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Xcapee, happy to be on BlueSky & on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with spouse, daughters, pets & kindred spirits. Books, art, music, politics, volunteerism, activism - RESIST!! Not here to shop or to fund personal or business projects. Please, no DMs

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The “CEO Presidency” Scam: How Republicans Turned Government Into a Profit Center for Billionaires The slogan that promised efficiency was really a blueprint to dismantle public government and hand its power—and money—to the billionaire class…

While bombs are falling on Iran, Kash Patel has fired the FBI experts on Iranian sleeper cells in America, and people are speculating that Trump’s trying to provoke an Iranian attack on the US to justify blowing up November’s elections.
hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-pr...

13.03.2026 16:02 👍 2 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Great, Dr. Doom is in charge of AI now. What could possibly go wrong? 🙄

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

12.03.2026 15:33 👍 145 🔁 79 💬 27 📌 5

Good morning!

Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—

💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion

💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million

💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million

💰19-year-old Barron is worth $150 million

And Jared became a billionaire last year.

Have a great day!

12.03.2026 13:49 👍 693 🔁 387 💬 35 📌 31
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“Photos appear to show US Tomahawk missile fragments at site of deadly Iran school strike.”

One photo shows a label on a fragment with a Dayton, Ohio address.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/m...

12.03.2026 19:01 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

Signal Gate and the murder of shipwrecked men should’ve ended Pete Hegseth’s term

But incompetently killing hundreds of schoolgirls-which will surely enrage Iranians-is beyond the pale

Whether the war is a cover for Epstein related crimes or not-Trump’s callous disregard of life won’t be forgotten

12.03.2026 17:59 👍 1471 🔁 606 💬 61 📌 18
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Over five million people protested against the regime in June.

More than seven million people took to the streets in October.

March 28 will be even bigger, with nearly 3,000 events already on the No Kings Day map. Be part of the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

09.03.2026 23:44 👍 1351 🔁 643 💬 42 📌 43
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Guns and Violence Against Women: America’s Uniquely Lethal Intimate Partner Violence Problem Laws keeping guns out of the hands of abusers are associated with lower rates of violence against women and intimate partner homicides.

Learn more about this heartbreaking crisis and what can be done to help keep guns out of the hands of abusers: everytownresearch.org/domestic-violence

12.03.2026 13:44 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Keep talking about Epstein and the predator child sex ring and the illegal war used to distract from 45 and his part in it.

12.03.2026 07:08 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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Thomas Massie found the Alexander brothers in the Epstein files. The DOJ redacted their last name.
Kash Patel said there was no sex trafficking evidence in the files.
All three brothers were just convicted of it.
-Chidinma Anyanwu

11.03.2026 16:02 👍 128 🔁 68 💬 6 📌 6
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Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused ‘Foreign Agent’ Set to Go on Trial— With Rubio On the Witness List David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for ...

The legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.

10.03.2026 22:29 👍 1454 🔁 635 💬 77 📌 34
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Tehran endures ‘worst night of strikes’ amid mixed US messages about more to come Hegseth follows Trump’s suggestion war will soon be over by saying US will not stop until Iran ‘decisively defeated’

Trump is creating what could forever be known as the literal definition of a 'cluster- f#ck.'

Trump is clearly looking for some way to get out of this mess. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

11.03.2026 00:00 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Markwayne Mullin is the same dude already under scrutiny for suspicious stock trades.

And he’s supposed to run America’s national security.

• No government security experience
• No law enforcement background
• No intelligence work
• No military service
• Not even a bachelor’s degree

10.03.2026 17:52 👍 7473 🔁 3347 💬 711 📌 229

He’s going to do a great job unless Texas decides it wants a crook in office.

10.03.2026 23:33 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

1/ We have a growing democracy problem hiding in plain sight: fake “public participation” flooding hearings and comment processes to manufacture opposition or support. It is astroturf, at scale, and it works because the penalty is basically zero. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

10.03.2026 23:16 👍 76 🔁 56 💬 2 📌 2
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The Great White Heist: Trump’s Plan To Bankrupt America On Purpose This isn’t reform. It’s a calculated demolition job. Trump and Musk are creating a system where public service is punished and political loyalty is rewarded.

The Great White Heist: Trump’s Plan To Bankrupt America On Purpose
This isn’t reform. It’s a calculated demolition job. Trump and Musk are creating a system where public service is punished and political loyalty is rewarded.
newsone.com/6080338/the-...

10.03.2026 16:33 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2

JFC on a pogo stick

10.03.2026 23:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump under fire for knowingly lying about killing the girls. Hegseth is under fire for spending 93B The most everspent since 2008 under Bush. What did he spend it on? see below

10.03.2026 19:41 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This might be the first time I liked a GB quote - proof, I suppose, of the assertion that “everything is relative”

10.03.2026 23:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bush on why he quit golf during the war: “I didn’t want some mom whose son may have died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best I can. And I think playing golf during a war sends the wrong signal.”

10.03.2026 20:58 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 0

Per Carol Leonnig: 300 FBI agents whose specialty was national security "have left" since beginning of Trump's 2nd administration. Moreover, the DOJ's counter-espionage unit has been reduced by 50%.

Trump claims to prioritize national security, yet his actions are inviting major attacks on US soil.

10.03.2026 22:32 👍 272 🔁 133 💬 20 📌 7
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😕 🍪

10.03.2026 22:13 👍 14269 🔁 4581 💬 428 📌 154
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Behind the FBI’s Maricopa County probe: A debunked ‘audit’ funded by election deniers The chaotic audit reaffirmed former President Joe Biden's victory in Arizona.

NEW: The FBI's probe into Arizona's Maricopa County 2020 election opened a new avenue for Trump to attack free and fair elections.

But the president’s claims of voter fraud in the state have never stood up to scrutiny, despite many investigations being conducted by election deniers themselves.

10.03.2026 22:30 👍 254 🔁 109 💬 11 📌 8

Thank you for this reporting

10.03.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But those very people don’t know that they are those very people

10.03.2026 23:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.

A senseless, criminal waste

10.03.2026 00:26 👍 12091 🔁 3337 💬 588 📌 173
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While the USA is spending billions in an unnecessary war in Iran, Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum broadcasts the inauguration of a new Women's Oncology Hospital, that integrates IA diagnosis and robotic laboratories. And yes, it's FREE for the citizens.

09.03.2026 16:29 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The US is engaged in a war of aggression with the goal being death & destruction, a war of annihilation. They aren’t even targeting the regime but Iran’s civilians; they are destroying oil infrastructure and desalination plants needed to rebuild the country & for basic survival.

08.03.2026 14:36 👍 661 🔁 300 💬 75 📌 121

My friend 'Reza was born in Persia as he called it and explained how the Shah put his uncle in prison for being a political dissident against the leader who was a cruel dictator while we worked at Piece O'Pizza in California. The CIA has been a huge disaster for America and denying that is DUMB!💙🇺🇸💙

09.03.2026 20:09 👍 157 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 0

Bingo!

10.03.2026 00:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How about a GoFundMe??

09.03.2026 22:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0