Vee Haacke

Vee Haacke

@veepoliticsonly.bsky.social

Political account of Vee Haacke, writer. Lifelong Iowan. U of Iowa alum ‘08 DS. LGBTQIA+ 🌈 AuDHD Trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ are human rights Slava Ukrainii! Free Palestine! Manifesting cholesterol taking the Orange trash out.

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Fox News: "Take a look at that...no matter what the issue was, voters say that they trust Democrats more than Republicans by double-digit margins." (Even on the issue of corruption.)

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The US periodically murders, without trial, people in boats that it has deemed to be involved in drug smuggling. Again: this is murder, plain and simple. There is no law, national or international, that can even pretend to justify it. The US has simply claimed the right to murder whoever it wants.

pbs.orgU.S. military says 5 were killed by a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern PacificTrump has sought to justify the attacks by saying they stem the flow of drugs into the U.S., but critics have questioned the overall legality of the boat strikes as well as their effectiveness.

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Reminder: this is LITERALLY not how it works. A Speaker is only elected AFTER everyone is seated. Johnson won't be Speaker when seating happens. There literally will not be a Speaker.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RAJU: So if Trump says 'Don't seat Democrats,' you'll resist him? MIKE JOHNSON: I'll do my job as Speaker. The president has vowed of course that he wants to follow the law as well.

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This is crazypants. The DOJ charged a former FBI agent with false statements because she told Congress she didn't know details about an article she didn't read.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social

Donovan: So your position is that if someone says "I don't know" in response to a question about an article they didn't read, that would be a false statement? Witt: We believe her response "I don't know" is a false statement.

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I am Clayton County, Georgia and have been talking to older Black voters outside a polling place and ahead of this Obama rally and can confirm: older Black voters to a tee are FURIOUS about the Supreme Court killing the Voting Rights Act. This is the home of John Lewis and MLK.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com

One thing I've been noodling on is why is the Dem wave seemingly way bigger in the south than the upper midwest and the answer I keep coming back to is that Black voters are fucking pissed about redistricting and the end of the VRA.

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Seems like Democrats have a new campaign promise to run on, one week before the midterms

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🗳️ Brazil's defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro stepped out of a private plane in Florida on Wednesday morning, AFP witnessed, despite a court order banning him from leaving his country ➡️ u.afp.com/SyGH

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Look, the simple truth is that on November 3rd, the Republican Party needs to be punished. The Republican Party needs to be punished BIG TIME for continuing to embrace a sociopathic madman who is a traitor to, and an enemy of, America. VOTE.

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Yissss

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social

I know absolutely nothing about Lula except that i saw someone share a clip on insta of him in celebration kissing a trans woman politician on the cheek and oh my god is that a radical act for a politician in 2026 so lets fucking go

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Watching politicians who rode the “tough on crime” magic carpet to power absolutely cringe at the thought of investigating the president & his cabinet is something else. I guess if the targets of the prosecutions aren’t poor & powerless, they’re just not interested.

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Bill Essayli has been disqualified from leading the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. The order doesn't go into effect right away, though. The Trump admin keeps losing these cases everywhere.

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Big trouble here for Scott Jennings. A $72.5 million defamation lawsuit is no small matter, especially when the allegations involve a manipulated video and a fabricated quote. This could get very ugly for him. It’s about time this sort of deception has consequences.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Hasan Piker is suing Scott Jennings for lying.

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Replying to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

If your response to this is the 2/3 conviction requirement, thank you, but, I know. That said, (1) there is a lot more to this than the final vote and (2) we — Trump, Democrats, Republicans, the country — are in a very different place than we were in Trump 1.0.

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Replying to @annabower.bsky.social

Donovan goes back to Patel. He directed you to investigate Floris? Witt: Directive in July given to Kansas City, I was assigned through chain of command Donovan: Is that normally how investigations play out? Witt: I've not had a tasking from a director in my career...agrees this was "unusual"

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social

Safer: You investigate drug dealers and human traffickers. You know how important history, credibility is...Before you came into court to accuse these public servants, wasn't it important to do a little research on their background? Witt: I was instructed to investigate this specific issue

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Hilarious: DOJ interrupts a Feeb getting his ass handed to him by defense attorneys for Kash's targets to announce the no-bill on a Cassidy Hutchinson indictment. WTF Ned Hedley was doing there IDK.

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This is highly suggestive of a senior government officer on the take. “Hegseth reported at least $3.1mn in cash, retirement investments and bitcoin in his newly released 2025 annual financial disclosure. One bank account held more than $1mn, compared with a normal $15,001–$50,000 range for an

cnbc.comPete Hegseth reports at least $3.1 million in cash, investments and bitcoinDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth reported at least $3.1 million in assets as he faces an impeachment push in Congress over his handling of the Iran war.

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Raskin: "When historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump."

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Well done, John Roberts. Well done.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department says it will give US visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.

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Alex Pretti's father: Our son was shot and killed by the government, federal immigration agents, on January 24th, 2026. His hands were in the air, and his face was on the ground when he was executed by ICE agents. No one from the federal government called us on that day. No one has called us since.

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Lowering the Medicare age to 50 would cost $180 billion a year. That's $70 billion less than the budget increase the House passed for the Department of War. We could have healthcare over warfare. I'm proud to cosponsor Rep. Jayapal's bill to lower the age from 65 to 50.

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Jeremy Lewin killed hundreds of thousands without a signed employment agreement.

WIRED@wired.com

Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

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1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

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It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

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Friends, I'm going to say this as gently as I can. This is not moral or ethical advice. That should be the priority but let's put it aside for a second. This is financial advice. Listen closely. If you buy stock in an AI company, you're a clown and a mark and you will lose your money. Don't do it.