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Mike Keller
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West Virginia photographer, dog lover, beer and whisky fan. Retired. I love my rooftop solar.
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And money used for the Hope Handout is taking away from kids that NEED public #education.

'In #WestVirginia, some of the students are living in cars or shelters. Most are doubled up with families and friends.'
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There are more than 13,000 homeless students in WV, and statehouse efforts to help them stalled ‘We have a lot of kids that we can help,’ said Sen. Vince Deeds, R-Greenbrier. ‘The number is surprising, but it, unfortunately, is accurate.’ Photo: Cheyenne Baker experienced homelessness while attending South Charleston High School in Kanawha County, West Virginia. (Photo by Esteban Fernandez for West Virginia Watch)
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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#WestVirginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito using her position to make insider trades.🤬
  The Showstopping Trade Senator’s Eli Lilly Bet Proves Strategic Amid Pharma Upswing Shelley Moore Capito, the West Virginia Republican senator, made a noteworthy move with a buy in Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY:US). Her $1K-$15K purchase on October 24, 2025, came at $825.45 per share and has since climbed to $1,017.78, delivering a solid 23.3% gain. Eli Lilly, a major pharmaceutical giant, has recently seen strong momentum thanks to robust sales in its diabetes portfolio, oncology advancements, and a favorable FDA pipeline outlook. The company has also benefited from pricing strategies and partnerships that have strengthened its market position in 2025, making it a standout in the healthcare sector. While Capito doesn’t sit on a health-specific subcommittee directly tied to Eli Lilly, her broader involvement in Senate committees touching healthcare policy may give her insights into regulatory trends and sector shifts, making this trade strategically interesting.
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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“You would never guess from the sometimes hysterical coverage of the past week that the #BBC remains quite easily the most trusted news organization in the UK [and] in America, the second most trusted news source – just behind the Weather Channel”.
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The BBC’s editing error was serious, but the response is way out of proportion Margaret Sullivan The broadcaster should not cave to Trump’s demands
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Kenny delivered the burn #bonespurs
Trump posts "Just landed in Da Nang, Vietnam to deliver a speech at #APEC2017 Kenny replies "Those bone spurs not bothering you anymore?"
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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And they're all lifted SUVs, so bring your battery powered sawzall.
Photo of exhaust system on a car. "I don't know who needs to hear this, but I.C.E. vehicles have catalytic converters."
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Now that's a great statistic!
A record 14 U.S. states will be led by female governors in 2026
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Call your #GOP Congress members and tell them to earn their pay.
Calendar. "Days House Republicans have worked in the last three months." They worked 11 days in September.
November 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Oh, BOOM! #JDVance #ErikaKirk #hug
Picture of white couch with shocked face "JD Vance's couch watching that Erika Kirk hug" "'Upgrading' to white leather"
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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11% in NINE MONTHS! #inflation

'Trump said on the campaign trail he would “cut the price of energy and electricity in half”...The president has also waged a war on wind and solar power, despite soaring electricity demand driven by AI datacenters.'
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US electricity bills increased by 11% in Trump’s second term, data shows New analysis prompts letter to Trump from Elizabeth Warren: ‘Your administration has no answers for families hit by high energy costs’
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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'A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday afternoon blocked the Trump administration from suspending all food aid for millions of Americans amid the ongoing government shutdown, in a case brought by a group of US cities, nonprofit organizations and a trade union.

'At almost the same time... /1
Trump administration blocked from suspending Snap benefits for millions of Americans One judge issues temporary restraining order while another judge rules the government must continue to fund program that helps low-income households
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Close enough for Crowley!
Political cartoon. Two witches, one stirring a cauldron. The other, holding a recipe book, says "It says if you can't get Satan's wart, you can substitute with Stephen Miller."
October 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Cool story.
'Several people asked which superhero I was. I said, “He’s really more of a super jackass” – helping people is not something Homelander typically does'

I dressed up as a superhero for Halloween – and then saved a man’s life
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Experience: I dressed up as a superhero for Halloween – and then saved a man’s life The man was unconscious but there was no time to wake him, the smoke and flames were closing in
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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I think morale is down in the Russia fighting forces!

'...commanders had appointed “execution shooters” to open fire on refusers...officers allegedly ordered drone operators to drop grenades on their own men, disguising the killings as battlefield strikes.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, report says Investigation lists 101 superiors accused of tactics such as using drones to ‘finish’ off retreating troops and sending soldiers on death missions
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Worth a read and a save for the next time some MAGAt says "both sides."🤬

108 Steps the Trump Administration Has Taken To Destroy America
'This is documentation of policies implemented between January 20 and October 29, 2025 that caused measurable harm' cmarmitage.substack.com/p/108-steps-...
108 Steps the Trump Administration Has Taken To Destroy America
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The Hunger Games Begin
40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps
The pain from lost food aid will, if anything, hurt Republican voters worse than Democrats #SNAP #shutdown
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US map showing percent of households with SNAP
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The Shining #EpsteinBallroom
Photo of crowd in ballroom from movie "The Shining" "If Stephen King has taught us anything, it's that nothing good can happen in a ballroom"
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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#NoahsArk #drugmules
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich showing Noah's Ark with animals aboard and a missile speeding toward it. One of the animals aboard says "Trump thinks we're drug mules."
October 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Look at the anti-semitists! #sarcasm

“We do not forget that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust. Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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At least three GOP senators on the homeland security committee indicated they will vote against Ingrassia.
“I don’t plan on voting for him,” Scott told reporters. “I can’t imagine how anybody can be antisemitic in this country”.
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Trump’s nomination of Paul Ingrassia loses Republican support following racist text messages Ingrassia, Trump’s pick to lead the office of special counsel, allegedly described himself as having ‘a Nazi streak’
October 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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“By blocking Adelita Grijalva from taking her rightful oath of office, [Johnson] is subjecting Arizona’s seventh Congressional district to taxation without representation." - Kris Mayes, Arizona attorney general
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Arizona sues Mike Johnson over refusal to swear in Democrat who could sway Epstein vote Attorney general Kris Mayes files suit over House speaker’s delay in letting Adelita Grijalva start her job
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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American Oligarchs: The Media Consolidation Timeline
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Sinclair Broadcast Group owns 178 television stations reaching 40% of U.S. households. The stations display ABC, CBS, NBC, or Fox affiliate logos. None display Sinclair branding. This matters because research shows 71% of Americans trust local news compared to 61% who trust national news. The ten-point trust differential allows corporate-produced content delivered through local anchors to receive credibility that identical content from national sources would not. Sinclair requires all 178 stations to air corporate-produced segments. In 2018, dozens of local news anchors across the country read an identical script: “We’re concerned about the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. Some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.” The compilation video showing trusted local anchors in different cities reading identical corporate messaging went viral with over 30 million views. Viewers saw their local anchors, trusted for decades, speaking in unison with anchors thousands of miles away, reading words none of them wrote. Sinclair Chairman David Smith told Trump in 2016: “We are here to deliver your message.” Democratic accountability operates through a feedback loop. Voters elect leaders. Those leaders implement policies. Voters experience the outcomes. Voters attribute outcomes to the leaders who caused them. When outcomes are negative, voters replace those leaders. This mechanism creates self-correction. Bad governance produces electoral consequences, incentivizing better governance. The mechanism requires one condition. Voters must be able to connect outcomes to causes. When economic conditions worsen, voters must determine which policies produced the deterioration and which leaders implemented those policies. When constitutional violations occur, voters must recognize them and identify who committed them. When foreign policy fails, voters must understand what failed and why. Without accurate causal attribution, voters cannot hold leaders accountable. Research conducted by King’s College London examined how authoritarian propaganda operates. The researchers ran experiments with 3,000 Russians. They found that propaganda’s power lies not in making citizens believe specific false claims but in creating confusion about causation. When audiences encounter what the researchers called an “avalanche of opposing claims and disinformation accusations,” they cannot determine what caused negative outcomes. They cannot attribute responsibility for regime policies. Blame becomes redirectable. This finding connects to research from the University of Chicago examining when propaganda achieves maximum effectiveness. The researchers found propaganda works best when citizens consume similar information. When everyone in a population gets information from sources telling consistent stories, contradictory facts cannot penetrate. Oxford studies documented the mechanisms authoritarian propaganda provides: mobilization of regime allies, strategic signaling, diversion from regime failures, and pacification of dissent. The researchers found these mechanisms reinforce each other into self-…
October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Not attending the rally today, but I'm out wearing my "No Caesars" shirt from @bsky.app 😎
#NoKings
Black T-shirt that says no Caesars in Latin
October 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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‘Startled’ judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes
“I live in Chicago if folks haven’t noticed,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said. “And I’m not blind, right?”
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BREAKING: Helicopter footage from fox32news shows federal agents using tear gas against protesters and CPD officers on Chicago's far Southeast Side before driving off. Residents gathered after federal agents reportedly chased and crashed into an SUV in the neighborhood. Follow @heartlandsignal for more.
October 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The #Antifa Raider!
Photo of Indiana Jones with woman: "Founder of Antifa and his girlfriend"
October 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Every news post about #solar gets the naysayers who jabber about solar panel waste. This article shows how used solar panels that still have life in them help teach students in the US, power African hospitals, and keep the lights on in war-torn Ukraine.
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Solar panel usage in Africa. © GCShutter
October 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM