Francine Podenski

ICE: Homegrown terrorists paid for by our tax dollars.

ICE: Homegrown terrorists paid for by our tax dollars.

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This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

This move against state bars is of a piece with the administration’s broader strategy against universities, the media and law firms — any organization capable of challenging the president’s power. And few things threaten it more than holding it to the the truth. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

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Amazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024 UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M. HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

We are all immigrants. Unless you came over on the Mayflower. I am an immigrant to Canada having grown up in the US. America was built by immigrants. Some people have forgotten that.

Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”

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Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

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WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.” Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

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This is an excellent idea!!!

Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.

Newsom: I cannot wait for all the punditry. Historic victories all across the United States of America. Proposition 50 winning by double digits. A new governor of New Jersey, a new governor in Virginia. I’ll end as I began: thank you for giving a damn.

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The government is shut down and Pres Trump is destroying the White House and building this massive ugly ballroom??

An absolute MUST watch!

What were once trains have become planes.

He literally just proved why he was impeached the first time. This time he put it out for the public knowing that Mike Johnson will protect his pedophile ass. I hope I live long enough to know why congress gave up their power to this Nazi.

This is the President explicitly threatening to withhold federal funds from New York City if voters elect a candidate he opposes. This is an unlawful attempt to coerce voters through federal financial threats and a textbook example of voter intimidation to influence the outcome of a local election.

My quote of the day Masha Gessen

It’s now being reported that the FCC chair contacted the Sinclair Stations and encouraged them to cancel airing Kimmel! When Sinclair agreed — then ABC canceled. So the Trump regime appears to be weaponizing the FCC against their critics in the media.

So right-wing podcasters have free speech. But left-wing comedians who quote the right-wing podcasters do not. Got it.

Hey y'all! So I did a thing!! Check out my inaugural episode of my new weekly show, Pours and Perspectives! Thanks for supporting me. Love most of y'all! open.substack.com/pub/thesiren...

Trump is the absolute worst of us. You’d never work for him. You’d never do business with him. You’d never be friends with him. You’d never trust your wife with him. You’d never trust your 14yr old daughter with him. Yet you voted for him. That says more about you than him.

Donald Trump and Dr. Oz* want to require senior citizens to get prior authorization for Medicare healthcare services. Artificial Intelligence (AI) gets to decide whether medical care is approved or not. AI companies would directly profit from denying needed care to seniors.

If a prez wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, biz's w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor We're at #4, almost #5

The key thing about John Bolton and the FBI raid that no one is talking about is the fact that Trump still hasn’t released the Epstein Files.

🧵One of the most powerful and moving things I have seen in a long time. They are the words of a Southern man, and words that need to be heard. His video was too long for BS, so I broke it up into 3 parts. We need more of these men speaking out. Bravo to this one who did.

A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was painted over by the state last night at the order of Ron DeSantis. The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016 — the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.

America has fallen.

“Trump calls our trade deficits a ‘50 year emergency’ — that’s an oxymoron… I have a chronic, incurable trade deficit with my barber. I buy a haircut from her, she buys nothing from me.” Conservative George Will clowns Trump’s trade war, says Congress has abandoned their duties

The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits.

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.

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