Rusty D. Pickens
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Rusty D. Pickens
@rusty.digital
· Nov 2
It’s been FIFTEEN YEARS and the media is still letting Republicans pretend they have some super-secret concept of a hidden plan to maybe consider a covert proposal that could theoretically be implemented in a hypothetical simulation of a Congress run by people who are not actually clowns.
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
One of the primary reasons the Republicans can’t produce a healthcare plan is because the ACA *is* their plan. Obama literally took their plan as the starting point in a—now quaint— stately attempt to court bipartisanship. And they still rail against it as if the core didn’t originate with them.
Literally shot in the head. Perpendicular to her body and car (i.e. not in the path of danger).
Everywhere else and any other time that’s called an execution 🤬🤢
Everywhere else and any other time that’s called an execution 🤬🤢
THEY TRIED TO GET A WARRANT TO CRIMINALLY INVESTIGATE THE WOMAN THEY SHOT DEAD
January 24, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Literally shot in the head. Perpendicular to her body and car (i.e. not in the path of danger).
Everywhere else and any other time that’s called an execution 🤬🤢
Everywhere else and any other time that’s called an execution 🤬🤢
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Abducting & holding children hostage is intolerable.
January 24, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Abducting & holding children hostage is intolerable.
He wouldn’t have subpoenaed their records if there wasn’t a preponderance of the evidence that *they were involved in the conspiracy*.
Accountability is on the ballot all around. Jack Smith for AG in 2029 💪🏼🇺🇸
Accountability is on the ballot all around. Jack Smith for AG in 2029 💪🏼🇺🇸
Yesterday's hearing with Jack Smith, Republicans didnt once try to challenge him on the merits of his findings. Their only argument was if Jack Smith spied on members or if he had a witness when he signed his oath. Eric Swalwell was right when he said they are lucky republicans aren't under oath.
January 24, 2026 at 1:16 AM
He wouldn’t have subpoenaed their records if there wasn’t a preponderance of the evidence that *they were involved in the conspiracy*.
Accountability is on the ballot all around. Jack Smith for AG in 2029 💪🏼🇺🇸
Accountability is on the ballot all around. Jack Smith for AG in 2029 💪🏼🇺🇸
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FFS 🤦🏼♂️
*THERANOS FOUNDER ELIZABETH HOLMES ASKS TRUMP FOR PARDON
January 21, 2026 at 9:36 PM
FFS 🤦🏼♂️
MERCIFUL LORD
TRUMP ENDS REMARKS AT DAVOS
January 21, 2026 at 2:53 PM
MERCIFUL LORD
Iceland already issued a press release about this entire mess--in 2019:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTb6...
"Hate will prevail
And Europe's heart impale
Burn off its web of lies
Now from the conflagration
Rise in unity"
🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTb6...
"Hate will prevail
And Europe's heart impale
Burn off its web of lies
Now from the conflagration
Rise in unity"
🔥
Hatari - Hatrið Mun Sigra (LIVE) | Iceland 🇮🇸 | Grand Final | Eurovision 2019
YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Iceland already issued a press release about this entire mess--in 2019:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTb6...
"Hate will prevail
And Europe's heart impale
Burn off its web of lies
Now from the conflagration
Rise in unity"
🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTb6...
"Hate will prevail
And Europe's heart impale
Burn off its web of lies
Now from the conflagration
Rise in unity"
🔥
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Trump is giving a deranged, rambling monologue in Davos to an audience stunned into silence. He sounds incredibly tired, his voice raspy; he keeps trailing off into long pauses. It's jaw-dropping.
The sanewashing headlines are going to say "Trump Doubles Down On Greenland Demand In Davos Speech"
The sanewashing headlines are going to say "Trump Doubles Down On Greenland Demand In Davos Speech"
January 21, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Trump is giving a deranged, rambling monologue in Davos to an audience stunned into silence. He sounds incredibly tired, his voice raspy; he keeps trailing off into long pauses. It's jaw-dropping.
The sanewashing headlines are going to say "Trump Doubles Down On Greenland Demand In Davos Speech"
The sanewashing headlines are going to say "Trump Doubles Down On Greenland Demand In Davos Speech"
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So baller to do this in a German speaking country
Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 PM
So baller to do this in a German speaking country
I miss the days of President Obama simply opening his mouth & delivering eloquence & thoughtful policy positions that was said better than most anyone could say it.
Now we have this incoherent embarrassment. He sounds like a inept schoolyard bully trying to take your lunch money.
Now we have this incoherent embarrassment. He sounds like a inept schoolyard bully trying to take your lunch money.
Trump on NATO: "We never ask for anything, and we never got anything. We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be frankly unstoppable. But I won't do that. Okay?"
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I miss the days of President Obama simply opening his mouth & delivering eloquence & thoughtful policy positions that was said better than most anyone could say it.
Now we have this incoherent embarrassment. He sounds like a inept schoolyard bully trying to take your lunch money.
Now we have this incoherent embarrassment. He sounds like a inept schoolyard bully trying to take your lunch money.
🚨 Tom Cole, Chair of Appropriations and member of the Chickasaw Nation--which just issued a blanket release for our citizens to carry their tribal IDs--is managing this $10B funding of ICE. The shame knows no end.
*No funding for ICE and DHS until the lawlessness stops.*
Period.
*No funding for ICE and DHS until the lawlessness stops.*
Period.
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 AM
🚨 Tom Cole, Chair of Appropriations and member of the Chickasaw Nation--which just issued a blanket release for our citizens to carry their tribal IDs--is managing this $10B funding of ICE. The shame knows no end.
*No funding for ICE and DHS until the lawlessness stops.*
Period.
*No funding for ICE and DHS until the lawlessness stops.*
Period.
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This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
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I love the uncensored version 🖕🏼
Denmark’s Anders Vistisen to Pedophile Trump "Let me put this in words you might understand, Mr. President, fuck off."
Denmark’s Anders Vistisen to Pedophile Trump "Let me put this in words you might understand, Mr. President, fuck off."
January 20, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I love the uncensored version 🖕🏼
Denmark’s Anders Vistisen to Pedophile Trump "Let me put this in words you might understand, Mr. President, fuck off."
Denmark’s Anders Vistisen to Pedophile Trump "Let me put this in words you might understand, Mr. President, fuck off."
Meh. Counter-file state charges and let's get moving. Lawsuits in the face of lawlessness are the only things these folks understand.
The quicker we start throwing a few of them in jail for actual crimes, the fewer of them there will be on the streets to violate it.
The quicker we start throwing a few of them in jail for actual crimes, the fewer of them there will be on the streets to violate it.
Gov Tim Walz's office has now received a subpoena from DOJ, his office just confirmed.
Absolutely vile. The only people facing federal investigation of any kind right now for the killing of Renee Good are Minnesota officials who drew attention to it.
Absolutely vile. The only people facing federal investigation of any kind right now for the killing of Renee Good are Minnesota officials who drew attention to it.
January 20, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Meh. Counter-file state charges and let's get moving. Lawsuits in the face of lawlessness are the only things these folks understand.
The quicker we start throwing a few of them in jail for actual crimes, the fewer of them there will be on the streets to violate it.
The quicker we start throwing a few of them in jail for actual crimes, the fewer of them there will be on the streets to violate it.
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Two minute warning for Supreme Court opinions.
January 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Two minute warning for Supreme Court opinions.
Ya--we're not funding ICE or DHS until the lawlessness stops. Otherwise we're firing Democrats too in November.
House just released a 1,059-page appropriations package including DOD, Labor-HHS, T-HUD and DHS money.
The DHS bill doesn’t contain the ICE reforms Democrats have asked for.
This includes a package of health care changes (no ACA) including PBM overhaul.
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
The DHS bill doesn’t contain the ICE reforms Democrats have asked for.
This includes a package of health care changes (no ACA) including PBM overhaul.
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
docs.house.gov
January 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Ya--we're not funding ICE or DHS until the lawlessness stops. Otherwise we're firing Democrats too in November.
Chickasaw National urging citizens to carry tribal ID in light of increased ICE activity in Oklahoma 🤬✊🏼🔥🇺🇸
January 17, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Chickasaw National urging citizens to carry tribal ID in light of increased ICE activity in Oklahoma 🤬✊🏼🔥🇺🇸
His issue is that during the pitch to Ake to take over the Academy they extolled on how *absolutely terrible a policy of child separation* is--direct shots fired at Miller and his ilk.
I, for one, welcome a refreshing new Star Trek as a contrast of hope during this ugly political time.
I, for one, welcome a refreshing new Star Trek as a contrast of hope during this ugly political time.
Help me out here. Hasn't Star Trek always had "aliens" and non-traditional women?
I mean, sure, Uhuru was sexualized, but she was a smart-as-shit officer BEFORE women were admitted to West Point and non-white; she's the kind of person Stephen Miller is trying to denaturalize.
I mean, sure, Uhuru was sexualized, but she was a smart-as-shit officer BEFORE women were admitted to West Point and non-white; she's the kind of person Stephen Miller is trying to denaturalize.
January 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
His issue is that during the pitch to Ake to take over the Academy they extolled on how *absolutely terrible a policy of child separation* is--direct shots fired at Miller and his ilk.
I, for one, welcome a refreshing new Star Trek as a contrast of hope during this ugly political time.
I, for one, welcome a refreshing new Star Trek as a contrast of hope during this ugly political time.
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Putin, failing in his east European war, summons his American clients to organize a diversion in western Europe.
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Putin, failing in his east European war, summons his American clients to organize a diversion in western Europe.
🔥🔥🔥
They'll pass it as soon as they're briefed on who's getting all the Venezuelan oil infrastructure contracts.
Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, and Ashley Moody, R-Fla., are introducing legislation that would ban members of Congress from trading or owning stocks.
January 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
🔥🔥🔥
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Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
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Goldman: Until DHS reins in this rogue and authoritarian ICE secret police force, there should be no more funding provided to DHS.
January 13, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Goldman: Until DHS reins in this rogue and authoritarian ICE secret police force, there should be no more funding provided to DHS.
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Ansari: I think ICE is completely out of control, and there should be no more funding given to ICE. The funding that's already has been given to them through the big ugly bill should be stripped entirely
January 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Ansari: I think ICE is completely out of control, and there should be no more funding given to ICE. The funding that's already has been given to them through the big ugly bill should be stripped entirely
This sh*t will stop if congress will STOP funding ICE. Well-financed, machismo-fueled, military cosplay bros roaming the streets of America full time with questionable statutory duties, loaded firearms, no ID, and virtually no fear of accountability? What could possibly go wrong?
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM
This sh*t will stop if congress will STOP funding ICE. Well-financed, machismo-fueled, military cosplay bros roaming the streets of America full time with questionable statutory duties, loaded firearms, no ID, and virtually no fear of accountability? What could possibly go wrong?