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Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.

GÜIRIA, Venezuela (AP) — One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver.

apnews.com/article/trum...

08.11.2025 12:46 👍 298 🔁 149 💬 57 📌 17
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So the the United States Supreme Court has gone from protecting schoolchildren from racism in 1954 to helping to kill them with malnourishment in 2025? And the arc of history bends towards justice, you say?

08.11.2025 20:56 👍 3464 🔁 1122 💬 283 📌 69
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Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:

First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.

Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

08.11.2025 13:51 👍 11295 🔁 3871 💬 476 📌 215
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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.

Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.

People fleeced.

08.11.2025 11:06 👍 465 🔁 271 💬 34 📌 20
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ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.

08.11.2025 19:53 👍 7688 🔁 3980 💬 651 📌 446
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🎯🎯

08.11.2025 17:29 👍 17535 🔁 5410 💬 434 📌 221

I want to thank a generation for bringing the expression “cringe” into the mainstream

08.11.2025 22:14 👍 2068 🔁 364 💬 139 📌 18
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A deep commitment to anti-wokeness

08.11.2025 19:33 👍 14847 🔁 4309 💬 451 📌 231
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

01.11.2025 17:15 👍 13268 🔁 5025 💬 547 📌 271
Close up photo of the Moon at about 75% full

Close up photo of the Moon at about 75% full

The Moon tonight at about 75% full on Halloween from #SantaBarbara. #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography

Camera settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/11
Exposure time: 1/640
ISO: 800
Edited in Lightroom Classic

01.11.2025 03:45 👍 2469 🔁 231 💬 45 📌 4
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What he said: 💯 🎯

01.11.2025 18:55 👍 49523 🔁 13571 💬 1042 📌 585
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JD Vance says his wife isn't a Christian.

At least they have that in common.

31.10.2025 20:52 👍 1908 🔁 349 💬 166 📌 20
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I guess someone heard from Tylenol’s lawyers.

31.10.2025 04:22 👍 7345 🔁 1830 💬 225 📌 103
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Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

30.10.2025 23:13 👍 19189 🔁 3944 💬 307 📌 128
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Reform UK supporting Matt Goodwin says because we are broke taxes have to go up

Brexit costs us £40 billion a year in lost tax income from trade with the EU, this is why we are broke

If you vote for Reform you're voting for the same people who made us broke, to fix us being broke 🤷‍♂️ #BBCQT

31.10.2025 00:26 👍 985 🔁 312 💬 53 📌 9
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DOJ Caught Deleting Court Record for Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Targeted Obama’s Home with a Gun Something deeply unsettling is unfolding inside the Department of Justice, and even veteran reporters are stunned. NBC News investigative correspondent Ken Dilanian didn’t mince words after discoverin...

Brought to you by the party of crime and corruption.

dailyboulder.com/doj-caught-d...

30.10.2025 19:41 👍 610 🔁 299 💬 38 📌 16
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Fired CBS Staffer Says Only White Producers Survived ‘Bloodbath’ Layoffs A producer for one of the network’s streaming shows said all the producers who were fired from his team were people of color.

www.thedailybeast.com/ex-cbs-news-...

31.10.2025 07:44 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

31.10.2025 05:02 👍 19125 🔁 6593 💬 676 📌 310
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Speaker Mike Johnson is perpetually trying to deceive people. He uses his milquetoast speech and persona to mask his determination to ruthlessly cause harm. He wears his “Christianity” on his sleeve as a decoy from his evil intentions. He is not a good person, he just tries to play one on TV.

29.10.2025 16:26 👍 10356 🔁 3733 💬 706 📌 217
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New polling illuminates how the Supreme Court got Citizens United wrong and shows bipartisan momentum for money-in-politics reforms, including proposed Montana ballot measure - Issue One New polling commissioned by Issue One and conducted this month by YouGov reveals that overwhelming majorities of Americans — and Montanans — broadly believe that large-scale political spending by corp...

New polling from @issueonereform.bsky.social shows that 79% of Americans think the ultra-wealthy and corporations spending money to influence elections give rise to corruption or the appearance of it.

They're right.

29.10.2025 22:29 👍 55 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 1
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A year ago, I launched my book #OnFreedom in a war zone – in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 35 seconds from Russian artillery. Today, I'm launching the paperback in Portland, Oregon. Which is NOT a war zone. There is a difference in the real world between what's a war and what is not, and between truth and lies.

28.10.2025 21:46 👍 2109 🔁 499 💬 39 📌 37
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Mariella Frostrup: "I just don't know when we started dehumanising people to the extent that we do. I find it quite shocking ...I think it's a shame that we allow Reform to set the tone and the agenda in the way we talk about illegal immigrants an asylum seekers"

#bbcqt #r4today #RefugeesWelcome

24.10.2025 06:15 👍 231 🔁 84 💬 7 📌 4
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King Trump turns US Treasury into his personal piggy bank He thinks our money is his.

"Tearing down the White House and replacing it with a facsimile of Mar-a-Lago isn’t any less appalling because Trump cajoled companies into paying for it. Indeed, it might be worse. Funding a pet project via the coercion of private donors creates a closed loop and complete lack of accountability."

24.10.2025 14:14 👍 3836 🔁 1158 💬 257 📌 84
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Hell, yes! Former Special Counsel Jack Smith has called Republicans' and the criminal conman's bluff. Smith is offering to testify publicly about his probe into Trump’s theft of classified documents, his fake electors scam, and his treasonous attempted coup to overthrow the republic.

1/2

24.10.2025 02:28 👍 936 🔁 317 💬 34 📌 15
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One of the most creative signs at the Sequim, WA No Kings Rally.

Artist - Siegfried Woldhek

22.10.2025 16:30 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
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Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand

Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

20.10.2025 19:26 👍 9160 🔁 3801 💬 379 📌 165
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US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres Provision of internet access to scam centres being investigated as Starlink swiftly becomes Myanmar’s biggest internet service provider

US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

20.10.2025 21:42 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California.

Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

20.10.2025 01:28 👍 23162 🔁 6620 💬 622 📌 194

Tell me again, Donald, about the "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax."

19.10.2025 19:01 👍 4717 🔁 1958 💬 167 📌 90
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I ❤️ my hometown.

Well done…

19.10.2025 05:16 👍 23352 🔁 6223 💬 411 📌 265