Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

This is the most corrupt presidential administration in American history and it’s not even close.

They fought to stop Americans from getting food stamps while pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into their own pockets. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

The Wolf's Cave Nebula (VdB152) is around 1,400 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus.
This is 6.25 hours of data from 2023 re-processed in HaRGB.
Esprit 100ED, ASI2924 MC Pro, L-ultimate and UV/IR cut filters.

#astronomy #astrophotography

A color close-up photo of Jimmy Carter, accompanied by this quote: “War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”

Trump is considering declaring war against Venezuela.

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
~ Jimmy Carter

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

U.S. Border Patrol Launches Operation in Charlotte

"She began to record the agents as they spoke to the landscaper in Spanish. After the agents noticed her phone, they got back in their vehicles and drove away..."

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November 16, 2025 On Thursday, November 13, Michael Schmidt reported in the New York Times the story of the 17-year-old girl the House Ethics Committee found former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) likely paid to have ...

“Turn in whatever way you will—whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent….”

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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

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November 14, 2025 In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J.

Tonight Aaron Rupar []wrote: “I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here[?]”

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Geez,Are We Like The ONLY
Country in The World Without Healthcare, RepubliKKKans ?......

Trump also claims he fell out with Epstein because Epstein was being a "creep" around young girls at Mar-a-Lago. That is another lie. Being a creep around young girls was why Trump was friends with Epstein in the first place. They fell out over a bidding war on Florida real estate.

Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people.

And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?

America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts (ProPublica) On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on ...

The CORRUPTION of this REGIME knows no bounds.

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November 13, 2025 We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J.

But the administration’s attempt to convince Americans to believe them, rather than their lyin’ eyes, doesn’t appear to be succeeding very well.

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November 12, 2025 It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.

Midday today, as new revelations from the Epstein documents were hitting social media every few minutes, Representative Swalwell posted: “This is the beginning of the end.”

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Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.

Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.

We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

A black and white close-up photo of Elon Musk, wearing a black jacket, white shirt, and black bowtie: “The fundamental weakness of WWestern civisization is empathy.” A black and white close-up photo of Hannah Arendt: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

EMPATHY:

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
~Elon Musk

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
~Hannah Arendt

"Love nurture and protect our children. The greatest gift is love.”
~Santa Claus

Democrats @schiff.senate.gov must understand that they are not debating a political opposition in Congress anymore, they are confronted with the domestic terrorist organization called MAGA !

Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.

November 11, 2025 In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...

In 1938, Congress made November 11 a legal holiday to be dedicated to world peace.

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Today is the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
It's not an easy title to earn--Marine.
To all the Devil Dogs, Leathernecks, Jarheads, and Uncle Sam's Misguided Children out there--Semper Fi.

Fantastic news: the Supreme Court ruled to NOT revisit the landmark Obergefell decision which legalized same-sex marriage.

This is a victory for all Americans, as no one should be discriminated against for who they love.

November 10, 2025 Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S.

Trump called Democrats “the enemy” today, but told reporters he would abide by the deal, saying that “they haven’t changed anything.” But they have.

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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

"With your support, and with God, we’ll find a way out of this...”

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November 9, 2025 In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...

Tonight Trump attended an NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions after ESPN reported that he wants the Commanders to name their new stadium after him. Attendees soundly booed him.

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Three very close-up color photos of Epstein, accompanied by this text: “The American people need to raise Holy Hell and not stop until the full Epstein files are released and every person implicated in them is brought to justice, despite their party or position. We’re either a nation of human decency or we’re not. This should be a nonpartisan demand." ~ John Pavlovitz

“The American people need to raise Holy Hell and not stop until the full Epstein files are released and every person implicated in them is brought to justice, despite their party or position. We’re either a nation of human decency or we’re not. This should be a nonpartisan demand."
~ John Pavlovitz