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Alan Chin

@alanchin.bsky.social

Novelist, World Traveler, Husband to a Wonderful Man. Check me out at http://alanchinauthor.com

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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 β€” πŸ‘ 23018    πŸ” 7798    πŸ’¬ 684    πŸ“Œ 314
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Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

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Judge rules Trump administration's policy for "third-country" deportations is unlawful U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ruled that the Trump administration's policy for swiftly deporting migrants to third countries violates federal immigration law and the Constitution.

Federal judge rules against Trump admin.’s β€˜third country’ deportations. "...[deporting] migrants to β€˜third countries’ that are not their own, without first giving them notice or the opportunity to object, is unlawful. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy [ruled]..." www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-t...

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Welp

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These are the words and actions our next leader needs to live by. We can’t keep putting people in office who either don’t care or know how to lead. The entire government is lost.

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House Democrats Investigating Reports DOJ Withheld Epstein Files Involving Trump The Department of Justice allegedly withheld Epstein files related to Donald Trump, and House Democrats have launched an investigation into the DOJ.

The Department of Justice allegedly withheld Epstein files related to Donald Trump, and House Democrats have launched an investigation into the DOJ.

24.02.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1076    πŸ” 447    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 28
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ABSOLUTELY AGREE πŸ’―%.......

25.02.2026 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7869    πŸ” 2764    πŸ’¬ 140    πŸ“Œ 101
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β€œWhat kind of administration releases naked photos of victims, and then protects the perpetrators?”

#TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinAdministration

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This administration has managed to do many big things at once. The problem is they're all harmful.

The next time our party earns the chance to lead, we have to be prepared to aim big and do many things at once - things that will actually help improve life in America.

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Screenshot of an X post by user β€œsean” criticizing claims that Harris was too emotional to be president, quote-tweeting a TMZ post stating that President Trump shared an AI-generated video of himself punching a Canadian hockey player and then celebrating a U.S. gold medal win. The embedded images show a digitally altered scene of Trump in hockey gear striking a player in a red jersey and another image of him celebrating with players in Team USA uniforms.

Screenshot of an X post by user β€œsean” criticizing claims that Harris was too emotional to be president, quote-tweeting a TMZ post stating that President Trump shared an AI-generated video of himself punching a Canadian hockey player and then celebrating a U.S. gold medal win. The embedded images show a digitally altered scene of Trump in hockey gear striking a player in a red jersey and another image of him celebrating with players in Team USA uniforms.

None of this crap would be happening if we'd picked the experienced, capable prosecutor.

24.02.2026 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2153    πŸ” 314    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 22
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Plan for ICE detention center in Merrimack has been scrapped, governor says After two months of speculation, protests and public debate, the Department of Homeland Security is moving on from plans for an immigrant detention facility in Merrimack, WMUR was first to report on T...

We don't always have to wait for an election to see results.

Last week I met Granite Staters raising their voice against this proposed ICE detention facility.

Today, they won: the Trump administration gave up. Never underestimate your own power in moments like these.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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A former ICE attorney says he was given secret instructions that contradict written constitutional guidance. Not in the manual.Not in writing. Just… verbally.
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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@michaelpopok.skystack.xyz How do We The People start a Class Action Lawsuit to stop this madness?

We elect Congress and they control the purse. Could add GOP for abandoning their responsibility.

I think $10B from him personally would be fair and definitely worth a pro-bono, no?

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The DoD now has more money than it knows what to do with.

Imagine if we spent that money on healthcare or housing instead.

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -MLK

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You could make this up, but you don’t need to.

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Slavery exhibit returns to Philadelphia's Independence Mall after Trump administration ordered its removal Workers on Thursday began restoring an exhibit on the lives of the nine people once enslaved at the former President's House in Philadelphia amid a contentious legal fight between the city and the Tru...

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Raw America (@rawstory) TIME TO STEP up. Robert De Niro claims Trump will β€œnever leave” the White House, but we can make it happen. β€œHe will never leave. We have to make him leave…. He will not leave. It’s up to us to get ri...

substack.com/@rawstory/no...

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After blasting WHO costs, Trump officials propose more expensive alternative HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

β€œSpending two to three times the cost to create what we already had access to makes absolutely no sense..."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

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"He will not leave. It's up to us to get rid of him." Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro joins Nicolle Wallace on the next episode of "The Best People." They talk about why elections matter as... TikTok video by MS NOW

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xFTvvN/

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We don’t even have to wait for Election Day to get real results from applying political pressure. Just look at how even Republican Members of Congress defied this president's attempt to hide the Epstein files.

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The Supreme Court has struck down Trump’s unlawful tariffs, which we've been paying for about a year now. This is good news for the American people - and it's the latest proof that this president, no matter what he says, can be stopped.

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What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on.

And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.

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Oh such truthful statements πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸŽ―

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