The object of militarizing local law enforcement, and the activation of national guards is to desensitize the public to their presence.
The logical next action will be to deploy active duty troops in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.

Trump Threatens to Destroy Another Priceless American Landmark Donald Trump reveals that the Reflecting Pool is next on his renovation chopping block.

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Obamacare premiums are skyrocketing. Republicans can’t figure out what to do. — POLITICO GOP lawmakers knew subsidies were expiring and premiums would spike, but no clear, conservative alternative emerged.

We are The United States of Amnesia…We do not learn from history.

We need to hold power accountable.

We need to be the change we want to see.

We are country divided.

Americans are being used as pawns in a dangerous game of chess and a health plan is still unclear.

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Remember when the government was closed and Speaker Johnson swore they would negotiate on the ACA once it reopened? Well, Trump’s plan to extend ACA subsidies is now on hold after GOP pushback.

This proves they never planned to negotiate. Republicans have no intention of lowering healthcare costs.

Church employee in Texas allegedly posed as ICE agent to extort woman — Guardian US Man arrested in Houston is alleged to have used fake ID to demand $400 from woman who had given him massage

Not even surprised. We knew the fakes were coming. Cripey 🙄🤬

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As do we, my father, 2 tours each, Korea and Vietnam

I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.

Breaking:

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.

Complaint cites "Linda McMahon, Trump’s Education Pick, Bankrolled His Raucous Madison Square Garden Rally" from Dec. 2024

They should all come with a warning if you use their products. “Billionaires cause cancer.”

Pretty pathetic. Traitor.

Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...

Bloomberg has obtained the transcript of a call between Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and a senior aide to Vladimir Putin — in which Witkoff advised the aide — a Russian aide — on how Putin should go about pitching Trump on a pro-Russian peace plan aimed at bringing an end to the Ukraine war.

Gov JB Pritzker: “Not everything is a both sides issue. When someone’s breaching the Constitution, it needs to be called out. There’s not two sides to it. When there’s fact and fiction, you don’t present those equally”

And no, it isn't just bot farms, it's the entire right-wing media infrastructure for decades, it's Rupert Murdoch's entire rotten empire, it's the Koch brothers whole network of think tanks, it's Fox News, Breitbart, hundreds of weird loser tossers like Ben Shapiro propped up by billionaires...

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Scoop: The new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns. The current Surgeon General of Louisiana has made headlines recently, including for allegedly burying a whooping cough outbreak.

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The Witkoff Phone Call Proves Witkoff Isn’t a Freelancer for Trump or Putin but Is a Cutout Working for Both at the Same Time The leaked Witkoff–Ushakov transcript closes one of the last convenient fictions in this scandal. Steve Witkoff is not “going rogue for Russia,” nor is he a naïve Trump loyalist being played by the Kr...

Dear #BlueWizards, I've been signalling the alarm about Witkoff for months now. It could not be more clear: He. Is. A. Cutout.

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Because there’s money, billions in metals and minerals Putin is sitting on in occupied Eastern Ukraine. It’s always about enriching himself.

The whole point of every position was/is to install the most incompetent person so the puppeteer will have an easy time controlling them.

I don't understand the issue here. He was vetted by Putin so what's the problem? 😠

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