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Technology and Healthcare System Expert.

MAGA accountability project starts here

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At a Hands Off rally on Capitol Hill, former Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley slams the Trump regime for their gargantuan lies about Social Security:

"We have to put the brakes on Elon Musk and Donald Trump trying to wreck its reputation and wreck its customer service so they can…
May 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Blaming anyone's immoral and bad behavior on something others did that we disagree with is not only illogical, it's irresponsible and a little dangerous.
"The excesses of the woke era"
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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May 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.
May 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Good news
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · May 7
BREAKING: A Colorado federal court blocked the Trump administration from deporting more people under the Alien Enemies Act.

Yet another federal court confirms that President Trump does not have the authority to use this wartime law in this manner.
May 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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BREAKING: A Colorado federal court blocked the Trump administration from deporting more people under the Alien Enemies Act.

Yet another federal court confirms that President Trump does not have the authority to use this wartime law in this manner.
May 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Across America, the confirmed measles case count is 935, more than triple the amount seen in the entirety of 2024.

The measles crisis in this country is clearly growing, with North Dakota one of the newest states hit. North Dakota is, in fact, now battling an official outbreak — defined as three…
May 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
There are an estimated 22,000 CIA employees.

Simultaneously, the population of Greenland is 57,000 people.

That's roughly one spy for every three Greenlanders

I suggest they start doing their undercover work in November
WSJ: “.. The classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/greenl...
May 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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WSJ: “.. The classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/greenl...
May 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
1,355 days
May 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This is called a bribe.

We all know it’s a bribe. The freight company spending $20 million admits it’s a bribe.

Everyone understands this, and yet no one is holding him accountable — especially his own party which claims to care about law and order.
May 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Dispatches from War zone, USA.

If you think it's somewhere else....

It can happen anywhere here in this country.
May 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
There was a time when the reserve currency of the world. Was the Pound Sterling, and there were colonial dollars all around as a local exchange instrument.

Wasn't that long ago
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the Milken Institute:

"We have the world's reserve currency."

Uh.

The value of the dollar is tanking under Donald Trump.
May 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is these people flailing and throwing whatever dog whistles they can into every assertion they make....

Eventually, (and I am not saying it's going to happen quickly) there will be a return to a fact-based society, and our discourse will return to some level of sanity
May 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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RFK Jr. is dangerous.
RFK Jr. Slammed After Falsely Claiming Measles Vaccine Contains 'Aborted Fetus Debris'
Dangerous and deranged.
www.comicsands.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Page One must have been crowded.

So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡

@schooley.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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This is why a president corrupts a Justice Department.
The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm.

We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open.

Hello?
Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion
President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to
www.rollingstone.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
He would like nothing more than to take over the property and build a high-rise luxury apartment building called trump tower alcatraz
Alcatraz brings in between $20 million and $34 million a year in tourism revenue for the National Park Service alone.

The cost to renovate Alcatraz could be as high as $350 million to house 300 prisoners.

In 1959, it cost over 3x more to house inmates there vs. another prison...

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May 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A gift to the NRA.
May 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
How many of these are we going to read before people have come to the correct conclusion that he is out of his mind?
Wtf is this philistine talking about?
May 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's on a tiny island?

Where on earth are you going to enlarge it?

Skyscraper alcatraz?

Dumbest timeline ever
All the mayhem and chaos is coming from his supporters though…🤨
May 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Is Trump sending an alternate slate of Cardinals to the conclave?
May 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I keep saying the price of TSLA is irrationally high and am wondering what is buoying it.

Here is another crack in the edifice...

Why is this stock trading in the 200s rather than the 20s?
Texas-based fossil fuel supplier, Sun Coast, has filed suit against Tesla for “refusing to pay” over $2 million it owes for fuel deliveries to its Austin manufacturing plant.
@niedermeyer.online
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Sun Coast unpaid deliveries.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
May 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This what MAGA voted for.
May 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM