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NAFO fella, Prof historian, Veteran, ret military pilot C-12/5/22/21, JD from CUA, PhD from G’town. Native Washingtonian (DC). Opinions wholly, entirely and absolutely my own. I don’t interact during working hours.

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This one is jaw-dropping. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) has a whole lot to explain to her constituents:

06.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 1197    🔁 495    💬 31    📌 21

Great video and message, sir. Thank you. 🙏🏻

08.10.2025 03:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

07.10.2025 23:46 — 👍 1534    🔁 470    💬 265    📌 217

Well said and well done. Please keep fighting and don’t budge. We are with you.

08.10.2025 00:50 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I’m embarrassed for her. She behaved like a third grader.

08.10.2025 02:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pam Bondi Has A Full On Meltdown Over Simple Questions About Trump The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee let the attorney general run all over lawmakers.

Pam Bondi is supposed to be a public servant.

The performance at today's hearing - an utterly horrific display - indicates she is fully comfortable letting taxpayers know: she is Trump's lawyer, not America's.

Zero shame and zero checks by Republicans:
www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...

07.10.2025 21:32 — 👍 616    🔁 184    💬 23    📌 8
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"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

08.10.2025 02:49 — 👍 296    🔁 147    💬 4    📌 9
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Save the Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025. Find a rally near you...

08.10.2025 01:45 — 👍 82    🔁 44    💬 4    📌 1
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"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

08.10.2025 02:27 — 👍 3979    🔁 1189    💬 126    📌 213

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

08.10.2025 02:14 — 👍 13634    🔁 7757    💬 750    📌 605
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Oregon’s National Guard General: They’ll defend America and protect protesters.

That’s leadership we need more of. 🇺🇸

08.10.2025 01:28 — 👍 1253    🔁 511    💬 39    📌 34
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Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

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08.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

07.10.2025 19:51 — 👍 14620    🔁 4664    💬 744    📌 192
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Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

07.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 10642    🔁 3011    💬 367    📌 215

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

07.10.2025 22:13 — 👍 6536    🔁 1632    💬 75    📌 58
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The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

08.10.2025 01:05 — 👍 4352    🔁 1629    💬 361    📌 117
Bison enjoying a dust bath.

Bison enjoying a dust bath.

Tatonka Tuesday

08.10.2025 02:32 — 👍 316    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 1

The AG is so embarrassing.

08.10.2025 02:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tomorrow, I, along with Senator Kaine will be forcing a vote to block President Trump’s use of our Armed Forces to conduct strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea.

Congress has not authorized these strikes. They are illegal and risk dragging America into another war.

08.10.2025 02:32 — 👍 1988    🔁 453    💬 94    📌 19
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Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site.

But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe!

With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?).

Glad to see this is sticking to him.

08.10.2025 01:30 — 👍 614    🔁 162    💬 13    📌 5

Courtesy of Prof Bagenstos, the statutory provision is 31 USC 1341(c)(2)

07.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 506    🔁 147    💬 13    📌 8

As I suggested earlier, she went in there spoiling for a fight. Her answers were staged to be « oh, yah? What about you? » like an ill-behaved 3rd grader. It was a shameful display and I’m embarrassed for her.

08.10.2025 01:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

07.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 8319    🔁 3750    💬 430    📌 424

Just reminded me, I believe it is Yo Yo Ma’s 70th birthday today.

08.10.2025 01:34 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”

— Albert Camus, 1913-1960.

Frankfurt Radio Symphony performing Allegro con fuoco, the stirring, emotive fourth movement from Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony, composed in 1885.

May peace, and hope, prevail.

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

07.10.2025 23:06 — 👍 70    🔁 21    💬 5    📌 2
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good morning

07.10.2025 23:16 — 👍 1094    🔁 44    💬 12    📌 1

I was going to say that public spectacles of tarring & feathering need to make a comeback, but even that’s too gentle a punishment for these jackbooted thugs.

08.10.2025 00:10 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It’s all in crypto.

08.10.2025 01:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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