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Insanity!

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We want to call out a blatant lie spread by Elon Musk. Under his leadership, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claimed that 40% of calls to the Social Security Administration (SSA) were fraudulent. That’s been thoroughly debunked. An internal review of over 110,000

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BREAKING: $5M of your tax dollars will be going to the estate of criminal seditionist Ashli Babbit. UNCONSCIONABLE. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 11 hours ago • 430 comments

Call your senators. This bill is heading to them next and they can stop it if the people speak out. (202) 224-3121

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Scoop: CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment that focused on job losses at the Internal Revenue Service hours before it was scheduled to air, replacing it with a feature story on Cajun music. Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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Most attendees at Trump's private memecoin dinner this week will likely be foreign buyers, according to CNBC. One of the top buyers is Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who was facing fraud charges until Trump's SEC dropped them. Call it what it is: corruption.

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Holy shit In one hour: They are indicting a D congresswoman They are going to pay the family of domestic terrorist Ashli Babbit 5 million dollars They sent 50 perfectly innocent people who are here legally to their gulag in El Salvador

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The past few days a lot of people have been fixated on whataboutism & re-litigating history!🤦🏼 IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER!! WE HAVE AN EXISTENTIAL PROBLEM RIGHT NOW! Focus people! 👀 The here & now requires our complete energy & attention! Authoritarianism is here.😒 #DoSomething #StrongerTogether 🤜🏼🤛🏾

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I remember that story www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...

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My statement on the charges filed against me:

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Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

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Ashli Babbitt tried to climb through a barricaded door and into the House Speaker’s Lobby while lawmakers and staff were still in there. She was warned. She ignored the warnings. She is not a martyr. She is an insurrectionist. Giving $5M in taxpayer money to her family is disgraceful.

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“Sorry, we don’t have enough money for universal healthcare, we’re too busy paying people whose family members tried to overthrow the federal government”

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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

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Jeffries on the $5m payout to Ashli Babbitt's family: "This settlement is just an extension of what they've previously done, which is to pardon violent felons who violently attacked the Capitol on January 6, including police officers."

submitted 9 hours ago • 651 comments

Jobs are coming to Oklahoma —but so is a tidal wave of toxic waste. Emirates Global Aluminum is investing $4 bill to build a massive aluminum smelting facility. But the production process generates “red mud,” a corrosive byproduct that can cause severe environmental damage.

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There is a ZERO percent chance that Donald wrote this message. Not because of the absence of CAPS, but because of the presence of decency.

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I'm so sick of them blaming others for things they have destroyed and defunded. They need to be accountable for what they have done..

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Grabbed this photo of Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s tonight at Cruel World. She absolutely ROCKS and her guitar says it all. ✊🏽

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They found no fraud—just a new way to screw over retirees at Silicon Valley speed.

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President Deranged Loser spent the weekend throwing tantrums about tariffs, threatening the Supreme Court, and attacking ABC for telling the truth about his new bribe jet. Verily, he never stops crying like a wee baby.

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Tesla now accepts Cybertruck trade-ins, and the official resale loss is $35k over just 6,000 miles. I repeat: according to Tesla itself a Cybertruck loses $5.60 cents per mile, not counting the cost of electricity, tires, etc. Unprecedented levels of flop! www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-...

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The seven ways Republicans are cutting our healthcare. 1. Higher costs per visit; 2. Paperwork and denial of coverage; 3. Kill the ACA; 4. Shift costs to states who can’t afford it; 5. Getting rid of retroactive coverage; 6. Cutting Planned Parenthood; & 7. Reducing the minimum number of nurses.

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Sen. Chris Murphy to NBC on Democratic opposition to the GOP mega-bill: "What we're standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country."

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#GVerse #TrueFacts Something to think about!

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Beneath contempt.

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How is this legal?

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Hurricane season starts June 1 and if you live in a Gulf state, you need to watch this. It’s worse than you might think. The few employees still left at FEMA admit: they are not prepared. Not enough staff. Not enough supplies. Not enough leadership. Plan accordingly.

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Which dumb ass media outlet wrote this headline?

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Today, thousands from Chicago’s Little Village to the suburb of Aurora made a 30mi human chain in protest. "Every act of courage matters. And we are out here in our act of courage, no matter how small to make sure our voice matters," protestor Rick Lunt said. #MomSky tinyurl.com/fh6s5dae

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In 2022, Biden made “cancer moonshot” one of his administration’s priorities with the goal of halving the cancer death rate over the next 25 years. Meanwhile Trump & Musk have defunded cancer/medical research! Fuck them! Fuck this entire administration! 🤬 www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...

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You mean we, the taxpayers, are paying! Fuck this! Let those Farmers lose it all! They fucked around and should be the first MAGATs to find out!

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