@atrupar.com: Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."
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@ABC on X: Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois, according to sources familiar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a Chicago suburb.
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Boy, I dunno
08.10.2025 03:21 — 👍 77 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 0
WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.
08.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 2093 🔁 1249 💬 204 📌 200
Florida farmers struggle as legal foreign workers worry about immigration crackdown
“I also don’t want to put anyone at risk because there are people being deported even with proper documentation. Every time they come or leave it’s worrisome, and you don’t …
“I can find people, but I also don’t want to put anyone at risk because there are people being deported even with proper documentation. Every time they come or leave it’s worrisome, and you don’t know if they’re going to make it back home. I would feel like it’s my fault.”
07.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 126 🔁 38 💬 7 📌 3
Add it to the tally.
Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.
08.10.2025 11:57 — 👍 456 🔁 121 💬 7 📌 2
Trump's prosecutors failed to get grand juries to indict a ham sandwich, and now they are failing to get grand juries to indict an italian beef sandwich
08.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 41 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
I believe these are the first Chicagoland NTBs, which is significant because grand juries sit for a long time— we didn’t previously know that Chicago’s GJs were fed up with this stuff and now we do.
08.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 218 🔁 29 💬 4 📌 1
The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.
It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.
07.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 2001 🔁 580 💬 73 📌 34
Janet Mills is 77, turning 78 at the end of this year. If she won in 2026, her first term in the Senate would end when she's 85 years old.
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has lobbied Mills to run for months..."
07.10.2025 21:37 — 👍 143 🔁 28 💬 22 📌 6
I know we're all used to the president talking like Livia Soprano all the time, but this is a goddamn outrage
08.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 1224 🔁 326 💬 32 📌 5
George Santos is not in prison "for lying about his past during a campaign," because that is not a crime. He is in prison for stealing money, committing fraud, and a litany of similar related offenses.
08.10.2025 07:05 — 👍 218 🔁 43 💬 5 📌 2
Nachmanoff's bio looks like a judge's should: private criminal defense for 6 years, public defender for 13 years, magistrate judge for 6 years, then federal judge.
As compared to Trump nominees, which are like "I'm 35, never had a real client or been in court, got paid to write anti-LGBTQ blogs."
08.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 259 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 1
“.. I think they are absolutely struggling to figure out how they are going to get out of this.”
@politico.com #Shutdown
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08.10.2025 10:59 — 👍 738 🔁 188 💬 60 📌 29
Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.
08.10.2025 06:27 — 👍 776 🔁 179 💬 17 📌 3
Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.
That is not a foundation of our democracy.
07.10.2025 23:30 — 👍 6588 🔁 2025 💬 207 📌 82
The Constitution did not foresee the position of presidential chief of staff, so it’s hard to see what legitimate constraints could prevent Stephen Miller from becoming an all-powerful dictator.
by Jonathan Turley
08.10.2025 03:32 — 👍 1072 🔁 119 💬 16 📌 2
Was talking to someone from another state yesterday who couldn’t believe it but yes, Ohio law not only requires public school buses to transport kids to private schools, it actually *prioritizes* public bussing for private school students over public school students. Total insanity.
06.09.2025 13:30 — 👍 143 🔁 39 💬 5 📌 7
Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough
08.10.2025 04:12 — 👍 85 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 4
The Plot to Enslave America
08.10.2025 05:20 — 👍 271 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 0
The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
08.10.2025 02:57 — 👍 1380 🔁 527 💬 24 📌 10
Wow Schiff totally clocked her when he said she was making canned attacks.
08.10.2025 11:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
07.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 12315 🔁 5374 💬 599 📌 581
Notice her non-answer.
This is explosive. Should be explosive. The US AG who said she had the Epstein files on her desk cannot say whether or not the FBI has pix of Trump with half-naked women, which one witness who knew Epstein has said he has seen.
07.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 2929 🔁 893 💬 143 📌 29
Hirono: "I have to conclude that, since no wrongdoing was determined, that Homan kept the money. And I hope he will put that on his tax returns as income."
07.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 8101 🔁 1953 💬 167 📌 85
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
08.10.2025 02:14 — 👍 15645 🔁 8698 💬 832 📌 669
You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...
08.10.2025 03:04 — 👍 1194 🔁 371 💬 25 📌 17
The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.
08.10.2025 02:20 — 👍 646 🔁 296 💬 27 📌 14
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
07.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 9046 🔁 4189 💬 153 📌 283
It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.
There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.
Also, release the damn Epstein files already.
07.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 10629 🔁 3233 💬 318 📌 114
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