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Dedicated reader
Political activist
Disabled Marine Corps Vietnam veteran
LGBTQ ally
Liberal teachers moving to Oklahoma beware, There is now a loyalty test requiring you to believe Trump's conspiracy theory about the "stolen" 2020 election.
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Oklahoma will require teachers from NY, CA to prove they back 'America First'
Oklahoma's new "America First" teacher certification test will require educators from California and New York to agree with conservative curriculum.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Liberal teachers moving to Oklahoma beware, There is now a loyalty test requiring you to believe Trump's conspiracy theory about the "stolen" 2020 election.
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My dad didn’t fight Nazis to have us turn around and roll out red carpets for murderous former KGB war criminal Dictators. This is disgraceful.
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
August 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My dad didn’t fight Nazis to have us turn around and roll out red carpets for murderous former KGB war criminal Dictators. This is disgraceful.
Want to live long? Companion love within romance is most important. And so is companions out side romantic relationships.
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The Type of Love That Makes People Happiest
When it comes to lasting romance, passion has nothing on friendship.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Want to live long? Companion love within romance is most important. And so is companions out side romantic relationships.
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Russia really wants Alaska. Read Orwell's 1984. Life mimics fiction.
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August 16, 2025
Yesterday, military personnel from the United States of America literally rolled out a red carpet for a dictator who invaded a sovereign country and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for w...
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August 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Russia really wants Alaska. Read Orwell's 1984. Life mimics fiction.
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FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
August 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
Homeland Security appeals to Whiteness to recruit more agents for ICE and quotes the Bible to lend this travesty "divine" purpose. Make sure every ICE employee knows what a Fascist soldier they are.
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On social media, the Department of Homeland Security appeals to nostalgia — with motifs of White identity | CNN Politics
A recruitment poster recently shared on the Department of Homeland Security’s social media pages depicts Uncle Sam at a crossroads. In one direction point the words “homeland” and “opportunity.” Towar...
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August 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Homeland Security appeals to Whiteness to recruit more agents for ICE and quotes the Bible to lend this travesty "divine" purpose. Make sure every ICE employee knows what a Fascist soldier they are.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/p...
What's going to happen at tax time next year? Will you even get a return?
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The IRS has had six leaders in 2025. What that means for taxpayers.
Turnover at the top of IRS means fewer IRS agents, fewer audits and questions about implementing the new tax law
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August 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What's going to happen at tax time next year? Will you even get a return?
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In 1989 it was Congress that tried to take over D.C. because of crime. It ended with disastrous results. Their law required too many new police officers and led to poorly vetted and trained police. But Trump doesn't learn.
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Congress tried to control D.C. police in 1989. The results were disastrous.
Today, relaxed criminal laws and a pandemic-era crime spike have again made D.C. a federal target. But little is known about exactly how federal officials plan to improve the conditions they complain ...
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August 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In 1989 it was Congress that tried to take over D.C. because of crime. It ended with disastrous results. Their law required too many new police officers and led to poorly vetted and trained police. But Trump doesn't learn.
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wapo.st/3UnZail
Don't know if this will share. I subscribe to Wired. Trump is using funny memes to lessen the impact of ICE detention. Alligators wearing ICE hats? DISGUSTING.
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The Trump Administration Is Using Memes to Turn Mass Deportation Into One Big Joke
Memes shared by the White House, DHS, and ICE have used catchy TikTok tunes to normalize mass deportation and Christian nationalist narratives. Experts say that’s the point.
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August 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Don't know if this will share. I subscribe to Wired. Trump is using funny memes to lessen the impact of ICE detention. Alligators wearing ICE hats? DISGUSTING.
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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How ICE and landlords violate the housing protection laws.
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Landlords Threaten Tenants With ICE
Weaponizing the law intimidate immigrants is illegal, yet increasingly prevalent, and shamefully ignored
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August 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
How ICE and landlords violate the housing protection laws.
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Heather Cox Richardson on Trump's cognitive decline in announcing D.C. takeover, and pointing out Hegseth's reposting of a video by a pastor who says women should not be allowed to vote:
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August 11, 2025
President Donald J.
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August 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Heather Cox Richardson on Trump's cognitive decline in announcing D.C. takeover, and pointing out Hegseth's reposting of a video by a pastor who says women should not be allowed to vote:
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Trump has set the stage for a police state. Republicans long claimed that was what Biden was doing with COVID restrictions, but now we have boots in the streets.
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The President’s Police State
Trump is delivering the authoritarian government his party long warned about.
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August 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Trump has set the stage for a police state. Republicans long claimed that was what Biden was doing with COVID restrictions, but now we have boots in the streets.
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Trump Says He’s Placing Washington Police Under Federal Control. But it's the second article that women will be interested in. Hegseth reposts a video of a pastor who says women should not vote. open.substack.com/pub/prri/p/t...
Trump Says He’s Placing Washington Police Under Federal Control and Deploying the National Guard
The Morning Buzz: August 11, 2025
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August 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Trump Says He’s Placing Washington Police Under Federal Control. But it's the second article that women will be interested in. Hegseth reposts a video of a pastor who says women should not vote. open.substack.com/pub/prri/p/t...
