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US CBP has been stopping elderly Indian permanent residents and pressuring them into giving up their green card.

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

A 7-year-old girl is fighting for her life in a Utah hospital after deputies say the girl’s mother shot her four daughters before taking her own life.

OPINION: Reprising arguments from the abortion debate, Christian nationalists are claiming to be “defending innocent children” in their war against gender-affirming care.

This tax season, we're here to remind you about TurboTax's 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free. (Published Oct. 2019)

DOGE employee Alexandra Beynon runs MindBloom ..it's his Ketamine dealer! You cant make it up! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @baldwin.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov DO SOMETHING!

✅ DEI Employers of the Day™ Giant Food Lion (owned by Alhold Delhaize) "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion" "I truly believe that we’re stronger together, and stronger in our diversity as well." - CEO Thanks for all suggestions. Growing list of corporations here: www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...

Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...

I saw the Kanye ad yesterday (it aired in the Philly market, where we were) but didn't click on the link. Today I found out it went to a website selling swastika T-shirts. This was a Superbowl ad. And it was to a website selling swastika T-shirts. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

NEW: Did Elon just create a secret IT contracting vehicle at OPM to avoid Congressional and public oversight? We need to get more eyes on this so please share my latest (always free): www.muellershewrote.com/p/did-elon-j...

🚨🚨🚨 NY 21 Special Election Information: Blake Gendebien is the Dem candidate running for the NY21 Congressional seat to replace Elise Stefanik. This is a solidly red area, but with education, unity and hard work anything is possible. Pls share and consider donating. blakegendebienforcongress.com

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

The US government has now gutted all of the tools created to fight kleptocracy. It's going to be up to other democracies to save their political and financial systems from anonymous flows of cash. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/07/w...

Who else thinks Chelsea Clinton and Ben Stiller should sue the ever-loving hell out of any MAGA spreading lies about them taking money from USAID? 🙋‍♀️

End impunity End autogenocide End oligarchy #3E

The US Oligarch and Nazi Elon Musk has been defeated by a German court. Germany has ruled that Musk must immediately provide researchers with access to X's data on politically related content ahead of the country’s election. www.politico.eu/article/berl...

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms and businesses. U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.

With Congress failing to check Trump’s worst instincts, the courts are our last defense. Great tracker of Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions in justsecurity.org

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org

Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!

Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI

MAGA.

Imagine ever having thought anything other than this was going to happen

Coming to a U.S. federal agency near you? BOLO.

Trump White House told the three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign by tomorrow or be fired. Ousting them would paralyze the independent, bipartisan watchdog agency. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

REPUBLICANS ARE BIG PHARMA'S PUPPETS! They're willing to sacrifice lives for profits by: Repealing price caps on insulin Gutting Medicare's power to negotiate lower drug costs Get Big Money out of politics, return power to the people, and defend our democracy. #StopTheOligarchy #DemVoice1

Obama was right. The floodgates opened to special interest groups, silencing the people. 15 years ago, politics was fundamentally changed for the worse after SCOTUS opened the door for corrupt politicians and rich oligarchy's to advance their own agenda. #StopTheOligarchy

Listen up.

The Kremlin up to no good? Meta is useless? Say it ain’t so! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/b...

“Trump has dropped what might be the biggest grift in crypto meme coin history.” (This account 👇 is run by an old friend of mine and I trust his analysis)

Roger Stone‘s speech on January 5 calling for a holy war now with Pete Hegseth it will be the Crusades

NEW: Trump’s pick for Undersecretary of the Air Force is Matthew Lohmeier, who was relieved of command at Buckley AFB in Colorado in 2021. Lohmeier had published a book suggesting the military is infiltrated by Marxism. #copolitics www.9news.com/article/news...

This really pisses me off… Republicans are trying to repeal the $35 cap on insulin. Please spread the word.

“Orbán used law as a weapon against democracy. He consolidated power…giving orders directly to the bureaucracy, which he had reconstructed by changing civil service law…Orbán’s was accompanied by aggressive use of libel actions…He packed the courts with loyalists.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...

Here's my first piece for The Contrarian. If Trump weaponizes the Justice Department against his critics, how will the public distinguish what Trump is doing from what the DOJ did under Biden? Facts should matter. Ah, but who will provide the evidence? open.substack.com/pub/contrari...