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The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Trump administration declares open season on the Endangered Species Act, forcing scientists to consider the cost of conservation over the facts of extinction. This red-tape overhaul imperiles threatened species as future protections will now wait in line behind corporate bottom lines.
Feds Announce Plan to Overhaul the Endangered Species Act. It Throws Out Science and Adds (More) Red Tape
The Department of the Interior announced major changes to the Endangered Species Act, which would gut a landmark conservation law.
www.outdoorlife.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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The actions of Witkoff, Rubio and Trump in this matter are an absolute disgrace. This means that the U.S. cannot be seen as an honest broker in any international conflict.
Trump’s controversial plan given to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition was the result of weeks of negotiations behind the scenes between Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev that excluded Ukraine, its allies and key US officials.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Secret US-Russia Talks Led to Peace Plan That Blindsided Ukraine
The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind...
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Forget your REAL ID? The TSA proposes a workaround: pay $18 and surrender your face. Rule lets travelers without identification swap cash and biometrics for passage. It monetizes privacy, allowing the government to build a federal facial recognition database one disorganized volunteer at a time.
TSA proposes major rule that would change how travelers get through security
The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register Thursday and is now undergoing a public comment period before it can be made permanent.
www.mlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Interesting thread:
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Activists push Black Friday boycott and tell people to pull all their money out
Activists push Black Friday boycott and tell people to pull all their money out
🚨 JUST IN: In an effort to destroy the Donald Trump economy, liberals are plotting a mass BOYCOTT and “protest” next week ahead of Black Friday “Pull all your money out of the system…don’t give corpor...
citizenwatchreport.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Reminder: It’s really not normal for a senior DOJ official to publicly confirm that DOJ is getting ready to indict someone!

(Not to mention that Mizelle no longer works at DOJ — how exactly does he know “of what he speaks”?)
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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IRS blocked from sharing taxpayer data with DHS for deportations, dealing a sharp blow to Trump administration’s enforcement efforts. Ruling upheld that taxpayer confidentiality core to the US system, noting that fear-driven noncompliance harms the public.
Judge blocks IRS from sharing data with DHS for immigration enforcement
A federal judge blocked the Internal Revenue Service from sharing data with immigration enforcement officials, ruling that the tax agency violated federal law and individual rights in its support for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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New threats from Trump:

The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Curtain falls on Elon Musk’s DOGE 8 months early, confirming cost-cutting crusade was less a surgical strike and more a public implosion. After months of controversy and a $1 trillion savings goal missed by nearly $800 billion, the only thing truly streamlined has been Musk's exit from Washington
DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended
Musk said the initiative would save at least $1 trillion. But its website claims to have reached only $214 billion.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Local police officers and sheriffs in Mobile, Alabama, are abducting a man from the waiting room of a car dealership mechanic shop on behalf of ICE/DHS. During the kidnapping, he is administered an unidentified sedative.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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In October 2024, the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.1 % and the inflation rate was 2.6 %. Now, unemployment is 4.4 %, inflation has risen to 3 %, and we’ve added $3 Trillion to the national debt. The “Golden Age” feels more like the “Broke-Ass Olden Age.”
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Bear in mind also that this is just snapshot data, the number of people in these facilities on any given date. If this was the total number of people who had cycled through these facilities, the arrows would be even higher.
The change in ICE detentions over the past year. From the newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/f48ddd93?m...
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.

Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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FYI, Moscow wrote the plan.
Blessed are the peacemakers
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The core of the Trump administration's foreign policy intrigues consists of Peter Thiel and JD Vance, in steady collusion with the Kremlin, and Marco Rubio, who resents and opposes the Kremlin's machinations, but lacks the power to block them. Witkoff is a vacuous window ornament in this process.
Lawmakers say US secretary of state rowed back on Ukraine peace plan
Senators said Marco Rubio told them that a contentious 28-point proposal was not a Trump administration policy
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Vladimir Putin is popping champagne corks. His hand puppet in Washington has left the United States alone, weakened and hated on the world stage.
Canada and the rest of the world have moved on.

financialpost.com/pmn/business...
Carney Says World Can Move on Without The US, Stresses New Ties
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world can make progress on a range of issues without the US, and that consensus reached at a Group of 20 leaders’ meeti…
financialpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Yesterday was one of the clearest demonstrations yet that Trump diplomacy is a clown show which is manipulated from the inside by hostile foreign actors. It became obvious why Gen Keith Kellogg abruptly quit his post as the Ukraine negotiator.
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Steve Witkoff greets the man in charge. No ambiguities here.
Trump’s special envoy Witkoff put his hand over his heart when Putin walked in the room. Like he’s reunited with a loved one. That really tells you all you need to know.
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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PSA: siding with corporate greed and helping airlines take advantage of people is not “Common sense” no matter how many times Doofy says it

(No wonder the airlines gave millions to Trump’s campaign)
FOX: During the Biden administration, there was a push for greater passenger rights. They wanted to have airlines compensate people if there was a delay or cancelation. But that is something the Trump admin has said they don't want to do

DUFFY: We took a more common sense approach to it
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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LEFT: Grok lying about what the Dems said

RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said

Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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If Democrats were deliberately trying to set up a situation where 2 Republicans advanced to the general election for governor, they couldn't do it any better than the current situation.
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM