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The BBC's editing blunders aside,
a lot of Americans heard the incitement of violence in the words of Trump on January 6 --

THERE'S NO DOUBT HE WAS INCITING VIOLENT INTERRUPTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS!

The BBC was telling the TRUTH.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation
Lawyers for the US president have threatened to sue the corporation for $1bn (£759m).
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Guess which (new) Peace Prize will be awarded to Mr. Transactional (psst ... I mean Donny)?

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
FIFA will use Kennedy Center free of charge for World Cup event, contract says
The Kennedy Center booked the World Cup draw at President Donald Trump’s urging. It will occupy much of the campus and displace planned performances.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It's way past time to change the Democratic Party leadership!

c.org/chyMkSnMTV
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It WAS WORKING you idiot!!

crooksandliars.com/2025/11/sen-...
Angus King Makes It Worse By Speaking
Hey Senator King, hide under a rock and stop talking.
crooksandliars.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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It can't be repeated enough - in an attempt to stay in office against the will of the voters, Donald Trump incited a deadly insurrection against our own government in which hundreds of police officers were beaten for hours and our Capitol was ransacked.

#TrumpCoupAttempt
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Salus populi suprema lex esto."

"The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law."

Cicero,
Roman philosopher, Senator, and statesman
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Imagine if he could see what his own son was doing right now.

#RFKJrResign
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion ..."

-- John Adams, born #OTD 1735, in the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Trump boasts he can deploy troops to US cities however he likes ...

NO YOU CAN'T DONNY! You're not a king nor a dictator.

You're bound by the Constitution ... which to you swore to uphold.

www.alternet.org/the-right-wi...
'We can do as we want': Trump boasts he can deploy troops to US cities however he likes
Speaking to troops aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in Japan, President Donald Trump boasted that he can send any branch of America’s armed forces into U.S. cities as part of his anti-crime initiat...
www.alternet.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,
it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”

~ attributed to Patrick Henry
(though he likely would've agreed with the sentiment, there's no evidence that he wrote these words)
October 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Republican Party ... has transformed into a corrupt, immoral, and criminal enterprise that serves the interests of one man’s power while systematically destroying the constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.

www.techdirt.com/2025/10/14/t...
The Criminal Enterprise Masquerading As A Political Party
The Republican Party is no longer a legitimate political organization. It has transformed into a corrupt, immoral, and criminal enterprise that serves the interests of one man’s power while systema…
www.techdirt.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right"

"Quand la dictature est un fait, la révolution devient un droit" -- Victor Hugo

Legitimacy of a government comes from the consent of the governed and when a government abuses its power,
the people have the right to resist and replace it.
October 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
2028 Democratic ticket?

Andy Beshear & Pete Buttigieg

... if we survive.
October 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Too many Americans are still in denial.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
www.motherjones.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Saturday Thought…How quickly they have “ flipped That Switch”🤬
October 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
@drlucyjones.bsky.social
Would you please explain how the Prompt elastogravity signals, or PEGS, will help with earthquake analysis and possibly with tsunami predictions?
I've not heard of these pre-P wave signals before.
September 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NO Donny -- Free Speech is ALWAYS legal whether you like it or not!

www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Trump Says Free Speech Is 'Really Illegal' When It's Too Negative About Him
The president seemingly defended targeting coverage he deemed "bad" after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show.
www.huffpost.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Resistance, fight on.
September 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Is it time to secede yet?
September 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
a prescient warning:

"With the first link, the chain is forged.
The first speech censured,
the first thought forbidden,
the first freedom denied,
chains us all irrevocably."

Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Star Trek - The Next Generation, S4 E21

WE THE PEOPLE know this in our souls!
September 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Crackdown on the ‘radical left’?
But a new study shows more political violence comes from right-wing extremism.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Trump claims ‘most of the violence is on the left’. A new study says otherwise
President Donald Trump has promised retribution to left-wing groups in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing. However, the data does not back up his claims
www.the-independent.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM