Ellen I
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This year, the CFPB brought the fewest cases against big banks and giant companies for cheating consumers in the history of the CFPB.
Trump and his hatchet man Russ Vought are letting grifters and scammers off the hook – and trying to kill the agency that would hold them accountable.
Trump and his hatchet man Russ Vought are letting grifters and scammers off the hook – and trying to kill the agency that would hold them accountable.
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This year, the CFPB brought the fewest cases against big banks and giant companies for cheating consumers in the history of the CFPB.
Trump and his hatchet man Russ Vought are letting grifters and scammers off the hook – and trying to kill the agency that would hold them accountable.
Trump and his hatchet man Russ Vought are letting grifters and scammers off the hook – and trying to kill the agency that would hold them accountable.
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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ATTN: if you’re on the sandwich guy jury, my Signal is in my bio. I’d love to talk after the trial. I’ll keep you anonymous. Please share widely.
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
ATTN: if you’re on the sandwich guy jury, my Signal is in my bio. I’d love to talk after the trial. I’ll keep you anonymous. Please share widely.
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Trump’s weekend in Wonderland: blocked by judges, rebuked by the Supreme Court, purging prosecutors, all while stomping around like the Red Queen shouting “Off with their heads!” #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Trump’s Red Queen Weekend
From Portland to the Fed to the DOJ, judges and prosecutors told him no, and still he storms around shouting “off with their heads!”
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October 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Trump’s weekend in Wonderland: blocked by judges, rebuked by the Supreme Court, purging prosecutors, all while stomping around like the Red Queen shouting “Off with their heads!” #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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BREAKING - Greta Thunberg has reportedly been released from Ktzi’ot Prison and is now en route to Eilat Airport to be deported to Athens
#FreedomGretaThunberg
#FreedomGretaThunberg
October 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
BREAKING - Greta Thunberg has reportedly been released from Ktzi’ot Prison and is now en route to Eilat Airport to be deported to Athens
#FreedomGretaThunberg
#FreedomGretaThunberg
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Good morning ppl! Day 6 of the GOP #Shitdown & they are in full shuffle of heads of agencies while consolidating power. They are creating CEO roles to replace commissioners because, commissioner take an oath to the constitution & to protect/ serve us. The new CEO role will not have that guard.
a cartoon character from south park is sitting down and says you guys are jerks
Alt: a cartoon character from south park is sitting down and says you guys are jerks
media.tenor.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Good morning ppl! Day 6 of the GOP #Shitdown & they are in full shuffle of heads of agencies while consolidating power. They are creating CEO roles to replace commissioners because, commissioner take an oath to the constitution & to protect/ serve us. The new CEO role will not have that guard.
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‼️‼️‼️ We were just informed that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has named SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano the CEO of the IRS 😳😳😳 I cannot explain to you exactly how much of a conflict of interest that is. We are well past five alarm fire. We are Pompeii and Vesuvius just erupted. Wake the fuck up!!
October 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
‼️‼️‼️ We were just informed that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has named SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano the CEO of the IRS 😳😳😳 I cannot explain to you exactly how much of a conflict of interest that is. We are well past five alarm fire. We are Pompeii and Vesuvius just erupted. Wake the fuck up!!
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So the IRS, a Gov agency, has a, *checks notes*, CEO?
A CEO? What kind of corporate BS is that "newly created position".
The Gov can not be run like a business.
IRS is hard to break. But I bet they will give all they got.
#irsstrong
A CEO? What kind of corporate BS is that "newly created position".
The Gov can not be run like a business.
IRS is hard to break. But I bet they will give all they got.
#irsstrong
Bessent Taps Bisignano to Be IRS CEO in Latest Agency Shakeup
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is tapping Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano to serve as the chief executive officer of the Internal Revenue Service, an agency which has und...
www.bloomberg.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
So the IRS, a Gov agency, has a, *checks notes*, CEO?
A CEO? What kind of corporate BS is that "newly created position".
The Gov can not be run like a business.
IRS is hard to break. But I bet they will give all they got.
#irsstrong
A CEO? What kind of corporate BS is that "newly created position".
The Gov can not be run like a business.
IRS is hard to break. But I bet they will give all they got.
#irsstrong
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"One clinical psychologist [said] he considers Trump such a 'classic' pathological narcissist that he is actually 'archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example' of the characteristics of the disorder he displays."
