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After the ceasefire began last month, Hamas swiftly reestablished its hold over areas in Gaza from which Israel withdrew, killing dozens of Palestinians they accused of collaborating with Israel or other “crimes.”
Once again Palestinian leadership proves…
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
After the ceasefire began last month, Hamas swiftly reestablished its hold over areas in Gaza from which Israel withdrew, killing dozens of Palestinians they accused of collaborating with Israel or other “crimes.”
Once again Palestinian leadership proves…
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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After the ceasefire began last month, Hamas swiftly reestablished its hold over areas in Gaza from which Israel withdrew, killing dozens of Palestinians they accused of collaborating with Israel or other “crimes.”
Once again Palestinian leadership proves…
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
After the ceasefire began last month, Hamas swiftly reestablished its hold over areas in Gaza from which Israel withdrew, killing dozens of Palestinians they accused of collaborating with Israel or other “crimes.”
Once again Palestinian leadership proves…
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Our nation’s founders warned us of tyranny. But they did not anticipate farce. They imagined a Caesar, not a demented carnival barker with a spray tan and social media addiction.
Yet here we are—our democracy has been reduced to a grotesque sideshow.
This week Attorney General Pam Bondi…
Our nation’s founders warned us of tyranny. But they did not anticipate farce. They imagined a Caesar, not a demented carnival barker with a spray tan and social media addiction.
Yet here we are—our democracy has been reduced to a grotesque sideshow.
This week Attorney General Pam Bondi…
America’s Sacred Security Chamber, Defiled by a Coward
How Trump, Bondi, Blanche, and Patel hijacked the Situation Room to bully GOP lawmakers into covering up the Epstein files. 3
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Our nation’s founders warned us of tyranny. But they did not anticipate farce. They imagined a Caesar, not a demented carnival barker with a spray tan and social media addiction.
Yet here we are—our democracy has been reduced to a grotesque sideshow.
This week Attorney General Pam Bondi…
Our nation’s founders warned us of tyranny. But they did not anticipate farce. They imagined a Caesar, not a demented carnival barker with a spray tan and social media addiction.
Yet here we are—our democracy has been reduced to a grotesque sideshow.
This week Attorney General Pam Bondi…
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These illustrations are modeled after the propaganda campaigns Chairman Mao used to brainwash the Chinese—the famous illustrated posters of pink-cheeked Chinese youth toiling happily in the fields or waving flags or marching proudly as members of the Red Guard—the youth movement that gave them…
These illustrations are modeled after the propaganda campaigns Chairman Mao used to brainwash the Chinese—the famous illustrated posters of pink-cheeked Chinese youth toiling happily in the fields or waving flags or marching proudly as members of the Red Guard—the youth movement that gave them…
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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These illustrations are modeled after the propaganda campaigns Chairman Mao used to brainwash the Chinese—the famous illustrated posters of pink-cheeked Chinese youth toiling happily in the fields or waving flags or marching proudly as members of the Red Guard—the youth movement that gave them…
These illustrations are modeled after the propaganda campaigns Chairman Mao used to brainwash the Chinese—the famous illustrated posters of pink-cheeked Chinese youth toiling happily in the fields or waving flags or marching proudly as members of the Red Guard—the youth movement that gave them…
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The US stands alone in the world.
BREAKING: The UK has stopped sharing intelligence with the US on suspected drug-trafficking ships in the Caribbean, saying it won’t be complicit in strikes it believes are illegal-CNN
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The US stands alone in the world.
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Rick Wilson: “Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, ‘We killed Obamacare at last!’”
Last nite, 8 Democrats caved on the shutdown, even after last week’s election…
Rick Wilson: “Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, ‘We killed Obamacare at last!’”
Last nite, 8 Democrats caved on the shutdown, even after last week’s election…
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Rick Wilson: “Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, ‘We killed Obamacare at last!’”
Last nite, 8 Democrats caved on the shutdown, even after last week’s election…
Rick Wilson: “Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, ‘We killed Obamacare at last!’”
Last nite, 8 Democrats caved on the shutdown, even after last week’s election…
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The Atlantic on Trump’s vicious use of the gov. shutdown to hurt Americans:
“This week [Trump] & his administration have threatened to withhold SNAP funding, deploying starving children & seniors as political weapons, and moved to throw airline travel into disorder by reducing flights through…
The Atlantic on Trump’s vicious use of the gov. shutdown to hurt Americans:
“This week [Trump] & his administration have threatened to withhold SNAP funding, deploying starving children & seniors as political weapons, and moved to throw airline travel into disorder by reducing flights through…
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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The Atlantic on Trump’s vicious use of the gov. shutdown to hurt Americans:
“This week [Trump] & his administration have threatened to withhold SNAP funding, deploying starving children & seniors as political weapons, and moved to throw airline travel into disorder by reducing flights through…
The Atlantic on Trump’s vicious use of the gov. shutdown to hurt Americans:
“This week [Trump] & his administration have threatened to withhold SNAP funding, deploying starving children & seniors as political weapons, and moved to throw airline travel into disorder by reducing flights through…
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“We’ve got to start being aggressive,” Chip Roy (R-TX) yelled into Steve Bannon’s microphone, after Tuesday’s blue wave. “Republicans are sitting around making nice instead of coming through behind the President to save this country.”
⬇️Michael Cohen’s response:⬇️
“We’ve got to start being aggressive,” Chip Roy (R-TX) yelled into Steve Bannon’s microphone, after Tuesday’s blue wave. “Republicans are sitting around making nice instead of coming through behind the President to save this country.”
⬇️Michael Cohen’s response:⬇️
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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“We’ve got to start being aggressive,” Chip Roy (R-TX) yelled into Steve Bannon’s microphone, after Tuesday’s blue wave. “Republicans are sitting around making nice instead of coming through behind the President to save this country.”
⬇️Michael Cohen’s response:⬇️
“We’ve got to start being aggressive,” Chip Roy (R-TX) yelled into Steve Bannon’s microphone, after Tuesday’s blue wave. “Republicans are sitting around making nice instead of coming through behind the President to save this country.”
⬇️Michael Cohen’s response:⬇️
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⚠️WHY has the DOJ sued 8 states to obtain access to their voter rolls??
It’s not clear what the DOJ plans to do with this highly sensitive data, how they're going to store it, who's going to have access to it, and they won’t provide that info…
⚠️WHY has the DOJ sued 8 states to obtain access to their voter rolls??
It’s not clear what the DOJ plans to do with this highly sensitive data, how they're going to store it, who's going to have access to it, and they won’t provide that info…
DOJ Efforts to Seize Voter Data ‘Pose Serious Risks’ to Privacy and National Security, Senators Warn
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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⚠️WHY has the DOJ sued 8 states to obtain access to their voter rolls??
It’s not clear what the DOJ plans to do with this highly sensitive data, how they're going to store it, who's going to have access to it, and they won’t provide that info…
⚠️WHY has the DOJ sued 8 states to obtain access to their voter rolls??
It’s not clear what the DOJ plans to do with this highly sensitive data, how they're going to store it, who's going to have access to it, and they won’t provide that info…
Trump’s business acumen and economic policies pay off BIGLY for Americans!
➡️ From NBC NEWS: U.S.-based companies announced more than 153,000 job cuts in October.
According to the research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas: “This is the highest total for October in OVER 20 YEARS.”
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➡️ From NBC NEWS: U.S.-based companies announced more than 153,000 job cuts in October.
According to the research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas: “This is the highest total for October in OVER 20 YEARS.”
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November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Trump’s business acumen and economic policies pay off BIGLY for Americans!
➡️ From NBC NEWS: U.S.-based companies announced more than 153,000 job cuts in October.
According to the research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas: “This is the highest total for October in OVER 20 YEARS.”
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➡️ From NBC NEWS: U.S.-based companies announced more than 153,000 job cuts in October.
According to the research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas: “This is the highest total for October in OVER 20 YEARS.”
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The information landscape in the US has reached a crisis point. Billionaires are using media outlets & social media platforms they control to curry favor with Trump and help him erode America’s free press.
5 examples:
•ABC News paid $16 million to settle a defamation case brought by Trump…
The information landscape in the US has reached a crisis point. Billionaires are using media outlets & social media platforms they control to curry favor with Trump and help him erode America’s free press.
5 examples:
•ABC News paid $16 million to settle a defamation case brought by Trump…
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The information landscape in the US has reached a crisis point. Billionaires are using media outlets & social media platforms they control to curry favor with Trump and help him erode America’s free press.
5 examples:
•ABC News paid $16 million to settle a defamation case brought by Trump…
The information landscape in the US has reached a crisis point. Billionaires are using media outlets & social media platforms they control to curry favor with Trump and help him erode America’s free press.
5 examples:
•ABC News paid $16 million to settle a defamation case brought by Trump…
For years, Trump & his allies have believed that their sick mix of chaos, grievance, revenge & cruelty was unstoppable. But last nite’s election proved voters are exhausted, repulsed & enraged by Trumpist lies, lunacy & destruction. They want competent leadership & normalcy, not threats & chaos.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
For years, Trump & his allies have believed that their sick mix of chaos, grievance, revenge & cruelty was unstoppable. But last nite’s election proved voters are exhausted, repulsed & enraged by Trumpist lies, lunacy & destruction. They want competent leadership & normalcy, not threats & chaos.
