To The People I've Lost Over Politics Dear Friend,

I know you may believe this disconnection is about politics or about a person, but I want you to know that this simply isn’t true.

It’s nothing that small or inconsequential, or this space between us wouldn’t be necessary.

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Maths...

If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.

If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Tax the rich.

Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here. Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.

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He needs to retire

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."

REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."

FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

Exactly. Christian media has helped push this for 30+ years. There are Christians I know that are “concerned” with the downward slide of the culture, but they mean things like marriage equality, etc. They don’t even identify the open corruption, cruelty, and hypocrisy on the right.

Here are the actual court documents.
Virginia Giuffre May 2016 Deposition: www.documentcloud.org/documents/70...

YouTube video by ProPublica Russell Vought: The Shadow President

I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024.

Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇

THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...

Robert Reich Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme

Trump has pardoned billionaire crypto mogul and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao — who pled guilty to money laundering charges.

This comes after Zhao helped boost the Trump family’s crypto business.

It's just the latest example of Trump's Pay-to-Pardon Scheme.

Some new ICE recruits have showed up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds, failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources told...

You may or may not be shocked to hear that ICE is hiring a lot of dangerously unqualified people.

And they're often not figuring it out until these recruits are already in training.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

The cartoonist's dilemma:

An Open Letter to Congressman Chip Roy On "Jesus is King"

"That divine kingship is not manifested in the physical world around us, whether that be a heavily-gilded Oval Office or arguments over human-made laws or the crowns worn by monarchs all over the world or the loud declarations of any aspiring tyrants."

This is Jesse Mack Butler from Oklahoma. Butler r*ped two teen girls over a period of 9 months, nearly killed them by strangulation, which was recorded on video. Butler was convicted of 11 counts of r*pe and sexual assault and was sentenced to 78 years in prison.

But he will serve 0 jail time

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IMHO, you can’t understand what’s happening to the US if u don’t know about the “network state” movement & its “parallel establishment” strategy, which includes building “parallel societies” (w/ their own physical territories) & “parallel institutions” in media, education, finance, science, etc. 1/

Folks, Russ Vought is a sociopath’s sociopath.

He doesn’t care that what he is doing is killing people. He literally doesn’t care.

Read this piece.

Loutro on Crete?!

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

This woman is so *#%%* delusional. Feeding more BS to the mentally feeble Trump

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

ICE. IS. ALWAYS. LYING.

Bodycam footage shows ICE agent taunting Marimar Martinez before shooting her 5x in Chicago’s Brighton Park, contradicting federal claims that she drove toward officers.

The footage blows apart DHS’s fabricated story about the shooting.

Another tragedy of allowing Trump in office - the ongoing decimation of the EPA, environmental studies, and mandated clean ups.

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

ICE closes detention oversight group in shutdown despite surge in detainees The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees.

ICE has kept most offices open during the administration’s shutdown—“but not the one inspecting detention centers.”

Because of course.

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I’m guessing because the statement (while not likely true) will drive Trump even crazier. It’s just about making Trump think he’s about to get backstabbed.

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

"Dear Sweet Blessed Little Baby Jesus, please watch over our armed thugs as they turn away the stranger, persecute the foreigner and harm the least of our brothers and sisters."

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. You may have the right to get a denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here’s how experts suggest you do it.

NEW: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.

Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.