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Patrick De Klotz
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Dad, Husband, Lawyer (not yours), Catholic. Opposed to Trump’s cruelty and lawlessness. There and Back Again (Oregon -> Spokane -> DC -> Oregon).
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This makes me think of Frank Costanza and the Airing of Grievances
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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And I mean…
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The Administration isn‘t on the side of “Americanism.”
Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa. Nov. 19th 1863. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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A lot of Stephen Miller related stories make me think of this scene from Two Towers just because of the way the guy looks to exploit a vulnerability in the most awful way (Eg the child separation policy). That and he reminds me of Wormtongue generally.
November 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Ah, leftovers
Merry and Pippin “We’ve had one Thanksgiving yes, but what about Second Thanksgiving”
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Yeah, I’ll write on the image just so as to not circulate the OP
November 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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This is fake
November 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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This is not posted on the President’s Truth Social page. It is fake.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Pandemic Era relics
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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2028 posting. It’s weird how he is having the ai paint him orange. And how he thinks that’s a good look. And all of it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Miles Taylor alleged that during Trump Term 1, Stephen Miller asked an admiral about the legality of blowing up boats filled with migrants. www.treason.io/p/read-one-s...
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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It’s like looking at one of those backwards evolution charts
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Would very strongly recommend against taking any pills suggested by Matt Gaetz
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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He’ll be deporting himself if this is the standard.
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Making me think back to this from Meijer: www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
They took something alright. Hours later, after the Capitol was cleared of insurrectionists, with windows shattered and the smell of tear gas lingering, the consequences of his dangerous lies became clear. As we moved to accept Arizona’s electors, a fellow freshman lingered near a voting terminal, voting card in hand. My colleague told me that efforts to overturn the election were wrong, and that voting to certify was a constitutional duty. But my colleague feared for family members, and the danger the vote would put them in. Profoundly shaken, my colleague voted to overturn.
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Started / Going
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Meme: worst people you know are all fighting
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
The Trump administration froze foreign aid early in the year, derailing many public health programs dedicated to fighting H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. Modeling studies have suggested that cuts by the United States and other countries could result in 10 million additional H.I.V. infections, including one million among children, and three million additional deaths over the next five years.
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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President Trump also made personal appeals to state officials. On January 2, he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to discuss allegations of election fraud.7 During the call, President Trump repeatedly claimed it was impossible for him to have lost the popular vote in Georgia,8 and repeatedly mentioned his “current margin [of] only 11,779” votes.9 He explained to Secretary Raffensperger that he did not care about specific fraud numbers as long as he won, “[b]ecause what’s the difference between winning the election by two votes and winning it by half a million votes[?]”10 When Secretary Raffensperger pushed back against these requests, the President warned of public anger and threatened criminal consequences.11 The President interspersed the conversation with specific fraud claims—dead people voting, absentee ballot forgeries, trucks ferrying illegal ballots, and machines stuffed with “unvoted” ballots.12 Mr. Raffensperger debunked the allegations “point by point” and explained that “the data you have is wrong;” however, President Trump still told him, “I just want to find 11,780 votes.”13
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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It was a "a coup in search of a legal theory" said one district court judge. And that was absolutely correct.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower—it was a coup in search of a legal theory. The plan spurred violent attacks on the seat of our nation’s government, led to the deaths of several law enforcement officers, and deepened public distrust in our political process.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Outside of the civil action, there can be criminal violations of the Privacy Act (if we had a functioning DOJ); granted, the penalties are minimal, and Congress may want to revisit that.

www.justice.gov/opcl/overvie...
“Any officer or employee of an agency, who by virtue of his employment or official position, has possession of, or access to, agency records which contain individually identifiable information the disclosure of which is prohibited by this section or by rules or regulations established thereunder, and who knowing that disclosure of the specific material is so prohibited, willfully discloses the material in any manner to any person or agency not entitled to receive it, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than $5,000.” 5 U.S.C. § 552a(i)(1). “Any officer or employee of any agency who willfully maintains a system of records without meeting the notice requirements of subsection (e)(4) of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than $5,000.” 5 U.S.C. § 552a(i)(2). “Any person who knowingly and willfully requests or obtains any record concerning an individual from an agency under false pretenses shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than $5,000.” 5 U.S.C. § 552a(i)(3).
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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prosecution of coup attempt, summarized
The Batmobile lost a wheel And the Joker got away
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Noem wanted her photo op, judge’s orders be damned.
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM