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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 12h

Texas GOP chairman Kelly Giles faces felony election fraud charges for falsifying ballot paperwork, another potential failure for a party that has long claimed the mantle of election integrity.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 13h

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 13h

Texas GOP chairman Kelly Giles faces felony election fraud charges for falsifying ballot paperwork, another potential failure for a party that has long claimed the mantle of election integrity.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 14h

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is now pushing to preserve health-care subsidies for Americans and to release the full Epstein files—breaking with Trump as she calls for transparency in a party constrained by secrecy and fear of its leader.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 15h

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is now pushing to preserve health-care subsidies for Americans and to release the full Epstein files—breaking with Trump as she calls for transparency in a party constrained by secrecy and fear of its leader.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 15h

The Intellectualist is now on Substack. 

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The Intellectualist Substack delivers fact-based analysis and thoughtful commentary focused on defending democracy and fostering informed public discourse. At a time when truth and civic engagement ar...

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 15h

The Intellectualist is now on Substack. 

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The Intellectualist Substack delivers fact-based analysis and thoughtful commentary focused on defending democracy and fostering informed public discourse. At a time when truth and civic engagement ar...

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 15h

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is now pushing to preserve health-care subsidies for Americans and to release the full Epstein files—breaking with Trump as she calls for transparency in a party constrained by secrecy and fear of its leader.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

The Intellectualist is now on Substack. 

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James Indicted: U.S. Crosses Another Constitutional Threshold

Trump’s DOJ indicts Letitia James, deepening a constitutional crisis born of political retribut

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Letitia James Indicted: U.S. Crosses Another Constitutional Threshold

Comey was the first. James is the next. Each indictment marks the same rupture: the moment the law ceased to check power and began to serve it.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

The Constitution has failed because it no longer limits power — it legitimizes it. The laws written to stop tyranny now protect and enable it.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering invoking the Insurrection Act, a move that turns force into governance as law yields to command, and each day of unchecked power draws America deeper into a constitutional crisis.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering invoking the Insurrection Act, a move that turns force into governance as law yields to command, and each day of unchecked power draws America deeper into a constitutional crisis.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Morris, former spiritual adviser to President Trump and founder of Gateway Church, pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse, exposing how faith, power, and image merged into a system that commodifies devotion.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

A Trump-appointed judge has halted President Trump’s plan to send the Guard to Portland, ruling the threat “untethered to the facts.”

The question now is whether facts still rule—or do the president’s delusions?
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

A Trump-appointed judge has halted President Trump’s plan to send the Guard to Portland, ruling the threat “untethered to the facts.”

The question now is whether facts still rules—or do the president’s delusions?
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Gun violence in America is no act of nature. It is the predictable result of law and inequality. Each school shooting asks the same question: how many children must die to preserve extraordinary access to firearms? open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Weeks after UF unveiled a ‘universal’ mRNA cancer vaccine that eliminated tumors in some mouse models and entered early trials, HHS Sec. RFK Jr., in the Trump administration, cut $500M from respiratory mRNA projects, alarming experts. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

Brigadier General Douglas K. Wickard of the U.S. Air Force, speaking at Antelope Valley College in June 2025, warned that the United States faces the risk of a “Pearl Harbor–style” attack from China.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Toppled by protesters, tied to war crimes and white supremacy, Albert Pike’s statue is set to return to D.C.—rekindling a national fight over history, power, and who deserves a pedestal in the American story.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

🚨On Black Sunday, Aug 31, 2025, the Trump administration tried to deport unaccompanied children to Guatemala, defying a judge—echoing March 15’s “Black Saturday” and a broader pattern of judicial defiance.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

As Americans face rising grocery bills, rent hikes, and job insecurity, the Trump WH has delayed a critical inflation report—critics call it a dangerous “politics of erasure,” where facts vanish, trust erodes, and democracy falls into decay.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 3d

🚨Trump blasted the Smithsonian for showing “only how bad slavery was.” His administration’s review, timed to America 250, could turn museums into tools of political memory.
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