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Trying to make public policy makers understand the implications of stupid policies.

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The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/middle...

08.03.2026 22:52 👍 4952 🔁 1899 💬 315 📌 369

Trump threatens to withhold his signature on bills until Congress passes the SAVE Act.
Wow. Devastating leverage...

EXCEPT the Constitution says that bills passed while Congress is in session become law automatically after 10 days with OR without his signature.
So he's threatening to do - nothing.

09.03.2026 00:09 👍 1748 🔁 479 💬 120 📌 50

The real problem is that we have a president who is being blackmailed by Netanyahu and Putin.

Whatever it is, it must be pretty bad.

Why on earth would a GOP Congress go along with this?

The ultimate answer is money.

08.03.2026 11:18 👍 7302 🔁 1469 💬 594 📌 87

This is a bs “apology” from Fox. They claim it was “inadvertent” - a lie. They aired old footage because they didn’t want to show Trump wearing his campaign hat during the ceremony. Then in this statement they STILL don’t show the correct footage of Trump. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

08.03.2026 14:36 👍 5115 🔁 1723 💬 366 📌 88
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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

07.03.2026 16:25 👍 12365 🔁 4818 💬 551 📌 474
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There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

07.03.2026 16:18 👍 14613 🔁 6233 💬 1126 📌 459
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We’ll soon be measuring the Pentagon by the number of countries it’s NOT striking.

@lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/us-m...

07.03.2026 13:00 👍 1161 🔁 372 💬 50 📌 13
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Republicans spend an incredible amount of time and energy finding new ways to obstruct justice and accountability. www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

07.03.2026 12:47 👍 4151 🔁 1476 💬 191 📌 56
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You don’t get to thank veterans for their service and then gut the VA.

Donald Trump’s reckless DOGE cuts have eliminated tens of thousands of VA jobs where about a third of those workers are veterans themselves.

07.03.2026 01:14 👍 1454 🔁 502 💬 72 📌 37
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‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

"It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it."

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

06.03.2026 15:39 👍 268 🔁 97 💬 9 📌 0
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07.03.2026 14:16 👍 5165 🔁 2435 💬 394 📌 182
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Page One in UK:

@telegraph.co.uk

07.03.2026 12:57 👍 4074 🔁 1680 💬 267 📌 132
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He seems pretty sensitive whenever someone confronts him with evidence that Putin might not be our friend. Even when Fox brings it up.

06.03.2026 23:13 👍 12273 🔁 3836 💬 1078 📌 284
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World Cup Uncertainty Grows—Here’s Why The Promised Tourism Boon Is Under Threat With an expanding war in the Middle East and less than 100 days until the start of the World Cup, the promised $30.5 billion economic boon to the U.S. is not a sure thing.

With an expanding war in the Middle East and less than 100 days until the start of the World Cup, the promised $30.5 billion economic boon to the U.S. is not a sure thing.

05.03.2026 19:40 👍 424 🔁 139 💬 113 📌 30
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

Our database paints a detailed financial picture for President Donald Trump and hundreds of his political appointees, some of whom have ties to the industries they regulate.

The disclosures include their recent employers, assets and debts.

07.03.2026 00:00 👍 618 🔁 302 💬 19 📌 21

Trump has the most useless, unqualified, corrupt administration in American history. And it starts at the very top with Donald Trump, guilty of all the above.

06.03.2026 08:57 👍 3813 🔁 638 💬 152 📌 28
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He’s not fucking around. He 100% will do anything to steal the midterms along with the 2028 election, where he FULY intends on running for a 3rd term. This man is terrifying.

05.03.2026 18:30 👍 2857 🔁 757 💬 411 📌 98
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Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say | CNN Politics Russia is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships and aircraft, according to multiple people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue, ...

Super shocking. Given that Russia helped our enemies during Vietnam, Korea, and both gulf wars, who could have guessed this would happen. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

06.03.2026 18:54 👍 6721 🔁 2386 💬 530 📌 143
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WATCH — @senpeterwelch walks through a no-bid $143,000,000 contract that went to @KristiNoem’s spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s husband’s company that had just been formed.

She should be impeached for this outrageous scandal alone.

Yet it’s barely a blip in this corrupt regime.

04.03.2026 05:02 👍 12275 🔁 4959 💬 555 📌 326
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

03.03.2026 01:54 👍 12837 🔁 6391 💬 1317 📌 4133

The complete idiot Kaitlan is interviewing here is … {checks notes} … a United States Senator

03.03.2026 13:36 👍 2925 🔁 652 💬 172 📌 32

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

03.03.2026 15:37 👍 12272 🔁 2654 💬 269 📌 110
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Even Matt Walsh isn’t buying it

03.03.2026 02:25 👍 7020 🔁 1878 💬 338 📌 104
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They went to the boss.

03.03.2026 02:44 👍 8786 🔁 1907 💬 297 📌 74
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What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

03.03.2026 00:16 👍 11064 🔁 2248 💬 1385 📌 425
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Tell Congress: Demand AG Bondi release ALL of the Epstein files now Contact Congress today!

The Epstein cover-up is starting to crack, but Pam Bondi is still stonewalling. This is the biggest scandal in modern history, and it's being buried.

Congress: Do your job. Demand the full release NOW.

Who's with us? Tell your reps:

02.03.2026 19:31 👍 10767 🔁 3422 💬 471 📌 138

When will he be deposed.? The twice impeached President Trump is certainly not exempted from deposition if Bill and Hillary Clinton were not exempted. They were bought before the same judicial committee as others who have held such high offices have.
DEPOSE DONALD J. TRUMP. It is time to do it.

02.03.2026 23:47 👍 1641 🔁 433 💬 102 📌 17

Hey so if CBS airs the state of the union, don’t they have to offer equal time to his opponents? Can we bank that time and save it for later?

24.02.2026 04:59 👍 10050 🔁 1739 💬 271 📌 56
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.”
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

24.02.2026 11:58 👍 2962 🔁 1288 💬 116 📌 55

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

23.02.2026 16:50 👍 15250 🔁 6387 💬 420 📌 271