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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2h

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

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White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 12h

Today's Lancaster County letters to the editor include one from retired U.S. Rep. Robert S. Walker. Read all of them here: lancasteronline.com/opinion/lett...

Reactions to Smucker discontent over LNP editorial: Letters to the Editor for Oct. 15, 2025

The LNP | LancasterOnline Opinion department publishes reader letters in both the newspaper and online on Wednesdays and Sundays.

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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 4h

"The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents obtained by The New York Times."

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LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · 4h

More signs are emerging that construction of a new Lancaster County prison, expected to cost upward of $400 million, is approaching reality.
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$400 millon-plus Lancaster County prison project gets closer to 2026 start

More signs are emerging that construction of a new Lancaster County prison, expected to cost upward of $400 million, is approaching reality.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

This exchange lends a ton of support to this New York Times story from January that the White House previously denied. Trump reportedly joked in 2024 that Stephen Miller wants to purge the country of anyone who doesn't look like him — and Trump fully supports what he is doing.

“He has the president’s complete trust,” said Mr. McCarthy. “Trump’s complained about everyone. Never him.”
Mr. Trump may not complain about Mr. Miller, but he does occasionally poke at his obsession with immigrants — a hostility that goes far beyond Mr. Trump’s. In one meeting during the 2024 campaign, Mr. Trump said that if it was up to Mr. Miller there would be only 100 million people in this country, and they would all look like Mr. Miller, according to a person with knowledge of the comment. Karoline Leavitt, Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman, denied the account.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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CNN @cnn.com · 9h

Federal agents have shifted attention away from serious gun crimes and shady weapons dealers to focus on President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants and deployments to patrol cities, according to current and former officials and data reviewed by CNN. https://cnn.it/3J9jvpv

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404 Media @404media.co · 10h

The end of free Windows 10 support this Wednesday could be an environmental disaster, cutting off 400 million PCs from security updates and dooming millions of still usable computers.

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The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 10h

This is a jaw-dropping, terrifying number. The CDC's workforce has decreased by 3,000 people since January.

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 11h

Los Angeles County officials vote to declare a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.

Los Angeles County officials approve emergency declaration over immigration raids

The move allows the LA County Board of Supervisors to provide rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the crackdown on immigrants.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

CO₂ in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening. Levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 12h

“Magic seats,” sometimes called “golden tickets,” open up when incumbent judges file for retention but decide against running for reelection after the primary, allowing the parties to select nominees without the input of voters. (2/2)

Three lawyers are poised to win ‘magic seats’ as Philadelphia judges after being nominated by Democratic ward leaders

Judicial candidates Jennifer Santiago, Joseph Russo, and Michael Parkinson will all appear on the ballot as Democratic nominees despite not running in the primary.

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LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · 22h

Elizabethtown Area School District’s 270 teachers have a new 5-year contract granting a 3.6% average annual raise following a unanimous vote by the school board Tuesday evening.
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Elizabethtown school board unanimously approves teacher contract with 3.6% annual raise - 106 days late

Elizabethtown Area School District’s 270 teachers have a new 5-year contract granting a 3.6% average annual raise following a unanimous vote by the school board Tuesday evening.

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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 12h

Today's Lancaster County letters to the editor include one from retired U.S. Rep. Robert S. Walker. Read all of them here: lancasteronline.com/opinion/lett...

Reactions to Smucker discontent over LNP editorial: Letters to the Editor for Oct. 15, 2025

The LNP | LancasterOnline Opinion department publishes reader letters in both the newspaper and online on Wednesdays and Sundays.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker's attorney, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, sent a letter to leaders of LNP and parent company Pennon on Oct. 9, the day after the editorial was published. lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

Smucker claims LNP opinion piece defamatory, seeks retraction

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker is claiming defamation after an Oct. 8 editorial published by LNP | LancasterOnline said the lawmaker is “lying to his constituents” by saying in a newsletter

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 1d

I will be honored to deliver the 2025 Harriet Kenderdine Lecture at Millersville University on Friday. Details here.
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2025 Harriet Kenderdine Lecture with Barbara McQuade | Ware Center for the Arts

SPEAKER: Barbara McQuadeAttack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging AmericaLaw professor and former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade will discuss the tactics of disinformation, how…

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 1d

Powell is saying, in his understated way, that the unemployment rate does not yet appear catastrophic because so many people have been forced into hiding or deported.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Powell on Trump's immigration policies: "Stronger policy than most people had expected. We've seen a very sharp decline in growth of the labor force and in and people entering the country ... new people that come into the workforce create supply but they also create their own demand."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Former ICE director John Sandweg says the ways in which Holman is conducting operations is totally unprecedented for the agency and clearly appears calculated to be needlessly violent and provocative. It's as if they want a show of mayhem, he offers. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Those Rules Are Gone’: How ICE Is Rethinking its Raids

ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: The 3rd Circuit *denies* a push by national GOP to reconsider ruling on misdated mail ballots in Pa.

Judge Emil Bove may have cast his first vote here in dissent of the decision -- and plans to write about it later. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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