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It says 380 were detained and some were charged. Why were some detained if they weren’t going to be charged with anything? Were the federal agents panning for gold or trying to fight crime?
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Mississippi becomes fourth state to send National Guard to DC
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in a statement Monday that he has approved the deployment of approximately 200 troops to Washington, D.C.
www.militarytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It says 380 were detained and some were charged. Why were some detained if they weren’t going to be charged with anything? Were the federal agents panning for gold or trying to fight crime?
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
The Basic Struggle Today
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The Basic Struggle Today
How to live a moral life in an age of bullies
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August 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Basic Struggle Today
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Trump administration eliminates the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, known as the TIP Office. Apparently eliminating human trafficking isn’t very important to them.
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Trump admin slashes anti-trafficking office as president fights off Epstein news
The U.S. State Department cut about 15 percent of its Washington-based staff last week, blindsiding workers in the office tasked with fighting against human trafficking.Secretary of state Marco Rubio ...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Trump administration eliminates the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, known as the TIP Office. Apparently eliminating human trafficking isn’t very important to them.
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"These aren’t just your usual, run-of-the-mill GOP tax cuts. They’re worse. They’re the most redistributive tax cuts in modern American history, and by redistributive, I don’t mean from the top down. I mean to the top from the rest of us." https://trib.al/NV1oRG0
How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?
You may have noticed: While Republicans debate Medicaid and other cuts, there’s one aspect of Trump’s big ugly bill that absolutely cannot be discussed.
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June 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"These aren’t just your usual, run-of-the-mill GOP tax cuts. They’re worse. They’re the most redistributive tax cuts in modern American history, and by redistributive, I don’t mean from the top down. I mean to the top from the rest of us." https://trib.al/NV1oRG0
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I feel so much safer knowing that 22-year-old Thomas Fugate, a Trump mega fan, is bringing his vast landscaping and grocery clerk experience to the terrorism prevention arena, now that our country faces a possible Iranian terrorist attack.
It’s all good, America, carry on with your Sunday!
It’s all good, America, carry on with your Sunday!
June 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I feel so much safer knowing that 22-year-old Thomas Fugate, a Trump mega fan, is bringing his vast landscaping and grocery clerk experience to the terrorism prevention arena, now that our country faces a possible Iranian terrorist attack.
It’s all good, America, carry on with your Sunday!
It’s all good, America, carry on with your Sunday!
“Despite initial claims by Trump that the locations were “completely and totally obliterated,” initial assessment by American and Israeli officials who spoke to the New York Times said that the sites appeared damaged but not destroyed.”
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June 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“Despite initial claims by Trump that the locations were “completely and totally obliterated,” initial assessment by American and Israeli officials who spoke to the New York Times said that the sites appeared damaged but not destroyed.”
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How it started vs How it's going
June 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
How it started vs How it's going
Selling millions of acres of public land without any input from constituents? All part of Trump’s big beautiful bill.
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Mike Lee brings back proposal to sell public land in Western states | Colorado Newsline
A Utah senator's proposal would allow the federal government to sell off public land in Utah, Colorado and other Western states.
coloradonewsline.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Selling millions of acres of public land without any input from constituents? All part of Trump’s big beautiful bill.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Unless your ancestors are Native American, you are the descendent of immigrants. They likely came here fleeing economic hardship, conflict and violence, religious oppression, or were forced here against their will. The right likes to vilify immigrants, but right-wing populism is the true enemy.
Germany’s Chancellor Merz presented Trump the birth certificate of his German grandfather, Friedrich Trump.
It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant.
It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant.
June 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Unless your ancestors are Native American, you are the descendent of immigrants. They likely came here fleeing economic hardship, conflict and violence, religious oppression, or were forced here against their will. The right likes to vilify immigrants, but right-wing populism is the true enemy.
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My name is Eileen Laubacher and I’m running to defeat Lauren Boebert because I took an oath to defend our Constitution against all threats, foreign and domestic – even when those threats are sitting members of Congress.
May 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My name is Eileen Laubacher and I’m running to defeat Lauren Boebert because I took an oath to defend our Constitution against all threats, foreign and domestic – even when those threats are sitting members of Congress.
This should be a bigger story.
It was always about grifting and helping his wealthy supporters.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
It was always about grifting and helping his wealthy supporters.
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Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says
As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.
www.cbsnews.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This should be a bigger story.
It was always about grifting and helping his wealthy supporters.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
It was always about grifting and helping his wealthy supporters.
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Bill Gates pledged to give away $200 billion via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing him of "killing the world's poorest children" through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget.
Bill Gates says Musk is 'killing' world's poorest children by cutting aid
Bill Gates has pledged to give away $200 billion via his charitable foundation by 2045.
www.japantimes.co.jp
May 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Bill Gates pledged to give away $200 billion via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing him of "killing the world's poorest children" through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget.
For the supposed strategic mastermind of MAGA world, Miller really seems pretty dumb.
Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
April 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
For the supposed strategic mastermind of MAGA world, Miller really seems pretty dumb.
I think Pete is a little confused. “slash and burn people and ruin their reputations” is what he and Trump have been doing with their purge of Dept of Defense leadership.
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Trump stands behind Hegseth after attack plans shared in second Signal chat
President Trump on Monday defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid new reporting about a Signal app chat and criticism from former Pentagon officials.
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April 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I think Pete is a little confused. “slash and burn people and ruin their reputations” is what he and Trump have been doing with their purge of Dept of Defense leadership.
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So, apparently rendering first aid to your fallen comrades is no longer important in today’s Army.
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Here is the training that the Army says is no longer mandatory
The Army is removing resiliency training and leaving courses on occupational safety, law of war, combat lifesaving, and more up to commanders.
taskandpurpose.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So, apparently rendering first aid to your fallen comrades is no longer important in today’s Army.
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I absolutely believe the Signalgate scandal is just the tip of incompetence iceberg.
@nedprice.bsky.social: "Was this the only Signal chat? Was there a China Signal chat? Was there a Russia Signal chat? Was there an Iran Signal chat? What has this group of individuals, who displayed rank incompetence not to mention laziness... divulged on other scores?"
March 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I absolutely believe the Signalgate scandal is just the tip of incompetence iceberg.
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Martial Law.
It’s the elephant in the room.
It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them.
It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for.
🧵…
It’s the elephant in the room.
It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them.
It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for.
🧵…
March 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Martial Law.
It’s the elephant in the room.
It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them.
It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for.
🧵…
It’s the elephant in the room.
It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them.
It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for.
🧵…
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Donald Trump's executive order would make it harder for millions to register to vote, would disenfranchise voters Trump doesn't like, and give power to election deniers to overturn elections they don't win.
This is the greatest threat to democracy right now and it must be stopped.
This is the greatest threat to democracy right now and it must be stopped.
March 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Donald Trump's executive order would make it harder for millions to register to vote, would disenfranchise voters Trump doesn't like, and give power to election deniers to overturn elections they don't win.
This is the greatest threat to democracy right now and it must be stopped.
This is the greatest threat to democracy right now and it must be stopped.
Under Trump, racism is cool again.
President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of monuments taken down because of their celebration of racist figures.
Trump executive order targets the Smithsonian over 'divisive, race-centered ideology'
President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of monuments taken down because of their celebration of racist figures.
www.latimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Under Trump, racism is cool again.
Arrested by ICE because she “cowrote an op-ed in the school’s newspaper in which she criticized Tufts’ response to a student government group’s call for the university to divest from companies with ties to Israel because of the conflict in Gaza”. Free speech anyone?
www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/u...
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What we know about Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD student detained by federal agents | CNN
She is one of several foreign nationals affiliated with prestigious American universities to be arrested for purported activities related to terrorist organizations amid the Trump administration’s imm...
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March 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Arrested by ICE because she “cowrote an op-ed in the school’s newspaper in which she criticized Tufts’ response to a student government group’s call for the university to divest from companies with ties to Israel because of the conflict in Gaza”. Free speech anyone?
www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/u...
Anyone with a security clearance should know not to discuss classified information on a commercial messaging app, and never with an uncleared person such as a journalist. The fact that the Director of National Intelligence, Director of the CIA, and Secretary of Defense did is beyond shocking.
Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating Bombing
Trump officials accidentally invited the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to their Signal group chat. Hours after bombs dropped on Yemen, they partied at a $1-million-per-seat Mar-a-Lago dinner.
www.wired.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Anyone with a security clearance should know not to discuss classified information on a commercial messaging app, and never with an uncleared person such as a journalist. The fact that the Director of National Intelligence, Director of the CIA, and Secretary of Defense did is beyond shocking.
Doesn’t seem like this should be legal.
apnews.com/article/wisc... Musk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court election
apnews.com/article/wisc... Musk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court election
Musk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court election
A group funded by billionaire Elon Musk is offering Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition in opposition to “activist judges.”
apnews.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Doesn’t seem like this should be legal.
apnews.com/article/wisc... Musk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court election
apnews.com/article/wisc... Musk group offers $100 to Wisconsin voters ahead of pivotal state Supreme Court election