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True Blue retired accounting prof. Married to true Blue 32 year retired Army CSM. Hoping the country can be salvaged for the grands.

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Post-election analysis on Fox.

07.11.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1521    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 176    πŸ“Œ 51
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Elected officials object as FEMA denies Wisconsin flood disaster relief β€’ Wisconsin Examiner The Trump administration has denied Wisconsin further disaster assistance after severe flooding, shocking state and local officials.

Gov. Tony Evers and Milwaukee County Exec David Crowley say the Trump administration's denial of federal funds to rebuild flooded infrastructure hurts Wisconsin via @isiahholmes.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/25/e...

25.10.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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See the difference? πŸ‘€

#NoKings

19.10.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 29795    πŸ” 9336    πŸ’¬ 460    πŸ“Œ 383
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Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

19.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 26536    πŸ” 7530    πŸ’¬ 1464    πŸ“Œ 683

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

19.10.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9817    πŸ” 2796    πŸ’¬ 1352    πŸ“Œ 342

lolololololol

19.10.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2034    πŸ” 237    πŸ’¬ 276    πŸ“Œ 25
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Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms β€” not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

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Son of Covenant Eyes Co-Founder Arrested after Planning Sexual Encounter with 14-Year-Old Thomas Wideman, stepson of Covenant Eyes co-founder Ron DeHaas, has been arrested in Michigan on multiple child exploitation charges.

Your Daily Diddler.

06.10.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 19
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Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation

BREAKING NYT:

A senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney's offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom Trump has demanded be thrown in jail.

25.09.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 686    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 68
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Labour must grab the microphone from Reform UK and stand up for true British values | Lucy Powell If elected deputy Labour leader, I would take the fight to Nigel Farage and show him for what he really is, says Labour MP Lucy Powell

Labour must grab the microphone from Reform UK and stand up for true British values | Lucy Powell

25.09.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 3
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to pause abortions as it sorts out Trump tax and spending law Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will pause scheduling abortion appointments starting Oct. 1.

@Rachel Maddow
This STOPS abortions & Medicare funded women’s health care in Wisconsin-Trump cuts! WHY isn’t this being pushed out?
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to pause abortions as it sorts out Trump tax and spending law
www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

25.09.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Days after $5 million donation to MAGA Inc., Trump freezes Medicare waste crackdown Trump pledged to root out "waste, fraud and abuse." Then a big contribution to his Super PAC came in.

@maddow.msnbc.com please look at this. It’s atrocious. This is insane. No wonder Medicare can’t cover some things. Trump just sold outlandish expensive unproven Medicare coverage to his buddy for $5 million. popular.info/p/days-after...

25.09.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Murphy: "The second remedy is for the Dem Party to make clear that if you give us power, we're gonna break up these media monopolies... if we want to be credible as a critic of Trump's slide to totalitarianism, we have to explain how we're gonna put local communities back in charge of their news."

25.09.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2104    πŸ” 520    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 34

Good to know

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White House budget office tells agencies to draft mass firing plans ahead of potential shutdown The White House is telling agencies to prepare large-scale firings of federal workers if the government shuts down next week.

The warning came in a memo from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which directed federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale dismissals should a shutdown occur. All brought to you by Russell Vought, part of Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation.

25.09.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 487    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 5

Noem simultaneously is demanding that politicians tone down their rhetoric about ICE while also saying that anyone who believes in due process is a supporter of terrorism.

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Chris Murphy: "Trump's Ukraine policy is just who was in the room last. What he said here in New York was helpful and positive for Ukraine, but next week he'll be attacking Zelenskyy as a corrupt dictator. The real bottom line is that he hasn't actually done anything to help Ukraine."

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The White House is frantically pressuring the small number of Republicans who support the Epstein list discharge petition to flip and vote against it, per CNN. They’re clearly panicking about whatever’s in these files.

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Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

24.09.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 23799    πŸ” 11319    πŸ’¬ 487    πŸ“Œ 475

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Congratulations to @jimmykimmel.com on his triumphant return!
Last night he was pitch-perfect. Inspirational, self-reflective, gracious to his haters, championing the 1st Amendment & most importantly: FUNNY.

(Shout-out to Robert DeNiro as the mob-boss head of the FCC)πŸ˜†

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I made the USA Today Best-Selling Booklist! Thank you to everyone- who bought the book, read the book and all the positive feedback!
Yes, it’s a warning but it is also a testament to the incredible work teachers do.

24.09.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2838    πŸ” 679    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 17
LAWFARE
The Situation: Choose Your Own
Adventure: Lindsey Halligan
Edition
Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 4:52 PM
Share On: f X in
Any way you play, you lose.

LAWFARE The Situation: Choose Your Own Adventure: Lindsey Halligan Edition Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 4:52 PM Share On: f X in Any way you play, you lose.

Tick, tock.

Lindsey Halligan, the newly-installed prosecutor in EDVA, has less than a week to secure an indictment against James Comey before a key statute of limitations runs out.

Ben Wittes and I examine her charging options.

Spoiler alert: they all suck.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

24.09.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3845    πŸ” 934    πŸ’¬ 247    πŸ“Œ 69

Could be some downsides to all this tariff nonsense…

24.09.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 259    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 4

WHATEVER could have caused this??? It's a MYSTERY.

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08.09.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 10358    πŸ” 2549    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 56
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Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

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The injunction is silent as to the use
of force. And it is not necessary for the injunction to address
that use-of-force question because the Fourth Amendment’s
reasonableness standard continues to govern the officers’
use of force and to prohibit excessive force.
To the extent that excessive force has been used, the
Fourth Amendment prohibits such action, and remedies
should be available in federal court. I agree with the
dissent on that point. But to reiterate, this injunction
against brief stops for questioning does not address the useof-force issue.

The injunction is silent as to the use of force. And it is not necessary for the injunction to address that use-of-force question because the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness standard continues to govern the officers’ use of force and to prohibit excessive force. To the extent that excessive force has been used, the Fourth Amendment prohibits such action, and remedies should be available in federal court. I agree with the dissent on that point. But to reiterate, this injunction against brief stops for questioning does not address the useof-force issue.

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

08.09.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13057    πŸ” 4432    πŸ’¬ 526    πŸ“Œ 222

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