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Erika Skaggs
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Imagine being so insecure that even the memory of your predecessor is too hot to handle. #pettylittleb*tch
Trump moves Obama, Bush portraits to hidden stairwell | CNN Politics
Once a dramatic feature of the White House entryway, the official portrait of former President Barack Obama has been moved to a decidedly less prominent position, underscoring the years-long tensions ...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So uh…What’s the over/under on this witch surviving the year?
House Oversight Committee subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell for deposition | CNN Politics
House Oversight Chair James Comer has subpoenaed Jeffrey Epstein’s former associate Ghislaine Maxwell for a deposition.
www.cnn.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Hey CBS- just so you know, Colbert’s last day with you will be mine also- No Paramount+, no live broadcasts, no streaming. I won’t even watch your shows on other platforms. You will never make another dime off me. No amount of Star Trek and Young Sheldon is worth this fascist BS.
Keep Colbert on Air!
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...
sign.moveon.org
July 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Idiots incessantly attack Hakeem Jeffries for "never doing anything but talking" while obsequiously praising cosplay socialist fauxgressives who have literally never done anything but talk.

If we could harness their lack of self-awareness, it'd generate more power than Iron Man's Arc Reactor.
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media.tenor.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ - The Guardian
June 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Israel furious as France shuts four weapons stands after refusal to remove offensive weaponry

“If you can’t beat them in technology, just hide them right? That’s what it is because there’s no other explanation.”

Ummmm, I can think of a few other explanations.🤔
June 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
In case you thought this was just an issue for “costal elites.” -This kid is a legal, documented immigrant, who was arrested without a warrant and being held WITHOUT CHARGES, on a $15,000 bond. If it can happen to him, it can happen to you.
June 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Apparently, I assassinated quite a few pot roasts and onion rings in my youth.
May 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.

They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.

They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.

The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.

kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If the law doesn’t protect them, then it doesn’t protect you either. It’s that simple.
April 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Someone check the temperature in hell. Rand Paul and I are actually agreeing on something.
April 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Anybody else got whiplash reading all these tariff headlines?
March 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Cancelling $400 in federal grants and contracts has nothing to do with anti-semitism. Trump knows that universities are a powerhouse when it comes to anti-government protests, and this is a clear threat to any school that stands by its students’ 1st amendment rights in the fight to come.

#Columbia
March 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Electorate- “Do something about the planes FALLING OUT OF THE SKY!”

President Elump- “I know! 💡Let’s fire all the air traffic controllers.”

#FAA
February 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Musk is the real parasite.
ms.now MS NOW @ms.now · Feb 16
“Musk sits at a nexus of power that few — if any — Americans have ever held.”

Holding Elon Musk accountable is going to be difficult, writes @eoinhiggins.bsky.social, so long as he has both his shareholders and President Trump to shield him.

READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | It will be hard to dislodge Elon Musk — but not impossible
Besides having Trump’s support as head of DOGE, the billionaire’s companies have a deep grip within the national security state.
www.msnbc.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Educational institutions have toxically indoctrinated students with the false premise that the United States is built upon “systemic and structural racism”and advanced discriminatory policies and practices.”

Excuse me- In what way was the transatlantic slave trade not discriminatory?
In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed, marking the legal end to Jim Crow in the USA. Its Title VI banned discrimination by race among any institution that receives Federal funds.

On Friday, the Acting head of the Ed Dept sent out this letter to all 50 states:

www.ed.gov/media/docume...
www.ed.gov
February 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“Shut your mouth” and “You’re not President.” There’s a reason this kid thinks he can talk to Trump that way, and it’s not just “boys will be boys.” It’s because he’s seen the way his father treats Trump behind closed doors, and he’s just aping daddy. Dollars to donuts-Elon has something on Trump.
What did Elon Musk's son say to Trump? White House video goes viral
A number of social media users believe Elon Musk's 4-year-old son, X Æ A-Xii, told President Donald Trump, "Shut your mouth."
www.newsweek.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Read this, then call your Senators and Representatives. They have the power to stop this, but we have to give them both a reason to act and political cover when they do. A flood of angry constituents calls provides both. 🧪
Some people asked if I could list real impacts from some of the recent federal decisions. Here are SOME real impacts our team has faced already in 3 weeks:

1. Im quite certain 1 project (likely 2) I have that support low income high school students across the country, will be canceled. 🧪
February 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
One of the best sessions I attended at the 2023 ACS meeting in San Francisco was about making lab spaces accessible for everybody and every BODY. What message does this send to our differently able students, that we don’t want them anymore? You should be ashamed of yourself ACS! 🧪
Utterly disgraceful. How cowardly. 🧪
The @acs.org has deleted its website on diversity, equity, inclusion and respect.

www.acs.org/about/divers...
February 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Call your reps to save NIH & NSF research funding
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February 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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This energy.
February 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The US National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists said could be devastating for the nation’s position as a research leader.
Researchers decry ‘disastrously bad idea’ as NIH slashes payments for research infrastructure | CNN
The US National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists said could ...
www.cnn.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Long story short- I hope you weren’t counting on having any new cancer treatments any time soon. My lab researches novel therapies for lung cancer, but we can’t do that if there’s no money to keep the lights on. Now we see the real Project 2025- Make Americans Dead Again!
NIH slashes funding for research overhead, leaving universities scrambling
It’s the Trump administration’s latest blow to the American higher education system, which Republicans for years have blasted for churning out liberal-minded graduates.
www.politico.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM