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Retired teaching modern dance ballet; 2 cats; live in Red State & part-time in Portugal.

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No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker β€œif she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

07.11.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 8556    πŸ” 3206    πŸ’¬ 297    πŸ“Œ 132

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

20.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9892    πŸ” 2612    πŸ’¬ 304    πŸ“Œ 116
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What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

β€œIf you’re watching television and the words β€˜woke and weaponized’ come out of a politician’s mouth, you can know that this is coming ... from the strategies we’re putting out,” Russ Vought boasted in a recording obtained by @propublica.org

20.10.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 459    πŸ” 194    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 7
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Yikes β€” WP reports Rubio turned over gang informants to El Salvador to get that deal to let Trump send immigrants to their hard labor prison without due process.

A lawless regime.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

19.10.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1808    πŸ” 927    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 66
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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

19.10.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4735    πŸ” 1605    πŸ’¬ 473    πŸ“Œ 942

NYT - A 155-millimeter shell fired during a live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a CHP vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President Vance's protective detail. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us...

19.10.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 204    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 35
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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: β€œI don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

19.10.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1317    πŸ” 645    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 60
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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

Everyone is laughing at us. Everyone: Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

19.10.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 740    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 30

Think about how far the Overton window has shifted in the past 9 months.

The πŸ’©video below would have been front-page news just a few years ago and would have ended the career of any other politician. And yet today, not a peep from any of the so-called "serious" news outlets in America. πŸ™ˆπŸ™‰πŸ™Š

19.10.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Tell me again, Donald, about the "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax."

19.10.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4744    πŸ” 1971    πŸ’¬ 168    πŸ“Œ 93
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We always get these huge Trump announcements with much media hype and fanfare with lots of big promises and assurances, effusively praising himself looking for awards & prizes, while experts say the details are scarce or nonexistent. Then a short time later we get the reality.

19.10.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2894    πŸ” 904    πŸ’¬ 274    πŸ“Œ 70

Just in case you wondered what Trump thinks of America

19.10.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
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Young GOP leaders racist, fascist, anti-Semitic and sexist messages are vile--but perfectly sum up MAGA The future of the GOP on parade

Young Republican leaders from across nation were caught sharing openly racist, anti-Semitic, sexist and pro-fascist messages. Yet the corrupt corporate media all but ignores it. I'm not ignoring it! This deserves far more coverage. My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/young-gop-...

15.10.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 6
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WATCH: β€œPure vengeance.”

Former Trump WH lawyer Ty Cobb tells @timmiller.bsky.social β€œnarcissist” Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against NY AG Tish James (+ others) β€” and pointing to his own massive fraud crimes is no defense at all.

Full @thebulwark.com ep: youtu.be/M5mNb5JXYWQ?...

14.10.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 513    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4
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Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

11.10.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6416    πŸ” 2580    πŸ’¬ 402    πŸ“Œ 303
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Imagine that

11.10.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 22188    πŸ” 9229    πŸ’¬ 996    πŸ“Œ 659

So greasy fascist lunatic Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist?

Guess whose name appears in the Epstein Files that have been released, Peter? No hers. Yours!

So that, technically, makes you more evil than the Antichrist.

10.10.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2745    πŸ” 963    πŸ’¬ 334    πŸ“Œ 77
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Retribution Is Here The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.

β€œIt bears pausing on the starkness of these facts: The president of the United States demanded the jailing of two elected officials who belong to the opposing political party” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

09.10.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 690    πŸ” 250    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 10
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BREAKING: MIT rejects federal compact | The Tech On Friday Oct. 10, MIT President Sally Kornbluth formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact in an email to the U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.

The Tech - MIT's president has formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact. thetech.com/2025/10/10/mit-re...

10.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. You may have the right to get a denial reviewed β€” and potentially overturned β€” by an independent provider. Here’s how experts suggest you do it.

NEW: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed β€” and potentially overturned β€” by an independent provider.

Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.

07.10.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 551    πŸ” 255    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 14
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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers' The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...

The image they shared showed riot police and a crowd with flares and red smoke, designed to support Trump's claim that Portland's protests were out of control, but was actually a digital composite of two unrelated photographs from different South American countries.

www.rawstory.com/trump-oregon...

07.10.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 850    πŸ” 488    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 29

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

07.10.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 22458    πŸ” 4947    πŸ’¬ 1483    πŸ“Œ 426
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Portland And Beyond This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: β€œI’d do it if it was necessary.

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

07.10.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2597    πŸ” 896    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 37

Ed has this exactly right. Watch this space. More mayhem coming.

07.10.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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"It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comeyβ€”until you see the one against the [NYAG Letitia James]."
By my new @lawfaremedia.org colleague Molly L. Roberts (formerly of @washingtonpost.com )
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

07.10.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1706    πŸ” 464    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 12

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

07.10.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2229    πŸ” 673    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 16

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

06.10.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6315    πŸ” 2432    πŸ’¬ 281    πŸ“Œ 127
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

Trump 's new universities "compact is a 'reward' in exactly the same sense that it is β€œrewarding” to purchase protection from the Mafia. The compact is an open, explicit threat." balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

06.10.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.....Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared...."

~ Anne Frank

03.10.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1033    πŸ” 448    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 22

Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term.

Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times.

Never delivered one.

Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure.

Now Russ Vought is taking that away.

But only in blue states.

03.10.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3448    πŸ” 1428    πŸ’¬ 218    πŸ“Œ 57

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