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To: IC720 who wrote (1555269)	8/27/2025 7:53:45 AM
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Trump should be declared an international terrorist. Again? You’re becoming a very small fascist minority

To: IC720 who wrote (1555269)	8/27/2025 8:22:47 AM
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BOOM: DEMOCRATS BREAK IOWA GOP SUPERMAJORITY BY FLIPPING GOP SEAT IN SPECIAL ELECTION nbcnews.com Democrats break GOP supermajority in Iowa Senate by flipping Republican seat in special election Catelin Drey's win gives her party an additional seat, bringing the number of Democrats in the upper chamber to 17 and breaking Republicans' two-thirds supermajority. Aug. 26, 2025, 8:23 PM MST By Zoë Richards Iowa Democrats scored a significant victory Tuesday by flipping a Republican seat in a special election and breaking the GOP supermajority in the state Senate. Catelin Drey won the Sioux City-area district with 55% of the vote to Republican opponent Christopher Prosch's 44%, according to unofficial results with all precincts reporting. Democrats will now hold 17 seats in the Senate, compared with 33 for Republicans, breaking the GOP's two-thirds supermajority. Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin celebrated Drey's victory in a district Donald Trump won last year. “Iowans are seeing Republicans for who they are: self-serving liars who will throw their constituents under the bus to rubber stamp Donald Trump’s disastrous agenda — and they’re ready for change," Martin said in a statement. "Make no mistake: when Democrats organize everywhere, we win everywhere, and today is no exception,” he added. Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, had called the special election after Sen. Rocky De Witt, a Republican, died of cancer in June. He was first elected in 2022. Republicans also hold the majority in the state House. Democrats have consistently performed well in special elections this year after Vice President Kamala Harris lost to Trump last year. Democrat Mike Zimmer flipped a state Senate seat in January when he bested his Republican opponent by 4 percentage points. Trump won Zimmer’s district by 25 points in November.

To: IC720 who wrote (1555269)	8/27/2025 8:30:32 AM
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PEDO POS TRUMP SCRAMBLES TO REBRAND 'BIG, UGLY BILL' AMID 'ALARM BELLS' OVER POPULARITY Trump scrambles to rebrand ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ amid 'alarm bells' over popularity Story by Sarah K. Burris • 17h • 2 min read President Donald Trump is at work trying to rebrand his 2026 budget legislation, known as the " Big, Beautiful Bill," as a kind of tax cut not for billionaires but for the middle class. Trump announced at his Cabinet meeting that he was changing the name because it's " not good for explaining to people what it's all about." He went on to claim it was about creating jobs. Some of his own supporters have criticized Trump for a bill that added considerably to the deficit and made any tax cuts for everyday Americans temporary, while other tax cuts for billionaires on items such as private jets are made permanent. Meanwhile, the bill also issues steep cuts to Medicaid, free meals for children in schools and food stamps. CNN's Jeff Zeleny commented that this is happening in the background as Republican lawmakers travel home for the August recess and get an earful from their voters. "And some alarm bells are going up about the popularity of this sprawling piece of legislation that the president signed into law," Zeleny said. "And of course, it is far more than a tax cut. It's also about cutting Medicaid. It's also about cutting food stamp benefits and so much more. But the president — he likes his branding. He likes his slogans, but is now signaling that he does not want to call it that heading into the midterm elections. He wants to call it a working-class tax cut." Zeleny noted it would be interesting to see if Trump can "unring that bell." See the clip below or at the link here. - YouTube youtu.be Watch the video at this link.