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Truman- "A billionaire is much greater in these days in the eyes of the people than the public servant who works for the public interest. It makes no difference if the billionaire rode to wealth on the sweat of little children and the blood of underpaid labor. "
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A vignette from David McCullough’s biography “Truman”
In his very excellent book Truman, David McCullough remembered two of the first speeches backwater, back bench clubhouse pol Harry S. Truman delivered on the Senate floor in 1937. Speeches to do with ...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Truman- "A billionaire is much greater in these days in the eyes of the people than the public servant who works for the public interest. It makes no difference if the billionaire rode to wealth on the sweat of little children and the blood of underpaid labor. "
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There is no mideast cease fire. Next up Ukraine.
The media is overwhelmed with the misinformation, lies, and assault on our country's values, norms, and laws by the Trump Admin.
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The media is overwhelmed with the misinformation, lies, and assault on our country's values, norms, and laws by the Trump Admin.
flip.it/UiDEVu
The Gaza “Ceasefire” is a Total Fraud
The fire has not, in fact, ceased, and there have to be meaningful penalties for Israel’s violations.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
There is no mideast cease fire. Next up Ukraine.
The media is overwhelmed with the misinformation, lies, and assault on our country's values, norms, and laws by the Trump Admin.
flip.it/UiDEVu
The media is overwhelmed with the misinformation, lies, and assault on our country's values, norms, and laws by the Trump Admin.
flip.it/UiDEVu
This battle is at the core of every issue. One pillar of any D platform MUST include national election district , gerrymander reform w independant commissions. Electoral college reform. Repeal of Citizens United. We must empower democracy.
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North Carolina Can Use Republican-Friendly Congressional Map, Court Says
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November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This battle is at the core of every issue. One pillar of any D platform MUST include national election district , gerrymander reform w independant commissions. Electoral college reform. Repeal of Citizens United. We must empower democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@squawkstreet.bsky.social Willfull blindness discussion. RE DE earnings and impact of tariffs that rolling back ag tariffs and farm 'help' (12 bil) omitting that it is almost entirely the RESULT of the admins policies!!! You can't credit them for digging out of THEIR tariff madness! Call them out!!
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
@squawkstreet.bsky.social Willfull blindness discussion. RE DE earnings and impact of tariffs that rolling back ag tariffs and farm 'help' (12 bil) omitting that it is almost entirely the RESULT of the admins policies!!! You can't credit them for digging out of THEIR tariff madness! Call them out!!
So bombing little Venezuelan boats , spending millions ti change the name of DOD to DOW os not enough...Hegseth now wages war on the internal enemy...The Boy Scouts. About time these little DEI rascals got their come uppance!
Pentagon preparing to sever ties with Scouts
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Pentagon preparing to sever ties with Scouts
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U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
So bombing little Venezuelan boats , spending millions ti change the name of DOD to DOW os not enough...Hegseth now wages war on the internal enemy...The Boy Scouts. About time these little DEI rascals got their come uppance!
Pentagon preparing to sever ties with Scouts
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
Pentagon preparing to sever ties with Scouts
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
We need MORE nurses....and this is Trumps and R's plan. Deny education support, limit access for new nurses education.
Purely insane. Maybe we should call them national security health helpers and equip them with guns and masks?
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Purely insane. Maybe we should call them national security health helpers and equip them with guns and masks?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Outrage after Trump’s bill reclassifying nursing as not a ‘professional degree’
Nursing organizations warn limiting access to student funding ‘threatens the very foundation of patient care’
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We need MORE nurses....and this is Trumps and R's plan. Deny education support, limit access for new nurses education.
Purely insane. Maybe we should call them national security health helpers and equip them with guns and masks?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Purely insane. Maybe we should call them national security health helpers and equip them with guns and masks?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Contact your congressperson! This isn't making anything great again. It is the fulfillment of a Proj 2025 goal to dismantle the Dept of Ed. This harms our future and our children.
