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‘Unlimited Cash’

October 13, 2025 at 3:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

During a photo op in Egypt, President Trump pointed at a United Arab Emirates official and said: “A lot of cash. Unlimited cash.”

Rove Says Troop Deployments Are a ‘Loser’ for Trump

October 13, 2025 at 3:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“GOP strategist Karl Rove predicted that deploying National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities, over the objections of their respective states’ governors, will ultimately be a losing issue for President Trump,” The Hill reports.

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

October 13, 2025 at 2:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“This took 3,000 years to get to this point. Can you believe it? And it’s gonna hold up, too. It’s going to hold up.”

— President Trump, while signing a peace agreement between Israel and Hamas.


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Barack Obama Slams Those Who Cut Deals with Trump

October 13, 2025 at 2:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Barack Obama took aim at institutions and businesses who made deals or worked out settlements with the Trump administration, noting on a new podcast: “We all have this capacity, I think, to take a stand.”

He added: “We’re not going to be bullied into saying that we can only hire people or promote people based on some criteria that’s been cooked up by Steve Miller.”

News Organizations Reject New Pentagon Policies

October 13, 2025 at 2:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Washington Post joined the New York Times, the Atlantic and the Guardian in spurring the Pentagon’s new press restrictions ahead of its Monday deadline,” The Wrap reports.

“The Pentagon’s latest guidelines for reporters assigned to the building, unveiled last week, require reporters to agree not to engage in ‘solicitation’ with military officials or risk their access to the building. It was an escalation of its increasingly tight-strung policies that came a week after it unveiled — and news organizations rebuked — a policy that demanded reporters not publish information not authorized for public release.”

Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 43 Years Taken by ICE

October 13, 2025 at 2:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Miami Herald: “On the morning of Oct. 3, 2025, Subramanyam ‘Subu’ Vedam walked out of Huntingdon State Correctional Institution, the Pennsylvania prison that had confined him for more than four decades. The 64-year-old had spent nearly his entire adult life behind bars for a murder he did not commit. His conviction had been vacated weeks earlier after a court found that prosecutors had concealed evidence that would have dismantled the state’s case.”

“The Centre County district attorney formally withdrew all charges a day before his expected release. But Vedam never made it home.”

“As he stood on the threshold of freedom, officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were waiting. Acting on a decades-old deportation order, they detained him and transferred him to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, an ICE detention facility in central Pennsylvania.”

Democrats Pour Money Into California Redistricting

October 13, 2025 at 2:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Democrats are now outspending Republicans by nearly $40 million on TV in California, urging voters to back Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting ballot initiative next month, Punchbowl News reports.

Obama Swipes at Democrats for Scolding Voters

October 13, 2025 at 1:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former President Barack Obama ripped fellow Democrats over their messaging, the Washington Examiner reports.

Said Obama: “You can’t constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you’ve got some blind spots, too, and that life’s messy.”

He added: “I think this was a fault of some progressive language, was almost asserting a holier-than-thou superiority that’s not that different from what we used to joke about coming from the Right Moral Majority and a certain fundamentalism about how to think about stuff that I think was dangerous. You can’t just be a scold all the time.”

Senior Prosecutor Removed from U.S. Attorney’s Office

October 13, 2025 at 1:38 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia last month before Trump ally Lindsey Halligan took over — has been removed from the office,” CNN reports.

“Cleary is the latest person exiting the office, as the Justice Department political leadership has become bolder in removing people that oppose their decisions.”

Mike Johnson Sees ‘Longest Shutdown in History’ Ahead

October 13, 2025 at 12:49 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the government, The Hill reports.

Said Johnson: “We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history, unless Democrats dropped their partisan demands and passed a clean, no-strings-attached budget to reopen the government and pay our federal workers.”

Stephanopoulos Ends Interview with JD Vance

October 13, 2025 at 12:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

JD Vance sparred with George Stephanopoulos when pressed about an apparent $50,000 bribe to border czar Tom Homan, prompting the ABC News anchor to end the interview, by saying: “You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time this morning.”

Trump Rewrites History of January 6 Again

October 13, 2025 at 11:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump, posting on Truth Social:

“The Biden FBI placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies.”

An incredible feat by Biden since Trump was president on January 6.

Trump to Meet Zelensky in Washington

October 13, 2025 at 11:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump will welcome his Ukrainian counterpart in Washington on Friday for talks about how they can force Russia’s Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, the Financial Times reports.

Conservative Group Pushes to Engage Latino Voters

October 13, 2025 at 11:33 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Libre Initiative, an organization in the billionaire Koch brothers’ conservative political network, is launching a seven-figure nationwide campaign to reach Latino voters ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary,” ABC News reports.

“The campaign aims to foster a connection between Latinos and what the group described as the country’s ‘founding principles.'”

Norway Suspects Espionage in Peace Prize Breach

October 13, 2025 at 11:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Norwegian officials see cyber espionage as the most likely cause of unusual betting surge on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient ahead of the announcement,” Bloomberg reports.

Bonus Quote of the Day

October 13, 2025 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Can we completely repeal and replace Obamacare? Many of us are skeptical about that now, because the roots are so deep, it was really sinister, the way it was created. I believe Obamacare was created to implode upon itself, to collapse upon itself.”

— Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), addressing reporters.

Race for Virginia Attorney General Is Now a Dead Heat

October 13, 2025 at 10:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

After reports surfaced that Jay Jones (D) sent violent text messages about colleagues, the race for Virginia attorney general has tightened — with polling averages now showing a dead heat.

Nixon Now Looks Restrained

October 13, 2025 at 10:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ruth Marcus: “The former president once made an offhand remark about Charles Manson’s guilt. The reaction shows how aberrant Donald Trump’s rhetoric is.”

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