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Semi Retired Sports Broadcaster. Fan of pretty much all sports… Competitive tennis player…. Closeout specialist during business hours. Fan of Democracy!
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Exactly, it’s preposterous.

Yup

Yup

Clearly there is a reason, always stunk

•••••HAPPENING NOW••••• The first group of White South Africans granted refugee status is departing for the U.S. today, flying on a State Department-chartered plane — at the expense of American taxpayers. The Trump regime has made great efforts to facilitate the swift resettlement of white…

DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” is a Wall of Deception. Another stellar breakdown from @fahrenthold.bsky.social: at least 44 contracts Musk bragged about killing came back to life—costing agencies $220M. But DOGE still lists them as "terminated," padding their phony wins. Zombie lies. Zombie contracts. 🧟‍♂️

As a party, we are prisoners being held hostage by people who simply refuse to accept that their time has passed and won’t accept that others more capable right now. Stay in the Senate, but step down from leadership. It’s time for a new approach, a new face, & a new voice.

Take a minute from your day and read this chilling story about how quickly we've gotten to where we are.

Beyond frightening, but not surprising.

Russell Vought: The Architect Behind Project 2025 and Trump’s Agenda www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

This was entirely predictable but it is no less dangerous to our national security. The SecDef, the President who nominated him, and the Republican Senators who confirmed him have all put us at risk.

Are you watching @maddow.msnbc.com tonight? Cause….wow.

The American government was the biggest threat, the greatest check on the billionaires' power. They are taking care of that threat. They are dismantling the federal government's bureaucracy to limit its functionality, while they illegally weaponize our stolen data. www.rawstory.com/doge-nationa...

In a real democracy, insider trading is a crime—even for a president. But when power protects the corrupt, it’s not justice—it’s the rule of law in free fall. Europe sees the scam. The world is watching. So tell us—how many Republicans cashed in while the rest of the world played by the rules?

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“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

Zero doubt those in the know profited somehow from market manipulation.

This is incredibly dangerous. If he can get away with this he will open a flood gate of targeted investigations of private citizens. We are stepping through the looking glass of fascism in real time! Congress needs to act immediately.

Trump is claiming the powers of a tyrant. Not an exaggeration, not a joke. Literally what his administration has argued in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

"Like what happened in Germany"!? Trump knows nothing and has read nothing. But I wonder if, growing up, he heard at home stories that I gather were current at the time in pro-German, Holocaust-minimizing circles, of alleged instances of humane treatment of the Jews in the camps?

Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said, putting Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past in jeopardy and further undermining their trust in facts

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss: 1. 1929 (the Great Depression) 2. 1987 (Black Monday) 3. 2008 (the Great Recession) 4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

Trump has essentially cut us off trading with the rest of the world. They will enact new trade agreements leaving us out