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Mark Stratton John Matthew Smith is an American Old Testament scholar and professor.

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This part.

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No age cap, and no morality floor.

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This is the way authoritarian states operate.

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Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner
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"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs."
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The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
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He’s gotta have something more important (and less racist) to do on than this.

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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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This is what resistance looks like.

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Marcus Tisdale on Substack
A citizen shows us the totally professional way ICE agents react if they think they’re being followed.
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What does “Make America Great Again” mean? Well Bibi, why don’t you go visit a former enslavement camp for some context?
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@repilhan.bsky.social coming to #NASHVILLE along with @brotherjones.bsky.social THIS SATURDAY!!!

Rep. Andy Ogles hasn't held a town hall in his district, but he *has* been calling for Rep. Omar to be deported. Instead, she's going to his district to convene the town hall he's too scared to hold.
RAPID RESPONSE TOWN HALL CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR REPRESENTATIVE JUSTIN JONES Cane Ridge High School 12848 Old Hickory Blvd, Antioch, TN 37013 Saturday, July 12, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm BUILDING PEOPLE POWERED DEMOCRACY
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Netanyahu nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize is like Lucky Luciano nominating Al Capone for police chief.

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To the “I voted for this” crowd:

You voted for the guy who gutted the National Weather Service. Now we’ve got dead families and missing kids in Texas, because storm warnings didn’t go out in time. And he gutted FEMA so they can’t properly respond to disasters.

That’s what you voted for?
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Curtis Yarvin, who has been profiled in media like Politico and The Wall Street Journal, has publicly stated in the past that he thinks black people are naturally fit to be slaves.
"I wonder if there's another domestic population capable of agricultural labor" - Curtis Yarvin
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There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US.

Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them?

Or just the brown people?
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SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’”

#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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The big disastrous bill has over $560 billion in corporate tax cuts. So, of course, corporations will use the tax savings to raise wages so that workers won’t need the Medicaid or Food Stamps the bill cut funding for, right? 🤔

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How is this different from Germany in 1940?

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they want to force UVA’s president to resign because he thinks it would be bad if the university reverted to being a lily-white finishing school for the failsons of the old guard southern elite www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
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A truly great country knows its full history — this is strength. Denying that history is weakness and weakens that nation going forward.

A president who erases our history attacks our strength.

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Does that justify the most recent military action by the United States?
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Just because he pulled out doesn’t mean it’s over. Rapists never understand that

#NoWar #ImpeachTrump
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WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.”

Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
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The worst thing we do in this country is put children in jails and prisons. Full stop.

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I didn't bring my phone to the protest, but I did bring my Canon G7X to take photos. Here's a video of the incredible turnout for the No Kings protest in Studio City, CA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkI...
No Kings Protest in Studio City, CA
YouTube video by Henry Barajas
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No violence. No incidents. No Marines. No National Guard. Not even the L.A.P.D. Just a wonderful day with a few thousand truly patriotic Angelenos in Studio City. #NoKingsDay
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ICE ambushes a US citizen who is going about his daily business on his way to work, drags him out of his car, puts him in handcuffs, and treats him like a criminal.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson calls for Sen. Alex Padilla to be censured:
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Tanks in DC Troops in LA. A military parade on his birthday.

Trump is done pretending. This is what authoritarianism looks like in America.

My latest on why we must speak out now — before silence becomes complicity.

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Authoritarian on Parade
Deploying soldiers against American cities while parading tanks through D.C.? This is the dictator playbook, page by page.
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Today, the President of the United States called the American city that will host next year’s World Cup and the next Summer Olympic Games a “trash heap.” Does that mean he’s not coming?

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The New Yorker nails it again.

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Hannah Arendt’s analysis from 74 years ago is as accurate and relevant today as ever.

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