Deirdre Carney
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Wow, Hilton, you just blew the greatest public relations coup and bout of goodwill and relevance your brand could've ever hoped to score. You've chosen to stand against your own employees on the wrong side of history. I'll never understand why corporations make such dumb moves. Read the room.
Three Cheers for Hilton Hotel Workers Who Banned ICE — Until Their Corporate Bosses Stomped Them Out
Big businesses like Hilton will always side with fascistic forces like ICE, so we need to stand up for the workers who push back.
theintercept.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.
January 7, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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Kelly: This letter or anything that Hegseth says or does to me is in no way going to affect the way I do my job. His option is he can continue with this kind of bullshit or he can go take a hike. That's his options.
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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This is blatantly illegal. A president can’t go into the oil business and then decide where to spend the money. We are completely untethered from our founding document with a lawless president and a Republican Congress which has abdicated all Constitutional authority.
January 7, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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This can’t be true because Trump said tariffs were going to pay for everything and we were all going to get $2,000 checks with the money left over.
January 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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January 6 Was a Violent Insurrection; It Was Also a Fraud Against the GOP Faithful

www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/06/j...
January 6 Was a Violent Insurrection; It Was Also a Fraud Against the GOP Faithful - emptywheel
Republicans spent much of Jack Smith's deposition asking him about subpoenas targeted toll records. They asked no question about subpoenas targeting Trump's fraudulent grift.
www.emptywheel.net
January 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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Cassidy is responsible for all the sickness and death that RFK Jr inflicts on the American people.
January 5, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Ban stock trading by lawmakers in Congress. Full stop.
January 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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France at the UN Security Council:

"The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."
January 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Go Hilton!!!!
“No room at the Inn” is a biblical reference about immigrants (Jesus’ parents) being turned away. Not the government. Way to go, Hilton! The 3rd Amendment protects private entities from having to house the government.
January 6, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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"Donald Trump is not a dove... He is a belligerent warmonger, a lawless imperialist, a pro-plunder president. He openly and shamelessly claims the right to kidnap foreign leaders and steal foreign oil."

From my 'First Draft' morning email for Zeteo. Have you subscribed to it yet?
💣 Happy New... Wars?
Mehdi on Donald Trump's 2026 battle plans, how Nicolás Maduro's dancing may have cost him his freedom, and an Epstein Files deadline that just came... and went.
zeteo.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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Many Venezuelan-Americans were initially euphoric thinking Trump was liberating Venezuela from Maduro. Now, especially with Trump unceremoniously kicking Machado to the curb, they realize he only intended to liberate them from their assets and resources.
January 5, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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We are a country whose Constitution, according to the Supreme Court, gives our own presidents immunity for crimes committed while in office, but we will prosecute presidents of other countries for alleged crimes and invade them to execute arrest warrants.
January 5, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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The oil robbery at the expense of our troops isn't the distraction. But the timing is.
January 5, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Sen. Tim Kaine: "The Constitution says the United States shouldn't be at war without a vote of Congress. This president has now waged military action against Iran, Nigeria, boats in open waters, and now Venezuela."
January 4, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Now Trump says "we" need Greenland.

Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday.

You're next.
January 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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In a nutshell.
January 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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they’re trying to turn everyone into the joker reason.com/2025/12/31/d...
DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship
It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.
reason.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Sen. Van Hollen: "It's my view that the Trump administration has been lying to the American people. This has never been about stopping drugs…This from the beginning has been about getting rid of Maduro, grabbing Venezuela's oil for American oil companies and Trump's billionaire buddies."
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Bush League
YouTube video by VoteVets
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January 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM