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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 12h

USDA To Grocers: No Discounts For SNAP Recipients

The USDA emailed grocery stores across the country, telling them they're not allowed to offer discounts to SNAP recipients.

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 16h

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Republicans respond to Proposition 50’s success in California in all the wrong ways

California voters gave Gov. Gavin Newsom the green light to redraw the state’s congressional maps. The response from GOP leaders is a hypocritical mess.

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 17h

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11...

Gov. Mike DeWine’s fight against $900M in federal aid for Ohioans rooted in concern for state’s economy

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has fought more than four years to prevent hundreds of thousands of state residents from getting COVID-era payments of up to $3,000.

www.cleveland.com

Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 17h

www.npr.org/2025/11/05/n...

Here are 6 'Beautiful Bill' tax changes that will benefit wealthy Americans

Tax season is approaching. Tax breaks that were extended as part of President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" will mainly benefit high-net-worth and high-income people.

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 17h

www.propublica.org/article/port...
'Two policing experts who reviewed videos said federal officers at times used force inappropriately, echoing a Portland police official who testified in court that federal officers were instigating the chaos night after night.'

What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard

In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...

www.propublica.org

Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 17h

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'Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick instructed prosecutors to produce by the end of the day on Thursday grand jury materials and other evidence that investigators seized during the investigation.'

Judge in Comey case scolds prosecutors as he orders them to produce records from probe

A federal judge has ordered prosecutors in the criminal case of former FBI Director James Comey to produce materials from the investigation, saying he’s concerned the Justice Department’s position had...

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 1d

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'Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) wrote on the eve of Election Day that he would impose tariffs on any New Yorker who moves to Texas after voting ended.
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'The power to impose tariffs falls within the federal government’s authority in the Constitution, not the states.'

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 1d

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‘I don’t know anything about that’: Mike Johnson becomes the low-information House speaker

Confronted with questions he should know how to answer, the House Republican leader has proven to be surprisingly ignorant about current events.

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 1d

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump’s Summary Killings Of Dozens Aboard Boats Appear Based On A Massive Fentanyl Lie

The president has said multiple times that the destroyed vessels were carrying the lethal opioid, but officials have told Congress the boats were carrying cocaine.

www.huffpost.com

Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 1d

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'When I first got elected, what I’d heard was: “We’ll wait for the certification.” ...[Once Johnson] had that information ... he walked back from the certification piece and then went on to say, “We don’t swear in a pro forma session.” But in April [did just that].'

Is Speaker Mike Johnson Afraid of Adelita Grijalva?

She won her election. The speaker won’t swear her in.

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 1d

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UPDATE: Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom

Earlier this year, Popular Information broke the news that Extremity Care – a company that sells bandages to Medicare for thousands of dollars per square inch – donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., Presid...

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 2d

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'A panel of judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Judge Aileen Cannon needs to rule on motions to release Volume II of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case within 60 days, noting an “undue delay” thus far.'

Judge Cannon Ordered to Get Moving on Jack Smith’s Trump Report

The president’s favorite judge was called out by a panel of judges for slow-walking a case that would release the special counsel’s full report on Donald Trump.

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 2d

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
'The Treasury Department said Monday that inflation "remained above the target of 2 percent in the third quarter," even as President Donald Trump and administration officials continue to assert that there is "no inflation."'

Treasury Dept. says inflation is running 'above target' as Trump insists there is 'no inflation'

Treasury said the mass departure of federal workers, President Trump's immigration policy and artificial intelligence are all impacting the labor market.

www.nbcnews.com

Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
'[T]he Colorado Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the incident in Durango, putting ... Colorado on a potential collision course with the Trump administration, which has threatened to prosecute any local officials if they charge federal agents.'

An Altercation With ICE Prompts a Police Chief to Push Back

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 2d

www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...

Trump's National Guard deployments aren't random. They were planned years ago

President Trump and several others now high up in his second administration have been talking about using the National Guard to help with mass deportations — and possibly invoking the Insurrection Act...

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 2d

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A major question for the Supreme Court: Will it treat Trump as it did Biden?

A major question hangs over the Supreme Court’s closely watched case on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs: Will the conservative majority hold the Republican president to the same exacting sta...

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 2d

www.france24.com/en/africa/20...
Will Nigeria be this century's Sudetenland?

Trump threatens Nigeria with military action, escalating claims of Christian persecution

US President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his threat of a possible military attack against Nigeria after accusing the country of allowing the killing of Christians by Islamists. Trump alleged on so...

www.france24.com

Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 4d

www.al.com/news/huntsvi...

My oath was to defend the Constitution — not to let Alabama rewrite it: op-ed

This amendment isn’t just bad policy. It’s unconstitutional. It’s un-American.

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 5d

atlantadailyworld.com/2025/10/31/w...

Warnock Grills Trump Nominee Who Called Food Bank Funding a “Slush Fund”

Today, Senator Reverend Warnock grilled Trump Administration nominee about his involvement in the Trump Administration’s decision to cancel $500 million of funding for food banks in March 2025 Trump A...

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 5d

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Heritage Foundation Staff Revolt Over Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes

The conservative think tank behind Project 2025 has joined the Republican civil war over Tucker Carlson’s softball interview with a neo-Nazi.

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 5d

www.rawstory.com/justice-depa...
DoJ tried to introduce evidemce that *their* witness said he had no knowledge of and tried to exclude evidence that it had already stipulated to.

'Good lord': Trump's 'spluttering' DOJ mocked as hearing marred by 'embarrassing' failures

The Justice Department was back in court on Friday as part of the ongoing court battle with Portland, Oregon, where federal agents and National Guard soldiers have been dispatched to carry out Preside...

www.rawstory.com

Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 5d

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

This [expletive deleted] is keeping health officials from, among othrr actions, notifying persons who mihht have been exposed to the illness.

Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk

The person refused to even tell health officials their address.

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 5d

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'... and have blocked members of Congress, faith leaders and journalists from entering the building, creating a “black box” they say has allowed authorities to act “with impunity.”'

Blocking Congress members is probably illegal due to Congress' oversight duties.

'Inhumane' conditions at Chicago-area ICE facility, advocates allege in new lawsuit

Attorneys with the ACLU of Illinois and the MacArthur Justice Center say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have denied people being held at the Broadview facility private calls with atto...

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Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 5d

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/31/d...

DHS asked Texas for driver’s license data for citizenship checks - The Texas Tribune

It’s the latest step to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

www.texastribune.org

Bear Field @kodiakchrome.bsky.social · 5d

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'“Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her opinion.'

Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voting form

President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced. U.S.

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