 06/10/2026
Nine U.S. service members wounded in the Iran war have gone on the record about the military medical care they received, which they say left them fighting for treatment on their own, according to the Associated Press.
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US soldiers wounded in Iran attack speak out after horrific medical treatment by Pentagon
Nine U.S. service members wounded in the Iran war have gone on the record about the military medical care they received, which they say left them fighting for treatment on their own, according to the Associated Press. Going on the record is "rare for troops still in the Army," the AP noted.They were...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
EL-SAYED: Now you've got a situation with the Strait of Hormuz where we can't move oil and gas-- FOX: That's not true. The WSJ put out a piece the other day that said we're almost a level of getting oil out of the Strait that we were at before the war started AES: So why are gas prices so high?
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