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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 12h

The German Arch of Triumph was a monument proposed by Albert Speer at the suggestion of Adolf Hitler in the years leading up to World War II. The Arch, one of several proposed monuments to be erected in Berlin following the expected German victory

Trump Teases Monumental Addition To Nation's Capital In Wordless Midnight Post

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 12h

Trump Teases Monumental Addition To Nation's Capital In Wordless Midnight Post buff.ly/87HZQI9

The president shared an artist's illustration on his Truth Social platform on Friday for his latest design project in Washington, D.C.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 17h

Trump and RFK Jr will kill us all.

CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings buff.ly/xnZJyNY

CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings

The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases and global health.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 18h

How many Hatch Act violations does that make? 50? 100?

DHS blames Democrats for shutdown in video to be shown at TSA checkpoints buff.ly/b1He32k

The president and his Maga allies have used the rightwing influencer’s killing to justify attacks on critics, experts say

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 20h

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 22h

‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

Mike Johnson Blames Shutdown on “No Kings” Protest in Absurd Rant

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson Blames Shutdown on “No Kings” Protest in Absurd Rant

The House speaker is blaming the Republican-led government shutdown on Americans protesting Donald Trump. Make that make sense. buff.ly/gcsiiNy

The House speaker is blaming the Republican-led government shutdown on Americans protesting Donald Trump. Make that make sense.

GOP Rep Reveals Nonsensical Revenge Plan After Trump Loses Nobel Prize

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

GOP Rep Reveals Nonsensical Revenge Plan After Trump Loses Nobel Prize

That would imply that congressional Republicans would rather scratch Trump’s back than chip away at their actual jobs buff.ly/EhIsQsX

Representative Buddy Carter is furious that Donald Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Trump Attorney Makes Embarrassing Error in Letitia James Indictment

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Attorney Makes Embarrassing Error in Letitia James Indictment newrepublic.com/post/201624/...

Lindsey Halligan is out of her depth, but she’s carrying out Trump’s revenge crusade anyway.

Republican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist

This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment. buff.ly/aucXZDf

This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment.

Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers

Miller’s use of the first person is alarming here newrepublic.com/post/201663/...

Miller’s slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge.

RFK Jr. Links Autism to Circumcision in Truly Deranged Rant

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr. Links Autism to Circumcision in Truly Deranged Rant newrepublic.com/post/201583/... via @newrepublic.com

Obviously, there’s no proof for this theory either.

MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S.

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

WTF?! How is this "America First"?

MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Qatar would build an Air Force base in Idaho. buff.ly/vBXHcwx

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Qatar would build an Air Force base in Idaho.

Trump’s “Enemy Within”: How Fascist Rhetoric Became U.S. Policy

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s “Enemy Within”: How Fascist Rhetoric Became U.S. Policy buff.ly/479cqnW

Behind talk of “vermin” and “enemies,” Trump’s administration is mobilizing the tools of state power against its own citizens.

adamkinzinger.substack.com

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

A person who uses troops against his own citizens is no Nobel candidate.

Trump’s Longtime Spokesperson Stephen Cheung Lashes Out at Nobel Committee: ‘Politics Over Peace’

Trump’s Longtime Spokesperson Stephen Cheung Lashes Out at Nobel Committee: ‘Politics Over Peace’

Cheung accused the Nobel Committee of placing "politics over peace” after it awarded this year’s Peace Prize to María Corina Machado instead of Trump.

‘We’re Now a Conservative Opinion Page,’ Declares Washington Post Columnist

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

I've canceled my subscription. How about you?

‘We’re Now a Conservative Opinion Page,’ Declares Washington Post Columnist

Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen boasted on social media, Thursday that the newspaper was "now a conservative opinion page."

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my God! Portland is being invaded by frogs! Where is the National Guard?!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

What an idiot! He thinks he can tell us what to do with our health? He doesn't even know where babies gestate - not the placenta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

‘They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump expanded his war on free speech, the left, and ordinary Americans. It’s going to get worse buff.ly/loBksyT

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway buff.ly/oKRLPGp

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy

How the Insurrection Act could become the 21st-century Enabling Act, with six justices and the GOP standing by…