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Trump begins his Black History Month event by ranting about his ballroom

The Atlantic's Ali Breland on why it's important to cover the online far right. An Atlantic reporter says far-right influencers such as Nick Fuentes offer clues to where US politics is going.

The Atlantic's Ali Breland on why it's important to cover the online far right.! 🦋
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So now the Commission of Fine Arts is being run by someone who doesn't have an art degree or knowledge of the arts.
Sounds like perfectly fine if you want to get rid of the arts.

Photo ©2026 by Jim Bourg - Attorney General Pam Bondi is seen testifying to the House Judiciary Committee February 11, 2026

Pam Bondi's Testimony to House Judiciary Goes Off The Rails as She Vilifies Congress & Disrespects Epstein Survivors - Bondi claimed Democrats are “trying to deflect against all the great things Donald Trump has done" LINK TO MY SUBSTACK with news coverage, photos and video in my IN BIO here.

Attorney General Pam Bondi's Testimony to House Judiciary Committee Goes Off the Rails as She Vilifies Members of Congress and Disrespects Epstein Survivors Bondi accused Democrats of “trying to deflect against all the great things Donald Trump has done" for questions about Epstein and a lack of investigations into Epstein allies and violent DHS agents

Bondi's Testimony to House Judiciary Goes Off Rails as She Vilifies Members of Congress & Disrespects Epstein Survivors - Bondi accused Democrats of “trying to deflect against all the great things Donald Trump has done"
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s brother Sky and Sister-in-Law Amanda talk to Public Impact News About the State of the Epstein Files Releases And Introduction of “Virginia’s Law” in US Congress Sky Roberts Also Names Names, Saying Men Involved with Epstein Who Have Had their Names Redacted in the Files Released Need to Be Interviewed and Investigated

Sky and Amanda Roberts speak to Public Impact News at the U.S. Capitol on Epstein files releases and naming of a proposed new "Virginia's Law" after his sister Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Full coverage of the proposed new law: publicimpactusaap.substack.com/p/virginia-r...

Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s brother Sky and Sister-in-Law Amanda talk to Public Impact News About the State of the Epstein Files Releases And Introduction of “Virginia’s Law” in US Congress Sky Roberts Also Names Names, Saying Men Involved with Epstein Who Have Had their Names Redacted in the Files Released Need to Be Interviewed and Investigated

Sky and Amanda Roberts speak to Public Impact News at the U.S. Capitol on Epstein files releases and naming of a proposed new "Virginia's Law" after his sister Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Full coverage of the proposed new law: publicimpactusaap.substack.com/p/virginia-r...

He keeps saying China will kill hockey in Canada, & I cannot figure out where the hell he got that batshit idea. (I’m sure it’s from some right-wing online thing that’s been twisted into this nuttery.)

As Maxwell Pleads Fifth & Seeks Trump Clemency to Clear HIS Name, Virginia Giuffre's Family Addresses Maxwell Head-on: "Ghislaine, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in a jail cell. Trapped in a cage forever just like you trapped your victims." publicimpactusaap.substack.com/p/as-ghislai...

This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

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Ending show w/ “God Bless America!” U.S. citizen Bad Bunny held up a football saying “Together, We Are America.” Meanwhile, tidal wave of right-wing racism screamed “anti-American” & “hateful.”Scoreboard displayed msg: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love".
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Renee Good's Brothers Speak to Congress About Loss of Their Sister and Who Renee Really Was "In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation, thinking that perhaps Renee’s death would bring about change in our country. And it has not" - Luke Ganger

Renee Good's Brothers Speak to Congress About Loss of Their Sister & Who Renee Really Was: "In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation, thinking that perhaps Renee’s death would bring about change in our country. And it has not" Luke Ganger
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Trump: Wow. So nice. Thank you Anna Paulina! President DJT onemoreforrushmore.com Roger Stone C @Roger/StoneJr IT'S TIME TO PUT PRESIDENT TRUMP ON MOUNT RUSHMORE! Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has sponsored the legislation to put our 45th & 47th President on this National Memorial. Sign the petition to support our effort onemoreforrushmore.com ONE MORE FOR RUSHMORE TIME TO ADD PRESIDENT TRUMP TO MOUNT RUSHMORE! One More For Rushmore From onemoreforrushmore.com 10:03 PM • May 28, 2025 • 91.5K Views 1 ReTruth 13 Likes 2/5/26,7:47 PM

Trump is making it clear that he intends to put himself on Mt. Rushmore before he leaves

President Trump : "The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over – we should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places.’ The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting." Constitutional Reasons Founders of the U.S.A. Gave Election Governance to the States: Alexander Hamilton, John Thune, Ted Cruz, Pam Bondi, Mike Johnson and Donald Trump Have All Voiced Their Support

