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Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Home of the Brave participant Ronn:

“I took an oath in 1969 to defend this country against all enemies—foreign and domestic. I never thought at the age of 75 years old that the biggest threat to veterans right now is the Commander in Chief.”
July 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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WATCH: “No, I won’t commit that.”

Speaker Johnson refuses to say there won’t be “strings attached” to disaster aid for California.
January 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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A man who called independent women “medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome” and said, “Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering…ditto for med school and the law and every trade” is now on the Board of Trustees of the University of West Florida.

Meet Scott Yenor.
January 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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ICYMI
By August 2024, 40,000 self-proclaimed vigilante vote-fraud hunters had already challenged the rights of 852,381 voters — with a target of 2 million before the election. Did the voters decide the 2024 election, or voter suppression? Watch our movie and decide for yourself. youtu.be/P_XdtAQXnGE
Vigilantes Inc. — Full Movie
YouTube video by Greg Palast
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January 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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New: The right-wing Supreme Court majority is now looking to potentially overturn the Affordable Care Act’s policy that makes cancer screenings, heart statins, and HIV prevention free.
Supreme Court to review Obamacare’s no-cost coverage of cancer screenings, heart statins and HIV drugs | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s no-cost coverage mandates for certain preventive care services, putting the landmark health care law in ...
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January 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Read Dave, who helped build Facebook’s first content policies, on why this week represents such a big step backwards: “The specific examples I called out above have been prohibited on the site since I wrote the first set of hate speech standards in 2009.”
Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11
January 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social for informing re the Andy Bigs’ H.Res.7 and its “needs of men.”

“…Whereas health care for women should also address the needs of men, families, and communities as they relate to women’s health care;”

Calling my Rep!!!

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
January 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Welcome to idiocracy.
January 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The German government accused US billionaire Elon Musk of trying to influence its election due in February with articles supporting the far-right Alternative for Germany party, even though it suggested they amounted to 'nonsense' reut.rs/3DC1s8p
Germany accuses Elon Musk of trying to influence its election
The German government accused U.S. billionaire Elon Musk on Monday of trying to influence its election due in February with articles supporting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, even though it suggested they amounted to "nonsense".
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December 30, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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All of the people who have stayed in abusive relationships too long know exactly what is coming on January 20.
December 12, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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Big score for the Kushner Crime Family.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
November 30, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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Underappreciated angle to the appointments of Patel, Gaetz, Bondi, et al.

Massive Fuq U to institutions …

But also a huge FU to the Supreme Court, because Trump doesn’t think they will be a check on his campaign of lawless retribution.

Nice work, John Roberts.
December 1, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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And copies of complaints that went to Florida AG, claiming Trump University was ripping them off. See document static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
November 23, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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“That is the real Trump Derangement Syndrome: Excusing the inexcusable and supporting the insupportable, due to an abject fear of challenging the ill-considered wishes and unchecked power of Trump.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-senate...
The Senate Must Draw the Line Now
Fear of worse nominees later is no reason to confirm bad ones now.
www.thebulwark.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:44 PM