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@herbschaffner

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Politico: Dem Senators demanded Pete Hegseth & Marco Rubio appear immediately at a public hearing to explain the Iran war, its cost & its endgame. “Now is the time for Democrats to use all the leverage we have to try to stop this unnecessary war.”
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

11.03.2026 16:28 👍 375 🔁 209 💬 10 📌 6
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There is only incoherence Trust is a rare commodity in our wretched times.

There is only incoherence
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

11.03.2026 17:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Call it what it is, but Trump's fascism is on clear display. But so is the resistance. Protests are growing and polls are shifting. Here’s your reminder that the American ideal is stronger than any one man. Deep-dive in my recent Substack article at the link in my reply.

11.03.2026 15:22 👍 1226 🔁 261 💬 52 📌 6
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Trump’s Propaganda Machine Gets Caught: Fox News Busted For Fake Footage, AOC Slams Corporate Media, Anthropic Sues The Regime, and A Kristi Noem Defender Gets Roasted In The Senate Plus, my receipts caused a total MAGA meltdown

Trump’s Propaganda Machine Gets Caught: Fox News Busted For Fake Footage, AOC Slams Corporate Media, Anthropic Sues The Regime, and A Kristi Noem Defender Gets Roasted In The Senate
open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

11.03.2026 16:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Three more vessels hit by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz, showing merchant ships remain in firing line Three more vessels have been hit ​by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, maritime security and risk firms said on Wednesday, bringing the number of ships ‌struck in the region since the Iran ...

Three more vessels hit by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz, showing merchant ships remain in firing line www.reuters.com/world/cargo-...

Trump definitely deserves credit for this

11.03.2026 15:56 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

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11.03.2026 16:00 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Beyond the Iran war: Trump's no-good, very-bad day on jobs, gas, Epstein The White House was dealing not only with questions about the war but also a decline in jobs, a rise in gas prices and more Epstein files.

Trump’s MO has always been chaos – but no matter where you look, it’s bad. We’ve been launched into a new war, prices are up, jobs are down, and horrifying allegations from the Epstein files are being revealed.

He’s a failure, and we’re paying the price.

11.03.2026 15:28 👍 182 🔁 91 💬 14 📌 3
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Nobody in this Administration can agree on why they started this war or when it will end. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President are all saying different things. Servicemembers’ lives are on the line, and they deserve better than this.

10.03.2026 23:40 👍 1442 🔁 477 💬 97 📌 14
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ChatGPT Says Trump's Assassination Attempt Was Bullshit You Have to Read This Deep-Dive Into the Alleged Shooting

ChatGPT Says Trump's Assassination Attempt Was Bullshit
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11.03.2026 16:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"In the last few months Trump has become something like a comic book character running around a town manically trying to steal everything he can get his hands on."

10.03.2026 14:54 👍 38 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0

You cannot remove fascism with decorum.

10.03.2026 14:49 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Killing for sport Pete Hegseth is an unfit disgrace who lacks every quality of integrity, decency and wisdom a man whose work involves sending others to die should possess.

Killing for sport
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

10.03.2026 19:39 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Expose him and attack him

08.03.2026 21:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Trump tearing apart every alliance, the international order, rule of law, and is using force as a tool for his sadistic pleasure. His blood lust is only outdone by his blunt stupidity. Impeachment and removal are an existential need for the entire world. Before it is too late.

08.03.2026 14:14 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Important Sunday Afternoon Updates — 3/8/26 It’s Sunday afternoon.

Important Sunday Afternoon Updates — 3/8/26
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

08.03.2026 19:27 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Trump tearing apart every alliance, the international order, rule of law, and is using force as a tool for his sadistic pleasure. His blood lust is only outdone by his blunt stupidity. Impeachment and removal are an existential need for the entire world. Before it is too late.

08.03.2026 14:14 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Really worth watching this.

05.03.2026 23:41 👍 876 🔁 316 💬 17 📌 11

Things Ds can be fighting for now:
- Recommit to Europe/Ukraine, stop appeasing Putin, who is helping Iran attack US
- End the war, prevent US/global economies from going to sh*t
- Roll back the inflationary tariffs
- Rescind Trump tax cuts, ICE expansion
- Make US clean energy superpower
More 👇

06.03.2026 18:05 👍 237 🔁 103 💬 12 📌 1

You could pick a random group of people off the street during any administration and they would do better than elected representatives have over the past forty years . In fact, that was kind of the idea. Career politicians aren’t democratic.

05.03.2026 03:31 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Prior to the new Gulf War, our economy was slowing, inflation rising, our fiscal condition deteriorating.

Now we are going to prices rise further, the economy slow further, our fiscal condition worsen. All of this makes what Trump is doing in the Middle East look far more reckless.

06.03.2026 13:40 👍 112 🔁 50 💬 6 📌 2

Things are starting to spiral. We managed to go a full four years during Trump 1.0 without a major foreign policy crisis, but no chance we'd dodge that bullet twice in a row. Dems need to have real campaigns everywhere possible because it's impossible to know what things will look like in Nov.

06.03.2026 16:17 👍 124 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 1
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Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

06.03.2026 20:09 👍 24609 🔁 7060 💬 526 📌 424

This is fast becoming the lede of today’s print.

06.03.2026 16:56 👍 305 🔁 68 💬 7 📌 3

Marc Elias with some good news:

“As of Tuesday night, Democrats have overperformed in 253 of 283 key elections since 2025, and Democratic turnout reached levels we have not seen in decades.”

Yay!

06.03.2026 16:55 👍 660 🔁 153 💬 18 📌 4
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What this really means is that you are giving Trump and Hegseth what they want, to do whatever they want.

06.03.2026 15:36 👍 1098 🔁 234 💬 157 📌 32
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Posting this every damn day!

05.03.2026 15:08 👍 330 🔁 79 💬 11 📌 2
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04.03.2026 23:05 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Remove racist rapist Trump from our White House.

06.03.2026 18:02 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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BREAKING: Trump FIRES Kristi Noem, Senator Gallego Gives His Initial Reaction Goodbye ICE Barbie! I spoke with Senator Gallego about Kristi Noem's firing.

BREAKING: Trump FIRES Kristi Noem, Senator Gallego Gives His Initial Reaction
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

05.03.2026 20:55 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Nation’s Dogs Celebrate Noem’s Firing A Special TBR Career Obituary

Nation’s Dogs Celebrate Noem’s Firing
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

05.03.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0