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Sounds like Hitler Youth-style propaganda
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."@atrupar (2025)
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He just entirely gutted the Lindsey Graham Russia sanctions act.
President Trump campaigned tonight in Clemson, South Carolina 13 days ahead of the midterm elections for SC GOP Senator Darline Graham: "Mr. President, thank you so much for coming South Carolina. I am so honored to have your endorsement...You are one of Lindsey's dearest friends. You will always be part of the Graham family."
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Trump and Vance extremely agitated by totally legit questions about their bogus fraud investigations trying desperately to point away at anyone but Trump
New: The White House has taken aggressive new swipes at the press — barring The Independent reporter Andrew Feinberg from press pool duty, and sending a threatening letter to Politico about its Susie Wiles coverage.
w/ @miriamwldvgl
washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Vance, contradicting Rubio and Hegseth, suggests Musk would not have acted without White House direction.
VP Vance: “I think that fundamentally, Elon Musk runs a private corporation, and I think it's completely understandable that he doesn't want to get in the middle of what is a war between two state actors /without the United States government effectively directing him on what to do./ So I don't think this is about Elon. I think it's fundamentally what is America's policy in Ukraine and Russia going to be.
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They want to squeeze Ukraine but not have Zelenskyy speak about it.
And that is because it is blowing back on the Trump admin.
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This Trump post saying what seems obvious, that Iran trying to keep oil prices high before the midterms, was posted at 11:40.
worth noting that Trump was scheduled to have his weekly intel briefing at 11am.
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After Musk puts his half billion dollars into the midterms, maybe Trump will distance himself from him again.
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The Kremlinology here, so to speak, is pretty fascinating. Trump wants credit for ordering Musk to lift the restrictions on Starshield (that it seems plausible Trump had a role in giving Musk the nod for.)
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SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
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which like 70% of Americans don’t support
"The US & Israeli militaries have developed specific plans for renewed strikes against Iran after the American midterm elections." @julianbarnes, @EricSchmittNYT, @farnazfassihi, @natan_oden, @ronenbergman
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po…
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for asking a question?
New: The White House has taken aggressive new swipes at the press — barring The Independent reporter Andrew Feinberg from press pool duty, and sending a threatening letter to Politico about its Susie Wiles coverage.
w/ @miriamwldvgl
washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Good for the WH print pool reporter, saying it how it is:
“The Qatari Air Force One landed at Joint Base Andrews at 10:25 pm.”
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Shame on you, @SEPeaceMissions
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Alina Habba could pay for it and still have $9 million leftover
Whoops!
The Kennedy Center's Trump-installed Board quietly revises a key justification for the two-year closure: that a report supposedly found phased renovations would cost $41M more.
The Board admits it never read that before voting. buff.ly/a7LEkeV
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Trump: We were in the midst of negotiating and a lot of stupid people said why aren’t you putting Russian sanctions—
Collins: But you said you didn’t give anything for his release
Trump: If I didn’t do that, you wouldn’t have him coming back.
Collins: So you did give something.
Trump: You don’t know anything. You’re fake news CNN.
Collins: You’re saying you lifted the sanctions in exchange for his release?
Trump: You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re a low IQ person. You’re a dummy.