NSA chairman carefully warns that information is changing in the tech world to be politically expedient.
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Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World
At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas on Friday, Nakasone tried to thread the needle in a politically fraught moment while hinting at major changes for the tech community around the corner.
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August 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
NSA chairman carefully warns that information is changing in the tech world to be politically expedient.
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For black people, know your history in order to know your future. And it isn't looking good. Never trust a white person, it's hard to see which ones are a snake in the grass. I'm white and I don't have a fucking clue about being black.
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The Hidden Hurricane Katrina Killings: How Armed White Militias Killed Black Families
Twenty years after Katrina, as floods again devastate communities of color, new evidence reveals a hidden threat: white vigilantes who shot 11+ Black evacuees with impunity.
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August 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
For black people, know your history in order to know your future. And it isn't looking good. Never trust a white person, it's hard to see which ones are a snake in the grass. I'm white and I don't have a fucking clue about being black.
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Aaron Parnas of the Parnas Perspective are predicting a Trump takeover of Washington, D.C. tomorrow. The King of America is going to see how military rule is acceptable to the American people. It will make rounding up Democrats easier.
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Urgent Sunday Night Message
Donald Trump is on the verge of a massive federal takeover of Washington, D.C. I'm ready to cover it live and on the ground.
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August 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Aaron Parnas of the Parnas Perspective are predicting a Trump takeover of Washington, D.C. tomorrow. The King of America is going to see how military rule is acceptable to the American people. It will make rounding up Democrats easier.
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Trump named himself head of Los Angeles Olympic Committee. He doesn't want trans men playing sports. But experts say that will be difficult to assess biologically.
Trump once again proves he is the Dumbass in Chief.
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Trump once again proves he is the Dumbass in Chief.
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Trump wants to bring sex testing back to the Olympics. He's in for a surprise. - LGBTQ Nation
Trump named himself as head of the XXXIV Olympiad in Los Angeles. His gender tests are going to disqualify and out cisgender female athletes as intersex.
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August 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump named himself head of Los Angeles Olympic Committee. He doesn't want trans men playing sports. But experts say that will be difficult to assess biologically.
Trump once again proves he is the Dumbass in Chief.
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Trump once again proves he is the Dumbass in Chief.
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Democrats are finally waking up to the fact that they will not win on some left principles and are willing to compromise. Trans people are in the cross hairs. But will it be enough?
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Democrats with an eye on 2028 reject some parts of liberal orthodoxy
Some presidential prospects have embraced “Sister Souljah moments” that demonstrate their independence from left-wing orthodoxy.
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August 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Democrats are finally waking up to the fact that they will not win on some left principles and are willing to compromise. Trans people are in the cross hairs. But will it be enough?
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Pete Buttigieg interviews a rural community hospital doctor already impacted by Medicaid cuts. Not mentioned is the fact that ACA premiums will rise roughly 18% for the poor.
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Meet A Rural Doctor Already Seeing the Impacts of Trump’s Budget
“Rural hospitals are infrastructure that all of us depend on.”
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August 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Pete Buttigieg interviews a rural community hospital doctor already impacted by Medicaid cuts. Not mentioned is the fact that ACA premiums will rise roughly 18% for the poor.
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Air Force denies transgender service members retirement benefits. Some have served nearly 20 years but are kicked out prior to retirement. The Fascists rule.
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Air Force Denies Retirement Benefits to Some Transgender Service Members as Religious Pushback to Gender Affirming Care Grows
The Morning Buzz: August 8, 2025
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August 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Air Force denies transgender service members retirement benefits. Some have served nearly 20 years but are kicked out prior to retirement. The Fascists rule.
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What does cutting funds for Public Television do? It helps the fascists dominate more effectively.
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Sesame Street, State Media, and the Fast March to Fascism
Public Broadcasting is dead, "Bias Monitors" are alive, and we're one step closer to state media -- but we are not helpless
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August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
What does cutting funds for Public Television do? It helps the fascists dominate more effectively.
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My understanding of black history is virtually nonexistent. This morning I read this about the FBI murdering Billie Holiday in 1959 by denying her health care after she sang about lynching. The white folks in power are still trying to deny health care.
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How the FBI Killed Billie Holiday for Singing About Lynching
Federal agents used the drug war as a weapon to silence the most powerful anti-racism song of its time, and murdered the woman who dared to sing it.
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August 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My understanding of black history is virtually nonexistent. This morning I read this about the FBI murdering Billie Holiday in 1959 by denying her health care after she sang about lynching. The white folks in power are still trying to deny health care.
open.substack.com/pub/historyc...
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Ghislaine Maxwell doesn't want the grand jury testimony she gave released to the public. Did she shit on Trump during that testimony and now is looking for a commuted sentence?
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Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell wants grand jury transcripts to stay hidden
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell wants the transcripts of testimony heard by the grand jury that indicted her to remain sealed. Here's why.
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August 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell doesn't want the grand jury testimony she gave released to the public. Did she shit on Trump during that testimony and now is looking for a commuted sentence?
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When Trump deports the Lord's people.
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When Trump Deports Jesus (and Other Christians)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last month arrested and detained a carpenter named Jesus.
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August 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
When Trump deports the Lord's people.
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