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Trump calls for the arrest of Chris Wray (his handpicked former FBI director) and Merrick Garland
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Trump calls for the arrest of Chris Wray (his handpicked former FBI director) and Merrick Garland
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Once I reported for duty, they said they had problems with my test scores. They were high.
So I had to retest. On the retest I scored higher.
As I told the examiner, " Of course I scored higher. This is my second time taking the test."
So I had to retest. On the retest I scored higher.
As I told the examiner, " Of course I scored higher. This is my second time taking the test."
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Once I reported for duty, they said they had problems with my test scores. They were high.
So I had to retest. On the retest I scored higher.
As I told the examiner, " Of course I scored higher. This is my second time taking the test."
So I had to retest. On the retest I scored higher.
As I told the examiner, " Of course I scored higher. This is my second time taking the test."
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Since the end of the Cold War, democrats have created 50M jobs and republicans have created 1M.
The Republican propaganda that Trump “inherited” a bad economy from Biden and is making it better is the exact opposite of true. The numbers don’t lie and people know what they are experiencing.
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Since the end of the Cold War, democrats have created 50M jobs and republicans have created 1M.
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It says a lot about our political media environment that Democrats are called upon to defend things they never said and Republicans are allowed to emerge unscathed for things they're literally recorded saying.
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It says a lot about our political media environment that Democrats are called upon to defend things they never said and Republicans are allowed to emerge unscathed for things they're literally recorded saying.
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Call your reps and tell them we don’t want to go to war with Venezuela!
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Call your reps and tell them we don’t want to go to war with Venezuela!
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It will probably only cost 200 million, but Trump will raise 1 billion and pocket the rest.
Trump now says his ballroom will cost $400 million (it was supposed to cost $250 million less than two months ago)
December 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It will probably only cost 200 million, but Trump will raise 1 billion and pocket the rest.
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COLLINS: What do you say to people who say Republicans have had 15 years to change the ACA and they haven't done it?
RICK SCOTT: Why didn't Democrats fix it?
RICK SCOTT: Why didn't Democrats fix it?
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
COLLINS: What do you say to people who say Republicans have had 15 years to change the ACA and they haven't done it?
RICK SCOTT: Why didn't Democrats fix it?
RICK SCOTT: Why didn't Democrats fix it?
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Exactly. If people can’t see the familiar choreography by now…..
Worried that the escalation this week is designed to coincide with Friday's deadline for the DOJ to release the Epstein files
Gallego: "This is the Iraq War 2.0 with a South American flavor. I'm hoping this doesn't happen, but I'm telling you - if you look at what they have down there, all the assets they have down there, all the actions they're taking, this is absolutely an effort to get us involved in a war in Venezuela"
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Exactly. If people can’t see the familiar choreography by now…..
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COLLINS: Do you disagree with Trump's pardon of the former Honduran leader who was also indicted and convicted?
RICK SCOTT: I don't -- I never -- I never met the guy and I don't know anything about it
COLLINS: But do you approve of that pardon?
SCOTT: I don't know much about it
COLLINS: Ok
RICK SCOTT: I don't -- I never -- I never met the guy and I don't know anything about it
COLLINS: But do you approve of that pardon?
SCOTT: I don't know much about it
COLLINS: Ok
December 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
COLLINS: Do you disagree with Trump's pardon of the former Honduran leader who was also indicted and convicted?
RICK SCOTT: I don't -- I never -- I never met the guy and I don't know anything about it
COLLINS: But do you approve of that pardon?
SCOTT: I don't know much about it
COLLINS: Ok
RICK SCOTT: I don't -- I never -- I never met the guy and I don't know anything about it
COLLINS: But do you approve of that pardon?
SCOTT: I don't know much about it
COLLINS: Ok
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He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
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[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
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She interviewed with Vanity Fair 11 times and they quoted her extensively from those interviews.
December 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
She interviewed with Vanity Fair 11 times and they quoted her extensively from those interviews.
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🔥 BREAKING: Shareholders of Cisco voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal presented at its annual meeting, by a tally of 99-1% of voting shares. Trump tirade against DEI turns to proxy advisors and shareholder democracy.
www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
BREAKING: Cisco shareholders vote to reject anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent -
Cisco shareholders join investors in 31 out of 31 corporations that voted overwhelmingly to reject anti-DEI proposals in 2025, as Trump tirade against DEI turns to proxy advisors and shareholder democ...
www.impactivize.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🔥 BREAKING: Shareholders of Cisco voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal presented at its annual meeting, by a tally of 99-1% of voting shares. Trump tirade against DEI turns to proxy advisors and shareholder democracy.
www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
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BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
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the white house is pretty clearly deranged by the same fever that has seized their tech oligarch backers: a bubble-wrapped information environment that protects them from understanding what people really think of them and their plans.
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
the white house is pretty clearly deranged by the same fever that has seized their tech oligarch backers: a bubble-wrapped information environment that protects them from understanding what people really think of them and their plans.
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God blood and soil nationalism that would make Goebbels proud
Vance: "Why have rents gone down for 4 consecutive months? Because we're starting to get those illegal aliens out of the USA. Those criminals, those gang members, those people that are taking homes that ought by right go the people in this room. It's simple economics."
December 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
God blood and soil nationalism that would make Goebbels proud
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Zero intelligence secrets, sources, or methods are put at risk by showing a video of a boat exploding, or of shipwrecked people clinging to boat pieces hit by a missile and exploding.
Such a video reveals absolutely nothing about how the US identified that boat, located it, or chose to attack it.
Such a video reveals absolutely nothing about how the US identified that boat, located it, or chose to attack it.
Hegseth on the second Sept 2 strike: "Of course we're not going to release a top secret full unedited of that to the general public"
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Zero intelligence secrets, sources, or methods are put at risk by showing a video of a boat exploding, or of shipwrecked people clinging to boat pieces hit by a missile and exploding.
Such a video reveals absolutely nothing about how the US identified that boat, located it, or chose to attack it.
Such a video reveals absolutely nothing about how the US identified that boat, located it, or chose to attack it.
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It's really upsetting that President Biden did so much to make the country better after the pandemic and the buffoon in there now is dismantling it piece by piece. Over a million jobs lost. Unemployment the highest it's been in 4 yeas.
#USDemocracy
#USDemocracy
December 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's really upsetting that President Biden did so much to make the country better after the pandemic and the buffoon in there now is dismantling it piece by piece. Over a million jobs lost. Unemployment the highest it's been in 4 yeas.
#USDemocracy
#USDemocracy
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Hilarious. The WH had all the Cabinet members simultaneously put out statements supporting Susie Wiles after the Vanity Fair article came out.
December 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hilarious. The WH had all the Cabinet members simultaneously put out statements supporting Susie Wiles after the Vanity Fair article came out.
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Under Trump:
- The economy has slowed, heading towards recession now
- Inflation is rising, most things cost more
- His cutting of energy subsidies is driving up utility prices
- He's taken 100s of billions from health care/food assistance in a war on working people
- He's making measles great again
- The economy has slowed, heading towards recession now
- Inflation is rising, most things cost more
- His cutting of energy subsidies is driving up utility prices
- He's taken 100s of billions from health care/food assistance in a war on working people
- He's making measles great again
A few points here:
- Over 300,000 jobs on average were created each month of Biden Presidency
- In the last 3 months of his Presidency the average was 203,000
- Only 64,000 jobs were created last month, and the unemployment rate has risen from 4 to 4.6 under Trump
This Trump thing ain't working.
- Over 300,000 jobs on average were created each month of Biden Presidency
- In the last 3 months of his Presidency the average was 203,000
- Only 64,000 jobs were created last month, and the unemployment rate has risen from 4 to 4.6 under Trump
This Trump thing ain't working.
Are we in a recession?
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
Perhaps. Maybe. Hard to tell.
The Sahm Rule focuses on the 3-month average unemployment rate, and asking if it's risen half a point above its year-long low.
The low was 4.0% in January.
The latest (average of Sept & Nov, with Oct missing): 4.5%.
That's +0.5%.
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Under Trump:
- The economy has slowed, heading towards recession now
- Inflation is rising, most things cost more
- His cutting of energy subsidies is driving up utility prices
- He's taken 100s of billions from health care/food assistance in a war on working people
- He's making measles great again
- The economy has slowed, heading towards recession now
- Inflation is rising, most things cost more
- His cutting of energy subsidies is driving up utility prices
- He's taken 100s of billions from health care/food assistance in a war on working people
- He's making measles great again
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To feel this comfortable to talk about Trump like this, Susie Wiles either...
1) Is looking for an off-ramp
2) Has so much dirt on Trump, she knows he can't fire her.
1) Is looking for an off-ramp
2) Has so much dirt on Trump, she knows he can't fire her.
Susie Wiles tells VF that Trump "has an alcoholic's personality."
"High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink."
Of JD Vance, Wiles said he has "been a conspiracy theorist for a decade."
"High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink."
Of JD Vance, Wiles said he has "been a conspiracy theorist for a decade."
Susie Wiles Talks About The First Year of Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2)
In the first half of ‘Vanity Fair’’s interview with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff discusses Elon Musk’s DOGE disaster, the FBI’s “incredible job” investigating January 6, and how Trump once berated ...
www.vanityfair.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
To feel this comfortable to talk about Trump like this, Susie Wiles either...
1) Is looking for an off-ramp
2) Has so much dirt on Trump, she knows he can't fire her.
1) Is looking for an off-ramp
2) Has so much dirt on Trump, she knows he can't fire her.
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The Trump sycophants and spinmasters can twist the jobs numbers all they want to fool people, but here is one simple number they can’t change: the US unemployment rate is now the highest it’s been in 4 years.
December 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The Trump sycophants and spinmasters can twist the jobs numbers all they want to fool people, but here is one simple number they can’t change: the US unemployment rate is now the highest it’s been in 4 years.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Somebody ask Mike Johnson about the unemployment report and Susie Wiles, he needs to get his 10,000 steps in.
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Somebody ask Mike Johnson about the unemployment report and Susie Wiles, he needs to get his 10,000 steps in.