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Retired Social Worker, business partner, wife, mother, grandmother and friend. News junkie, avid gardener and bookworm.
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George Retes is a U.S. citizen and Iraq war veteran. He was detained by ICE and held in solitary confinement for three days without explanation.
George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.
George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
George Retes is a U.S. citizen and Iraq war veteran. He was detained by ICE and held in solitary confinement for three days without explanation.
George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.
George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.
Is this your representative? Vote him out!!!
Rep. Randy Fine defends Trump's gutter racist rants about Somalis: "Not all cultures are equal ... the president speaks in language that Americans understand."
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Is this your representative? Vote him out!!!
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Rep. Randy Fine defends Trump's gutter racist rants about Somalis: "Not all cultures are equal ... the president speaks in language that Americans understand."
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Rep. Randy Fine defends Trump's gutter racist rants about Somalis: "Not all cultures are equal ... the president speaks in language that Americans understand."
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Republicans can't pretend this administration is defendable forever. Their party is nearing a breaking point. Listen to Stuart Stevens on MSNOW
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Republicans can't pretend this administration is defendable forever. Their party is nearing a breaking point. Listen to Stuart Stevens on MSNOW
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What’s happening at the Supreme Court this week is bigger than just one FTC commissioner. The majority seems ready to endorse the “unitary executive” theory, giving Trump the power to purge agency staffers and replace them with loyalists. It’s a frightening prospect we should be paying attention to.
Humphrey’s Who? The Big SCOTUS Case Few Understand
A decision over who Trump can fire will reshape how our entire government functions
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What’s happening at the Supreme Court this week is bigger than just one FTC commissioner. The majority seems ready to endorse the “unitary executive” theory, giving Trump the power to purge agency staffers and replace them with loyalists. It’s a frightening prospect we should be paying attention to.
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Statement from the House Select Committee on China, chaired by Republican Rep. John Moolenaar. Trump is selling us out to a foreign country. Again.
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Statement from the House Select Committee on China, chaired by Republican Rep. John Moolenaar. Trump is selling us out to a foreign country. Again.
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I bet they’ll provide the coolest armbands.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I bet they’ll provide the coolest armbands.
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Important detail on Paramount's hostile takeover bid to buy WBD:
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
The move comes days after Paramount was bested by Netflix in a competitive bidding process to buy Warner Bros.
www.axios.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Important detail on Paramount's hostile takeover bid to buy WBD:
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
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“One thing in the law is that all of these execute orders are supposed to be transmitted to the committees of jurisdiction, House Armed Services, Senate, within 30 days. They have not transmitted a single execute order to us since Trump became president…”
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Venezuela, Western Dominance, & Regime Change: Rep. Adam Smith's Striking Updates
"The capsized bow of the boat...probably wasn't any bigger than your average kitchen table."
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“One thing in the law is that all of these execute orders are supposed to be transmitted to the committees of jurisdiction, House Armed Services, Senate, within 30 days. They have not transmitted a single execute order to us since Trump became president…”
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Remember over the summer, when Trump urged reporters to start digging through mortgage records, looking for officials who might’ve committed fraud?
Months later, it’s hard not to wonder whether he regrets issuing such a challenge. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Months later, it’s hard not to wonder whether he regrets issuing such a challenge. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Two Trump mortgages have same feature that led to charges for several presidential foes
“Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice,” one expert said.
www.ms.now
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Remember over the summer, when Trump urged reporters to start digging through mortgage records, looking for officials who might’ve committed fraud?
Months later, it’s hard not to wonder whether he regrets issuing such a challenge. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Months later, it’s hard not to wonder whether he regrets issuing such a challenge. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Sounds like the bad old days of Hoover. But don’t say she is politicizing the department. That was Biden when his DOJ investigated Trump.
this is part of NSPM-7 btw
🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Sounds like the bad old days of Hoover. But don’t say she is politicizing the department. That was Biden when his DOJ investigated Trump.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I love our cities
The Underground Railroad. Mississippi Freedom Summer. And now, the ICE resistance
I went to New Orleans to witness the next American Revolution - everyday folk blowing whistles, chasing cars, and impeding the masked agents of a tyrannical regime. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
I went to New Orleans to witness the next American Revolution - everyday folk blowing whistles, chasing cars, and impeding the masked agents of a tyrannical regime. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution | Will Bunch
Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
www.inquirer.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I love our cities
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🚨President Donald Trump’s disaster aid record shows assistance flowing to Republican-led states while Democratic-led states are denied, underscoring a pattern of partisan weaponization of disaster relief.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-deni...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🚨President Donald Trump’s disaster aid record shows assistance flowing to Republican-led states while Democratic-led states are denied, underscoring a pattern of partisan weaponization of disaster relief.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-deni...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-deni...
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MAGA is very upset about some Somalis who did 8 billion of fraud in Minnesota the same week they praise Trump for pardoning a venture capitalist who defrauded thousands of Americans for over 1 billion.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
MAGA is very upset about some Somalis who did 8 billion of fraud in Minnesota the same week they praise Trump for pardoning a venture capitalist who defrauded thousands of Americans for over 1 billion.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
You cant reason with a shameless violent cult hellbent on white supremacist power.
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Awards are nice. Accountability is better. That’s why ProPublica measures success by the impact we’re able to spark.
Our investigative journalism does more than expose wrongdoing and injustice; we intend for it to spark real-world change.
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Our investigative journalism does more than expose wrongdoing and injustice; we intend for it to spark real-world change.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Awards are nice. Accountability is better. That’s why ProPublica measures success by the impact we’re able to spark.
Our investigative journalism does more than expose wrongdoing and injustice; we intend for it to spark real-world change.
Become part of our impact: https://propub.li/3M9bQZw
Our investigative journalism does more than expose wrongdoing and injustice; we intend for it to spark real-world change.
Become part of our impact: https://propub.li/3M9bQZw
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Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
This is a serious question because I really want to know. What general good have conservatives ever done for Americans. And don’t say tax cuts. I can think of lots of things that liberals have contributed.
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is a serious question because I really want to know. What general good have conservatives ever done for Americans. And don’t say tax cuts. I can think of lots of things that liberals have contributed.
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This is so spot on and a huge reason people are so angry at legacy media right now
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is so spot on and a huge reason people are so angry at legacy media right now
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“I just kept repeating it — I’m a U.S.-born citizen. I was born and raised here. This is my home. My baby’s waiting for me,” she recalled.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Video shows masked Border Patrol agent chasing woman back to her Louisiana home
Jacelynn Guzman said she is a U.S.-born citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it "determined the individual in question was not the target."
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“I just kept repeating it — I’m a U.S.-born citizen. I was born and raised here. This is my home. My baby’s waiting for me,” she recalled.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Getting the grade you earned is religious persecution now?
University Of Oklahoma Places Professor On Leave After Student Cries 'Religious Discrimination' For Bad Grade On Essay
www.comicsands.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Getting the grade you earned is religious persecution now?
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This is what’s happening to immigrants doing it “the right way” in Trump’s America.
We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is what’s happening to immigrants doing it “the right way” in Trump’s America.
We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...