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Nurse from the government, here to help. Baby dad. IL cornfields ➡️ SW. Interests: public policy, abuse, rock 'n roll, video games.

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Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

01.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 2840    🔁 1438    💬 71    📌 91
In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election.
Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024.
But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election. Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024. But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

30.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 2603    🔁 529    💬 83    📌 62

IDK what to even say, just open racism and, I assume, wanting to make absolutely sure that nobody in this admin will see heaven.

31.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?

THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.

24.10.2025 23:48 — 👍 2234    🔁 433    💬 225    📌 76
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This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.

They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

24.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 11784    🔁 7036    💬 1072    📌 691

im sorry but if you think “normies” dont care about the white house being demolished for a half billion dollar golden vanity ballroom as the economy implodes then you just arent as plugged in as you think you are

24.10.2025 11:58 — 👍 11713    🔁 1955    💬 330    📌 125
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

20.10.2025 22:09 — 👍 21726    🔁 6850    💬 1480    📌 1963

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

11.10.2025 17:34 — 👍 7461    🔁 2461    💬 171    📌 77

2FA really sucks the joy out of installing a dual boot on a classic laptop.

11.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

08.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 3829    🔁 1064    💬 923    📌 823

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

07.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 3105    🔁 811    💬 10    📌 17

The Abbott regime and the malevolent, anti-American behavior of the TX GOP as a whole are at the level where in my wildest dreams we just subject the whole blasted state to federal occupation until they learn to act right.

06.10.2025 02:25 — 👍 28    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Wall Street Journal headline: Elon Musk's Gesture Wasn't a Fascist Salute, Says Head of ADL

Wall Street Journal headline: Elon Musk's Gesture Wasn't a Fascist Salute, Says Head of ADL

ADL V
ADL. @ADL
This is a delicate moment. It's a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.
It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of
enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.
In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let's hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.
5:52 PM • 1/20/25 • 45M Views

ADL V ADL. @ADL This is a delicate moment. It's a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety. It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge. In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let's hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead. 5:52 PM • 1/20/25 • 45M Views

News | Politics
ADL faces backlash for defending Elon Musk's raised-arm gesture
After previously feuding with Musk, the pro-Israel group rushes to defend his gesture, which critics compared with a Nazi salute.

News | Politics ADL faces backlash for defending Elon Musk's raised-arm gesture After previously feuding with Musk, the pro-Israel group rushes to defend his gesture, which critics compared with a Nazi salute.

Elon Musk & X @elonmusk
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The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group

6:04 PM • 9/28/25 • 1M Views

Elon Musk & X @elonmusk Follow The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group 6:04 PM • 9/28/25 • 1M Views

Cozying up to fascists never ends well. If anyone should know that, it should be the ADL.

29.09.2025 19:07 — 👍 449    🔁 95    💬 13    📌 8
Registration desk at the City of Portland's yard tree giveaway event.

Registration desk at the City of Portland's yard tree giveaway event.

A green sign from the City of Portland noting the exit from it's tree giveaway event, thanking participants for planting a tree.

A green sign from the City of Portland noting the exit from it's tree giveaway event, thanking participants for planting a tree.

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

27.09.2025 18:07 — 👍 2611    🔁 738    💬 83    📌 36

The thing that will drive me insane is watching the right explicitly calling for violence against their enemies (see also the Daily Caller article) and then in the same breath declaring anyone who even points it out as being a violent extremist, and then the media going “Sure, makes sense to me”

27.09.2025 02:19 — 👍 285    🔁 90    💬 4    📌 2

The gutting thing is when I speak to anybody under 25 or so, and they… don’t know this is unusual. The only America they’ve ever known is this openly corrupt, broken one.

26.09.2025 13:49 — 👍 2323    🔁 495    💬 51    📌 37
The WHITE HOUSE
45
47
K PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
Countering
Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
Presidential Memoranda
September 25, 2025

The WHITE HOUSE 45 47 K PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence Presidential Memoranda September 25, 2025

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The WHITE HOUSE
Section 1. Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. Heinous assassinations and other acts of political violence in the United States have dramatically increased in recent years. Even in the aftermath of the horrifying assassination of Charlie Kirk, some individuals who adhered to the alleged shooter's ideology embraced and cheered this evil murder while actively encouraging more political violence. This was preceded by the 2024 assassination of a senior healthcare executive and the 2022 assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Two separate assassination attempts against my own life in less than 3 months took place during the 2024 Presidential election cycle. Riots in Los Angeles and Portland reflect a more than 1,000 percent increase in attacks on U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers since January 21, 2025, compared to the same period last year. Just yesterday, a shooting targeting an ICE facility in Dallas resulted in multiple casualties.
Separate anti-police and "criminal justice" riots have left many people dead and injured and inflicted over $2 billion in property damage nationwide.

= The WHITE HOUSE Section 1. Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. Heinous assassinations and other acts of political violence in the United States have dramatically increased in recent years. Even in the aftermath of the horrifying assassination of Charlie Kirk, some individuals who adhered to the alleged shooter's ideology embraced and cheered this evil murder while actively encouraging more political violence. This was preceded by the 2024 assassination of a senior healthcare executive and the 2022 assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Two separate assassination attempts against my own life in less than 3 months took place during the 2024 Presidential election cycle. Riots in Los Angeles and Portland reflect a more than 1,000 percent increase in attacks on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers since January 21, 2025, compared to the same period last year. Just yesterday, a shooting targeting an ICE facility in Dallas resulted in multiple casualties. Separate anti-police and "criminal justice" riots have left many people dead and injured and inflicted over $2 billion in property damage nationwide.

As per usual: no mention of political violence against Democrats. The armed man near Kavanaugh’s house who turned himself in becomes an “assassination attempt” while the actual assassination of Melissa Hortman not mentioned. Attacks on ICE facilities are political violence but not attacks on CDC.

25.09.2025 22:48 — 👍 981    🔁 329    💬 12    📌 13
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

24.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 124    🔁 42    💬 4    📌 12

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering

trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

24.09.2025 02:46 — 👍 4304    🔁 966    💬 34    📌 19

this exact dynamic - where trump says or does something awful, everyone spends days downplaying it, and then he loudly doubles down - has played out roughly 7000 times and it’s why I have exactly zero patience for anyone who tries to sanitize his nonsense

24.09.2025 02:49 — 👍 1819    🔁 280    💬 6    📌 4

She's not our best option but lying is still wrong and so you shouldn't do that.

23.09.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Username checks out.

23.09.2025 16:01 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

22.09.2025 21:24 — 👍 2012    🔁 1149    💬 22    📌 65

So now we’re going to have a third right wing ratfucking social media platform people won’t admit they’re addicted to but will insist they can’t get off of?

22.09.2025 10:14 — 👍 576    🔁 96    💬 8    📌 9

Pam Bondi is a loyalist hack, selected for her pro-bribery and pro-lying record, who has spent her tenure as Attorney General working to transform DOJ from a law enforcement org into a political allegiance and personal revenge org. If she can't find a pretext to manufacture charges, there isn't one.

21.09.2025 16:19 — 👍 3701    🔁 917    💬 114    📌 21

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

21.09.2025 00:56 — 👍 59129    🔁 16359    💬 1345    📌 634

I once thought Paul Ryan was so cool, but also I was in high school and I got over it when I became a grown-up.

20.09.2025 03:19 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would it still be selling at a loss 5 years in at launch price?

19.09.2025 20:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm just so confused by this. Why would anyone buy an Xbox over a PS5 with this price delta? It's like they're looking to lose this generation badly enough to justify exiting hardware.

19.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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