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I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.
03.08.2025 21:24 — 👍 16062 🔁 4322 💬 586 📌 185Fox News is making campaign ads for me now.
01.08.2025 18:08 — 👍 6669 🔁 923 💬 487 📌 147i'm crying laughing. she's literally never seen the word before.
01.08.2025 19:15 — 👍 9283 🔁 1170 💬 269 📌 118This is actually hilarious 😆
03.08.2025 23:57 — 👍 4724 🔁 966 💬 93 📌 41A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.
04.08.2025 00:02 — 👍 5415 🔁 2175 💬 258 📌 106It’s almost like “Trump says he will ____” stories are pointless huh
04.08.2025 00:36 — 👍 1218 🔁 221 💬 53 📌 3He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses
04.08.2025 00:56 — 👍 2170 🔁 628 💬 84 📌 15“Well, there’s one thing that Trump’s probably 100% correct about: nobody else can do that. Getting a 1500% price reduction would presumably mean that pharmaceutical companies would be paying you to take their medications not just a little but a lot. ...
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Democrats have been letting Republicans break norms with no consequence for decades.
It is time to raise the cost until they agree to restore regular Constitutional processes.
Bill Belichick figured this out, it made some people mad, but he won a lot of games doing it. Dems should work the rulebook like Bill Belichick.
03.08.2025 23:22 — 👍 37 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0When MAGA fascists are trying to steal voting power from citizens, obstruction is patriotism.
Welcome to Illinois, Texas Democrats.
The biggest thing Trinity Rodman learned in the past four months? The importance of prioritizing her own well-being.
“You forget sometimes that, like, whoa, I need to take a step back and make my own decision and do something for myself.”
Well said
03.08.2025 23:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0holy shit.
03.08.2025 20:51 — 👍 53 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0If you talked about Republicans like Miller talks about Democrats on national TV, you’d be telling the truth! Yet Democrats are so nervous to do this
03.08.2025 20:25 — 👍 45 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1The Trump administration is systematically making it harder for people working in public service to access the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program with one weird exception
03.08.2025 20:30 — 👍 198 🔁 73 💬 8 📌 2How much less damaging would Trump's reign be if literally anyone in a position of authority showed anything but abject cowardice? bsky.app/profile/reut...
03.08.2025 18:55 — 👍 151 🔁 35 💬 7 📌 0I have to agree that the Democrats are handling the Epstein files really well. All of the requests for documents and legislation being proposed, the money probe by Wyden and Senate Finance dems, the House dems asking for the birthday book, shutting down congress with endless Epstein amendments...
03.08.2025 19:05 — 👍 2917 🔁 717 💬 76 📌 19As Marcy says, we should be looking hardest at the comments that Trump is trying to deflect us from. He knows his weaknesses better than anyone.
03.08.2025 19:15 — 👍 328 🔁 98 💬 13 📌 2All of the pundits who didn’t point out this easy to see lie at the time should never be allowed to share their analysis again.
03.08.2025 20:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trump preyed on families desperate to have a child, lying to them for votes.
03.08.2025 19:17 — 👍 101 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 3When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su
Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.
The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.
03.08.2025 14:09 — 👍 2188 🔁 859 💬 44 📌 76That five game is series is going to be an impossibility. I love that we’re still posting the opponent win pct as though it wasn’t all driven by the Royals, Sox and Orioles for the #Cubs and the Dodgers for the Crew. Did not work out.
03.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 03 - @washingtonspirit.com's Trinity Rodman is the first player in #NWSL history to score three stoppage-time match-winning goals in regular season play (also in 2021 and 2023 vs. Kansas City). Return.
03.08.2025 18:57 — 👍 172 🔁 35 💬 3 📌 2put it in the louvre
03.08.2025 19:05 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0All the work and dedication off the field to be here, in this moment, back with her team, helping them win the game. Trinity Rodman, we're so happy for you 🖤💛
03.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 165 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 5The triumphant return of Trinity Rodman.
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Heck of a moment for Trinity Rodman, for the Spirit, and frankly for the #NWSL: The #USWNT superstar of the league coming back from injury and doing THAT on broadcast TV. That's an iconic moment.
03.08.2025 19:36 — 👍 95 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0It's remarkable to watch history be this goofy.
Marcy has been dogged in covering this story which dominates Fox world and ignored everywhere else.
She nailed what Durham was up to as it was happening.
Now this BS is the toothpick-thick premise of Trump's effort to prosecute Obama for treason.