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Donald Trump spent the day playing golf in a stupid hat.

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Trump doesn't want to say the real reasons he plunged the US into an ill-advised war

He saw the chance to appease MBS and the Isrealis, while paying back his Big Oil contributors at the same time

At Americans' expense

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Is it too early to call it a world war?

Isn’t that a text book example of fraud?

The level of corruption in this government is astounding….

The dog is too smart to be DHS Secretary.

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The fact that Schumer isn't on this list is the best evidence yet for the "rotating villain" theory of Senate Democrats

This is why poor people can’t have health care and little children starve.

This is a muffuletta in the same way a frozen cauliflower disc is a pizza.

Gun violence costs the United States an estimated $557 billion every year.

That is about 2.6 percent of the entire U.S. economy, or more than $1,600 per person, every year.

This cost is higher than what the federal government spends annually on education.

It actually doesn't matter whether this war is unpopular or not if you have a party that clearly has no intention of getting re-elected through democratic means.

So they elected a felon and complained when he acted like a felon.

Morning Lorrie 🤩

Chuck Schumer, being pointless

“You could set a white noise machine to ‘Fiery Chuck Schumer Speech’ and get a full eight hours”
~ John Oliver, last night 😂

It’s a very, very, very dangerous thing for this country and for the entire world to have a cruel, idiotic, sociopathic madman in the White House.

Oh goodie more cops.

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

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There are all sorts of structural things that need to get fixed, but the most obvious and essential requires no structural change, but a cultural one:

An end to elite impunity. Real costs for flagrant misbehavior.

We have all the tools. We just never use them.

The Pentagon needs another thing to help it find the really expensive thing that shows us where other people and things are.

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

New York Times headline

This is a very misleading headline from the New York Times:

"Clinton Briefly Halts Epstein Deposition After Republican Leaks Photo."

In reality, her lawyers asked the committee to allow reporters in the room after Boebert leaked a photo of the proceedings.

It will never stop until we complain. People need to be shamed to be thoughtful today.

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Ban guns. That’s the first step.

Quality of public transit during Mardi Gras criticized The transit advocacy organization Ride New Orleans brought together frequent riders to discuss concerns with public transport during carnival season.

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Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

A passenger in the car with Ruben Ray Martinez, the American citizen who was shot and killed by a federal officer in South Texas wrote that the men were trying to comply with authorities before Mr. Martinez was shot.

The passenger, Joshua Orta, died in a car accident on Saturday.
#AbolishICE #FDT

Add in the second $2,000 check trump promised in 2029 and never delivered.