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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, Stephen Miller Said Trump Had 'Plenary Authority' In A CNN Interview www.huffpost.com/entry/stephe...

Yes, Stephen Miller Said Trump Had 'Plenary Authority' In A CNN Interview

A bizarre moment during a cable news interview saw one of the president's closest advisers make a wild assertion.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 6h

Trump Literally Brags About Taking Away People’s Free Speech newrepublic.com/post/201514/... via @newrepublic.com

Trump Literally Brags About Taking Away People’s Free Speech

Donald Trump has been saying the quiet part out loud for some time now.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 6h

ICE Barbie Says Antifa Is as Bad as ISIS in Deranged White House Event newrepublic.com/post/201515/... via @newrepublic.com

ICE Barbie Says Antifa Is as Bad as ISIS in Deranged White House Event

Homeland Security Kristi Noem said this with a completely straight face.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 7h

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. www.propublica.org/article/educ...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of…

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 12h

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How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies (Gift Article)

President Trump has long spoken of seeking vengeance against his political enemies. Here’s a list of whom he is targeting.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 12h

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

The right loves the accounts, which often rail against supposed voter fraud. They’re run by a Macedonian who illegally donated to a U.S. House candidate

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 13h

The National Guard is the only answer to these dangerous characters. This sort of frivolity must be stopped! #WarZonePortland

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 13h

I'm surprised there wasn't a lightning bolt involved in this interaction. ICE Barbie can only play the part of a Christian because she knows nothing about living the Gospel. Cruelty, lies, and adultery aren't tenets of Christianity.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem praying before sending her secret, masked goons out to harass the people of Portland

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 14h

This is what real journalism looks like - the truth.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children buff.ly/nasJcjx

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 14h

There is a special place in Hell reserved for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar buff.ly/ZGCkRNG

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 14h

There's nothing as threatening as an unarmed priest. Especially when you're on a rooftop and there's no danger from the demonstrators.

What a cowardly Gestapo action. #ICEGestapo

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 14h

Quid pro quo is the Trump way.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire buff.ly/sfvjWRG

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Schiff Lists Every Question Pam Bondi Ignored as She Melts Down newrepublic.com/post/201437/...

Schiff Lists Every Question Pam Bondi Ignored as She Melts Down

Senator Adam Schiff went toe to toe with Trump’s attorney general in a Senate hearing.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it. buff.ly/hOH9LOp

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. buff.ly/hbaLXbn

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

The Stunning Corruption In The White House buff.ly/ns6pXXW

The Stunning Corruption In The White House

It’s a feature of Trump.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Is ICE Today’s Klan?

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore… buff.ly/HivysZ9

Is ICE Today’s Klan?

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore…

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

TikTok’s new boss is a close ally of Benjamin Netanyahu oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/tiktoks-ne...

TikTok’s new boss is a close ally of Benjamin Netanyahu

The push to ban TikTok in the U.S. began with allegations that it was undermining the Israeli government. It now seems poised to end with tech oligarch Larry Ellison, a close ally of Israeli Prime…

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

More Fox News crap?

The devolution of CBS News

A network once revered for fact-based reporting is embracing right-wing pseudo-journalism buff.ly/W02rKNy

The devolution of CBS News

A network once revered for fact-based reporting is embracing right-wing pseudo-journalism

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller Must Have Amnesia if This Is Why He Hates ICE Protests newrepublic.com/post/201404/...

Stephen Miller Must Have Amnesia if This Is Why He Hates ICE Protests

The White House adviser is being dragged to hell for a delusional rewrite of riots in U.S. history.

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's Plan

To invoke the Insurrection Act buff.ly/5AG3tIZ

Trump's Plan

To invoke the Insurrection Act

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