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🚨WOW! SENATE REPUBLICANS TURN ON TRUMP!
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy just went OFF on Donald Trump, personally blaming him for jacking up American healthcare costs.
This is a historic moment.
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BREAKING: Top YouTube star Brian Tyler Cohen lands BRUTAL burn on Trump after the White House puts him on their “enemies” list!
Blogger and YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen went off on CNN after Donald Trump added him to his new official “media offenders list” – basically a government enemies list targeting content creators who criticize him.
“For a guy who presented himself as this free speech champion, this crusader against censorship, for him now to go after YouTubers and podcast hosts… it’s just the peak of weakness,” Cohen said. “Donald Trump is a fragile, small, petty little man.”
Cohen said he was in good company.
“I wear his scorn as a badge of honor to be named alongside people like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. If Donald Trump is so eager to release lists now, he should probably start with the one that he’s on 38,000 times.”
Oof. That’s a direct shot at Trump’s name appearing repeatedly in the Epstein files.This is the same Donald Trump who spent years screaming about “cancel culture” and “free speech,” now using the power of the presidency to create an official blacklist of journalists, comedians, and online creators he doesn’t like.
Trump once claimed to be the ultimate defender of the First Amendment, but we know he didn’t mean it. Because now he is literally publishing enemies lists like the wannabe dictator he is. And Cohen is right, the only list that people care about is the one he’s so very afraid of: the Epstein files.
Cohen nails it when he said Trump’s attempt to project strength through intimidation via these lists show just the opposite: a deeply insecure and petty man who can’t handle anyone challenging his fragile ego and fantastical version of reality.
We appreciate Cohen, who got his start around these parts. He’s become one of the sharp young voices on the left. We need more voices like his if common sense is going to triumph over the scourge of Trumpism. And it will.
Authorities say there are now three more cases of New World screwworm, bringing the total number to at least five and sparking new concerns for the country's cattle industry.
The initial cases were discovered last week in two calves located within a few miles of each other in South Texas. The latest cases were found hundreds of miles apart: One in a calf near San Antonio, another in a goat near Austin, a third in a dog in New Mexico.
In a news conference Monday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said every effort is being made to control additional cases.
"We now know what the enemy looks like. We now understand what we have to do. This is not a virus. It is not a disease. It is a pest. And so we obviously are treating it as such," Rollins said.
Agricultural officials have sounded the alarm about the threat of infestation since a case was detected in Mexico in late 2024. The insect was a scourge for cattle ranchers for years until it was largely eliminated in the U.S. in the 1960s.
What did Trump's "Meet the Press" interview reveal?
Was he just stressed, or is he laying the groundwork for contesting the midterms, or is he showing increasing signs of dementia?
Let's discuss. 👇
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When a Republican doctor has to publicly beg Trump to do something about healthcare costs, you know the crisis is out of control.
Medical bills bankrupt families. Premiums are exploding. Millions risk losing coverage.
Americans are getting sicker, deeper in debt, and one emergency away from financial ruin.
Trump's answer? More cuts.
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BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu DESTROYS Trump's Agriculture Secretary over her insane lie that Joe Biden is to blame for the screwworm outbreak — which is a direct result of DOGE cuts!
Democrats are done playing nice with these liars...
"Dear@SecRollins: You keep getting fact checked for your lies," the congressman wrote on X. "It’s your Administration that cut the Screwworm programs. Also, the life cycle of a Screwworm is 14 to 54 days. The trump Administration has been in office over 500 days. If you can’t stop lying, you need to resign."
Lieu was reacting to a video of Rollins insisting that this new screwworm problem traces "back to the last administration" and Biden's nonexistent "open border policy."
This is yet another blatant example of the Trump administration coming into power, breaking something that they don't understand, and then blaming Biden for the consequences. They are pathologically incapable of taking responsibility for any of their blunders.
"Dear @SecRollins: Did the Screwworm come from the trump Administration’s beef import plan with Argentina?" Lieu wrote in a followup post, boosting a report that Trump signed a trade deal with Argentina that permitted "unrestricted beef imports" from that country despite its screwworm problem.
Screwworms, which devour tissue and can kill cattle, have been detected in a growing number of calves in Texas. One case has been discovered in a dog. The pest had been considered eradicated in the United States for decades, but under Elon Musk's tenure at DOGE, the government slashed preventive measures and funding aimed at hampering the spread of the creature.
Before those cuts, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), spent tax dollars on monitoring and containing the spread of screwworm in Central America. It was one of the most worthwhile government investments on the books, because it helped stop destructive outbreaks like the one we're currently witnessing.
"Trump GUTTED funding for screwworm detection and fired 25 percent of workers whose job it was to monitor the disease," Congressman Shri Thanedar wrote on X.
We know who's to blame here and it's not Joe Biden. It's Donald Trump and Elon Musk, ignorant oligarchs who were so hellbent on slashing spending to pay for more tax cuts for the obscenely rich, that they didn't care what they destroyed in the process.
Please ❤️ and share to demand a full investigation into DOGE!