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This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.
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Just in: Florida-based Unusual Machines, a little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr, said the US army had contracted it to manufacture 3,500 drone motors, alongside various other drone parts. on.ft.com/3WYgkUI
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Just in: Florida-based Unusual Machines, a little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr, said the US army had contracted it to manufacture 3,500 drone motors, alongside various other drone parts. on.ft.com/3WYgkUI
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Whenever you think he's nazi'd as hard as any one person can possibly nazi, he just nazis harder.
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Whenever you think he's nazi'd as hard as any one person can possibly nazi, he just nazis harder.
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Here's an interview with the clarinetist who was arrested.
Her bandmembers were mostly wearing banana suits.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV0K...
Her bandmembers were mostly wearing banana suits.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV0K...
Band’s clarinet player speaks out after her federal arrest
YouTube video by The Oregonian
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October 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Here's an interview with the clarinetist who was arrested.
Her bandmembers were mostly wearing banana suits.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV0K...
Her bandmembers were mostly wearing banana suits.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV0K...
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He said how much he hates this picture on Times… welp, people, you know what to do! 😂
#NotMyPresident #Pinks 🌸
#NotMyPresident #Pinks 🌸
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
He said how much he hates this picture on Times… welp, people, you know what to do! 😂
#NotMyPresident #Pinks 🌸
#NotMyPresident #Pinks 🌸
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Gov. JB Pritzker joins former U.S. generals, admirals & veterans to sound the alarm on the militarization of American cities. When those who’ve led troops into combat warn against turning our streets into war zones we should all listen.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
youtube.com/live/-aRKOlv...
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
youtube.com/live/-aRKOlv...
Gov. Pritzker holds presser with fmr. generals on militarization of U.S. cities
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gov. JB Pritzker joins former U.S. generals, admirals & veterans to sound the alarm on the militarization of American cities. When those who’ve led troops into combat warn against turning our streets into war zones we should all listen.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
youtube.com/live/-aRKOlv...
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
youtube.com/live/-aRKOlv...
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Fascistic and absolutely unacceptable rhetoric from the unmoored little man who is basically running the federal government right now.
Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:
October 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Fascistic and absolutely unacceptable rhetoric from the unmoored little man who is basically running the federal government right now.
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WHATEVER YOU DO, REMEMBER NOT TO CALL THE PRESIDENT A FASCIST
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
September 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
WHATEVER YOU DO, REMEMBER NOT TO CALL THE PRESIDENT A FASCIST
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
He’s a madman.
Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
He’s a madman.
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Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."
Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."
September 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."
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The U.S. president just ordered all the military generals to an unprecedented gathering in Washington, then told them that they should plan to participate in a war on American cities.
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The U.S. president just ordered all the military generals to an unprecedented gathering in Washington, then told them that they should plan to participate in a war on American cities.
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Trump declares war on Americans: "Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. That's what the oath says -- foreign and domestic. Well we also have domestic."
September 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Trump declares war on Americans: "Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. That's what the oath says -- foreign and domestic. Well we also have domestic."
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Wake up, America, or I fear we may not have elections in 2028.
September 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Wake up, America, or I fear we may not have elections in 2028.
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This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
September 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
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Breaking News: DOGE put the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading Social Security data to a vulnerable cloud server, a whistle-blower complaint said.
DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer.
nyti.ms
August 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Breaking News: DOGE put the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading Social Security data to a vulnerable cloud server, a whistle-blower complaint said.
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August 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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To put it differently: Trump's continued commitment to the coverup only makes sense if there's something really damning about Trump in the Epstein files.
The Epstein birthday card is now public. (Trump can continue to pretend it's not real, but that's not the point.)
The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the Epstein files public?
Conclusion: There are worse things for Trump in the files.
The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the Epstein files public?
Conclusion: There are worse things for Trump in the files.
July 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
To put it differently: Trump's continued commitment to the coverup only makes sense if there's something really damning about Trump in the Epstein files.
Trump’s Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/t...
Trump's Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client - emptywheel
Todd Blanche has now made clear how he intends to help Donald Trump out of his pedophile problem. Having fired the prosecutor competent to discuss cooperation with Ghislaine Maxwell, Blanche has annou...
www.emptywheel.net
July 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Trump’s Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/t...
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Beautiful Deschutes River.
June 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Beautiful Deschutes River.
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Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
May 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
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I joined Ali Velshi of MSNBC this morning and Ali’s first question was about the President’s jarring answer “I don’t know” to the question “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?”
May 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I joined Ali Velshi of MSNBC this morning and Ali’s first question was about the President’s jarring answer “I don’t know” to the question “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?”
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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
“Incompetent boobage.”
Hope I'm not speaking out of turn here but... I already knew the Trump administration was full of incompetent boobs. Incompetent boobage was literally what white folks voted for.
March 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Incompetent boobage.”