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The June 14 parade featuring tanks, helicopters, warplanes and troops in period costume which falls on Trump’s birthday is about feeding his ego. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Decor to reassure the fragile ego of a bordello owner who truly knows he is out of his league. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/o...

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"He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight." ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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#BestPeople The inexperienced 22-year-old reportedly tasked by Donald Trump with tackling U.S. extremism was working as a neighborhood gardener just five years ago and in a grocery store as recently as August 2023 www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

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“How do you know all this?” Epstein replied, “I was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years.” www.thedailybeast.com/listen-to-th...

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Who said Ukraine has no cards?

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“We all have demons, but we can't hold onto them long enough for them to turn us into monsters.” ― Brianna Sugalski, Disenchanted

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As a candidate, he was quick to say that the Biden administration should do more, but since becoming president again, he has taken steps to ensure that FEMA can and will do less. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard wants to turn Trump’s daily intel briefings into Fox News-type broadcasts because he “doesn’t read.” the process could involve granting the Fox News team security clearance to access classified information. www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbar...

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Farmers, which have long made up a large portion of the MAGA fanbase, could be the hardest hit by the trade war. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offici...

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Navy to rename USNS Harvey Milk named after slain gay rights leader and Navy veteran during Pride Month... vessels on "recommended list." ...Thurgood Marshall, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Dolores Huerta, Lucy Stone, Cesar Chavez and Medgar Evers. www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-ne...

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Pardoning his friends who defrauded Medicare, union pensions, banks, and more. This is what “fraud and abuse” actually looks like. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing. ~ Boy George

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Trump’s top campaign donor and adviser left the U.S. Institute of Peace full of cockroaches and marijuana. www.thedailybeast.com/musks-doge-g...

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“Without the arsenal of tools from NOAA and its 6.3 billion observations sourced each day, the routinely detected hurricanes of today could become the deadly surprise hurricanes of tomorrow,” www.thedailybeast.com/weatherman-j...

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Detractors compared the centralized database effort to surveillance initiatives in authoritarian regimes. Numerous pro-Trump voices expressed dismay and feelings of betrayal across social media platforms like X. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden [AI brings child drawings to life]

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$16 million tax dollars just to repair the road damage from the tanks so #Trumpenfuhrer can have his birthday dictator parade

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Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the Trump appointed head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

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"He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea." - Thomas Fuller

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Trump administration is a thugocracy, and the Republican Party he controls supports him each step of the way. Almost every principle to which Republicans once professed fealty has been jettisoned. The party is now devoted to the abuse of power and to vengeance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Trump's healthcare concepts of a plan delivered

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U.S.A.I.D. grants- these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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"Take care of yourself. Eat well, rest, train hard and smart, make time to think and breathe. Be intentional with your time." ~ Kristin Armstrong

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When asked about America’s deportation of Dr. Qian, the former Navy secretary Dan Kimball said, “It was the stupidest thing this country ever did.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Dinner is better with friends – especially if you’re paying!

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“Doctors have been clear that she will die within days” without this care. “Deporting this family under these conditions is not only unlawful, it constitutes a moral failure that violates the basic tenets of humanity and decency.” www.news4jax.com/health/2025/...

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This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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By destroying knowledge, Trumpists seek to make the country more amenable to their political domination... annihilate some of the most effective systems for aggregating, accumulating, and applying human knowledge ... America ... into a new Dark Age. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Last month, three U.S. citizens—ages 2,4, and 7—were sent to Honduras with their undocumented parents. One of the kids had cancer and was shipped away without medication. Citizen www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-...

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The convicts include two who are considered so dangerous by the Bureau of Prisons that they are being held in the federal supermax in Colorado along with convicts including the Mexican drug lord El Chapo and the al Qaeda shoe bomber Richard Reid. www.thedailybeast.com/whitmer-slam...

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It is heartbreaking to see the worsening scenes coming out of Gaza. And if raising international voices or noises can add any pressure to stop the war, to change the conduct of the occupation, or just relieve the plight of the innocent, they are worth trying. youtu.be/7OGcRQtorAM?...

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"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." ~ Milton Berle

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GOP Rep Says Americans Should Get News From ‘The Kremlin’ www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-says...

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Pardon recipients include a sheriff who accepted bribes in exchange for sheriff’s badges, and a Las Vegas councilwoman convicted of paying for plastic surgery and her daughter’s wedding with >$70k stolen from a charity fund for police killed in the line of duty. www.thedailybeast.com/reality-star...

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KleptoCapture demise —Trump’s unwillingness to fight systems that allow Kremlin allies to disguise wealth & enable drug cartels to operate with impunity, corrupt officials to launder money from bribes into luxury real estate and the ultrawealthy to avoid paying taxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/m...

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While the price of eggs coming down has been a recent topic, before his inauguration, he claimed that the price of wind power had driven up inflation so that people weren’t buying bacon. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-shows-...

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"Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive." ~ Leah LaBelle

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We already knew--he confesses publicly

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Former Sheriff Jenkins was found guilty of giving civilians police badges amassing more than $75,000 in bribes. Rahim was barred from owning a firearm. In exchange for $25,000 and a $17,500 loan that was never repaid, Jenkins deputized him so he could own a gun. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Paul Walczak stole from his employees to fund an extravagant lifestyle. He was pardoned before he ever reported to prison. Trump pardoned a tax cheat after his mother attended a Mar-a-Lago dinner that cost her $1 million to attend www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pardon...

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The asylum seeker got his family out of a homeless camp in New York City. Now, he is being flown around the country in ICE custody. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrests-...

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The play about witch hunts, about persecution of people out of hysteria, despite being an American classic widely taught in high school classrooms and performed frequently on high school stages, had provoked the same moral persecution it portrayed as unjust www.friendlyatheist.com/p/georgia-hi...

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Trump, convicted felon president*, erased ethical boundaries dismantled instruments of accountability … There will be no investigations because Trump fired inspectors general, ethics watchdogs, installed loyalists to DOJ, FBI and reg agencies and dominates Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...

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Perhaps we should be concerned. This man’s brain is filled with spiders. He seems to, at best, have one toe planted in reality. So where, I ask, is the fury? Where are the hours upon hours of Fox News coverage? Where is the extensive New York Times coverage? www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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“Let us take flight with the passion of our emotions and follow the graceful swirl of the swallows dancing high in the sky.” ― Erik Pevernagie, Into a new life

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When your sense of self-exaltation requires tanks, flyovers and up to $45 million for a birthday party, we’re no longer in the realm of cake and candles — we’re squarely in Criterion 1 of narcissistic personality disorder: “a grandiose sense of self-importance.” www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...