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Elderly, somewhat AADD, OCD, Historian of early NC, of Military Hiistory, and the History of Technology

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A Rapist, a Pedophile, & the Dumbest Man Alive Walk Into a Bar. Bartender Says β€œWhat’ll It Be, Mr. President?”

15.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

It is nigh impossible to shame a Republican anymore but Trump may yet pull it off:
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...

15.11.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US army veteran who received Purple Heart deported by ICE to Mexico Venezuelan-born Jose Barco detained upon early release from prison following attempted murder conviction

No mercy for wounded vet who lived in US for nearly forty years. He had a record but paid his debt and ICE "disappeared" him. Cadet "Bone Spurs'" thugs are merciless.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

15.11.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did Epstein’s Knowledge of Trump Become Putin’s Most Dangerous Weapon Against Ukraine? From the halls of Mar-a-Lago to the ruins of Ukrainian hospitals, the toxic bond between Trump, Putin, and Epstein may have reshaped the world and cost the lives of countless children…

Thom Harman writes well and tells the truth.Since Helsinki I have believed that our President was a pathetically compromised perv. Hartmann lays out the case pretty well.
hartmannreport.com/p/did-epstei...

15.11.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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November 13, 2025 We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J.

The US administration is failing in myriad ways and even MAGA is growing immune to the Tangerine Tyrant's hogwash.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...

14.11.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Musk and Mamdani: The End of Harsh Capitalism? In opposite ways, Musk and Mamdani pose the same question

Bobby R is temperately optimistic.....

Musk and Mamdani: The End of Harsh Capitalism?
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

11.11.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. -Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (10 Nov 1730-1774)

10.11.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

"Breaking Ranks" will not absolve the IDF from its criminality in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

10.11.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Actually Changed in 1776 The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

A timely reminder of what is at stake in the peoples' current struggle with a would-be monarch.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

10.11.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Should a war hero be deported? The complex dilemma around one convicted vet. When noncitizen veterans make bad choices after their time in the military, they serve prison sentences and then face deportation. Is that fair?

Americans have a peculiarly hostile relationship with ex-cons, a blind spot bred of senseless fear. If you pay your debt to society you should walk free.

www.csmonitor.com/World/Americ...

09.11.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An Antidote to Shamelessness Zohran Mamdani ran an online campaign based on real people and a real message. It worked.

A brief and compelling article on how and why Mamdani won.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

07.11.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A quick thought about last Tuesday's elections: Disregard the pundits, the Democratic Party won nothing, the people, the nation won big. More importantly the nation said, "Enough!!" to Trump. It may have been the East Wing or maybe it was the Gatsby Party as SNAP funding ended, we are done with him.

06.11.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Federal Reserve dumped $29.4B into the banking system to backstop banks strapped for cash owing to the Trump CFs: people aren't spending money, inflation, up, as will be interest rates. It seems the Tangerine Tyrant ha(as forecaster by economists) created the perfect economic storm.

05.11.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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November 4, 2025 (Tuesday) So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.

Joy to the world, the folks woke up!

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-4...

05.11.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (5 Nov 1850-1919)

05.11.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes β€” the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism β€” fearing they too will be swept aside.

The failure of liberalism led to Trump and the failure of the Democratic Party to organize the masses keeps him power.

chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-gre...

03.11.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

The tangerine Tyrant has authorized Mafia-like negotiation techniques in world affairs and, unfortunately, they worked.

www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

03.11.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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October 31, 2025 Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

The Tangerine Tyrant's "Let them eat cake...//" moment

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-31...

03.11.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Viktor OrbΓ‘n’s America - Truthdig We have reached the midpoint between democracy and dictatorship β€” much further than many pundits are willing to admit.

What we must do to regain control of our democracy.

www.truthdig.com/articles/wel...

02.11.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

GOP racism, sexism, and fascism all displayed and authenticated during Tucker's chat with Nick Fuentes.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

02.11.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Too Cruel Too Soon How Republicans messed up on Project 2025

Ooopsy, the cruelty, fundamental to the GOP ethos, was supposed to be hidden until after the mid-terms but came to light just this week.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-...

01.11.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There is No Ceasefire in Gaza The Trump administration must be ready to apply pressure to Benjamin Netanyahu if it wants to save its peace plan.

At last, somebody has said it, the truth about Zionist breaches of Trump's 20 point peace plan and cease fire.

nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-...

01.11.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Orwellian’: Current and former prosecutors alarmed after DOJ scrubs mentions of Trump and January 6 from court records | CNN Politics The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is b...

Indeed, things, in the US of A, get more Orwellian by the day.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...

30.10.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams, 2nd US president (30 Oct 1735-1826)

30.10.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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President for Life Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.

Judge Luttig lists the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Tangerine Tyrant calls out to the American people to do our and reject monarchy.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

29.10.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel kills over 100 Palestinians in Gaza as Trump insists truce holds The US president says Israel has a right to 'hit back' after reports that a soldier was killed in southern Gaza.

Hamas shot and killed an IDF soldier, so Israel killed 100 Palestinians in reprisal. There is, in international law, a rule that says responses should be proportional.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

29.10.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Partisan Redistribution of Wealth The president is using the shutdown to shake down blue states.

Trump's ignorance of economic reality is hurting us all:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

24.10.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They’ve Never Been Arrested. Why Does the FBI List Thousands of Service Members as Potential Criminals? Military titling system lists service members as potential criminals, upending their lives. These veterans try to set the record straight.

"Balls," cried the Queen, "...had I two I'd be the King.".... This level of stupid can only be found in the DoD and reform schools.

thewarhorse.org/service-memb...

23.10.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Photo Gallery: No Kings Day In Carrboro, Pittsboro, and Hillsborough - Chapelboro.com Here's our collection of photos from Saturday's No Kings Day demonstrations in Carrboro, Pittsboro, and Hillsborough.

Carboro, Pittsboro, and Hillsborough photos of "No Kings Day" fail to capture the scope of the demonstration by focusing on signage.

chapelboro.com/news/news-ar...

22.10.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

Russell Vought, head of OMB, supervisor of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and "shadow President" exposed as phony "Christian" Nationalist.

www.propublica.org/article/russ...

21.10.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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