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Roman Smith
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Explorer. Blue (just like my dress.) Despise MAGAts. Live in Hollywood, CA. romanscalifornia.com
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On Apr 29 (Day 100), I said I would be scaling back my nightly updates (it worked...a little.) Now we're at Day 300; am going to really try to keep my updates at 10 posts/night or fewer (would really help if P47 just played golf every day.) 🤦‍♀️

Will still cover important stuff, maybe less quoting
On This Day (Feb 14) in 2026 (1/2)
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Kristi Noem
- 'when it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive'
- 'to make sure we have the right people voting'
- 'electing the right leaders to lead this country'
- note: didn't define, 'right people' or, 'right leaders'
February 15, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Homan claims the MN surge is done, P47 is ratcheting things up to cheat enough to, 'win' the midterms (via vote prevention), and we continue to get more details from The Epstein Files. But winning the week was Pam Bondi, who completely humiliated the US

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Saturday Report 2/14/26 — One of Trump’s top allies and private-White-House-dinner guests is now calling for all American women to be imprisoned in the ICE Concentration Camps...
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February 15, 2026 at 4:58 AM
On This Day (Feb 13) in 2026 (1/6)
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Pete Hegseth
- wants to blacklist some schools from financial aid
- 'evaluate all grad programs for active-duty members'
- 'at Ivy League and other universities that similarly'
- 'diminish critical thinking'
- ie, no 'woke' schools
February 14, 2026 at 4:58 AM
We all pretty much knew years ago that P45 had no real interest in democracy (GOPers in general don't), which culminated in Jan 6. Now with P47 back in office, feeling unconstrained by anything, the only way to keep democracy is to vote only for Dems

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A Vote for Republicans Is a Vote Against Democracy
Can we reject the politics of concentration camps, election denial, and oligarchy by showing up in numbers too large to ignore?
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February 14, 2026 at 4:58 AM
On This Day (Feb 12) in 2026 (1/16)
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Judge Richard Leon (Mark Kelly)
- has blocked Hegseth from Mark Kelly rank/pension
- 'rather than than trying to shrink First Amendment'
- 'Hegseth, et al, might reflect'
- 'be grateful for wisdom + expertise vets have brought'
February 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Every day, P47 hits us and the rest of the world with words and actions that further degrade our relationship with the rest of the world; it has already been seriously degraded after just one year, and we still have three years left...we're in trouble

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What Happens When the World Decides It Can’t Trust America Anymore?
From France to Germany to Canada, governments are recalibrating their security, technology, and defense policies around one unspoken reality: America can’t be counted on…
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February 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM
On This Day (Feb 11) in 2026 (1/18)
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Judge Timothy Kelly (prisoners)
- P47 loves death penalty, + maximum cruelty
- Biden commuted many death sentences to life in prison
- P47 wants them all transferred to ADX Florence
- ADX Florence: nasty
- Judge: 'no...litigation first'
February 12, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Near-daily, P47 mentions non-existent voter fraud; he knows there is no voter fraud, but he still says it over and over again. It's the GOP way, and has been for decades. They perpetrate fraud via vote prevention, 'Ballot Security Task Forces,' etc

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Is “Voter Fraud” the Most Dangerous Political Lie in American History?
Why does a lie that has never been proven, never worked, and never been real still hold the power to undermine an entire democracy?
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February 12, 2026 at 4:54 AM
On This Day (Feb 10) in 2026 (1/22)
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Judge Hala Jarbou (MI voter rolls)
- feds trying to get MI records
- 'HAVA does not require the disclosure of any records'
- 'NVRA does not require disclosure of voter reg lists'
- 'CRA does not require disclosure of voter reg lists'
February 11, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Hunting humans for sport is nothing new in movies...Running Man and Hunger Games immediately come to mind. Less entertaining is when such hunts are done in real life, particularly at mass scale, and done by a powerful govt: just think of ICE and CBP

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Have Human Hunt Clubs Come to America, This Time Wearing Badges and Body Armor?
If this feels uncomfortable to read, that’s good. It should. From Colombia’s death squads to America’s detention camps, this is how societies relearn the cost of calling some lives disposable…
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February 11, 2026 at 4:53 AM
On This Day (Feb 9) in 2026 (1/19)
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Judge Lewis Kaplan (26 Federal Plaza)
- ICE holds people on 10th floor at 26 Federal Plaza, NYC
- it's not a detention center; ICE says, 'just temp'
- Kaplan put limits on said detentions
- ICE started holding everyone on 9th floor instead
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
When we look back to the pre-Reagan days, we see nothing that exists today. Back then, families could get by with a single breadwinner in the family, one illness wasn't a path to bankruptcy, and decent futures were foreseeable. Reagan changed all of that

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The NFL Is “Socialist” on Purpose, and It Exposes Republican Economic Stupidity
The NFL proves that rules, referees, and “redistribution” are the only way any game, including the American economy, actually works…
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February 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
On This Day (Feb 8) in 2026 (1/4)
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Epstein Files
- Ghislaine Maxwell was a co-conspirator w/ Epstein
- prison sentence 20+ years
- P47 put here in Club Fed
- she wants out of prison (ie, a pardon)
- she will testify to House Oversight Mon
- lawyers: 'she ain't gonna talk'
February 9, 2026 at 4:58 AM
On This Day (Feb 7) in 2026 (1/7)
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Epstein Files, p1
- Jeffrey Epstein died in jail cell Aug 10, 2019
- Mark Epstein (his brother) sent a tip to the FBI
- 'believe he was killed because about to name names'
- 'I believe P47 authorized his murder'
- no sign of FBI followup
February 8, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Each day this week, more details have been uncovered in The Epstein Files...including (surprise!) lots of redactions that seem designed to protect the perps. Throw in a racist tweet, more treachery in MN (including govt malfeasance in court)...🤦‍♀️

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Saturday Report 2/7/26 — Surprise Surprise?! TrumpRX is a fake. Read the fine print...
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February 8, 2026 at 4:57 AM
On This Day (Feb 6) in 2026 (1/10)
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Judge Mustafa Kasubhai (OR voter data)
- 'presumption of regularity prev extended to Plaintiff'
- 'no longer holds'
- 'Plaintiff conveys assurances data will remain pvt'
- 'must be squared w/ contrary public statements'
- 'dismissed'
February 7, 2026 at 4:57 AM
In an unsurprising blitz of social media posts late last night, P47 included a racist post about two of his fave targets: Michelle and Barack Obama. ~Twelve hours later it was taken down, but ongoing message out: for P47, being racist is an asset

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Trump’s Racist Attack on the Obamas Shows the Moral Collapse of His Presidency
This wasn’t a joke or a mistake but a warning about how racism, silence, and abuse of power are eating away at democracy…
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February 7, 2026 at 4:57 AM
On This Day (Feb 5) in 2026 (1/23)
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Epstein Files, p1
- more details continue to trickle out
- seems P47 may have spent XMAS, 2016 w/ Epstein
- FBI, 2015: 'P45 had lunch at Epstein's home today'
- WH denying anything and everything P47-related
- 'false, no basis in reality'
February 6, 2026 at 4:53 AM
As we daily watch ICE thugs on video act w/ impunity, and hear of yet another person whom P47 has targeted being, 'investigated' by DOJ, it's a good time to remember the Nuremberg Trials, and be reminded that the guy at the top isn't the only one to fall

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Dear Trump Administration Official: History Is Full of Loyal Men Who Thought They’d Be Protected
A historical warning about how presidents escape, aides go to prison, and “just following orders” has never saved anyone...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:53 AM
On This Day (Feb 4) in 2026 (1/7)
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Minnesota, p1
Tom Homan
- 'we will draw down 700 people effective today'
- 'P47 fully intends to achieve mass deportations'
- 'during this admin; immigration enforcement actions'
- 'will continue every day throughout this country'
February 5, 2026 at 4:57 AM
It has been no secret that the P47 Admin is drooling at building more camps that replicate form and conditions of Camp Auschwitz, the FL camp that was shut down by a judge. Currently, the US has 225 ICE camps; it is looking to double the number

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Over 70,000 People Detained in 225 Concentration Camps, With Plans to Double Them: Why Isn’t This a National Emergency?
ICE’s nationwide detention system continues to expand under plans that would double its size while shielding it from meaningful accountability…
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February 5, 2026 at 4:57 AM
On This Day (Feb 3) in 2026 (1/8)
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Judge Michael Simon (Portland protesters)
- blocked federal thugs from using excessive force
- 'nation at a crossroads; free speech'
- 'courageous news gathering, nonviolent protest'
- 'are all permitted, respected, and even celebrated'
February 4, 2026 at 4:57 AM
We often hear phrases like, 'this isn't America,' and, 'this doesn't look like America'; except that it does look like America, from days past. P47 wants America to go back to the days when slavery was accepted, and skin color counted more than anything

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Is Trump Rebuilding the Confederacy, Starting With the Slave Patrols?
A warning from history about oligarchy, terror policing, and the death of democracy…
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February 4, 2026 at 4:57 AM
On This Day (Feb 2) in 2026 (1/17)
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Judge Tostrud (Pretti)
- enjoined DHS from altering/destroying Pretti evidence
- has now lifted his order
- 'evidence shows Defendants are not likely to destroy'
- 'or improperly alter evidence related to shooting'
- 'during life of case'
February 3, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Even the MAGAt cult members are aware of P47's deep ties to Putin; hell, he went to Moscow on Jul 4, 1987, and had a very high profile encounter in NYC with a Gorbachev impersonator in 1988. But the ties between P47 and Russia go so, so much deeper

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The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover
Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…
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February 3, 2026 at 4:54 AM