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The changes, announced by President Donald Trump’s administration, went into effect on October 20 and are already catching applicants by surprise. Under the new rules, applicants face 20 civics questions instead of 10, and must get at least 12 right to pass.

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US citizenship test just got harder under Trump administration: Here’s what has changed | Mint
The Trump administration’s revised US citizenship test doubles the number of questions and introduces a new rule that cuts interviews short.
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"So Bloomberg and his staff concocted a plan that sidestepped the traditional democratic process, instead using the City Council to introduce an unusual bill that allowed people currently holding office the ability to serve a third term."

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"Nobody dared cross him": A look back at that time Michael Bloomberg bought a third mayoral term
How the 2020 candidate built support to change the rules on term limits in NYC.
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"There's a boxcar somewhere that's missing it's hobo" on Steve Bannon

Jeff Timmer said this. He's Chief Operating Officer of the Lincoln Project

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Everyone’s talking about Steve Bannon saying Trump will be president in 2028. But here’s the point most are missing: He’s openly floating treason and civil war.

“Seizing institutions and purging them.” Isn’t rhetoric, it’s a test to see how far Trump’s followers will go.

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@merkley.senate.gov’s recent filibuster lasted for 22 hours and 37 minutes (or longer, depending on the source) as he spoke on the Senate floor in protest of Trump's actions during a government shutdown.
His #CupOfJoe was full of disdain oven Trump’s authoritarianism.
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Release the Epstein Files

"It’s yet another way in which Donald is taking a wrecking ball—in this case literally—to the United of America."

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23 October, 2025
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"Other times, she describes being “lent out” to Epstein’s circle of the wealthy and powerful. “I was habitually used and humiliated - and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied,” she says. “I believed that I might die a sex slave.”
"Throughout, she describes in detail how she would have to follow as her abuser “experimented” with sexual kinks and fantasies. She recalls a “contraption” that would cause so much pain that she “prayed I would black out”. “When I did, I’d awaken to more abuse.”

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Virginia Giuffre’s memoir is a harrowing account of a lifetime of suffering
Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir details how she became ensnared in Epstein’s web of abuse - and how she fled
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Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"
There’s a boycott of Chobani because of their ties to Ivanka and Jared Kushner. Just an FYI for you
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
Arizona announces they are suing Mike Johnson for refusing to swear in Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva.

She is the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
tribute to the memory of four assassinated Americans; icons of social change: Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written in response to the assassination of King and that of Robert Kennedy in April and June 1968

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Abraham, Martin and John - Wikipedia
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