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๐ŸšจBREAKING: Puerto Rico has been part of the United States since 1898, and people still act confused that Puerto Ricans are American.

States that joined after Puerto Rico:
โ€ข Oklahoma โ€” 1907
โ€ข New Mexico โ€” 1912
โ€ข Arizona โ€” 1912
โ€ข Alaska โ€” 1959
โ€ข Hawaii โ€” 1959

Yet somehow this is still news to folks.

10.02.2026 04:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12407    ๐Ÿ” 4166    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 683    ๐Ÿ“Œ 201
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Maxwell can clear Trump's name in Epstein probe in exchange for clemency, attorney says Jeffrey Epsteinโ€™s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell appeared virtually for a closed-door House deposition and pleaded the Fifth. Follow for live updates.

Ghislaine Maxwell suddenly says they can โ€œclear Trumpโ€™s nameโ€ in exchange for a pardon.

Child rapists and sex traffickers should never be pardoned.

Nothing she says or provides can be taken as the truth.

Believe the women.

Believe the girls.

Believe the children.

09.02.2026 20:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 534    ๐Ÿ” 203    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Turning Point USAโ€™s Halftime Show Was Exactly What Youโ€™d Expect โ€œThe All-American Halftime Show," born out of outrage over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, fell short of the hype. From Kid Rockโ€™s poor lip synching to Erika Kirk being MIA, it was simply dull.

While the rest of you enjoyed Bad Bunny's historic Super Bowl halftime show, I was watching Kid Rock's D+ lip-synching to "Bawitdaba" in Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk memorial counterprogramming. Here's what you missed:

09.02.2026 04:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 311    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

133 million watched Bad Bunny

4 million watched Kid Rock

America wins

09.02.2026 05:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

09.02.2026 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25054    ๐Ÿ” 5890    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 104    ๐Ÿ“Œ 50

LOLOLOL

09.02.2026 01:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3375    ๐Ÿ” 382    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

โ€œIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.โ€

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

06.02.2026 04:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3119    ๐Ÿ” 1345    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 97

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

08.02.2026 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8496    ๐Ÿ” 2120    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 142    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not โ€œmove onโ€ from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

08.02.2026 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44437    ๐Ÿ” 16953    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 968    ๐Ÿ“Œ 962
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Terrorism is the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to induce fear, intending to coerce governments or societies to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals. It often targets civilians and critical infrastructure to disrupt safety and advance specific agendas.

30.01.2026 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7357    ๐Ÿ” 2684    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 160    ๐Ÿ“Œ 97

Every state should default to 100% mail-in voting. No polling places for ICE to intimidate, 100% trackable and more people would vote.

08.02.2026 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump saw enough of the racist video to post it, but not enough to apologize. That tells you everything.

A decent man who wasnโ€™t racist would have owned it and said sorry.

โ€œI didnโ€™t make a mistake.โ€ ~ Donald Trump

07.02.2026 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1044    ๐Ÿ” 323    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 133    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: thatโ€™s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? ๐Ÿ˜Š

07.02.2026 05:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31898    ๐Ÿ” 6607    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 209    ๐Ÿ“Œ 151
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Military Pressured to See โ€˜Melaniaโ€™ Against Their Will A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theaterโ€”the movie theater.

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

07.02.2026 04:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2884    ๐Ÿ” 1326    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 366    ๐Ÿ“Œ 858
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Pardoned J6ers continue their crime sprees across America.

06.02.2026 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13066    ๐Ÿ” 3904    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 975    ๐Ÿ“Œ 265
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American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 โ€” even as corporate profits soar.

Why? This chart has the answer.

06.02.2026 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4112    ๐Ÿ” 1733    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 89    ๐Ÿ“Œ 99

One might guess like the GOP many of the Dems are compromised as well.

06.02.2026 02:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Noodling out loud here.

If every state deployed 100% mail in ballots then ICE would have no one to threaten or intimidate at polling places.

06.02.2026 02:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThere are more references to Donald Trump in the Epstein Files than there are references to Harry Potter in every book and film the character is inโ€.

Bizarre but apparently true.

05.02.2026 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 356    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Social media is one of the biggest surveillance tools.

05.02.2026 03:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Corey Lewandowski: "I was really gonna go to the Super Bowl, but then Bad Bunny showed up. Listen -- anybody who is an American has nothing to worry about. It's the rapists and the murderers and the sex traffickers and child pedophiles who are in this country who need to be worried."

02.02.2026 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1079    ๐Ÿ” 196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 650    ๐Ÿ“Œ 211
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Trump is suing the Pulitzer Prize board for handing out awards for The NY Times coverage of Russian collusion. attorneys for the board requested the unredacted Mueller report as well as any written responses Trump provided.
I love Discovery!
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
www.msn.com/en-us/news/ne

03.02.2026 01:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 582    ๐Ÿ” 165    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Grief stood like a sentinel in public. On the steps of the Public Theater, Peter Dinklage read Amanda Gorman's poem, "For Renee Nicole Good." No spectacle. Just a voice carrying loss out loud. Renee should be here. Saying her name matters. Remembrance is resistance.

02.02.2026 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 892    ๐Ÿ” 368    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

New โ€” I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.

These are their stories:

03.02.2026 01:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3835    ๐Ÿ” 1719    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 56    ๐Ÿ“Œ 59
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A motherโ€™s confession on SNL๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘‡

01.02.2026 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2108    ๐Ÿ” 532    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 147

Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.

Meanwhile, thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined.

See the problem here?

02.02.2026 23:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3906    ๐Ÿ” 1630    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 123    ๐Ÿ“Œ 72

Seems like that must be 100% what they intended.

02.02.2026 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The White House Military Office Coast Guard aide was on โ€œFootballโ€ duty tonight for Emperor Trumpโ€™s return to Washington, DC, from Palm Beach. The ~45-lb. satchel follows Trump 24/7, enabling him alone to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weaponsโ€”up to 900 on alertโ€”at any time.

02.02.2026 03:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 45    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

01.02.2026 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5554    ๐Ÿ” 1241    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 102    ๐Ÿ“Œ 90
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