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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

12.11.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9896    πŸ” 4371    πŸ’¬ 251    πŸ“Œ 527
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Jeffery Epstein hanging out in Trump Tower ~1 week after the 2016 election, cool cool

12.11.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 549    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 35

Cruelty is the point.

02.11.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 275    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

02.11.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 9572    πŸ” 5337    πŸ’¬ 1213    πŸ“Œ 1880

Every time you see a story of comically transparent corruption among Trump's immediate family, a cold shiver should shoot through you.

Trump will *never* accede to a situation where accountability for his or his family's ill-gotten gains is possible. Dictatorship to protect corruption is the agenda

01.11.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 814    πŸ” 223    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4
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I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

01.11.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8701    πŸ” 3646    πŸ’¬ 313    πŸ“Œ 234

Manufacturing factory construction investment DOUBLED from 2021-2024. The IRA made clean energy cheaper to make, cheaper to use, and cheaper to build in America. Much of it now rolled back, energy will be more expensive for everyone for the next 10 years. It’s a crisis.

01.11.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 291    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

They don’t expect to ever have fair elections again. They feel untouchable and are acting that way.

31.10.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 220    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Edison Park is where all the Chicago cops live and nobody wants ICE there either.

31.10.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 524    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2

Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL

31.10.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2565    πŸ” 1037    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 223
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This is near my niece and nephew's school in Evanston, Ill just hours ago as they are now on lockdown.

This is what's happening. It's an occupation by ICE in a Chicago suburb. They must be abolished.

31.10.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 449    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 27

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

30.10.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2802    πŸ” 1274    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 38
 No Kings

No Kings

18.10.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 948    πŸ” 279    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

18.10.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 44076    πŸ” 11557    πŸ’¬ 935    πŸ“Œ 850
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β€˜This is what democracy looks like’: Valparaiso β€˜No Kings’ protest draws more than 1,000 people More than 1,000 people marched and chanted through downtown Valparaiso Saturday for a β€œNo Kings” protest.

Over 1,000 in Valparaiso, IN according to the Chicago Tribune.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/t...

19.10.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

17.10.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 12025    πŸ” 5032    πŸ’¬ 587    πŸ“Œ 519

According the article, the Everett Police still have not told the parents why they arrested their 13-year-old child, nor why they handed him over to ICE while his parents waited in the station to pick him up.

12.10.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2312    πŸ” 453    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 8
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

β€œMy world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. β€œMy world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

12.10.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 10202    πŸ” 6009    πŸ’¬ 496    πŸ“Œ 819
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This Is Fascism

12.10.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 30161    πŸ” 12646    πŸ’¬ 701    πŸ“Œ 765
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ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to groundβ€”then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doorsβ€”so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

11.10.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1498    πŸ” 564    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 35

look i'm just gonna say: everyone involved in this shit needs to go to jail

11.10.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 648    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 7

Their complaints that Dems oppose the β€œrural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: β€œI’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

β€œThat sounds terrible.”

β€œWhat you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

11.10.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2315    πŸ” 923    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 29

One reason Dems should be sharing this and talking about it nonstop is because the key to dominating the public mind is media that evokes emotion. It’s how George Floyd started nationwide protests overnight. And it’s impossible to see this without feeling blind rage. Healthcare policy could never.

11.10.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 386    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6

This is terrorism and mayhem. Cities and states have an obligation to enforce laws to prevent it.

11.10.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 388    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 1

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

10.10.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 876    πŸ” 452    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 69
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I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

10.10.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5559    πŸ” 2916    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 252
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This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

09.10.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2219    πŸ” 1190    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 278
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Thugs

07.10.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3383    πŸ” 1118    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 35

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