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“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” — Things you won’t see trending on X • L.A./N.Y./London/Rome & NOLA. Energy transition, Silicon Valley technofile, aerospace, filmmaker, writer ✍️, former producer, foreign policy and dolphin hugger. #RESIST
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This didn’t age well…
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt • Jun 18 Sergio Gor, the director of presidential personnel in charge of vetting Trump's team, has yet to be vetted himself, having not submitted official paperwork about his own background needed for a permanent security clearance. @stevennelson10 @DianaGlebova
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Russian asset Sergey Gorokhovsky being sworn in as US ambassador to India in Oval.

Rubio, Bessent, Bondi, Pirro there, as well as Sens. Graham, Risch, Britt, Tuberville. Other guests: Erika Kirk and Laura Ingraham. Photo credit: CBS.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Senate votes to advance proposal to end 40-day government shutdown.

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Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) returns to his office after speaking on the Senate Floor on Sunday, November 9, 2025, the fortieth day of the government shutdown.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Something tells me that these ICE idiot
Goonsquads are gonna freeze their butts off when the lake-effect sets in… in Chicago tonight and this week.
Star Wars parody on a massive snowed in area on Lake Michigan in Chicago with troopers in the snow with snow gear on. Behind them is the Chicago city skyline. Fictional scene of people trudging through the snow across a snowed in Avenue in downtown Chicago. Massive Star Wars Imperial Walkers can be seen in the background near the “L” — at least five stories high — trudge through the snowy streets searching for people to kill.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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What most people do not realize is the cascading effect of the GOP cruelty:
✅ Musk DOGE cuts
✅ The BIG UGLY bill cuts and
✅ USDA withholding SNAP benefits during the shutdown when funds were earmarked by Congress specifically for funding during a shutdown.

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Americans are going hungry. Three photos with captions from left to right Elon musk with a MAGA hat on all in black with the caption: FIRST DOGE cut essential funding, stretching food programs thin. Center: speaker Mike Johnson with suit and tie with thumbs up and other people’s faces blurred behind him with the caption— THEN Republicans slashed SNAP benefits with Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Far right: man suit and tie smugly smiling with the caption — NOW Trump is using the government shutdown to illegally withhold SNAP benefits. Bottom text reads: Republicans are hurting people. They've done it before, and they're doing it again.
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Why doesn’t the con man stop testing our level of gullibility and simply get rid of the tax breaks for 648++ billionaires and make them pay their fair share in taxes and call it a day.

Enough of his foolishness already.

Done.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k's are Highest EVER. We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion. Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place. A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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To be honest, I hope he passes out and falls under his makeup desk in a drunken stupor — at his little makeshift makeup room at the Pentagon.

He thinks he’s auditioning for a cheesy movie part in Winds of War II.

Cue music up and under…

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November 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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And the billionaire boys club with $100B+ in military contracts has a vested interested in propping up the war machine since they have commandeered the Pentagon and embedded staffers there.

So, we are now getting full on propaganda now from these creeps.
U.S. War Minister Hegseth: "We are not preparing for a period of peace; instead, we are shifting the Pentagon and the military-industrial base into an actual state of war. "The moment feels like 1939—or, I hope, 1981. Enemies are gathering, and threats are mounting. You feel it. And I feel it." Man in blue suit and striped tie with slicked back hair at a speakers podium speaks with two flags and a red drape backdrop.
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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After the surrender of Japan, the airfield was abandoned.

Now the US is reviving it. | RFE/RL

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This photo, of reconstruction under way on Tinian Island, a US commonwealth in the western Pacific Ocean, was released by the US Air Force on September 30. The military says the current status of Tinian’s historic North Field airfield is “considered confidential information,” but two locals RFE/RL spoke to by telephone confirmed work is under way to rebuild the air base. “They’re still stripping the airfields,” one local hotelier on the small Pacific island said on November 6.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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F*k Lavrov and his terms. Haul him to The Hague along with Putin.

Rubio is a spineless jellyfish that needs to grow a backbone.

We need to put MORE sanctions on Russia and force an unconditional surrender. Full stop. 🛑

Russia's Lavrov: “I am ready to meet Rubio.”
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart Ermek Kosherbayev in Moscow, Russia, October 22, 2025. Photo credit: REUTERS. Man with glasses in a dark suit sitting in an upholstered high back French chair holding papers and speaking into a desktop microphone.
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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No one voted for this psychopath Hegseth.

And this regime wanted their leader to get a Nobel Peace prize.

This dangerous loose cannon and the entire regime should keep everyone in America up at night.

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U.S. War Minister Hegseth: "We are not preparing for a period of peace; instead, we are shifting the Pentagon and the military-industrial base into an actual state of war. "The moment feels like 1939—or, I hope, 1981. Enemies are gathering, and threats are mounting. You feel it. And I feel it."
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Schumer responded on the Senate floor today:“For this administration to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to get out of having to pay SNAP benefits for hungry kids is pathological levels of vindictiveness. This crisis is in the administration’s hands. It’s all them, not anyone else.” C-SPAN
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DAY 39 SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER D-New York • Minority Leader
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Mr. Potter AKA Pulte who has a zillion conflicts of interest via his Pulte Mortgage arm + stagnant inventory of Pulte Homes sez what?

If you stretch a 30-yr mortgage to 50 yrs on median U.S. home (~$410K), you’ll pay roughly $300K–$450K more in interest over the life of the loan. What a lame idea.
Pulte v @pulte X.com Trump proposes 50-year mortgage to help affordability Graphic of a man in a dark suit in front of a cut out of the White Hiise with red tape that says news coming out of a megaphone… From housingwire.com 3:18 PM • 11/8/25 • 117K Views Black and white photo screen grab from a film with a banker president in period clothing sitting in a carved mahogany chair glaring disapprovingly at a young man sitting across from him. An antique phone sits on the desk between them. The caption alongside of the older gentleman reads: Analyzing Evil: Mr. Henry Potter
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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So much for Americans pursuing graduate studies now.

“Operation torpedo PhDs — Make America Stupid Again” on full throttle now under Trump’s tyrannical regime and his attack on higher education.
Not +2 | Student loan reforms finalized • •• The Department of Education finalized rules under the OBBBA, eliminating Grad PLUS loans and capping borrowing for graduate and professional students starting July 2026. The changes also streamline repayment plans and revise Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility, aiming to curb debt and hold universities accountable. Student Loan Update: Trump Admin Makes Ann... Photo of a man with an orange face seated at a desk in a dark suit and red tie with his hand clasped together.
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Where are they Jack? Who’s left?
GAO offered voluntary buyouts to employees due to potential budget cuts, which could result in a significant staff redux of up to 300 employees.A proposed budget cut of approx 49%, would necessitate a larger reduction of over 2,200 staff. thehill.com/opinion/cong...
Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, wears a face mask as he waves to members of a House Select Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 26, 2020, before the start of a hearing about a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) with recommendations to improve the federal coronavirus response. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Case in point: This is when the $hit should hit the fan.

This is why Hegseth has put the Pentagon on info lockdown. He is creating his own bureaucratic nightmare & pumping out BS about bureaucracy when he AND his brother have merged DHS/ICE budgets and raided DOD’s! Follow the money. Audit DoD.
RAPID RESPONSE DOW Rapid Response & ® @DOWResponse X.com • @SECWAR "Today, l'd like to talk to you about an adversary that poses a threat to the United States of America. This adversary is one of the world's last bastions of central planning. It governs by dictating five-year plans. From a single capital, it attempts to impose its demands across time zones, continents, oceans and beyond with brutal consistency... The adversary I'm talking about is much closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy. Photo of man at a podium in a blue suit with a backdrop of red curtains and flags. 2:30 PM • 11/7/25 • 271K Views
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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#17 front and center to dismantle the dark money monetized hate machine.
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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So the guy that wanted the Nobel Prize has starvation of American children, the elderly & disabled poor as part of his Agenda? What kind of sociopathic agenda is that pray tell?

What the hell are you and taxpayer paid attorneys fighting in court for? To starve Americans?!!

This is unreal.
Attorney General Pamela... & @AGPamBondi X.com The Supreme Court just granted our administrative stay in this case. Our attorneys will not stop fighting, day and night, to defend and advance President Trump's agenda. • Attorney General Pamela Bondi v Judicial activism at its worst. ・4h A single district court in Rhode Island should not be able to seize center stage in the shutdown, seek to upend political negotiation... Show more 9:35 PM • 11/7/25 • 404K Views
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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One hour ago: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issues an administrative stay in the SNAP benefits case, for the First Circuit to issue its ruling on the stay request (“with dispatch”).

Her administrative stay ends 48 hours after that ruling is issued (or upon further order).
ORDER The applicants are seeking a stay of two orders of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, case No. 1:25-cv-569. See D. Ct. Minute Entry (Oct. 31, 2025) and Docket Number 34 (Nov. 6, 2025). These orders require the applicants to fully fund benefits for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program ("SNAP") for the month of November, and to distribute that funding by the end of the day on November 7, 2025 (today). Earlier today, the applicants asked the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to stay the District Court's orders pending appeal, and to issue an administrative stay to facilitate its consideration of that stay motion. At 6:08 p.m., the First Circuit denied the applicants' request for an administrative stay, but stated that it "intend[s] to issue a decision on [the stay pending appeal] motion as quickly as possible." Rhode Island State Council of Churches v. Rollins, No. 25-2089 (CA1 Nov. 7, 2025). The applicants filed an application in this Court this evening, requesting a stay of the two District Court orders "pending the disposition of the government's appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and, if the court of appeals affirms those orders, pending the timely filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court." Application at 1. The applicants assert that, without intervention from this Court, they will have to "transfer an estimated $4 billion by tonight" to fund SNAP benefits through November. Ibid. Given the First Circuit's representations, an administrative stay is required to facilitate the First Circuit's expeditious resolution of the pending stay motion. IT IS ORDERED that the District Court's orders are hereby administratively stayed pending disposition of the motion for a stay pending appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in case No. 25-2089 or further order of the undersigned or of the Court. This administrative stay will terminate forty-eight hours after the First Circuit's resolution of the pending motion, which the First Circuit is expected to issue with dispatch. Is/ Ketanji Brown Jackson Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Dated this 7th day of November, 2025.
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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🚨 BREAKING News: U.S. Supreme Court tonight granted the Trump Administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown now on its 38th day. | AP

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People wait in line durning an emergency food distribution at The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia's Mitzvah Food Program in Philadelphia, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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It takes a great deal of time & dedication to help bring you the breaking news from what is happening with this chaotic regime at a federal level & how it impacts states & all Americans nationwide.

INFO is power. It is our duty as Americans to be constantly informed & fight back against tyranny.
Elderly gentleman in period clothing with a sepia toned backdrop and the following quote in script on the left: "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." - Thomas Jefferson
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The United States gathered intelligence last year that Israel’s military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war crimes charges against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza, five former U.S. officials told Reuters.

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November 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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In today’s Dear Leader news: Two Putin puppets walk into a bar…

Live updates: Trump hosts EU outcast Orbán as Hungary seeks exemption on Russian oil sanctions.

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November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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No one trusts Trump. Full stop. It’s time for the House of Reps to become an independent legislative body again
And, get a new Speaker. Even Pelosi could herd cats. 😉

Deal to reopen government falters over Democrats’ distrust of Trump.

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Illustration with a sign hanging over the dome of the U.S. Capitol that reads: Out of Service.
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Happy Friday.

Make it a perfect day.

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Sunrise with clouds illuminated in an orange sky with a purpose glow.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM