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Retired Vt politician, lobbyist. Worked to shut down Vt’s only nuke plant. Helped to pass “Right to die” bill. Writer: Political columnist 20 years. 2 Vt humor books. Co-wrote biography on Frank Zappa. Music: Harmonica player/Blues singer

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August 1, 2025 Economists have been expressing concern about the accuracy of economic statistics coming out of the Trump administration for months.

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Trump’s wild stories, inability to understand numbers, and inability to place events correctly into a timeline are key signs of dementia. Truax published an article in The Hill today, titled: “Trump’s mental decline is undeniable—so what now?”

02.08.2025 11:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 26, 2025 Ten days ago, ten Republican senators wrote to Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, asking him to release the funds Congress appropriated in March to support education.

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Is Trump really deporting the worst of the worst? - Los Angeles Times

Except he’s not. He’s resurrecting the KKK

26.07.2025 13:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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26.07.2025 11:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My Bi-Monthly Column known as “The View From My Place” There is No Maga

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26.07.2025 02:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 24, 2025 The Epstein list made it into last night’s premiere of the twenty-seventh season of the television series South Park when Satan, in bed with Trump, commented, “It’s weird that whenever it comes up, yo...

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25.07.2025 10:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 20, 2025 On Friday, G.

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21.07.2025 11:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump calls for name reversals of NFL's Commanders, baseball's Guardians - POLITICO

Trump’s new shiny object that he wants us to look at instead of the Epstein Files….

20.07.2025 20:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This 'Then And Now' Picture Of The Oval Office Is Going Viral And Says So, So Much About The Trump Administration "It's like the Dollar Tree version of Versailles."

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No class
No taste
Symbolic of greed, insecurity and fear

20.07.2025 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump's New Attack On Colleges Quietly Slid Under The Radar — And Many Are In For An Unpleasant Surprise Trump is waging a public war against elite universities. But he’s also begun a more subtle one that will hurt some students' chance to attend at all.

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Not making America great at all

19.07.2025 21:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 18, 2025 [There is a lot about sexual assault in tonight’s letter.]

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Please read this

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'Good Lord': Social Media Reacts to Trump's Alleged Birthday Message to Epstein

Yeah, he’s in the book….

18.07.2025 11:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Terry Moran Shares Viral Stephen Miller Video

#1 worst person in the world

18.07.2025 11:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GOP Rep's Response To Trump's Slam Of ‘Weaklings’ Base Is Just… Wow Rep. Tim Burchett essentially shrugged and then leaned in.

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He only wins because of blind sycophants like Burchett. If the GOP had any balls he’d be in jail by now.

18.07.2025 09:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 17, 2025 Five years ago tonight, Georgia Representative John Lewis passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.

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Get in “good trouble”

18.07.2025 09:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spineless, shameful, disgusting

17.07.2025 08:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 15, 2025 Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court’s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while th...

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16.07.2025 20:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump says Bondi should release 'whatever she thinks is credible' on Epstein - ABC News

As if anyone would believe either of these lying weasels

15.07.2025 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 14, 2025 Trump appointees insist they have a “mandate” to drive undocumented immigrants out of the U.S.

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“The last thing you want to do here is contribute to a domino effect of decisions where suddenly you’re admitting you’re wrong about everything.That is why you gotta stand your ground on everything against the left, including on the [Abrego Garcia] situation.”

15.07.2025 09:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump's Brazen New Golf Boast Goes Up In Flames On Social Media The president said he won yet another championship, but his critics aren't buying it.

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What a sad & pathetic little man

14.07.2025 12:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 13, 2025 This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.

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“Don’t talk about Epstein”….Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein…

14.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Republicans Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Crushing Federal Debt Two decades after a GOP vice president declared that deficits don’t matter, Trump and his party are going all out to test that theory.

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Phoniest people on the planet

13.07.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Joyce Vance: ICE Agents Could Face ‘Lawful’ Self-Defense Acts

I’ve said this from the beginning. If these thugs wear masks how can you know if they’re for real and why shouldn’t you be able to defend yourself. This should be put to the test.

13.07.2025 10:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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My bimonthly column

12.07.2025 10:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 10, 2025 Just a week ago, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed the nearly 1,000-page budget reconciliation bill President Donald Trump demanded, and at the signing ceremony for the bill the next ...

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God’s will……

10.07.2025 11:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 9, 2025 On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S.

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10.07.2025 10:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 8, 2025 One hundred and eleven people are dead and more than 160 are still missing in Texas after Friday’s tragic flood.

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This is so sad and disgusting. VOTE BLUE NEXT YEAR

08.07.2025 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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July 7, 2025 At about 10:30 this morning local time, heavily armed masked agents in trucks, armored vehicles, a helicopter, on foot, and on horseback, accompanied by a gun mounted on a truck raided the MacArthur P...

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it appears that officials in the Trump administration are using immigration as a way to establish a police state. Indeed, they are using the concept that presidents have control of foreign affairs as a way to work around the laws in place to prevent a dictatorship.

08.07.2025 10:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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