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I’ve argued for two months that we would clearly label DOGE a junta or mercenaries if they were at work overseas. Read this list and tell me how this isn’t an extralegal junta mercenary army?
Here are four ways that DOGE, as a dark network, is amassing power while avoiding accountability
March 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I’ve argued for two months that we would clearly label DOGE a junta or mercenaries if they were at work overseas. Read this list and tell me how this isn’t an extralegal junta mercenary army?
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Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan.
No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
March 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan.
No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
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When you chase the waves, you must embrace the tide.
When you chase the waves, you must embrace the tide.
March 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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When you chase the waves, you must embrace the tide.
When you chase the waves, you must embrace the tide.
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An unqualified former Fox host, accused in an affidavit of being "abusive" toward his second wife, of being perpetually drunk, and allegedly screaming "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" just got confirmed as the US Defense Secretary (!) by a tie-break vote in the Senate.
January 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
An unqualified former Fox host, accused in an affidavit of being "abusive" toward his second wife, of being perpetually drunk, and allegedly screaming "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" just got confirmed as the US Defense Secretary (!) by a tie-break vote in the Senate.
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I'd like to remind Donald Trump that the United States became the most powerful, most prosperous nation on earth not in spite of immigrants, but because of them.
Proud to stand with my Congressional Hispanic Caucus colleagues this week in defense of immigrant families.
Proud to stand with my Congressional Hispanic Caucus colleagues this week in defense of immigrant families.
January 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I'd like to remind Donald Trump that the United States became the most powerful, most prosperous nation on earth not in spite of immigrants, but because of them.
Proud to stand with my Congressional Hispanic Caucus colleagues this week in defense of immigrant families.
Proud to stand with my Congressional Hispanic Caucus colleagues this week in defense of immigrant families.
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Dear members of the press,
Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE:
When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE:
When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
Select January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection
www.govinfo.gov
January 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Dear members of the press,
Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE:
When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE:
When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here:
www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...
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The US is not the only country with birthright citizenship, crime isn’t even close to an all-time high, Trump isn’t the guy who saved Obamacare, and other fact checks from the president-elect’s interview on Meet the Press: www.cnn.com/2024/12/08/p...
Fact check: Trump, repeating old lies on ‘Meet the Press,’ falsely claims US is the only country with birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
President-elect Donald Trump repeated numerous false claims during an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” – including his old lie that the US is the world’s only country with birthri...
www.cnn.com
December 8, 2024 at 6:54 PM
The US is not the only country with birthright citizenship, crime isn’t even close to an all-time high, Trump isn’t the guy who saved Obamacare, and other fact checks from the president-elect’s interview on Meet the Press: www.cnn.com/2024/12/08/p...
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The president made more than 20 false claims during his various Inauguration Day remarks. Fact check: www.cnn.com/politics/fac...
Fact check: Trump made more than 20 false claims in his Inauguration Day remarks | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump made only a smattering of false claims in his inaugural address on Monday, mostly sticking to vague rhetoric, subjective assertions and uncheckable promises of action. But then ...
www.cnn.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The president made more than 20 false claims during his various Inauguration Day remarks. Fact check: www.cnn.com/politics/fac...
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NEW—Trump WH has blocked all CDC science reports (eg MMWR) & suspended all CDC / FDA / NIH external communications of all HHS agencies until further notice... including all FDA & CDC Health Alert warnings & all social media. Public health be damned.
Gift 🎁 link:
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Gift 🎁 link:
wapo.st/4aqfN44
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
wapo.st
January 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
NEW—Trump WH has blocked all CDC science reports (eg MMWR) & suspended all CDC / FDA / NIH external communications of all HHS agencies until further notice... including all FDA & CDC Health Alert warnings & all social media. Public health be damned.
Gift 🎁 link:
wapo.st/4aqfN44
Gift 🎁 link:
wapo.st/4aqfN44
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When Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde mentions LGBTQ children, JD Vance all but rolls his eyes and looks at his wife, who, wisely, ignores him.
This is an odd reaction from a man who struggled with wondering if he was gay a child. But Republicans aren't famous for their self-awareness or empathy.
This is an odd reaction from a man who struggled with wondering if he was gay a child. But Republicans aren't famous for their self-awareness or empathy.
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
When Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde mentions LGBTQ children, JD Vance all but rolls his eyes and looks at his wife, who, wisely, ignores him.
This is an odd reaction from a man who struggled with wondering if he was gay a child. But Republicans aren't famous for their self-awareness or empathy.
This is an odd reaction from a man who struggled with wondering if he was gay a child. But Republicans aren't famous for their self-awareness or empathy.
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The Fraternal Order of Police doesn't have a comment on Trump's pardon of hundreds of violent criminals that assaulted police. Chicken shit cowards. www.rawstory.com/fop-trump-pa...
'We don't have a statement': Massive pro-Trump police union ducks comment after J6 pardons
The Fraternal Order of Police, one of the nation's largest labor organizations for police officers, endorsed President Donald Trump — but now that he has pardoned hundreds of people convicted of attac...
www.rawstory.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The Fraternal Order of Police doesn't have a comment on Trump's pardon of hundreds of violent criminals that assaulted police. Chicken shit cowards. www.rawstory.com/fop-trump-pa...
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Trump on wildfires: "Los Angeles has massive amounts of water available to it. All they have to do is turn the value, and that's the valve coming back from and down from the Pacific Northwest."
January 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Trump on wildfires: "Los Angeles has massive amounts of water available to it. All they have to do is turn the value, and that's the valve coming back from and down from the Pacific Northwest."
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Trump is sworn in without placing his hand on the Bible, because he has no intention of upholding his oath of office.
January 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump is sworn in without placing his hand on the Bible, because he has no intention of upholding his oath of office.
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I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
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President Biden in his Farewell Address:
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, the freedoms and the fair shot for everyone to get ahead."
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, the freedoms and the fair shot for everyone to get ahead."
January 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
President Biden in his Farewell Address:
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, the freedoms and the fair shot for everyone to get ahead."
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, the freedoms and the fair shot for everyone to get ahead."
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Biden: "After 50 years at the center of all of this, I know that believing in the idea of America means respecting the institutions that govern a free society -- the presidency, the Congress, the courts, a free and independent press ... "
January 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Biden: "After 50 years at the center of all of this, I know that believing in the idea of America means respecting the institutions that govern a free society -- the presidency, the Congress, the courts, a free and independent press ... "
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Started //// going
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
January 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Started //// going
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
(Democracy dies in capitalism)
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If you perform at the Trump inauguration or at any related events you are endorsing him. Full stop. And it’s no more defensible than if you performed for Putin or Orban or in the 1930s for the German chancellor. You can dress it up all you want but that’s what it is.
January 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
If you perform at the Trump inauguration or at any related events you are endorsing him. Full stop. And it’s no more defensible than if you performed for Putin or Orban or in the 1930s for the German chancellor. You can dress it up all you want but that’s what it is.
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As an ex prosecutor I’m most disturbed by Trump’s utilization of social media to intimidate witnesses against him. This should be yet another criminal charge of interference in a criminal investigation. This is the most troubling aspect of Jack Smith’s report. See attached.
January 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
As an ex prosecutor I’m most disturbed by Trump’s utilization of social media to intimidate witnesses against him. This should be yet another criminal charge of interference in a criminal investigation. This is the most troubling aspect of Jack Smith’s report. See attached.
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Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has called off a second attempt to launch its 30-story New Glenn rocket.
Blue Origin stands down from New Glenn launch attempt — again | CNN
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, called off its first attempt to get its new, 30-story New Glenn rocket off the ground in the early hours of Monday morning.
www.cnn.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has called off a second attempt to launch its 30-story New Glenn rocket.
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“Trump's unprecedented efforts to unlawfully retain power … 'in which the offense [was] the most flagrant, the public harm the greatest, and the proof the most certain”
Trump would’ve been found guilty. And yet the traitor is going to be 47.
abcnews.go.com/amp/US/speci...
Trump would’ve been found guilty. And yet the traitor is going to be 47.
abcnews.go.com/amp/US/speci...
Special counsel Jack Smith personally denounces Trump's conduct, calls his accusations 'laughable'
In a last rebuke to the former president he investigated for two years, special counsel Jack Smith denounced Donald Trump for levying "laughable" attacks on the DOJ.
abcnews.go.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“Trump's unprecedented efforts to unlawfully retain power … 'in which the offense [was] the most flagrant, the public harm the greatest, and the proof the most certain”
Trump would’ve been found guilty. And yet the traitor is going to be 47.
abcnews.go.com/amp/US/speci...
Trump would’ve been found guilty. And yet the traitor is going to be 47.
abcnews.go.com/amp/US/speci...
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This is, indeed, how Donald Trump has always used lawyers, and how he will continue to use lawyers.
This is not a man who is interested in legal advice.
This is a man who brings attorneys into his sphere to use them as instruments for criminal activity.
He's been doing this for literally decades.
This is not a man who is interested in legal advice.
This is a man who brings attorneys into his sphere to use them as instruments for criminal activity.
He's been doing this for literally decades.
January 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is, indeed, how Donald Trump has always used lawyers, and how he will continue to use lawyers.
This is not a man who is interested in legal advice.
This is a man who brings attorneys into his sphere to use them as instruments for criminal activity.
He's been doing this for literally decades.
This is not a man who is interested in legal advice.
This is a man who brings attorneys into his sphere to use them as instruments for criminal activity.
He's been doing this for literally decades.
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NEW: Special counsel Jack Smith used his final report to say Trump is not exonerated for his "unprecedented criminal effort" to retain power in 2020.
He's only off the hook because he won, Smith said.
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
He's only off the hook because he won, Smith said.
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
January 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
NEW: Special counsel Jack Smith used his final report to say Trump is not exonerated for his "unprecedented criminal effort" to retain power in 2020.
He's only off the hook because he won, Smith said.
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
He's only off the hook because he won, Smith said.
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...