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I’m getting incredibly sick of the cabal of jeering, greed & bloodlust-driven religious types who keep scolding me about why everything Israel does is so perfect and why I’m “anti-semitic” for bringing up women and children, and the cabal of which I speak is of course exclusively white evangelicals

Lost in the breathless, non-stop coverage of Biden’s age is that most of Trump’s former cabinet members are literally warning us he’s mentally and temperamentally unfit to serve again in office.

Press, stop creating a false presidential competency issue, like you did a false email server issue.

Trust me if he had a district in a large city in Ohio he’d be out of a job. Most Ohioans don’t want him

As Jim Jordan tries to inserts his committee improperly into state prosecutions once again, a reminder of why he is even in Congress in the first place. This is his district in Ohio. One of the most gerrymandered in the nation.

Amalfi Coast, Italy 🇮🇹

FYI: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — both of whom accepted luxury vacations from billionaires — could rule on an upcoming Supreme Court case that would ban a federal wealth tax.

If they don’t recuse themselves, why would we expect Americans to ever trust SCOTUS again?

The Republican Party of 2023 is totally dedicated to fantasy problems and fascist solutions. Not a single piece of the GOP agenda is based on anything like reality; it’s all conspiracy theories, persecution fantasies, and paranoid bigoted fear-mongering, led by a sleazy group of corrupt grifters.

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