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Husband, Father, Workaholic.
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"Isn’t it great that we’ve descended so far into an authoritarian cult of personality that even Trump’s hand-picked officials aren’t comfortable inquiring as to whether Dear Leader accidentally posted a DM on main and instead have to treat his every action as divinely ordained?"
Trump posts his Watergate tapes
It ended Nixon's presidency. For Trump, it's just another Saturday.
www.publicnotice.co
September 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.

That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
September 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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July 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
June 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
June 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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<Sob laugh>
June 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Sotomayor: "The majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent."
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST CHALLENGE TO TENNESSEE LAW BANNING GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH
June 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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I don’t care what city or town you live in. If these guys jumped out of an unmarked van and grabbed you on the street, would you just assume they’re ICE or FBI? Would you willingly comply with their orders and get inside the van?

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.

THIS IS NOT AMERICA.
June 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.
June 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too."

-Zohran Mamdani
June 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
June 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Born in 1975, I represent the one generation of women who had rights.

I’m fighting for my daughters and granddaughters.

Fuck this shit.
June 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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History will not be kind to Speaker Johnson. Nor should it be.
June 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.”

ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.

Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
June 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Bob Costas nailed it. 🎯
June 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Imagine Ted Cruz being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed in Texas by the Feds during a Mayorkas presser in Dallas.

While Mayorkas declares the liberation of Texas from its incompetent state government by the federal government.
June 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?
June 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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It's very simple.
Taking someone without due process is abduction.
Taking someone and refusing to show your ID and/or proper credentials... is abduction.
It is brownshirt behavior, not government enforcement of law.
June 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.

We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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In other news, coming at us in definitely not ludicrous speed, Spaceballs!
June 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I honestly think it’s time for some Dems to start dropping f-bombs. On national television. Let’s start acting like the crisis this is
June 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.
June 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM