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1,500 measels cases in 42 states. Worst outbreak since 1992. Thank you Donald Trump.
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
1,500 measels cases in 42 states. Worst outbreak since 1992. Thank you Donald Trump.
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Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
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He’s bought Kristi Noem luxury jets for ICE & DHS; they’ve got money for ICE but not so much for us, the people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
He’s bought Kristi Noem luxury jets for ICE & DHS; they’ve got money for ICE but not so much for us, the people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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If you missed this yesterday, it’s just as jaw-dropping a read today. The quotes are really something.
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you missed this yesterday, it’s just as jaw-dropping a read today. The quotes are really something.
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North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn
October 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn
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Millions came out for the last #NoKings protests.
These will be even bigger.
They want to scare people into not showing up.
Show up. Exercise your Constitutional rights. Be in community with all those who believe in democracy.
These will be even bigger.
They want to scare people into not showing up.
Show up. Exercise your Constitutional rights. Be in community with all those who believe in democracy.
October 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Millions came out for the last #NoKings protests.
These will be even bigger.
They want to scare people into not showing up.
Show up. Exercise your Constitutional rights. Be in community with all those who believe in democracy.
These will be even bigger.
They want to scare people into not showing up.
Show up. Exercise your Constitutional rights. Be in community with all those who believe in democracy.
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CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.
The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.
While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.
The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.
The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.
While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.
The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.
October 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.
The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.
While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.
The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.
The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.
While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.
The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.
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Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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He was also involved in a murder-for-hire.
Pardons with corrupt intent technically impeachable.
Pardons with corrupt intent technically impeachable.
October 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
He was also involved in a murder-for-hire.
Pardons with corrupt intent technically impeachable.
Pardons with corrupt intent technically impeachable.
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As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.
People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.
Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.
People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.
Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.
People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.
Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.
People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.
Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social
Glad I was unable to donate, as your gutless refusal to endorse the Democratic voters’ choice for New York City shows that you are a coward walking a line that says, “I will be a collaborator with the fascists; I don’t have any ethical fortitude.”
Glad I was unable to donate, as your gutless refusal to endorse the Democratic voters’ choice for New York City shows that you are a coward walking a line that says, “I will be a collaborator with the fascists; I don’t have any ethical fortitude.”
October 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social
Glad I was unable to donate, as your gutless refusal to endorse the Democratic voters’ choice for New York City shows that you are a coward walking a line that says, “I will be a collaborator with the fascists; I don’t have any ethical fortitude.”
Glad I was unable to donate, as your gutless refusal to endorse the Democratic voters’ choice for New York City shows that you are a coward walking a line that says, “I will be a collaborator with the fascists; I don’t have any ethical fortitude.”
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social I tried to donate at your site; but, even after I noted that I was retired it wouldn’t let me continue to the payment without putting in an employer.
Really bad site management.
Really bad site management.
September 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social I tried to donate at your site; but, even after I noted that I was retired it wouldn’t let me continue to the payment without putting in an employer.
Really bad site management.
Really bad site management.
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These feaks humilate our military again and again.
September 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
These feaks humilate our military again and again.
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cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
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This is why they’re deleting studies
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is why they’re deleting studies
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September 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Gifting your child a high-powered rifle is also an ideology. We just refuse to speak of it as such.
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Gifting your child a high-powered rifle is also an ideology. We just refuse to speak of it as such.
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A Supreme Court that agrees with 19% of the population, great.
NEW Economist/YouGov Sep 12-15: Immigration
% who say federal agents should | shouldn't be allowed to stop people based solely on factors such as race or ethnicity, language, or field of work
U.S. adult citizens 19% | 66%
Democrats 5% | 92%
Republicans 40% | 37%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
% who say federal agents should | shouldn't be allowed to stop people based solely on factors such as race or ethnicity, language, or field of work
U.S. adult citizens 19% | 66%
Democrats 5% | 92%
Republicans 40% | 37%
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
September 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A Supreme Court that agrees with 19% of the population, great.
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Important distinction.
September 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Important distinction.
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I post history because we need to remember that our best rules and institutions took generations to develop. We fought for decades for a nonpartisan civil service, independent regulatory agencies, safe food & drugs, voting equality, etc., etc.
And Trump’s blowing them up like they were nothing.
And Trump’s blowing them up like they were nothing.
Trump often says this, as if mass insanity ended a golden age.
The tariff era gave the income tax—repeatedly! It worked in the Civil War. Congress reinstated it in 1894; SCOTUS struck it down in 1895. Congress passed the 16th Amendment in 1909; ratified in 1913. It was obviously better & fairer.
The tariff era gave the income tax—repeatedly! It worked in the Civil War. Congress reinstated it in 1894; SCOTUS struck it down in 1895. Congress passed the 16th Amendment in 1909; ratified in 1913. It was obviously better & fairer.
Trump on tariffs: "We were richer then proportionally than at any time in the history of our country, and then stupidly in 1913 then said 'let's go to the income tax.'"
September 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I post history because we need to remember that our best rules and institutions took generations to develop. We fought for decades for a nonpartisan civil service, independent regulatory agencies, safe food & drugs, voting equality, etc., etc.
And Trump’s blowing them up like they were nothing.
And Trump’s blowing them up like they were nothing.
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Again, a reminder that the law of the United States creates and names executive departments, not the president at any given time.
"The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C § 111
"The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C § 111
NEW: Donald Trump to rename the Department of Defense the “Department of War”
“Restoring the name Dept of War will sharpen the focus of the Dept on our national interest and signal to adversaries America’s readiness to wage war to defend its interests.”
“Restoring the name Dept of War will sharpen the focus of the Dept on our national interest and signal to adversaries America’s readiness to wage war to defend its interests.”
September 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Again, a reminder that the law of the United States creates and names executive departments, not the president at any given time.
"The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C § 111
"The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C § 111
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This is about to get ugly ‼️
DOJ caught on hidden camera admitting they’ll only redact Republican names from the Epstein files.
DOJ caught on hidden camera admitting they’ll only redact Republican names from the Epstein files.
September 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is about to get ugly ‼️
DOJ caught on hidden camera admitting they’ll only redact Republican names from the Epstein files.
DOJ caught on hidden camera admitting they’ll only redact Republican names from the Epstein files.
Absolutely. A war crime.
Venezuela‘s Interior Minister Cabello condemned the US military strike that killed 11 people calling it “illegal massacre“ a violation of international law‼️ HE questioned the legality of the operation that US said targeted a vessel allegedly carrying illegal narcotics‼️
September 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Absolutely. A war crime.