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Should read “known oligarchic back-channel to Putin works to make US president look even weaker on Russia than he already is, yielding triple win for Putin” www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

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What has Ukraine done for us? So, so much — if by “us” you mean the free world mickryan.substack.com/p/what-has-u...

Data from Border Protection (CBP) show the vast majority of fentanyl comes through legal ports of entry. And the people bringing it into the country are native born Americans. Approximately 80% of people convicted of federal drug trafficking offenses were U.S. citizens, www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

My quote of the day Barack Obama

American should be the second 👇

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I actually don’t think most Americans understand how much damage has been done to the nation, the deep madness of choosing to be governed by people who themselves are a madness of “anything could be true but really nothing is” Everything we thought we stood for and we thought protected us is gone

1/ US regulators were ordered by a Trump Administration political appointee to stop investigating suspected insider trading relating to Donald Trump's March 23 announcement that he wouldn't bomb Iranian power plants. The move is said to be "unheard of". ⬇️

FML, this is completely brutal. I don't know how he could show his face in public again...

And Why cant they pay their own electricity costs?.....

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is encouraging voters to request mail ballots while challenging mail voting infrastructure nationwide. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Of course, Igor directly contributed to what's occurred - he's an open imperialist. And a grade A asshole. He talks about his role in capturing Crimea and Donetsk - doesn't even pretend it was "liberation". But the point is even he can't see a good outcome now.

Trump’s job is to destroy the United States

Is anyone going to TELL Trump he's not getting any coverage on TV and his media audio is off? Is anyone going to TELL Trump his polling has fallen to 30%? Probably not, since he lives in a sycophantic bubble of Natalie love.

When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.

The condition of the victim is unknown, but apparently he has no criminal record & no order for final removal. These ICE thugs don't care. They think they're above the law & right now with Republicans in charge, they are. So vote blue. The election has already started! bsky.app/profile/male...

1/ The secret funding of Donald Trump Jr.'s lavish Bahamas wedding by a Russian oligarch is being hailed by some Russian commentators as a masterclass in covert destabilisation. Others suggest that an emerging post-Putin elite faction is seeking to ally itself with the Trumps. ⬇️

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DCC is life

Today, CSPI’s Litigation Department and co-counsel at the @aclu.org, @protectdemocracy.org, and others filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with. We're unafraid to take this admin to court again.

Donald Trump admits what DOJ and most of the legacy media refuse to. The U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule was a partisan effort to help the GOP. SCOTUS' decision was, in his words: "a big loss for Republicans."

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Total Active Cases: 204 Active Voting Rights Cases: 164 Active Redistricting Cases:  40 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 84 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 79 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 31 www.democracydocket.com

I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.

Donnie is the patron saint of everything crappy and terrible.

Anthropic being the one running up the red flag in all this is the real chef's kiss in this debacle.

They say the measure of a government is how it treats its most vulnerable citizens “Nationwide, roughly 5 million Americans have lost access to SNAP since the Republican-backed budget bill became law, including more than 1.5 million children, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities”

'US Envoys'? I'm old enough to remember a time when a person had to be more than a frequent mention in the Epstein files like Steve Witkoff or a pageboy for Saudi Arabian princes like Jared Kushner to qualify as an official US envoy.

It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.

Cities dumped Flock cams over surveillance abuse, then signed w/ Axon instead. Same tracking-tech, different logo. Trump bought up to $5 million in Axon stock 2 weeks before ICE handed it a $220 million contract. This is “insider trading” & it is corruption at the highest level. #CostOfCorruption

This tweet is a case study in the purpose behind the 25th amendment. Our president is fucking insane.

🚨 #NAFOArticle5 Fellas, we need all hands on deck for the next two months. Russia is really ramping up the disinformation ahead of the US midterms. Every single political post on Twitter and Facebook is getting bot-swarmed. We need Republicans to lose so Trump can be impeached. It's do-or-die time.

BREAKING: A U.S. Postal Service official has filed a whistleblower report alleging the agency is pushing ahead with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement Trump’s order giving the federal government more control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking the plan.

We need more media outlets taking this kind of action. Enough with the spread of fascist propaganda

Trump is bonkers.

1/ Russia intends to force Europe to stop supporting Ukraine by making Ukrainian cities uninhabitable and raising the war's cost to a politically unsustainable level, according to a Russian commentary. The author anticipates the European public revolting against continuing aid to Ukraine. ⬇️

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Should note 2 of the 3 went out and defended Datarepublican after her own similar role was exposed through her own bungling. They're all coworkers, essentially.

More important news 🚨 from @marcelias.bsky.social on the #MailInVoting case‼️ It’s complex, and, as usual, Marc gives us a clear, easy to understand explanation. But the upshot is that you need to make a plan to vote and, if you #VotebyMail you might want to rethink that! youtu.be/8_Fu1yRpgps?...

The smoking gun evidence in the hush money trial that convicted Trump on 34 felony counts included a $50K payout to Red Finch Technologies. Red Finch artificially boosted Trump's polls. Just making sure no one forgets Trump has been fixing the polls for a decade.

#TXPaul has found source of #Trump's massive importation of beef. It's rejected beef from S. America. Not good enough for China. But good enough for you? www.youtube.com/shorts/HYKNn...

He’d rather sell off our national parks than lower the price of your groceries.

Is it horse meat-beef or cow beef.. Inquiring minds need to know.. Is it from America, Argentina, or are Americans going to remember & recognize China's stand ? My family is boycotting any & ALL beef products Where do you stand ??

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