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Lifelong Democrat behind the Orange Curtain. Enjoying retirement. No DMs, please. "We all do better when we all do better." --Paul Wellstone Resistance is not futile.

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You can joke about Pam Bondiโ€™s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but Iโ€™m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. โ€” This should shake everyone to their core.

07.10.2025 19:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28278    ๐Ÿ” 7703    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2155    ๐Ÿ“Œ 609
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Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

04.10.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44025    ๐Ÿ” 8659    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1614    ๐Ÿ“Œ 393

By "gratitude," I suspect JD means "kissing Trump's ass."

04.10.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yep. Cruelty is the point of everything they do.

04.10.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't forget his cabinet. I expect most of them would fail too.

04.10.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They do it without caring.

04.10.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't count on Trump's justices to rule against him.

04.10.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's also unconstitutional, at least for now. I expect a case will go before SCOTUS before too long, and it'll be interesting to see how Trump's justices will vote.

04.10.2025 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Disgraceful. And typical, sad to say, for Trump cultists.

04.10.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now itโ€™s commonplace.

Thatโ€™s not making America great again.

02.10.2025 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28593    ๐Ÿ” 10142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1371    ๐Ÿ“Œ 500

When are all the terrified people who know this is wrong but think they can just wait out the next three years going to wake up and take their heads out of the sand?

30.09.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9686    ๐Ÿ” 2199    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 508    ๐Ÿ“Œ 110

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked โ€” what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers โ€” what would we say?

Authoritarianism โ€” letโ€™s not pretend itโ€™s something else when it happens in our American cities.

30.09.2025 00:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34914    ๐Ÿ” 10487    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 660    ๐Ÿ“Œ 280

He wants to dictate what the press can say.
What a university can teach.
Whom a company can employ.
And to whom the law shall apply.

He who wants all this is not a president,
But strives to be a dictator.
And all who succumb are not citizens,
But subjects.

28.09.2025 17:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14963    ๐Ÿ” 4778    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 936    ๐Ÿ“Œ 239

I'm guessing those "potential solutions" are two weeks off, since that's the "coming attractions" standard Trump set back in 2017.

My guess: there are no Republican solutions, potential or otherwise. I think their actual plan is to sit on their hands and blame someone else.

28.09.2025 18:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

22.09.2025 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30659    ๐Ÿ” 6674    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 532    ๐Ÿ“Œ 164
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Hmmmโ€ฆ

18.09.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thereโ€™s only one person he cares about.

17.09.2025 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5131    ๐Ÿ” 1451    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 111    ๐Ÿ“Œ 51

Just think: it was not so long ago that Trump ranted about the weaponization of the DOD.
๐Ÿ™„

17.09.2025 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not so much. If it was a slip of the tongue, the time to apologize was immediately after saying "kill them all," and his co-hosts share the blame for sitting there in silent, tacit agreement. Kilmeade's apology sounds more like "please don't fire me."

14.09.2025 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Sources tell me," she says. I wonder, did they have tears in their eyes? In MAGA World, it doesn't count if they don't have tears in their eyes.

What a load of crap.

13.09.2025 19:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As with Trump, cruelty is the point. It boggles my mind that people can be so hard-hearted.

13.09.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Americans have short memoriesโ€”keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!

12.09.2025 11:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22609    ๐Ÿ” 11078    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 644    ๐Ÿ“Œ 432

Is Threads still a thing?

12.09.2025 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

12.09.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17239    ๐Ÿ” 4926    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 740    ๐Ÿ“Œ 284

Same here. MSNBC implied that Dowd was supporting political violence, and I don't see that at all from what he said.

12.09.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Big sigh. Watch this.

Can you see why the Yankeesโ€™ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?

No one wished death on this man, but what weโ€™re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

12.09.2025 01:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22498    ๐Ÿ” 7412    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2274    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1053

Very nicely done; one of your best, especially regarding political violence.

11.09.2025 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You don't call the DOD "Department of War" unless you intend to go to war, or you want to distract attention from the Epstein files. Or both.

07.09.2025 05:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amen!

26.08.2025 19:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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