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Source: the guardian
Trump praises Vince Haley, his ex-speechwriter tasked with creating Arc de Triomphe
knockoff amid affordability crisis
Robert Mackey Sun 14 Dec 2025 17.46 EST
Amid concerns that he has failed to address a worsening affordability crisis, with health insurance premiums about to spike dramatically for over 20 million Americans, Donald Trump revealed on Sunday that his domestic policy chief’s main priority is building a triumphal arch for Washington DC.
Speaking at a White House holiday party, the president praised Vince Haley, his former speechwriter and a longtime aide to Newt Gingrich who now leads the White House Domestic Policy Council.
“Vince is unbelievable on policy,” Trump said. “And we have a policy thing that’s going to be unbelievable happening.”
The nature of that policy initiative might indeed be hard to believe for Americans struggling to make ends meet.
“I put Vince in charge of the triumphal arc,” Trump said, using the French word for arch. “We’re building an arc, like the Arc de Triumph,” the president added, mixing English and French, in remarks shared on social media by the White House.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/trump-arch-washington-dc-policy-chief
While Americans are struggling with the rising costs of groceries, electricity and insurance premiums, everyone should rest easy knowing Trump I hard at work building a Triumphal Arch, just like the Arc d’ Triumph in Paris.
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While Americans are struggling with the rising costs of groceries, electricity and insurance premiums, everyone should rest easy knowing Trump I hard at work building a Triumphal Arch, just like the Arc d’ Triumph in Paris.
— Purple Teacher (@peaceandteachin.bsky.social) 2025-12-15T01:26:46.965Z
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Donald Trump holds a model of an arch during a ballroom dinner at the White House in Washington DC on 15 October. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Following large scale protests against Hungary's Russian puppet Orban regime for corruption, tonight's massive protest a
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Following large scale protests against Hungary's Russian puppet Orban regime for corruption, tonight's massive protest against Orban because of a new child abuse scandal.
Protests are led by Petr Magyar, who is destroying Orban in the polls.
https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1999882812934242454?s=20
https://x.com/AngieDejong/status/1999920200536469599?s=20
https://x.com/Tinta19689015/status/1999994330917036447?s=20
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Source: CBS news
Updated on: December 14, 2025 / 1:31 PM EST / CBS Minnesota
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
"Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go," Omar said in an interview with Esme Murphy on WCCO Sunday Morning.
WCCO has reached out to ICE about the incident.
The congresswoman said her son "always carries" his passport with him.
Omar said ICE also previously entered a mosque where his son and others were praying, but left without incident. After that, she said she "had to remind him just how worried I am, because all of these areas that they are talking about are areas where he could possibly find himself in and they are racially profiling, they are looking for young men who look Somali that they think are undocumented."...............
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-says-son-pulled-over-by-ice/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=888495506
On Friday, Omar sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Todd Lyons, acting director of ICE, accusing federal agents of "blatant racial profiling" and "an egregious level of unnecessary force" in the Twin Cities.
— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2025-12-14T19:07:28.637Z
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BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
— CBS News (@cbsnews.com) 2025-12-14T18:44:17.315Z
Person of interest in custody after fatal Brown University shooting, official says
Source: abc news
Two people were killed and nine injured in the shooting, according to officials.
By Sasha Pezenik, Aaron Katersky, Luke Barr, Pierre Thomas, Kevin Shalvey, and Bill Hutchinson
December 14, 2025, 7:50 AM
A person of interest was taken into custody early Sunday in connection with the fatal mass shooting at Brown University, according to Kristy DosReis, a spokesperson for the Providence Police Department.
The person in custody was caught about 3:45 a.m. at a hotel in Coventry, R.I., about 28 miles south of Providence, according to law enforcement sources and Coventry police. ..............
A tip from the public led police to a Hampton Inn in Coventry, where the person of interest was detained, according to sources.
A federal source told ABC News the person was only being called a person of interest at this point, but added that they were confident they were on the right track....................
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/person-interest-custody-after-brown-university-shooting-official/story?id=128388923
So glad they got him finally.
At the time the person was detained, the individual was allegedly in possession of two guns, according to sources.
— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2025-12-14T15:49:46.715Z
The person in custody is not a student at the university, sources familiar with the situation said.
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WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.
— (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) 2025-12-14T09:32:47.116Z
Jared Kushner is at the center of Trump's corruption: From media mergers to foreign policy, Trump's son-in-law
Lots of details in rest of article also.
Jared Kushner is at the center of Trump’s corruption
From media mergers to foreign policy, Trump's son-in-law is consolidating power — and making millions
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/13/jared-kushner-is-at-the-center-of-trumps-corruption/
By Sophia Tesfaye December 13, 2025 9:00AM (EST)
The speed and scale of Jared Kushner’s re-emergence can’t be overstated. In the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his son-in-law is casually consolidating economic and political power with staggering speed. Kushner has positioned himself at the center of the biggest media merger in years and at the fulcrum of White House foreign policy, all while taking in multi-billion-dollar investments from autocratic governments.
On Monday, Paramount Skydance — run by David Ellison, a billionaire Trump has openly urged to reshape the news industry in his favor — launched an unprecedented bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery by initiating a hostile takeover after losing an earlier bidding contest to Netflix. Paramount’s offer draws heavily from Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity Partners, and from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. These Middle Eastern autocracies are principal investors in an acquisition that would give them — and Kushner — influence over some of America’s most powerful news and cultural engines: CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures and the vast library of Warner content that shapes the national (and international) imagination. The partnership is unprecedented. Not even Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing media empire was capitalized by foreign monarchies seeking political leverage.