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Workers inside Department of Education say Trump’s latest bid to dismantle agency ‘makes no sense’
‘Morale is completely lost,’ say workers as Trump administration strips some programs and transfers others
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November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Contact your congressperson! This isn't making anything great again. It is the fulfillment of a Proj 2025 goal to dismantle the Dept of Ed. This harms our future and our children.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
SCOTUS reform must be a priority. This group has simply become the Trump court, blatantly political and no longer serves justice and the American people.
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Anne Deysine, law expert: 'The greatest obstacle to judges resisting Donald Trump is the Supreme Court itself'
OP-ED. In this op-ed for Le Monde, the US affairs specialist discusses how the highest court in the United States has so far granted nearly all of the requests made by the president and his administra...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
SCOTUS reform must be a priority. This group has simply become the Trump court, blatantly political and no longer serves justice and the American people.
flip.it/ulh.zT
flip.it/ulh.zT
The real Deep State. The powers behind Project 2025, and pushing Trump.
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Heritage report blasts Trump's record on deportations
"The American people voted for mass deportations. They're getting mass communications instead."
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November 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The real Deep State. The powers behind Project 2025, and pushing Trump.
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Now they cannibalize their own...
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DOJ, FBI probing top Trump administration officials over investigations of president's adversaries: Sources
The DOJ is probing the conduct of at least two top administration officials for possibly jeopardizing the criminal investigations of Trump's political foes, sources say.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Now they cannibalize their own...
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If we dont clean this up and address the pushing of fake news enabled by remote billionaires we are doomed! At the same time the admin destroys the dept of Ed, Health, Science, push bibles instead of history!
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Mark Zuckerberg's hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram as millions watch Hitler speeches and Holocaust denial | Fortune
The hottest far right influencer right now isn't Nick Fuentes — it's Hitler. And his videos are appearing next to JPMorgan and US Army ads
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November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If we dont clean this up and address the pushing of fake news enabled by remote billionaires we are doomed! At the same time the admin destroys the dept of Ed, Health, Science, push bibles instead of history!
flip.it/AR4lan
flip.it/AR4lan
While all eyes are on the Epstein cover up, the real leaders of the admin termite the Depts of Education, Health, Justice and Enviroment.
Measles outbreaks, boat bombings, agent firings, Enviro protection roll backs... the illegal hollowing out of Americas govt marches on.
flip.it/tFLpVk
Measles outbreaks, boat bombings, agent firings, Enviro protection roll backs... the illegal hollowing out of Americas govt marches on.
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‘Selling off the Department of Education for parts’: The agency’s major overhaul faces fierce backlash
The Trump administration’s restructuring plan will create “more confusion, more mistakes and more barriers” for students and families in need of support, advocates say.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
While all eyes are on the Epstein cover up, the real leaders of the admin termite the Depts of Education, Health, Justice and Enviroment.
Measles outbreaks, boat bombings, agent firings, Enviro protection roll backs... the illegal hollowing out of Americas govt marches on.
flip.it/tFLpVk
Measles outbreaks, boat bombings, agent firings, Enviro protection roll backs... the illegal hollowing out of Americas govt marches on.
flip.it/tFLpVk
A moment of reflection on the murder of J Khashoggi. The President demeans the United States grovellng to the Saudi leader for his own family benefit.
Trump gives restricted planes jeopordizing US security and disgraces himself and country with his public lies.
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Trump gives restricted planes jeopordizing US security and disgraces himself and country with his public lies.
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Jamal Khashoggi: All you need to know about Saudi journalist's death
Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Here's what we know.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
A moment of reflection on the murder of J Khashoggi. The President demeans the United States grovellng to the Saudi leader for his own family benefit.
Trump gives restricted planes jeopordizing US security and disgraces himself and country with his public lies.
www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
Trump gives restricted planes jeopordizing US security and disgraces himself and country with his public lies.
www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
some words fron the sage of Omaha
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Trump Is In Far DEEPER TROUBLE Than Anyone Expected | Warren Buffett Responds
YouTube video by WW2 Echoes
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November 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
some words fron the sage of Omaha
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Mid terms are essential! Do not get weary... Engage!
