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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

Activists have erected a billboard near MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, with a message to troops: “Obey Only Lawful Orders.” The base is home to the US Central Command and US Special Operations Command […] [Original post on journa.host]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

The US has launched strikes on Islamic State targets in Nigeria, according to President Trump.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

In his Urbi et Orbi address, the pope’s pleas for peace includes: Ukraine/Russia, Middle East, Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, DRC, Thailand/Cambodia, Burma (Myanmar), Haiti and Latin America […] [Original post on journa.host]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

“The Administration will absolutely appeal this decision and I am far off from having my clearance restored, but the rule of law is a little bit stronger today,” says attorney Mark Zaid.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

WaPo - ICE plans to speed up deportations by funneling new detainees to large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, located in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri. Sixteen smaller warehouses would hold up to 1,500 people each […] [Original post on journa.host]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Federal judges could end up deciding whether Kari Lake’s edict violates two laws: The Voice of America Charter and the Firewall, which prohibits interference by any US government official in VOA’s objective, independent reporting of news. www.insidevoa.com/p/5831.html

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

The self-proclaimed head of USAGM, Kari Lake, who this year destroyed nearly all of the Voice of America, tells the agency’s few remaining journalists the White House National Security Strategy will “guide our interview subjects, story selection, and coverage going forward.”

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

The top media trend that Axios believes will shape 2026 is the US ceding soft power. www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-med…

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Asked about having enough workers to build all these battleships, President Trump replies: "We're going to have a lot of robots helping us."

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

“Trump-class” Golden Fleet AI-controlled battleships will be the largest "in the history of the world ever built" with hypersonic weapons, the most-sophisticated lasers and Cruise nuclear missiles and "ultimately there'll be 20 to 25 of these," announces the president.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

Cynthia Lummis, a staunch conservative Republican and Wyoming's first female US senator, announces she will not seek reelection after one term in office.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

American Airlines just sent me an “exclusive” offer to obtain World Cup tickets. For the final match in New Jersey, a pair of the better seats can be obtained for 1.8 million frequent flyer miles (and the tickets cannot be resold).

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

It appears that the self-proclaimed acting CEO of the US Agency for Global Media, who (along with Elon Musk/DOGE) destroyed the Voice of America, isn’t planning to stick around Washington.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

Updated signage evident the morning after a supposed renaming to “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen…

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

“The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was unanimous.’ That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.” - Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH)

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

If US Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn’t release the “Epstein Files” tomorrow, as ordered by the federal judiciary, she will be subject to prosecution for obstruction of justice, says Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

In a nationwide address that major US TV networks are carrying live, President Trump announces 1,450,000 military members will receive a “warrior dividend” of $1776 before Christmas.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

"Democrat or Republican, we cannot have the government arbitrating truth or opinion,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) tells FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

President Trump, on social media, announces he’s ordering “A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela.”

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

"I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person,” President Trump tells reporters when asked about the killing of actor/producer/activist Rob Reiner. “He was very bad for our country.”

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

President Trump says he had “a very good meeting” this afternoon with European leaders about the war in Ukraine and also spoke with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. “Things are going along pretty well.”

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

Two people have died, eight others in critical but stable condition following a shooting in the area of Brown University, according to Providence Mayor Brett Smiley. "We do not have a shooter in custody at this time."

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

Media reports say at least two people are dead in a mass shooting in the vicinity of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. (Aerial photo via WCVB-TV)

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

The progress of the WV National Guard sergeant who was shot in the head on duty in DC is “miraculous,” his family members say medical professionals have told them.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

DHS terminates TPS for Ethiopians, saying conditions in their home country "no longer pose a serious threat to the personal safety of returning Ethiopian nationals” and those with no other lawful basis for remaining in the US have 60 days to voluntarily depart.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

President Trump’s economic approval rating is at the lowest mark registered in an AP-NORC poll in his first or second term. apnorc.org/projects/trumps-approval…

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

Been using a VPN in Mississippi so didn’t immediately realize Bluesky is accessible again in the state, but only for those 18 and up to comply with Mississippi’s online age verification law.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

US Mint, on Thursday, will auction 232 three-coin sets, with the last being the final circulating pennies ever struck. Each set will include a 24-karat gold uncirculated penny minted in Philadelphia with unique omega privy marks, signifying they're among the […] [Original post on journa.host]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

Update: Tsunami up to 3 meters high predicted for Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate following a M7.6 quake in Japan.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

Tsunami quickly reaches the Pacific Japanese coast, evacuation orders issued. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live_tv

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

In its new national security strategy, the White House contends that Europe faces a "real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure" in the next 20 years. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploa…

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

"I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America.” - President Trump on social media

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

Soaking in the publicity of a drunken raccoon passing out next to the toilet in one of its stores, Virginia’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority has concocted some Procyonid-themed cocktails.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

State Department says today it "renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history. Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.” (USIP, a nonprofit think tank, was an early target of DOGE.)

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

“We’ve only just begun striking narco boats,” says Defense Secretary Hegseth in today’s Cabinet meeting. “We’ve had a bit of a pause because it’s hard to find boats to strike right now.”

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

The Federal Reserve chairman is incompetent, a real dope and stubborn as an ox, says President Trump in a Cabinet meeting, adding he'll announce a replacement for Jerome Powell early next year.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

The White House web site now includes a “media bias” tracker with a leaderboard and an offender hall of shame. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Canada’s culture & identity minister resigns over the government’s energy deal with Alberta.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

"This heinous assault was an act of evil, an act of hatred and an act of terror" - President Trump, speaking from Mar-a-Lago.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

At least 31 babies in 15 states became ill after being fed ByHeart formula, which has now been found to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum Type A, according to the company. byheart.com

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

The White House pardons of last year’s turkeys, Peach and Blossom, declared "null and void” because then-President Biden used an autopen, says President Trump (adding the two birds were then sent on their way to “processing” but he’s now issued a valid pardon for them).

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

President Trump, in a long Sunday morning post on social media: …UKRAINE “LEADERSHIP” HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS…

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

From license-stripping threats to sedition talk, Trump’s media crusade isn’t just bluster — it fits a troubling American pattern. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/whe…

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

“Not only did Trump fete Prince Mohammed but he effectively rewrote history – and then blamed the victim.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

Trump Media & Technology Group shares trading at an all-time low, wiping out ~$5 billion in value. www.barrons.com/market-data/stocks/…

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

President Trump announces the US is formally designating Saudi Arabia as a "major non-NATO ally."

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