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Surrounded by the enemy. Dad retired from the USMC and moved back home to Oklahoma. I retired from the Navy and moved to Oklahoma so kids could grow up with grandparents. Should've moved grandparents back to California instead.
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The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp newrepublic.com/article/1975... via @newrepublic.com
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No Attention newrepublic.com/article/1967... via @newrepublic.com
The Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No Attention
The Republican budget bill is stuffed with terrible policies, but Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps its most destructive component.
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June 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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America Is at a Terrifying Turning Point—and There’s No Going Back newrepublic.com/article/1968... via @newrepublic.com
America Is at a Terrifying Turning Point—and There’s No Going Back
Why the events of this past weekend should worry everyone who wants a peaceful democracy
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June 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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How Trump’s Obsession With Weight Explains His Misrule newrepublic.com/article/1967... via @newrepublic.com
How Trump’s Obsession With Weight Explains His Misrule
More than an odious personal prejudice, it’s also his go-to—and inaccurate—metaphor for the U.S. government.
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June 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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'Extraordinary': Nicolle Wallace tears into Fox News for spreading Noem's 'lie'

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'Extraordinary': Nicolle Wallace tears into Fox News for spreading Noem's 'lie'
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace laid into Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on "The Beat" on Thursday evening — and on Fox News for giving her a platform to spread a "lie."The Trump admini...
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June 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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FBI may have pictures of Trump and Epstein with young girls: biographer

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FBI may have pictures of Trump and Epstein with young girls: biographer
The FBI may possess photographs showing Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and “girls of an uncertain age,” the reporter and bestselling author Michael Wolff said.“They were in the safe, and I have see...
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June 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Trump and Musk are neck deep in a racist disgrace

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Trump and Musk are neck deep in a racist disgrace
It’s one of the greatest preventable mass deaths in modern history: around two people every minute of every day, day and night, week after week, soon to be year after year.In the time it takes you to ...
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June 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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apnews.com/live/donald-... updates: 10.9 million more people projected to lose insurance in 2034 from GOP tax bill cuts
Live updates: 10.9 million more people projected to lose insurance in 2034 from GOP tax bill cuts
President Donald Trump has promised to hike nearly all of his tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to a punishing 50% on Wednesday, a move that would hammer businesses from automakers to home builder...
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June 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Transcript: Trump Rages at GOP Bill Fiasco as Elon Admits It’s a Scam newrepublic.com/article/1961... via @newrepublic.com
Transcript: Trump Rages at GOP Bill Fiasco as Elon Admits It’s a Scam
As Trump erupts at foes of the GOP budget bill and Elon Musk reveals it’s all a sham, the author of a new piece on Musk explains how all this fits into the 50-year GOP project of redistributing wealth...
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June 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Meet Elon Musk’s Puppet Master: Russell Vought newrepublic.com/article/1960... via @newrepublic.com
Meet Elon Musk’s Puppet Master: Russell Vought
The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.
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June 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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FBI in chaos amid firings, forced retirements and polygraph tests: NYT

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FBI in chaos amid firings, forced retirements and polygraph tests: NYT
According to interviews with former and current FBI officials, Donald Trump's handpicked new Director Kash Patel has been an agent of chaos since taking over with firings, forced retirements and the t...
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June 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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'A challenge to his very manhood' has put Trump in a corner: insider

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'A challenge to his very manhood' has put Trump in a corner: insider
Two setbacks suffered by Donald Trump this past week –– one legal, the other reputational –– has put him in a corner where he may have to double down on his tariff war to save face despite the possibi...
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May 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat newrepublic.com/article/1958... via @newrepublic.com
The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat
How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.
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May 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Trump chief of staff has top Cabinet member 'on her death list': ex-GOP insider

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Trump chief of staff has top Cabinet member 'on her death list': ex-GOP insider
Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, has Pete Hegseth's number, according to an ex-insider.Rick Wilson, who helped found the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, which is consistently filled with curren...
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May 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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'His mind is gravy': Alarm as confused Trump stumbles on question

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'His mind is gravy': Alarm as confused Trump stumbles on question
After a Wednesday press conference, President Donald Trump was accused of having cognitive decline. It came after a question about whether his administration would restart visa interviews for foreign ...
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May 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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'Get him some ADHD medicine': Jasmine Crockett trashes Trump's West Point speech

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'Get him some ADHD medicine': Jasmine Crockett trashes Trump's West Point speech
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) mocked President Donald Trump after he aired his political grievances to cadets during a rambling commencement speech at West Point over the weekend.During his rant, Trump...
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May 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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​Jasmine Crockett 'breaks some news' as she lists her top 2 Trump investigations

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​Jasmine Crockett 'breaks some news' as she lists her top 2 Trump investigations
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) made a major prediction and listed the top two Donald Trump moves she hopes to investigate, all while breaking some news in the process. Crockett on Sunday appeared o...
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May 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer newrepublic.com/article/1956... via @newrepublic.com
Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.
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May 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Hundreds of Catholic bishops ramp up holy 'war' against Trump admin: report

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Hundreds of Catholic bishops ramp up holy 'war' against Trump admin: report
A group composed of hundreds of Catholic bishops is ramping up its "war" against Donald Trump and his administration, according to a Newsweek report Saturday.According to the outlet's weekend article,...
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May 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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'Impeach this idiot': Trump battered after 'pathetic' MAGA display at West Point

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'Impeach this idiot': Trump battered after 'pathetic' MAGA display at West Point
While more than a few critics of Donald Trump were appalled that he decided to talk about "trophy wives" at Saturday's West Point graduation, another faction couldn't get over his decision to wear a "...
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May 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Watch: Trump rambles about 'trophy wives' during West Point commencement speech

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Watch: Trump rambles about 'trophy wives' during West Point commencement speech
In the middle of his almost hour-long commencement speech to graduates at West Point, Donald Trump went off on a rambling discussion of "trophy wives" to a mostly silent crowd.Wearing a red "Make Amer...
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May 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Trump's West Point speech insulted all veterans — on Memorial Day weekend

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Trump's West Point speech insulted all veterans — on Memorial Day weekend
Sometimes, all this is just too damn much to take.Sometimes, just the thought of the grotesque Donald Trump being in the vicinity of the United States of America much less our White House makes me sha...
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May 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Jon Stewart fears Trump will 'burn our country down for insurance money'

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Jon Stewart fears Trump will 'burn our country down for insurance money'
Comedian Jon Stewart had a grim outlook for what the endgame of President Donald Trump's second administration could be, in an interview on the Bill Simmons Podcast flagged by The Daily Beast on Frida...
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May 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Trump's racist provocations will lead to violence. It's what he wants

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Trump's racist provocations will lead to violence. It's what he wants
The world is watching in disbelief as the president of the United States goes full Aryan. After coaxing Black and brown voters into his tent, Donald Trump loaded a gun, trained it at their heads, and ...
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May 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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'Lol': Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked on X after being 'roasted' by Musk's AI bot

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'Lol': Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked on X after being 'roasted' by Musk's AI bot
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) got into an argument with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence tool about God.The Republican congresswoman made a post Friday morning on X stating her views on Christ...
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May 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM