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At a Hands Off rally on Capitol Hill, former Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley slams the Trump regime for their gargantuan lies about Social Security: "We have to put the brakes on Elon Musk and Donald Trump trying to wreck its reputation and wreck its customer service so they can…

Blaming anyone's immoral and bad behavior on something others did that we disagree with is not only illogical, it's irresponsible and a little dangerous.

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Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.

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BREAKING: A Colorado federal court blocked the Trump administration from deporting more people under the Alien Enemies Act. Yet another federal court confirms that President Trump does not have the authority to use this wartime law in this manner.

Across America, the confirmed measles case count is 935, more than triple the amount seen in the entirety of 2024. The measles crisis in this country is clearly growing, with North Dakota one of the newest states hit. North Dakota is, in fact, now battling an official outbreak — defined as three…

There are an estimated 22,000 CIA employees. Simultaneously, the population of Greenland is 57,000 people. That's roughly one spy for every three Greenlanders I suggest they start doing their undercover work in November

WSJ: “.. The classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/greenl...

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This is called a bribe. We all know it’s a bribe. The freight company spending $20 million admits it’s a bribe. Everyone understands this, and yet no one is holding him accountable — especially his own party which claims to care about law and order.

Dispatches from War zone, USA. If you think it's somewhere else.... It can happen anywhere here in this country.

There was a time when the reserve currency of the world. Was the Pound Sterling, and there were colonial dollars all around as a local exchange instrument. Wasn't that long ago

This is these people flailing and throwing whatever dog whistles they can into every assertion they make.... Eventually, (and I am not saying it's going to happen quickly) there will be a return to a fact-based society, and our discourse will return to some level of sanity

RFK Jr. is dangerous.

Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social

This is why a president corrupts a Justice Department.

He would like nothing more than to take over the property and build a high-rise luxury apartment building called trump tower alcatraz

A gift to the NRA.

It's on a tiny island? Where on earth are you going to enlarge it? Skyscraper alcatraz? Dumbest timeline ever

Is Trump sending an alternate slate of Cardinals to the conclave?

Voting is the remedy That's how we stop this Voting

I keep saying the price of TSLA is irrationally high and am wondering what is buoying it. Here is another crack in the edifice... Why is this stock trading in the 200s rather than the 20s?

This what MAGA voted for.

Maybe dust that off and give it another spin

Out Of His Tiny Mind

If only the New York Times was as eager to front page a president showing signs of mental illness as they were showing signs of age.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

New game Edible roulette See what's going to kill you Nearly 19K Pounds of Meat Recalled After Customers Complain of Taste, Color Source: TODAY.com search.app/uQJTc Shared via the Google App

Elon's latest way to consume copious amounts of power and lose money

@juliejohnsontx.bsky.social from the ayfkm files.... youtube.com/shorts/hN1J2...

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely. This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal. This is bioterrorism.

NO JOKE: Here is a photo of Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during the cabinet meeting the other day.

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#ProudBlue #MomSky Another loss for YamTiits A Federal Judge has ruled that the declaration of the Alien Enemies act was is unlawful. They stated that there is no invasion or war which the statute requires. Reported by @aaronparnas.bsky.social

Big shoutout to Chicago! ✊ 👏

6,666,666 people will show up in protest

We have reached peak stupid The nexus of stupid and cruel It's strupel...

They are taking away the "environmental and regulatory standards," Herr Göebbels

Donald Trump is a scared, weak, pathetic little man who wrongly claims credit when none is due and constantly shifts blame to others to avoid any accountability for his actions.

ICE is forcibly removing entire families without due process, including U.S. citizen children. We will not tolerate the Trump administration’s cruel violations of our rights.