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Sick, scary and WRONG⚠️⚠️⚠️
ICE has a new mobile app called Mobile Fortify that allows officers to virtually wander the streets and identify individuals using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology. The app enables officers to verify a person’s identity almost instantly by…
Sick, scary and WRONG⚠️⚠️⚠️
ICE has a new mobile app called Mobile Fortify that allows officers to virtually wander the streets and identify individuals using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology. The app enables officers to verify a person’s identity almost instantly by…
ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight
The Trump administration has contracts with Clearview AI, a firm banned from doing business with Illinois police agencies. “This is what dystopian nightmares are made of, this kind of continual expans...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Sick, scary and WRONG⚠️⚠️⚠️
ICE has a new mobile app called Mobile Fortify that allows officers to virtually wander the streets and identify individuals using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology. The app enables officers to verify a person’s identity almost instantly by…
Sick, scary and WRONG⚠️⚠️⚠️
ICE has a new mobile app called Mobile Fortify that allows officers to virtually wander the streets and identify individuals using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology. The app enables officers to verify a person’s identity almost instantly by…
Re tonite’s 60 Minutes Trump interview: Maybe they’ve finally figured out how to handle him. Do not challenge him. Do not point out that what he’s saying is total BS. Just let him spew his garbage…then, after every absurd fabrication, cut away and cite the facts, which unfailingly show he’s lying.
November 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Re tonite’s 60 Minutes Trump interview: Maybe they’ve finally figured out how to handle him. Do not challenge him. Do not point out that what he’s saying is total BS. Just let him spew his garbage…then, after every absurd fabrication, cut away and cite the facts, which unfailingly show he’s lying.
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Watching Redford & Hoffman as Woodward & Bernstein in “All the Presidents Men.” Their daring and unstoppable investigation into the crooked Republican party’s break-in to Democratic Headquarters in 1972 is historic…
Watching Redford & Hoffman as Woodward & Bernstein in “All the Presidents Men.” Their daring and unstoppable investigation into the crooked Republican party’s break-in to Democratic Headquarters in 1972 is historic…
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Watching Redford & Hoffman as Woodward & Bernstein in “All the Presidents Men.” Their daring and unstoppable investigation into the crooked Republican party’s break-in to Democratic Headquarters in 1972 is historic…
Watching Redford & Hoffman as Woodward & Bernstein in “All the Presidents Men.” Their daring and unstoppable investigation into the crooked Republican party’s break-in to Democratic Headquarters in 1972 is historic…
Here it is, plain and simple:
Trump has “turned the federal government into a hostage for his own vanity, and as a protection from the release of the Epstein files.”
~ Rick Wilson
Trump has “turned the federal government into a hostage for his own vanity, and as a protection from the release of the Epstein files.”
~ Rick Wilson
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Here it is, plain and simple:
Trump has “turned the federal government into a hostage for his own vanity, and as a protection from the release of the Epstein files.”
~ Rick Wilson
Trump has “turned the federal government into a hostage for his own vanity, and as a protection from the release of the Epstein files.”
~ Rick Wilson
Breaking: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for food stamps during the federal shutdown. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-known as SNAP-aids roughly 42 million people and was set to run out of funds on Saturday without intervention.
~NYTIMES
~NYTIMES
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Breaking: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for food stamps during the federal shutdown. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-known as SNAP-aids roughly 42 million people and was set to run out of funds on Saturday without intervention.
~NYTIMES
~NYTIMES
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Re Gov. Pritzker’s letter to Kristi Noem asking that ICE step back and allow children to trick or treat in peace, she refused, saying, “We’re absolutely not willing to pause any work that we’re doing to keep communities safe. The fact that Governor Pritzker is asking for that is shameful…
Re Gov. Pritzker’s letter to Kristi Noem asking that ICE step back and allow children to trick or treat in peace, she refused, saying, “We’re absolutely not willing to pause any work that we’re doing to keep communities safe. The fact that Governor Pritzker is asking for that is shameful…
October 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Re Gov. Pritzker’s letter to Kristi Noem asking that ICE step back and allow children to trick or treat in peace, she refused, saying, “We’re absolutely not willing to pause any work that we’re doing to keep communities safe. The fact that Governor Pritzker is asking for that is shameful…
Re Gov. Pritzker’s letter to Kristi Noem asking that ICE step back and allow children to trick or treat in peace, she refused, saying, “We’re absolutely not willing to pause any work that we’re doing to keep communities safe. The fact that Governor Pritzker is asking for that is shameful…
From Democracy Now⚠️Yesterday Senate Majority Leader John Thune blocked a bid by Democrats to fund food assistance programs through the shutdown, after Trump refused to draw from a $5 billion contingency fund to maintain SNAP. Without funding, 42 million people could lose benefits starting Saturday.
