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SAVE Act: Unintended consequences of voters' documentary proof Data analysis shows 80% of deep-red voters lack passports, while 69 million women face name-mismatch hurdles. Is the cost of this new bureaucracy worth the risk to the 2026 map?

SAVE Act: President Trump and Republicans sell H.R. 22 as an integrity shield, but data suggest it is a trap. With 80% of red-state voters lacking passports and 69 million women facing name hurdles, legislation creates an administrative tax on the very coalition that delivered the White House.

10.02.2026 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you can read these letters from kids detained at Dilley and not feel sick to your stomach then something is broken inside of you. Absolutely vile what we’re doing to children in detention.

But I guess when you’ve got a government filled with child abusers this horror makes perfect sense.

10.02.2026 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

β€œIf passed, the SAVE Act will disenfranchise 20 million voters.”

Trump has pushed the Republicans to hold a vote in the House this week.

Call your Rep and your Senators.
202-224-3121

10.02.2026 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1025    πŸ” 663    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 26
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That is correct. Since Republicans pre-funded ICE with a massive slush fund, they have given Dems no other choice but to leverage the rest of the DHS budget to get badly needed changes that a big majority of Americans want and will never get unless they take a stand now.

10.02.2026 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1606    πŸ” 400    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 15
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Two Judges Just Authorized Mass Incarcerationβ€”Congress Must Stop It Text SIGN PUOZIA to 50409 to send this to your officials.

"Two Judges Just Authorized Mass Incarceration-Congress Must
Stop It"

resist.bot/petitions/PU...

10.02.2026 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Swapping VA Care for Dead VA Nurses
YouTube video by emptywheel Swapping VA Care for Dead VA Nurses

Republicans have literally taken money that previously provided VA care and used it to pay thugs to murder a VA nurse.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3U...

09.02.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 623    πŸ” 270    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

When American athletes in the Olympics make statements critical of Trump, his agenda, and how it's damaging America - and then they get vilified as UnAmerican with nastiness, rage and froth by those who support Trump and his agenda - in my mind, it pretty much legitimizes their criticism.

09.02.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

09.02.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2544    πŸ” 1239    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 110
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Oligarchs usually operate outside government. But under the Trump administration, they moved inside β€” accelerating the dismantling of the civil service by using anti-democratic tactics.

09.02.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 732    πŸ” 351    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 12

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

09.02.2026 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3037    πŸ” 1580    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 387
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

09.02.2026 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 11252    πŸ” 6568    πŸ’¬ 1141    πŸ“Œ 1037

NBC censuring Olympics roundly booing Vance is meaningful because important for US to know that (1) rest of the world hates & mocks our leaders (2) Corporate Media is collaborating with Trump Regime.

08.02.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 185    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Republicans want to increase the defense budget to $1.5 trillion in 2027. That defense budget alone would add an additional $5.8 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

08.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1885    πŸ” 741    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 44

Some Olympic athletes commonsensically and even eloquently distinguish love of country from approval of Trump administration actions that are a blight upon the country.

Trump and MAGA squeal and whine.

Bullies are the most fragile snowflakes.

08.02.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2306    πŸ” 431    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 3
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Good.

Hiding the names of people asking for 10 year old girls is fucking disgusting.

08.02.2026 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10659    πŸ” 2703    πŸ’¬ 356    πŸ“Œ 150
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FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential peopl...

Well, that’s convenient. According to the released files, the FBI did not conclude that Epstein operated a sex-trafficking ring for powerful men.

08.02.2026 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2115    πŸ” 504    πŸ’¬ 327    πŸ“Œ 78

Part of what's great about this is how Hunter Hess tried really hard to not go into specifics but Trump (1) deduced (correctly!) that any reference to things that aren't "good" or "moral" must mean him and (2) decided he needed to elevate it with some bonkers response. Great work, Mr. President. 🫑

08.02.2026 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 588    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 5
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Trump praises Nexstar-Tegna broadcast television deal he once opposed President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna, an apparent reversal from earlier criticism of the deal.

Trump’s flip on the Nexstar-Tegna deal proves policy follows grudges. Branding $6.2 billion merger weapon against "Fake News," he redefines antitrust. Monopoly is fine, provided it’s friendly fire. Media consolidation is now about arming allies for the culture war.

08.02.2026 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.

08.02.2026 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2183    πŸ” 1029    πŸ’¬ 160    πŸ“Œ 48

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

08.02.2026 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3239    πŸ” 1077    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 27
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08.02.2026 05:42 β€” πŸ‘ 18115    πŸ” 4955    πŸ’¬ 450    πŸ“Œ 144

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

08.02.2026 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4059    πŸ” 831    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 65

So he personally admits now that a staffer did not post this without his knowledge

07.02.2026 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 925    πŸ” 200    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 3
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Prosecutors stunned as ICE lets suspect in $100m jewelry heist leave US Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores, charged with stalking armored truck in 2022, allowed to self-deport to South America

What a disgrace.

ICE may have handed a suspect in the largest jewelry heist in American history a free pass by deporting him before he ever faced trial.

This is the result of Stephen Miller’s chaos. Reckless mismanagement that undermines public safety and makes a mockery of the justice system.

06.02.2026 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1250    πŸ” 519    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 75

Even if this isn’t true, in the unlikely scenario Dems retake the Senate in November you better believe he’s quitting and a replacement is being rammed through in a matter of weeks.

06.02.2026 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 259    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 4

Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its wordβ€”with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposesβ€”no longer holds."

This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.

06.02.2026 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3551    πŸ” 1292    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 45
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He doesn’t even try to hide the fact that whether people in a particular state get disaster relief from the federal government depends entirely on partisan politics.

06.02.2026 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6488    πŸ” 1990    πŸ’¬ 599    πŸ“Œ 133

Just monstrous.

06.02.2026 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 500    πŸ” 197    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 5
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Reporter: Will you apologize for that racist video?

Trump: *walks away*

07.02.2026 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5105    πŸ” 1479    πŸ’¬ 561    πŸ“Œ 195

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