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50+ years of obsession with current events, specially international. Multi-lingual/cultural world traveler. Enjoy arts, wide range of music (blues origin, classical, tango, bossa,etc.) Social progressive, fiscal mid-roader. Hate corruption in all forms

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Our leaders and countless patriots have a good reason for publicly reminding US soldiers to refuse illegal orders. Why it's a controversy. It's because many of our soldiers have been obeying illegal orders.

Let's keep that foremost in mind

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I’ve said this every month for a year.

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How brainless do you have to be....

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Telling the military to disobey the unlawful orders of a vengeful felon wannabe dictator isn’t called sedition, that’s called following the law and the US Constitution. Fuck MAGA fascists.

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Just a reminder to all Defense Force members, if you commit a crime and you are prosecuted, β€œI was just obeying orders” will not be an acceptable defense if it was an illegal order.

You are expected to know the Constitution that you’ve sworn to protect.

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This times a million. If I accepted a $25 gift from someone whose business with our firm I could influence, I'd be (rightfully) fired.

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Thank for again being of service to your Nation!

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#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy

We stand with these #Veterans

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈJason Crow
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈChris Deluzio
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈMaggie Goodlander
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈChrissy Houlahan
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Mark Kelly
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Elissa Slotkin

This is what courage looks like.

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Just a reminder because this isn’t new and anyone who served in the military already knew this.

Service members must not obey illegal orders.

They take an oath to the constitution not a single person.

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Will the Congress ever defend our democracy and hold this regime accountable?

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Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."

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my job mostly involves googling science things all day, and it's been terrible to see how much worse that's become over the last few years. but not being able to trust government websites for basic science information really takes things to a new low

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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

β€”Harry Truman, 1952

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Phil Gordon @ @PhilGordonDC β€’ 1h
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US seems to think that the proposed "security

guarantee" makes up for all the concessions to

Russia. But a pledge by Trump not backed by

Congress for which US demands "compensation"

and which only applies to a "significant,

deliberate and sustained" attack is no guarantee at all.

Phil Gordon @ @PhilGordonDC β€’ 1h X US seems to think that the proposed "security guarantee" makes up for all the concessions to Russia. But a pledge by Trump not backed by Congress for which US demands "compensation" and which only applies to a "significant, deliberate and sustained" attack is no guarantee at all.

Important clarification

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FBI Deploys Police to Guard Facility Where Epstein Files Are Stored Officers were tasked with guarding the building and personnel after some social media comments called for protests or other methods to secure the files if names are scrubbed from the documents.

IMAGINE a crowd of thousands of outraged
Citizen/taxpayers gathered outside the FBI records facility,
Demanding access to the unredacted Epstein files!

Bets: How many seconds would it take for Dumpster to call out the Marines!!

Vs

Jan. 6, 2021?

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Thank you FrankieπŸ’™πŸ˜€
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No peace plan can ever succeed if it focuses on limiting the defenders' capabilities instead of the aggressors'.

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AMEN!!

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Will be interesting to see if the CONgressional ReThugs have lost enough of their fear of

Demented Dotard Dirty Diapers Dumpster

To hold hearings examining the rationalization of these acts that are clearly in violation of international law,

And the process behind the firing!

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426 to Zero: The Vote That Congress Hoped You’d Miss When power blinked, and what it means for the next fight.

Good for Congress (even if they did it for the wrong reasons!)

The clear and obvious theft of public tax dollars by

A handful of Senators who have already gotten rich at the public teat,

Was too much of an embarrassment for the

Self Entitled ReThugs!

thetonymichaels.substack.com/p/426-to-zer...

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The debate on the House floor right now is so very, very stupid. A bunch of people who's salaries are paid by tax payers, doing a job that would be impossible to outsource to the private sector are condemning the evils of socialism. Either they are stupid, or that they think you are.

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House Democratic leaders contact Capitol Police after Trump "death threats" against vets Jeffries and his deputies urged Trump to "immediately delete these unhinged social media posts."

Sad that we appear to be approaching our Reichstag point in history,

With Gestapo tactics and thugs being used by the fascist regime to threaten our elected officials!

www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...

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Demented Dotard Dumpster was afraid to have press present to witness

That he is intellectually twenty steps behind Mamdani,

Who won't bend the knEE out of fear of not receiving what he/NYC needs!

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