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Melinda Andrews
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Some inspirational music for these challenging times!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-EY...
HAMILTON Celebrates 10 Years on Broadway With Mega-Mix Curtain Call
YouTube video by BroadwayWorld
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December 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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This is not true. Musk is endorsing (again) a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory, as told by Stephen Miller.

It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago.

If true, Harris would’ve easily won in 2024.
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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How does an amazing Congressional candidate like @bethmacy.bsky.social only have a few hundred followers??

Can we get her to 10k by Thanksgiving?
Beth Macy never thought she would run for Congress. But she knows democracy is on the line and couldn't resist the pleas of those who believe she's the only candidate who can beat the awful Ben Cline.

And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
Update your bingo card
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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“Junior officers, fearing potential legal exposure, asked military lawyers for written sign-off before taking part in strikes...

“It does not appear that such memos were furnished.

“Some personnel are worried they might need attorneys” under a new administration

wapo.st/43FXQfO
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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1) @gene4va.bsky.social says Trump is more implicated in Jamal Khashoggi's execution than we knew
2) After that, MbS paid Jared $2B
3) We don't yet know where all the stolen docs ended up
4) Trump agreed to sell MbS F-35s even tho China will get the tech
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Are you one of the people who is under the faulty impression that Pam Bondi can withhold all of the Epstein files pursuant to a sham investigation?

If so, you’re not going to want to miss today’s ResistanceLive.

youtube.com/live/xEB1mOJ...
SHOCKER! Epstein Bill Passes Almost UNANIMOUSLY-- BUT WHAT'S NEXT?!
YouTube video by Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
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November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.

Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.

[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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So, just so everyone understands: the Epstein Files Transparency Act that's being voted on today allows for NO redaction of the names of people mentioned in the files, other than victims.

That's what he's mad about. He wants perps and associates of Epstein to be protected.
Mike Johnson expresses concern that requiring the Epstein files to come out "could ruin the reputations of completely innocent people, such as those who may just have known Epstein but knew nothing of his crimes or whose names he exploited and used to try to get close to his intended victims."
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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“My sister is not a political tool for you to use. These survivors are not political tools for you to use. These are real stories, real trauma. And it's time for you to stop just talking about it and act. Vote yes.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"Haha anyways just kidding we actually want to do a literal War on Christmas"
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”

He will continue teaching.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States
November 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Imagine what this number will look like when health insurance premiums go through the roof and countless people will have no coverage.
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Taking a break from my run through the Epstein files now, but just to make it clear, my review today has revealed two things beyond a shadow of a doubt:

1) Bannon and Epstein were business partners, and

2) Epstein was still talking to Trump in 2016 and beyond.

Scroll down for details.
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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It is utterly imperative that EVERYONE involved with Epstein is taken down. I don’t care who they are.

This is a watershed moment for survivors everywhere and it MUST be seen through to fruition.

It will change the roadmap of accountability for every perpetrator everywhere.
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Our assessment warned of this pattern: delegitimize investigators, glorify offenders, and erode trust in law enforcement until loyalty replaces the law.
Michael Fanone: "I hope no American has to experience what I experienced. I've gone from dedicating 20 years of my life to the profession of law enforcement only to become a victim of the DOJ and our criminal justice system and have nowhere to seek relief."
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM