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I don't know if these men were drug traffickers. You don't know either. Pete Hegseth sure doesn't know. Neither does Donald Trump. And that's exactly why this matters. Just because they say so, doesn’t make it so. Proof or GTFO.
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I don't know if these men were drug traffickers. You don't know either. Pete Hegseth sure doesn't know. Neither does Donald Trump. And that's exactly why this matters. Just because they say so, doesn’t make it so. Proof or GTFO.
He keeps bragging about getting a perfect cognitive test score 😅. That’s like bragging you can successfully tie your own shoes. Congratulations…or something?!
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
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Not surprising. On nights like tonight I can’t help but remember this—which feels like 30 years ago—but was only 8 months ago. Trump to Chief Justice Roberts after a pseudo-state of the union address: “Thank you again, thank you again, won’t forget” with a nice pat on the shoulder. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Texas use Trump-backed gerrymandered maps in 2026
The midterms are going to be interesting. I know it’s easy for us to wonder how ppl could vote in favor of the BS happening around us, but it’s SO IMPORTANT that WE remember that WE are the outliers. On 🦋 talking politics. “Normies” aren’t. So a swing like TN7 should inspire you to keep fighting.
Alright Tennessee, let’s see what you got.
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It's okay for some campaign promises to be about optics rather than policy. "We're going to bulldoze his monument to himself on Day One and rebuild the East Wing" would be a very good one for 2028.
“It is something that has been needed and desired at the White House for over 150 years, but something which no other President was equipped to do…”
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GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…” Wanting to address this isn’t radical. NOT wanting to is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) privately pushed President Donald Trump to stand down from his plan to offer a compromise extending Affordable Care Act subsidies for two years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.” “‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
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"Earlier this year, scientists warned that bird flu had sparked the worst die-off on record for southern elephant seals... "The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females." phys.org/news/2025-11...
Spoiler: Definitely not legal. Over/under on Hegseth fleeing the country first?!
Breaking news: In the past 10 months, the Trump administration has pushed for lethal strikes on Western Hemisphere drug traffickers and repeatedly steamrolled or sidestepped government lawyers who questioned whether the provocative policy was legal.
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If you disagree, you’re wrong. That’s just the way it is.
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
“The mob doesn’t want to be fed, it wants to hunt. And once you’re a target, it doesn’t matter what you did before. It doesn’t matter how loyal you were. You’re just another goat to be devoured.” MTG helped build that mob. Now she’s discovering what everyone else already knew. Readhe full piece ⬇️
Drain the swamp though—amirite?!
Pam Bondi firing the DOJ’s top ethics advisor because she wanted to keep a box of cigars gifted to her by Conor McGregor is maybe the perfect example of this administration’s corruption. If my dad—a retired FBI agent—had accepted a cup of cheap coffee from anybody, he would’ve lost his badge.
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man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
I don't believe MTG is humble enough to mean what she's been saying on her 'redemption tour.' I do believe she smells smoke in the Republicans house as it pertains to Jeffery Epstein and their need to protect a known pedophile. Where there's smoke, there's fire. open.substack.com/pub/landongo...
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Feels like we're at the stage where Nixon caved to the pressure and released transcripts of the Oval Office recordings, which turned out to have been heavily edited and misleading. We might be jumping ahead to the 18 1/2 minute erasure, though. But I'm not sure the 1-to-1 comparison really works?
Attention, historians of Watergate! I'm getting flashbacks from the months of back and forth, reversals and blunders over release of White House records. What stage are we at with the Epstein Files? Drip, drip, drip, as we used to say. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social