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BREAKING: Trump was just asked if Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home: “I guess… Like I said, some people will die.”

😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!)

A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭

Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

And I genuinely, truly and non-trollingly, understand concerns about threats to officers in question, but in every single other law enforcement shooting I've covered, authorities name the individual(s) involved. This is just the baseline of public accountability.

For centuries, American Men have convinced each other - through culture & conditioning - that violence is power.

When in reality: violence is loss of control.

99% of people only commit violence when they lose control of their emotions.

Violence does NOT DISPLAY POWER - it only shows weakness.

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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

We already have complete access to Greenland, including unfettered freedom of navigation into the Arctic.

We have a military base. We have early warning radar systems in place that will integrate with the “dome.”

And we have allies to help defend it. We don’t need Greenland.

Make it viral.

Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

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In an equitable America, we'd have far more parties than 2.

And thus, more viewpoints being represented - negotiating with others on behalf of their needs.

BUT, the most important thing to remember is that cooperation, multi-partisanship, and multiplicity of viewpoints would be a REQUIREMENT. 🧵

4:50?

Boston. Wow.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

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Feather in a puddle, September 15 2025, Stromness, Orkney Islands

So if you are out on a boat Trump can just blow you up and kill you and everyone on board by saying you had drugs without presenting any proof? That’s how this works now?

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

You forgot Fuji, but it’s Leica.

July 24 2025, Bedford Place, Uk

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator

very grim

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Trump is a genius but you can't see his grades
Trump is healthy but you can't see his medical reports
Trump is honest but you can't see his tax returns
Trump is innocent but you can't see the Epstein Files

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.