"We have to keep the record straight and the lights on. We need to make alliances, including with people and organizations that, in normal times, we would be adversaries on policy issues. It will be a long haul," he warns.
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"We have to keep the record straight and the lights on. We need to make alliances, including with people and organizations that, in normal times, we would be adversaries on policy issues. It will be a long haul," he warns.
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'Survival-minded' ex-national security officials warn 'guardrails are collapsing' under Trump
Despite the Democrats' sweeping electoral victories, President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans "are far from surrendering," and, according to a former national security official, they are moving at ...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Mid terms are essential! Do not get weary... Engage!
"We have to keep the record straight and the lights on. We need to make alliances, including with people and organizations that, in normal times, we would be adversaries on policy issues. It will be a long haul," he warns.
flip.it/NtXZjX
"We have to keep the record straight and the lights on. We need to make alliances, including with people and organizations that, in normal times, we would be adversaries on policy issues. It will be a long haul," he warns.
flip.it/NtXZjX
Tariff the world... by taxing the US taxpayers...every one is an 'emergency'
Call everyone 'the orange pedo' doesnt like a terrorist.
Beat up nannies and baristas.
Send immigrants legally waiting for a hearing to foreign 'hell'camps.
How low the R's have fallen.
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Call everyone 'the orange pedo' doesnt like a terrorist.
Beat up nannies and baristas.
Send immigrants legally waiting for a hearing to foreign 'hell'camps.
How low the R's have fallen.
flip.it/op.NkY
Trump administration designates 4 left-wing European networks as terrorist organizations
President Donald Trump's administration is designating four left-wing European networks as terrorist organizations.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Tariff the world... by taxing the US taxpayers...every one is an 'emergency'
Call everyone 'the orange pedo' doesnt like a terrorist.
Beat up nannies and baristas.
Send immigrants legally waiting for a hearing to foreign 'hell'camps.
How low the R's have fallen.
flip.it/op.NkY
Call everyone 'the orange pedo' doesnt like a terrorist.
Beat up nannies and baristas.
Send immigrants legally waiting for a hearing to foreign 'hell'camps.
How low the R's have fallen.
flip.it/op.NkY
Um... How about NOT cancelling the Dept of Education? Or maybe NOT attacking universities, colleges, libraries, science? Maybe fund an open , multi-ethnic worker , college, advanced science program seeking and promoting excellence?
flip.it/MdoFZ8
flip.it/MdoFZ8
UNCAPTIONED: Trump Says H-1B Visas Are Needed To Bring In 'Certain Talents' The U.S. Lacks | Flipboard
Trump Says H-1B Visas Are Needed To Bring In ‘Certain Talents’ The U.S. Lacks. President Donald Trump defended the use of H-1B visas, saying foreign workers are sometimes necessary because Americans “...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Um... How about NOT cancelling the Dept of Education? Or maybe NOT attacking universities, colleges, libraries, science? Maybe fund an open , multi-ethnic worker , college, advanced science program seeking and promoting excellence?
flip.it/MdoFZ8
flip.it/MdoFZ8
So let me clarify. Tariiff revenue, a tax on the American people, is to be given BACK to the...American people? BTW not HIS money to spend. And, of course, there is much less revenue on hand than he claims. Deficit anyone?
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‘People against tariffs are fools’: Trump says each American will be paid $2000 dividend
Donald Trump’s vociferous defence of his tariff policy becomes crucial as it comes after the unsettling victory of Democrats in the recent elections. What pinched him the most was the convincing and d...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
So let me clarify. Tariiff revenue, a tax on the American people, is to be given BACK to the...American people? BTW not HIS money to spend. And, of course, there is much less revenue on hand than he claims. Deficit anyone?
www.wionews.com/world/-peopl...
www.wionews.com/world/-peopl...