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Trump keeps whining that federal judges are abusing their authority. But to what end? They don’t get anything but grief and threats from standing up to Trump. They aren’t stopping him for their own benefit. They rule against him to keep us from tumbling into autocracy. They’re modern day heroes.

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Your vote for Trump at work

submitted 23 hours ago • 88 comments

This is a superbly-written piece that is relevant, informative, and will brighten your day.

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Better to ask shadow president Stephen Miller

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Trump wants to balloon the military budget to over $1 TRILLION per year — while cutting roughly that amount from Medicaid and SNAP. Meanwhile, the Pentagon just failed its 7th consecutive audit. "Fiscal responsibility."

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

DOGE is not unstoppable. The courts stand in the breach.

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

Kiss our hard hats, DOGE. 🖕

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FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP TO DATE ON YOUR VACCINATIONS NOW.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

It’s to put Trump in his place. Nah, nah, nah. Can’t catch me!

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom." - Abraham Lincoln

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‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.

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On Memorial Day, we remember the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform and their families have made to preserve our freedom. May we always strive to honor the strength and resolve they’ve shown our country.

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I gotta say, U.S. titans of industry are looking more powerless every day. They’re really letting this guy come out and freestyle our economy at whim?

submitted 4 days ago • 151 comments

It’s been a constant battle for the soul of this country.

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington

submitted 4 days ago • 163 comments

Wise words from Mr. Rogers. We are all in this together. Let us all renew ourselves to strive for the common good.

submitted 5 days ago • 169 comments

In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.

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