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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.

This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

Thirteen years ago this weekend a gunman shot & killed 20 young children & 6 educators at Sandy Hook School in Newtown CT. NEVER FORGET!! Please sign!!
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House votes to repeal Trump order ending union rights at federal agencies Twenty Republicans joined with Democrats to overturn the order, but it faces steep odds in the Senate.

Congratulations to every House Democrat and 20 Republicans for voting to restore the constitutional right to a union for over a million federal employees. The Senate must pass this bipartisan provision immediately.

All workers, including federal employees, have the right to be in a union.

New photos from Epstein’s personal collection show Trump, Clinton and much more The undated photographs are from Epstein’s email account and computer, according to Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, who published the photographs on Friday.

PBS has started going through the huge new batch of Epstein photos, and, yeah. Blech. Click through at your own risk www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

🇺🇦 The Ukrainian strategic air defense and ballistic missile system "Sapsan" has officially entered serial production and systematic deployment, according to Militarnyi. This marks a major milestone in Ukraine’s domestic missile development and defense capability.

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Welp.

Fuck Liam Neeson.

Support for #Wormbrain is a dealbreaker.

Trump Hit With Massive Lawsuit Over His Tacky Ballroom Donald Trump is being sued for destroying the White House to build his gaudy ballroom.

Only a stable genius like Trump would demolish part of the White House in the dead of night without having any plans for what to do next, and now he doesn't even have an architect for his hand picked "design" committee to rubber stamp.

Ready. Fire. Aim.

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If and when he declares martial law maybe Americans will finally wake up and fight back

DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.

My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.

ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’ Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labor and delivery

“She was so afraid they would take her baby”

Why?

ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women — even *during* labor…

So pregnant immigrants are skipping the doctor altogether

Senator Demands Federal Agencies Halt Small Business Contracts, Citing Investigation of Native Hawaiian Firm Joni Ernst, chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, sent letters to 22 federal agencies saying the no-bid contracts granted through a Small Business Administration program are a “fraud magnet.”

NEW: Sen. Joni Ernst cited reporting of the Department of Justice’s investigation of contractor Christopher Dawson, who used millions from a federal program meant to help Native Hawaiians for luxury homes and a horse farm.

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project new Conflict Index reports around 78,000 people killed — including soldiers on both sides and civilians — in Ukraine this year, the highest of any conflict.

Read more: kyivindependent.com/ukraine-worl...

Graph: Nizar al-Rifai/The Kyiv Independent.

He’s nuts.

OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉

In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award

Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊

A new investigation revealed that school districts and local governments are reportedly overpaying for supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing.

Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for governments.”

Several Russian regions such as Moscow, Ryazan, Tula and Bryansk have signaled air alert. A large number of Ukrainians drones are on its way. All three Moscow airports report flight restrictions.

THANEDAR: It is a fact that you ignored federal court orders in March and in May of this year. Do you plan on ignoring federal orders?

NOEM: We always comply with all federal court orders

THANEDAR: I'm sick of your lies

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WATCH: Rep. Thompson calls on Noem to resign for 'making America less safe' “I call on you to resign,” the Mississippi congressman said. “Do a real service to the country.”

“I call on you to resign,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday. “Do a real service to the country.” https://to.pbs.org/4pYKLGR

FBI official calls antifa biggest US threat but provides few details A top FBI official called the anti-fascist movement antifa the biggest domestic terrorism threat to the U.S. during a congressional hearing on Thursday, but struggled to answer detailed questions abou...

In 2018, the Trump FBI designated the Proud Boys as an extremist organization.

Per the Trump 2.0 FBI, they no longer have that designation.

So what did they do to earn this exoneration?

Why, they STORMED THE CAPITOL FOR TRUMP in a VIOLENT INSURRECTION.

“Senate Republicans just shoved the American people off the side of a cliff with no parachute and with an anchor tied to their feet,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said after the vote. “Republicans now own America’s healthcare crisis.”

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MI House Speaker Matt Hall and his GOP colleagues exploited an obscure legal loophole to unilaterally cancel nearly $645 million in state funding, bypassing the Senate entirely. The cuts hit programs for expectant mothers, cancer patients, and even funding for Holocaust Museums.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics.

Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.

If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

Literally one of the main reasons why FBI missed Jan6 is bc Bill Barr had the FBI chasing Antifa.

All the Proud Boys had been turned "informants" on Antifa.

BREAKING: The Trump administration took $2 BILLION+ from our military to use on political stunts.

This is an insult to our troops. It won’t make our military stronger or Americans safer.

Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem owe taxpayers answers.

Worth repeating: The Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.

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