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'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

09.03.2026 22:33 👍 3693 🔁 1478 💬 144 📌 158
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Another old white MAGA abiding toady!

Cheaters, abusers, rapists, child molesters, sex traffickers, etc

Is there one among them who is not?

And leading an institution that is in the midst of a sex scandal!

Ohio State University get your shit together!

09.03.2026 15:03 👍 191 🔁 104 💬 18 📌 9
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It seems almost pointless to note that if Obama wore a baseball cap in this situation he would have been absolutely pummeled in the media, from Fox to NYT, but I'm going to do it anyway.

09.03.2026 13:10 👍 519 🔁 90 💬 23 📌 5
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Or how about the secretary of state hanging out with a guy convicted of seditious conspiracy against the US?

09.03.2026 13:19 👍 533 🔁 149 💬 21 📌 6
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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

(Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)

09.03.2026 01:00 👍 1089 🔁 612 💬 75 📌 60
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Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

09.03.2026 07:30 👍 1035 🔁 727 💬 33 📌 96

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

09.03.2026 00:46 👍 8413 🔁 3095 💬 141 📌 116
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👇🏽

08.03.2026 00:57 👍 8030 🔁 3660 💬 454 📌 253

He knows his audience.

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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

This brave child fought cancer & ICE.
Her father should have never been in custody in the first case. Trump & Noem stole precious moments from them.
If you do not see how wrong this is, you have no soul.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

07.03.2026 20:17 👍 692 🔁 376 💬 41 📌 11

Three years late and at 4am, the plaque honoring the officers who defended the Capitol was finally installed.

In the dark.
With no ceremony to honor the officers.

Republicans are cowards.

07.03.2026 16:43 👍 261 🔁 92 💬 17 📌 1
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07.03.2026 14:16 👍 5167 🔁 2434 💬 394 📌 182
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Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol

07.03.2026 14:11 👍 4334 🔁 1082 💬 136 📌 108

Oil is spiking and could hit $150 a barrel. Gas is already rising.

Russia is now helping Iran with targeting intel while we’re spending millions on missiles to shoot down $20K drones.

This is not “mission accomplished.” This is a situation that’s getting more dangerous by the day.

07.03.2026 00:00 👍 417 🔁 62 💬 14 📌 0
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Last 14 months of Biden's term:

+1.74m jobs

First 14 months of Trump's term:

150,000 jobs

(total! for the whole 14 months!)

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

06.03.2026 19:43 👍 4192 🔁 1844 💬 158 📌 90
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reache...

"US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say"

06.03.2026 02:25 👍 150 🔁 91 💬 6 📌 7

The confirmation hearings should be “interesting”

05.03.2026 22:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've got laryngitis so I'm not on TV today. but if I was, I'd remind everybody that mass deportation *remains* family separation, whether Noem or Mullin or anyone else is Trump's DHS Secretary. and that policy has not changed.

05.03.2026 19:30 👍 1131 🔁 352 💬 34 📌 12

Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.

04.03.2026 21:08 👍 7630 🔁 2690 💬 365 📌 125
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“This was clearly an attack to distract us from the Epstein files.”

Rep. André Carson told @mehdirhasan.bsky.social there was no intelligence to indicate an imminent threat from Iran before the US and Israel attacked the country and killed its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

zeteo.com/p/no-intel-i...

04.03.2026 21:36 👍 262 🔁 94 💬 9 📌 7

Of course she did.

04.03.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We are not being hyperbolic when we say, “Republicans absolutely do not know how to govern.”

04.03.2026 21:42 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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04.03.2026 19:04 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide’s Role in Homeland Security Contracts Internal DHS records and interviews with agency staffers contradict Noem’s claim about Corey Lewandowski’s role.

Internal DHS records and staff interviews show Corey Lewandowski repeatedly approved large Homeland Security contracts, contradicting Kristi Noem’s sworn claim to Congress that he had no such role.

04.03.2026 19:09 👍 56 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 2
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.

04.03.2026 15:33 👍 29 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 1

We actually DID start this war.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

04.03.2026 15:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Promo picture for a fundraiser showing that Pete Hegseth as the special guest at a political fundraiser for Zach Nunn

Promo picture for a fundraiser showing that Pete Hegseth as the special guest at a political fundraiser for Zach Nunn

Not only can I not think of a time when a sitting Secretary of Defense was ever the guest of honor at a political fundraiser, but I definitely can't think of a time when he did so weeks after starting a massive, unnecessary war

04.03.2026 14:36 👍 484 🔁 118 💬 27 📌 12
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04.03.2026 04:15 👍 2716 🔁 1102 💬 252 📌 228

Trump has simultaneously opened military fronts in Iran, Venezuela, - & now - Ecuador. The US is essentially at war on multiple continents simultaneously, with no congressional declarations, questionable legal authority, & zero accountability for civilian deaths.

IMPEACH & REMOVE THE BASTARD NOW

04.03.2026 04:41 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0