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"One clinical psychologist [said] he considers Trump such a 'classic' pathological narcissist that he is actually 'archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example' of the characteristics of the disorder he displays."
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Oh holy hell. Rabid antivaxxers.
RABIES IS NEARLY 100% FATAL
RABIES IS NEARLY 100% FATAL
September 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Oh holy hell. Rabid antivaxxers.
RABIES IS NEARLY 100% FATAL
RABIES IS NEARLY 100% FATAL
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Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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This is an unconstitutional and authoritarian power grab.
The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.
The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.
President Trump said late Saturday that he would issue an executive order to require voter identification for all U.S. elections, a continuation of his efforts to overhaul the nation’s election laws, which he has long attacked and falsely blamed for his 2020 election loss.
Trump Says He Will Sign Executive Order Mandating Voter I.D.
He also wants to restrict mail-in voting and allow only paper ballots. The Constitution doesn’t give the president explicit authority over election law.
nyti.ms
August 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is an unconstitutional and authoritarian power grab.
The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.
The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.
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give Ben Meiselas on MeidasTouch a try on YouTube. I started watching him when they only had about 300K followers..up to about 6M now. never let me down.
August 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
give Ben Meiselas on MeidasTouch a try on YouTube. I started watching him when they only had about 300K followers..up to about 6M now. never let me down.
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#Xi and #Putin roll out red carpets, #Trump rolls out a $442 visa toll booth. Ukraine still under fire, #ICE agents unmasked by AI, and a sickly GI Joe in chief posting #QAnon memes while sending warships to #Venezuela. #uspolitics
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Red Carpets, Red Flags
Xi hosts autocrats in Tianjin while Trump slaps toll booths on Lady Liberty, plays GI Joe in Venezuela, and hides behind QAnon memes as Ukraine burns.
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August 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
#Xi and #Putin roll out red carpets, #Trump rolls out a $442 visa toll booth. Ukraine still under fire, #ICE agents unmasked by AI, and a sickly GI Joe in chief posting #QAnon memes while sending warships to #Venezuela. #uspolitics
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⚠️ APT29’s watering hole trick uncovered
#Amazon disrupted a watering‑hole campaign by Russia’s #APT29, who hijacked legitimate websites to redirect 10% of visitors into a malicious #Microsoft device‑code auth flow, tricking them into granting unauthorized access.
#ransomNews #APT29 #AuthPhishing
#Amazon disrupted a watering‑hole campaign by Russia’s #APT29, who hijacked legitimate websites to redirect 10% of visitors into a malicious #Microsoft device‑code auth flow, tricking them into granting unauthorized access.
#ransomNews #APT29 #AuthPhishing
August 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
⚠️ APT29’s watering hole trick uncovered
#Amazon disrupted a watering‑hole campaign by Russia’s #APT29, who hijacked legitimate websites to redirect 10% of visitors into a malicious #Microsoft device‑code auth flow, tricking them into granting unauthorized access.
#ransomNews #APT29 #AuthPhishing
#Amazon disrupted a watering‑hole campaign by Russia’s #APT29, who hijacked legitimate websites to redirect 10% of visitors into a malicious #Microsoft device‑code auth flow, tricking them into granting unauthorized access.
#ransomNews #APT29 #AuthPhishing
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Absurd and outrageous map would lead to a 7-1 GOP margin in a state that is often split about 60-40 GOP by creating an absurd district 5 that spans about two thirds of the way across the state, 200 miles from West to East
Oppose this.
Oppose this.
Missouri governor calls lawmakers back to Capitol to gerrymander congressional map
• Missouri Independent missouriindependent.com/2025/08/29/m...
• Missouri Independent missouriindependent.com/2025/08/29/m...
August 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Absurd and outrageous map would lead to a 7-1 GOP margin in a state that is often split about 60-40 GOP by creating an absurd district 5 that spans about two thirds of the way across the state, 200 miles from West to East
Oppose this.
Oppose this.
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May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
August 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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Illinois tells Bondi that its sanctuary status stands firm.
Illinois to Bondi: Sanctuary status stands firm
www.politico.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Illinois tells Bondi that its sanctuary status stands firm.
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We’ve posted about this before, but now it’s official a federal judge has made it clear: Alina Habba has been serving as New Jersey’s U.S. attorney without legal authority for over a month.
August 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
We’ve posted about this before, but now it’s official a federal judge has made it clear: Alina Habba has been serving as New Jersey’s U.S. attorney without legal authority for over a month.