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In 1996, Donald Trump crashed a gala fundraiser for a pediatric AIDS charity and took a seat on the dais. He wasn't invited. He hadn't even contributed to the charity, and never did. He just wanted to be at the front of the room, receiving honor and applause.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words.
The Republican has not followed through on many of his promises to give to charity.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In 1996, Donald Trump crashed a gala fundraiser for a pediatric AIDS charity and took a seat on the dais. He wasn't invited. He hadn't even contributed to the charity, and never did. He just wanted to be at the front of the room, receiving honor and applause.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
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How many people who watch Fox News know Trump pardoned a man who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.?
Hardly any of them, I suspect.
Sometimes the right wing murders the truth, sometimes is just kidnaps it and throws it in the basement.
Hardly any of them, I suspect.
Sometimes the right wing murders the truth, sometimes is just kidnaps it and throws it in the basement.
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
How many people who watch Fox News know Trump pardoned a man who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.?
Hardly any of them, I suspect.
Sometimes the right wing murders the truth, sometimes is just kidnaps it and throws it in the basement.
Hardly any of them, I suspect.
Sometimes the right wing murders the truth, sometimes is just kidnaps it and throws it in the basement.
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Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
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I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video
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"Intentions are the best, aren’t they? What’s fun about them is the way you can separate them from what you actually do and what actually happens as a result, like turkey skin sloughing off of a perfect slab of white meat."
www.the-reframe.com/how-to-talk-...
www.the-reframe.com/how-to-talk-...
How To Talk Politics At Thanksgiving
Using story to distinguish between intent and reality.
www.the-reframe.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Intentions are the best, aren’t they? What’s fun about them is the way you can separate them from what you actually do and what actually happens as a result, like turkey skin sloughing off of a perfect slab of white meat."
www.the-reframe.com/how-to-talk-...
www.the-reframe.com/how-to-talk-...
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This
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This
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Think of steel as flour for the manufacturing economy. A tariff is like a flour tax: the mill might add 1,000 jobs, but factories using flour cut around 75,000. That’s what happens when you tax an input instead of solving the real problem.
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Think of steel as flour for the manufacturing economy. A tariff is like a flour tax: the mill might add 1,000 jobs, but factories using flour cut around 75,000. That’s what happens when you tax an input instead of solving the real problem.
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
Nothing to see here…
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Nothing to see here…
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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CNN: Trump in Epstein files
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
CNN: Trump in Epstein files
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
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To the 8 senators who voted to give up the only leverage they had and trust the GOP:
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
To the 8 senators who voted to give up the only leverage they had and trust the GOP:
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This video deserves more attention:
An Army General explains the Trump regime’s inhumane arrests and deportations in Louisiana.
youtube.com/watch?v=6IdO...
An Army General explains the Trump regime’s inhumane arrests and deportations in Louisiana.
youtube.com/watch?v=6IdO...
Army General Outraged by ICE Arrest of Mother of Newborn, Wife of Military Veteran
YouTube video by Freedom Watch Media
youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This video deserves more attention:
An Army General explains the Trump regime’s inhumane arrests and deportations in Louisiana.
youtube.com/watch?v=6IdO...
An Army General explains the Trump regime’s inhumane arrests and deportations in Louisiana.
youtube.com/watch?v=6IdO...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b... course they are…
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b... course they are…
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Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡
$LLY $NVO
$LLY $NVO
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡
$LLY $NVO
$LLY $NVO
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“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!”
— Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas.
Leia’s age: 2.
Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
— Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas.
Leia’s age: 2.
Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement
A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasn’t a “war zone”— until immigration agents swept through.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!”
— Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas.
Leia’s age: 2.
Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
— Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas.
Leia’s age: 2.
Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracist, is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon.
Legitimate news organizations out.
Crazy social media conspiracy theorists in.
That’s the result of Trump’s decades-long attack on “fake news” - now it really is fake.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Legitimate news organizations out.
Crazy social media conspiracy theorists in.
That’s the result of Trump’s decades-long attack on “fake news” - now it really is fake.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon
The far-right activist has repeatedly criticized defense officials on her website and social media accounts while boasting of her close ties to President Donald Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracist, is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon.
Legitimate news organizations out.
Crazy social media conspiracy theorists in.
That’s the result of Trump’s decades-long attack on “fake news” - now it really is fake.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Legitimate news organizations out.
Crazy social media conspiracy theorists in.
That’s the result of Trump’s decades-long attack on “fake news” - now it really is fake.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Really important advice.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Really important advice.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block.
"Well, it could be true!" It's not.
"Well, you can imagine." Nope.
"Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.
Tip of the hat to the healthcare lobby that $omehow keep congress from noticing this…
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Tip of the hat to the healthcare lobby that $omehow keep congress from noticing this…