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September 30 Government Shutdown Looming, Do the Democrats Get Blamed or Do They Walk Away and Let the Republicans Own it?–Israel Strikes an Allied Country with the Biggest US Base in the Middle East–The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Russian, Chinese and Iranian Disinformation Warfare–

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With a September 30 Government Shutdown Looming, Do the Democrats Get Blamed or Do They Walk Away and Let the Republicans Own it Since They Don’t Negotiate in Good Faith? We begin with the looming September 30th shutdown of the U.S. government. Democratic leadership is inclined to pursue a bipartisan budget agreement — but if … Continued

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A Major TV Network Caves Again, Censoring Trump Protests at the US Open–The Growing Rift Between the Supreme Court and the Lower Courts–A Chicagoan Manning the Barricades Ahead of Trump’s “Invasion” in His War on Chicago

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A Major TV Network Caves Again, Censoring Trump Protests at the US Open Men’s Tennis Final We begin looking into how the mainstream press and the TV networks are caving in to Trump following ABC’s censorship of protests at Sunday’s US Open Men’s Tennis final at which Trump was repeatedly booed by the crowd. Joining … Continued

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RFK Jr. Grilled by Senate Democrats–A Congressional Reporter on the Women Abused And Trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell as Trump, DOJ and House Speaker Fight to Keep the Epstein Files From the Public–The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East

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RFK Jr. Grilled by Senate Democrats Who Want him Fired and Republicans He Lied To We begin today’s contentious hearing before the Senate Finance Committee where HHS Secretary RFK Jr. was grilled by Democrats who want him fired and Republicans he had lied to in his confirmation when he promised not to mess with vaccines. … Continued

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Trump’s DoJ and House Republicans on the Side of Sex Trafficking Maxwell Instead of the Victims, Survivors Had to Speak in Front of the Capitol Today–Is Trump Cooking Up a Nice Little War to Take Out Maduro as a Distraction From Epstein?–ICE’s Deportation of Russian Asylum Seekers Back to Torture and Imprisonment 

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With Trump’s DoJ and House Republicans on the Side of a Depraved Socialite Instead of the Victims of Her Sex Trafficking, Maxwell’s Survivors Had to Speak in Front of the Capitol Today We begin with a press conference today in front of the nation’s capitol at which victims of Epstein and Maxwell spoke because House … Continued

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This Labor Day special examines how Trump and Project 2025 threaten working Americans, fuel unprecedented inequality, and distort the meaning of labor itself—past, present, and future—with insights from labor experts Steven Greenhouse, Sylvia Allegretto, and historian Michael Kazin.

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The State of Working America Under Assault From Trump and Project 2025 We begin on this Labor Day with the state of working America which is under assault from Trump and Project 2025 even as Trump’s groveling lackey, the Secretary of Labor, in a cabinet meeting praises her “Dear leader” telling him; “”Mr President, I … Continued

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Another Mass Murder of Children, While They Were Praying in Church–The Sadistic Absurdity of Trump–Democrats Can Learn From Our Best President and From Our Worst

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Another Mass Murder of Children, This Time While They Were Praying in Church on Their First Day at School We begin with the latest gun massacre of young children in a church, shot down as they were praying on the first day at school. While Trump and Project 2025 are eliminating what little restrictions exist … Continued

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The U.S. is Caught Spying on a NATO in Trump’s Plot to Steal Greenland–Trump’s Anti-Semitic Conspiratorial Rant Threatening George Soros–Can We Endure Dictatorial Creep?

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The U.S. is Caught Spying on a NATO Ally in Support of Trump’s Plot to Steal Greenland We begin with the Danish government, a NATO ally, summoning the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen to complain about American intelligence operatives in Greenland developing lists of Greenlanders who might support a U.S. takeover from Denmark and more … Continued

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Illinois’ Governor Pritzker Stands up to Trump–Trump Fires the First and Only Black Woman on the Fed–How the U.S. Should Deal With the Way the World is, Not How We Wish It To Be

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Another Governor, Illinois’ Pritzker, Stands up to Trump While Democratic Leaders in the House and Senate are MIA We begin with another Democratic governor standing up to Trump while Democratic leadership in the House and Senate are AWOL and that is Illinois’ Governor Pritzker who bluntly told Trump to keep the military out of Chicago, … Continued