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Brian Burke
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Father to three, lesser half of a great team, San Jose State grad, longtime Californian, loves to travel, Catholic. Voted for her. No DMs unless I've met you IRL
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I've got a peace plan for you.
March 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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👏👏PERFECTLY SAID, SENATOR DUCKWORTH:
"Brave Republicans who would stand up to Trump have gone. They're no longer in the Senate, and the ones that are left are scared for their lives. I would hope that my colleagues would put the safety and security of the nation above their own political survival."
THE VIEW: Tammy Duckworth SHREDS Pete Hegseth’s Nonexistent Qualifications for Defense Secretary
YouTube video by VoteVets
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January 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"140 law enforcement officers were assaulted during the Capitol riot and at least 123 rioters have so far been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon that day or causing serious bodily injury to a law enforcement officer."

GOP is a joke for supporting Trump

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Top 5 takeaways from Jack Smith's final report on Trump's Jan. 6 case — Axios
President-elect Trump engaged in an
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January 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Anyone who says there wasn’t enough water in the reservoirs to fight the California wildfires NEEDS to watch this & help stop misinformation. Can we please get back to uniting as a country when there are catastrophic disasters? Lying only disrupts efforts to help people in need.
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L.A. Fires: Why Did the Fire Hydrants Run Dry? What We Know | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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January 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI informant who admitted to lying about US President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s interactions with a Ukrainian energy company, was sentenced to six years in prison, court records showed reut.rs/4h6wvHP
Ex-FBI informant who fabricated claims about Bidens sentenced to 6 years
A former FBI informant who admitted to lying about U.S. President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s interactions with a Ukrainian energy company was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday, court records showed.
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January 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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I'm with them.
January 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Jamie Raskin has endured losing a child and beat cancer all while fighting for the protection of all Americans. He defines what a hero is.

RP and 💙 if you support all he has done!
January 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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GOP extremists want House Democrats to raise the debt ceiling so that House Republicans can lower the amount of your Social Security check.

Hard pass.
December 19, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Jeffries: That bipartisan agreement has now been detonated because House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government and hurt the very working-class Americans that many of them pretend to want to help
December 19, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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This is what I would have preferred to see.
December 14, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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If you ask me, this would have been a much better choice for Time’s Person of the Year.
December 14, 2024 at 12:20 AM
In the Atlantic today an article on old age discussed the benefits of Social Security and Medicare - these are massively successful programs that should not be on anyone's "chopping block" - my POV.

They reduced the poverty rate for those over 65 from 30% in the mid 60's to about 11% in 2022!
December 11, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead
December 6, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Now that was funny!
December 5, 2024 at 9:23 PM
I think the dam broke and the flood is to BlueSky…most people don’t want to bounce between social media platforms.

I get breaking news and opinions here now.

Data point of one.
November 21, 2024 at 8:51 PM