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* esp. beagles.
#UNFIT (2020). #UNTRUTH (2022/2024).
We WILL resist, support each other, AND enjoy life while we do.
* esp. beagles.
#UNFIT (2020). #UNTRUTH (2022/2024).
We WILL resist, support each other, AND enjoy life while we do.
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Here's how they report on him in the UK, where their free press has a spine.
Swalwell and Daniel Goldman were great, for the reasons you just stated.
February 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Swalwell and Daniel Goldman were great, for the reasons you just stated.
The officials in these ICE hearings are less cartoonish than Patel or Hegseth, less defiant than Bondi, and less - inhuman? - than Noem, yet just as evasive and useless. They sound like Maxwell did yesterday. Swalwell was strong in his questioning.
We need MAJOR changes before Friday's deadline.
We need MAJOR changes before Friday's deadline.
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 PM
The officials in these ICE hearings are less cartoonish than Patel or Hegseth, less defiant than Bondi, and less - inhuman? - than Noem, yet just as evasive and useless. They sound like Maxwell did yesterday. Swalwell was strong in his questioning.
We need MAJOR changes before Friday's deadline.
We need MAJOR changes before Friday's deadline.
Ignorant loudmouth and recalcitrant putz Peter Navarro told Fox News that "people need to revise job expectations down significantly" due to deportations, thus admitting they're deporting working people. Oh, we do --- do we?
The jobs report is due out tomorrow. Navarro knows the numbers will suck.
The jobs report is due out tomorrow. Navarro knows the numbers will suck.
February 10, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Ignorant loudmouth and recalcitrant putz Peter Navarro told Fox News that "people need to revise job expectations down significantly" due to deportations, thus admitting they're deporting working people. Oh, we do --- do we?
The jobs report is due out tomorrow. Navarro knows the numbers will suck.
The jobs report is due out tomorrow. Navarro knows the numbers will suck.
Noem needs to be impeached. Lutnick needs to resign. The Gabbard whistleblower complaint needs to be disclosed. Maxwell needs to be returned to her prior facility. Bezos needs to sell the WaPo and then take his money and his plasticene wife and disappear. And someone should start naming names.
February 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Noem needs to be impeached. Lutnick needs to resign. The Gabbard whistleblower complaint needs to be disclosed. Maxwell needs to be returned to her prior facility. Bezos needs to sell the WaPo and then take his money and his plasticene wife and disappear. And someone should start naming names.
When American athletes in the Olympics make statements critical of Trump, his agenda, and how it's damaging America - and then they get vilified as UnAmerican with nastiness, rage and froth by those who support Trump and his agenda - in my mind, it pretty much legitimizes their criticism.
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
When American athletes in the Olympics make statements critical of Trump, his agenda, and how it's damaging America - and then they get vilified as UnAmerican with nastiness, rage and froth by those who support Trump and his agenda - in my mind, it pretty much legitimizes their criticism.
Happy birthday, Copper!
He's 8. A good boy. Major treats later.
We adopted each other 1 year ago today. Beagles and Buddies rescue spoke to resource guarding, separation anxiety. I understood him before I met him.
Pictured: When we agreed to go home together last Feb; Copper on couch, moments ago.
He's 8. A good boy. Major treats later.
We adopted each other 1 year ago today. Beagles and Buddies rescue spoke to resource guarding, separation anxiety. I understood him before I met him.
Pictured: When we agreed to go home together last Feb; Copper on couch, moments ago.
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Happy birthday, Copper!
He's 8. A good boy. Major treats later.
We adopted each other 1 year ago today. Beagles and Buddies rescue spoke to resource guarding, separation anxiety. I understood him before I met him.
Pictured: When we agreed to go home together last Feb; Copper on couch, moments ago.
He's 8. A good boy. Major treats later.
We adopted each other 1 year ago today. Beagles and Buddies rescue spoke to resource guarding, separation anxiety. I understood him before I met him.
Pictured: When we agreed to go home together last Feb; Copper on couch, moments ago.
I'm just lobbying for the narrative to happen and loudly. Part of it isn't about removing him as much as it is about him being unable to easily handle the narrative and losing more ground in polls and public sentiment.
(Nobody on either side likes Vance - that's another reason to do this.)
(Nobody on either side likes Vance - that's another reason to do this.)
February 8, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I'm just lobbying for the narrative to happen and loudly. Part of it isn't about removing him as much as it is about him being unable to easily handle the narrative and losing more ground in polls and public sentiment.
(Nobody on either side likes Vance - that's another reason to do this.)
(Nobody on either side likes Vance - that's another reason to do this.)
I don't want to claim definitively that Jeff Bezos is intentionally dismantling and destroying a storied institution which has served America and its citizenry, but he could have sold it, taken on a partner, or simply put in more $ out of his $235B net worth, so -- what the f*ck else should I think?
February 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM
I don't want to claim definitively that Jeff Bezos is intentionally dismantling and destroying a storied institution which has served America and its citizenry, but he could have sold it, taken on a partner, or simply put in more $ out of his $235B net worth, so -- what the f*ck else should I think?
REPEATING: Dems really need to begin more forcefully presenting a narrative that Trump is erratic and unstable and no longer able to carry out the duties of the presidency and therefore must be removed from office.
Because HE IS and HE SHOULD.
A few Dems need to go first, then build to a chorus.
Because HE IS and HE SHOULD.
A few Dems need to go first, then build to a chorus.
February 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
REPEATING: Dems really need to begin more forcefully presenting a narrative that Trump is erratic and unstable and no longer able to carry out the duties of the presidency and therefore must be removed from office.
Because HE IS and HE SHOULD.
A few Dems need to go first, then build to a chorus.
Because HE IS and HE SHOULD.
A few Dems need to go first, then build to a chorus.
And shuffled off his mortal coil.
February 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
And shuffled off his mortal coil.
I actually read - really - that his apartment had no windows.
February 7, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I actually read - really - that his apartment had no windows.
JUST IN: Russia's former Deputy Justice Minister Sergey Tropin is no more. He has expired. Having accidentally drowned in the bathtub of his Moscow apartment, he has ceased to be. He is bereft of life. He has gone to meet his maker.
He is ... an Ex-Deputy Justice Minister.
He is ... an Ex-Deputy Justice Minister.
February 7, 2026 at 4:10 PM
JUST IN: Russia's former Deputy Justice Minister Sergey Tropin is no more. He has expired. Having accidentally drowned in the bathtub of his Moscow apartment, he has ceased to be. He is bereft of life. He has gone to meet his maker.
He is ... an Ex-Deputy Justice Minister.
He is ... an Ex-Deputy Justice Minister.
Before you guys start your weekends, please know that JD Vance got soundly booed at the Olympics opening ceremony. American athletes were cheered. When the Jumbotron panned to Vance, the cheers became jeers, and worse. Enjoy the weekend.
February 7, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Before you guys start your weekends, please know that JD Vance got soundly booed at the Olympics opening ceremony. American athletes were cheered. When the Jumbotron panned to Vance, the cheers became jeers, and worse. Enjoy the weekend.
REPEATING: Dems really need to begin more forcefully presenting a narrative that Trump is erratic and unstable and no longer able to carry out the duties of the presidency and therefore must be removed from office. It's time.
This needs to get into the public narrative articulately emphatically now.
This needs to get into the public narrative articulately emphatically now.
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
REPEATING: Dems really need to begin more forcefully presenting a narrative that Trump is erratic and unstable and no longer able to carry out the duties of the presidency and therefore must be removed from office. It's time.
This needs to get into the public narrative articulately emphatically now.
This needs to get into the public narrative articulately emphatically now.
Karoline Leavitt has a fragile self, defensive demeanor, and tries to put forth a defiant tone for her audience of One. It's destroying her inside. She is uncomfortable in a crazily crafted persona. She lashes out publicly. Who knows what privately. She'll regret it when she's miserable with ulcers.
February 6, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Karoline Leavitt has a fragile self, defensive demeanor, and tries to put forth a defiant tone for her audience of One. It's destroying her inside. She is uncomfortable in a crazily crafted persona. She lashes out publicly. Who knows what privately. She'll regret it when she's miserable with ulcers.
Dems need to begin more forcefully presenting a narrative that Trump is no longer able to carry out the duties of the presidency and, therefore, must be removed from office. It's time.
February 6, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Dems need to begin more forcefully presenting a narrative that Trump is no longer able to carry out the duties of the presidency and, therefore, must be removed from office. It's time.
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Name them
shame them
shame them
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Name them
shame them
shame them
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After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.
February 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.
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No one should be opposed to this.
February 5, 2026 at 4:58 PM
No one should be opposed to this.
(2/2) They enjoy California's entertainment, technology, wine, and agriculture - including almonds, artichokes, apricots, avocados - to name just some of the "A's".
THAT'S Newsom's California. I'm damn proud to live there.
THAT'S Newsom's California. I'm damn proud to live there.
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
(2/2) They enjoy California's entertainment, technology, wine, and agriculture - including almonds, artichokes, apricots, avocados - to name just some of the "A's".
THAT'S Newsom's California. I'm damn proud to live there.
THAT'S Newsom's California. I'm damn proud to live there.
(1/2) When MAGA gets triggered by Newsom, they try to paint California as waning. In fact, it's now the 5th largest economy in the world AS A COUNTRY. Millions of dentally challenged Americans in Red States benefit from California's massive $ contributions to the federal treasury.
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
(1/2) When MAGA gets triggered by Newsom, they try to paint California as waning. In fact, it's now the 5th largest economy in the world AS A COUNTRY. Millions of dentally challenged Americans in Red States benefit from California's massive $ contributions to the federal treasury.
Trump spoke today at a prayer breakfast. He was exceptionally discombobulated. Rambled. Forgot names. Hyperbolized God. "Faith is big now. Gotta have God."
It's important for us to remember - besides being a narcissist, sociopath, grifter, rapist, traitor, and serial criminal, he's also an idiot.
It's important for us to remember - besides being a narcissist, sociopath, grifter, rapist, traitor, and serial criminal, he's also an idiot.
February 5, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Trump spoke today at a prayer breakfast. He was exceptionally discombobulated. Rambled. Forgot names. Hyperbolized God. "Faith is big now. Gotta have God."
It's important for us to remember - besides being a narcissist, sociopath, grifter, rapist, traitor, and serial criminal, he's also an idiot.
It's important for us to remember - besides being a narcissist, sociopath, grifter, rapist, traitor, and serial criminal, he's also an idiot.
Ahh. Thanks.
February 4, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Ahh. Thanks.
I do understand AI, honestly. let's say that if I could credit the person who came up with the idea to ask the computer to do this, I would.
February 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I do understand AI, honestly. let's say that if I could credit the person who came up with the idea to ask the computer to do this, I would.
I understand that, but someone still scripted and created it.
February 4, 2026 at 11:16 PM
I understand that, but someone still scripted and created it.