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Kyrsten Sinema accused of illegally spending $700,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses | Arizona Mirror A watchdog group filed an FEC complaint accusing Kyrsten Sinema of illegally spending $700,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses

“Federal campaign finance laws are clear that politicians who leave office do not have the green light to use leftover campaign funds however they want.”

story via @jimsmall.bsky.social

@pizzacakecomic.bsky.social

www.youtube.com Slavery exhibit removed by Trump administration is returning to Philadelphia

Slavery exhibit removed by Trump administration is returning to Philadelphia

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Furious Trump demands to know why Minneapolis shooting hasn’t sparked civil war yet MAR-A-LAGO, FL - Following the shooting death of a Minneapolis woman at the hands of ICE agents, President Donald Trump is ordering Americans to "hurry the fuck up" descending into a nationwide confli...

Furious Trump demands to know why Minneapolis shooting hasn’t sparked civil war yet

1) Melugin slips in here something Fox has repeatedly contradicted on-air: Pretti never drew his gun.
2) Melugin is on Homan’s side of his ongoing schism with Noem/Bovino over enforcement tactics, trying to preserve the mass deportation project.

MY STATEMENT ON THE HORRIBLE SCENES PLAYING OUT IN MINNEAPOLIS AND ACROSS AMERICA JANUARY 25, 2026 In recent weeks, we've watched horrible scenes play out in Minneapolis and other communities that I never thought would take place in America. People, including children, have been seized from their homes, workplaces, and the street by masked federal agents. Peaceful protesters and citizens exercising their constitutional right to observe and document law enforcement have been arrested, beaten, teargassed, and most searingly, in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, shot and killed. All of this is unacceptable and should have been avoided. To make matters even worse, at every turn, the people in charge have lied to us, told us not to believe what we've seen with our own eyes, and pushed increasingly aggressive and antagonistic tactics, including impeding investigations by local authorities. Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back. It is up to all of us who believe in the promise of American democracy to stand up, speak out, and show that our nation still belongs to We the People.

Statement by President Clinton

Public executions will continue until the citizenry is silent.

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www.huffpost.com Obama Says Killing Of Alex Pretti Should Be 'Wake-Up Call' To All Americans

Obama Says Killing Of Alex Pretti Should Be 'Wake-Up Call' To All Americans

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part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

And there he is being ignored again… 😂😅

Just look at this one… The way she purposely waited until he reached his hand out to move past him has me dying laughing 😂😅

Police and ICE Agents Are on a Collision Course Minneapolis may represent the beginning of a broader rupture between local police and federal agents.

Local police and federal agents are on a collision course in Minnesota—and it could be the start of a broader rupture, @toluseo.bsky.social reports:

All 10 shots were fired AFTER they removed the gun from Pretti’s waist. Every single shot was fired after he was disarmed.

Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have.

www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...

We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow.

Here it is:

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job.

“I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.

Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act.

NYT Editorial Board: The Trump administration is lying

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

And just like that, the DOJ went from not releasing the Epstein files to Americans are the enemy.

No need for any other words. This terrible man must be removed from our highest office.
The cartoons may be caricatures, but the message is the simple truth. This is an evil and dishonest man.
#RemoveTrump
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Congressman makes bold claim about 'increasingly senile' Trump and 'white domination' Congressman Seth Moulton was visibly outraged on Saturday after "coward" ICE officials shot and killed another American citizen, using the moment to make a bold claim about Donald Trump and white supr...

Mounting calls out an increasingly “senile Trump” and cowardly GOP members after the murder of Alex
Pretti. He called out his fellow Congressman for sitting back and allowing this terror to happen.
Let’s see if Moulton does something.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
www.rawstory.com/senile-tru

Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.

The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Gun Activists Bridle at Suggestion That Pistol Justified Killing

Uniter
NRA: Alex Pretti “statements like [Bovino’s] don’t help. What he has or didn’t have isn’t the issue. What he was doing, with or without it, is the issue. Did he draw on agents? Reach for it? Was it on him?”👀

#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue #ResistanceGunReform #DV1 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Victor Hugo.

#ResistanceRoots

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”
— Victor Hugo

I’m building, on top of everything else that I am doing, one of the greatest and most beautiful Ballrooms anywhere in the World, with more than 300 Million Dollars of Great American Patriots’ money, and working closely with, right from the beginning, the United States Military and Secret Service. This is a GIFT (ZERO taxpayer funding!) to the United States of America, of 300 to 400 Million Dollars (depending on the scope and quality of interior finishes!), for a desperately needed space, sought for over 150 years by previous Presidents and Administrations, so that the White House would no longer be forced to use a cheap and unsafe “tent,” for big and important STATE EVENTS, Dinners, Meetings, Conferences, and already scheduled future INAUGURATIONS (for safety, security, and capacity purposes!), on a very wet, and subject to weather, White House lawn. Making such a large gift to the U.S.A. was thought to be, by almost everyone, “A WONDERFUL THING TO DO” — But no, as usual, I got sued, this time by the Radical Left National (No!)Trust for Historic Preservation, a group that couldn’t care less about our Country! All of the Structural Steel, Windows, Doors, A.C./Heating Equipment, Marble, Stone, Precast Concrete, Bulletproof Windows and Glass, Anti-Drone Roofing, and much more, has been ordered (or is ready to be), and there is no practical or reasonable way to go back. IT IS TOO LATE! Why didn’t these obstructionists and troublemakers bring their baseless lawsuit much earlier? Congress never tried, or wanted, to stop the Ballroom Project! Everyone knew what was taking place at the White House — A great, big, beautiful gift to the United States of America! For those that are interested, the tiny East Wing was so “bastardized” and changed, built and rebuilt over the years, that it bore no resemblance or relationship to the original building

. The so-called “preservationists,” who get their money from the most unusual of places, should not be allowed to stop this desperately needed addition to our GREAT White House, a place that a President has never needed permission to change or enhance, because of the special grounds on which it sits, no matter how big (and important!), that enhancement may be. Additionally, in this instance, it is being done with the design, consent, and approval of the highest levels of the United States Military and Secret Service. The mere bringing of this ridiculous lawsuit has already, unfortunately, exposed this heretofore Top Secret fact. Stoppage of construction, at this late date, when so much has already been ordered and done, would be devastating to the White House, our Country, and all concerned. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump: “I’m building, on top of everything else that I am doing, one of the greatest and most beautiful Ballrooms anywhere in the World, with more than 300 Million Dollars of Great American Patriots’ money, & working closely with, right from the beginning, the US Military and Secret Service”