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Existentialist/Biocentrist/Thalassophile/Atheist/Sailor
U of Michigan alum
Happiness is wind direction & water under the bridge.
Bizarre Trump fundraising email threatens MAGA donors: 'ICE will hunt you down'

MAGA donors were warned that anyone who doesn't respond to a survey validating they are American citizens would be tracked down by ICE.
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Bizarre Trump fundraising email threatens MAGA donors: 'ICE will hunt you down'
In a threatening and odd fundraising email for President Donald Trump, MAGA donors were warned that anyone who doesn't respond to a survey validating they are American citizens would be tracked down b...
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January 28, 2026 at 7:51 PM
'Coward!'
Republican booed out of town hall for refusing to condemn ICE killings

mygod, this is a vile bunch.
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'Coward!' Republican booed out of town hall for refusing to condemn ICE killings
A Wyoming Republican walked out of her own town hall session to jeers from angry constituents.Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) abruptly ended the event Tuesday evening at Casper College after students pepp...
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January 28, 2026 at 7:42 PM
JD Vance sparked backlash on Wednesday when he compared Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth to Forrest Gump.

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Top Trump 'henchman' ignites firestorm comparing Purple Heart Dem to Forrest Gump
Vice President JD Vance sparked backlash on Wednesday when he lobbed a pointed comparison at Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth on social media, likening her to the famous movie character Forrest Gump.At...
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January 28, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Please forgive us, First Hooker, for getting our priorities mixed up.

Melania is furious that the Minneapolis shooting eclipsed the premiere of the movie about her
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Melania furious that Minneapolis shooting eclipsed premiere of movie about her: biographer
Melania Trump told her husband to course correct in Minneapolis because she was furious Alex Pretti's shooting put the release of the documentary about her life in the shade, according to a biographer...
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January 28, 2026 at 6:39 PM
There's a theory that if anyone can explain what the Republican Party is all about, it willl instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more inexplicable.

There's another theory which states that this has already happened.
RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?

RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition

PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!
January 28, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Words escape me........

Ecuador lodged a complaint after claiming that at least one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent tried to force his way into the country's diplomatically protected consulate in Minneapolis.
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Video shows ICE agents trying to force entry into Ecuador's consulate in Minneapolis
Ecuador lodged a complaint after claiming that at least one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent tried to force his way into the country's diplomatically protected consulate in Minneap...
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January 28, 2026 at 6:13 PM
That's why Trump chose him for his VP.......

JD Vance ripped as 'shameless sociopath' for 'misleading' attack on Minneapolis mayor
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JD Vance ripped as 'shameless sociopath' for 'misleading' attack on Minneapolis mayor
Vice President JD Vance faced fierce blowback for whining about alleged mistreatment of federal immigration agents after the shooting deaths of two citizen observers in Minnesota.Life imitated The Oni...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:55 PM
'He got stupid':

Trump voter protests the president's actions during Iowa visit
"It's all about him. He thinks he's God and he's going to take over the world."
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'He got stupid': Trump voter protests president's actions during Iowa visit
A Trump voter described her disappointment with President Donald Trump as he made a stop in Iowa this week in an attempt to try and convince voters that he is focused on the economy.MS NOW's Vaughn Hi...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Trump just tanked his own legal case in Minneapolis with new social media rant

He shot himself in the foot in a court case and couldn't have designed a better statement to convince Judge Menendez that Operation Metro Surge is meant to coerce policy changes

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Trump just tanked his own legal case in Minneapolis with new social media rant: reporter
President Donald Trump may have just shot himself in the foot in a court case that could decide the future of his crackdown in Minneapolis.On Wednesday morning, the president took to his Truth Social ...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"I was just following orders."
The Nuremberg defense
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Well, so much for the "nice conversation" he had with the mayor and the governor.

How sad & pitiful it must be to face each morning as an angry, mentally challenged lunatic.

'Playing with fire!' Trump hurls all-caps threat at Minneapolis mayor for resisting demand
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'Playing with fire!' Trump hurls all-caps threat at Minneapolis mayor for resisting demand
President Donald Trump threatened to escalate the immigration surge in Minneapolis over the mayor's comments to his border czar Tom Homan.The president dispatched Homan to the city following the fatal...
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January 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Grandpa is up and ranting.........I guess it's Iran's turn in the barrel; the country of the week arouse his ire.

Trump rattles off an early-morning threat against Iran in an early-morning social media post.
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Trump rattles off early-morning threat against foreign nation: 'With speed and violence'
President Donald Trump announced a possible military action against Iran in an early morning social media post.The USS Abraham Lincoln and three other warships arrived Tuesday in the Middle East as th...
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January 28, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is braced for a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping — and there'll be more than a few elephants in the room.
Xi Jinping won’t want Keir Starmer to mention these awkward topics
From spying to solar panels, POLITICO has compiled a list of topics the Chinese president won’t want to discuss with the British PM.
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January 28, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Reposted
Thank you, Mr. President.
January 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM
The media (who got Trump re-elected) didn't cover THIS in Iowa yesterday.
INSIDE the hall, the president danced to “YMCA.”
OUTSIDE was a phalanx of protesters in the deep Red state.
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Protesters gather outside Trump event in Iowa
YouTube video by WAAY 31 News
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January 28, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Smile of the day....
January 28, 2026 at 11:16 AM
January 27, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Why is Trump wearing only one glove ----and on his left hand?
How bad could that bruise be now?
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I cannot IMAGINE how terrified that little child is right now, having been held in ICE custody in a detention center.

Judge's fiery ruling slams the brakes on Trump admin's crusade to deport 5-year-old
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Judge's fiery ruling slams the brakes on Trump admin's crusade to deport 5-year-old
A Texas federal judge has delivered a stunning courtroom victory for an Ecuadorian father and his 5-year-old son, ordering federal immigration authorities to keep them in the country while he fights t...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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There were I’d say at least 1000 of us and the windchill was like 6. My BIL who’s never done a protest before came and I didn’t push him. We stood there for two hours just so we could boo the motorcade.
January 27, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Grandpa isn't sundowning..........he's just ignorant.

Rambling Trump claims electric vehicles 'make the environment dirtier'
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Rambling Trump claims electric vehicles 'make the environment dirtier'
President Donald Trump made a bizarre claim about electric vehicles in one of his signature speech ad-libs on Tuesday. Trump spoke in Clive, Iowa, on Tuesday evening in front of a crowd of rural voter...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:21 PM
If he's this bad in January, he'll be drooling into his food and smearing his feces on the wall by Spring.....
January 27, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Because when you're a moron and know nothing about the global economy, then, OF COURSE, he'd be "unconcerned".

US dollar plunges as Trump admits he's unconcerned with its decline
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US dollar plunges as Trump admits he's unconcerned with its decline
The dollar fell to $0.83 against the Euro on Tuesday, the lowest it's been since June 2021, after President Donald Trump said that he doesn't care about its continued decline. “No, I think it’s great,...
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January 27, 2026 at 10:27 PM
by Michael de Adder
January 27, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM