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Susan
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Sewist of many things
In Houston. Home is Maryland by the Bay.
Things are really getting out of hand
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FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."

Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Wild that the Secretary of Transportation is out here pretending pull-ups are policy while the rest of us are just trying to make sure bridges don’t collapse and planes don’t fall out of the sky.
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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The reason we don’t sell H200, and other advanced chips to China is that they have dual-use (military and civilian) capability.

These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.

The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Again in the DC Circuit Trumpster judges deliver the goods.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
DC appeals court backs firing of independent agency Democrats
The ruling comes ahead of Supreme Court oral arguments in a case involving the president's ability to fire executive branch agency officials.
www.politico.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The peer-reviewed methodology of the International Monetary Fund puts the pollute-for-free subsidy of fossil fuel — in the United States alone — at $700 billion dollars per year. That’s a lot of liability they’re hiding from.
thehill.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Kushner, it appears, had added in a provision to the Ukraine Peace proposal that would have forced both Ukraine and Russia to take actions that would specifically benefit Saudi Arabia, a country that is paying the presidential son-in-law at least $25 million a year.

What did you expect?
Kushner, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia: The Conflict-of-Interest Story Everyone’s Ignoring
If a Ukraine proposal was shaped to benefit a foreign power tied to Kushner’s money, that’s not diplomacy: it’s corruption…
hartmannreport.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Naturally, but the GOP and their MAGA fluffers on social media will have nothing to say about this, and Mike Johnson will pretend not to see this story until 2029.

Trump Jr-backed startup gets $600 million dollar government deal.
December 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Cheaper for Big Oil to buy Congress than to pay taxes. Let alone pay for the harm of their pollution.
American Big Oil Pays More in Taxes Abroad
A new report details how fossil fuel lobbyists have won huge U.S. tax giveaways.
inequality.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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He wasn’t sleeping, he was checking his eyelids for leaks.

Carefully.

As one does.
Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Ryan and Charlie—that's an unbeatable combination if ever there was one.
"FBI headquarters is pressuring the bureau’s domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members"

DC Field Office career leaders pushed back citing "a lack of legal and factual basis to initiate a criminal case."
FBI Seeks ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Probe of Democratic Lawmakers
FBI headquarters is pressuring the bureau’s domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members to defy unlawful o...
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Amazing turn around. Speaker Johnson will have newly Elected Republican Von Epp-stein sworn in within 48 hours. Took 50 days to swear in the AZ Rep!
I smell bias
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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🧵How is #ICE finding people?

Buckle up and sit down. You're not going to like this 🧵.

Sounds like we're going to have to protest and boycott #Motorola. Among other things...
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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ALERT: At US House Homeland Security Committee about violence against law enforcement, Democrats have put the January 6th plaque on a stand behind the Democratic members of panel

(House leadership has declined to hang the plaque at Capitol by mandated 2023 deadline)
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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One more "last straw" the media ignores
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM