Pat Jennings

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Guns haven't made us safer. Trickle-down hasn't made us richer. Global warming is real. Fair taxes & reasonable regulation aren't Socialism, Communism or fascism. https://medium.com/@veryrecent1

Johnny Carson as Carnac The Magnificent
In the end, a new grand jury — one that Mr. Smith had never spoken to — recharged the cases that had been thrown out. But such behavior could have easily resulted in a U.S. attorney stepping down or being fired. Instead, the Senate confirmed Mr. Smith’s nomination on May 18, just three days after the judges issued their ruling dismissing the cases and exposing his transgressions.
Massive machinery harvesting corn.
Huge increase in spending on construction of manufacturing facilities under Biden.
Dumb headline from USAS today: Are you getting a $2,000 tariff check? Here are Trump's latest comments
As the Epstein emails are released Fox news' lead story is about DEI on college campuses in red states. Epstein is not mention on front page.
It will be interesting to see how low Nancy Mace will lower herself to get Trump's endorsement in the governor's race
Trump's much publicized trade deal with South Korea is not a done deal
The political logic of the shutdown fight was inverted: If Democrats got the tax credits extended — if they “won” — they would be solving a huge electoral problem for Republicans. If Republicans successfully allowed the tax credits to expire — if they “won” — they would be handing Democrats a cudgel with which to beat them in the elections.
Republican Senator Roger Marshall, a doctor, pretends he doesn't know how insurance works.
78% of Americans have a favorable view of SNAP, about twice as popular as Donald Trump.
Nancy Mace is embarrassing herself as she tries to win Trump's approval.
Money spent on building manufacturing facilities exploded after Democrats pass CHIPS and IRA
Extraordinary times, indeed. This week, administration officials did brief senators on the bombings, which have now targeted 14 vessels, all under murky circumstances. But Democrats say this briefing was for GOP senators only, which may violate the legal requirement for bipartisan briefings.
Fox News does have a single story on their home page about the lock out, health insurance prices, SNAP. But the good news is: that fentenyl that wasn't coming through Venezuela still isn't coming through Venezuela.
Trump makes a vague promise, which the media passes along word-for-word and without question. "Trump predicts how low gas prices will go "pretty soon".
Trump delighted Kennedy’s allies as he repeatedly brought up anti-vaccine talking points, such as a discredited claim that Amish people neither get vaccinated nor develop autism.
This article treat the existence of "trans terror cells' as a given. I am not sure that even one such organization exists. maybe I am uniformed.
The moment left a memorable mark on a historic day. The gesture reflected a traditional nod of honor, from one leader to another, a milestone of the Republican Party’s priority legislation becoming law. But the imagery also underscored a symbolic transfer of political power, from Capitol Hill to the White House as a compliant Congress is ceding more and more of its prerogative to the presidency.
US tariff rates are highest since 1910. The average tariff is now 20.6%. It was 2.5% a year ago.
KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research organization, estimates the bill would cause federal Medicaid spending in rural areas to drop by $155 billion — more than the $50 billion lawmakers set aside in the legislation to shore up rural hospitals. It’s not fully clear how that $50 billion will be divided, adding to providers’ uncertainty.
Noem has made clear that it’s her job to carry out Miller’s demands, no matter how unrealistic, and she has joined in the criticism of the agency she oversees. While tagging along on a predawn operation early this year, Noem posted live updates on social media, blowing the team’s cover for the rest of the day. And Noem has installed a former political aide, Madison Sheahan, to be the agency’s deputy director, a position typically held by veteran ICE officials. Sheahan, 28, formerly ran the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries but has little experience in law enforcement. Some ICE officers have nicknamed her “fish cop.”
But Trump and Republican lawmakers needed to offset some of the enormous cost of the tax cuts, deportations and other campaign promises in their tax and spending law. So they turned to Medicaid. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that about 12 million people will lose health coverage because of the law, which is nonetheless projected to add trillions to the federal debt over the next decade.
While many who survive traumatic events try to block them from memory, Trump has instead surrounded himself with memorabilia commemorating one of the darkest episodes in modern political history. He’s decorated the White House and his golf clubs with art pieces depicting the moment after the shooting when he stood up, thrust his fist dramatically in the air and chanted, “Fight, fight, fight!”
When Miller issued his demand for 3,000 arrests per day, he reportedly steamrolled any veteran officials who dared to speak up about its impracticality, which has led many to keep silent since then for fear of drawing his ire, Miroff writes. This means that “no one is saying, ‘This is not obtainable,’” an ICE official told him. “The answer is just to keep banging the [ICE rank-and-file] and tell [them] they suck. It’s just not a good atmosphere.”
