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“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”. Got that? Not. A. Crime.” From my new Guardian op-ed:

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Dr. Oz confirmed to lead Medicare and Medicaid Services. ✅ No relevant health policy experience ✅ Promotes pseudoscience ✅ Conflicts of interest galore ✅ Partisan hack ✅ Distrusted by actual medical experts ✅✅Uncanny physical appearance Perfect choice 🍑🎩 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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BREAKING: The Department of Defense Inspector General has launched an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for sharing secret attack plans against the Houthis using Signal.

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These people are literally telling you “don’t believe your eyes”

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Turns out 8 trillion dollars is what the invisible hand of the market value being able to control trans people and send legal immigrants to foreign prisons.

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THEY WILL NO LONGER BE TEACHING THE LAWS OF😳 THE GENEVA CONVENTION TO MILITARY RECRUITS🚨 They will not be told it’s wrong to Torture, Rape or Steal 😳 LET THE AMERICAN WAR CRIMES BEGIN 🗣️🗣️🗣️🚨🚨 Done in YOUR NAME 🫵🏽🫵🏻🫵🏾🫵🏼🫵🏿 taskandpurpose.com/news/army-tr...

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Oh, he knows. This is absolutely a deliberate action from that PAB & his trumpette puppet chucklefucks...

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1. And it should surprise nobody... Gavin Newsom's anti-trans sports stance and other anti-trans stances he took in his interview with Charlie Kirk were cited by California Republicans during their sports ban hearing. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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i want nothing more than for jd vance to become a pariah whose name is a burden on him for the rest of his life.

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The Republicans are killing Americans

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I literally came across this yesterday. A homophobe saying "editing all the gay people out of a videogame doesn't make me a homophobe" lol Actually, it does.

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Many people have asked how we will stop the current administration’s anti-worker, illegal, hate-filled policies. In this moment, every action, every voice matters. You can take action this Saturday at a rally near you. (🧵1/3)

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I posted the video over 2 years ago. People thought he was bluffing I guess.

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I find it outrageous as well.

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A shockingly straightforward headline from CNN: www.cnn.com/business/liv...

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Senator Ron Wyden on Dr. Oz: "If confirmed, the person running the Medicare program thinks it's acceptable to not pay the taxes he owes into the program he's running." Dr. Oz is unfit.

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Yep.

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As Americans' 401(k) and retirement accounts plummet, Donald Trump jets off to go to Saudi Arabia's LIV golf dinner and tournament at his Doral golf club before heading to Mar-a-Lago. Does MAGA even care that the Saudis are funneling money to Donald or nah?

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That this person is now making critical decisions about the inner workings of the state security of the United States of America is the sort of judgment of the LORD upon an evil nation that you'd expect to read about in like Jeremiah

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This is the admin's goal: Taking "gender identity" out of government language, so that the private sector feels pressure to take it out, too, and a future court will rule that actually it's not protected. www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

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Raw truth 👇

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Straight down seems bad

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www.wired.com/story/doctor...

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MUST WATCH: Rep. Suhas Subramanyam gave a cybersecurity 101 speech… to the people in charge of our national security. You should be very, very worried.

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🏴 Day 73! - Hands off rally on April 5! - Walmart Blackout on the 7th! - #TeslaTakedown every day! www.teslatakedown.com

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Cynthia Nixon Power to the people!

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Like I mentioned earlier. It is definitely liberation day. f47 is liberating America and the people who live here of our dollars. Which will destabilize the US dollar. Does anyone remember what happens when a countries currency gets destabilized? #SheShed #MomSky #Voices4Victory

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It’s a day ending in Y so of course we’re finding out that RFK Jr. fired another brilliant doctor/scientist….this time it’s Dr. Peter Stein….the doctor that saved Trump’s miserable life when he got COVID

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1. Incredible news for trans people in Montana. A Montana judge has temporarily blocked the state's bathroom ban targeting trans adults in airports, colleges, and more. He ruled that the state showed no evidence bathroom bans protect women. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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www.dcreport.org/2025/04/01/t...

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Asylum Seeker Resource Centre says detainees at an immigration detention centre in Melbourne's north rioted because of frustration that a man was not receiving adequate healthcare. With a refusal to call an ambulance despite a man appearing to be having a heart attack www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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