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lawyer, math teacher, mother #blue4ever
Special for my friends in the media!
Before you use numbers from a new DHS โeconomic impact analysisโ in reporting on a new Trump prison camp, please consider that these reports appear to be (to use a technical term) horseshit.
Helpful explanation here:
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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if youโre a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
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Rep. Goldman: โRepublicans have created mistrust in our electoral system not based on fact, not based on data, not based on evidenceโฆThey're trying to suppress the vote, they're trying to take over voting machines and voter rolls, and they're trying to rig this election.โ
16.02.2026 22:15 โ ๐ 564 ๐ 189 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 6Trump Administration Secretly Deported Nine People To Cameroon, Despite Court Ruling!
โThe Trump administration has secretly deported nine people to Cameroon, despite being protected by U.S. court orders. None of the deportees are from Cameroon.โ (NYT)
Thread 1/10๐งต
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This is wild.
41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober.
He โresignedโ. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesnโt even mention the cases.
Police departments shouldnโt be in the business of shielding corrupt officers.
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14.02.2026 23:43 โ ๐ 4148 ๐ 2205 ๐ฌ 294 ๐ 138The current chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Ohio State, Mark Landon, received ~$75,000 a year from Epstein in the early 2000s, supposedly for consulting. Was he treating Epsteinโs victims? Landon still sees patients at Ohio Stateโwho is investigating this?
13.02.2026 02:15 โ ๐ 129 ๐ 52 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 6What a pathetic little Project 2025 manโฆ
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show. | Reuters
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DHS is shutting down. Why? Because Democrats took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and ICE is lawless and out of control. We cannot fund an agency that is murdering our citizens, tear gassing school zones, and disappearing legal immigrants.
13.02.2026 15:22 โ ๐ 3824 ๐ 1025 ๐ฌ 256 ๐ 78๐จIn December 2016, Epstein invited Bill Gates to his island and informed him that โnew administration peopleโ were visiting.
This was sent exactly one month before Trump was inaugurated for his first term.
Singapore raised its 2030 solar installation goal by 50% after hitting its previous target early.
12.02.2026 13:00 โ ๐ 43 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1In 2023, under Joe Biden, the economy added 3 million jobs. In 2024, still under Biden, it added 2.2 million jobs. In 2025, under Trump, it added just 181,000 jobs.
You read that right - Trump is just that amazing.
Set aside the content for a moment (saying that Jamie Raskin is a washed-up lawyer?). AG Bondi has just absolutely disgraced the Department of Justice in adopting Trump-like gross insults of those who disagree with the administration. She should be ashamed.
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J.P. Cooney, a federal prosecutor who helped investigate don "the con" trump and was later fired by him, will run for the House as a Democrat in Virginia, he announced Wednesday.
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Embarrassing defeat for Trump and Mike Johnson.
11.02.2026 23:38 โ ๐ 4236 ๐ 843 ๐ฌ 114 ๐ 18219-211, House votes to pass the resolution by @meeks.house.gov to terminate Trump's tariffs on Canada. Six Republicans join Democrats in voting YES, while one Democrat votes NO.
11.02.2026 23:21 โ ๐ 503 ๐ 136 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 17WATCH: Rick Wilson breaks down what Pam Bondi exposed about Trump's corrupt DOJ at her disastrous hearing in Congress. https://youtu.be/735dqqeU2aI
11.02.2026 23:19 โ ๐ 749 ๐ 235 ๐ฌ 66 ๐ 19Drug cartels have overcome their reluctance about cryptocurrencies, and a vast ecosystem has sprung up to clean all that cash
11.02.2026 19:00 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 3Iโve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.
11.02.2026 17:38 โ ๐ 27235 ๐ 7004 ๐ฌ 1970 ๐ 435MS NOW: "A congressional official with knowledge of the matter is telling MS NOW the cause of the shutdown of El Paso airspace is a lack of communication between the Pentagon and FAA. The official told us the FAA and DOD are 'not in clear communications with each other.'"
11.02.2026 14:22 โ ๐ 5469 ๐ 2139 ๐ฌ 733 ๐ 715Rep. Massie to Pam Bondi: "Literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors, you did."
11.02.2026 17:49 โ ๐ 2148 ๐ 670 ๐ฌ 75 ๐ 25...
Bill Maher: Like who, specifically?
Christie: I'll give you one. Lindsey Graham.
Chris Christie: So many of my fellow party members come up to meโฆin the green room at ABC, they'll say, 'You're so brave. That's so great. I totally agree with you. Trump's nuts.' ... Then on camera to be interviewed, and they go, โThe greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.โ ...
10.02.2026 23:08 โ ๐ 2994 ๐ 757 ๐ฌ 134 ๐ 32A lot of โLutnick admitsโ today.
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