Robert Mackey
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Anyway, let's hear it for the GOP which is rebranding as the party of "Heritage Americans," a category that apparently excludes all but one of the President and Vice Presidents' children (Tiffany is the daughter of DJT and Marla Maples).
December 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Anyway, let's hear it for the GOP which is rebranding as the party of "Heritage Americans," a category that apparently excludes all but one of the President and Vice Presidents' children (Tiffany is the daughter of DJT and Marla Maples).
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JD Vance's career was financed by Peter Thiel, an immigrant, and one of Trump's biggest fundraisers was his AI czar, David Sacks, also an immigrant. Trump's Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-Deremer is the daughter of an immigrant, and his Secretary of State Rubio is also the son of immigrants.
December 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
JD Vance's career was financed by Peter Thiel, an immigrant, and one of Trump's biggest fundraisers was his AI czar, David Sacks, also an immigrant. Trump's Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-Deremer is the daughter of an immigrant, and his Secretary of State Rubio is also the son of immigrants.
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
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some will leave, some won't, but their very fake anxiety shows how un-civic-minded, how selfish they really are, as if the unimaginable wealth they have isn't already enough.
the flight of the billionaires www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
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December 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
some will leave, some won't, but their very fake anxiety shows how un-civic-minded, how selfish they really are, as if the unimaginable wealth they have isn't already enough.
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
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Remember that time in 2019 when Wohl, Loomer, and future“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander went to Ilhan Omar’s district to make a video “exposing” it as a “no go zone” and phoned in a fake death threat? Anyway , these people now run the country. www.indy100.com/news/ilhan-o...
Laura Loomer tried to doorstep a congresswoman. It went very wrong
Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has already made waves since taking office in January, causing a stir among her own party after criticising the influence of Israeli lobbyists in Washington.Her cri...
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December 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Remember that time in 2019 when Wohl, Loomer, and future“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander went to Ilhan Omar’s district to make a video “exposing” it as a “no go zone” and phoned in a fake death threat? Anyway , these people now run the country. www.indy100.com/news/ilhan-o...
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Jacob Wohl is the guy of “I overheard people talking in a hipster coffee shop about how much they love Donald Trump” fame. He’s apparently now making six figures securing pardons for fraudsters.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
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December 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Jacob Wohl is the guy of “I overheard people talking in a hipster coffee shop about how much they love Donald Trump” fame. He’s apparently now making six figures securing pardons for fraudsters.
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Merry Christmas!
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
December 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Merry Christmas!
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
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The neo-Nazi groyper scumbags who make this stuff are zero percent religious, not a smidgen of pious feeling in their rotted souls. They say it for one reason: making intentional mockery of the Constitution and to directly spit on people who aren’t Christian, especially Jews.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The neo-Nazi groyper scumbags who make this stuff are zero percent religious, not a smidgen of pious feeling in their rotted souls. They say it for one reason: making intentional mockery of the Constitution and to directly spit on people who aren’t Christian, especially Jews.
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“.. When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told The Associated Press in an email ..
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December 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“.. When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told The Associated Press in an email ..
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Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
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Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus reut.rs/4sbgSVO
In first Christmas sermon, Pope Leo decries conditions for Palestinians in Gaza
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across...
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December 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus reut.rs/4sbgSVO
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Reminder: Crossing the US border without authorization is a misdemeanor. Being present in the US without documentation is not a crime.
ICE officers shoot driver during immigration operation in Maryland, authorities say.
ICE officers shoot driver during immigration operation in Maryland, authorities say
The Department of Homeland Security said the driver of a van hit ICE vehicles as he tried to flee and officers fired in self-defense. The van’s passenger was injured in the crash.
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December 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Reminder: Crossing the US border without authorization is a misdemeanor. Being present in the US without documentation is not a crime.
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Israel is continuing to bomb, starve, torture and displace Palestinians, committing war crimes and crimes against humanity with total impunity in Palestine, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. We cannot turn away or let our governments normalise these abuses.
December 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Israel is continuing to bomb, starve, torture and displace Palestinians, committing war crimes and crimes against humanity with total impunity in Palestine, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. We cannot turn away or let our governments normalise these abuses.
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Trump posts early on Christmas Eve: "If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated? I say, YES!"
December 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Trump posts early on Christmas Eve: "If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated? I say, YES!"
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Transcript of Bush and Putin's final meeting (Sochi, April 2008) following tense and ambiguous Bucharest NATO meeting. Putin's disdain for Ukraine's sovereignty/existence is on full display. (transcripts newly released thanks to @nsarchive.bsky.social)
December 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Transcript of Bush and Putin's final meeting (Sochi, April 2008) following tense and ambiguous Bucharest NATO meeting. Putin's disdain for Ukraine's sovereignty/existence is on full display. (transcripts newly released thanks to @nsarchive.bsky.social)
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Two British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Two British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department – UK politics live
Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford among five Europeans hit with visa bans over claims they wish to ‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose’
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December 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Two British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Trump is now calling the New York Times a national security threat and says they “must be dealt with and stopped.”
December 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Trump is now calling the New York Times a national security threat and says they “must be dealt with and stopped.”
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The new Gallup presidential favorability poll
December 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The new Gallup presidential favorability poll
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This is disgraceful. They should be at home with their families. Instead, Trump is forcing them to walk around in the cold for his fascist national security theater. DC is absolutely dead this time of year. There’s nobody here to “terrorize.” Just pathetic all around.
National Guard wearing Santa hats while patrolling in DC.
December 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This is disgraceful. They should be at home with their families. Instead, Trump is forcing them to walk around in the cold for his fascist national security theater. DC is absolutely dead this time of year. There’s nobody here to “terrorize.” Just pathetic all around.
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Kavanaugh spends a footnote pretty much saying STOP CALLING THEM KAVANAUGH STOPS
![arrests in Illinois. The State and the Government disagree about whether the immigration officers have violated the Constitution in making certain immigration stops and arrests. The basic constitutional rules governing that dispute are longstanding and clear: The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force.
Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity. Cf. Whren v. United States, 517 U. S. 806, 813 (1996) ("IT]he Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on considerations such as race"). This application does not require us to delve into the parties' underlying dispute and to determine whether any particular immigration encounter or series of encounters in Illinois has violated those basic constitutional principles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreidbc22r5os5mrbh3jyph7t4l5ymdbdmzd7gmqkqwhmu4com7l373q@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Kavanaugh spends a footnote pretty much saying STOP CALLING THEM KAVANAUGH STOPS