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Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Nosferatu Miller needs his own Twilight Zone episode when he wakes up in Nazi Germany remembering he’s a Jew

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Here's the seven most dangerous cities in the US because Stephen Miller wants you very afraid

The TACO troops of ICE supported by National Guard have yet to attack actual cities where the “worst of the worst” undocumented people might be: Based on each city's murder and property crime rates pe...

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December 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic. It makes no difference. There isn't an ounce of credibility in that White House anyway.

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Trump could shake up inner circle by drafting in 'MAGA officials': analysis

Donald Trump's inner circle could be set for a shake-up, according to political analysts warning "MAGA officials" could be the norm next year.CBS chief Washington analyst Robert Costa believes change ...

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December 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Anyone remember when TACO promised we were not going to be the world's police force? The Peace Prez has now become the War Monger Prez, attacking multiple countries and threatening to invade allies and annex sovereign nations.

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Trump says US military struck ISIS terrorists in Nigeria

President Donald Trump said Thursday he’d ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, who he has accused of persecuting Christians in the country.

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December 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

One thing I’m certain about is that Homan has a super punchable face.

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7 times Trump’s ‘border czar’ decided he’s above the law

When President Donald Trump hired Tom Homan as his “border czar,” despite an FBI investigation into very convincing evidence that he took a literal bag of cash as a bribe, there were no ...

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December 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Doesn't sound like Stinky has a concept of a plan yet.

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Trump Snaps At Reporter Over ‘Dumb Question’ While Greeting Zelenskyy At Mar-A-Lago

The pair met up at Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida resort for the next round of talks to end Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

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December 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

This whole Trump-Epstein thing is just a massive leaking bag of shit, all taped up and sewn together. The seams are just getting more and more fragile. Drip, drip...

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'Major scandal': Trump's DOJ caught spying on journalist before Epstein's death

A high-profile investigative journalist received quite a shock on Sunday when she discovered her flight itinerary from a trip to Florida in July 2019 tucked in the latest batch of files related to the...

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December 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

My takeaway: Nothing happened. Nothing is going to happen. Putin doesn't want peace. These talks are a big show. They're meaningless.

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Takeaways from Trump’s meeting with Zelensky in Florida

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traded freezing, missile-tormented Kyiv on Sunday for the frescoed dining room at Mar-a-Lago, where he hoped to gain President Donald Trump’s sign-off on a revis...

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December 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

That insufferable couch fucker is being groomed as TACO’s successor. Fortunately for us, he is entirely unpalatable with the charisma of a funeral director.

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11 times JD Vance was a pathetic jerk

President Donald Trump did not win a second term because JD Vance was on the ticket. In virtually every poll imaginable, Vance continues to be received by Americans about as warmly as a peeled ...

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December 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

“Your job is to provide legal advice,” one former State Department lawyer said. “Imagine being afraid to provide what you think is appropriate legal advice.”

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State Department Experts Fear Retaliation For Questioning Trump And Rubio

“Imagine being afraid to provide what you think is appropriate legal advice," one former attorney told HuffPost.

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December 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

So millions of pages and Kash is too busy with his country singer girlfriend flying around on the taxpayer's dime to even read what his employees are telling him?

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'Hunh?' MS NOW host stumped by Kash Patel answer about Epstein sex trafficking

An answer given by FBI Director Kash Patel to a Republican senator about who Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking teens and young women to, was resurrected and dismantled on MS NOW on Saturday morning.As p...

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December 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Staying six feet away from MAGAs is a pretty good prevention.

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Bad flu season getting worse; skyrocketing cases set state record

The flu season is hitting in full force, especially in New York, Colorado and Louisiana, where flu-like activity is very high, according to the CDC.

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December 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Unfortunately, Bonespurs hard core MAGA supporters think he is doing a wonderful job. They like the cruelty and chaos he has unleashed

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How Trump caused so much chaos

Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. Republicans started 2025 with the wind at th...

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December 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

In TACO's world you never put your family first. Stinky would have shoved people out of the way to be on the front row of the picture.

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Fox News Guest Tears Into 'Disrespectful' Biden Family Christmas Photo

"These things are choreographed, you think, pretty well," Joe Concha said while discussing the holiday photo shared by former President Joe Biden.

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December 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Contribute a large enough bribe, and TACO will make weed legal. Executive order coming in 3, 2, 1...

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'They started yelling': Insider says aides 'had to stop Trump' from leaking secret order

There was a highly charged confrontation at the White House that resulted in Donald Trump overriding Mike Johnson and others on the religious right, and after that the president had to be stopped by a...

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December 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

If a contract is made for the Kennedy Center, then the artist is obligated to perform at the Kennedy Center. If TACO changed the name of the venue, the contract is now null and void to perform anywhere but the Kennedy center.

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Kennedy Center seeks $1m from musician who cancelled after Trump name added to venue

Drummer Chuck Redd reportedly called off his Christmas Eve performance after a vote by the board to rename the site.

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December 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

The renaming of the Kennedy Center is polling at 18% approval. Better to just cancel the gig.

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Host cancels Kennedy Center's annual Christmas Eve show after Trump's shameful name changing

Ticket sales at the Kennedy Center cratered after Trump’s hand-picked board elected him Chairman of the august institution. Now that he has besmirched the institution by adding his name, the host of t...

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December 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Oh, the poor Republicans. President Bonespurs is dragging them down now before midterms. I'm crying so hard I can barely type.

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Republicans are 'anxious' about having an unpopular Trump campaign for them in midterms

New York Times White House Correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs says Republicans are facing a tough decision and probably a delicate dance around how much to include an unpopular president in their re-ele...

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December 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

You can always spot when Stinky is guilty of something. Just follow the long and winding road of lawsuits and other acts of retribution.

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