Pete Hegseth, the guy who once warned Trump might issue illegal orders, is now threatening to strongarm AI company Anthropic into building autonomous drone swarms and mass surveillance tools, because nothing says "protecting democracy" like forcing
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26.02.2026 13:12 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
The party that gets aggressively on the right side of this issue is going to win a lot of elections in a lot of places over the next decade. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
26.02.2026 13:08 β π 2110 π 751 π¬ 110 π 41
MURPHY: Your filings show you started receiving compensation in spring 2024, yet in Sept 2024 you posted a video saying you had 'no financial relationship w/ the company, just a big fan.' You weren't telling the truth.
MEANS: If I said I wasn't receiving money, I wasn't receiving money at that time
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Yes, we leftists are so unreasonable
26.02.2026 13:08 β π 50 π 16 π¬ 0 π 1
That's not working anymore. The files will go public eventually.
26.02.2026 09:56 β π 25 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
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26.02.2026 10:01 β π 28 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
"We still have laws in on the books in this country, and it is actually still illegal to bribe government officials and to extort other people using and misusing the power of your public office and your public trust."
Susan Glasser on the upcoming accountability agenda.
26.02.2026 10:01 β π 827 π 234 π¬ 22 π 7
Hegseth doesnβt want career non-partisan professionals in senior military positions. He wants right-wing Christian nationalist political ideologues. Our military is being torn apart by this drunken fool.
26.02.2026 10:28 β π 2026 π 634 π¬ 97 π 27
Kash Patel fires at least six FBI agents tied to 2022 Mar-a-Lago search
The dismissals come as the FBI director said his phone records were obtained by federal authorities during the Biden administration in connection with investigations into Trump.
The FBI, at the direction of Director Kash Patel, has fired at least a half-dozen agents tied to the 2022 search of President Trump's home in Florida, six people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
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Lawmakers are setting their sights anywhere but Capitol Hill.
As of late February, 68 Senate and House members said they will not seek reelection. Hereβs why so many are quitting Congress: https://wapo.st/4qXzqHc
26.02.2026 11:00 β π 29 π 13 π¬ 8 π 3
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26.02.2026 11:01 β π 20 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
www.theguardian.com
Hillary Clinton to testify in House Oversight Committeeβs Epstein investigation β US politics live
Hillary Clinton to testify in House Oversight Committeeβs Epstein investigation β US politics live
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THIS IS π HOW IT'S DONE.......
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END THE PATRIARCHY.......
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26.02.2026 07:39 β π 1448 π 832 π¬ 52 π 52
Child rape is number one on this list, everything else in comparison is nebulous. I donβt care about his approval ratings, I care about the CHILDREN he raped & the women he assaulted! Demβs must win in Nov. so we can impeach & remove him in 2027!
#SheShed
#Pinks
26.02.2026 06:46 β π 361 π 198 π¬ 38 π 12
TRUMP'S CBP THUGS MURDERED A BLIND REFUGEE BY LEAVING HIM OUT IN BELOW FREEZING WEATHER!
This story made me gasp & then cry!
It was done with our taxpayer dollars & in our name.
This is the kind of evil that was done during the Holocaust.
This is murder!
www.reuters.com/world/us/nea...
26.02.2026 06:26 β π 435 π 237 π¬ 20 π 14
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
They killed him.
It takes a lot to infuriate me and break my heart only because you have to be able to tolerate a lot when covering Trump and fascism and try your best to stay centered and hopeful.
This story I can't let go.
They chose to let him just die.
www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
26.02.2026 06:20 β π 3165 π 1318 π¬ 156 π 83
Cutting off Medicaid to Minnesota is social murder.
People will die without healthcare.
People will become disabled without healthcare.
This is a policy choice meant to inflict maximum suffering.
Healthcare is a human right.
26.02.2026 05:57 β π 752 π 291 π¬ 27 π 14
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.
If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
26.02.2026 05:18 β π 7331 π 3573 π¬ 8 π 39
Stephen Miller Melts Down in Petty 8-Hour Social Media Fight
The White House Deputy Chief of Staff got owned on social media instead of doing his day job.
Stephen Miller spent eight hours on Wednesday in a fiery social media spat with podcast host and former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau.
26.02.2026 11:21 β π 68 π 18 π¬ 16 π 4
Patel specifically said during his confirmation hearings that agents would not be punished for the cases they had been assigned to. It was an obvious lie at the time.
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"Patel had reportedly taken similar actions in recent days. Senior field office leaders in Atlanta and New Orleans, the acting assistant director overseeing the New York field office, and six agents in Miami were allegedly fired in January. All had ties to one of Smithβs probes into Trump."
26.02.2026 04:48 β π 210 π 100 π¬ 15 π 6
How Trump's FEMA Secretly Dismantled Program to Prepare Americans For Disasters
The administration last year closed a division that helped individuals get ready for emergencies.
Trump says he wants FEMA to get out of the business of preparing for natural disasters. His administration secretly dismantled a program that helped regular people do that.
26.02.2026 11:30 β π 81 π 64 π¬ 11 π 10
I'm not dropping it until we have ALL of the files have been released, we see everything except victims names unredacted, and we get at least a dozen rich and powerful pedos convicted and behind bars.
26.02.2026 04:39 β π 1510 π 366 π¬ 38 π 16
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