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AJ Lohse
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Teacher, reader, PoliSci nerd.
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The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen

*refreshes feed*

[The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
May 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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To me the most importing thing about today is that they knew what this would do to the market, and did it anyway.

If nothing else, that ought to tell you what time it is.
April 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.

One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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How it started // how it's going
April 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”

A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours

Massive applause for Booker
April 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.
February 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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This energy.
February 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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can’t pay teens for sex and become attorney general anymore on account of woke
December 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Congratulations to Mike Johnson for trying to pressure the House Ethics Committee into burying a report that found the then-nominee for attorney general had engaged in sexual activity with a minor.

Party of Family Values, am I right?
December 23, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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Do I want economic growth? Not for its own sake, no. I do want people to have decent, fulfilling jobs, and a good, secure, standard of living, and if economic growth is necessary for that, fair enough, but let us not confuse the means and the end. (End of today's homily.)
December 9, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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📌Under Joe Biden:

-Record 16 million jobs created
-Lowest average unemployment rate of any administration in 50 yrs
-Incomes up $4,000 over prices
-Inflation at world-best 2%
-Economy grew more than any presidential term this century

Dems lose election because of economy.
Absolutely INSANE.
December 7, 2024 at 8:46 PM
I’d like to see more discourse about this regarding messaging. Dunking on people you disagree with isn’t effective.
But don’t worry. Oklahoma is buying thousands of Bibles for their public schools.
November 17, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Just thinking about how the expanded child tax credit would have lifted half our nation’s kids out of poverty.
November 15, 2024 at 12:51 AM