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Mom of 2 boys. Disillusioned Dem.
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Yo! Shoutout to AOC & Bernie for leading by example — showing up, speaking truth & organizing w/the people, not just talking at them from D.C. We need that same energy from all Dems. Whether it’s 35,000 or 35 people — show up. Hit the streets, hit the town halls, show you’re ready to fight for us.

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

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This is how insane this country is!!⬇️ ⬇️

This morning in Chicago’s Hyde Park checking out the construction of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

The President and his umbrella attempt to board Air Force One

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

@booker.senate.gov: "Are we a nation that is going to tolerate this, or a nation that's going to stand up? As the great Frederick Douglass said, 'the limits of tyrants are prescribed by the people that they seek to oppress.' How much will we endure before we say enough is enough?"

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

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If we want culture to thrive, not just survive, it’s on all of us now.

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I still will not shut up about the price of eggs $1bn in “windfall income” in the first three-quarters of the financial year Where I’m from this is called price gouging

If you want to win a trade war, you gotta have something to trade that other side wants. And we're in a trade war with the very people who make all the things WE want. You're not going to win that.

@booker.senate.gov: "For a guy who spends the weekend on his golf course and brags to the media about him winning a tournament while the struggling-- this is the kind of gross arrogance of a Marie Antoinette saying, "let them eat cake" ... Screw him for telling people to accept pain."

Brazil: Indigenous people demand rights protection The protesters want their ancestral land rights, which are under threat from industrial farming in the Amazon, to be respected. Police used tear gas to clear demonstrators near Congress in Brasilia. www.dw.com/en/brazil-th...

An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

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Bravo to Susman Godfrey. My first reaction to hearing they had been targeted was to tell people that it wasn’t in that firm’s DNA to settle. Their late founder Steve Susman would be proud of his firm—as should our profession and all freedom-loving Americans.

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Today's Coffee With Texas Paul thumbnail. Hope you can be in the live audience.

ICE apparently is Running with the excuse that they meant to say “intellectual property” when they said “ideas.” That would be less ominous but also less intelligible: how does IP cross borders? Are foreign firms smuggling our trademarks out of the country? Also, I don’t believe them.

The unbridled assault on “Science” is just irrational and so very dangerous! These ignorant acts could have immeasurable negative impacts for generations…

Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

Loved this, “FREE” always tastes so good…

🇬🇧🇳🇴🤝🇺🇦 $580 million UK/Norway military aid package will include: ▪️hundreds of thousands of FPV drones: ▪️radars; ▪️anti-tank mines; ▪️funding for the repair and maintenance of military equipment.

Understand that thousands of US small businesses ordered from China either weeks ago to months ago. They either have not received their orders yet, or they're sitting at the docks. These businesses now must pay 124% more than they expected to pay, due to tariffs. Wonder how many will go belly up.

I wonder how many people within the EU are watching in horror. If there was ever an antidote to isolationism, it is Brexit & the current USA. And, as usual, we can thank ruZZian disinformation for much of the pain.