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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, April 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM EDT Democrats, progressive groups and constituents in Colorado's 8th Congressional District are keeping up the pressure on Republican U.S. Rep Gabe Evans of Fort Lupton as the GOP's narrow House majority closes in on drastic federal budget cuts that could have a big impact in the battleground district. More than 100 people gathered Thursday in a high school auditorium in Thornton for the latest in a series of "People's Town Halls" organized by the Democratic National Committee across the country, in districts where Republican members of Congress have declined to hold in-person town halls themselves. In place of Evans, attendees asked questions of Rep. Greg Casar, a Democrat in his second term representing Texas' 35th District. April 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM EDT Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure campaign mounted on the school by the president and his Cabinet to force viewpoint diversity on campus violated the Constitution's guarantees of free speech. "Defendants' actions are unlawful," Harvard's lawsuit states. "The First Amendment does not permit the Government to 'interfere with private actors' speech to advance its own vision of ideological balance.'" April 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM EDT President Donald Trump appears to be a unifying force in the upcoming Canada elections as Canadian voters rally against the United States president, CNN reports. Canada on Monday will "decide whether Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party maintains the reins or whether the Conservatives return to power for the first time in nearly a decade," Axios reports. And, according to CNN, "there's a powerful outside factor in Canada's upcoming election: President Trump's tariffs and his threat of making Canada the 51st state." April 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM EDT Bulwark Editor Sarah Longwell says President Donald Trump's reputation has long been inoculated against failure by voters' unshaking faith, but this appears to be shifting in his second term thanks to a stubbornly slumpy economy and market chaos. "The main thing that has sunk in is that maybe Donald Trump doesn't know exactly what he's doing," said Longwell on MSNBC's 'Deadline: White House.' April 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM EDT New York University professor Scott Galloway on Thursday detailed a "transnational oligarchy" he argued is protected by "proximity" to President Donald Trump. Galloway and CNN host Anderson Cooper were discussing the $TRUMP cryptocurrency meme coin, which Trump released on Jan. 17, three days before his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States. As Cooper noted, Trump's meme coin "rose more than 60 percent on Wednesday" after the president offered "the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the world" to the top 220 investors in his meme coin, Fox News reports. April 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM EDT Politico reports Florida Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo is leaving the Democratic Party, but he will not be joining Republicans. "Here's the issue: The Democratic Party in Florida is dead. But there are good people that can resuscitate it. But they don't want it to be me," he said. April 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM EDT The Trump administration is stalling funding to crucial programs like Meals on Wheels, and it's not returning calls on how many of these lifesaving services for the disabled will continue. "Everybody is on edge. We can't tell them anything because we don't know anything yet," National Council on Independent Living Executive Director Theo W. Braddy told the New York Times. April 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM EDT Although Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) endorsed now-President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, it was a lukewarm endorsement. The bad blood between Trump and McConnell remained, and MAGA Republicans were not happy when McConnell voted against confirming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. April 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM EDT Opponents of President Donald Trump's steep new tariffs are warning that they could bring a wide range of negative results, from skyrocketing prices to a recession to a weakening of the U.S. dollar. But during a late April meeting with the CEOs of three major retailers -- Walmart, Target and Home Depot -- yet another possibility was raised: empty shelves in stores. April 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM EDT The New York Times reports the Trump administration is firing its own attorneys over alleged incompetence. The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday made the peculiar move of replacing its federal lawyers defending it in a lawsuit over New York City's congestion pricing program, allegedly because the lawyers undermined the department's case. April 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM EDT Although U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Vice President JD Vance angrily berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he visited the White House, Trump is now promoting a "peace plan" that he claims will be beneficial for both Ukraine and Russia and bring their war to an end. Some Democrats in the U.S. believe that Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but Trump is saying that he isn't pick a side one way or another in the ongoing Russia/Ukraine War. April 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier delivered crushing news to President Donald Trump Thursday on "Special Report with Bret Baier." "If you look at our new Fox News poll for the first 100 days job approval, compared to other presidents " the president is at 44 percent." |
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