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❤️ music! If you are mad, go and hug a tree and walk on grass. Read and educate yourself, which would help your critical thinking. Question everything. What can I say, I'm Mexican, I'm bien chingona 🪬
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
Collins on Monday introduced a bill with Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) to extend the enhanced health insurance premium subsidies under the ACA for two years while limiting their availability to households earning less than $200,000 a year. 1/2
thehill.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
www.propublica.org/article/pete...

"Time is winding down for Howard Miller, the storied furniture company and clockmaker in western Michigan that said this summer it will close after 99 years. It identified the Trump administration’s tariffs as a main culprit. "
In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course.
Pete Hoekstra once testified that “the market should dictate the price of steel, not the government.” But he now champions the Trump trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Mi...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Okay but WHY are the Kennedy Center Honors not being given out at the Kennedy Center? Did they cancel and move it to the Oval because ticket sales were non-existent?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
www.propublica.org/article/port... I live in Portland and it's infuriating that this administration is committing such abuse and hurt to so many people.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Ryan Anderson (@kolchak) on Threads
Elon got Joyce Carol Owned. Again.
www.threads.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
www.threads.com/@nathancjun/... 💯 agree, and if Schumer didn't know, it's even worse and he needs to step down immediately.
Nathan Jun (@nathancjun) on Threads
It’s all about the midterms.
www.threads.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I do not think I can forgive anyone who voted for this...
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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😁😁😁
Back it up
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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This piece seems credible although there's no other mentions outside of SM...

Dash Dobrofsky, TikTok Star and Political Commentator Found Dead After Weeks Missing

lastrespects.today/dash-dobrofs...
Dash Dobrofsky, TikTok Star and Political Commentator Found Dead After Weeks Missing - Last Respect
Dash Dobrofsky, the outspoken anti-Trump and anti-MAGA TikTok creator, actor, and political commentator, has been found dead
lastrespects.today
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Today, it’s Prince Andrew.

Tomorrow, it’ll be Donald Trump.

The Jeffrey Epstein skeleton isn’t meant to stay in their closets—it will come for all of the perpetrators eventually.

It doesn’t matter how much the Republican Party tries to cover it up.

The truth will out—it’s only a matter of time.
October 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it". John Lewis
October 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I ❤️ you Portland!
October 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.
October 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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👇👇
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Today, the celebration belongs to Indigenous People. They are aware of instead of owning the land, they view themselves as caretakers with a responsibility to protect and care for the environment for future generations. Nature is often seen as a spiritual teacher and a sacred gift.
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
youtube.com/shorts/8HRLG...

Just a reminder, Chicago ranked 29th out of 37 large U.S. cities for violent crime rates in 2024, according to BBC Verify analysis of FBI data, placing it near the bottom of the list rather than near the top.
'They're scaring everybody': MSNBC on the ground after ICE arrests two men in Chicago suburb
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Bondi said yesterday that Chicago has a high rate in homicides. Chicago ranked 29th out of 37 large U.S. cities for violent crime rates in 2024, according to BBC Verify analysis of FBI data, placing it near the bottom of the list rather than near the top.
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
www.propublica.org/article/educ... incredible reporting from @propublica.org as always.

Those degenerates want more money and deny education to the underprivileged.
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=R4jU...

Bsnd of brothers. Antifa liberating the people in concentration camp.
Liberation of Concentration Camps | Clips: Band of Brothers
YouTube video by US HISTORY HELP
youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM