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‘Heartbreaking’ transportation cuts hit home in GOP districts​

Across the U.S., communities are grappling with the fallout of the GOP’s sprawling domestic policy law — including in Republican districts.

A city in southwestern Utah was poised to benefit from an $87.6 million federal grant to help reconnect neighborhoods split by an increasingly congested Interstate 15.

But the money intended for the project in St. George vanished after President Donald Trump signed the GOP’s massive tax and spending package last month.

The solidly Republican community isn’t alone. Across the country, the new law rescinded more than $2.2 billion in unobligated dollars from a $3.2 billion Biden-era program aimed at helping reconnect disadvantaged neighborhoods divided by roadways, according to records reviewed by POLITICO. Areas hit by the cuts include some represented by GOP lawmakers who voted for the law — in the latest example of Trump’s most significant legislative triumph complicating life back home for his allies in Congress.

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Judge says Alina Habba, Trump’s top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, not lawfully appointed​

  • A federal judge disqualified acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba from participating in any ongoing criminal cases lodged by her office, after the lawfulness of her appointment by the Trump administration was challenged in two separate cases.
  • Judge Matthew Brann said that Habba’s appointment as the interim top federal prosecutor in New Jersey by the administration, “through a novel series of legal and personnel moves,” was not legally valid.
  • Brann, who sits in Pennsylvania, paused his ruling, which will allow the Trump administration time to appeal it.
A federal judge on Thursday disqualified acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba from participating in any ongoing criminal cases lodged by her office, after the lawfulness of her appointment by the Trump administration was challenged in two separate cases.

Judge Matthew Brann said that Habba’s appointment as the state’s top federal prosecutor by the administration “through a novel series of legal and personnel moves” was not legally valid.

Habba is a former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump.

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What Trump Doesn’t Understand About ‘America First’​

In the summer of 1930, the U.S. secretaries of war and the Navy developed War Plan Red, a 94-page document laying out detailed plans to strangle the naval and trade capabilities of the United Kingdom in a hypothetical future that involved the U.S. and U.K. at war with each other. The centerpiece was a full-scale land invasion of Canada, a seaborne attack on Halifax, a blockade of the Panama Canal, the capture of British possessions throughout the Caribbean and the Bahamas and Bermuda, and a direct challenge of the Royal Navy by U.S. naval forces in the Atlantic.

Far from the sepia-tinted account of transatlantic relations that is so often evoked today, the union between the English-speaking nations that emerged after the First World War was neither fulsome nor uncritical. Rather, the experiences of the war provoked deep antipathy and suspicion among American decision makers toward the British empire. And the plans, though never approved by Congress or the president, were not merely theoretical—the U.S. built air bases, camouflaged as civilian airfields, along the Canadian border. Only after the threat of Nazism emerged in the mid-1930s was War Plan Red quietly shelved. It was not declassified until the 1970s.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ut-america-first/ar-AA1KYelX?ocid=socialshare
 
How Gavin Newsom trolled his way to the top of social media

With an inescapable, smashmouth, all-caps-laden and meme-filled X account, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is holding a mirror up to MAGA — and MAGA doesn’t like what it sees.

There’s Newsom on Mount Rushmore. There’s Newsom getting prayed over by Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock and an angelic, winged Hulk Hogan. There’s Newsom posting in all caps, saying his mid-cycle redistricting proposal has led “MANY” people to call him “GAVIN CHRISTOPHER ‘COLUMBUS’ NEWSOM (BECAUSE OF THE MAPS!). THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.”

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Gov. Pritzker responds to Trump's National Guard threat to Chicago: 'Do not come'​

Aug 25, 2025 #nationalguard #trump #pritzker
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker spoke on Monday in response President Donald Trump's threats to send the National Guard to Chicago, saying there is "no emergency" that requires him to deploy military to the city.
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'Sick of all the lies': Missouri farmer erupts at GOP rep for backing 'dictator' Trump​

One angry constituent in a deep-red state garnered loud applause when confronting Rep. Mark Alford (R-Missouri) over his support for President Donald Trump's administration.

During a Monday night town hall in Bolivar, Missouri, a man who introduced himself as Fred Higginbotham — a former firefighter who now owns a farm in Missouri's 4th Congressional District — began his comment to Alford by saying he was "p------" at the congressman. Higginbotham noted that it was easier to email Alford's office than to call, as he found it difficult "to try to talk on the phone without profanity."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...g-dictator-trump/ar-AA1Ld2Zq?ocid=socialshare
 

IAM Politics and Voting Power Discussed in Iowa​

Aug 26, 2025
The Iowa State Council recently held a conference in Altoona, Iowa to energize union voters and to discuss political issues impacting working families there.
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'Not joking': Ex-Trump official warns he privately 'waxes poetic' about dictators he admires​

During a White House press conference in late August, President Donald Trump addressed accusations that he is acting like a "dictator."

Trump told reporters, "A lot of people are saying, 'Maybe we'd like a dictator.' I don't like a dictator. I'm not a dictator. I'm a man with great common sense, and a smart person."

One of Trump's targets is Miles Taylor, who served the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during Trump's first presidency but is now an outspoken critic. The Never Trump conservative, who is facing a federal investigation, regards Trump as a dangerous authoritarian.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ators-he-admires/ar-AA1Lk0xk?ocid=socialshare
 
Our property taxes went up 50% last year!

Massive Property Tax Fraud Exposed - $5.1 Trillion Bond Scam Will Crash System​

“I started noticing something was off in home appraisals,” says Mitch Vexler, whistleblower and expert on property valuations. He tells Daniela Cambone: “They were inflating property values to jack up taxes, and that was feeding into trillions in school bond debt that I believe will spiral.”

On the scope of the problem, Vexler is blunt: “We’re talking about $5.1 trillion in school bonds that are based on these inflated appraisals. That’s massive—this is a ticking time bomb for local governments and taxpayers alike.” He warns of consequences for the bond market: “School districts are relying on this debt, and if the real numbers catch up, there’s no way they can sustain these payments. We’re looking at a potential collapse if nothing changes.”
 

CIA Spy WARNING: ‘The Next 5 Years Will Be CHAOS – Get Ready Now'​

Aug 28, 2025 Podcast

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Cop ARRESTS Autistic Teen Over Expired Food... OHIO ERUPTS​

Sep 1, 2025 #JayarJackson #News #Watchlist
Outrage erupts in Ohio as police bodycam shows a disabled teen deli worker hauled off over $110 in expired food, sparking calls to boycott Meijer and putting GOP leaders like JD Vance and Mike DeWine on blast. Jayar Jackson breaks it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!

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Trump's America Is Starting To Look Like a Banana Republic | Opinion​

As a native Peruvian who has spent more than three decades writing about Latin American economics and politics, I'm familiar with heavy-handed politicians exerting control over private businesses.

Never in my wildest nightmares, however, could I have imagined that the United States would follow suit: going from the big-government, tax-and-spend, woke Democrats to a command economy of sorts under the supposedly free-market Republicans. Yet, that is what President Donald Trump's recent actions unequivocally represent.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...republic-opinion/ar-AA1LHC8S?ocid=socialshare
 
At this point interest rates need to fall to loosen up the real estate market. One resales pick up allow the market to find equilibrium.
 
Lesson #1:

Don't chase the most expensive tech stocks because the talking heads said so. In addition, did you know that the PM miner sector is so small that just a fraction of the tech stock money can move the materials sector exponentially.

Looks like the smart money is selling out their tech stocks and buying PM stocks & miners. The whale that sold billion$ of BTC last month could have used some of the proceeds to buy physical gold and silver too.
 
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