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Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

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“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

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Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

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Ratio-rama incoming...

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No reason. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

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The following Representatives should start looking for new jobs now: Jared Golden-Maine Henry Cuellar-Texas Ed Case-Hawaii Marie Gluesenkamp Perez-Washington They all voted with the magats to pass the SAVE Act and thereby are participating in voter suppression.

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Medicaid pays Doctors, Pharmacies, Hospitals, Assisted Living Homes, etc. It is not paid to patients. The fraud, waste and abuse are due to those providers overbilling Medicare and Medicaid.

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Mike Johnson on Medicaid: "What we've talked about is returning work requirements ... you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day. We have a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid."

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According to a source, when Musk privately messages associates and confidants about reports from federal staffers about how their lives have been wrecked, the Tesla CEO is known to react with laugh-crying emojis. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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🚨Every word of this from AOC. "If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.” (🎥 NY1)

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Markets woke up and realized that a 10% global tariff and 125% tariff on China is still going to devastate America’s economy.

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🚨 NEWS: The White House confirms the tariff on Chinese imports is now 145%—not 125%. Reminder: tariffs are taxes on imported goods, which means Americans end up paying more.

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Imagine that. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind they were tipped off? They are laughing at us all. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Remember the big presser where Pam Bondi announced charges against a prominent MS-13 leader? They appear to be dropping the case and seeking a quick deportation instead. In a bizarre twist, the defendant is asking the court NOT to dismiss the charges 1/X storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

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Sure was a lucky break for those billionaires to be at the White House today when the tariffs were reversed. Good day in the market for them.

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Oh my god

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I’m no expert on tariffs, but I do know that wildly fluctuating economic chaos is a recipe for disaster for business planning. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

submitted 4 days ago • 753 comments

1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat

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In 1987 I sat through an hour long lecture in my Modern US History course parsing several different complicated interpretations of why the 1929 crash happened. Future historians will be like "Donald Trump was an ignorant fool who imposed pointless tariffs that crashed the global economy. The end."

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What kills me is I know a bunch of very rich very stupid people who voted for him because they said he’d be good for the economy. Anyone alive during 2016 to 2020 would’ve been able to tell you that Trump is completely nonsensical and moronic. we are the United States of amnesia.

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In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse

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Our lives mean NOTHING to him. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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He voted for this. And losing a fortune daily.

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China just announced 84% tariffs on the US. There is no winner in a global trade war. This isn’t a negotiation, it’s an economic pissing contest that is going to ruin the economies of several nations if people don’t get their shit together.

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This will absolutely kill people. The decimation of USAID, the gutting of CDC, NIH and now he’s about to create drug shortages.

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I don’t know if folks who haven’t spent time in / closely following Texas understand just how brazenly corrupt Ken Paxton really is. But here’s a thread, if you’re curious…

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Trump has announced his new plan for autogenocide, he will now proceed to make medication far more expensive, which will lead to millions of deaths. "We're gonna tariff our pharmaceuticals ... we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals." #3E

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ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

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Omg. He is so crazy. He's going to kill millions.

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So this is a really big problem that will straight up kill me, please call your Senators in support of the Grassley thing (can’t believe I’m saying that). Holy fuck, I now have to dissociate into Stardew Valley or something.

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We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.

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This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri. This is not my America, and the world is aghast.

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"Over the weekend, Trump endorsed sending U.S. citizens to El Salvador prisons." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.

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Paxton’s wife just introduced a bill in the Texas Senate that would require photo ID to purchase a sex toy. For real. I wouldn’t joke about something like this.

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