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"Who the hell knows? I'm president, I'll just take 'em."
—Donald Trump

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January 16, 2026
Well, President Donald J.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Trump selling pardons for cash with utter shamelessness and, thanks to John Roberts, impunity.

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Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
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January 16, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Fixed it for you, New York Times.
New York Times headline: Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE “Shift Toward” deleted and replaced with “Despotic Claim of”
January 15, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Not the Gestapo, it´s the Sturmabteilung
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Sturmabteilung - Wikipedia
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January 15, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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“Now we have Minneapolis, America’s laboratory of democratic destruction, where ICE agents have gone full Sturmabteilung, terrorizing and even killing not only people with brown skin, but anyone who protests or gets in their way.”

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The Minneapolis Crucible
Will we forge democracy anew?
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January 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Prepare to see the American Gestapo deployed to polling places in November.

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Trump And Stephen Miller Have Created A Secret Police Force In Plain Sight
After promising to focus on deporting criminal illegal immigrants, Trump is instead using militarized immigration agencies to terrorize cities where he is unpopular.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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His family identified the injured detainee as Orbin Mauricio Henríquez Serrano; he was dumped in Texas and the family set up a GoFundMe. www.gofundme.com/f/justice-an...
CBP official Bovino also got a softball interview on Monday from Esme Murphy (WCCO – 1/11).
Donate to Justice and Freedom for Mauricio Henríquez Serrano, organized by Maritere Gonzalez
I am posting this fundraiser on behalf of his family, I am in dir… Maritere Gonzalez needs your support for Justice and Freedom for Mauricio Henríquez Serrano
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January 14, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
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January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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The US now presents itself as a lawless and piratical nation, plundering and pillaging the assets of a poorer neighbor. Serious question: Are most Americans okay with that?
January 7, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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We've reached the point where an American dictator says he alone can decide whether or when another country can hold elections, and the American press thinks that's normal.

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Live Updates: Trump Suggests Extended U.S. Involvement in Venezuela
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January 6, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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Remember when the US Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act (by a vote of 427-1) and the president signed it into law? Good times, eh?
January 5, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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In which the New York Times reports from Greece—apparently with a straight face—that sleazy partygoer Kimberly Guilfoyle "has become one of the most important people in the country."

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Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Talk of Athens
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January 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Readers of the New York Times might think this is a picture of Trump announcing an attack in Nigeria. Actually, Trump didn't bother to get out of bed. His “announcement” was an incoherent social media post.

This is a file picture (Trump announcing an imaginary warship that will never be built).
NY Times home page, "U.S. Strikes ISIS in Nigeria."
December 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Today crazy gramps says “I want to play admiral!” So all the other inmates dress up and make pictures and put on a little party. What will crazy gramps want to play tomorrow?
Donald Trump all dressed up , standingin a gilded room next to a gilded picture of an imaginary warship labeled TRUMP CLASS DEFIANT.
December 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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It is fitting that the new gold-plated Epstein class warships are being announced at Mar-a-Lago. What a mighty Navy we shall have.
December 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Vance …
☑ Embraced extremists and conspiracy theorists.
☑ Promised to "fight alongside" antisemites.
☑ Spoke up for "being white.”
☑ Attacked black immigrants and officials.
☑ Called the US “a Christian nation.”

NY Times: “Vance Refuses to Takes Sides" on bigotry.

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Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry
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December 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Epstein-Trump photos "disappear." It's a mystery! Whatever could have happened?

Or:

Justice Department Flouts Law,
Suppresses Evidence
Of Trump-Epstein Collusion
Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website, Including One of Trump A total of 16 photos were taken down at some point on Saturday from the website that the Justice Department created. One featured an open drawer containing other photos, including at least one of President Trump.
December 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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“We’re rolling at full speed into what we what we might call North Korean aesthetics of power with triumphal arches that will soon enough be dusty, half-broken relics, renaming everything after the Maximum Leader. It’s all weird.”

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Trump in Winter … Drift, Fragmentation and Just Low Energy
I’ve been under the weather. That partly explains missing two days of...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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These are workers removing the signage for Adolf Hitler street in 1945. This seems like a good day to remember.
Man on a ladder, wearing a hat and a white trenchcoat, passing down a sign that says "Adolf Hitler Str."
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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“Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband. Protect her.”

—Marla Maples to the mother of a 14-year-old girl at one of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago bacchanals.

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‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
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December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I first visited this magnificent citadel of science in 1984. NCAR has saved countless lives and pays for itself many times over. It's something the United States can be proud of.

And now the deranged zealots who have hijacked our government will destroy it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
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December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The worst person in the world.
Donald J. Trump A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!
December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for daring to report bad news, so now the BLS is fudging the numbers to report job GAINS when in fact they are LOSSES.

Who says? The chair of the Fed.

Someone should investigate.

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Fed Chair Warns Trump Admin May Be Seriously Exaggerating Jobs Numbers
Jerome Powell says the economy probably isn’t as good as the U.S. government claims.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Today in the Kleptocracy: the "Trump" gold and platinum cards.

Can someone explain how Trump claims the authority to waive US taxes for the benefit of foreign oligarchs and money launderers?

They will happily pay a "gift" of $5 million to avoid paying hundreds of millions in taxes.
Trump Platinum Card Coming Soon Foreign nationals can sign up now and secure their places on the waiting list for the Trump Platinum Card. When launched, and upon receipt of a $15,000 DHS processing fee and $5 million contribution, they will have the ability to spend up to 270 days in the United States without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Putin installed his agent in the White House and the entire Republican Party went along. I wonder what the shade of John McCain is thinking.

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Trump Calls Europe ‘Decaying’ and Suggests ‘Size Will Win’ in Ukraine War
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December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM