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Crose
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🙋‍♀️Happy and proud Californian. Mom of two, grandma of one💕 Looking forward to the hope of midterms. 💙💙💙💙💙
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You know shit's getting serious once they start using words you usually only hear over a boiling cauldron.
Sua sponte call for en banc less than two hours after the 9th Cir decision to let loose the National Guard into Portland
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"Through the whole of our correspondence, however, there is something Halligan never said: She never said a word suggesting that she was not 'on the record.'"
I’m wondering if 100% of the GOP are delusional.
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kristi noem...who claims she has to 'sign-off' on ANY govt purchase over $100K in order to 'prevent waste'

BUT now she's spending upwards of $200MM to buy 2 GULFSTREAM private jets

1 each for her and her SIDEPIECE lewandowski⁉️ 🤮

the corruption is STAGGERING 💢

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million
www.nytimes.com
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Where’s DOGE when you need ‘em?:

“The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem, the secretary, and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million
www.nytimes.com
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There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings
I do love imagining what gut-wrenching feelings GOP leaders have to be struggling with. (They must be, right?)
I love our friends around the world.
Do Republicans really wonder why #noKings was enormously successful?
Wonderful crowd. What city in Texas?
Beautiful Sierra Madre CA #NoKings
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Let’s be clear: Trump’s attacks on California's flood control projects started long before this shutdown.

This flimsy pretext should not distract from the fundamental truth of his presidency:

Trump is only interested in representing states that voted for him.

He is half a president.
White House halts $11B for water projects in blue states
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said projects in Boston, Baltimore and New York, among others, were “immediately” paused due to the
www.eenews.net
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Among George Santos’ many scams was a “pet charity” where he swindled people out of money who needed it for medical care for their pets. This is who Trump just pardoned www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/n...
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Sometimes this administration makes my job really easy.

Sometimes!*
NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!
No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
www.motherjones.com
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here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
www.nytimes.com
I like it too, mostly because Brett K certainly hates it.
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then how do you know?
WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly