HolmsTP
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Seven democrats and every republican voted to fund this… YESTERDAY
January 24, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27.5M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469.

Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.

It's past time Walmart paid them a living wage.
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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They're arresting kids who need medical care in Oregon.
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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January 21, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Trump has shredded the Constitution. He's taken an axe to checks and balances. He's using the presidency to line his own pockets and the pockets of those around him. He says he is constrained only by his “own morality.”

When we say "No Kings," this is why.
January 21, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.

Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.

Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p
www.propublica.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Minnesota and Illinois both accused the Trump administration of acting as military occupiers in a pair of lawsuits today seeking to block the ongoing immigration crackdown.
Illinois, Minnesota sue to block Trump's "occupation" of their states
The lawsuits are the latest attempts by blue states to curtail the immigration operations that have largely focused on Democratic-run cities.
www.axios.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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Believe it or not, it was once very unusual to see videos of people getting killed. Now we're all going frame by frame. Take care of your brains folks. You can't make this murder right by replaying it.
January 9, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Who agrees? ✋
December 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U
Trump's moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...
to.pbs.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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When loyalty to a leader becomes more important than loyalty to the Constitution or the truth, you’re not running a republic, you’re running a regime.
July 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Regarding the flooding: GOP doesn’t want to fund the programs that predict these things, but they still want to blame the federal government for not predicting this. DOGE has consequences
July 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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History isn’t supposed to be comfortable. It’s supposed to be honest. We don’t learn from a past we pretend didn’t happen. Rewriting our history doesn’t protect us. It makes us weaker. And more likely to repeat the very mistakes they don’t want us to remember.
May 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Trump tariffed every country, even penguins, but not Russia.

He said it’s because he’s negotiating the wars end. But he DID tariff Ukraine.

Hmmm
April 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror
April 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Trump said again he’s open to sending U.S. citizens to a Salvadoran prison. There is no constitutional basis for this—such an act would be a direct violation of the Constitution.
April 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Imagine being wrongfully sent to prison in a foreign country—and then simply abandoned. It’s not just un-American; it’s unconstitutional.
April 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I feel like this is the start of Pres. Ocasio-Cortez
AOC becomes POC
NEW: AOC in Vegas.

Major challenge to Dem leadership🔥

“If you’re willing to fight for someone you don’t know, you’re welcome here. But I will say this: Those leaders on either side of aisle willing to put their fellow Americans down so they can get ahead; they may best find a home somewhere else.”
March 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs flood control, water supply and hydropower in the shared Columbia River Basin as President Donald Trump escalates his trade war and threats to Canada’s sovereignty.

buff.ly/7earQlq by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
U.S. pauses Columbia River water-sharing negotiations with Canada amid Trump threats • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The nations were trying to finalize updates to the Columbia River Treaty governing shared, cross-border water and hydropower management.
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March 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Remember, the president does not have the authority to unilaterally shut down the Education Department. Doing so would require an act of Congress and at least 60 votes in the Senate.
March 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM