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Theoretical physicist

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TENNESSEAN: “Ethics complaint filed claiming 8 Senators ― including @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty ― violated conflict of interest rules by supporting a provision allowing them to sue the government for millions…”

(Finally they cover this story! 👏🏽)
www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

15.11.2025 13:20 — 👍 7963    🔁 2986    💬 244    📌 143
Photo of Trump pale with unfocused eyes. Headlines go across his face. 
HEADLINES "Transportation: Trump kicks off potentially messy fight over Biden's infrastructure money"
"Trump is punishing Blue States by defunding their infrastructure projects"
"Trump slaps his name on Infrastructure Projects funded by Biden"
"What Trump's infrastructure funding pause means for cities"
"Where did billions in climate and infrastructure go?"

Photo of Trump pale with unfocused eyes. Headlines go across his face. HEADLINES "Transportation: Trump kicks off potentially messy fight over Biden's infrastructure money" "Trump is punishing Blue States by defunding their infrastructure projects" "Trump slaps his name on Infrastructure Projects funded by Biden" "What Trump's infrastructure funding pause means for cities" "Where did billions in climate and infrastructure go?"

Four years ago today President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill into law. This was one of the most consequential bills of our lifetimes.

Trump has been working to dismantle that work since entering office. He is always working against the people.

15.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

14.11.2025 19:04 — 👍 4729    🔁 1787    💬 106    📌 98
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Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...

They are straight up robbing taxpayers blind at this point and not even trying to hide it. Just ransacking the treasury out in the open. This motherfucker pleaded guilty! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

14.11.2025 20:16 — 👍 1065    🔁 413    💬 11    📌 14

Mafia governance in action

"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

14.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 1076    🔁 502    💬 29    📌 20
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Then they came for the Dreamers Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.

12.11.2025 00:00 — 👍 582    🔁 269    💬 19    📌 12
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NJN Praises Congressional Letter on Umm al-Kheir — New Jewish Narrative More than 100 Members of Congress sent a letter today to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling on him to withdraw demolition orders that his government issued against homes and other str...

BREAKING: 100+ Members of Congress sent a letter to PM Netanyahu calling on him to withdraw demolition orders targeting the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheir.

Here's the NJN response: www.newjewishnarrative.org/statements/n...

06.11.2025 19:47 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

06.11.2025 21:06 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Slain hostage Oded Lifshitz refused to stay silent on Israel's misdeeds | Opinion ***

One of the hostages killed by Hamas - a longtime peace activist (and not the only one)
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

03.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Two U.S. Jewish women face deportation from Israel after joining West Bank olive harvest The Two Are Part of a Four-month Program Run by the Achvat Amim Educational Group, Which Organizes Jewish-Palestinian Solidarity Programs. After Joining Palestinians for the West Bank Olive Harvest, I...

They helped Palestinians harvest olives so they are being deported www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

30.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

They can concentrate on unfairly characterizing criticism of Israel as antisemitism

29.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The White House is a 24/7 pay-to-play enterprise.

The latest? Trump is pardoning Changpeng Zhao, who built a company that allowed terrorists and sex predators to launder money.

Why? Because Zhao made a huge investment in Trump's corrupt crypto business.

Pay-to-play.

24.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 981    🔁 382    💬 41    📌 30

Shame on the private companies that are funding Trump's ballroom

23.10.2025 00:05 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Jews Demand Action

#JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org

22.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I keep saying “it’s almost impossible to explain how corrupt this is” but then something like this happens that’s even MORE corrupt:

21.10.2025 19:11 — 👍 396    🔁 154    💬 35    📌 10
THAT MAN IS MY BROTHER
And if genius is madness tempered with discretion, this sly sadist and plotter of revenge is a genius
MARCH 1, 1939 | THOMAS MANN

WERE it not for the frightful sacrifices which continue to be offered up to the fatal psychology of this man; were it not for the ever-widening circle of desolation which he makes, it would be easier to admit that he presents an arresting phenomenon. Yet, hard as it is, we must admit it: nobody can help being preoccupied by the deplorable spectacle. For he has chosen—in default, as we know, of capacity to wield any other-to use politics as his tool; and politics always magnify and coarsen the effects they produce. So much the worse for us all; so much the worse for all Europe today, lying helpless under his spell; where he is vouchsafed the role of the man of destiny and all-conquering hero, and where, thanks to a combination of fantastic chances -or mischances - everything is grist that comes to his mill, and he passes unopposed from one triumph to another.

THAT MAN IS MY BROTHER And if genius is madness tempered with discretion, this sly sadist and plotter of revenge is a genius MARCH 1, 1939 | THOMAS MANN WERE it not for the frightful sacrifices which continue to be offered up to the fatal psychology of this man; were it not for the ever-widening circle of desolation which he makes, it would be easier to admit that he presents an arresting phenomenon. Yet, hard as it is, we must admit it: nobody can help being preoccupied by the deplorable spectacle. For he has chosen—in default, as we know, of capacity to wield any other-to use politics as his tool; and politics always magnify and coarsen the effects they produce. So much the worse for us all; so much the worse for all Europe today, lying helpless under his spell; where he is vouchsafed the role of the man of destiny and all-conquering hero, and where, thanks to a combination of fantastic chances -or mischances - everything is grist that comes to his mill, and he passes unopposed from one triumph to another.

Back in 1939, Thomas Mann wrote an essay called Bruder Hitler. Esquire magazine ran it with the title “That Man Is My Brother”.

Here’s an archived link: archive.ph/kPMHn

18.02.2025 00:12 — 👍 458    🔁 104    💬 9    📌 8

Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?

21.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 3707    🔁 909    💬 664    📌 107
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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

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Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9

19.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 6420    🔁 1926    💬 126    📌 71
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GOP tries to brand ‘No Kings’ protests as ‘hate America’ rallies Saturday marked the second such anti-Trump demonstrations this year.

I hope this speaks for itself
reader.tt.nj.com/2025/10/19/g...

19.10.2025 12:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey, Mike Johnson, is this what a pro-Hamas terrorist looks like?

18.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 986    🔁 187    💬 25    📌 5
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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Go Denver! #NoKings

18.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 1698    🔁 267    💬 8    📌 8
No Kings Philadelphia

No Kings Philadelphia

No Kings, Philadelphia

18.10.2025 17:15 — 👍 4793    🔁 892    💬 69    📌 34
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Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

18.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 21015    🔁 5247    💬 388    📌 225

Seven million patriots celebrated the real America today.

18.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 7247    🔁 1153    💬 124    📌 44

Many beautiful sights today at #NoKings Cincinnati — one of my favorites was the Dinosaur walking with the guy in the Reds cap. That’s a hybridity I can get behind.

18.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 1381    🔁 150    💬 14    📌 1
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Happening Now: Thousands out for a “No Kings” protest in Chicago

18.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 2514    🔁 499    💬 38    📌 44

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