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Retired officer, USAF; retired support contractor @ DOD; now just busily retired! Liberal Democrat. News junkie. Refugee from Post News.

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Minnesota launches investigation that could bring charges against federal immigration officers A Minnesota prosecutor announced an investigation Monday that may lead to charges against federal officers, including Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, for misconduct during an immigration enforceme...

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Pardoned Capitol rioter who said Jan. 6 officer 'needs to be put down' is charged Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang has been charged with making threatening statements about one of the officers he faced off with at the U.S.

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Chapter 14: Reform, Resist, and Remember Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink"

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February 28, 2026 Early this morning, the U.S.

The January inflation report...showed prices rising...inspiring...Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to suggest Americans should buy cheaper food. β€œMost of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive,” he said. β€œYou can buy liver or the cheaper cuts of steak.”
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Jimmy Kimmel Says Republicans Leading Epstein Files Investigation Could Not Get a Job β€˜Running a Chuck E. Cheese’ | Video Jimmy Kimmel called out the Trump administration and House Republicans Thursday night over Hillary Clinton's Epstein Files deposition.

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Renee Good's family say neither investigators nor President Trump have been in touch since her death Renee Good's mother, father and two brothers say for all the discourse about her death, they are the only ones who really knew her.

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Saturday Report 2/28/26 β€” Did Trump Illegally Ignite a Middle East War to Set the Stage for Emergency Election Powers? The Best of the Rest of the News and Opinion

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Iran Drops Unredacted Epstein Files Over U.S. The surprise attack has rattled the White House.

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February 27, 2026 On Monday, February 23, Daniel Ruetenik, Pat Milton, and Cara Tabachnick of CBS News reported a newly uncovered document in the Epstein files shows that the U.S.

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Ukraine's battlefield churn showed the West how much its weapons-making needed an overhaul, NATO official says NATO countries stockpile military hardware, but Ukraine's war shows how quickly it can become obsolete, an alliance official said.

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Denmark Is Buying US Missiles to Defend Greenland From the United States β€” Yes, Really Denmark is buying U.S. missiles to defend Greenland as Washington openly flirts with taking it. Irony meets Arctic security.

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Is a Secret Plot Already in Motion to Take the Election Out of Voters’ Hands? If you’ve studied history β€” and you know I have β€” that’s the moment when the hair on the back of your neck should stand up…

A warning!

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FedEx says it will return to customers any refunds it gets back from Trump's illegal tariffs Delivery company FedEx said in a statement on Thursday that it will return any tariff refund it might get to shippers and customers who paid them.

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Hillary Destroys the Republicans They’d soon regret sending her a subpoena.

NOT SATIRE

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Brady Tkachuk annoyed White House posted AI-doctored video of him belittling Canadians: 'It's clearly fake' While Tkachuk helped U.S. men's hockey win its first Olympic gold medal since 1980, he's also the captain of the Ottawa Senators.

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β€œSend Them Back” Is the Oldest Racial Taunt in History, and Now It’s Being Amplified by Trump Trump’s attack on elected officials of color isn’t just ugly rhetoric, it’s a calculated attempt to redefine who gets to belong in this democracy…

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Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

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Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Gift article.

Here's a blueprint for the coup de grace of American democracy: wapo.st/3N5cpEn

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Opinion | How Trump raced past the Supreme Court The justices took months to reject illegal tariffs. Trump took hours to sidestep their ruling.

Gift article

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February 25, 2026 At last night’s State of the Union address, President Donald Trump went on offense, seeming to try to set the terms for the upcoming midterm elections.

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