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Lutnick: "I think the president is gonna go right through. I think we're either gonna make a deal with Gov. Hochul or we're gonna ride right over her."

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Trump: "Show up to work in person like the rest of us ... they're not working. They're playing tennis, they're playing golf. (Trump has been at his house and golfing all week.)

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“Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes,” Timothy W. Ryback writes in a step-by-step account:

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Current American foreign policy is about draining power from the US and its allies, thereby creating atmospherics in which Donald Trump feels good and Elon Musk converts lost state capacity into personal profit. The weakness, in other words, is the point. snyder.substack.com/p/affirmativ...

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This is correct.

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During FY2024, under President Biden, 28% of immigration arrests were of people who had no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. In Februrary, under President Trump, it's 41%. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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And there it is

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Trump likes being #2, he likes doing the PR work, being in front of the camera, getting the adulation, but serving the boss. Musk will dominate him at home and Putin will dominate him abroad. He will deliver their lines, as he has just done for Putin in shocking fashion, and does for Musk every day.

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"It is, in many ways, an oligarchy gestating in real time. It is an opening to influence American policy beyond the Kremlin’s wildest dreams. And it is what an implosion of democracy looks like." November 1, 2024.

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🚨Trump & Musk are using DOGE—their secretive, far-right project—to go after your VA care, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and cost Veterans jobs. We’re exposing them, but we need your stories to fight back. 🔒We take privacy seriously. Share your story securely: votevets.org/doge-tipline

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ANOTHER Top Federal Prosecutor Resigns Rather than Doing the Dirty Work of Trump's DOJ. youtu.be/4hfqi--4fMo?...

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I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

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Trump wants you to forget that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator during his first week in office. Don’t forget.

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Disgusting toxic trash. Trump is a real tough guy, banging out Truth Social posts from his golf cart at a guy who has fought off a murderous drug-addled barbarian horde for 3 years defending his people from Russian rapists and child kidnappers.

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"Yesterday it became clear that America hasn’t abandoned its allies so much as switched sides." You know what will follow from that? Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-world-...

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Trump: "To keep peace, you really have to-- I have a thing. Strength ... through-- and I mean it. You really have it. You have strength. And you need the strength. But it's really peace through strength."

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"With every meter of territory they liberate, Ukrainian soldiers win the war NATO was created to fight. Ukrainian heroes fight and die daily to defend NATO’s peace. Ukraine offers NATO the greatest deal ever presented in military history."

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What a shame. Teamsters deserve better than this.

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👀

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Trump: "In another program, $50 million plus another $50 million for condoms for Hamas. You know that? $100M for condoms. Does everybody know what a condom is?" (This has been debunked multiple times, including last week when Musk admitted it was false)

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Wonder what Sen. Mike Lee and all the ‘constitutional conservatives’ and ‘limited government’ Republicans make of the GOP president calling himself a “king.” 🤷🏽‍♂️

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after trump - oops! - accidentally has his top campaign donor fire hundreds of people from the National Nuclear Security Administration... now we learn that, apparently, the new plan is that he's going to handle that one himself, "man to man." whew! sigh of relief. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/b...

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Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."

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According to Musk and most of tech: No conflict, no interest

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Tragic.

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I try to keep the language on here… PG… but in this case i can’t. You, Trump, are a traitorous piece of shit

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Whitehouse: "Remember Trump-Russia? The Mueller report said there was Trump-Russia. The bipartisan Senate intelligence report said there was Trump-Russia. Repeated trials brought in evidence showing Trump-Russia. There was, is, and forever shall be Trump-Russia."

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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev seems shocked by how quickly Trump has aligned the U.S. with Russia. The WSJ reported today that Russian officials “appeared to be caught off guard” by the speed of Trump’s pivot toward Moscow.

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Trump is surrendering America. Trump is the opposite of strong. He is a tiny, weak, small, scared, trembling, sissy, husk of a man. There is nothing manly about his fat, sweaty, smelly, gross, makeup'ed self An absolute joke

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Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

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Thursday’s front page of the British Daily Star. Putin’s Poodle

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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