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I'm genuinely afraid for the future of my country. Please find community wherever you can. We need to stick together.

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

YouTube video by Life, take two! De-Cult Your MAGA Friends!

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If you have a Sinclair or Nexstar station in your area, Watch the local newscast Note/call who has ads/Call them/let them know you will boycott until they quit supporting that media company."

Dan Satterfield, a retired meteorologist from Maryland who worked in local TV for decades

So ... is there an effort to boycott Sinclair?

The U.S. Is Quietly Pausing Some Arms Sales to Europe As part of the “America First” agenda, the Department of Defense is stockpiling weapons.

The Pentagon has blocked certain arms sales to Europe after identifying some weapons as being in short supply, Vivian Salama reports. If the hold is long-term, it risks weakening European “defenses at a time when Russia poses an imminent threat.”

Corruption in America The threat that corruption poses to democracy has never been greater, requiring bold reforms to return power to the American people.

Megadonors are dominating election spending like never before, using their special access and outsized influence to warp policy in their favor. Here’s what can be done about it: bit.ly/4mcMsPL

The left and right desperately needs to recognize each other's humanity - we are headed down a dangerous path, my friends. No side will be free from the consequences if we don't.

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale.

But they want us to think they do.

BREAKING: Jair Bolsonaro convicted for an attempted coup.

May the US learn from Brazil.

Thomas Massie Calls Out Trump for Overheated Rhetoric Rep. Thomas Massie said President Donald Trump should tone down the rhetoric after the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

GOP’s Thomas Massie Calls Out Trump for Overheated Rhetoric

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'Chilling reminder': Multiple historically Black universities under lockdown after receiving threats At least six historically Black colleges enacted lockdowns after receiving threats, amid heightened concerns following recent campus violence at Utah Valley University.

Our HBCUs were founded as safe havens for Black students. Right now, many are under lockdown after receiving threats. That's despicable.

No student—whether at an HBCU or Utah Valley State—should feel unsafe on campus. We all must work to turn the temperature down.

rich guys are gonna manufacture a doomsday because they want to use their apocalypse bunkers, is what i'm hearing

Call your congresscritters. Tell them to release the Epstein files.

Can progressives and liberals stop fighting with each other? Allyship means we accept each other's differences in order to fight for the greater good.

YouTube video by The Ripple Effect Institute The Biggest Threat to the Trump Regime is Something You Already Have

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Lot's of news headlines about Trump getting booed

USTA to Broadcasters: DO NOT show Trump getting booed.

Streisand effect:

‪unraveled‬ ‪@unraveledpress.com‬ · 3m Holy fuck, NO. THIS FOOTAGE IS THREE MONTHS OLD. Stop. Doing This post shows video of ice putting someone in a car. It is a 3 month old video. the post reads: ‪Kye‬ ‪@gxldsociety.bsky.social‬ · 1h BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants. People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” This is authoritarian control in real time.

Lots of misinformation going around about ICE in Chicago including this post below showing masked agents. IT'S AN OLD VIDEO.

Listen to local experts like @unraveledpress.com. Don't re-post clips without double checking to see if they are accurate. If you don't know for sure, don't share.

YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner Want To Fight Trump's Autocracy? Here Are Several Suggestions . . .

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This dude was so woke, he served in WWI, went head-to-head with Stalin at Potsdam, dropped atomic bombs to end WWII, created NATO, & saved West Berlin from communism.

Trump: You have some vaccines that are so amazing. The polio vaccine I think is amazing. A lot of people think that covid is amazing. You know. I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don't have to be vaccinated.

Trump’s second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s

McConnell says the second trump president is the most dangerous period since WW2

...after doing more than almost anyone else to facilitate it. #hypocrisy #TrumpTyranny
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FOX BUSINESS: “(more) Disappointing jobs data.”

To be perfectly clear, the President has now crossed a line in my opinion into outright murder of foreign nationals on the high seas. Alleged drug smugglers.

Not many lines left before he is ordering the murder of American citizens for crimes, real or imagined.

Cleta Mitchell Thinks Trump Will Use Emergency Powers to Take Control of Elections Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Cleta Mitchell thinks President Donald Trump may declare a national emergency to allow him to take control of national elections. Her comments will add to growing concern that Trump is plotting a way to use his power over the military and federal law enforcement to rig next year’s vote.

Morning Kitten

Saving The Idea Of America Will we abandon our constitutional order in silence?

Today’s post is from guest Michael Wood, a patriot and veteran who bled for this country and now wrestles with a question: Will America remain only an idea? His words are raw, honest, and urgent—reminder of what’s at stake in this moment

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"The trappings of power as no place in our government. "

Ken Burns