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Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

14.10.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2480    πŸ” 622    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 18

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

14.10.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4115    πŸ” 926    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 47
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U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

14.10.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1087    πŸ” 493    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 181

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

14.10.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2767    πŸ” 656    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

14.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1753    πŸ” 334    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 10
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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Department of State v @StateDept g.. The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans. The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.: 5:55 PM β€’ Oct 14, 2025 β€’ 34.1K Views

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

14.10.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4368    πŸ” 1569    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 132
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Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

14.10.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2894    πŸ” 1573    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 84

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

15.10.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4291    πŸ” 642    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 33
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15.10.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6803    πŸ” 998    πŸ’¬ 262    πŸ“Œ 55

Like I just said on CNN, it’s absolutely evil that people are sleeping on concrete floors at the ICE detention center near Chicago.

Join us to protest this Friday at 7 am at the Broadview Detention Center.

10.09.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 9726    πŸ” 2273    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 53

The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops.

Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.

10.09.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5474    πŸ” 2035    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 79

Don't just read the headline. Take a moment to watch the video. It's short.

10.09.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3189    πŸ” 1323    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 66
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Paramount Picks Kenneth R. Weinstein As Ombudsman For CBS News UPDATED: Paramount has tapped Kenneth R. Weinstein, former president and CEO of the Hudson Institute, a right-leaning D.C. think tank, to serve as ombudsman for CBS News. Skydance committed to hiring ...

In case you wondered whether CBS was going to treat its new "ombudsman" as a MAGA-truth monitor, they just hired the former head of the right-wing Hudson Institute into the position: deadline.com/2025/09/para...

08.09.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 264    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 26

so for those keeping tally, so far today we had:

SCOTUS re-firing an agency head a lower court had reinstated

trump saying domestic violence is nbd

trump's pedophilia celebration birthday card to Epstein released

SCOTUS green lighting racial profiling and "papers, please" policing

08.09.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1278    πŸ” 360    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 37

This is terrifying.

07.09.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."

07.09.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 29139    πŸ” 8547    πŸ’¬ 929    πŸ“Œ 421
Nancy Levine Stearns U Albany college tennis

Nancy Levine Stearns U Albany college tennis

🧡 An open letter to the US Open and USTA:

Trump will attend the #USOpen as a guest of ROLEX. Yesterday, Trump declared 'WAR' on Chicago. The USTA has called for media censorship of dissent against Trump today.

I played NCAA tennis many years ago and still play. Today I resign my #USTA membership.

07.09.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4886    πŸ” 1347    πŸ’¬ 174    πŸ“Œ 107
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Mamdani: Why should I debate Trump's puppet when I could debate Trump himself? If Trump is serious about this, he should come to New York City. We can have as many debates as he wants about why he is cutting snap benefits for hungry New Yorkers just to fund tax cuts for his billionaire donors

05.09.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 11109    πŸ” 2337    πŸ’¬ 205    πŸ“Œ 251

I'd really recommend doing this, especially if you have the opportunity to visit a 19 Century graveyard. Not only will you be shocked at how many babies and young children are there, but there will also be a sad and surprising number of women of childbearing age.

05.09.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1327    πŸ” 484    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 12
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Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics ran anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading and bigoted attacks | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay...

NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

05.09.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3598    πŸ” 1930    πŸ’¬ 283    πŸ“Œ 269

sure, that happened.

04.09.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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Democrat and brewery owner joins race for Sen. Collins' seat Dan Kleban is focusing his campaign on economic issues.

Democrat and brewery owner has joined the race for Sen. Collins’ seat.

03.09.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 424    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 9

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

22.08.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 23504    πŸ” 7144    πŸ’¬ 1070    πŸ“Œ 582

Correct. It’s insane that anyone is standing for this. We need people in the streets, campus protests, a general strike. Democrats should be holding rallies and press events constantly. The apathy in the face of all this is astounding.

22.08.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1697    πŸ” 416    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 20
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Joint Statement on a United States-European Union Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade The United States and the European UnionΒ are pleased to announce that theyΒ haveΒ agreed onΒ aΒ FrameworkΒ on

Text of the US-EU trade deal is out: www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

The most important thing is what's not there. Trump had boasted "They gave me $600 billion, and that’s a gift." But guess what? They didn't. He didn't get a penny.

21.08.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 848    πŸ” 277    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 31
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We are very far off the cliff, folks. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

21.08.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 11834    πŸ” 4156    πŸ’¬ 604    πŸ“Œ 230
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Jessica: These are headlines. In wake of trump tariffs, John Deere announced layoffs. Pepsico will increase prices by 10%. Sony is raising PS5 prices in the U.S. by $50 across all models and electric bills are up 10% so far this year.

21.08.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 688    πŸ” 260    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 23

This was the plan the entire time and it was always going to be targeted towards Democratic run cities. It’s not about law and order. It’s about controlling by force the areas where Trump does not control by ideology.

11.06.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4063    πŸ” 1457    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 36
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Opinion | Why California Became Trump’s Favorite Target β€” and Why the State Isn’t Backing Down There’s much more at stake for Trump β€” and Californians β€” than deportations.

Opinion: Why California became Trump’s favorite target β€” and why the state isn’t backing down, according to @jnewton100.bsky.social, former editor and columnist at the Los Angeles Times.

10.06.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5
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Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like

β€œIf you saw all this in any other country β€” soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened β€” it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

10.06.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6731    πŸ” 2249    πŸ’¬ 306    πŸ“Œ 86

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