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Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.
The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
January 25, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.
The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
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Up or down tho?
Lutnick: "You could have the gentleman in the Oval Office drive 2 and 3 points percent GDP to the United States of America from behind his desk, and that is just so much fun."
May 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Up or down tho?
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Your now-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress find this completely okay
Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know'
Trump said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he’s following lawyers’ advice as he tries to execute rapid deportations, arguing that giving immigrants due process is time-consuming.
www.nbcnews.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Your now-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress find this completely okay
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Everyone’s gonna be wide awake at his funeral. If only because they’ll play Kool & The Gang’s “Celebration” at full volume.
April 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Everyone’s gonna be wide awake at his funeral. If only because they’ll play Kool & The Gang’s “Celebration” at full volume.
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Tell me you’re telling your corporate overlords to go to hell without telling me you’re telling your corporate overlords to go to hell
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Tell me you’re telling your corporate overlords to go to hell without telling me you’re telling your corporate overlords to go to hell
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV
April 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV
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Important to note the Potemkin villages they're going to set up each time someone with a soul goes down to monitor the conditions of the concentration camp are part of the war crime itself. The audience for this propaganda is MAGA rubes, not The Hague, which will be indifferent.
Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.
April 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Important to note the Potemkin villages they're going to set up each time someone with a soul goes down to monitor the conditions of the concentration camp are part of the war crime itself. The audience for this propaganda is MAGA rubes, not The Hague, which will be indifferent.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador. nyti.ms/3YzXwwg
April 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador. nyti.ms/3YzXwwg
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When elected officials see mass protests and then immediately adjust their behavior in response, that is a good thing. That's how this should work!
Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.
Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.
Breaking: Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he plans to place a hold on ALL Trump nominees going forward.
This will force Republicans to hold individual votes to override each hold, which will severely slow down their agenda.
🔗: www.axios.com/newsletters/...
This will force Republicans to hold individual votes to override each hold, which will severely slow down their agenda.
🔗: www.axios.com/newsletters/...
April 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
When elected officials see mass protests and then immediately adjust their behavior in response, that is a good thing. That's how this should work!
Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.
Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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If true this is a death sentence
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If true this is a death sentence
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It's amazing but not really amazing that the White House is doubling down on the Signal screw up being a hoax.
March 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It's amazing but not really amazing that the White House is doubling down on the Signal screw up being a hoax.
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U.S. national security is becoming a cosmic joke. The Kremlin is rolling on the floor laughing. The Chinese and Iranians are busily hacking away. Erstwhile allies will stop sharing intel if they haven’t already. And nothing about this clown show is even the least bit funny because people will die.
12/ CODA: "I just talked to Elon on the way here. We’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened.” It's hard not to laugh, but these people are in control of the United States national security apparatus.
Mike Waltz smears Goldberg as “the bottom scum of journalists.”
March 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
U.S. national security is becoming a cosmic joke. The Kremlin is rolling on the floor laughing. The Chinese and Iranians are busily hacking away. Erstwhile allies will stop sharing intel if they haven’t already. And nothing about this clown show is even the least bit funny because people will die.
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This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...
Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said the rationale given by Lee Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is 'infuriating and absurd.'
www.pressherald.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...
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Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’
Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’
Security leak triggers bipartisan anger after Atlantic reveals officials inadvertently broadcast highly sensitive military plans
* White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist
A catastrophic security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along.
On the Senate floor on Monday, the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, called it “one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time” and urged Republicans to seek a “full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created and how we can avoid it in the future”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’
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Fraudsters? It’s our money.
March 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Fraudsters? It’s our money.
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Everything Brian said. But also? If almost anybody else did even half of this they’d be in jail.
19 thoughts on the Signal scandal, and one overarching theme: Dems and liberals should suppress their "BUT HER EMAILS"-style ironic detachment and give being actually mad about this, and demanding answers, a real shot. www.offmessage.net/p/19-thought...
19 Thoughts On Trump Officials Planning Military Operations Over Signal
Forget "BUT HER EMAILS"-style ironic detachment. Let's give being actually mad about this—and getting to the bottom of the many questions it raises—a real shot.
www.offmessage.net
March 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Everything Brian said. But also? If almost anybody else did even half of this they’d be in jail.
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I think we should stop saying 'in a normal administration' when the Trump administration does one off the wall thing or another. Gives them cover.
March 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I think we should stop saying 'in a normal administration' when the Trump administration does one off the wall thing or another. Gives them cover.
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(Nobody’s gonna get fired)
“There was a mistake here. Somebody from The Atlantic got the most sensitive emails you can imagine at the federal level. That is a serious blunder. It has to be investigated. And somebody, frankly, needs to get fired,” Leon Panetta said today about Signalgate.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Ex-Pentagon chief says somebody ‘needs to get fired’ over war plans leak to journo
‘This is just a serious blunder,’ Leon Panetta stated, adding that it ‘could violate espionage laws’ and ‘undermine our national security’
www.independent.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
(Nobody’s gonna get fired)
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The State Department has terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell @newrepublic.com @gregsargent.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The State Department has terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell @newrepublic.com @gregsargent.bsky.social
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Not long…
If the stock market gets a whiff of the executive branch blatantly defying court orders, how long before it figures out that private property rights are endangered?
March 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Not long…
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These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere
The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
March 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere
The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
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This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Don’t need contracting experts to tell us…
Elon Musk's DOGE has deleted hundreds of items from the public accounting of its cuts — shrinking the savings it has claimed to provide by nearly half.
Contracting experts say these mistakes raise questions about DOGE's basic understanding of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
Contracting experts say these mistakes raise questions about DOGE's basic understanding of the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Don’t need contracting experts to tell us…