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Host of Abridged Presidential Histories. Host of Democricide. Chair of Washington’s Adult Education Advisory Council. JCIJ advocacy committee. Program manager at Nike. Proud Daddio.

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No amount of spin from Trump and his lackeys can cover up the fact that Americans shelled out an extra $1.5 BILLION for gas this past week because of his disastrous war with Iran.

14.03.2026 15:59 👍 1943 🔁 543 💬 106 📌 24

Trump fired the person in charge of reports when he didn’t like what the data showed. Why are we taking any government data at face value from this administration?

14.03.2026 15:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know, one of the reasons only Congress is supposed to have the power to declare war is so they can debate questions like “Why?” “What are we trying to accomplish?” “What does victory look like?” “What are the risks?” “Do a majority of Americans actually want this?”

04.03.2026 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love this so much.

04.03.2026 00:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A U.S. official said American military strikes on Iran were underway.

A U.S. official said American military strikes on Iran were underway.

Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran?

Me neither.

Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law.

28.02.2026 06:51 👍 12044 🔁 3492 💬 552 📌 178
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Live Updates: Israel Says It has Launched an Attack on Iran

Israel strikes Iran

I imagine the U.S. won’t be far behind

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

28.02.2026 06:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That last paragraph is insane

27.02.2026 23:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where’s the sharpie hurricane version of a missile ranges picture?

27.02.2026 15:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

26.02.2026 23:40 👍 1684 🔁 744 💬 70 📌 48

Celebrating the first president instead of the first speaker

Got it

25.02.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These comments are extraordinary. The head of the CARE Team is saying that the police contract negotiated by Bruce Harrell and approved by council (under the police chief Katie Wilson retained) effectively prevents the team from responding to almost any of the calls they were created to respond to.

24.02.2026 18:53 👍 87 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 2
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Does this mean we’ll be providing free healthcare to the people of Greenland before we provide it to U.S. citizens?

22.02.2026 04:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If the question is about presidents responsible for a slide toward lawless presidencies, I’d actually rank Ford above all the others you mentioned. By pardoning Nixon instead of ordering the DOJ to investigate, he established the idea that presidents get special treatment and are above the law.

22.02.2026 01:05 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It all depends how you define “upstanding” 🙃

22.02.2026 00:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

“People are mad at how much energy and water our digital pollution machines use, but did you ever think about how much energy and water YOU use?” is an actual argument Sam Altman is making.

21.02.2026 20:47 👍 502 🔁 159 💬 88 📌 11
Aaron Rupar
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Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."

Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

21.02.2026 20:38 👍 4528 🔁 1461 💬 79 📌 64
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US citizen shot and killed by federal immigration agent last year, new records show Shooting death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, in Texas was not publicly disclosed by Department of Homeland Security

"Newly released records show a US citizen was shot and killed in Texas by a federal immigration agent last year during a late-night traffic encounter that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security."

What else are they hiding? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

21.02.2026 21:59 👍 176 🔁 92 💬 0 📌 3
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

21.02.2026 16:42 👍 13143 🔁 6644 💬 396 📌 369
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs The 6-3 ruling is a major blow to the president's signature economic policy.

The 6-3 ruling is a major blow to the president's signature economic policy. n.pr/3OtEZ2E

20.02.2026 15:21 👍 787 🔁 133 💬 62 📌 66

What a wild story

19.02.2026 16:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Getting ready to record the next episode of Democricide

Our suspect hoard for who killed the Roman Republic is getting pretty busy ☠️ 🗡️ 😅

open.spotify.com/show/5tVu06U...

15.02.2026 20:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kristi Noem actually saying what is driving the extraordinary elections maneuvers. Flag this one.

14.02.2026 15:37 👍 1438 🔁 375 💬 51 📌 8
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Agents Suspended After Their Story of Shooting an Immigrant Falls Apart

Top federal prosecutor in Minnesota gets judge to dismiss charges against two protesters, one of whom was shot by a federal immigration officer, after video revealed that officers gave false accounts of what happened. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

13.02.2026 20:20 👍 176 🔁 58 💬 6 📌 5
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RAMPELL: “.. we had less job growth all of last year than we had in an average month during the Biden administration.”

@crampell.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

13.02.2026 17:37 👍 2034 🔁 725 💬 31 📌 23
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12.02.2026 23:57 👍 18976 🔁 9214 💬 846 📌 589
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Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why. State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt.

Why?

For 2 yrs, Oklahoma oil regulators delayed basic tests that could help them find out.

Read @nickbowlin.bsky.social latest for @propublica.org + @readfrontier.bsky.social!

12.02.2026 16:27 👍 238 🔁 98 💬 9 📌 8

The federal agent who shot Marimar Martinez and joked about it has been placed on leave. This wouldn't have happened if everyone had accepted Homeland Security's blatant lies in this case.

11.02.2026 23:06 👍 1162 🔁 329 💬 25 📌 7

A majority of cases will never be reported, either.

Hundreds of immigrants have reported sexual abuse at ICE facilities. Most cases aren't investigated

www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

12.02.2026 04:03 👍 605 🔁 331 💬 0 📌 15
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

07.02.2026 17:54 👍 17904 🔁 9171 💬 492 📌 700

A never ending Gish Gallop from the WH.

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