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Thursday, October 02, 2025

Trump on Tuesday told a gathering of military leaders they should use American cities as "training grounds" and described a federal crackdown on crime in major cities as "a war from within." read more


Department of Education employees furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated while they were out of office to include partisan talking points that blamed a government shutdown on Democrats.


New footage has emerged of Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean's Capitol Hill confrontation with Mike Johnson that shows the House Speaker seemingly agreeing that Donald Trump is "unwell." The new footage, aired by MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes on Wednesday night, shows Dean telling Johnson, "The president is unhinged. He is unwell." Johnson then responds, "A lot of folks on your side are too, I don't control him..." seemingly conceding Dean's point that the president is unwell but arguing that he isn't alone.


Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets. U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war. Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world's biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.


As the nation reels from another devastating mass shooting -- this time at a Mormon church in suburban Michigan -- Republican leaders have remained notably silent following revelations that the gunman was a devoted Trump supporter who once proudly wore the label "Ultra MAGA." But as photos and social media posts surfaced showing [Thomas Jacob] Sanford in a camouflage Trump 2020 shirt that read "Make Liberals Cry Again," and a Trump-Pence sign still visible on his front lawn just months ago, the political implications became harder to ignore. So far, Republican leaders have said nothing.


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More: In Petro's final speech before the U.N. in New York on Tuesday, he observed (according to a live translation from the U.N.) that the world is in a "different situation" than it was when he first addressed the international body in 2022.

"The old societies of Europe are collapsing," he said, "and the United States is applauding its new Hitler. It's not listening to its own young people, or its older people who died in the battlefields of Europe, fighting against Hitler and against his criminal ideology. Today, the same thing is being done as Hitler did, building concentration camps for migrants, and it's stated that migrants are of an inferior race, and they blame them just like Hitler blamed the Jews. They call them drug traffickers and thieves."

In stressing the need for climate action, Petro said of Trump: "The most powerful man in the world does not believe in science. That is irrationality. And Germany, the country of great philosophers, of Kant, Feuerbach, and others, became prey of irrationalism in 1933, and today it's this country that is becoming irrational. The solution is to stop consuming fossil fuels and to quickly switch to water, wind, hydrogen."

He also described Trump as "an accomplice to genocide" in Gaza. "This forum," he said of the U.N., "is a mute witness to a genocide, in a world where we thought that this was something only a legacy of Hitler."

"A kind of stone age," he said earlier in his remarks, has seemingly "descended on all of humankind""citing inaction on the climate crisis, Trump's strikes on "unarmed young people in the Caribbean," Israeli strikes "that have killed some 70,000 people in Gaza," and "the persecution, imprisonment, and expulsion of millions of migrants."

The Colombian president denied Trump's claim that the people on the Venezuelan boats the U.S. bombed (on shaky legal ground) earlier this month were trafficking drugs. "They said that the missiles in the Caribbean were used to stop drug trafficking," Petro said. "That is a lie."

"There should be criminal cases against those officials of the United States for doing this, including the utmost official, President Trump," he said, "that allowed the shooting of missiles against these young people who were simply trying to escape poverty""who "might have had a certain amount of drugs," he added, but "were not drug traffickers."

The U.S. mainstream media, for its part, has largely ignored his comments.

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