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The Founders are appalled. Loves checks and balances, functional markets, boring banks, anticorruption and Lina Khan. Alex Pretti was a true American patriot πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Where there’s smoke
www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

07.03.2026 08:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Miller is the same

07.03.2026 03:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

☹️

06.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

According to new analysis from @budgetlab.bsky.social, Trump's plan to illegally index capital gains for inflation would be a massive giveaway to the rich, giving almost nothing to the bottom 80% of Americans while giving the top 0.1% a $350k annual tax break, EVEN MORE than what they got in OBBBA.

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06.03.2026 20:16 πŸ‘ 6049 πŸ” 1491 πŸ’¬ 270 πŸ“Œ 100

so to mitigate the oil costs of war with Iran we're lifting Russian oil sanctions while Putin gives Iran intel for missile strikes?

do i have that right?

06.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there any real chance of a reaching a peace deal in a war where one side are irrational religious zealots operating under a repressive theocracy, and so are the other two.

06.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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CNN matches WaPo:

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

06.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 495 πŸ” 199 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 13

The negotiations were led by two US oligarchs with massive financial conflicts of interest. Using American blood/treasure to build special corridors of power for the oligarchy reminded me of the likes of Epstein, Thiel, Bannon… men excited for money to be had in the shattering of global stability

06.03.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Oligarchical Corridor A Source of War

If we examine the origins the the war on Iran, we get an inkling of a closed domain of international oligarchs, exploiting the state’s power and patriotic sentiment, while creating a world order in which the American state is much weaker. An oligarchical corridor.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...

06.03.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 726 πŸ” 340 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 35
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Once you deduct the healthcare sector, the jobs loss situation under Trump becomes far more grave.

06.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 285 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating β€” even indirectly β€” in the war.

06.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 707 πŸ” 359 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 135
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U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in February The payrolls number was worse than the gain of 50,000 jobs economists expected and a sign that the job market continues to struggle in nearly every sector.

Donald Trump has made $4 billion off the presidency.

His rich friends get $1 trillion in tax cuts.

Everyone else gets higher prices and job losses.

The Trump economy is a disaster.

06.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 287 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 10

National Geographic quality as usual, Carl, A+ incredible images

06.03.2026 07:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This feels out of control, insane, and illegal.

06.03.2026 07:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lol to the jabronis tone policing people saying Hegseth never literally said this war in Iran was for Jesus, well here you go

05.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pete Hegseth is not "a former member of the press at Fox," as MS NOW just said.
Fox News is not journalism. It's anti-journalism. It makes people less informed than they were before.
Hegseth is a former fascist propagandist who has moved on to become a war criminal.

04.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 551 πŸ” 163 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 6

open borders is a slogan that sounds 100x more insane than even abolish the police. it is another idea painstakingly designed in an academic lab to be weaponized by people on the right against everyone left of Obama. it is therefore election annihilation fuel, paving the way for entrenched fascism.

06.03.2026 07:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Steve King 9
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Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
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Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel
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Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

04.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 3754 πŸ” 1013 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 47

He turns 80 this year and his health isn’t great so of course he genuinely does not care if anyone else in the world gets to keep living their lives. He just wants to feel important, the center of everything, for another day.

06.03.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜”πŸ’”

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β€œI guess”

06.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can already see it now... the next Dem will be expected to draw this down, it will be a realistic drawdown instead of the fairytale version, their poll numbers will drop and the voters will decide to elect republican Foghorn Leghorn, who *promises* no new wars.

05.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Primary.

06.03.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Impeach and remove. Congressional Republicans have got to snap out of it and stop allowing this administration to fvcking start wars everywhere. These mofos want to burn the planet down.

06.03.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

05.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 6010 πŸ” 2123 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 123

I think Congress should still impeach Kristi Noem (technically you can still impeach a former official). Her "reign" at DHS was so egregious that the full truth of it should be exposed, and she should be held accountable for it.

05.03.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

wtf. that US attack has to be investigated. it sounds like it failed our military’s own rules

05.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 πŸ‘ 17104 πŸ” 5970 πŸ’¬ 513 πŸ“Œ 493

All I could think about reading the story was MarALago’s pathetic β€œSCIF”

Given how that place functions it has got to be an intelligence-gathering buffet for visitors and workers

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