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Ellis Hughes

@avlscout

Retired. Lifelong liberal. Walker. Dogs. Love my sweet city in the NC mountains. Writer, photographer.

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PSA for Tennessee media: you are either calling out Rep Ogles’ racism for what it is, or you are normalizing it. There is no third option.

09.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 2284 πŸ” 561 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 19
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Announcement===>

09.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 2468 πŸ” 430 πŸ’¬ 315 πŸ“Œ 53
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Spring forward... Fall back... whatever.

Can we just pick ONE & stick with it once & for ALL?!!! ⏰

08.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 15486 πŸ” 1936 πŸ’¬ 1330 πŸ“Œ 208
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Meghan McCain to Trump: β€œLindsey Graham is scaring people.”

When she’s right she’s right

08.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 1008 πŸ” 275 πŸ’¬ 145 πŸ“Œ 22
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Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."

08.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 24026 πŸ” 7392 πŸ’¬ 880 πŸ“Œ 392
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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 πŸ‘ 24557 πŸ” 7045 πŸ’¬ 525 πŸ“Œ 425
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AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.

04.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 16119 πŸ” 4484 πŸ’¬ 383 πŸ“Œ 164
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Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

05.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 20661 πŸ” 5872 πŸ’¬ 660 πŸ“Œ 280
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NC Voters Oust Politically Unfaithful Officials Anderson Clayton shares the spoils of North Carolina's primary election

NC Voters Oust Politically Unfaithful Officials... Anderson Clayton is a BADASS open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

05.03.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 235 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."

04.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 28191 πŸ” 7523 πŸ’¬ 1132 πŸ“Œ 680
Our taxes

Our taxes

Our taxes are paying for this instead of healthcare.

03.03.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 9343 πŸ” 3214 πŸ’¬ 396 πŸ“Œ 125
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wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

03.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 27016 πŸ” 7097 πŸ’¬ 1457 πŸ“Œ 838
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02.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 2786 πŸ” 990 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 30
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"The Peace President."

02.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 9439 πŸ” 3686 πŸ’¬ 489 πŸ“Œ 164
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A PSA from Thomas Massie:

01.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 30457 πŸ” 9096 πŸ’¬ 633 πŸ“Œ 341
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This is Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair. While working class American service people are dying in the gratuitous war his father and Donald Trump started, Yair is poolside in Miami chilling.

No word on where Donald Trump's children were, just that they were 100% *not* wearing a uniform.

01.03.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 3669 πŸ” 1497 πŸ’¬ 223 πŸ“Œ 103

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

01.03.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 23238 πŸ” 7890 πŸ’¬ 696 πŸ“Œ 322
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Currently trending on X.

01.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 28845 πŸ” 7848 πŸ’¬ 1018 πŸ“Œ 516
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Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.

Read my full statement:

28.02.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 6397 πŸ” 1994 πŸ’¬ 330 πŸ“Œ 273

The president of the United States killed children to distract from raping children.

28.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 12414 πŸ” 4517 πŸ’¬ 401 πŸ“Œ 180
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NEW: Bahrain skyscrapers and Dubai hotels are now being hit by Iranian drones.

This is insane. Trump has unleashed chaos and carnage.

(πŸŽ₯ Al Jazeera)

28.02.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 1382 πŸ” 703 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 118

I know. Just bizarre, wrong. Who’s going to stop him?

28.02.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pretty sure they brought in the wrong First Lady to testify...πŸ€”πŸ˜

27.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 11300 πŸ” 4111 πŸ’¬ 492 πŸ“Œ 184

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness β€” or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

28.02.2026 00:43 πŸ‘ 21563 πŸ” 5727 πŸ’¬ 600 πŸ“Œ 240
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

26.02.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 38947 πŸ” 16529 πŸ’¬ 1830 πŸ“Œ 1082
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Judge: IRS broke law β€˜approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law β€œapproximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

26.02.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 3538 πŸ” 1596 πŸ’¬ 146 πŸ“Œ 140
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JUST IN: Advisors to Hillary Clinton say the House Oversight Committee’s closed-door deposition has been paused after it was revealed that Lauren Boebert shared an unauthorized photo from the hearing with Benny Johnson, who then posted it on social media, as seen below.

26.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 10697 πŸ” 3768 πŸ’¬ 1543 πŸ“Œ 482
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Massie goes full beast mode today.

Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

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