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D.C. crime dropped 26% in 2025, total crime down 7%.

Trump seizing D.C. when crime is at a 30-year low isn’t about safety — it’s about the Epstein files.

I’m afraid it’s going to get a lot worse before things can get better. Guess we need to buckle up—and buckle up so securely that the ICE goonstapo can’t rendition us.

Yes, it's a test for how Trump's coup will be enforced. The only increase in crime in the District of Columbia is @ 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW. Maybe these thugs should investigate there?

Everything is a provocation. The Hegseth memo put it in writing.

Crime is down…he’s testing the waters. Wants to see how we will react to the militarization in DC.

Why waste your time with someone who sees you as a second-class citizen?

Governors Can Not Remove Elected Legislators. Period. A democracy must have an independent legislature. Only voters elect and unelect representatives.

History and Article IV’s Guarantee Clause makes clear that a state’s governor cannot remove members of the legislature. No governor has ever claimed such power. It runs against the full history of Texas and American democracy as a whole.

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"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

Yes. Yes it is.

Mars is perfect for Elon: barren, hostile to life, with poisonous soil.

Pete Hegseth reposts video that says women shouldn’t be allowed to vote Progressive evangelical group says ideas shared by pastors and amplified by defense secretary are ‘very disturbing’

After the election, I was—like so many—depressed and afraid. Having become familiar with what MAGA/Project 25 wanted, I told a friend that I was afraid of losing suffrage. My spouse didn't believe me and we argued.

Leaving this here: I was—and am—right.

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He’s not bending the knee at all. He’s a vile ideologue who has been harming the people of Texas for his entire career in politics. I assure you this wasn’t surrender.

Gotta love how the right is pro-natalist but anti-public health. I suppose their goal is to go back to the days when people had big families because contraception options were few and young children were likely to die, so you needed backup babies.

I’m pretty sure the special session was never about the flood. It was going to happen anyway, because Abbott treats the wheels of government like his personal tool for advancing whatever toxic far-right ideology he’s slavishly advancing at the moment. It was Tea Party, now it’s MAGA. I hate him.

DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

BREAKING: A police officer has died after he was shot by a Anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist, who opened fire near the CDC complex and Emory University in Atlanta.

Your stupid conspiracy theories are literally killing people.

Thieves.

Maybe even sometime next week.

This is the kind of thing that doesn’t end well.

To paraphrase Masha Gessen in “Surviving Autocracy,” our institutions will not save us.

The next time you hear conservatives use any of the following terms, ask for a definition. 

"Woke"
"DEI"
"Critical race theory"
"Socialism" 

They won't have any.

They just want to stoke culture wars to divert attention from economic looting and oligarchy.

End of the year? I give it until the end of the month.

Petty clear Trump will start arresting Democratic elected officials by end of year. Not convinced any given thing will make Media & Political Elite stop moving bounds of acceptable behavior, but plausibly that will give some of Elite pause because that is when they will realize they are not safe.

As the piece notes, the PragerU propaganda is being used in schools in Louisiana, Florida, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Montana, Arizona, South Carolina and Idaho.

Check with your district to see if they're using this garbage to brainwash your kids.

Fox News hosts are furious that Big Balls and Holly got beat up and people just filmed it instead of intervening.

“Who stands there and watches as someone gets attacked?”

These same people are perfectly fine with ICE kidnappings.

“Are you abandoning your jobs?”

🔥 🔥 TEXAS DEM REP. ANN JOHNSON: “Yeah no — abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze…”

A+ answer from Rep. Johnson here. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social

And we have to understand that DOJ is being sicced on the Texas democrats.

We’re basically in the early stages of a civil war. I wish I were wrong. But I’m not.

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

“[A] fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6 percent.”

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