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Roots Blues & Americana singer/guitarist/songwriter. Public servant in Illinois. Dad. https://linktr.ee/johndrakeguitar?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=296c23cc-aa77-43b8-86ca-c15b2e29f4f3

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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

05.03.2026 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 862    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Legislation to criminalize dissent in the β€˜Free’ State of Florida? Proposals quietly moving through the Legislature would create a new counterintelligence unit in state government, echoing the FBI’s controversial COINTELPRO in the 1960s.

DeSantis plans on making it illegal to have altering viewpoints than the state or the country and we can be arrested if we hold such viewpoints. Talk about authoritarianism.

#USDemocracy

www.wgcu.org/investigatio...

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Guess What Ruined Trump’s Entire Weekend (You’ll Want To Read This) Losses the regime can’t spin away

You gotta see today's news brief:

23.02.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ICE are the illegals 🚨

21.02.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

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#SheShed

19.02.2026 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Marco Rubio doubling down on the importance of maintaining ethnic purity reminds me that almost none of the top Nazis in Hitler’s Germany, Hitler included, looked anything like the Aryan ideal.

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Um to where?

09.02.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In this country? I’d watch your back. And your neighbors’ backs.

08.02.2026 07:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Copped this from another social media site….

07.02.2026 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Come on Bubba. Do us a solid here.

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OH PLEASE LET IT BE TRUE!!!
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BREAKING: Rumors are swirling in DC that Bill Clinton will spill the beans on EVERYTHING he knows about Epstein & tRumpstein, leading not only to impeachment, but prosecution!!

This might be why tRumpstein is suddenly so nice to the Clintons... πŸ₯²

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A photo of Noah Feldman beside A quite with the ABC News logo β€œIf we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office fir his personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy β€” we live in a monarchy, or we live under a dictator.@ Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School

A photo of Noah Feldman beside A quite with the ABC News logo β€œIf we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office fir his personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy β€” we live in a monarchy, or we live under a dictator.@ Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School

02.02.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 20074    πŸ” 5224    πŸ’¬ 461    πŸ“Œ 233
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β€œLight Melts Ice”, 24x24. Acrylic on canvas. Trying to express reactions to our current state of affairs. I want to be hopeful yet very aware of where we are. These are crude and I will probably continue on this after it dries. But it felt good to let anger and outrage flow.

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As a veteran who’s deployed, I know exactly what β€œin theater” means. It’s a military term for operations in foreign countries. Using it to describe Minneapolis isn’t accidental…and I can’t overemphasize how dangerous that language shift is.

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β€œPack Your Sh*t”: ICE Evicted While Trump Panics Over Health Reports Pennsylvania county evicts ICE for unpaid rent, Obama condemns Trump's masked invasion, and Rep. Sarah McBride pushes for Kristi Noem’s impeachment

A County just evicted ICE from their offices. After the agency failed to pay $115,000 in rent, county officials tore up the agreement and refused to take any "blood money." The County Controller didn't mince words, telling the federal agency to "pay your bills, pack your sh*t, and get the hell out."

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Respectfully, Dem establishment has been impotent for years, letting fascists gain power over time. I love Walz, but consider that he’s being left to hang. He’s on his own, other than some strongly worded rebukes. And those are worthless. And ultimately we are on our own. I wish it weren’t so.

27.01.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry Pete. The Dem β€œleadership” blew it & gave away the keys to the kingdom. None of you did a freaking thing to stop this. Nothing.
Healthy political pressure. Effing joke. I’m not giving anymore $. I’m out. It’s clear we are on our own. I don’t trust Dem β€œleadership” anymore.

27.01.2026 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pulling Bovino out of Minneapolis and replacing him with Tom Homan is like removing a rattlesnake from the bathroom and replacing it with a Cobra.

27.01.2026 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2731    πŸ” 710    πŸ’¬ 182    πŸ“Œ 41

If it's not yours, don't take it.
If it's not right, don't do it.
If it's not true, don't say it.
If you don't know, stay quiet.

27.01.2026 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I must not argue with people on social media.

I must not argue with people on social media.

I must not argue with people on social media.

I must not argue with people on social media.

I must not argue with people on social media.

05.11.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 466    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 4

I’d be a bit more serene if I stopped altogether. And I’ve cut back:)

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β€œI just checkedβ€”it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say β€˜The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” β€” George Conway

26.01.2026 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 11577    πŸ” 3248    πŸ’¬ 197    πŸ“Œ 71

And this does what? The Democrat leadership has let this happen. For years. Don’t buy this bullshit. Tsk tsk, the wringing of hands, and other useless remonstrations.

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