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The Golden Age of Corruption www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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news of how tariffs are closing port traffic and shuttering businesses is making it to Fox News www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjrKxC1N/

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Still waiting for acknowledgment from certain family members that the media is tilted, just not the way they think.

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the weirdos who insisted children were being abused in the basement of a pizza parlor with no basement sure are quiet in the face of actual trafficking

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The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, went to pay his respects to the servicemembers and civilians lost in Pearl Harbor on “June 7th, 1941.” It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th. It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class. Only the best people, right?

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ICE went ON BASE to arrest the wife of a Coastguard for a visa violation apnews.com/article/coas...

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well shit

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DOJ personnel don’t comment on anything beyond the four corners of a charging document in order to avoid prejudicing a defendant’s rights. Here’s the policy. The Attorney General of the United States violated it yesterday.

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The Supreme Court, as told by lackeys.

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tesla stock went up almost 10% today on the news that musk can now sell his vaporware “full self driving” bullshit with little oversight and endanger other drivers, in case you’re wondering how ghoulish all this is

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Can we talk about his dementia now?

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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

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I fought damn hard to create the 988 Hotline because help should not be hard to get – regardless of who you are or where you live. This is wrong and cruel – and you can be sure I will fight this. www.axios.com/2025/04/23/l...

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They’re arresting judges now

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Former Washington evangelical pastor Jeffrey Zizz, who was convicted of child rape & released after serving only 11 months in jail, has now been charged with the torture & murder of an 82 year old woman. www.king5.com/article/news...

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This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

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The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy" I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below

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🚨 FBI Director Kash Patel says federal agents have just arrested a sitting judge.

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This is correct from @joeweisenthal.bsky.social

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(AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, two people familiar with the line told The Associated Press. apnews.com/article/hegs...

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Kinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult

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This is an excellent article - I have some additional thoughts from a feminist perspective on the consequences of this Supreme Court judgment, rather than just my legal ones: Thread 🧵

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God love you Massachusetts.

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Yikes, and also, has anyone mentioned this to DOGE yet?

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This has to be the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency. Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president It is literal pay-to-play

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

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Oh. So you mean all those DOGE funding cuts to fund Trump’s billionaire tax cuts have consequences. You don’t say. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

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BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

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A WIRED investigation reveals that the US Department of Homeland Security has deployed at least 30 YouTube ads since April 1 to threaten irregular migrants with deportation and a ban on reentry. www.wired.com/story/dhs-yo...

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Biden Derangement Syndrome

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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

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Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.

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NBC News: The info Pete Hegseth shared with his wife and brother on that second Signal chat came from the secure messages of a top general: Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command. Kurilla used a secure U.S. government system to send the info. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Okay Markwayne.

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The SCOTUS order is like 4 pages, total. The opinion of the court is 3 paragraphs. This isn’t something you just miss or overlook. It’s a brazen, completely inexcusable misrepresentation of the Supreme Court’s order.

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Today’s WSJ: #GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Serious question. Kristi Noem was pictured with a Rolex in El Salvador, and got 3k in cash stolen. She has been on a govt salary for years. Something aint right

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NBC News confirms: Pete Hegseth used his personal phone to send information about U.S. military operations in Yemen to a Signal chat including his wife, brother and personal lawyer, two sources with knowledge confirmed to NBC News. @MSNBC

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