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Today in Politics, Bulletin 468. 9/27/26

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 468. 9/27/26 Ron Filipkowski Sep 27 … US Ambassador to China David Perdue said on Fox that in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US: “Trump continues say that we sell arms to other people around the world. He actually asked President Xi if he would like to buy some at one point.” … UN Ambassador Mike Waltz on NBC: Q - “Did President Xi actually commit to stop China’s support of Iran with this war? Waltz: They’ve had, uh, good, strong, and I think fulsome conversations about that support, but I’ll leave that to the president to detail.” … In other words, no he didn’t. … Dep. WH Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted an AI video showing himself, his wife and Eric and Lara Trump partying and spraying champaign at the State Dinner honoring Xi. I guess these people aren’t worried about how many people are struggling under their economy as they continue paying tribute to Marie Antoinette . … NYT: “Gas prices c...
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Republicans Made It Dangerous To Register A Voter. These Kids Do It Anyway.

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  Republicans Made It Dangerous To Register A Voter. These Kids Do It Anyway. Florida Republicans raised the fine for registering voters to $250,000. Registration drives collapsed by 95 percent. The Florida Youth Justice Coalition is out there doing it anyway. Defiant Donkey Sep 27 Cecile Scoon runs the League of Women Voters in Florida. Her organization has registered tens of thousands of voters. She had to stop collecting paper registration forms, because one fine under the new law would be larger than her entire annual budget. The fine is $250,000. They Priced Democracy Out Of Reach In 2022, Republicans raised the maximum yearly fine for a voter registration group from $1,000 to $50,000. The next year they raised it again, to $250,000. You can trigger it by handing in a form eleven days after someone signs it instead of ten. Or by turning a form in to the wrong county office. They also require the volunteer who registered you to print their own full name on a receipt and hand it...
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Trump SCREWED as His DESPERATION BACKFIRES in His FACE!!!

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  Legal AF 1.24M subscribers Sep 27, 2026 Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian cover the Trump administration's decision to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House complex over what Trump called their "constant reporting FAKE NEWS," and the outlets' subsequent lawsuit alleging the move is patently unconstitutional. Brian and Shant fact-check the actual record: the handful of walked-back errors from these three outlets versus a single Trump UN speech containing verifiably false claims, including his assertion of $21 trillion in new foreign investment when his own administration's website lists $11.2 trillion, most of it vague pledges predating his presidency, and his claim that boat strikes cut drug trafficking by 97%, which PolitiFact rated flatly false. Brian details the legal precedent working against the administration, a 1977 D.C. Circuit ruling arising from the Nixon-era revocation of journalist Robert Sherrill's press pass, which he...
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