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Black General Fired, Replaced by Less Qualified White Guy, Because That’s the New DEI ‘Donald Engineered It’: This is an affront on many levels. It’s going to blow up in Trumpty Dumpty’s face and well it should. News broke early Friday night that C.Q. Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

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Any guesses why???

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Here's Pam Bondi hard at work depoliticizing the DOJ.

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👇🏽

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Always stand up to a bully

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BREAKING, Republican lawmaker warns that Putin is a 'cancer' in fiery speech. "So, when I tell you that Putin is a liar, a murderer and a man responsible for ordering the systematic torture, kidnapping, and rape of innocent civilians, believe me because the evidence is mile high"

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Elon Musk already bought one election in order to enrich himself. As the Wisconsin Supreme Court gets ready to rule on key issues relevant to Musk's wealth, he's investing again, this time in the April 1 election for the court's swing seat ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/you-will-n...

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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A reminder: 1. Elon Musk's wealth is mostly in Tesla stock 2. Tesla is successful because at a key moment in 2009 the federal government gave it a $465 million loan so it could make sedans 3. Musk is now firing thousands of government workers and slashing every service ordinary people depend on

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I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.

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Make sure these people are never able to eat in public again

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…the nukes

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Just got out of jail. Only forty four left to go to catch John Lewis’s record. Remember - peaceful civil disobedience. Don’t comply in advance.

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If you want video, Team Protect HB on Instagram has it. I’m unsure if this link will work.

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I posted a copy of the 3 minute version of my speech from yesterday (with citations) if anyone is interested. Feel free to steal from it if you want! (also, this is literally less than half of the Nazi shit they're currently pulling)

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They cited me for “disrupting an assembly”

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I literally said this was what MAGA stood for last night

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I cannot think of anything more profoundly un-American than a president declaring himself a “king”

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if that were so I bet the founders would have mentioned it somewhere

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I'm normally cynical about politicians but this is statesmanship. It is affirming republican civic virtue. Not irony-poisoned snark, not focus-grouped talking points. The oath to the Constitution matters, and it's time to speak plainly and earnestly about how our fundamental principles are at stake.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Dear media: Please do not waste time hyperventilating about this dumb comment. It’s intended to be a distraction from all of the damaging actions he’s taking. Focus on those.

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“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

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From my recent experience, the police took me to the local city jail (credit to HBPD, they were polite and professional the entire time), where they searched me and put me in a cell. Then I had to wait while they figured out what I was getting charged with (disrupting an assembly)

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