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Dan Caine, Trump’s new replacement for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly told Trump, “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” He also put on a MAGA hat, despite it violating military protocol.

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(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

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My new favorite drug is Republican members of Congress getting yelled at in their districts by constituents who hate Musk.

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I might actually be in favor of Trump’s tariffs on the UK if they send Liz Truss over again.

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Help our Science friends out if you are in these cities please!

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Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

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Thanks to @humanistreport.bsky.social for letting me know this exists. search.app/BtScASj94Jko...

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Raskin: "It's becoming obvious to the American people that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are not opponents of corruption, they are agents of corruption."

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BREAKING: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested TODAY near the U.S. Capitol by Capitol Police. As Tarrio was walking away from a rally, he knocked the phone out of the hands of a heckler. Police immediately took Tarrio into custody. GOOD!

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Jessica: There was a huge drop in support for President Trump and for Elon Musk. Trump’s approval rating is down 5-7 points across four of these big polls. He’s underwater on managing the economy by 8 points. Did you see those town halls? Rich McCormick were booing him.

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Our new investigation in @wired.com shows the danger of Google's huge RTB security problem We easily obtained Google RTB segment data about US national security personnel from a databroker -- despite posing as a foreign company that fetes Russian troops our fake website www.wired.com/story/google...

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This is such a great example of what its actually really important to bring the heat to elected Republicans: they are massively soft crybabies who will 100% come unglued when faced with even the slightest bit of pushback from voters.

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Hypocrite says what?

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Terminated CDC employees—reach out! ⬇️

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An entire government built on the premise of owning the libs. Revolting.

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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"This is what happens when innumeracy hits ambition." President Trump and Elon Musk are touting a new plan to send checks to Americans with the money purportedly saved by DOGE. @justinwolfers.bsky.social breaks down the math.

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Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

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Senate Republicans have a choice: tax cuts for the wealthy, or meals for hungry kids. ..we'll let you guess which way they're leaning.

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Pudding Fingers went there.

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Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

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Politico’s owner liked Vance cozying up to the Nazi-tainted AfD. Good to know.

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Their goal is to make life worse for you and privatize everything so robber barons can make an extra buck.

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He's mad his lies about Ukraine were fact-checked by his own website so he wants to change the fact-checking system

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The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

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This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

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BREAKING: A Republican Congressman has filed to impeach a judge who blocked DOGE. Judge Paul Engelmayer limited DOGE's access to sensitive Treasury data. Now Representative Derrick Van Orden wants him gone. www.axios.com/2025/02/20/d...

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Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

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"One of the nation’s most prominent law firms, Sullivan & Cromwell, has made its decision, and it is the wrong one. S&C recently announced its ambition to become the leading Wall Street “MAGA” law firm by taking on the representation of Trump in the appeal of his “hush money” felony conviction"

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Please do not underestimate how shitty these people are. Do not underestimate how low they really can go. This piece is an example of underestimating evil. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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I think you’re being deeply unfair to our powerfully genius orange Unterpräsident. FFOTUS is perfectly capable of making up ridiculous shit on his own.

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Call to action: An automated tool to send emails & calls to your elected US officials in solidarity with Ukraine. If you are from outside of the US "do not" use google maps to find an address or add a personal message saying you're a Republican. #3E #StandWithUkraine americancoalitionforukraine.org

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HEADS UP! We need to give this story more attention. This is the next phase - investigations of those who criticize Trump, Musk or SCOTUS. It’s already started. It is a campaign of intimidation designed to silence criticism. wapo.st/3X8d75G

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Hochul is one of the few Democrats who has grown in strength and spine since the election.

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HELL YEAH: In a masterful speech, the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker announces not ONLY a balanced budget in his state but alludes to Donald Trump and Elon Musk as being “IDIOTS.” Let me know if you agree with him.

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Where are Democratic leaders? You know the "centrists?" How come they aren't doing anything? It's up to progressives...

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For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

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NEW: DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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You had it right the first time.

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