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Charlie Hodge
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just trying to cope with the situation.

One re-post at a time.

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yet another example of why "it's a breaking story" and "we don't know WTF is going on just yet" mean the same thing...
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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CNN has updated the headline... :-(
Two WV National Guardsmen dead after shooting in Washington, DC
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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CNN currently putting less focus on the National Guard angle, makes for a completely different reflex on reading the headline.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/p...
Several people shot in Washington, DC, including at least one National Guardsman
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I can't believe she's real, but... her name *is* listed.

www.dhs.gov/leadership
Screenshot from https://www.dhs.gov/leadership Leadership List of senior leaders at the Department. For more information about an individual listed, including a biography, click on their name. Secretary, Kristi Noem | Secretary's Corner Deputy Secretary, Troy Edgar Executive Secretary, Andrew Whitaker General Counsel (acting), Joseph N. Mazzara Military Advisor to the Secretary, RDML Jeffrey W. Novak Under Secretary, Management (vacant), Benjamine C. Huffman, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary for Management Deputy Under Secretary for Management, Paul Stackhouse Chief of Staff, Greyson McGill Chief Financial Officer (vacant), Holly C. Mehringer, Senior Officer Performing the Duties of the Chief Financial Officer Chief Security Officer (acting), Iwona B. Horyn
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Oh.

His "New" wife.

They still seem to be together.

people.com/who-is-elisa...
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Singing: Driving that train, High on cocaine...

Yeah, makes sense.
Detail of Schutzstaffel uniform of the Third Reich (Nazi Germany): High-fronted peaked visor cap (Schirmmütze) of the SS (Schutzstaffel). SS style silver Hoheitszeichen/Hoheitsadler, SS' version of the Nazi Germany imperial eagle, the German national emblem featuring an art deco Reichsadler with expanded wings clutching a swastika inside a circular oak wreath SS' silver skull and crossbones/death's head (Totenkopf) cap insignia, adopted from the Totenkopfhusaren, the 5th Hussar/Life-Guard Cavalry Regiment of Prussia Officer's chin strap cord in silver Piping around the cap crown and cap band in corps colour (Waffenfarbe) From the exhibitions at the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum (Forsvarsmuseet) in Oslo, Norway. Photo taken on March 31st, 2019
October 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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If that's how ICE treats their allies...
According to CNN, investigators believe an ICE officer approached the suspect’s car and smashed the window with their service weapon. CNN’s source reported that it is believed the agent’s weapon discharged while they attempted to grab the suspect, striking both the suspect and a deputy U.S. Marshal.
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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There's *no way* the choice was *not* passive-aggresively deliberate.
Social media post by Donald J. Trump, PEDOTUS, responding to unretouched, low angle cover phot revealing a substantial neck vagina: "Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad pciture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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that was removed PDQ...
October 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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you beat me to it.
screenshot of google translate: German to English rinderknecht === cattleman
October 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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As usual: someone's account was full of shit, and I think I know which one...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
The criminal complaint makes no mention of any firearm in the possession of either motorist, in contrast to an earlier statement from the Department of Homeland Security.
October 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Looks like there's a connection to today's shooter!

He may have had inside knowledge of how to stop an escalator: the plot thickens...

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Mr. Jahn was raised with a brother and a sister in a far north suburb of Dallas. His father retired in 2020 after spending 36 years in engineering roles at an elevator and escalator company, according to his LinkedIn profile.
September 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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... and counting.

15,177,171 last I looked.
September 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The X is a lazy swastika.

And the tesla logo hints at the Nazi eagle.

There's a lot of visual rhyming going on with that bunch...
August 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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My feed right now. I'm not sure what it means.
God: 5 weeks until Congress comes back and has to deal with the Ghost of Jeffrey Epstein. They should make it a Spirit Halloween till then. --- The New York Times: A Spirit Airlines pilot was removed from duty after being arrested last month at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on criminal charges that he had stalked two children, according to a statement from the airline and court documents.
August 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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A Douthat thing that's actually worth reading. Miracles never cease.

The journalist for the Miami Herald's series of articles exposing what a piece of shit Epstein was (and how... well, connected!) has a lot to say.
Brown: No, it wasn’t, because over the years, a lot of women have come forward, and I speak with the attorneys that represent these women quite often. I was speaking with one who said that he had a client — she was of age, she was on the younger side, and she was trafficked to a very powerful man by Epstein in Palm Beach. I believe there were others like that, that were trafficked to very powerful men. These women are scared to death. They’re not going to come forward at this point because look what happened to Virginia. It’s just — they’re just not going to, they’re afraid. And so I ——
July 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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There is absolutely no fricken' way a pig like T isn't a "potential co-conspirator" in this context.
The pact required Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. Epstein and four of his accomplices named in the agreement received immunity from all federal criminal charges. But even more unusual, the deal included wording that granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators’’ who were also involved in Epstein’s crimes. These accomplices or participants were not identified in the agreement, leaving it open to interpretation whether it possibly referred to other influential people who were having sex with underage girls at Epstein’s various homes or on his plane. Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html#storylink=cpy
July 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
June 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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ircc.canada.ca/english/help...
Screenshot from ircc.canad.ca: I was only convicted of a misdemeanour. Why can’t I enter Canada? To consider your admissibility to Canada, Canadian officials assess your crime according to Canadian laws. They look at the nature of the offence, how long ago the act took place and whether any sentences were imposed. A misdemeanour offence in the United States is not automatically considered an equivalent offence in Canada. The final decision about your admissibility rests with the immigration or border services officer.
April 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Seriously. Read Bill's take from 2019, then compare it to where we are.

I'd love to see the level of Sarah's side-eye attainable now.
"We are not Hungary," he continues reassuringly. "We are not Venezuela. We are not a place where, if you get a bad president, he can corrupt half the judiciary, take over half the media, tell the universities what to teach." It's a perfect example of the sort of patriotic trust that, in Kendzior's view, is hastening America's fall to brutalism and autocracy. When she takes the podium after Kristol, she is biting in her opinion of America's institutions, presented by Kristol as a bulwark in a nation momentarily weakened. To Kendzior, that perspective is a mirage, and worse. She tells the crowd, "Belief in American exceptionalism is what got us here."
April 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Pretty damned accurate...
April 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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160,579 watching Cory Booker speaking on the Senate floor, right after breaking the record.
April 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Franchement? On s'en fout.
April 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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How did this guy get re-elected?

Are American's memories really that short?
Graph of the fall in approval ratings for Donald Trump (2017), showing a minus 6.95 drop at the equivalent stage that year.
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM