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What’s In the Epstein Videos?
There are at least 10,000 we haven’t seen 💬 Add your voice: Comment On Trail MixWhile the Epstein emails stir fascination, the real eye-openers may be buried in the 10,000-plus videos and photos the Trump Administration is still sitting on. Federal investigators seized over 300 gigabytes of Epstein-related data — a scale so large it…
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How Big Are the Unreleased Epstein Files?
Still sealed by the Trump DOJ: — 100,000+ pages— 10,000+ videos and photos 💬 Add your voice: Comment On Trail Mix The newly released emails making headlines this week come from Epstein’s estate under subpoena, not from the still-sealed FBI/DOJ investigative files. If you’re wondering what’s in the videos and images those emails tiptoe around,…
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The Real Cost of Thanksgiving at Walmart
We ran the numbers so you don’t have to. President Trump spotlighted Walmart’s Thanksgiving “under $40” basket as proof prices are falling. But when you price the same 29-item basket Walmart sold last year, the math doesn’t work — it actually shows about a 15% increase in cost, not a drop. The Basket Swap Trick…
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Election Day 2025: DEMOCRATS REGAIN THEIR FOOTING
A comeback night with echoes of last summer’s “politics of joy” Democrats didn’t just have a good night — they had the kind that reopens old story lines about momentum. Tuesday’s elections delivered big margins in expected blue states, shocking breakthroughs in red ones, and a reshaped coalition that looks far stronger than it did…
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Speaker Sued For Refusing To Swear In Democrat
Arizona really did sue over House Speaker Mike Johnson stonewalling the swearing-in of Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva. Here’s the spine of the file: Current Status UPDATED 11/6: Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(a)(2), defendants’ response to the complaint is expected by December 22, 2025, absent extensions or waivers Trail Mix Briefs dig into the data behind…
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Who Commands the Guard? The Courts Deploy, Deny, Repeat.
The Ninth Circuit Reverses Oregon Judge, Then Hits “Pause” on Deployment What Happened: Portland, Oregon On October 20 a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit lifted a lower-court order that had blocked Donald Trump from deploying the Oregon National Guard to Portland under 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3).Then on October…
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Declaration of Grievances
What the People Protest When the power of the presidency becomes the property of one man, the Republic is no longer self-governed.When loyalty is demanded, not earned, and dissent is punished, freedom becomes a rumor. We therefore list these grievances, not as partisans, but as citizens defending the common trust —the Constitution, the law, and…
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U.S. Dwindling Support for Ukraine Under Trump
The transatlantic arsenal that once flowed east has become a relay race — and Washington has dropped the baton. 1. The U.S. Retreat The Kiel Institute’s Ukraine Support Tracker shows a 43 % drop in total military aid allocations to Ukraine between the first half of 2025 and the July-August period — the sharpest fall…
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Deconstructing Trump’s ‘Ended Eight Wars’ Narrative
Photo Ops Over Peace The claim President Trump now says he has “ended” eight wars, citing a string of ceasefires and declarations since early summer 2025. Independent fact-checks say the math and the definitions are generous: many were short truces, some weren’t wars in the first place, and several have already frayed. What counts as…
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“Antifa” in Arrest Records — Spoiler, It Isn’t
There are currently no confirmed arrest or court records in the United States listing “Antifa” as an organization, membership, or chargeable entity. Summary Comment threads love to swear that “Antifa” operatives are being rounded up by the dozens. The actual court system begs to differ. After combing federal, state, and local records, the tally of…
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Menus vs. Aisles
Trail Mix Brief: Restaurant Prices Are the Sticky Part of Inflation Everyone talks about grocery inflation because it’s easy to see — the milk, the eggs, the checkout total that feels like a minor car payment. But the quieter story in 2025 is the one that’s still hanging around your dinner bill. The Big Picture…
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Court Orders: Deportation Cases
“Not Ordered” = termination/dismissal + relief. FY2025 is year-to-date. Sources EOIR Statistical Yearbooks (FY2009–FY2018) — “Initial Case Completions by Decision.” EOIR Workload & Adjudication: Decision Outcomes — FY2024 & FY2025 YTD one-pagers. TRAC Immigration: Outcomes of Immigration Court Proceedings — annual/monthly removal vs termination vs relief. TRAC Immigration: Court Quick Facts — current-year snapshots for…
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Who Gets Arrested — Who Gets Deported
ICE by the Numbers: Arrests and Deportations, 2009–2025 The Big Picture When you stack fifteen years of ICE data side by side, 2025 doesn’t mark a new era — it marks a return to the middle of the pack.Deportations this year average about 22–23,000 a month, nearly identical to 2024 and in line with the…
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Conviction Rate for ICE Criminal Arrests
CRACKDOWN — THE MIGRANT PURGE Trail Mix Brief: ICE criminal cases are tossed or abandoned at nearly double the rate of other federal prosecutions. The higher failure rate underscores the fragile evidentiary base of many ICE investigations once subjected to courtroom scrutiny. Most ICE arrests never reach a criminal courtroom because they’re civil proceedings —…
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2026 Premium Shock: What’s Happening — and How to Stop It
Summary: About 24 million Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollees are receiving renewal notices now. If Congress lets the enhanced premium tax credits expire on Dec. 31, 2025, many will face sharply higher out-of-pocket costs for 2026. Extending those credits keeps premiums where they are. What’s happening right now Roughly 24.2 million people selected ACA marketplace…
We dig into the data behind the noise — short reads for people who still like facts with their outrage.
Written and researched for TrailMix.cc by Craig Crawford (Data verified by ChatGPT).
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