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$230 million is roughly 511 years worth of presidential salary.
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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JD Vance called it a college group chat, but the guy praising Hitler was a 30-something government official with a decade in Republican politics

https://smpl.is/adece
October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Fired Up, Ready to Go! youtu.be/5AxfVpU0IEs?...
Takin' It to the Streets - The Doobie Brothers - w/lyrics
YouTube video by Keith “Hollywood” Sousa
youtu.be
April 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Liberation Day turned out to be Lubrication Day
April 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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How about all Dems at the State of the Union tomorrow, start LAUGHING every time Trump lies! That is what sets him off the MOST!
March 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war!

How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!
March 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity.
February 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.

I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.

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This is a First Amendment question combined with a practical question. The answer is as follows.

First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract.
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Being a lawyer and all, do you know what the tipping point is for it to become acceptable to openly advocate for political assassinations? Just a little curious, is all.
February 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis.

Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security.

1/ A quick🧵on what's going on.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
apnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This page links a bunch of stories -- including in NYT -- that have caught DOGE cooking the books on its own claims of cost-cutting.

www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
DOGE Debunking - emptywheel
Running Xitter threads from Momentum Chaser January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US t...
www.emptywheel.net
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The FEC has a "Green Card exception" for campaign donations. This means, for $5 million, any Russian, Saudi or Chinese national can buy their way into the United States, then immediately start dumping money into political races. They don't even need to wait for citizenship.
February 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Report: About 444,000 federal jobs threatened by Trump and Musk held by Midwesterners
heartlandsignal.com/2025/02/24/r...
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
February 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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February 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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According to Treasury's Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Disbursement Vona Robinson, the only payment that Treasury has intercepted since Trump's inauguration was a payment to the Millenium Challenge Corporation.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...
Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
www.lawdork.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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A good illustration of first vs second Trump term. In the first, Trump drew a fake hurricane path on a map with a sharpie. In the second, Elon Musk’s twentysomething minions have taken over computer systems at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration directly.
February 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM