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  Trump changes tone on midterms as GOP fears election rout By Sam StevensonAssociate News Editor0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project member President Donald Trump took a shifting tone on the midterms on Wednesday, pointing out that even if Republicans lose control of the House, Senate, or both, he would remain the U.S. commander-in-chief. “I’m here whether we win this or not,” he told reporters in Arizona and Montana. The shift in tone came just two days after he urged supporters in Ala...

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  Matt Gaetz accused in suit of sex trafficking two women in Florida The Republican former congressman Matt Gaetz has been accused of participating in the sex trafficking of two young women in a civil lawsuit filed on Thursday in district court in Florida. The allegations, which Gaetz denied in a statement to the Guardian, are the latest developments in a long-running sexual abuse scandal involving the politician who resigned from Congress in November 2024. In the 38-page lawsuit, filed i...

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  Tennessee court overturns killer’s conviction because jury wasn’t told that the victim was transgender A Tennessee court has overturned the conviction of a man who killed a Black transgender woman, ruling that a lower court “erred” by preventing the killer from using the victim’s trans identity in his defense. Samuel Ward Jr. shot Paris Lee six times outside her Memphis home in June 2022, according to the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office. He then drove 30 minutes home, leaving her t...

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  Trump Ominously Says 'Project 2025' Author Has 'Big Surprises' In The Next Few Weeks President Donald Trump issued a foreboding proclamation during a speech in Maryland on Tuesday, just hours after he predicted a “Midterm Surprise!” in a Truth Social post. “Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, who’s fantastic, he’s on a job, we have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks. Right, Russ?” Trump said. “He’s gonna be one of the very important p...

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  Samuel Alito blames marriage equality for America’s ‘decisive’ turn ‘against religious liberty’ Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the ruling legalizing marriage equality nationwide marked “perhaps the decisive point” in America’s turn “against religious liberty.” In his new book So Ordered, Alito focuses on Obergefell v. Hodges. The 5-4 decision was a landmark in civil rights, establishing a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry nationwide. But Alito, who dis...

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  Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego At a rally in Nebraska Tuesday night, President Trump told his supporters exactly what he thinks about the well-being of the American people. Trump first said that the price of goods and services, which have gone up thanks to his ill-advised Iran war and tariff policies, were “just a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe—keeping our country safe. “They can take out a city. Let them take, let...

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  Trump entering Mobile rally: “There's never been anybody who's been more persecuted than me.” Pretty sure the person who made that cross you carry into an icon might have been more persecuted. Or, maybe, the people that the Nazis walked into gas chambers (incidentally, the very same types of groups of people your administration targets)?

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  Trump Explodes on Reporter: 'You Haven't Asked Me One F-cking Positive Question' “You haven’t asked me one fucking positive question,” he said. “All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative.” The president had been asked about whether Mitch McConnell should resign from the Senate because of his health issues. Trump responded by indicating that videos of McConnell struggling were a “disappointment to a lot of Republicans,” before n...

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  'You will eat the bugs': Trump Cabinet member buried over advice on soaring beef prices Rollins’ claim that prices for other protein sources were “coming down” is inaccurate. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of eggs, while lower than in 2025, has increased in recent months, increasing by 4.3% from May to June, falling by 0.5% from June to July, and then increasing again by 2.9% from July to August. Pork and chicken costs both increased by 0.4% from July to August....

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  Flock Cameras Are Coming Down Around The Country Only To Be Replaced By The Same Technology With A Different Name - Jalopnik There’s been a great deal of backlash against Flock cameras, with constant vandalism and numerous reports of crooked cops misusing them, leading to more and more communities to cancel their contracts. While Flock has received the most backlash, there are other ALPR companies out there. Rather than ending their use of technology that spies on you, and in a move that doesn’...

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  Tuberville calls transgender people ‘deranged’ on Senate floor: ‘Bring back mental institutions’ U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican nominee for governor of Alabama, criticized transgender people, their parents and their doctors on the Senate floor Thursday. Tuberville claimed transgender people are mentally ill and a danger to others. He said that airline pilots who are transgender or wear fursuits are “deranged” and suggested more LGBTQ people should be institutionalized. “...

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  New Hampshire Libertarian Party posts support the assassination of Democrats

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  The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult. Of all the outside advisers urging President Trump to seize control of federal elections this fall, the attorney Peter Ticktin can claim the deepest ties; the two men went to military school together as teenagers. In 2022, Ticktin helped Trump sue Hillary Clinton. Thi...

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  Consumer sentiment is in the dumps despite a solid economy. Goldman Sachs blames ‘lower happiness’ Goldman Sachs identified a potential culprit for sour consumer sentiment readings: A decline in happiness. The consumer sentiment index tracked by the University of Michigan hit record lows this year. The index fell 13% year over year in September, due to a drop of almost 8% from August alone. Economists have widely questioned why sentiment has remained depressed since the Covid pandemic,...

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  Trump Says 'Big Decision' Coming on Whether to 'Annihilate' Iran | Common Dreams President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is weighing whether or not to “annihilate” Iran in a renewed effort to end the illegal 201-day US-Israeli war of choice, musings that came on the heels of a report by United Nations experts who said the United States likely committed war crimes during earlier attacks on the Middle East nation. “I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and ann...

