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Trump's 'waste-free' Pentagon burning through untold millions thanks to troop deployments (AlterNet)

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🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑 l.smartnews.com/p-6mMmcxZm/b... #deploymentwaste
#deploymentsbuse
#financialwaste

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Polling suggests the American public thinks President Donald Trump’s current and future planned National Guard deployments are authoritarian overreach. Atlan...

National Guard stands down in Illinois while troops patrol in Memphis with local police (TheGrio)

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#NationalGuard #troops patrolled in Tennessee’s second-largest city, #Memphis, for the first time Friday while soldiers in Illinois were engaged only in planning and training after a judge handed a loss to the Trump administration and blocked their deployment to the #Chicago area."

Some residents said the Guard is not what Memphis needs. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — National Guard troops patrolled in Tennessee’s second-largest city for the fir...

UPS Admits ‘Disposing' of Parcels as Trump Chaos Creates Backlog (The Daily Beast)

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#UPS claims that 90 percent of the 3.2 million international packages it processes every week are delivered without issue,🔥but even the remaining 10 percent translates to thousands of missing shipments every day.
#TrumpTariffs
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Courier company UPS admits it has started "disposing" of packages sent to American customers because of a massive customs backlog caused by the Trump...

Peru president removed from office after string of scandals and allegations (CNN)

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🇵🇪 How it's done in functioning governments - with #bipartisanship - which have criminals in power...

#DinaBoluarte, the president of #Peru, was removed from office on Thursday after a late-night congressional vote in which parties across the political spectrum called for her ouster.

Dina Boluarte, the president of...

'They've destroyed everything': Palestinians return to devastation in Gaza City (BBC News)

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THEY are the 🔵🔴 #duopoly & #Netanyahu. #GazaCity l.smartnews.com/p-6mL3pBKw/O...

EPAThousands of Palestinians have begun returning from southern Gaza to Gaza City, weeks after fleeing the Israel...

4 Memorable Moody Blues Hits Written by John Lodge, in Commemoration of the Icon’s Passing (American Songwriter)

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⭐️ #JohnLodge of the #MoodyBlues

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Longtime Moody Blues singer/bassist John Lodge passed away suddenly at age 82, his family announcedon Friday, October 10. Lodge, along with singer/guitarist ...

Report Finds That Basically Every Part of the Epstein Investigation Was Screwed Up (eBaum's World)

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💀💀💀💀💀 Fucking PURPOSEFULLY as there are too many wealthy & powerful white men criminally involved with #Epstein. l.smartnews.com/p-6mLpJdsI/U...

The story surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s demise has, since it was first reported, been filled with holes. As time has passed and more information has emerged,...

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l.smartnews.com/p-6mIfQLbq/M... #SouthPark is right!!!

National guard troops seen on Memphis streets as Trump faces legal challenges (The Guardian)

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#Memphis
#NationalGuard
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National guard troops were seen patrolling in Memphis...

Trump's secret police get even more secret (Daily Kos)

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😳 Even the #KGB & the #Gestapo were more transparent in that they didn't mask their thuggish/violent faces. 💀🥶💀

"You can’t know what ICE drives. You can’t know who they are. You can’t know where they are. And now you can’t even know where they’ve been or what they’ve done."

#SecretPolice 💀🇺🇸💀

The Trump administration is desperate to hide any record of state violence—all the way down to the identities of its federal agents. The Chicago Sun-Times ha...

Neil Young Says His Music Will Be Pulled from Amazon: 'Go to the Local Store' (People)

Steph Scythes: 1775-2025+ 💀☢️🇺🇸☣️💀 The American Devolution @stephscythes.bsky.social · 10h

⭐️ #NeilYoung
#FuckAmazon
#FuckBezos
"There's #BigCrime in the White House. ☢️☣️ l.smartnews.com/p-6mFYmCw8/G...

“FORGET AMAZON AND WHOLE FOODS. FORGET FACEBOOK. BUY LOCAL. BUY DIRECT. BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME," his archive website r...

