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KgustafKS

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A progressive in rural red state Kansas where once-loyal Trump Conservatives are waking up to facts.

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Read: thehill.com/regulation/c...

"The Justice Department on Wednesday
admitted that the operative indictment against former FBI Director James Comey was never presented to the full grand jury — a procedural error defense attorneys say should bar the prosecution.

"Michael Dreeben, an attorney for Comey, told the judge that the apparent error calls for dismissal because "no indictment was returned."

"That means the statute of limitations on the false statements and obstruction charges

Comey faces, stemming from 2020 testimony he gave Congress, has lapsed, he contended.

"The judge made no immediate ruling but ordered prosecutors to address the matter in court filings by the end of day."

November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM

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REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM KANSAS ROGER MARSHALL said:
"Up to 40% of Obamacare enrollees never file a claim... Republicans are committed to ending the fraud!"
Followed by a response from - CONGRESSMAN SEAN CASTEN:
"My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died.
I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down.
That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies.
IT'S BECAUSE THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS!"

November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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Text mounted on a yellow-beige background:

“The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.”
- Fritjof Capra

November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM

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A photo of Ellis Island featuring the Statue of Liberty in the foreground and the New York City skyline in the distance, superimposed with the following quote:

"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." — Newly-Elected Mayor of New York City, Zorhan Mandami

November 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM

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Background photo of NYC 5th Street with text that reads: “TRUMP COULD SHOOT SOMEONE ON 5TH AVENUE AND HE WOULD STILL BE ON THE EPSTEIN LIST.”

October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM

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This is a photo of a house under demolition. The caption reads:
“In a surprising trend, MAGA supporters by the thousands are demolishing the East sides of their houses.“

October 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM

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A photo of the 6 conservative Supreme Court Justices and text wich says:

Don’t forget the Presiden’ts Kingmakers.

No Kings Day.

October 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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the text reads: “Did you know ANTIFA has its own cemetery?! There are more than 400,000 ANTIFA buried there, including my grandfather. It's called Arlington.“

Also included is a photo of the National Cemetery with rows upon perfect rows of gravestones.

October 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM

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The whiz-bang video creation app Sora which Sam Altman, owner of OpenAI, released Oct. 1st as the ultimate ease-of-use tool for incredible videos, is unleashing unimaginable chaos on social media. Deep fakes are now the problen we were warned about prior to the 2024 electiins.

October 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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September 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM

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I couldn’t 𝑛𝑜𝑡 check to see what the holder of a PhD of Theology, the creator of Veronica and the Boo, came up with for today’s Rapture.

September 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM

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This editorial cartoon by W. Miller (Warren Miller) is illustrated in a seated interview-style setting with studio microphones, as if participating in a recorded interview for what may be a business-oriented talk-show segment or podcast. Both men are in professional business attire.

The editorial commentary is from the guest as follows:

"Actually, Lou, I think it was more than just my being in the right place at the right time. I think it was my being the right race, the right religion, the right sex, the right socioeconomic group, having the right accent, the right clothes, going to the right schools...“

September 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM

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This text-based only meme by Delaney Vandergrift reads as follows:

“We should be clear about what political violence is.
1. starving people when there is enough food for all of us to eat.
2. denying people healthcare so they die from preventable illnesses
3. denying people shelter
4. increasing police budgets across the country.

September 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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𝐴 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑚

America is a Gun
By Brian Bilston

England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.

Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.

Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.

Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything than America as a gun.

September 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM

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Happy Labor Day!

If you’re in D.C., drive past our U.S. Department of Labor Building and acknowledge your support of Trump in your own way.

Happy Labor Day!

In a photo of Trump at the top of this meme has a cream pie being pushed in his face. Another photo is of the exterior front wall of the U.S. Department of Labor which is draped on the left with an enormous banner of Trump’s face withe the message of recognition of 250 years of American Workers and in larger letters, the words “America First” and draped on the right by an equally enormous American Flag banner.

The commentary with the photos is as follows:

“Since the beginning of this week before which we will celebrate Labor Day, an enormous image of Pres. Trump, along with the message "American Workers First" has been displayed on the exterior wall of the U.S. Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C..

“However, since the start of Trump's second term, his administration has moved against federal employees, unions, and workplace protections. 300,000 Federal jobs were cut and Union Rights were stripped from 1M Workers in the first 8 Months.

“Instead of putting a positive public face on his Labor Department fiascos, it's as if the banner of Trump's face is just hanging there, asking for a barrage of orange cream pies.”

September 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM

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August 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM

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This is a quote by Dan Rather on a nondiscript background.

“Hosting peace talks with a war criminal and failing to invite the other side is not a peace talk; it is a strategy session.“

August 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM

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Quote from the novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932:

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”

August 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM

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Trump told Fox’s Ingraham that he wanted to give the space outside his Oval Office, “a gorgeous stone” patio experience; it’s concrete. Also, to prevent women in heels from falling in grass. The Times reported the makeover is intended to resemble a patio like he has at Mar-a-Lago for entertaining.

This is a photo of the progress on Trump’s renovation of the area of the Rose Garden directly outside the Oval Office. He had envisioned it as paved in attractive stone tiling, but it turns out to be concrete tiling. The recent edition of garish faux marble Roman era statues has nothing to do with America—but then neither does Trump. The statues haven’t yet been set in their final resting place within the concrete grid.

The creator of the meme included the following humorous quip: “Wait until it’s finished—the Marmor statues are just being delivered from Italy.”

July 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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Kudos to the man Trump has tried hardest to remove from his Administration but is protected by the force of whatever judgement remains among those with a hold on his will. Powell has the correct attitude toward Trump: facts are essential in this area—and you couldn’t be more irrelevant.

Video:

July 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM

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The Epstein Saga hasn’t eliminated Trump’s tenacious edge on his swing-state base; and if it mght, there are other GOP-Grade dirty tricks on track. They are experts in the art of pacing them, just so.

Polling: can’t live with or without it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This is a text message as follows:

“Voters in swing states are unlikely to punish lawmakers for slashing health-care benefits next year. Why? The pain is postponed until after the election.

When President Donald Trump signed his tax bill into law, he acknowledged it included deep spending cuts but suggested:
People won't even notice it.'

"The people are happy, they're happy," Trump added.

July 4th, 2025!
Celebration of BBB Signing

July 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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This meme includes an image of the Statue of Liberty floating on its side in the dark ocean. The text is:

The longer the GOP is emboldened to operate as if without accountability, the faster we’ll find ourselves engulfed by its authoritarian policies and weaponized propaganda. America risks becoming a dead civilization—suffocated in the toxic fallout of decades of conservative greed, where wealth and power are hoarded at the public’s expense.

Through initiatives like Project Esther and Project 2025, the GOP is aggressively consolidating power, not out of vision, but out of desperation—a last-ditch effort to entrench a fading elite. To justify this, they dredge up medieval myths and tribal prejudices, turning Americans against one another to protect a crumbling, self-serving hierarchy.

July 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM

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The decision was made by an all-white State Commission for Educational Television, which voted 3-2 to remove the program from the state-run educational TV network. As reported from insiders, Mississippi considered the program too controversial for the state's viewers.