President Donald Trump : "The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over – we should take over the voting, the voting in at least many, 15 places.’ The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting." A Deep Dive with Video Pictures and Receipts
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Rare Positive News : 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is Home Safe In Minnesota With His Father : How They Gained Their Freedom Texas Democratic Congressman Castro picked father & son up from detention in Texas Saturday and flew back to Minnesota with them Sunday after a notable order & opinion from Federal Judge Biery

Rare Positive News : 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is Home Safe In Minnesota With His Father : How They Gained Their Freedom. Rep. Castro picked father & son up from detention in Texas & flew home w/ them after notable order & opinion from Fed Judge Biery
My story:
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If the Press Does Not Defend Its Freedom Now, It Will Lose It | Opinion The alarm is sounding. What the press does next will determine our freedom.

3x Emmy award video journalist Georgia Fort, @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social, arrested by Trump Justice Department w/ Don Lemon for covering a protest, wrote this: "If the Press Does Not Defend Its Freedom Now It will Lose It". Worth reading as she fights for her freedom for doing her job. bit.ly/4a69Jhn

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest:

“This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested."

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Peter Attia 1752 Niall Ferguson 59 HR McMaster 35 Janna Levin 27 Roland Fryer 9 Derek Thompson 6 Mark Hyman 5 Roger Carstens 3 Arthur Brooks 2 Reihan Salam 2 Elliot Ackerman 0 Masih Alinejad 0 Caroline Chambers 0 Clare de Boer 0 Andrew Huberman 0 Casey Lewis 0 Patrick McGee 0 Lauren Sherman 0

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

Remember that Melania’s director was previously accused of sexual violence by six actresses. “His directing and producing career had been snuffed out—until the Trump family stepped in.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Listen, I realize that it might look bad that I was emailing a man who had already been convicted of soliciting children for the purposes of prostitution and asking when the wildest night of partying would take place at the island he used for pedophile parties ... Hang on, let me come in again."

I think what both the second Trump administration and the Epstein files have taught us is that there’s very little need of covertness or secrecy if everyone with power pretends you aren’t doing what you’re doing when you openly tell them what you’re doing

Under Pressure From Trump, Nobel Peace Prize Director Defends Award’s Independence In an interview with the Journal, Kristian Harpviken says the prize is inherently “complicated.”

“His statement…that now he doesn’t want to take peace into consideration, since he didn’t receive the peace prize, is a very problematic statement for a possible peace prize candidate,” said Berit Reiss-Andersen, who chaired the committee that awards the prize. www.wsj.com/world/under-...

Don Lemon ( @donlemonofficial.bsky.social ) faces federal charges for this church protest coverage. I've covered MANY protests in 30+ years. This is a huge attack on the "free press" established 250 years ago in the Constitution. See my "Public Impact News" for a much deeper dive:
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UPDATED : Trump War on Independent Media Goes Into Overdrive With Arrests of Black Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Over Covering A Protest
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UPDATED : Trump War on Independent Media Goes Into Overdrive With Arrests of Black Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Over Covering A Protest Trump DOJ Arrests Two Respected and Award Winning Independent Black Journalists for Covering a News Event in Minnesota

UPDATED : Trump War on Independent Media Goes Into Overdrive With Arrests of Black Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Over Covering A Protest
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Witnessing Another Public Killing in Minneapolis Videos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power.

So true.

"Our ability to participate in witnessing, to corroborate each other's commonsense... is a threat to the administration's assumption of total power, not only over events but over how those events are interpreted." www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t... — Vinson Cunningham in the New Yorker

<< From "Call to Activism" Post Below : "🚨GRAPHIC VIDEO: ICE just shot a woman in Minneapolis with “less than lethal” ammo and blew off a piece of her hand." Trigger warning for violence & injury>> bit.ly/45v5Zo8

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NEW VIDEO : Fresh Bystander Video Shows Minn. Shooting From Moment of First Contact to Shots Fired NEW VIDEO : Minnesota Shooting From First Contact to Shooting

New videos keep emerging made by bystanders at the shooting of U.S. Veterans hospital nurse and Minneapolis resident, Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Pretti appears to be trying to defend a woman from agents when he was first pepper sprayed in the face and then shot to death.
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UPDATED : Federal Immigration Agents Shoot and Kill A Man They Appear to Have Already Disarmed on Streets of Minneapolis (Graphic and Shocking Video Included in This Post)

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and Minneapolis resident, also a U.S. Veterans hospital ICU nurse, was shot and killed this morning by Federal immigration enforcement agents on the streets of Minneapolis. - Story was updated throughout the day.
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Nicollet Ave in South Mpls now resembles a warzone after federal agents killed a man there this morning. Trump is trying his damndest to make this community unlivable.