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Retired hospital pharmacist. Animal lover. Nature lover. One mantra: Always know where the good food is.
Snapshot of recent polls show Rs struggling to defend seats they hold:
- VA Spanberger 51%-41% Earle-Sears
- ME Mills 42%-37% Collins
- NC Cooper 46%-42% Whatley
- OH Brown 49%-48% Husted
- TX Cornyn 48%-46% Allred, 48%-45% Talarico
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Elon Musk now owns two thirds of satellites as 10,000th Starlink launches
20.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 203 🔁 124 💬 40 📌 49MAYBE THE NATIONAL GUARD SHOULD BE STOPPING TRUMP FROM LITERALLY TEARING DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE?!?
20.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 3946 🔁 780 💬 33 📌 17
I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this
06.09.2025 21:01 — 👍 21409 🔁 5054 💬 2254 📌 959He sang Rod Stewart, danced — and then ICE grabbed him.
@timmiller.bsky.social talks with @roadsteamer.bsky.social about his detention in Portland
17.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 318 🔁 98 💬 7 📌 1
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Swastika” Flag In Office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) May Be An “optical illusion” and “easy to miss” The weird story about an aide to Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) having a flag in his Capitol Hill office with a swastika on it, has just gotten weirder. Multiple sources tell Fox – including those investigating the issue – the flag in question is an American flag – but with a swastika embedded into the ink or weaving. And here’s the strange part: the swastika is not obvious to the naked eye. But is more visible when captured on video or by a still photo. One source described this as an “optical illusion.” Another said the swastika was “easy to miss.” Fox has learned that dozens of Congressional offices received these American flags from an undetermined group who brought them around Capitol Hill early in the year. One office tells Fox that the swastika on their flag was clear, so they tossed it out. But the flag in the office of Taylor was not visible until captured on camera. It is not known what group brought the flags around. That is under investigation. The US Capitol Police are also conducting an inquiry. Fox is told that that the group brought the flags to multiple offices. At issues is if the group knew the swastika was embedded into the flag. It is also unclear if this was an effort to covertly deliver American flags to lawmakers with swastikas on them. Or, if this was an effort to deliberately embarrass offices by bringing them an American flag – which featured a swastika which wasn’t obvious to the naked eye.
lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"
16.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 1660 🔁 384 💬 249 📌 325
Trump’s Department of Education actively collaborates w/ Moms for Liberty. Asked “what % of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told ProPublica: “‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” 1/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...
17.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 759 🔁 415 💬 65 📌 69Treasury's Bessent confirms American taxpayer funds being used to buy troubled Argentine pesos, as administration bails out ideological ally during government shutdown: "Treasury has not disclosed how much it has spent purchasing pesos or whether it will do it on a schedule." Via Reuters
17.10.2025 16:08 — 👍 279 🔁 140 💬 18 📌 20
WHOA. The AP reports that in the latest strike on a boat alleged to be carrying drug smugglers (which has never been proven), there were actually survivors, and they've been rescued.
The Pentagon has yet to formally acknowledge they have survivors in custody.
apnews.com/article/vene...
I urge our nation to use this weekend's No Kings marches as a declaration of independence against the tyranny and lawlessness currently running this country.
Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community.
THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Choosing Hungary as the place to meet Putin is one of the most outrageous and illiberal acts of this new Trump era. It’s another extraordinarily gift to Putin, an insult to our allies and Zelenskyy, and should be forcefully denounced by leaders in both parties here in America.
17.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 1374 🔁 383 💬 41 📌 15Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."
17.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 28255 🔁 9275 💬 1575 📌 668
In ordinary times, Americans go about their daily lives without much worry about who is running the Office of Management and Budget, a powerful, low-profile agency tasked with executing the federal budget.
These are not ordinary times. @contrariannews.org
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That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
If Joe Biden’s “spiritual advisor” had pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12 year old girl, Fox would be playing that shit on a loop 24/7.
03.10.2025 17:21 — 👍 2990 🔁 1030 💬 170 📌 41
NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.
@wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social
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The fact that an agent literally said "fuck them kids" is just icing on the unconstitutional cake.
They enjoy being able to play badass while they terrorize neighborhoods.
Some statistics about the 16 blue states Russ Vought wants to target:
- 39% of the country lives in those states.
- They contribute 44% of GDP.
- They are also home to almost a third of 2024 Trump voters, some 24 million of them.
www.pbump.net/o/sorry-abou...
So Trump is defunding the police.
01.10.2025 03:29 — 👍 4407 🔁 1705 💬 116 📌 49
Trump admin halts $18B for key projects in Dem leaders' city after shutdown
01.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 197 🔁 106 💬 21 📌 6Trump just signed an Executive Order pledging an Article 5-esque security guarantee with Qatar. If they get attacked, America will consider it an attack on us. I'm sure the $400 million bribe they gave him had nothing to do with it...
01.10.2025 14:59 — 👍 761 🔁 282 💬 57 📌 25Never has a group developed so complete a hearing problem as Republicans confronted with actual words that Trump has said over the last decade.
01.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 2674 🔁 573 💬 106 📌 20Federal Unionists Network letter: "refuse to support any budget that does not rightfully return the power of the purse to Congress and ensure any and all appropriated funds are spent on our critical public services"
#nokings
Two hundred members of the Oregon National Guard are being placed under federal control and deployed to protect immigration enforcement officers and government facilities.
29.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 153 🔁 80 💬 23 📌 8Just a reminder that the last two government shutdowns happened under President Trump, with Republicans in control of both chambers. These people cannot govern, and they need Democrats to bail them out.
29.09.2025 16:18 — 👍 895 🔁 276 💬 19 📌 9
A series of attempts by Trump’s DOJ to access voter info is prompting increasing alarm from election administrators, who warn that the federal gov't may be laying the groundwork to try to strongarm states over how they conduct their elections.
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In a stunning violation of OPSEC, we’ll be announcing to our adversaries when and where all of our top military leaders will be. Doesn’t seem Pete learned much from Signalgate.
His incompetence is staggering.
