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Miguel

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Lover of democracy, opera, art, and languages And you can communicate with me in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, German, or Dutch--or any combination of the above :-)

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Post image 02.02.2026 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 34269    πŸ” 8188    πŸ’¬ 399    πŸ“Œ 276

I need to get away for a few hours, to some place where there’s no one around, where I feel like I’m on a deserted island, so I think I’ll go catch the Melania movie at the theatre.

29.01.2026 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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MAGA cultists are the most pathetic, gullible hypocrites imaginable.

16.01.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1383    πŸ” 485    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 16
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This is beyond Christian nationalism. Imagine worshipping Trump.

27.12.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1312    πŸ” 344    πŸ’¬ 295    πŸ“Œ 67
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Trump actually campaign to expose the Epstein files-the very issue he himself just called a β€œDemocrat inspired hoax”

And why is it every investigation into him just-coincidentally-happens to be a β€œwitch hunt”

It seems EVERYONE is against Trump. Including Trump.

27.12.2025 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 370    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers leaving, entering Venezuela U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered "a total and complete" blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.

BREAKING: "Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers leaving, entering Venezuela" Please send MAGA supporters first to fight Trump's war. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/t...

17.12.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7
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Federal Workforce’s Toll After a Year of DOGE and Trump: 317,000 The number of federal employees who left their jobs in 2025 will total about 317,000, according to the Office of Personnel Management, after efforts by Elon Musk and the Trump administration to reshape the government workforce.

The number of federal employees who left their jobs in 2025 will total about 317,000, according to the OPM, after efforts by Elon Musk and the Trump administration to reshape the government workforce.

11.12.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 8

My medical opinion is that he has one year to live, possibly six months. It’s the advanced imaging, the bruises on his hand (where IVs and blood tests would done), cankles, falling asleep in the middle of the day, and his general appearance. We need to be prepared to jump fast.

10.12.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

So.. Leavitt says Trump is 100% innocent, the Democrats are using the "hoax" to bury the vote to reopen the government, and this is the most transparent administration in history.
Well, there is one sure way to PROVE everything she's saying. Release the Epstein Files. Prove his innocence.

13.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5658    πŸ” 1051    πŸ’¬ 181    πŸ“Œ 43
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Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

10.10.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 23182    πŸ” 6833    πŸ’¬ 279    πŸ“Œ 192
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RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

09.10.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4028    πŸ” 1116    πŸ’¬ 2548    πŸ“Œ 1468
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Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

04.10.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 13971    πŸ” 6481    πŸ’¬ 871    πŸ“Œ 417

And yet every time I bring it up, there are Americans in the comments aggressively asserting that they will never help with an effort like this, because bullshit reasons.

04.10.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4868    πŸ” 1192    πŸ’¬ 308    πŸ“Œ 72

Some guy on TikTok is threatening to release the Grindr profile of Mike Johnson. Please human, please don’t let God down. πŸ™

29.09.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 24503    πŸ” 4754    πŸ’¬ 729    πŸ“Œ 234
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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

29.09.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 33396    πŸ” 10919    πŸ’¬ 534    πŸ“Œ 498
Political Cartoon by Mike Luckovich titled: FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY and it has a bunch of diverse folks protesting.

Political Cartoon by Mike Luckovich titled: FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY and it has a bunch of diverse folks protesting.

There are more of us than there are of them. We will not allow Trump fascism to take away our freedom. The people have rights and they are worth fighting for, so please get in good trouble.

πŸŒ€Keep resisting
πŸŒ€Keep speaking out
πŸŒ€Keep protesting
πŸŒ€Keep calling out injustices

#ResistFascism #Pinks

29.09.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 370    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

As I was saying…

24.09.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 36078    πŸ” 7902    πŸ’¬ 1683    πŸ“Œ 796

One good thing about these conservative media groups like Sinclair and Nexstar preempting Kimmel is that a lot of people are suddenly figuring out which stations they actually own and why their local news has turned into garbage over the last few years.

24.09.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

Reminds me of how the Koch brothers funded the β€œgrass roots” tea party.

24.09.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 12306    πŸ” 4772    πŸ’¬ 363    πŸ“Œ 151

Welp. There's an exhibit for a selective and vindictive prosecution motion. "She looks guilty."

21.09.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2804    πŸ” 663    πŸ’¬ 221    πŸ“Œ 38
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"In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors." - Benjamin Franklin

#1stAmendment

20.09.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1209    πŸ” 550    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 27
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Losing the freedom of speech means the end of open dialogue the rise of oppression, and the loss of singular identity.

β€’ When words are silenced, ideas die.

β€’ The absence of free speech is not peace, it's oppression.

β€’ Losing your voice is the first step to losing yourself.

#DefendersOfDemocracy

19.09.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 423    πŸ” 225    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 6

Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out.

18.09.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6732    πŸ” 1622    πŸ’¬ 357    πŸ“Œ 116
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
 
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other – to disturb, even – is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
 
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree.
 
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
 
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other – to disturb, even – is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull β€œJimmy Kimmel Live!”

18.09.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4074    πŸ” 1128    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 52
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Crash Patel is unhinged and unfit to serve as the head of the FBI.

18.09.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1072    πŸ” 234    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 8
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Himes: ABC took Jimmy Kimmel off the air because Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, didn’t like some things Kimmel said..

I’m talking to you now because I’m just getting so damn sick of people who claim to be for free speech but turn out to only support free speech for people they agree with.

18.09.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 11747    πŸ” 3446    πŸ’¬ 460    πŸ“Œ 113

This is a very Nazi thing to say, actually.

11.09.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6639    πŸ” 1274    πŸ’¬ 553    πŸ“Œ 59