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Whenever a President who actually understand the Constitution takes over again, he/she needs to immediately reform the Supreme Court & then argue against the Citizens United Super PAC decision, as well as argue for personal contribution limits to their own campaign.

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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name is one of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked here: terrymah.github.io/challenge/ www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

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The government seeks a prison term of 87 months—7+ years—for George Santos: "Santos’s unrestrained greed and voracious appetite for fame enabled him to exploit the very system by which we select our representatives." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A useful timeline to remember: December 3, 2024: Yoon Suk Yeol, President of South Korea, declares martial law as part of scheme to manufacture conflict with North Korea. Dec. 7th: He apologizes to the nation. Jan. 7th: Investigation begins on him for treason. April 4th: Removed from office.

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Ahead of tonight’s Vote-a-rama in the Senate, Marsha Blackburn has filed an amendment to authorize the creation of a slush fund for the mass deportation of all 13-15 million undocumented immigrants.

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The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh.

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Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures. He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him. Oh, and now....he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.

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By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities. Its time to rise up, gather round, and rock this place to the ground... www.npr.org/2025/04/04/n...

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Republicans’ proposed tax cuts — predominantly benefiting the rich — will now cost $5.5 trillion over the decade according to new CBO estimates. Previous estimates were were tagged at $4.6T, but Republicans added in even more tax cuts. Remember this in November.

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Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.

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Elections are Constitutionally and explicitly given to the states to run for this very reason. The authors feared a President would be tempted to consolidate power. The EO is and unconstitutional power grab. Call your reps and Senators: impeach - now! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Maybe it’s just me, but the orange felon using his destructive vindictive tariffs just to deliberately sabotage and destroy the U.S. economy looks a lot like sabotage Now is a good time to start impeachment

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FFS!

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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

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Explanation: He's a Russian asset. Is this really that hard?

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JPMorgan’s chief economist Bruce Kasman certainly sounds cheery.... s/

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"...most of the books removed from school libraries......came to the state board through challenges from one Beaufort County parent. The same parent brought 96 books to the Beaufort County Board of Education for review last year." So, extreme minority rule, then? scdailygazette.com/2025/04/01/n...

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Restoration Hardware was doing an earnings call when the tariffs hit and this is the first time I can relate to a CEO

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I agree. Let do this.

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The Pentagon Office of the Inspector General just announced it will investigate Pete Hegseth's role in the Signal group chat scandal.

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Texas congressman Keith Self apparently hasn’t learned the lesson that if you have to quote an infamous Nazi propagandist to make your point, then maybe it’s a point not worth making. And, yes, there’s video. www.msn.com/en-ie/news/o...

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He has tweeted a lot of insane things, but the idea that drug traffickers pay tariffs might be the dumbest thing any president has ever said, ever.

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Closely inspecting the list of tariffs/countries posted by the White House, Trump did not put tariffs on Russia. Ukraine's tariff is 10%, the EU's is 20%, and every American ally is on the list. But not Russia.

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Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress could modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt. Call your GOP rep NOW!

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In case you weren't paying attention:

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Not only did Kegseth bring his wife to sensitive meetings with foreign officials, but his younger brother is serving in a key role inside the Pentagon. But DEI is being removed because people get hired for reasons other than merit? I see: 'merit' is being a friend, and white, but not qualified.

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When you look at the list of institutions the White House wants to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives... You can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public. Go Resist –> Repeal –>Replace

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So, Mike Johnson tells us he can eliminate courts. Congress can do it. But they can't commandeer their Constitutional power of the purse back from DOGE or Trump's EOs?

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AG Bondi says certain judges can't be objective and need to be removed. Its always amazing to me that humans always tell us who they by making statements presuming that other people are like them, because they assume they are normal.

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Judge Boasberg, as expected, extends his TRO by two weeks in the Alien Enemies Act (Venezuelan deportations) case, as attorneys brief the proposed preliminary injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dear God, What kind of sociopath thinks Putin is 'woke'? This is where the GOP is now? This is literally terrifying.

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I think it's OK to declare a statute of limitations on compassion for people who've continued to support our current regime. I'm thinking a nationwide " so called friends & family" dump on Monday? No compassion recieved, therefore no compassion given to them.

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“There is no reason why they’re being held,” the judge said. "If this was a criminal case. … I’d throw you out of my chambers.” (WaPo paywall bypassed) www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

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This is illegal: Musk announced in an overnight post on X that he’ll hand out million-dollar checks at a Sunday night event in Wisconsin—but only to those who voted in the state’s Supreme Court election.

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A former North Dakota state senator was sentenced to ten years in prison for flying to Prague and paying someone so he could rape children. I’ll give you no guesses as to what his political party is because you already know. apnews.com/article/nort...

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Understatment of the century.....so far www.salon.com/2025/03/27/w...

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Trump Administration now going after the Smithsonian and other institutions. This is some crazy gaslighting, as if the Smithsonian is wrong, but he is right about history. So, they made up all their exhibits about how racist the US was and is? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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The top 7 donors in the 2024 election — all GOP — gave a combined $1B to buy Trump a second term. Yet people think I'm NUTS to suggest banning private funding of candidates, even though most OECD democracies have such a ban, and still have more functional governments. BAN PRIVATE ELECTION FUNDING!

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A federal judge has barred the military from enforcing its ban on transgender service members. The order came from Judge Benjamin Settle, who noted that the government offered no evidence that allowing trans troops to serve has damaged military readiness. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The US DOJ is now investigating the LA Sheriff's Dept. for... (checks notes) making it too hard for people to get concealed handgun permits in accordance with California law. SIGH

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Plurality say the media needs to make a bigger issue about the Signal military leaks. I wonder what media they mean, because its ALL I see when I check out the news.

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James Boasberg, a district judge in Washington, was assigned to a lawsuit alleging officials violated federal laws by using a Signal chat to discuss military action. The President has called for Boasberg to be impeached for the decisions he made in another case. abcnews.go.com/US/judge-hol...

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