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From the Cato Institute; this one is worth reading. Topline: "nonpublic data from ICE indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind." Don't let their lies dominate the narrative. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

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Bad me. A couple of days ago I thought maybe old bone spur will avoid the forever wars. 💣 Then the old man sent in bombs. THEN it looks like we were lied to as to the result. THEN I remembered I’m dealing with Trump, who lies about everything. Bad me. But at least we have 1000 foot flag poles.

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Republicans have been conning us about the deficit. It didn’t get this big because of Medicare. Or Social Security. It got this high because of Iraq. And Afghanistan.

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It’s a memetastic world. Activist judges. Sanctuary cities. Radical communists. Stolen elections. Migrant invasions. LA broken. Chicago overwhelmed. NYC trashed. Except not a single one of those things is true. The MAGA in Fantasyland.

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The MAGA are tossing themselves onto a bonfire of conspiracy and I see it as a good thing. And a mind-blowing thing. Imagine you have political power and you choose to spend it chasing phantoms. Insane. But it WASTES their moment. I like that.

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I had hoped this amateur cohort would never face a real crisis. That hope, like many before it, went unanswered. Humans love war. It gives them purpose. open.substack.com/pub/cfmchale...

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I’m dead 💀😆😂🤣

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MAGA drums are beating up and down the river tonight, and the message is ignore SCOTUS, go forward, deport people, send them into gulags, the judges are corrupt, Trump needs to take control. On the 250th anniversary of Paul Reveres ride, the red hats are coming, the red hats are coming.

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MAGA made the move. They invested our future in a nest of lies and fact-free theories. The crash of predatory capitalism is going to be swift and brutal. I personally don’t expect to survive. Hopefully, my children and grandchildren enjoy a more sane world rebuilt from the ground up in the future.

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I worked in Kuala Lumpur for a little bit. The company paid locals $400-$1000 a month. You could live like a king on that wage. A first rate meal at a great restaurant was $20. I went to a dentist and got a crown for $100. If Trump brings costs down like that the tariffs will work.

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I actually understand the problem Trump is trying solve with tariffs, but his mistake is trying to fix it with capitalism; the real answer is socialism.

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Waltz and Hegseth have zero credibility left.

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Tariff week. Sounds pretty dicey to me, but one thing is clear: Manufacturers won’t return to US to offer a living wage, health benefits, or pensions.

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Next Saturday. Stand with your brothers and sisters against the oligarchy.

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It’s all about playing victim.

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Baseball and time travel is the way I’m fighting back the dark slog of Trump’s America. Check out my podcast. Support! Keep us off the Zuckermusk Plantation!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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The oligarchy doesn’t go to public school. They don’t use Medicaid. They don’t rely on their social security checks.

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Looks like by this time next week, the annexation of Greenland will begin.

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Yep

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I not spiking Boone, I’m really not, but his entire career with Yankees has been marked with lineup decisions where people are put in odd positions, constantly moving people up and down, just a mess game by game for years.

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Musk’s Grok robot is living a life of its own, and that means lots of fun on X. A user on the platform was flagged for speech infraction, but the MAGA guy who flagged him was a worse offender, so the user went to Grok for arbitration. This was the robots reply. Does Grok have a future on X lol?!?!

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Apparently I’m a communist because I want my groceries to cost less.

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Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

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It’s beginning to look like Musk is not in DC to help save America, but to hide from the fact he builds crappy products.

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The only justice in this world will be if Steve Bannon is accidentally swept up in an ICE raid and disappeared into an El Salvador prison.

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#urbanism There’s nothing dumber in this dumb world than Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy saying NYC congestion pricing takes money from drivers to pay for a transit system and not a highway. Our national obsession with giving cars right of way in every part of our lives is nuts. Walk.

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I’m not a live-in-fear guy. When it comes to Trump, mostly he’s a fart in the wind to me. I run my X resistance but it doesn’t eat me up. I just like punching idiots in the head. Except. Trump might get another seat on SCOTUS. That flips my wig.

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I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.

submitted 98 days ago • 1498 comments

MAGA is cancer. Democratic politicians need to get straight in their heads, you don’t fool around with cancer, you eliminate it.

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Homan needs to be arrested.

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James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 51: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

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I don’t want to ‘remove Trump from power.’ I want to defeat him at the ballot box. I don’t want judges and lawsuits and trials and impeachments. I want people to show up and fucking vote.

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“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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A crazy guy took a gun and killed a president, and six trillion pages of documents, books, films, commissions later, the story’s never changed.

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Autopen madness descends on MAGA.

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Today is St. Patrick’s Day, a celebration of Catholicism attempting to suppress Druidism. I’m 100% Irish. Never liked this day at all. Never wear green or a paper leprechaun hat, but I feel the spirit of my homeland in every ocean wind.

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I can’t get it out of mind that some pizza guy was delivering to an apartment, and he got swept up in an ICE raid and is now in jail in El Salvador.

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Make this make sense. Since 2020 Musk’s wealth has exploded. This chart is essentially wealth porn.

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I used to ask my Kerry-born grandmother why she never wore green on St Patrick’s Day, and she’d answer, “My face is a map of Ireland.”

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Newcastle stunned Liverpool. You guys are ignoring the great things.

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It’s time to try democratic-socialism, and be bold about the term. Predatory capitalism is the dirty keyword, not democratic-socialism.

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