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September 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Pips #20 Easy 🟢
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September 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Pips #20 Hard 🔴
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September 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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"the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence"
from the former American ambassador to Budapest www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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June 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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March 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Since my piece dropped yesterday, Trump went on TV and proposed his "gold card" for immigration, saying he "knows some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people."

#OWNED

c: @atrupar.com
Putin's Razor: Yet More Evidence That Trump is a Kremlin Asset
Donald has aligned himself, and by extension the United States of America, with a petty, cruel, genocidal tyrant.
gregolear.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This is the courage required of people who serve at the Justice Dept. Sassoon resigns, at no small personal cost, to protest the unjust order from DC to dismiss the case against Mayor Adams. Without fear of favor. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped (Gift Article)
Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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If Musk compromises the Social Security Administration in any way, millions of Americans could miss their checks.

If Elon is all about transparency, he should drop by
House Oversight and tell the American people why he's messing with their social security.

www.semafor.com/article/02/0...
DOGE follows longtime Musk pattern — and turns attention to Social Security Administration
There are differing views among those close to the Elon Musk-led group about exactly how far to go with cuts.
www.semafor.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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“There is no logical stopping point for them, and … the only recourse will be for people to get out and say, we want the rule of law, we want a government that obeys the law, and that's going to require people to go out on the streets, because … there is no other alternative,"
'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracy
George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts “aren’t allow...
www.rawstory.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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February 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...
Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government
Former followers of the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ say a planned 'neo-reactionary' hollowing out of government is happening in real time
bylinetimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
January 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Truth
January 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM