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Dolly Parton's great love song, "I Will Always Love You", was dedicated to Porter Wagner, when Dolly eventually made her break from him to produce her own songs.

24.02.2026 04:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"silly"
and no, it's not a war over territory

23.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 1159    🔁 260    💬 122    📌 12

This short listen is worth your time.
Ka$H Patel's ties to a man who traffics in Russian propaganda.

24.02.2026 04:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Days after $5M donation, Trump administration backs Crypto.com in lawsuit In a document quietly filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday night, MAGA Inc., the primary Super PAC supporting President Trump, revealed that it received a $5 million donation from Cryp...

Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, is also partnering with Crypto.com to launch its own prediction market.

The corruption is breathtaking.

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23.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 1184    🔁 516    💬 43    📌 23

BREAKING

Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

23.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 5297    🔁 1664    💬 257    📌 194

This is as concise and cogent an explanation you'll find anywhere about why the SAVE America Act is nothing more than a blatant voter-suppression tactic to prevent a problem that Does. Not. Exist.

23.02.2026 23:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe there should be a category like:

"He's far more of a worthless a-hole than I previously thought." lol

23.02.2026 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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FBI’s “Stand Down” Directive to NYPD on Jeffrey Epstein Investigations, and More The most comprehensive timeline to date of the publicly available record on New York law enforcement authorities’ action and inaction with regard to Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and other potential co-c...

NEW: Trump’s DoJ ordered New York SVU and New Mexico to stop investigating Epstein in 2019. www.justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-s...

23.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 3292    🔁 1822    💬 174    📌 122
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After text messages revealed that Rep. Tony Gonzales pressured a married staffer to send him explicit photos and engage in an affair that led to her suicide, Boebert joins Luna & Mace calling for him to resign and defends it from Republicans concerned about their majority.

23.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 3475    🔁 935    💬 162    📌 73

This 580-hour training program ran completely contrary to Noem and Miller's expedited rush to get new hires into uniforms, and to quickly ramp up detainees in custody.

"You'll have full immunity" unleashed their aggressive tactics.

23.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pentagon Flags Risks of a Major Operation Against Iran The warnings have been led by Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, within the Defense Department and during meetings of the National Security Council.

Pentagon Flags Risks of a Major Operation Against Iran

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23.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s approval rating with independents hits a new low ahead of the State of the Union | CNN Politics When President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address Tuesday, he will face a public that increasingly questions his priorities and expresses broad doubts about whether his proposed policie...

"As Trump prepares his State of the Union address, he's facing a 19-point drop in approval among Latinos and an 18-point drop among Americans younger than 45. Among independents, his approval rating has dropped 15 points over the past year to 26%, the lowest it’s been in either of his terms..."

23.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 1462    🔁 405    💬 118    📌 30

Wait! Wasn't Iran's nuclear program "obliterated" by Trump's bombing their facilities? I guess it was all aspirational b.s. from the grand architect of B.S.

23.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Moms for Liberty ceremony

Moms for Liberty ceremony

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community.

He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

23.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 2844    🔁 1352    💬 163    📌 210
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Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities

Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities. After pledging to crack down on crime, internal investigators at the world’s largest crypto exchange continued to find evidence of potential legal violations on the platform.

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23.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

These concentration camps will become one of the lasting and hideous symbols of the Trump administration's lawlessness and cruelty towards people of color, who most certainly have been law abiding neighbors in the cities and towns across America.

22.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dismantle #ICE The cruelty is abominable.

22.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Jersey Democrats Send Coarse but Clear Message to ICE With New Bill

New Jersey Dems Send Coarse / Clear Message to ICE With New Bill: The Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered act would expand residents’ rights under state law to sue immigration officials for unconstitutional conduct.

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22.02.2026 00:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Another instance showing that Donald Trump is the whiniest, saddest, most petulant little crybaby ever to hold high office.

I'd tell him to cry harder but I'm not sure it's possible.

22.02.2026 00:07 — 👍 1359    🔁 298    💬 53    📌 9
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Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

20.02.2026 12:18 — 👍 19344    🔁 6197    💬 1377    📌 538

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

20.02.2026 23:46 — 👍 11830    🔁 5061    💬 161    📌 97
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The 36-Year-Old Bible Scholar Trying to Flip a Texas Senate Seat Blue James Talarico is testing whether progressivism wrapped in a faith-based message can excite Democrats and draw disaffected Republicans.

#TexasDems
"The 36-Year-Old Bible Scholar Trying to Flip a Texas Senate Seat Blue. #JamesTalarico is testing whether progressivism wrapped in a faith-based message can win over Democrats."

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21.02.2026 03:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | The Embarrassing Truth About Tariffs Why is Trump so upset about Federal Reserve economic research into his trade policies?

"The White House this week opened a new fight about Fed research on the consequences of Trump’s tariffs. Four economists at the Fed Reserve Bank of NY found that American households and businesses are bearing nearly 90% of the cost of the Trump tariffs."

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21.02.2026 03:12 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Sheer lunacy from the Commander-In-Chief – of Chaos.

20.02.2026 20:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The DHS Police State is soon going to gather data on Americans at an unprecedented scale. #BigBrother

20.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trade Statutes Trump Will Use to Keep Imposing Tariffs

Trump is not done with his bully tariffs; he has plans.
"The Trade Statutes Trump Will Use to Keep Imposing Tariffs"

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20.02.2026 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would those "disaster-affected areas" happen to be in either Blue states, or Blue counties?

20.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Q: You've mentioned multiple times foreign influence over the Supreme Court. Do you have evidence of that?

TRUMP: You're gonna find out

20.02.2026 19:14 — 👍 1665    🔁 427    💬 471    📌 241
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Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

20.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 21509    🔁 6297    💬 903    📌 389
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Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections When it comes to free and fair elections, Collins is as conservative and anti-voting rights as they come.

When it comes to free and fair elections, Collins is as conservative and anti-voting rights as they come. Not only is she supporting the SAVE Act, but during the Biden administration she opposed the For the People Act and the Joe Manchin compromise bill — the Freedom to Vote Act.

20.02.2026 19:59 — 👍 2780    🔁 1140    💬 298    📌 92

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