Under President Franklin Roosevelt the RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corporation) provided the financial underpinning of the New Deal. Jesse Jones was the brains behind the operation. As head of the RFC he was the most powerful fiscal officer since Alexander Hamilton….More>>
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Talking Points Memo- Is the Layla Coda Playing at the White House?
- Wisconsin Election Officials Forced to Issue Guidance About How to Deal With Fed Agents at Polls
- The Omar Case Encapsulates MAGA’s Attack on Citizenship
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- Federal Judge Finally Invalidates DOJ’s Nationwide Voter Roll Crusade Just Weeks Out From the Midterms
- These GOP Candidates Are Backing Away From Abortion Bans They Once Endorsed
- Trump DOJ Now Targeting Ballots, Not Just Voter Rolls
- What’s Up in Mississippi?
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- The Gang Gets Back Together to Save John Eastman
The Intercept- Lockheed Martin Showered Susan Collins With Cash as F-35 Program Hit Turbulence
- Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage?
- America’s Sordid History of Filming Executions as Entertainment
- Inside ICE, Officials Question String of Trump Admin “Midterm Panic Moves”
- Mother Sues ICE Contractor for Jailing Her and Her Baby in a Hotel Room
- Reflecting on the Trump Era
- An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.
- Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
- ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get
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France24- Four dead, including three children, in Oregon school shooting
- 19 injured as minibus crashes into train at Channel Tunnel entrance
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- Zelensky rallies European allies as US support for Ukraine wanes
- Teen shooter kills three children and teacher at Oregon elementary school
- Sally Rooney books cannot be sold in UK amid Palestine Action ban: publisher
- Sally Rooney books cannot be sold in UK amid Palestine Action ban: publisher
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- EU member states set for budget clash
- Saudi Arabia postpones major sporting events amid Houthi attacks
Media Matters For America- Here's the MAGA host taking credit for Katie Zacharia’s appointment to press secretary
- Nick Fuentes: “Ted Cruz acknowledged that the GOP has a groyper problem. … This is the sitting U.S. senator from the state of Texas using the phrase groyperism. You know how big of a victory that is in and of itself?”
- When a Fox News anchor called Katie Zacharia a “licensed attorney” (she isn’t)
- Discontent in Spanish-language conservative media illustrates GOP's deteriorating Hispanic coalition
- Megyn Kelly caller: "I'm angry. ... My health insurance has turned into now a huge mortgage payment with a huge deductible."
- Nick Fuentes: “The Trump administration is a criminal enterprise. ... The insider trading, the insider dealing, the quid pro quo, the unregistered foreign agents, it's unbelievable."
- Fox News: Where Ken Paxton partying with fugitives is much less interesting than James Talarico getting the flu
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