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No mud, no lotus.
What I have said since Trump rode down the escalator for his first campaign: Don’t tell voters who you are against, tell thema what you are for!
Fighting against Trump isn’t enough. It's time for Democrats to show America what they're fighting FOR — and embrace the fresh, new voices leading the way. Watch. https://youtu.be/Uzc57eD3cWI?si=65LK4EXG7o-_BtmU
What Democrats SHOULD Be Doing
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Do you think it’s a coincidence that Trump said today he would soon talk with Bolsonaro? Of course, it would be much easier to take that call if Brazil’s presidential felon escaped to claim asylum in the US Embassy.
So glad we respect for the rule of law in Brazil!
BREAKING: Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested.
Brazil's Supreme Court ordered his transfer to prison after he allegedly tried to break his electronic ankle monitor. Bolsonaro admitted to police he used a "soldering iron" on the device, claiming he did it "out of curiosity."

Read more here 👇
Brazil arrests Bolsonaro after alleged attempt to break electronic ankle monitor - International Herald
The former president, serving house arrest for an attempted coup, was jailed Saturday after authorities said he used a soldering iron to damage his tracking device.
interherald.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Certainly DOJ will interview former employees and vendors who serviced Epstein properties, and subpoena any CCTV video from his properties as part of its “investigation”. There are bound to be MANY workers who can say who was there and what went on. /s
Murphy: "It's clearly the biggest scandal in presidential history. He wouldn't be acting this way if he wasn't so deeply worried about what's in those files. What we've already seen is immensely incriminating. Clearly Trump was at the center of a child sex ring ... the scandal could bring him down."
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago

For Americans: Bread lines
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?

He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This is what oligarchy looks like:

If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.

If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.

Obscene.
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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It's well past time for the Apple App Store and Microsoft Store to take Twitter down. The site is seemingly exercising zero content moderation at all, and the owner of the site is reinstating neo-Nazi accounts that publish dangerous information.
October 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip.

And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.
Trump tells a reporter who asks him about going to war with American cities to “be quiet” and “listen”
September 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
And his fellow members of the Cuban emigré community who had their temporary protected status revoked by his Dear Leader should never let him forget this either.
Marco Rubio could have stayed in the US Senate and, much like John McCain, provided some defense against Trump's authoritarianism, but instead he will be remembered as a coward who sold his soul.
September 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
“"We regularly ask our broadcasters to refrain from showcasing off-court disruptions," USTA spokesman Brendan McIntyre told The Athletic”
Ha, Ha, Ha!!
September 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Chicago doesn't play
September 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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A reminder to everyone to remember:

Crimea is Ukraine.
Mariupol is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
September 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Has any one added up how much it will cost just to rebrand DOD as the “War Department” to fluff Trump’s ego? And which Trump crony is getting the no bid contract for that job? He sure loves to spend OPM!
September 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
September 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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More framing like this, please

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Move along, move along. Nothing to see here.
I guess the play they're settling on running is to argue that Epstein was innocent?
WATCH: Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump was "never inappropriate with anybody in the times I was with him." In the same interview, she says she never saw Jeffrey Epstein engage in "unconsensual" behavior.
August 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I think Trump himself thinks he's more or less invincible and is going to act like it, with catastrophic results for himself.

His more apocalyptic advisors, like Miller and Hegseth, seem inclined to bet everything on a slim chance of victory rather than give up their dreams of a Herrenvolk state.
August 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
She just earned her Get Out of Jail Free card. But are we surprised? Forgone conclusion when she got moved to min sec prison in TX and had her privileges upgraded. She played her hand well.
August 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It’s the leading edge of the Trump Recession. Enjoy it while you can, because that decline in consumer confidence will only increase.
Despite tariffs, there were no signs of increased inflation in May. In fact, it was the opposite.

Prices of gasoline, vehicles, clothing and even eggs dropped. The belief is that consumers and businesses stocked up in Q1 and low demand meant prices didn’t go up.

What happens once demand returns?
May’s missing inflation is a mystery — and a sign that consumers are concerned
The Fed will be less willing to bet that tariff-fueled price increases will be just “transitory.”
www.marketwatch.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Yes, on all points! Someone needs to tell Redstone not to sacrifice her principles for the sake of a deal. If she can’t sell Paramount now, she will have another chance—if not several—in a little over 3 years.
To be clear: CBS offered to pay 15 million to Trump for editing an interview with his opponent in a way that he didn’t like. The world has gone mad.

(Also, shouldn’t Harris now sue Fox for their editing of Trump interviews that she didn’t like??)
NEWS

President Trump’s team has rejected a $15 million settlement offer from Paramount/CBS.

Trump’s team wants more than $25 million and an apology from CBS.

Full Story: bit.ly/43wvi7l
May 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Speechless.
May 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Or you could say that Rogan knows how to pick a wave he can ride to the social media beach. But that would be cynical, wouldn’t it?
This is why atheists are so irritating, they’re not serious people. If you could be talked into or out of your beliefs by Kid Rock, you are a peabrain
Joe Rogan is now an ex-atheist who regularly attends Christian services after a tik-tok influencer and Kid Rock convinced Joe that Jesus was real during their JRE podcast appearances
May 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM