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While public debate fixates on rising costs, the administration’s most serious harm has come from its policies that hold down wages and weaken workers’ bargaining power.

Events keep demonstrating Donald Trump’s absolutely limitless claims of power to do anything. So nobody should be surprised at the resounding claim that his agents can kill people in cold blood, and they’re immune from any scrutiny.

What does the Rhodes interview indicate about the future of Oath Keepers?

There’s anger in the land

As a killing in Minneapolis is documented the law clearly stipulates federal agents do not have universal immunity. Federal officers are not, merely because they are such, granted immunity from prosecution in state courts for crimes against state law

One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic,” or a part of the Commie Corridor.

The administration added new strings for states to receive funding. This could have ripple effects for all households, not just those with low-income children. HHS said it would specifically freeze $10 billion in childcare funds to five blue states.