US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians (The Guardian)

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🥶 = #KGB + #Gestapo l.smartnews.com/p-6mGpNPMs/O...

Even without the national guard,...

Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers (The New Republic)

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Steph Scythes: 1775-2025+ 💀☢️🇺🇸☣️💀 The American Devolution @stephscythes.bsky.social · 10h

#StephenMiller - #JewishNAZI & ☣️47☢️'s #Puppetmaster ? "Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not President Donald Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to -a#deportation raids and #NationalGuard deployments."

#plenaryauthority

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Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not President Donald Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to deportation raids and Nati...

MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S. (The New Republic)

Steph Scythes: 1775-2025+ 💀☢️🇺🇸☣️💀 The American Devolution @stephscythes.bsky.social · 11h

😂🤬 THIS is the type of absolute anti-American motherfuckery you voted for in 2024,
🔴💀🔴 #MAGAts & #fellowtravelers.

🔥Choke on it, motherfuckers!

#IdahoIsForJihadis
#Qatar

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The Trump administration’s approval of a Qatari air force base in Idaho isn’t popular with either of America’s political parties. Department of Defense Secre...

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There is little to no difference between those making 🤑 off of dirty #energystocks and #defenseIndustrystocks and those who buy #blooddiamonds.

There should be a new term in #financialcircles:

#BloodStocks

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There are no "conservatives" in the 🔴💀🔴 Republican Party in 2025. They are ALL FASCISTS as they cower to the #Trumpenfuhrer ☢️☣️.

🔴💀🔴 Acceptable alternatives to #conservative also include: #racists #reactionaries #Reichists

'Crooked Cops' Report Details Trump-Led Corruption of Justice Department (Common Dreams)

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Steph Scythes: 1775-2025+ 💀☢️🇺🇸☣️💀 The American Devolution @stephscythes.bsky.social · 22h

💀🇺🇸💀 Having a convicted felon run federal law enforcement is like having the inmates run the dementia asylum. Here it's a both/and...
#PresidentFelon
#InmatesRunTheAsylum
#JustISDepartment
#crookedcops
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The Not Above the Law Coalition on Thursday released a report documenting how President Donald Trump's administration has been corrupting every aspect of fed...

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Steph Scythes: 1775-2025+ 💀☢️🇺🇸☣️💀 The American Devolution @stephscythes.bsky.social · 21h

💀☣️47☢️💀 Trump is exactly who he presented himself to be: a toxic narcissistic buffoon-tyrant.
1. Those who voted for him in 2024: Fuck You.
2. Those who still support him in 2025: Motherfuck You.
3. Those federal/state polytickians🪳continuing to enable his #treasonous #rollingcoup - criminals all.

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⭐️🇺🇸⭐️ The #USmilitary of all ranks & branches has a unique opportunity to be #domesticheroes by acting, en masse, to refuse ☣️47☢️'s illegal & #unconstitutional orders.

⭐️🇺🇸⭐️ Will you rise to this unprecedented challenge and keep your oath to the American people?

#NationalGuard
#ChicagoInvasion

Raoul Peck grew up under dictatorship. His new film on Orwell warns us what comes next — Los Angeles Times

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#RaoulPeck 's new documentary “ #Orwell: 2+2=5” reimagines #GeorgeOrwell 's words for an age of alleged " #fakenews," #AI and #politicaldoublespeak.
The Oscar-nominated director of “ #IAmNotYourNegro” draws on his own life experience to explore how truth collapses. apple.news/AUH0om4K_QL6...

Peck’s new documentary

apple.news

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⭐️🇺🇸⭐️ The #USmilitary of all ranks & branches has a unique opportunity to be #domesticheroes by acting, en masse, to refuse ☣️47☢️'s illegal & #unconstitutional orders.

⭐️🇺🇸⭐️ Will you rise to this unprecedented challenge and keep your oath to the American people?

#NationalGuard
#ChicagoInvasion