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 AM
From Democracy Now⚠️Yesterday Senate Majority Leader John Thune blocked a bid by Democrats to fund food assistance programs through the shutdown, after Trump refused to draw from a $5 billion contingency fund to maintain SNAP. Without funding, 42 million people could lose benefits starting Saturday.
Which is more pathetic?
(a) That the new Secretary of Energy actually said this?
OR
(b) That Trump actually posted it?
(a) That the new Secretary of Energy actually said this?
OR
(b) That Trump actually posted it?
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Which is more pathetic?
(a) That the new Secretary of Energy actually said this?
OR
(b) That Trump actually posted it?
(a) That the new Secretary of Energy actually said this?
OR
(b) That Trump actually posted it?
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Trump has now stooped to using hunger as a weapon⚠️
Last week, the Dept of Agriculture said it will withhold $$ earmarked by Congress to pay for SNAP during a shutdown, the 1st time emergency funds haven’t been released in such a case…
Trump has now stooped to using hunger as a weapon⚠️
Last week, the Dept of Agriculture said it will withhold $$ earmarked by Congress to pay for SNAP during a shutdown, the 1st time emergency funds haven’t been released in such a case…
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Trump has now stooped to using hunger as a weapon⚠️
Last week, the Dept of Agriculture said it will withhold $$ earmarked by Congress to pay for SNAP during a shutdown, the 1st time emergency funds haven’t been released in such a case…
Trump has now stooped to using hunger as a weapon⚠️
Last week, the Dept of Agriculture said it will withhold $$ earmarked by Congress to pay for SNAP during a shutdown, the 1st time emergency funds haven’t been released in such a case…
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Today, Britain’s actions put the US handling of the Epstein predators to shame!
Announcement from Buckingham Palace: Prince Andrew is to be stripped of his title as prince, an extraordinary move that caps his fall from grace over his ties to the convicted sexual criminal, Jeffrey Epstein…
Today, Britain’s actions put the US handling of the Epstein predators to shame!
Announcement from Buckingham Palace: Prince Andrew is to be stripped of his title as prince, an extraordinary move that caps his fall from grace over his ties to the convicted sexual criminal, Jeffrey Epstein…
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Today, Britain’s actions put the US handling of the Epstein predators to shame!
Announcement from Buckingham Palace: Prince Andrew is to be stripped of his title as prince, an extraordinary move that caps his fall from grace over his ties to the convicted sexual criminal, Jeffrey Epstein…
Today, Britain’s actions put the US handling of the Epstein predators to shame!
Announcement from Buckingham Palace: Prince Andrew is to be stripped of his title as prince, an extraordinary move that caps his fall from grace over his ties to the convicted sexual criminal, Jeffrey Epstein…
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
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Breaking: The Senate just delivered a major rebuke to Trump’s reckless trade war. In a 50-46 vote, senators passed a resolution to terminate Trump’s tariffs on Canada—with 4 Republicans joining every Democrat in standing up to Trump’s economically destructive policies…
Breaking: The Senate just delivered a major rebuke to Trump’s reckless trade war. In a 50-46 vote, senators passed a resolution to terminate Trump’s tariffs on Canada—with 4 Republicans joining every Democrat in standing up to Trump’s economically destructive policies…
October 30, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Breaking: The Senate just delivered a major rebuke to Trump’s reckless trade war. In a 50-46 vote, senators passed a resolution to terminate Trump’s tariffs on Canada—with 4 Republicans joining every Democrat in standing up to Trump’s economically destructive policies…
Breaking: The Senate just delivered a major rebuke to Trump’s reckless trade war. In a 50-46 vote, senators passed a resolution to terminate Trump’s tariffs on Canada—with 4 Republicans joining every Democrat in standing up to Trump’s economically destructive policies…
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The Trump family raked in $800+ million from sales of crypto assets in the 1st half of 2025 alone, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that $$ has come from foreign sources…and represents actual income–cash flowing, free & clear, into Trump family coffers…
The Trump family raked in $800+ million from sales of crypto assets in the 1st half of 2025 alone, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that $$ has come from foreign sources…and represents actual income–cash flowing, free & clear, into Trump family coffers…
Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine
The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
www.reuters.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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The Trump family raked in $800+ million from sales of crypto assets in the 1st half of 2025 alone, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that $$ has come from foreign sources…and represents actual income–cash flowing, free & clear, into Trump family coffers…
The Trump family raked in $800+ million from sales of crypto assets in the 1st half of 2025 alone, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that $$ has come from foreign sources…and represents actual income–cash flowing, free & clear, into Trump family coffers…
⬇️⬇️⬇️THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️ from Associated Press:
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
⬇️⬇️⬇️THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️ from Associated Press: