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James Ernest
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Another revelation from the DC branch of the Putin administration
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
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November 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I happened across this short entry this while looking for something else in the Congressional Record:
I happened across this short entry this while looking for something else in the Congressional Record: OUR NAPALM BOMBING Mr. YOUNG of Ohio. Mr. President, in Vietnam a popular song blaring from tape recorders in GI hooches or sung by helicopter pilots goes something like this: Napalm sticks to kids, napalm sticks to kids, When'll those gooks ever learn? We shoot the sick, the young, the lame, We do our best to kill and maim, Because the "kills" all count the same, Napalm sticks to kids. In a Saigon officer's club, with officers entertaining their Vietnam gal guests, the GI orchestra did not play this popular song. Also, it is a good bet marines in our Embassy at Sagon do not customarily sing "Napalm Sticks to Kids," at least unless Ambassador Bunker is away. Another of the many verses is: Blues (helicopter gunships) out on a road recon, See some children with their mom, What the hell, let's drop the bomb, Napalm sticks to kids. A helicopter pilot with access to a typewriter made mimeographed stencil copies of the song. He wanted the song printed. Those officers in charge of headquarters' mimeograph machine refused permission, saying, “That’s not official business.” https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1970-pt20/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1970-pt20-4-2.pdf
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Donald Trump intends to turn the United States of America into a Putin-style dictatorship. And he is well on his way to doing so.

Peter Wehner has just published the clearest, most concise warning I have seen you should read it. It is here:

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Upside-down US flag
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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More Insta snaps from the let them eat cake ball at Mar a Lago
November 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Show up. Stand up. Speak up.
Now.
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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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"Charlie Kirk wasn't the saint you're all making him out to be and if you just listen to some of the things he said--"

*red dot appears on my chest*

*another on my forehead*
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Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over ... it is the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind."
October 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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"I haven't seen the tweet."
"That's not my lane."
"We blame Joe Biden."
Moral collapse while clutching his Bible.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 17
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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It's time to hit the streets. See you tomorrow.
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Steady State, a group made up of more than 340 former U.S. intelligence officers from the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the State Department, and other intelligence agencies, [has] released a report assessing the state of American democracy. Applying the tools of their craft to the U.S., they assess that the nation is “on a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism: a system in which elections, courts, and other democratic institutions persist in form but are systematically manipulated to entrench executive control.” https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-16-2025 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fWQLXXMOyFb_vRbRd7CWQLsoh5XQB019/view
October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
The U.S.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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I heard truth and courage from Garlin Gilchrist (@garlingilchrist.bsky.social) this evening in Grand Rapids. Only speaker who mentioned Gaza. I like truthtellers.
October 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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October 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Palestinians Say Israeli Policies Have Driven Sharp Decline in Christian Presence
Bethlehem (PNN) – September 28, 2025 The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine accused Isra
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October 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Trump’s own blatant and comprehensive personal corruption would triggered universal rejection if he had not succeeded in corrupting the Republican Party, US Christianity, the Congress, and the Supreme Court.

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Trump is flaunting his corruption. Is it changing what the US thinks of scandal? — Guardian US
President has shouted from rooftops what his predecessors would have tried to cover up for fear of ending their careers
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September 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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TEXT Trump is visibly and unapologetically targeting his political enemies for criminal prosecution. He’s unilaterally and capriciously raising import taxes (tariffs) that will cost Americans dearly. He’s threatening the media with more punishment should it continue to criticize him. IMAGE Upside down US flag in black & white.
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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More Trump lies.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...
Fact-Checking Trump’s U.N. Speech
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September 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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“Everyone in America ought to be scared when the justice system is being used to target the president’s political opponents. If Republicans do not step up and criticize Trump’s actions, then he truly will have become a king.”

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A Most Profound Transgression
In demanding that the attorney general go after his enemies, Donald Trump is upending fundamental norms of fairness and neutrality in the American legal system.
www.theatlantic.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Trump Might Be Losing His Race Against Time
The president is gambling that he can consolidate authority before the public turns too sharply against him.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Israeli colonists attack an ambulance and Palestinian homes on Palestinian land in the West Bank. Again. With the Israeli army’s protection.
Israeli colonists attack ambulance in Ramallah, assault homes near Bethlehem Israeli colonists attack ambulance in Ramallah, assault homes near Bethlehem Archive photo RAMALLAH, September 20, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists carried out two new attacks on Saturday evening, targeting an ambulance in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, and Palestinian homes in the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem. Local sources reported that colonists hurled stones at an ambulance belonging to the Sinjil Municipality while it was present south of the town. The attack shattered the vehicle’s windows and caused damage, but the ambulance crew escaped unharmed. The Sinjil Municipality confirmed this was the second such attack on its ambulance, describing it as part of an intensifying pattern of colonist aggression against the town’s residents, lands, and property. Meanwhile in the Bethlehem district, Israeli colonists assaulted homes on the outskirts of the village of Kisan using stones and clubs, according to Ahmad Ghazal, the secretary of Fatah in the village. Residents were able to confront the attackers and repel them. The village of Kisan has witnessed a sharp uptick in colonist violence in recent months, as colonists aim to drive out Palestinian residents and seize more land for settlement expansion. Israeli colonist attacks on Palestinian communities—often carried out under the protection of the Israeli military—have increased significantly across the occupied West Bank, particularly in rural areas, in an effort to force Palestinians away from strategic locations.
September 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Photographs depict the port of Gaza before and after the current war
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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A letter from hundreds of Jewish doctors, nurses, etc.

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EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of Jewish Health Professionals Say 'End the Genocide' in Gaza
"To be silent is to be complicit," the healthcare workers write in an open letter.
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September 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Opinion | The Trump Fantasy Is Unraveling
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September 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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The boundless, shameless criminality of Donald Trump

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August 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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August 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM