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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

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Her stats line up with CDC data…

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“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

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I am seething - and you?

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Pam Bondi had better realize that Jasmine Crockett earned her position in the world. She wasn't given it based on her sucking the orange Cheeto off.

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Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Amazing stuff

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BERNIE SANDERS: Is healthcare a human right? RFK Jr: It's not a right of a kind that we otherwise enshrine in the Constitution ... the objective is to get Americans the level of healthcare they want SANDERS: They don't want the choice to be uninsured or die

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The man who wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the United States because of terrorism is meeting this week with the former head of Al Qaeda in Syria.

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2017 Trump: “Qatar has been funding terrorism at a very high level.” 2025 Trump: takes a $400 Million flying palace from them Looks like they got the memo. 🤷🏼‍♂️ #SwampForceOne ✈️

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www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

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Fred Rogers addressing DJT from the grave, probably.

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Only dictators rule by executive order. This week, federal funding for PBS and NPR was eliminated by DJT. Pictured: The great composer BJ Leiderman with our own bumper sticker. Soon to be a collector's item, if the president has his way. NOTE: DJT's upcoming birthday parade will cost $92 million

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1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

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WATCH: @timmiller.bsky.social & @betoorourke.bsky.social on why Trump disappearing people with no criminal records to foreign gulags without due process and disobeying court orders should matter to everyone Full @thebulwark.com podcast: youtu.be/TaKW9LlTHIs?...

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Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

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Effective Corporate Tax Rates 1950: 50% 2025: 13% Top Marginal Tax Rates 1950: 91% 2025: 37% If you’re curious as to why the rich have so much and you have so little, these are good places to start.

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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

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(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Pete Hegseth just ordered the installation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon for him to prepare for his television appearances, which will cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to build.

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Happy Easter!

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Make some noise on this .Trump signed multiple executive orders today targeting environmental protections. One order removes safeguards for a vast marine sanctuary in the south-central Pacific Ocean.

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The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships. The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”

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'If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...

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These aren't tariffs. They are a horse's head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader.

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