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An alleged $50,000 bribe…
To help secure government contracts…
By a now senior Trump official…
And Trump lackeys shuttered the investigation.
Ignoring actual wrongdoing to protect allies, while punishing prosecutors for not going after enemies.
Blatant corruption.
To help secure government contracts…
By a now senior Trump official…
And Trump lackeys shuttered the investigation.
Ignoring actual wrongdoing to protect allies, while punishing prosecutors for not going after enemies.
Blatant corruption.
September 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
An alleged $50,000 bribe…
To help secure government contracts…
By a now senior Trump official…
And Trump lackeys shuttered the investigation.
Ignoring actual wrongdoing to protect allies, while punishing prosecutors for not going after enemies.
Blatant corruption.
To help secure government contracts…
By a now senior Trump official…
And Trump lackeys shuttered the investigation.
Ignoring actual wrongdoing to protect allies, while punishing prosecutors for not going after enemies.
Blatant corruption.
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Sun/Cloudrise 8-2-2025 #photography #TwinLakes #sunrise #clouds #colors #nature #iphonephotography #landscape #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #naturephotography
August 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Sun/Cloudrise 8-2-2025 #photography #TwinLakes #sunrise #clouds #colors #nature #iphonephotography #landscape #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #naturephotography
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With the highest ratings in the time slot? I'm gonna go with it was a White House requirement for approving the merger.
Is Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision’?
CBS no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.
www.theatlantic.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
With the highest ratings in the time slot? I'm gonna go with it was a White House requirement for approving the merger.
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Please read
"This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too."
A stunning essay from Rümeysa Öztürk on the 45 days she spent in an ICE detention center just for speaking her mind
A stunning essay from Rümeysa Öztürk on the 45 days she spent in an ICE detention center just for speaking her mind
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Please read
Says it all.
Not a single House Republican voted in favor of releasing the Epstein files. Not one.
July 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Says it all.
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Pam Bondi has hailed as a hero and dismissed charges against a doctor who:
Injected children with placebo instead of COVID19 vaccine
Destroyed $28,000 worth of taxpayer-funded COVID19 vaccines
Sold fake vaccination cards so people could avoid the vaccine
His license is still active in Utah.
Injected children with placebo instead of COVID19 vaccine
Destroyed $28,000 worth of taxpayer-funded COVID19 vaccines
Sold fake vaccination cards so people could avoid the vaccine
His license is still active in Utah.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announces dismissal of charges against plastic surgeon accused of faking COVID-19 vaccine cards
Attorney General Bondi announced she is dismissing charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, a Utah plastic surgeon.
www.cbsnews.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Pam Bondi has hailed as a hero and dismissed charges against a doctor who:
Injected children with placebo instead of COVID19 vaccine
Destroyed $28,000 worth of taxpayer-funded COVID19 vaccines
Sold fake vaccination cards so people could avoid the vaccine
His license is still active in Utah.
Injected children with placebo instead of COVID19 vaccine
Destroyed $28,000 worth of taxpayer-funded COVID19 vaccines
Sold fake vaccination cards so people could avoid the vaccine
His license is still active in Utah.
Totally unacceptable.
This is the sort of smoking gun connection between a decision and outcome that gets people fired in a normal government
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
July 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Totally unacceptable.
Never forget who is compromised or just pure evil.
July 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Never forget who is compromised or just pure evil.
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A politician’s job is to make the political case to voters. And few do it better than Rep. McGovern.
July 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A politician’s job is to make the political case to voters. And few do it better than Rep. McGovern.
How could people not have believed him?
Trump promised to build concentration camps when he campaigned last year, and the media largely ignored it or acted as though that was an overreaction, and a lot of voters were willfully ignorant of anything he actually said.
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
Trump tours 'Alligator Alcatraz,' a day before its first arrivals are expected
During their visit, Trump administration officials said the facility should be operational within 24 hours — despite the protests of pro-immigration, Indigenous and environmental groups.
www.npr.org
July 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
How could people not have believed him?
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Trump promised to build concentration camps when he campaigned last year, and the media largely ignored it or acted as though that was an overreaction, and a lot of voters were willfully ignorant of anything he actually said.
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
Trump tours 'Alligator Alcatraz,' a day before its first arrivals are expected
During their visit, Trump administration officials said the facility should be operational within 24 hours — despite the protests of pro-immigration, Indigenous and environmental groups.
www.npr.org
July 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Trump promised to build concentration camps when he campaigned last year, and the media largely ignored it or acted as though that was an overreaction, and a lot of voters were willfully ignorant of anything he actually said.
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
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I just saw a video of people bringing dogs to Melissa Hortman’s funeral to honor Gilbert and just started sobbing. Our world is so simultaneously screwed up and beautiful
June 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I just saw a video of people bringing dogs to Melissa Hortman’s funeral to honor Gilbert and just started sobbing. Our world is so simultaneously screwed up and beautiful
Sadly, not in the least surprised. Past the point where corruption is expected.
This is *such* a great story.
Especially when the developer behind this US Attorney’s phantom apartment tries to bully the Times Union reporter:
“I know many many people at Fox. Such action would induce me to pen an op-ed in the NY Post”
Especially when the developer behind this US Attorney’s phantom apartment tries to bully the Times Union reporter:
“I know many many people at Fox. Such action would induce me to pen an op-ed in the NY Post”
June 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Sadly, not in the least surprised. Past the point where corruption is expected.
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Thinking again about how the media turned Bill Clinton talking to AG Loretta Lynch for 15 minutes into a major scandal for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
The Justice Department on Friday fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
apnews.com/article/jan-...
apnews.com/article/jan-...
Justice Department abruptly fires 3 prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 criminal cases, AP sources say
The Justice Department has fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, according to two people familiar with the matter.
apnews.com
June 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Thinking again about how the media turned Bill Clinton talking to AG Loretta Lynch for 15 minutes into a major scandal for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
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That would be awful. Don’t share this.
May 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
That would be awful. Don’t share this.
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JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
I just canceled my Washington Post subscription. When the opinion page goes MAGA, it is only a matter of time IMO that the news follows.
I will cancel Amazon Prime upon renewal and am going to find alternative product sources.
Call it a personal boycott.
I will cancel Amazon Prime upon renewal and am going to find alternative product sources.
Call it a personal boycott.
February 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I just canceled my Washington Post subscription. When the opinion page goes MAGA, it is only a matter of time IMO that the news follows.
I will cancel Amazon Prime upon renewal and am going to find alternative product sources.
Call it a personal boycott.
I will cancel Amazon Prime upon renewal and am going to find alternative product sources.
Call it a personal boycott.
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When I see Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute to cheers it means only one thing:
420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power.
MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.
420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power.
MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.
February 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
When I see Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute to cheers it means only one thing:
420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power.
MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.
420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power.
MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.
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Meanwhile, so much for “free speech” over at The Bad Place.
February 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Meanwhile, so much for “free speech” over at The Bad Place.