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Family first, proud mom of 4 amazing daughters. Die hard Cubs fan.

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53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.

Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.

The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.

14.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 4884    🔁 1447    💬 146    📌 57
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The Trump admin is an organized crime operation that has control of the US government.

14.11.2025 11:07 — 👍 2727    🔁 1017    💬 98    📌 24
Trump CAUGHT At SECRET PARTY As Country STRUGGLES
YouTube video by Harry Sisson Trump CAUGHT At SECRET PARTY As Country STRUGGLES

Trump had a lavish party with opera and truffles this weekend. It was a night of decadence and scantily clad women for the billionaire elite.

In my lifetime, it’s never been better for the rich nor worse for the rest of us.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #SNAP

youtu.be/gxeWKxv5Tro?...

09.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 261    🔁 156    💬 13    📌 6

Did you know that the GOP Congress has worked less than 20 days since July?

Yet we’re still paying their full salary.

05.11.2025 15:42 — 👍 9886    🔁 3276    💬 394    📌 193
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Scandal Unveiled: Sex Offender Appointed as Federal Housing Consultant | Politics Mark Zarkin, a known Trump supporter and previously convicted sex offender, was appointed as a consultant to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. T...

Oh look, the party that protects sexual predators is also hiring them.

The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has appointed registered sex offender and Detroit-area businessman Mark Zarkin.

Zarkin pled guilty to felony sex with a mentally incapacitated person.

08.11.2025 00:34 — 👍 374    🔁 250    💬 19    📌 27

🔥 Thiel funded Vance, Vance funded “patriotic tech,” and now “patriotic tech” funds the state. Meet the Authoritarian Stack, where cloud firms act like countries and democracy’s just a terms-of-service checkbox.

A must-read and learn ⬇️
www.authoritarian-stack.info

06.11.2025 01:50 — 👍 20    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0
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Tip of the effin' ICEberg, this is.

29.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 1264    🔁 654    💬 39    📌 24

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

29.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 15181    🔁 5096    💬 573    📌 240
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

29.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 32815    🔁 14648    💬 1326    📌 1050
ALERT:  Justice Dept puts prosecutors on leave, hours after court filing acknowledging Jan 6 riot
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS ALERT: Justice Dept puts prosecutors on leave, hours after court filing acknowledging Jan 6 riot

BREAKING NEWS: Justice Dept puts prosecutors on leave, hours after court filing acknowledged severity of Jan 6 riot and the “conspiracy theories” surrounding Jan 6

Here ===>

youtube.com/shorts/7Vr2V...

29.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 720    🔁 379    💬 31    📌 37
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

29.10.2025 18:08 — 👍 27481    🔁 11815    💬 810    📌 638

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

29.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 20307    🔁 7388    💬 354    📌 197

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

29.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 27979    🔁 10744    💬 985    📌 464
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History repeating itself!

30.10.2025 02:43 — 👍 754    🔁 251    💬 22    📌 8
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In a nutshell.

23.10.2025 02:32 — 👍 219    🔁 97    💬 17    📌 4
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Donald Trump's administration is treating the people of this country as an adversary.

It's pushing the boundaries of its authority, terrorizing our communities, and disregarding all accountability.

We will not meet intimidation with fear — we will meet it with truth.

23.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 3098    🔁 840    💬 109    📌 27
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It Can Be Done

👇 👇 👇

23.10.2025 06:41 — 👍 853    🔁 314    💬 24    📌 12
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Pritzker on Fox: "He's challenging the integrity of the next election by sending troops into our cities. It isn't about fighting crime. He said he's going after the worst of the worst. That's not what they're doing. They are literally after black and brown people because of the color of their skin."

23.10.2025 22:38 — 👍 13737    🔁 4474    💬 312    📌 128
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

23.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 16434    🔁 9566    💬 1267    📌 684
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In 1980, Trump promised to preserve Art Deco sculptures on the stylish 1929 Bonwit Teller department store, which was being demolished to make way for his vulgar Trump Tower.

He lied. He destroyed them.

In 2025, Trump promised to preserve the East Wing.

He lied. He destroyed it. (John Baron👀)

23.10.2025 23:56 — 👍 2726    🔁 1069    💬 131    📌 36

The Epstein shutdown drags on because the orange toddler and his cronies fear being exposed. So keep talking about releasing the Epstein files.

23.10.2025 07:21 — 👍 832    🔁 279    💬 31    📌 14
Simpsons meme: don’t make me tap the sign and the sign says,

“Fascism-lite” isn’t a strategy to defeat fascism but it’s very effective in normalising it.

Simpsons meme: don’t make me tap the sign and the sign says, “Fascism-lite” isn’t a strategy to defeat fascism but it’s very effective in normalising it.

Every single day, damn it.

22.10.2025 00:52 — 👍 800    🔁 202    💬 3    📌 5
Threads post from julieceye 

At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

Threads post from julieceye At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

22.10.2025 18:33 — 👍 10935    🔁 4938    💬 920    📌 598
Photo of the White House being destroyed in the shape of an outline of the USA.

Photo of the White House being destroyed in the shape of an outline of the USA.

How can anybody be OK with this? How can anybody even pretend to be OK with this?

21.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 587    🔁 220    💬 40    📌 11
Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date	Number Reported Killed	Approximate Location	Notification URL
September 2, 2025	11	“in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago)	View
September 15, 2025	3	
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters	View
September 19, 2025	3	“in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic	View
October 3, 2025	4	“in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela”	View
October 14, 2025	6	“in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela”	View
October 16, 2025	2; 2 reported survivors	“in the Caribbean”	View
October 17, 2025	3	“in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility”	View
October 21, 2025	2	“in the Eastern Pacific”	View

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean Total reported killed: 34 people Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

22.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 12068    🔁 6145    💬 503    📌 394
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

17.10.2025 20:24 — 👍 24981    🔁 9365    💬 2076    📌 889
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Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers.

It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror

17.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 12444    🔁 4864    💬 289    📌 135
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Thomas A. Cole: Let’s be serious about merit-based college admissions A meritocratic society requires fair access to quality education, and decisions by President Donald Trump stand in the way of that access.

Commentary: The necessary first step toward a meritocratic society is fair access to quality education, and recent decisions by the Trump administration stand in the way of that access.

17.10.2025 03:01 — 👍 29    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

This should be considered everywhere. They are kidnapping, abusing, harassing and threatening people who have rights. Every single one of them have rights and they are ignored. What they’re doing is unconstitutional and illegal.
Payback will come.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

14.10.2025 22:43 — 👍 3216    🔁 892    💬 87    📌 35

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