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Retired journalist with Reuters 30+ who writes, kayaks, travels and is a lucky Grandma to three. All views are my own. No DMs unless I know you.
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Japan says Trump is like a delinquent kid extorting someone and Trump is a serious negotiator. youtu.be/DvDCtYgv9wI?...

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Odd that the VP continues to visit several European counties but the coward steadfastly refuses to accept the long standing open invitation from Ukraine to visit that country, talk to the people, hear the truth, & see reality. But he prefers his right-wing social media dystopia.

submitted 15 hours ago • 297 comments

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Another US citizen held by ICE and judge claims no power to release him. U.S.-born man held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

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You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

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Delay, delay until no PSLF at all. Another court order evaded www.forbes.com/sites/shahar...

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Enough is enough. Get out in the streets and show these sick bastards we won't stand for this!

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"'I’d hire bodyguards and come,' I told my husband. 'I’d cancel and stay home,' he replied. This is the America we live in now. In Donald Trump’s America." New from @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-sh...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."

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April 15 - Tax Day - HBO releases 2 films I directed as part of “The Dark Money Game.” The first, “Ohio Confidential,” about a $1.3 billion-dollar heist by pols in Ohio. Sen 2nd, is “Wealth of the Wicked” about the corruption of the Supreme Court. youtu.be/dykZuyO7RUU

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Donald Trump is now openly defying the Supreme Court. This is an escalation in the slide into authoritarianism.

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President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele: "Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate. But to liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some."

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We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

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NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire www.propublica.org/article/noaa...

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Cruelty, pure and simple. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

Let these observations of Fiona Hill sink in, please! This is happening and get just a little worse every day! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jAYYEg/

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Tariff effect: The more you pay for your car, the higher your insurance rate will be.

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