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Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.
Video from today's first gas attack.

Saturday morning in Chicago.
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Chump's Military Dictatorship or
Martial Law, That's What We'll Be
Up Against, If He Gets His Way.....
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
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"Federal agents fired a pepper round that struck the pastor of the College Heights United Church of Christ. The impact caked his face in orange powder...

“I’m in a lot of pain,” the pastor texted from the emergency room, “He clearly was aiming for the face.”

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Mikie Sherrill has released her final ad
Like a frightened little boy.
Autocrats, at times, use the military to shut down their parliaments and rule by executive orders. That Johnson chooses to shut down Congress so willingly is just a breathtaking abdication of responsibility to represent the body politic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...
Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself
www.nytimes.com
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Turns out you can just line the pockets of the president and buy your way out of crimes these days.
American families need help now to afford their health care. Republicans in Congress shouldn’t wait any longer to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
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The question of "why do people vote against their self-interest" is pretty self-explanatory when you look up the literacy rate in local schools.

We have high schools with a literacy rate of 32%.

Thirty-two percent...
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This should go without saying, but the American government should be funded by the American people, not anonymous mega-donor friends of the president.

This is not how things should work in a democracy—this raises all sorts of legal and ethical alarms.
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
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Trump is sending ARGENTINA $20B and increasing their beef imports while STARVING AMERICAN FAMIILIES.

There's funding available to help keep food benefits, but Trump just doesn’t want to provide it.

What'll it take for him to start leading the country he actually lives in?
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.
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Trump’s America: Thousands of furloughed federal workers in Hyattsville, Maryland waiting in line for food.
"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."
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If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.
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“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.” — Former First Lady Betty Ford
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This is fucked
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."