After leaving the first Trump administration, Kushner raised over $3 billion for Affinity Partners, including $2 billion from the Saudi government’s Public Investment Fund. The Saudis’ own advisers reportedly warned Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that Kushner’s record did not justify such an investment, but the crown prince overruled them. ............. Forbes now calls him a billionaire.
The breathtaking scale of the Paramount–Warner bid makes the stakes even clearer............
These are autocracies investing in the infrastructure of American political communication, and they are doing so through the president’s son-in-law. You could not design a more direct conflict of interest...................
After the Wall Street Journal reported that Ellison had promised to deliver political obedience, telling Trump he would make “sweeping changes” to CNN once the deal closed, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sneered that CNN “would benefit from new ownership.”....
Taken together, this is the authoritarian playbook in its purest form. Trump has not even attempted to disguise his intentions.............
The president has long been obsessed with CNN......
Now, members of Congress from both parties have raised alarms about this new deal. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who leads a Senate subcommittee on antitrust, said on X that the deal raised “a lot of antitrust red flags” and that he would hold “an intense antitrust hearing.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said the Justice Department should take a “hard look” at the deal. And Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., noted that the deal “looks like an anti-monopoly nightmare.” If Netflix were to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, it would own two of the top three largest streaming services, Netflix and HBO Max. This market power could allow Netflix to raise prices for its subscription services, which have already been rapidly increasing.
But Kushner’s influence is not limited to the media; it reaches into the heart of U.S. foreign policy. Just weeks ago, he re-emerged as a central actor behind Trump’s new Gaza initiative, a plan that has produced a fragile ceasefire, a prisoner exchange and a partial Israeli withdrawal................................
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Wisconsin incarcerates more people per capita than the majority of countries in the world, including the United States.
Why is Wisconsin’s prison system such a ‘mess,’ and what can be done to fix it?
Deteriorating prisons, truth-in-sentencing, Act 10: Reasons for problems abound, while solutions remain elusive
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2025/06/why-is-wisconsins-prison-system-such-a-mess-what-can-be-done-to-fix-it/
Prison behind bars
Waupun Correctional Institution is shown on Aug. 29, 2024, in Waupun, Wis. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)
Wisconsin incarcerates more people per capita than the majority of countries in the world, including the United States.
Wisconsin Watch and other newsrooms in recent years have reported on criminal charges against staff following prison deaths, medical errors and delayed health care and lengthy prison lockdowns linked to staffing shortages in Wisconsin prisons.
The state prison population has surged past 23,000 people, with nearly triple that number on probation or parole. Meanwhile, staff vacancies are increasing again across the Department of Corrections.
A reader called this situation a “mess” and asked how we got here and what can be done to fix it.
The road to mass incarceration
Safer Prisons. Safer Communities.
Wisconsin is dealing with an unsafe and dangerous prison system. @WisconsinWatch
reports it currently incarcerates more people per capita than the majority of countries in the world, including the United States, and suffers from severe understaffing.
https://x.com/SaferPrisons/status/1951039168689131671?s=20
More financially distressed farmers are expected to lose their property soon as loan repayments and incomes continue to
Source: msn.com
More financially distressed farmers are expected to lose their property soon as loan repayments and incomes continue to falter
Story by Jason Ma • 3h •
Financial conditions in the agriculture economy are flashing more signs of strain as farmers’ costs remain high while prices for their crops stay low.
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Meanwhile, 21% of the lenders who responded to the survey said collateral requirements for farm loans rose in the third quarter, while none reported that requirements eased.
And an overwhelming 92% majority expect net cash earnings, including government payments, for crop farmers to be lower during the fall and winter than a year earlier.
As a result, nearly half the bankers surveyed see forced sales or liquidations of farm assets owned by financially distressed farmers rising in the next three to six months.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/more-financially-distressed-farmers-are-expected-to-lose-their-property-soon-as-loan-repayments-and-incomes-continue-to-falter/ar-AA1Siajw?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=8fc62cc4502d4ea9dfd43a0c4ad3450f&ei=11
That 12B that Trump has promised farms will NOT help many!!
Despite Kristi Noem's Lies, DC Shooter Got Asylum From Trump Admin!!!
I really do not know if the US can survive another 3 plus years of Trump admin LIES and deceit!!
Despite Noem's Lies, DC Shooter Got Asylum From Trump Admin
The puppy killer failed in lying. And Benny Thompson used the word "purjury" at her
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https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/kristi-noem-refuses-admit-trump?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=110145
By John Amato — December 12, 2025
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem refused to acknowledge the truth that the Trump administration approved the asylum application for Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man charged with killing one National Guard soldier and seriously injuring a second in Washington, DC.
Noem repeatedly blamed the Biden administration for allowing the former Afghanistan fighter who served under the CIA for not vetting him properly. But Rep. Benny Thompson refused to let the puppy killer lie her way out of it.
The back and forth began here:
THOMPSON: I want to know who approved the asylum application for this same person?
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NPR reports that Lakanwal "received asylum protection from the Trump administration in April of this year, nearly four years after coming to the U.S."
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