Although President Donald Trump has heaped endless praise on the federal deportation agency, ICE agents have reportedly never been so miserable, forced to primarily detain noncriminal immigrants in order to meet their quota: 3,000 arrests per day, per Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller’s demands.
Tom Homan, the US border czar, has said he does not know what happened to the eight men deported to South Sudan after the Trump administration resumed sending migrants to countries that are not their place of origin, known as third countries. “They’re free as far as we’re concerned. They’re free, they’re no longer in our custody, they’re in Sudan,” Homan told Politico on Friday. “Will they stay in Sudan? I don’t know.”
The deluge of up to 15 inches of rain that caused the flood in Texas occurred the same day Trump signed his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which gutted the federal government’s main effort to combat climate change.
A Trump official says, "any claims that individuals have been ‘targeted’ by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically FALSE."
JD Vance claims Republicans are voting for the BBB becasue of Hakem Jeffries speech
JD Vance claims that the damage done by the Republican bill is "immaterial". All that matters is ICE funding.
Trump tries to equate reporting accurately on the bombing of Iran.
Matt Walsh claims New York City is not an American city anymore.
Charlie Kirk tweets that if there is any retaliation against America within our own borders, it is the fault of the previous President.
Governor Newsome sayd Ds are not trusted.
Dems need to focus on kitchen table issues like affordability and cost of living
Google search for: who leads the Democratic party?
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In April Trump claimed he had already negotiated 200 trade deals.
Asked for comment, a spokesperson for the Transportation Department said in a statement that “the last administration carried out enforcements without sufficient due process, consistency and fairness.” “We see it differently,” the spokesperson said, adding that the department would focus trucking enforcement efforts on issues such as cargo theft, fraud by brokers and visa issues.
I can't wait for the press to find out about France's so-called "gift" of the Statue of Liberty, accepted in 1886 by then-President Grover Cleveland.
KRISTEN WELKER: But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president? PRES. DONALD TRUMP: I don’t know. I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation. KRISTEN WELKER: Is anyone in your administration right now in contact with El Salvador about returning Abrego Garcia to the United States?
Florida no longer tracks health surveillance data - so it is impossible to know if measles is spreading within the state.
“She is a liar. She makes up crap … I am going to put tariffs on other countries coming into our country, and that has nothing to do with taxes to us. That is a tax on another country,” Trump said. In September, he repeated the claim during an interview with Fox News: “It’s not a tax on the middle class. It’s a tax on another country.” And he said again during a rally in Wisconsin Saturday that “it’s not going to be a cost to you, it’s going to be a cost to another country.” Vance said in late August that as a result of tariffs Trump imposed during his presidency, “prices went down for American citizens.”
Mr. Trump is saying there will be no tariff exemptions. But watch that promise vanish as politicians, including Mr. Trump, see exemptions as a way to leverage campaign contributions from business. Liberation Day is Buy Another Yacht Day for the swamp.
HealthWatch RFK Jr. says 20% of health agency layoffs could be mistakes healthwatch By Alexander Tin Edited By Nicole Brown Chau, Paula Cohen April 3, 2025 / 7:12 PM EDT / CBS News Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested Thursday that around 20% of the job cuts by the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency will be wrong and need to be corrected. Around 10,000 employees were laid off from the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, as part of a restructuring architected by Kennedy and Elon Musk's DOGE task force. But Kennedy acknowledged they didn't get everything right the first time. "Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut. We're reinstating them. And that was always the plan. Part of the DOGE, we talked about this from the beginning, is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because we'll make mistakes,"
But Trump has also used tariffs to gain personal and political leverage over American businesses. During his first term, Trump levied broad tariffs and then entertained a parade of executives pleading for exemptions, which his administration doled out at its whim.
Billboard targeting GOP lawmakers for funding bill votes taken down after defamation claim
It is notable however that while they receive wide mention in the story of vaccine development, the decades-long funding of their science by public institutions such as NIH is often left out.
Mr. Musk’s ostensible boss, despite his well-known fondness for TV news and social media, also insists that “no president ever worked harder than me.”
Musk's conflicss of interest are obvious, still NPR claims it is difficult for the public to verfy if any conflcits exust.
CNN headline: Trump appears to channel Napoleon in vision for executive authority
As Trump vents about Covid, experets worry his moves could worsen next thtreat
Guest essay in the New York Times: Trump might have a case on birthright citizenship
JD Vance thinks an education only has value if it makes you a conservative. There is no value in becoming an engineer or doctor, only a conservative
Among these experts is a 19-year-old Northeastern student who goes by the name "Big Balls.
Racist endorses idea that "white men must be in charge"
We examine whether political connections played a significant role in the design of the tariff regime and, especially, the awarding of tariff exemptions. We document that this process worked—at least partly—as a very effective spoils system allowing the administration of the day to reward its political friends and punish its enemies.
I’d also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide;