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I love throwing this out there..😂👍

This is awful. Firefighters temporarily trapped in northern #Alberta as wildfires rage across the province Crew of 8 wildland firefighters forced to shelter in place www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Liel Hetzroni, a 12-year-old girl, pleaded with Hamas militants, saying, "I'm just a girl, I have school tomorrow!" Despite her cries, they killed her, her twin brother Yanai, their great-aunt, and grandfather. #Israel #NeverForget #NeverAgainIsNow #NeverAgain #October7thMassacre

So after four months, what did DOGE accomplish? Countless lives at home and abroad shattered & destroyed, along with increased disease, starvation, & death around the world. Oh, and absolutely ZERO impact on the debt & government spending. Zero impact. Well done @elonmusk.

A physical altercation between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent precipitated the Tesla founder's quick ouster from the Trump administration, according to a report.

Whitmer kidnap plotters were represented by counsel, given due process, and convicted by a jury unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt. A pardon would reward political violence. www.freep.com/story/news/p...

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Welcome to Trump's America, where you can bribe the president in exchange for legal immunity. The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.

The Trump administration has effectively ended white-collar crime enforcement. All this week, we're going to look at what ripoffs, deceptions, and cons will rise as a result to part the public from their money. This intro sets the stage: it's the Golden Age of Scams. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

This is actually their M.O. with everything. Create a crisis, then claim victory for ending it or emergency powers to deal with it.

Texas Republicans just passed a bill forcing every teacher to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. They passed it on the Sabbath… breaking the 4th Commandment. Maybe they should try following the Ten Commandments before mandating them.

“It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the First Amendment,” NPR's lawsuit declares. “‘But this wolf comes as a wolf.’” www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

In U.S. v. Lovett (1946), the Supreme Court held that not even Congress, in a bill signed by POTUS, may cut off all contracts with a named individual or organization: that’d be an unconstitutional bill of attainder. Only courts can decide who deserves to be punished. SoTrump can’t do it with an EO!

“The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises… To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations…” — The Constitution

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So he raised the tariffs, paused that raise, paused that pause, then paused that pause of the pause. And no-one knows if it'll be paused again (and if such a pause will be unpaused) or what happens when (or if) the pause whose pause was paused concludes.

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WHEN IT'S ALL ABOUT TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY. 📫Feel Free to Repost📫 🎞Join For Daily Clips🎞

JUST-RELEASED GEORGIA TEEN Ximena Arias-Cristobal: “Even having the right paperwork doesn’t mean anything anymore with the presidency we have now… just being Hispanic you’re a target.” More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ma...

The orange felon’s vendetta against Harvard in just one photo.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Nothing says ‘heartbreaking realization’ like finding out the guy who bankrupted four casinos might not be great at economic policy.

I'M GOING TO LEAVE THIS HERE SO YOU WILL BE THE JUDGE OF IT.❤️

When President Obama spoke at the 2014 West Point commencement ceremony he shook the hand of every single graduate after his speech. Today, Donald Trump gave a speech while wearing a MAGA hat and then left without shaking any hands

www.youtube.com/shorts/VRoKe... People told me I was lying about this in my post regarding the appointment and confirmation of the Head of SS.

@govandybeshear.bsky.social Guess you took a knee & kissed his ring…

Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

Indeed #NOKINGS #IMPEACH #GUANTANAMO #GOPFASCISTS #FIGHTFASCISM #SAVEOURDEMOCRACY

“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...

So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!

“I will end that war in 24 hours. I’ll stop all those lives from being lost. There will be no more bombing of Ukraine and everyone will be happy. It wouldn’t even be tough because I know just what to say to each of them. It may not even take 24 hours.”

US thrash Sweden 6-2 to advance to world championship final reut.rs/44Tn3EW

The masks enrage me every time.

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If you want to understand what’s going on in the United States today, and why everything seems so vindictive, deliberately cruel, and inhumane, read Carol Anderson’s “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide”

Make this make sense. 🤷🏼‍♂️

He's a liar.

One of Trump’s crypto investors entered his event wearing a mask

Trump's illegal use of “emergency” tariff authority is now extending to individual companies, which violates the Constitution’s prohibition on “bills of attainder.” This illustrates more clearly than ever why only Congress, and not Trump, should be allowed to levy tariffs and other taxes.

It’s time to turn the lights out on Lauren Boebert