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Democracy, dogs, arts, gardening and reading. Slava Ukraini. Lifelong Hawaii resident. Interesting stuff at malasadasbooks-collectibles.com

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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

07.10.2025 23:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30412    ๐Ÿ” 11991    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1020    ๐Ÿ“Œ 734
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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublicaโ€™s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

08.10.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 911    ๐Ÿ” 441    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Alright. Still don't think that leadership has to be the messenger here, and Chuck should speed up his delivery by 1/4-1/2 speed but...all that said it's a start and pretty clear.

08.10.2025 01:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 105    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Air traffic control facilities across the United States are reportedly experiencing staff shortages amid Trumpโ€™s government shutdown.

These shortages are taking place in Nashville, Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Washington, and more.

08.10.2025 01:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1146    ๐Ÿ” 336    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 90    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26

I know we're all used to the president talking like Livia Soprano all the time, but this is a goddamn outrage

08.10.2025 00:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 989    ๐Ÿ” 265    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The fucking hypocrisy of the Trump administration.

07.10.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2894    ๐Ÿ” 1189    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 107    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48
TX national guard arrive in Chicago.

TX national guard arrive in Chicago.

Chicagoans are calling it "Operation Butterfingers."

07.10.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1345    ๐Ÿ” 430    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 207    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53
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Thanks, New Yorker

07.10.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16750    ๐Ÿ” 5211    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 181    ๐Ÿ“Œ 167
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"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

07.10.2025 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14902    ๐Ÿ” 5503    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 928    ๐Ÿ“Œ 412
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This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

07.10.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17732    ๐Ÿ” 6888    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 936    ๐Ÿ“Œ 466
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IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

07.10.2025 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14228    ๐Ÿ” 4402    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 392    ๐Ÿ“Œ 164
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AG Bondi, hereโ€™s that correction you requested.

07.10.2025 20:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7900    ๐Ÿ” 3002    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 598    ๐Ÿ“Œ 194
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This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

07.10.2025 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13859    ๐Ÿ” 4452    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 718    ๐Ÿ“Œ 188
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I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

07.10.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10604    ๐Ÿ” 3103    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 736    ๐Ÿ“Œ 237
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This strikes me as pretty bad

07.10.2025 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16349    ๐Ÿ” 6858    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1698    ๐Ÿ“Œ 600
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Country legend Zach Bryan has released a song that puts country over his own bank account.

The backlash from country fans will be massive- theyโ€™ll force him off country radio like they did to the Dixie Chicks but he doesnโ€™t need radio access anymore

American hero ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

07.10.2025 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5098    ๐Ÿ” 1142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 212    ๐Ÿ“Œ 79
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Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest โ€“ using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trumpโ€™s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The image of the police officers comes from a photo of โ€œSouth American riot Policiaโ€ that was uploaded to the Getty Images archive in 2008.

Republicans are despicable.

07.10.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Old man is trying to rush it along as he is running out of time

07.10.2025 06:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

06.10.2025 23:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15722    ๐Ÿ” 4746    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 836    ๐Ÿ“Œ 460
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This should've already happened. Moses Mike playing his games.

07.10.2025 01:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'd even help nailing him up!

07.10.2025 00:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘€No wonder Vance has been looking so happy lately

06.10.2025 23:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

06.10.2025 22:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1963    ๐Ÿ” 985    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 70    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

This was genuinely not-horrible from Jeffries.

No rescission. No impoundment.

But the tax cuts works.

06.10.2025 22:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1226    ๐Ÿ” 256    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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TRUMP: โ€œWeโ€™re negotiating with the Democrats on health careโ€

SCHUMER: โ€œnot trueโ€๐Ÿค”

#TrumpShutdown

06.10.2025 22:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1150    ๐Ÿ” 355    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30

The local PD believes ICE called in a fake 911 call about protestors trying to break into ICE facility. Cops only found a CBS news crew shooting B-roll.

Now why would ICE do that?

06.10.2025 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1132    ๐Ÿ” 545    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare โ€œI will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,โ€ Trump vowed in 2024. I have bad news for voters who believed him.

Reported Trump plan to cut more than 750,000 older Americans off disability:

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

06.10.2025 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1849    ๐Ÿ” 1067    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 220    ๐Ÿ“Œ 93

Now do your Republican colleagues in Congress who are not working during a critical time in our country.

06.10.2025 22:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This take:

06.10.2025 22:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm' Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

โ€œWe believe itโ€™s our duty to sound the alarm about this administrationโ€™s degradation of DoJโ€™s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it,โ€ according to an open letter signed by 282 former officials.

It will take years to rebuild our Justice Dept.

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

06.10.2025 20:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4567    ๐Ÿ” 1720    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 143    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36

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