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<\/a><\/p>\nMother Jones: Trump\u2019s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car<\/a><\/h2>\nThe president hates EVs. But his policies are making gas cars more expensive too.
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And they aren\u2019t just getting more expensive to buy; cars are getting more expensive to own. For most Americans, gasoline is their single-largest energy expenditure, around $2,930 per household<\/a> each year on average.<\/p>\nWhile a more efficient dishwasher, light bulb, or faucet may have a higher sticker price up front\u2014especially as manufacturers adjust to new rules\u2014cars, appliances, solar panels, and electronics can more than pay for themselves with lower operating costs over their lifetimes. And Trump\u2019s agenda of suddenly rolling back efficiency rules has simultaneously made it harder for many industries to do business while raising costs for ordinary Americans.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 10, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nIf Trump signs the measure into law, the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP payments will get relief. The two million federal workers who need paychecks will get them, and airlines should eventually get back to business as usual. These are no small things: aside from the individual human cost of the shutdown, the undermining of the federal government threatened to destroy it, and the administration\u2019s cuts to air traffic were hitting cargo planes, adding yet another blow to the weakening economy just before the busiest shopping season of the year.<\/p>\n
News of the terms of the deal to end the shutdown hit the country rather like a cue ball hitting a rack: lots of balls started to move in wildly different directions.<\/p>\n
The eight senators who voted with the Republicans appear to have lost any hope Trump would negotiate and, in that absence, decided they had to relieve the pain of the shutdown. As Dan Drezner noted in his Drezner\u2019s World, Trump\u2019s behavior during the shutdown made it clear he simply didn\u2019t care how badly Americans got hurt. \u201cHe did not just refuse to negotiate,\u201d Drezner noted. \u201cDuring the shutdown month he also completely bulldozed the East Wing, cut SNAP benefits, witnessed producers passing on the cost of tariffs to consumers, announced curbs on air travel, and participated in a Great Gatsby\u2013style party at Mar-a-Lago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Voters hated this, but Trump didn\u2019t appear to care. Indeed, his administration was working to ratchet up the pain …
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
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<\/a><\/p>\nNate Silver: Trump made a huge blunder on the shutdown. So why did Democrats cave anyway?<\/a><\/h2>\nIt’s not entirely Chuck Schumer’s fault, but the party needs new leadership.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never really been on the same page as Congressional Democrats when it comes to shutting down the government. In the spring, I thought they should pick a fight over Elon Musk and DOGE-related cuts<\/a>, but they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\nThen in September, I thought all their options were pretty bad<\/a>. But that tariffs<\/a>, not health care, would at least highlight President Trump\u2019s unpopular handling of the economy and provide more of a pain point for Republicans \u2014 without offering a deal that could actually help the GOP in next year\u2019s elections by extending popular health care subsidies.<\/p>\nMind you, I didn\u2019t expect Democrats to actually extract concessions from the GOP on tariffs. Rather, if Democrats held firm, Republicans would eventually have to pass a budget on their own by eliminating the filibuster \u2014 something that Democrats would rather be without anyway should they win a trifecta back in 2028.<\/p>\n
And then once the shutdown began on Oct. 1, I disagreed with the conventional wisdom<\/a> that Democrats were \u201cwinning\u201d it. True, polls found that a slight plurality of voters blamed Republicans rather than Democrats. But those same polls showed that voters didn\u2019t understand why there was a shutdown in the first place, and that Democrats\u2019 message on health care wasn\u2019t breaking through. Moreover, Democrats\u2019 advantage on the \u201cblame\u201d question was eroding over time \u2014 while Trump\u2019s approval rating actually improved initially once the shutdown began.
\n(Nate Silver more…)<\/a><\/p>\nIntelligencer: Why Democrats Couldn\u2019t Hold Out Any Longer on the Government Shutdown<\/a><\/h2>\n![\"Remove](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Remove-the-regime.webp\" "\\"Remove")
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\nSo for Democrats, this is at worst a lost battle \u2014 or a tactical setback, if you wish \u2014 in a longer war that is looking increasingly more promising for them. It\u2019s not a great time for a party civil war.<\/p>\nPolitico: Legal immigrants face loss of Obamacare help, threatening insurance markets<\/a><\/h2>\nThe GOP megabill stripped subsidies from hundreds of thousands of green card holders and other legal migrants. Experts predict ripple effects for citizens.<\/p>\n
John Pavlovitz: A Bi-Partisan Murder: The Democrats Who Caved and the Americans Who Will Die<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Al Jazeera: Israeli drone strike kills two in Gaza as ceasefire violations mount<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nIn a statement published on Telegram on Monday, the group said Israeli attacks had killed 271 people, over 90 percent of them civilians, and wounded 622 more since the ceasefire took effect on October 10.
\n(Al Jazeera more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Bulwark: Pardon the Corruption<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump\u2019s blanket pardons for stop-the-steal illegality aren\u2019t only about settling scores from past elections. They\u2019re about laying the groundwork to subvert future ones.
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
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While a more efficient dishwasher, light bulb, or faucet may have a higher sticker price up front\u2014especially as manufacturers adjust to new rules\u2014cars, appliances, solar panels, and electronics can more than pay for themselves with lower operating costs over their lifetimes. And Trump\u2019s agenda of suddenly rolling back efficiency rules has simultaneously made it harder for many industries to do business while raising costs for ordinary Americans. … News of the terms of the deal to end the shutdown hit the country rather like a cue ball hitting a rack: lots of balls started to move in wildly different directions.<\/p>\n The eight senators who voted with the Republicans appear to have lost any hope Trump would negotiate and, in that absence, decided they had to relieve the pain of the shutdown. As Dan Drezner noted in his Drezner\u2019s World, Trump\u2019s behavior during the shutdown made it clear he simply didn\u2019t care how badly Americans got hurt. \u201cHe did not just refuse to negotiate,\u201d Drezner noted. \u201cDuring the shutdown month he also completely bulldozed the East Wing, cut SNAP benefits, witnessed producers passing on the cost of tariffs to consumers, announced curbs on air travel, and participated in a Great Gatsby\u2013style party at Mar-a-Lago.\u201d<\/p>\n Voters hated this, but Trump didn\u2019t appear to care. Indeed, his administration was working to ratchet up the pain … It’s not entirely Chuck Schumer’s fault, but the party needs new leadership.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve never really been on the same page as Congressional Democrats when it comes to shutting down the government. In the spring, I thought they should pick a fight over Elon Musk and DOGE-related cuts<\/a>, but they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Then in September, I thought all their options were pretty bad<\/a>. But that tariffs<\/a>, not health care, would at least highlight President Trump\u2019s unpopular handling of the economy and provide more of a pain point for Republicans \u2014 without offering a deal that could actually help the GOP in next year\u2019s elections by extending popular health care subsidies.<\/p>\n Mind you, I didn\u2019t expect Democrats to actually extract concessions from the GOP on tariffs. Rather, if Democrats held firm, Republicans would eventually have to pass a budget on their own by eliminating the filibuster \u2014 something that Democrats would rather be without anyway should they win a trifecta back in 2028.<\/p>\n And then once the shutdown began on Oct. 1, I disagreed with the conventional wisdom<\/a> that Democrats were \u201cwinning\u201d it. True, polls found that a slight plurality of voters blamed Republicans rather than Democrats. But those same polls showed that voters didn\u2019t understand why there was a shutdown in the first place, and that Democrats\u2019 message on health care wasn\u2019t breaking through. Moreover, Democrats\u2019 advantage on the \u201cblame\u201d question was eroding over time \u2014 while Trump\u2019s approval rating actually improved initially once the shutdown began. The GOP megabill stripped subsidies from hundreds of thousands of green card holders and other legal migrants. Experts predict ripple effects for citizens.<\/p>\n … Trump\u2019s blanket pardons for stop-the-steal illegality aren\u2019t only about settling scores from past elections. 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For most Americans, gasoline is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions\/6731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 10, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nIf Trump signs the measure into law, the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP payments will get relief. The two million federal workers who need paychecks will get them, and airlines should eventually get back to business as usual. These are no small things: aside from the individual human cost of the shutdown, the undermining of the federal government threatened to destroy it, and the administration\u2019s cuts to air traffic were hitting cargo planes, adding yet another blow to the weakening economy just before the busiest shopping season of the year.<\/p>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/p>\nNate Silver: Trump made a huge blunder on the shutdown. So why did Democrats cave anyway?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Nate Silver more…)<\/a><\/p>\nIntelligencer: Why Democrats Couldn\u2019t Hold Out Any Longer on the Government Shutdown<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nSo for Democrats, this is at worst a lost battle \u2014 or a tactical setback, if you wish \u2014 in a longer war that is looking increasingly more promising for them. It\u2019s not a great time for a party civil war.<\/p>\nPolitico: Legal immigrants face loss of Obamacare help, threatening insurance markets<\/a><\/h2>\n
John Pavlovitz: A Bi-Partisan Murder: The Democrats Who Caved and the Americans Who Will Die<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAl Jazeera: Israeli drone strike kills two in Gaza as ceasefire violations mount<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nIn a statement published on Telegram on Monday, the group said Israeli attacks had killed 271 people, over 90 percent of them civilians, and wounded 622 more since the ceasefire took effect on October 10.
\n(Al Jazeera more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nBulwark: Pardon the Corruption<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Bulwark more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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