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Political Scientist | US History Professor | Author | Marathoner | Member of the Resistance ✊🏾✊🏾 https://brandonjsutton.substack.com/

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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

16.11.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 58556    πŸ” 36037    πŸ’¬ 1289    πŸ“Œ 2829
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The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

Racial profiling, no warrant, no due process; but what else can one expect from a regime committing extrajudicial murder on the high seas?

Trump's gotta go.

16.11.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6472    πŸ” 2611    πŸ’¬ 422    πŸ“Œ 167

A huge amount of state resources intended to fight crime - from the FBI to state and local police to DEA agents to IRS tax enforcement - have been redeployed to immigration enforcement. It is a great time to be a criminal in America.

16.11.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 558    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 4

They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.

15.11.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3805    πŸ” 866    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 26

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

15.11.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 14015    πŸ” 2697    πŸ’¬ 705    πŸ“Œ 180

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

15.11.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 46997    πŸ” 11860    πŸ’¬ 1193    πŸ“Œ 481
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β€œI Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua β€œterrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

15.11.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 15347    πŸ” 7082    πŸ’¬ 523    πŸ“Œ 309

For any other president this would be heralded as the disastrous policy failure of a floundering and indecisive chief executive

15.11.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 946    πŸ” 205    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4
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Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who β€” like the president β€” claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

14.11.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4730    πŸ” 1786    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 98

Retire or get voted out - those are your options.

10.11.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Listening to these 8 Dem Senators explain their vote convinces me that they are either idiots or liars. Either is plausible.

10.11.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3332    πŸ” 593    πŸ’¬ 218    πŸ“Œ 92

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

10.11.2025 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7650    πŸ” 1833    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 82

The answer Sen, Shaheen is that since America elected the Black man to be president, the official position of the Republican Party is β€œnot to work together with Democrats to address the problems that are facing this country.”

10.11.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2479    πŸ” 571    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 19

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

10.11.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 62544    πŸ” 15190    πŸ’¬ 2088    πŸ“Œ 639

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

10.11.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6207    πŸ” 1422    πŸ’¬ 156    πŸ“Œ 66

The politics of the shutdown:
*GOP had a strong opening position
*Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP
*Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change
*Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

10.11.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1376    πŸ” 316    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 14

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

10.11.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 21814    πŸ” 4431    πŸ’¬ 1781    πŸ“Œ 381

It should be that simple.

10.11.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 14542    πŸ” 2837    πŸ’¬ 280    πŸ“Œ 62

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

10.11.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4772    πŸ” 842    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 155

The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to, not because the voters want them to, and not because SNAP recipients want them to. They are caving because their DONORS want them to. And that’s really all that ever matters to the establishment.

09.11.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2092    πŸ” 654    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 61
New: Sens. King, Shaheen, Hassan led negotiations on a deal that will have enough Democratic support to pass in the Senate, I'm told.

This is the package:

- CR thru Jan 30
- A vote on a ACA bill by a December, on a DEM bill
- Minibus WHICH INCLUDES reversal of shutdown RIFs and back pay and protections against them happening in the future
PLUS SNAP is funded through the fiscal year 26

New: Sens. King, Shaheen, Hassan led negotiations on a deal that will have enough Democratic support to pass in the Senate, I'm told. This is the package: - CR thru Jan 30 - A vote on a ACA bill by a December, on a DEM bill - Minibus WHICH INCLUDES reversal of shutdown RIFs and back pay and protections against them happening in the future PLUS SNAP is funded through the fiscal year 26

Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

10.11.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 12605    πŸ” 3645    πŸ’¬ 957    πŸ“Œ 351

The senate dems are about to embarrass themselves and us AGAIN! I hope these reports are not true.

09.11.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1762    πŸ” 245    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 8

At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time.

Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.

09.11.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 592    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8

Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

09.11.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2904    πŸ” 567    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 38

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

09.11.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 26742    πŸ” 7499    πŸ’¬ 837    πŸ“Œ 527

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

09.11.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16211    πŸ” 3779    πŸ’¬ 478    πŸ“Œ 220

The SCOTUS has four justices nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote, and those justices were approved by a GOP senate majority that represented a minority of the population. The whole game has become increasingly counter-majoritarian.

08.11.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE is still being paid.
Congress is still being paid.

Private jets are still being bought.

The White House is still being renovated.

In the most prosperous country in the history of the world...

This.πŸ‘‡

08.11.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4857    πŸ” 2724    πŸ’¬ 272    πŸ“Œ 143

If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.

So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.

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