Shelley Powers
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Dude who took health insurance and food stamps from more Americans than any Speaker in US history wants you to know how tough he's got it.
Mike Johnson: “I haven’t had a vacation day in two years. I haven’t been off in two years, literally.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Dude who took health insurance and food stamps from more Americans than any Speaker in US history wants you to know how tough he's got it.
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Bowser on injured National Guard members: "These young people should be at home in West Virginia with their families"
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Bowser on injured National Guard members: "These young people should be at home in West Virginia with their families"
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Among other travesties in this statement, National Guard soldiers are not "law enforcement"
REPORTER: There are people upset with the president, believing the National Guard members shouldn't have been there
PIRRO: I don't even wanna talk about whether they should've been there. We ought to kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement
PIRRO: I don't even wanna talk about whether they should've been there. We ought to kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Among other travesties in this statement, National Guard soldiers are not "law enforcement"
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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
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Trump brags at length about his golf game during his Thanksgiving call with service members
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Trump brags at length about his golf game during his Thanksgiving call with service members
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Oh nothing, just Trump making racist jokes and laughing at himself right after announcing the tragic death of a National Guard who was shot because him.
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Oh nothing, just Trump making racist jokes and laughing at himself right after announcing the tragic death of a National Guard who was shot because him.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
If Trump hadn't staged his National Guard show, these young people would not be fighting for their lives today.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Two critically wounded National Guard victims identified
The victims, who came from units in West Virginia, had been patrolling in D.C. since August, according to officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If Trump hadn't staged his National Guard show, these young people would not be fighting for their lives today.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Fani Willis is an excellent illustration of the concept that MOST Americans are super-deferential to prosecutors to the point of ignoring their bad behavior, so long as the prosecutors are going after someone the Americans in question don’t like.
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Fani Willis is an excellent illustration of the concept that MOST Americans are super-deferential to prosecutors to the point of ignoring their bad behavior, so long as the prosecutors are going after someone the Americans in question don’t like.
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I did not know charcuterie Christmas trees were a thing, but it’s delightful.
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I did not know charcuterie Christmas trees were a thing, but it’s delightful.
I want to see someone sue to stop this one. He's going to destroy everything before he leaves.
Trump’s next target for destruction is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. I can only imagine what sort of white trash gold coated monstrosity Trump will replace the Reflecting Pool with. #ProudBlue
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I want to see someone sue to stop this one. He's going to destroy everything before he leaves.
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Jesus Christ he’s gonna put in Bellagio fountains.
Trump’s next target for destruction is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. I can only imagine what sort of white trash gold coated monstrosity Trump will replace the Reflecting Pool with. #ProudBlue
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Jesus Christ he’s gonna put in Bellagio fountains.
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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Poor Marcel has just found out that he was adopted by vegans so he won't get any leftover turkey. (don't worry, like most vegans we do not feed our cats vegan cat food. He'll get plenty of churu and the fancy Tiki Cat and Weruva flavors he loves)
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Poor Marcel has just found out that he was adopted by vegans so he won't get any leftover turkey. (don't worry, like most vegans we do not feed our cats vegan cat food. He'll get plenty of churu and the fancy Tiki Cat and Weruva flavors he loves)
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Every Trump appointee is committed to ignoring the difference between holding a responsible office of the United States and being a partisan advocate hack. It's bad across the board, but it's catastrophically bad in the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Directors of the FBI & CIA.
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Every Trump appointee is committed to ignoring the difference between holding a responsible office of the United States and being a partisan advocate hack. It's bad across the board, but it's catastrophically bad in the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Directors of the FBI & CIA.
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Right from Fox News — immigration is complicated no matter how reductive Trump — whose administration gave this man asylum to — tries to make it
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Right from Fox News — immigration is complicated no matter how reductive Trump — whose administration gave this man asylum to — tries to make it
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There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
Three children have died from pertussis but sure, appoint a man who is probably happy about this
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
Ralph Abraham is “dangerous,” but somehow not the worst among those considered.
arstechnica.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Three children have died from pertussis but sure, appoint a man who is probably happy about this
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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Honestly, nobody should experience the memorial service, because there shouldn't be any.
Fully endorse the rest.
Fully endorse the rest.
"My wife often says that every American should experience a military deployment sendoff, a welcome-home ceremony for units, and a memorial service for a young soldier who has made the ultimate sacrifice." And a military Thanksgiving. lnk.thebulwark.com/3KixnOD
How the Military Celebrates Thanksgiving
Across the world, members of our armed forces come together, share a meal, and remember that they are not alone.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Honestly, nobody should experience the memorial service, because there shouldn't be any.
Fully endorse the rest.
Fully endorse the rest.
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Gave this a lot more context in a full post at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-two-sh...
The two shot National Guard troops never should have been in DC. More troops is no answer.
The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position.
www.lawdork.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Gave this a lot more context in a full post at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-two-sh...