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Just an ordinary New Yorker who saw the writing on the wall. I’m here to stay alert and informed.
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You couldn’t make this up.

Trump is the most corrupt president in US history. By far
February 10, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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STEALING OUR MONEY!

tRumpstein ADDED $696 BILLION TO THE NATIONAL DEBT OVER THE PAST FOUR MONTHS ...

Borrowing $94 billion in January alone!!!

100% of Gross Domestic Product! The HIGHEST PERCENTAGE THE NATIONAL DEBT HAS EVER MADE UP OF GDP WAS 106%, and that was immediately following World War II
Report: U.S. added nearly $700 billion to national debt in four months - NewsBreak
(The Center Square) – The U.S. government added $696 billion to the national debt over the past four months, borrowing $94 billion in the month of January
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February 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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NEW: Debunked claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election made by notorious conspiracy theorists and election deniers were the basis of the evidence used by the Trump administration to obtain a search warrant for the FBI to raid a Fulton County, Georgia election hub earlier this month.
FBI's Fulton County raid was based on reams of debunked 2020 fraud claims from election deniers, records show
The affidavit mentions evidence collected by Clay Parikh, a cybersecurity specialist with ties to MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, who is currently working as a special government em...
www.democracydocket.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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NEWS

The Trump administration tried and failed on Tuesday to secure an indictment in connection with a video featuring six Democratic lawmakers urging members of the military and intelligence communities not to comply with unlawful orders.

Full Story: nbcnews.to/4r4Ts3v
February 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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When you’re losing hope.

Take a deep breath.

Close your eyes.

Think back to when this guy was your president.

When you could associate the presidency with class, decency and integrity.

Now open your eyes

And fight like hell to get someone like him back in office again.
February 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Trump’s scandals aren’t random — they follow a pattern:

Secrecy, self-enrichment & contempt for the law

In my updated Top 10 on @contrariannews.org , I break down the worst corruption cases and how @democracydefendersfund.org & @democracydefendersaction.org are fighting back on every front 👇 -TN
Trump & Cronies’ Top 10 Corruption Scandals
And how YOU are helping fight back -- Publisher's Roundup 53
contrarian.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Donald Trump Jr, who has exactly zero experience or competence in manufacturing or defense, has received more than $600,000,000 in contracts from Pete Hegseth's "Department of War."
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
February 4, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.

Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.

The cruelty is endless.
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send
www.mprnews.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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The Kennedy Center has been in continuous operation for 55 years.

Trump and Ric Grenell destroyed it in one year by making it so toxic that nobody will perform there.

Now they have to shut it down like a Trump casino.
February 1, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Damn. 😡😡
February 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Do you get it now?
January 31, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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They are increasing your healthcare costs to pay for frivolous events like this
January 31, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive..it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”
January 31, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
January 26, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...
Snyder: Trump administration using words like ‘terrorist’ and ‘extremist’ is what tyrants do
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black.

And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act.

Sit with that.
January 30, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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My first remarks since being arrested last night.
January 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
January 29, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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Seems like a good video for his trial
January 29, 2026 at 5:26 AM