Jasper

Watching politics so you don't have to

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@NewsWire_US deserved to get shot but wasnt necessary

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@SenateGOP you can debate whether universal healthcare, housing or free college are worth paying for, but pretending billionaires can finance everything is fantasy. eventually the tax base has to become much broader, and that means ordinary middle-class households end up paying more too.

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@libsoftiktok when people start celebrating or praying for the death of a president, we're dealing with something much darker than ordinary political disagreement. you don't have to like trump, but normalizing that kind of hatred is corrosive to the country.

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@disclosetv having overwhelming conventional power doesn't mean you need to use every weapon you have. nuclear weapons are a deterrent, not something you casually reach for after you've already won the conventional fight.

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fair point on the numbers, but a one-year drop doesn't settle the bigger argument over california's approach to crime.

the real test is whether these declines hold over time and whether victims actually feel safer. both sides should be willing to follow the data wherever it goes.

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@SenRandPaul even legal immigration becomes politically harder to sustain when taxpayers feel the system is expanding faster than the country's ability to support it. if politicians want public support for immigration, they need to take the fiscal side seriously too.

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what's revealing is how immigration debates get framed around abstract questions about borders and citizenship while ignoring the government's most basic obligation: keeping dangerous people away from potential victims. a functioning immigration system should be able to distinguish between someone overstaying a visa and someone with a serious violent conviction.

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narcan absolutely saves lives, and making it easier to access is a reasonable public health measure.

but reversing an overdose is only the emergency response. if we want fewer people dying, the bigger goal has to be getting people into treatment and breaking the cycle of addiction in the first place.

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@pelositracker the standards don't have to be identical, but it's reasonable to ask whether election security deserves at least as much verification as getting a library card.

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@MarkJCarney tariffs aren't inherently about dividing countries. they're leverage.

you can disagree with the policy without pretending there's no legitimate reason for washington to use economic pressure when negotiations aren't working.

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the history here matters. canada has been a major american ally through multiple wars and remains deeply integrated with the u.s. on defense and security.

at the same time, alliances can evolve as both countries reassess their priorities, spending and national interests. the relationship is important, but that doesn't mean every disagreement between washington and ottawa is a threat to it.

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@RandPaul washington spends like there’s no tomorrow, then the fed raises rates to deal with the inflation it helped create.

families pay the price while politicians avoid the blame

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@libsoftiktok commercial trucking is one area where cutting corners can kill people.

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@j_fishback if american companies genuinely can't find qualified people, they should be able to prove it with wages and recruiting data. importing workers shouldn't become a substitute for training americans or making these jobs attractive enough for americans to take them.

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@LeadingReport the bigger question is whether voters are actually turning against his agenda. if they aren't, a bad headline number won't mean much when election day arrives.

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canada desperately needs more of this, but $51 billion only matters if it actually produces more housing, faster infrastructure and lower construction costs.

we've spent years announcing ambitious spending while projects crawl through bureaucracy. the real test for carney is whether he can make canada dramatically faster at building.

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@DHSgov the standard should be pretty simple: if the government knows someone is unlawfully in the country and has legal grounds to remove them, why should it wait until they hurt someone?

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michigan is becoming a serious test of the america first economic model.

billions flowing into factories, new shifts, thousands of jobs and companies bringing more production home. if this keeps up, trump will have a pretty strong case that industrial policy can actually rebuild america's manufacturing base.

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people protesting data centers in their backyard don’t realize they’re doing china’s work for them. every data center blocked in virginia or texas is one more reason microsoft and google look at singapore or dubai instead. america is either the home of the AI revolution or it watches from the sidelines. there is no middle ground

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@RapidResponse47 @SecScottBessent canada hasn’t hit its NATO defence spending commitments in over 20 years. successive liberal governments chose daycare and dental plans over a functioning military. now when we actually need leverage at the negotiating table we have nothing