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Social Media Mgr in Park and Recreation. Army Veteran. Runner. Outdoors lover. Hawkeyes alum.

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Al Green once told me: "Only God knows what he will do when he believes that he has no one to answer to. Right now, he knows that we are there, but if we donโ€™t do our duty, the president will do unthinkable things.โ€

05.03.2025 03:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3633    ๐Ÿ” 634    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 70    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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EXCLUSIVE: I recently spoke with Rep. Al Green who was just escorted from Donald Trumpโ€™s speech. Weโ€™ll have a chance to ask him more questions this evening.

Hereโ€™s what he told me:

05.03.2025 02:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9143    ๐Ÿ” 2505    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 286    ๐Ÿ“Œ 169

That other Dems are there at all is an error. That theyโ€™re remaining after this is a grotesque embarrassment.

05.03.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1822    ๐Ÿ” 215    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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Anger and alarm from senior military toward Trump. Not a comforting moment. #SOTU #BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert

05.03.2025 02:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1574    ๐Ÿ” 332    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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"This is NOT normal." #SOTU

Thank you for speaking truth to power.

05.03.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4427    ๐Ÿ” 734    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

Oh, now we're dragging people out of the SOTU.

Democrats, your job is not to be quieter because Al Green got dragged out. It's your job to get LOUDER.

05.03.2025 02:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6850    ๐Ÿ” 1115    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 126    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45

These people make me sick.

05.03.2025 02:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well done sir!

05.03.2025 02:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a shitty thing to say.

05.03.2025 01:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So sorry.

05.03.2025 00:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

01.03.2025 01:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 64699    ๐Ÿ” 11173    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2010    ๐Ÿ“Œ 589

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist.

He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

28.02.2025 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 79260    ๐Ÿ” 14343    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1844    ๐Ÿ“Œ 519

Trump and Vance showed a level of crassness and vulgarity never seen before in the White House with a foreign leader and guest. They were the worst kind of ignorant disgusting bully. Theyโ€™ve turned our nation into a global embarrassment. And a global threat.

28.02.2025 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4145    ๐Ÿ” 745    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 152    ๐Ÿ“Œ 38
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Why donโ€™t you wear a suit?

28.02.2025 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30433    ๐Ÿ” 7006    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1262    ๐Ÿ“Œ 363
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๐Ÿฅถ

18.02.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Perfection. #SNL50

17.02.2025 04:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
12.02.2025 05:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a circus. Every day brings something even crazier than the day before if that is even possible.

11.02.2025 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the beyond parody presidency

11.02.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8484    ๐Ÿ” 1321    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 918    ๐Ÿ“Œ 222

WTH?!

11.02.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Iowa womenโ€™s basketball team is so much fun to watch! Tonightโ€™s win gives them a 5 game winning streak now.

11.02.2025 02:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hats off to the Eagles. It just wasnโ€™t meant to be for the Chiefs. Congrats on a great season though. It was quite the ride!

10.02.2025 03:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am so sick and tired of him tying everything back to him.

10.02.2025 02:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Welcome to baseball season, Kansas City

10.02.2025 02:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Adversity is where you learn the most. And the #Chiefs are definitely going to face that after this game. It will hurt a lot. It was not their year. The good thing is that there is another season for another chance.

10.02.2025 02:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Eagles have run 50 plays for 253 yards.
Chiefs have run 25 plays for 38 yards.

10.02.2025 02:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 381    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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a man in a suit is standing in front of a refrigerator with #schitts creek on the bottom ALT: a man in a suit is standing in front of a refrigerator with #schitts creek on the bottom

20 minutes left to play. Down by 4 touchdowns. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

10.02.2025 02:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

BRUTAL

10.02.2025 02:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We are toast. Chiefs Oline not giving Mahomes time

10.02.2025 01:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We need this positivity!

10.02.2025 01:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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