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Ellis Hughes

@avlscout.bsky.social

Retired. Lifelong liberal. Walker. Dogs. Love my sweet city in the NC mountains. Writer, photographer.

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AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.

04.03.2026 23:36 — 👍 16039    🔁 4457    💬 385    📌 163
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Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

05.03.2026 02:26 — 👍 20524    🔁 5823    💬 652    📌 276
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NC Voters Oust Politically Unfaithful Officials Anderson Clayton shares the spoils of North Carolina's primary election

NC Voters Oust Politically Unfaithful Officials... Anderson Clayton is a BADASS open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

05.03.2026 01:14 — 👍 233    🔁 40    💬 6    📌 2
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Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."

04.03.2026 19:13 — 👍 28067    🔁 7469    💬 1134    📌 673
Our taxes

Our taxes

Our taxes are paying for this instead of healthcare.

03.03.2026 03:49 — 👍 9333    🔁 3211    💬 396    📌 124
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wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

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"The Peace President."

02.03.2026 18:45 — 👍 9421    🔁 3680    💬 486    📌 163
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A PSA from Thomas Massie:

01.03.2026 15:47 — 👍 30402    🔁 9081    💬 628    📌 341
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This is Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair. While working class American service people are dying in the gratuitous war his father and Donald Trump started, Yair is poolside in Miami chilling.

No word on where Donald Trump's children were, just that they were 100% *not* wearing a uniform.

01.03.2026 22:46 — 👍 3664    🔁 1497    💬 225    📌 103

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

01.03.2026 23:01 — 👍 23183    🔁 7867    💬 696    📌 320
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Currently trending on X.

01.03.2026 18:36 — 👍 28825    🔁 7837    💬 1018    📌 516
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Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.

Read my full statement:

28.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 6352    🔁 1973    💬 309    📌 270

The president of the United States killed children to distract from raping children.

28.02.2026 17:49 — 👍 12396    🔁 4517    💬 399    📌 180
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NEW: Bahrain skyscrapers and Dubai hotels are now being hit by Iranian drones.

This is insane. Trump has unleashed chaos and carnage.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

28.02.2026 17:22 — 👍 1385    🔁 703    💬 72    📌 118

I know. Just bizarre, wrong. Who’s going to stop him?

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Pretty sure they brought in the wrong First Lady to testify...🤔😏

27.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 11289    🔁 4105    💬 496    📌 183

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

28.02.2026 00:43 — 👍 21537    🔁 5714    💬 600    📌 240
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

26.02.2026 23:40 — 👍 38946    🔁 16526    💬 1827    📌 1084
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Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

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JUST IN: Advisors to Hillary Clinton say the House Oversight Committee’s closed-door deposition has been paused after it was revealed that Lauren Boebert shared an unauthorized photo from the hearing with Benny Johnson, who then posted it on social media, as seen below.

26.02.2026 17:59 — 👍 10696    🔁 3769    💬 1544    📌 482
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Massie goes full beast mode today.

Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

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The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

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I will give $1000 to anyone in that room who will yell out "what the fuck are you rambling about, old man?"

20.02.2026 18:33 — 👍 11728    🔁 1368    💬 610    📌 108

$10B for Trump's "Board of Peace"
$10B for Trump's IRS lawsuit
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$135M for Trump's golf outings

The Grifter-in-Chief knows no bounds.

20.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 5354    🔁 2045    💬 260    📌 117
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NEW: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from entering Labor Department HQ after two female staffers accused him of sexual assault inside the building, according to NYT. One alleged incident was captured on security cameras and is now part of a criminal investigation.

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Polls are open, North Carolina! It’s time to vote in the primary election.

🤝 Meet the candidates on your ballot at ncdp.org/candiates
📍 Early vote at any location in your county
🪪 Don’t forget your voter ID
👯‍♂️ Grab a friend and go vote!

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Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."

12.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 7970    🔁 1861    💬 273    📌 104

Kristi Noem has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.

11.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 19903    🔁 3686    💬 1741    📌 372
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

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