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Spotted today in DC 😢
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!

We knocked 13,000 doors yesterday and learned that hasn’t happened since Harold Ford Jr.’s 2006 Senate campaign! We’ve got 48 hours left to get out the vote and MAKE HISTORY.

Sign up to volunteer via the link in our BIO!
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Republicans are FREAKING OUT about how close this race is. We can elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social and send a massive message to MAGA - help GOTV here:
It’s clear that Republicans are very worried about the upcoming special election in a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits.

Help us GOTV for @aftynbehn.bsky.social (a state representative and former Indivisible organizer) before Election Day on Tuesday: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Scoop: Trump and Johnson to hold tele-rally for GOP in tight Tennessee House race
Should Republicans lose — or win narrowly — it would further expectations that the party is heading toward a perilous midterm.
www.axios.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Murdoch Media Lied Claiming NJ High Energy Rates & Costs Were a Result of Clean Energy

insideclimatenews.org/news/2911202...
Murdoch Media Wrongly Pinned NJ High Electricity Costs on Clean Energy, Says Watchdog - Inside Climate News
The op-eds and TV segments coincided with the gubernatorial campaign in the Garden State.
insideclimatenews.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Fascinating when the NYTimes decides to be a newspaper versus when they don't.
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Millions of workers are toiling away from their families this holiday weekend.

So thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail.

Pay all workers a living wage.
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Go Chuck!
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — we do. It’s Voters of Tomorrow.

We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation.

Can you chip in before midnight to help us win? 👇

secure.actblue.com/donate/votho...
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Exhibit 926 in criminal contempt proceedings. Noem’s declaration is due Friday to Judge Boasberg.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?

KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I like that BEST OF THE BEST is a charming movie about honor and sportsmanship and BEST OF THE BEST 2 is basically STREET FIGHTER: THE MOVIE
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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"For most Americans, this tragedy will be a headline that soon fades. But for those in her unit, it will divide their service, and likely their lives, into 'before' and 'after.'" 👇
NEW: From our @markhertling.bsky.social, a eulogy for Sarah Beckstrom, the young National Guard soldier shot in Washington, D.C. This is a moving reflection about service, risk, death, grief, and remembrance.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rememberin...
Remembering Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and Honoring Her Service
A soldier lost in Washington, and what her death means for those who served beside her.
www.thebulwark.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Indeed, it's a confession and admission of guilt to heinous crimes.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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"The latest plan, which officials said was still preliminary, calls for a ballroom much larger than the West Wing and the Executive Mansion. Mr. Trump has said publicly that he would like a ballroom big enough to hold a crowd for a presidential inauguration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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The Trump apologist checklist after Trump or his administration does something awful:

1. Fake news, it didn’t happen.
2. It might’ve happened, but it would be OK if it happened.
3. So it happened, so what.
4. Whatabout [insert names of various presidents here]
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Mark Kelly on the Trump/Hegseth boat strikes: "If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them."
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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On the horrific news that Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of boat bombing survivors, remember: The Trump Murder Memo "authorizing" the strikes preemptively clears those carrying them out. That's unusual. And we still haven't heard from the commander who resigned:

newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Pete Hagueseth
Not sure who needs to hear this but a US President can not pardon someone being charged for war crimes at The Hague.
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Rep. Mike Turner on the double strike to comply with Hegseth's orders: "If that occurred, that would be very serious and I agree that would be an illegal act…This is completely outside of anything that has been discussed with Congress and there is an ongoing investigation."
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Note two things about GOP Rep. Mike Turner's solid remarks on Hegseth's reported order:

1) Turner: "I agree that that would be an illegal act."

2) Implicitly confirms the Washington Post's reporting that this information has been kept from Congress
Rep. Mike Turner on the double strike to comply with Hegseth's orders: "If that occurred, that would be very serious and I agree that would be an illegal act…This is completely outside of anything that has been discussed with Congress and there is an ongoing investigation."
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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President Trump says he would not have wanted the second strike.

POTUS's only defense of Hegseth is claim that Hegseth supposedly said he didn't order it.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?

Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM