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Happy New Year. Time for some real talk.Our political system? It’s all made up. And the people in charge have stopped pretending to play by the rules.The mask is off. The good faith is gone. So what are we going to do about it?New video. Watch it. #ItsAllMadeUp #txlege
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It's All Made Up
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January 1, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Happy New Year. Time for some real talk.Our political system? It’s all made up. And the people in charge have stopped pretending to play by the rules.The mask is off. The good faith is gone. So what are we going to do about it?New video. Watch it. #ItsAllMadeUp #txlege
youtu.be/KH96ugk3goU
youtu.be/KH96ugk3goU
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"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..."
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
‘A sad, cruel moment’: 58 Florida children leaving US amid parent deportations
“The only losers are the children.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..."
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.
Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company
A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.
www.npr.org
April 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.
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This was so comforting! Whew!
April 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This was so comforting! Whew!
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🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
April 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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“It was also unclear if Starlink communications were encrypted. At a minimum, the system allows for a network separate from existing White House servers that people on the grounds are able to use, keeping that data separate…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
“It was also unclear if Starlink communications were encrypted. At a minimum, the system allows for a network separate from existing White House servers that people on the grounds are able to use, keeping that data separate…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...
Block Donald Trump’s Attempts to Abolish the Department of Education
Public education in this country is under attack. And Trump has already made clear his intentions to undermine public education even further at every turn—including the extreme proposal to completely ...
sign.moveon.org
March 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...
Woopsy, veterans may now be neglected and potentially die because we are "formalizing the process" AFTER the fact.
This is why you can't simply treat government like a business. You're supposed to be a public servant TO the people. This ain't it man.
This is why you can't simply treat government like a business. You're supposed to be a public servant TO the people. This ain't it man.
HARF: What do you say to people who work for the VA who can't man the suicide hotline now bc they've been fired?
JOHNSON: Look, in Elon's defense, there's no playbook for what he's doing. So as he acknowledged, there are gonna be some mishaps & mistakes. But we will do course correction immediately
JOHNSON: Look, in Elon's defense, there's no playbook for what he's doing. So as he acknowledged, there are gonna be some mishaps & mistakes. But we will do course correction immediately
March 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Woopsy, veterans may now be neglected and potentially die because we are "formalizing the process" AFTER the fact.
This is why you can't simply treat government like a business. You're supposed to be a public servant TO the people. This ain't it man.
This is why you can't simply treat government like a business. You're supposed to be a public servant TO the people. This ain't it man.
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I think back to this from Zelensky regularly. I don't think I've ever seen a greater example of national leadership and courage in the face of extreme personal danger. edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/e...
Zelensky refuses US offer to evacuate, saying ‘I need ammunition, not a ride’ | CNN
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has turned down an offer from the United States of evacuation from the capital city Kyiv, the Ukraine embassy in Britain said Saturday on Twitter.
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February 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I think back to this from Zelensky regularly. I don't think I've ever seen a greater example of national leadership and courage in the face of extreme personal danger. edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/e...
Expert on authoritarianism is writing this. Y'all, we really need people paying attention to this threat!
Trump's statement of the problems caused to Putin by the Russia investigation, the supposed toll on Putin caused by Trump being unable to stop it, reminds me of the "self-criticisms" of people who displeased Communist regimes.
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Trump Unleashed: How the U.S. May Collaborate with Russia
Solving Putin's problems by ending U.S. restrictions on Russian influence at home and by removing the footprint of U.S. power abroad
lucid.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Expert on authoritarianism is writing this. Y'all, we really need people paying attention to this threat!
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Latest podcast episode of The Journal is worth listening to - how the major American CEOs are handling 2nd Trump administration. Spoiler alert, they are planning to just fall in line!
January 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Latest podcast episode of The Journal is worth listening to - how the major American CEOs are handling 2nd Trump administration. Spoiler alert, they are planning to just fall in line!
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Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."
February 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."
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1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs:
"Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..."
www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
"Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..."
www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
VA fires 1,400 more staffers in second round of workforce reductions
About 2,500 VA workers have been forced out of their jobs in the last few weeks.
www.militarytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs:
"Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..."
www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
"Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..."
www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
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Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
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February 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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"Elon Musk is the undisputed champion of making money for Elon Musk. As effectively the CEO of the United States of America? Very bad. Embarrassing, honestly..."
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
February 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"Elon Musk is the undisputed champion of making money for Elon Musk. As effectively the CEO of the United States of America? Very bad. Embarrassing, honestly..."
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
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Filmmakers have tried unsuccessfully for 20 years to make a great Iraq or Afghanistan war movie. Every major American conflict has them, even the 1991 Gulf War. I've only seen the trailer and read reviews for My Dead Friend Zoe, but I think director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes may have finally done it.
Veterans, including Morgan Freeman, make up 90% of the cast of new film ‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ set for theatrical release
“My Dead Friend Zoe,” a comedy-drama film that is coming to theaters and was produced by Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce, is unique in having not only a Army veteran director but a cast that is 9...
www.stripes.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Filmmakers have tried unsuccessfully for 20 years to make a great Iraq or Afghanistan war movie. Every major American conflict has them, even the 1991 Gulf War. I've only seen the trailer and read reviews for My Dead Friend Zoe, but I think director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes may have finally done it.
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“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?”
www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
www.wired.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?”
www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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This is who is in charge of our govt due to the Trump Musk coup
February 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is who is in charge of our govt due to the Trump Musk coup
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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
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Feels relevant yall. Keep up the good fight and never doubt that we can make a difference even with Trump in office. Ps who is Margaret Mead!? The universe is telling me to research her obviously. And I always do what the universe says 🤩
January 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Feels relevant yall. Keep up the good fight and never doubt that we can make a difference even with Trump in office. Ps who is Margaret Mead!? The universe is telling me to research her obviously. And I always do what the universe says 🤩