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  A thermal picture of what’s going on behind his back

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  ‘Actual Blasphemy’: Critics Stunned By ‘Repulsive’ Video At Trump Convention President Donald Trump’s Republican midterm convention in Dallas featured a bizarre video that claimed he was chosen by God for a special purpose. The video, which was also used in 2024, is a modified version of Paul Harvey’s 1978 “So God Made a Farmer” speech, but with a twist: In this one, God makes Trump. “And on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’” the na...

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  ‘You Go To Hell!’: Trump Ends Convention With The Most Bizarre Pledge You'll Ever Hear President Donald Trump concluded his Republican midterm convention on Thursday by leading the audience in a pledge … to himself. Trump asked the crowd to raise their right hands and begin: “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States.” The crowd dutifully repeated the line, calling Trump “the greatest president in the history of the United States.” Trump added: “that...

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  Trump gives vague answer when quizzed why he won’t send $5,000 ‘dividend’ checks now President Donald Trump offered a vague answer when asked about the timing of the $5,000 “Trump Dividend” checks he said his administration would send to Americans after the midterms. The Republican, who outlined the plan last night at the GOP’s midterm convention in Texas, spoke with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham about the check plan after his speech. During the interview, the president was asked why he was...

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  EXCLUSIVE: Candidate accused of trying to plant drugs on opponent JOPLIN, Mo. — Federal charges are filed against Joplin political candidate Thomas Ross for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Ross, won the primary election to replace current 161 House Dist. State Representative Lane Roberts ®. He beat Louise Secker by 32 votes. According to court documents, Ross asked his campaign manager to plant “a mixture or substance containing cocaine and Adderall” on his political op...

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  Conservative Democrats Offer Amendment to Outdo GOP’s Condemnation of DSA A group of conservative Democrats in the House tried to one-up Republicans this week with a competing piece of legislation aimed at condemning the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and socialism in “all its forms,” after the GOP proposed an anti-socialist resolution that called for the passage of their marquee voter suppression legislation. Last week, Republican Rep. Jeff Crank (Colorado) introduced a resolution...

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  Trump Lies That Medicare for All Would Cost ‘Entire Budget of the Whole Country’ | Common Dreams US President Donald Trump railed against Medicare for All during an Oval Office event on Tuesday, falsely claiming the proposal would be prohibitively expensive and ineffective despite new research confirming it would save lives and cost significantly less than the corporate-dominated status quo. The president’s remarks came during an event touting his limited, voluntary, and secretive agreement...

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  Healthcare tops the Democrats’ to-do list if they win control of the House in 2026 WASHINGTON — Vying to become House speaker in a few months, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries outlined four items on the agenda that he said would enjoy “uniform Democratic support” and advance the party’s goal of “making life more affordable.” The first two were about healthcare, and all four set a direct contrast with President Donald Trump. “We have to reverse the Medicaid cuts. We should extend the Affo...

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  Federal judge warns law is being left behind by AI child sex abuse images Archive link The First Amendment protects an individual’s right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence — if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home, a federal appeals court judge ruled Tuesday. The decision came in a case that tested the scope of laws implemented before advances in AI made it easy to create realistic-looking fake imag...

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  *Eyeroll* Like, him at the top is bullshit in of itself, and putting Jackson in the top is bullshit too. But, he put Grant in the shitbox. Grant: the man who literally won the Civil War for the Union. Fuck off with that!

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  Trump’s ballroom construction ‘likely unlawful,’ John Roberts says A 5-4 conservative majority on the Supreme Court ruled Monday that construction on a new $400 million White House ballroom can proceed, reversing lower court orders that had temporarily halted aboveground work on the project. Chief Justice John Roberts dissented from the decision, writing that the ongoing construction was “likely unlawful.” Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in opposition, arguing that wor...

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  Cities Are Ditching Flock Safety Cameras – Then Hiring Axon to Do the Same Job 53 cities dropped Flock Safety over federal data sharing, then handed identical pole mounts to Axon In city council chambers across the country, officials have celebrated the removal of Flock Safety cameras as a privacy victory. Within months, Axon installation crews often appear on the same poles, bolting in replacement plate readers. According to TechTimes, 53 cities have canceled Flock contracts, citing unauth...

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  New Trump admin reports says LGBTQ+ rights supporters more likely to be terrorists - LGBTQ Nation From the article: The report’s authors invented a “Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale” (CGAS) to measure respondents’ support of trans people. The CGAS asked respondents whether they agreed with five statements affirming the importance of respecting trans people’s gender identities, their gender expression, names, and pronouns, as well as child gender-exploration. The report noted that these...

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  Baby boomers are collecting 265% of what they paid into Social Security—and millennials are paying the price | Fortune The nonpartisan budget watchdog, revisiting one of its favorite subjects, found that Americans retiring this decade are on track to collect, in the form of entitlements, about 133% of everything they and their employers paid in taxes, measured in present-value dollars. Strip out the employer match, and the return nearly doubles: Roughly 265% of what workers put in themselves. A...

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  SCOTUS says Trump can impose massive changes to mail voting before midterms From the article: The U.S. Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a huge win Monday by allowing an executive order designed to sharply curtail mail voting to go into effect — a move California and other Democratic-led states have warned could thrust the midterm elections into chaos. Rushing through unprecedented changes to the mail voting system will be especially challenging for California, where more tha...