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House Financial Services Chair French Hill (R-Ark.) condemns Trump's criminal investigation into Powell

12.01.2026 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 366    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 12
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Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...

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11.01.2026 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The word of the year for 2026 needs to be "Nope" and the phrase of the year needs to be "Fuck that noise."

31.12.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 177    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

26.12.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 20715    πŸ” 7089    πŸ’¬ 1100    πŸ“Œ 371
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

22.12.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 35376    πŸ” 19980    πŸ’¬ 1678    πŸ“Œ 2093
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

07.11.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 31506    πŸ” 8119    πŸ’¬ 1267    πŸ“Œ 488

Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?

03.11.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5089    πŸ” 1042    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 46
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ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloweenβ€”and Parents Are Fighting Back Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

02.11.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eminem must not care much for the Orange Turd in DC

29.09.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 532    πŸ” 238    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 24
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β€œThey can only win when we don’t all stick together.”

Fear is contagious, but so is COURAGE.

NO THRONES.
NO CROWNS.
NO KINGS.

πŸ—“οΈOctober 18
πŸ“Everywhere

27.09.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 349    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 12
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β€œEven God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student RΓΌmeysa Γ–ztΓΌrk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facilityβ€”and the generous and compassionate women she met.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

26.07.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chicago-area children get deportation letters: Leave or β€˜the federal government will find you’ Immigration advocates warn that a growing number of children are now receiving letters from DHS ending their humanitarian parole.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/t...

20.07.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

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Trump Has a Screw Loose About Tariffs Trade barriers will make U.S. goods more expensive to produce, costlier to buy, and inferior to the foreign competition.

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

09.04.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.

Oh, and one final note...

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

03.04.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 230    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 6

The British got to vote on Brexit. They decided to punch themselves in the face, but at least they got to decide.

Here in America, we have one guy deciding that we're all going to punch ourselves in the face.

02.04.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 7

This is a good example of the cartoonish idiocy (and cruelty) of the Trump tariffs *relative to their own stated purpose.*

(Note that the actual tariff rate on imports from Madagascar is 47 percent, which is still one of the highest for any country.)

03.04.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧡 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

03.04.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 28158    πŸ” 13868    πŸ’¬ 911    πŸ“Œ 3512
Analysis | The false things Trump said about tariffs during his announcement The president relied on claims that have been debunked many times before.

Fact-check of Trump’s tariff speech finds some doozies. Why tariffs? Speech suggests they could replace income tax, benefiting wealthy over lower income Americans. When a choice makes no apparent sense, it’s usually about $$$.

03.04.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 653    πŸ” 144    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 5

Yes but tariffs are not a tool of econ policy to reduce the deficit at the expense of the economy. They are a fascist toolβ€”in line with bullying universities and law firms and deporting protestersβ€”to compel fealty from business by forcing companies to beg for exceptions. See the bigger picture!

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The Good News About Trump’s Tariffs Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

03.04.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.

29.03.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 17203    πŸ” 4676    πŸ’¬ 882    πŸ“Œ 313
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Where Jeff Bezos Went Wrong With The Washington Post The billionaire handled his ownership admirably for more than a decade. But his courage failed him when he needed it most.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Meanwhile in Canada...

16.03.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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DOGE Is Courting Catastrophic Risk Musk has turned a dangerously flawed view of β€œwaste” into a philosophy of government.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich Hitler didn’t want a peace deal, and neither does Putin.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

07.03.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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