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Tech startup founder, M&A/business lawyer, ex-government, atheist. #bicyclist #cooking #news #dogwhisperer 🇺🇸+🇪🇪!

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Speaker Johnson thinks Americans worried about affordability need to just “relax”
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The Chicago-headquartered firm indicated that corporate restructuring, artificial intelligence and U.S. President Donald Trump's tax-like tariffs have largely driven down job rolls. www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
Challenger: 2025 layoffs hit 1M highest since pandemic - UPI.com
Consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas said Thursday that U.S. job cuts bumped past the 1 million threshold for 2025 in November.
www.upi.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐

www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge
In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Musk paid an effective tax rate of 3.3%. Bezos paid 1%.

How? Taking out tax-free loans against their stock.

I'm introducing the ROBINHOOD Act to tax these loans and generate $276B for universal childcare and programs to restore access to the American Dream.

Billionaires must pay their fair share.
Levi’s Heir in Congress Pushes End to Tax Loophole for Ultrarich
One of the wealthiest House Democrats will propose a bill Thursday that would edit the tax code to make it harder for ultrarich Americans to avoid paying taxes.
news.bgov.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. Concentrated wealth is already endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power.

It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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More & more people are now saying that Kegbreath committed war crimes. Kegbreath keeps put the blame on the admiral. Sorry the orders came from the top down. Kegbreath's orders was "kill them all"
youtu.be/bHE_kXOgG9U?...
BREAKING: Far right network calls for Hegseth’s PROSECUTION for WAR CRIMES
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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December 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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NEW: Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) is the latest state election leader to reject a request from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to share private, unredacted voter data with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Colorado Tells DOJ ‘Take a Hike’ as It Rejects Demand for Statewide Voter Data
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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It is time to seriously consider the possibility that this failed president doesn't even know what the term "vetting" means
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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‘Medicare for All’ still big. “In a survey of 1,207 likely voters [from] Nov. 14–17, 2025, ...65% of voters [supported] a Medicare for All system, described as a ‘national health insurance program... that would cover [everyone] & replace... private health insurance...’" jacobin.com/2025/11/medi...
Medicare for All Disappeared. Its Popularity Didn’t.
The demand for Medicare for All went from the center of the discourse to political exile in record time. But the policy's popularity never faded. A new poll finds strong majority support for the neglected idea among Americans across the political spectrum.
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/medicare-for-all-popularity-polling\
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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🔥POWERFUL AD ABOUT ICE AGENTS: “What will you say when your kids ask you about your day? A mask can’t hide you from your neighbors, your family, God… you can walk away, but the shame will follow you home.”
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Release the MRI results
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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July, when Pam Bondi claimed the Epstein files did not exist.
According to the documents, FBI personnel clocked in a total of 4,737 hours of overtime between January and July. Of that, more than 70% occurred during the month of March while personnel reviewed the Epstein files, the documents show.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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👉🏿Dear Sir William Browder KCMG, congratulation on the well deserved recognition of the medal of Knight Commander of the distinguish Order of St Michael. Your leadership and your unwavering commitment to democracy, justice, and the rule of law continues to serve as an inspiration to as all.
November 28, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Sir William Browder
Oct 20

As far as I’m aware, the US is no longer providing military or financial aid to Ukraine, so I’m not sure what the presidents press secretary is referring to when she says
“ the patience of the American people is growing very thin

U.S. polls today
73% support Ukraine
October 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Oops.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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"Many well-studied changes show that thoughtful street design is key to reversing course. Narrower lanes that slow traffic, adding curb extensions to increase pedestrian access & visibility, & physically separating bike lanes from car traffic are a few examples."
www.startribune.com/mn-car-accid...
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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In a just country, a place like ADX wouldn't even exist. But to send people there whose death sentences the previous guy commuted, seemingly mostly out of spite, is next-level despicable, in an administration that does "despicable" multiple times a day. (Also, support @boltsmag.org)
NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.

President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership with The Nation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day... Read More
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”

@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM