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Sam Bethune
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⚓️ US Navy Mustang, retired ⚓️ doing my best to remain positive. 🧢 restore democracy, the rule of law and basic human decency. 🧢 running🏃bicycling🚴‍♂️swimming🏊‍♂️ fitness🏋️hiking🥾backpacking⛺️boating🛥️ music 🎶 teams: razorbacks, commanders, orioles.
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It would be nice to go back to when “do not obey in advance” was not a concern.
I just had to pinch myself… perhaps she has been deprogrammed or exorcised…
Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."
I mean, that’s been common knowledge for years now
apparently she didn’t get the word is that trump will be releasing his perfect healthcare plan in two weeks
Marjorie Taylor Greene on what she'd say to Mike Johnson: "Where is our healthcare plan? It's nonexistent."
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It would be awful if Jay Jones actually endorsed those things. I'm far from convinced that shit-talking with a joke from The Office in private texts to a perceived friend represents that. It shows he's immature, and reinforces why I was for Taylor in the primary, but this is faux outrage. You don't
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The texts were a politically incorrect joke from The Office. Yes, in poor taste and offensive and the voters considered all that and judged Republicans worse for all that they have actually done.
is this even the same person?

I’m just not buying this abrupt transformation, I mean she’s over fifty years old, and just a few months ago she was still spouting obnoxious garbage…

her entire persona has been built on lies and hate
MTG: "I'm trying to lead by example to talk to everyone in kindness. We don't all have to agree but that's being an American. And thank goodness for that. Our freedom of speech, our 1A rights, allows us to do that. My personal belief is that I need to set an example by speaking nicely to everyone."
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"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
how “great” is this?
The #UN just accused the united state of war crimes in #Venezuela and must be stopped

--Finally, the UN was slow to issue a statement
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🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106.

12 days of work in 106 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
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SQUEAKER Johnson Lies Like
Chump,He Can't Be Trusted......
don’t be fooled by the fool. he’s simply an evil person making evil choices.
"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”

Gov. Andy Beshear
‘affordability’ is not the same to trump and the 1% as it is to the rest of us
LMAO he's trying to be Mamdani!
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Man @gavinnewsom’s team doesn’t mess around
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Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.

He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
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There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy
wsj doing their best to minimize absolute dominance by dems.
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What we know, 12:10am
[Now in 2 parts]

—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win