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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · Jul 10

Yes, Donald, we're still talking about Jeffrey Epstein.

Americans want answers.

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 11h

Tim Dillon: "Children being zip tied, or a grandmother being zip tied, people who've maybe lived in a community 30 years and they're not committing a crime...showing up to a high school graduation and deporting someone's father, seems to a lot of people to be inhumane."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Tim Dillon: "We do seem to have a real problem with transparency and there's a huge loss of trust over the Epstein files."

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Yeah...It's not going away."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Tim Dillon: "Kash Patel seems like he's being intimidated...I look at Kash Patel, I go, 'That seems like someone who's like a deer in headlights.' The messaging over in in the FBI seems it's not satisfying to anybody."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on Republicans blocking ACA subsidies: "I'm not willing to allow millions of Americans — people I personally know, constituents in my district — I'm not allowing their premiums to double and triple overnight."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump's tariffs: "It's bumpy. I'm talking to major manufacturing companies that are saying...'We're having problems with these tariffs. And now we're having problems, we can't get supplies'...There's problems."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Epstein files:

"This has been so suppressed, it has been so covered up, and it makes no sense."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Tim Dillon to Marjorie Taylor Greene: "How many Republican Congressmen and Senators voted to keep the Epstein files a secret?...I'm confused?"

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "What are we doing? We're doing a [bailout] with Argentina? Huh? $20 billion dollars bailing them out?"

Tim Dillon: "Then he just did a concert...It's unbelievable!"

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Everyone that voted for Trump-Vance — everyone — was like 'Release the Epstein files!' This is not even an argument. It's not even debatable...I am staying true to what we've always said. There needs to be transparency."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 13h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I've been in the Capitol, and there's two things I couldn't find this week: I couldn't find anywhere the Epstein files and also couldn't find the Republican plan to fix the absolutely destroyed health insurance industry."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

"This is a remarkable display of this administration’s callousness, incompetence, and blatant disregard for people’s lives and livelihoods."

DOGE fired my brother. Then they came for me.

The true human cost of Trump’s cuts.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was tear gassed, pepper sprayed, and detained for days by ICE.

He joined @timmiller.bsky.social of @thebulwark.com to speak out against the harrowing abuse he suffered as a result of Trump's barbaric immigration policies.

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Read George's story @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

George Retes was born in America and served honorably in the Army. But on July 10, 2025, ICE agents engulfed his car in tear gas, pepper-sprayed him in the face, detained him, and placed him on suicide watch.

Retes joined @timmiller.bsky.social of @thebulwark.com to tell this horrific story.

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

"In less than a year, the Trump administration has thrown my brother and me out of our jobs, jeopardized our access to health care, and forced me to contemplate a new and uncertain future for my child."

DOGE fired my brother. Then they came for me.

The true human cost of Trump’s cuts.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "American families are hurting right now. Everything is too damn expensive...Fruit is expensive. Food is expensive. Car insurance is expensive. Buying a car is expensive. And now...[health insurance] premiums are going to go up."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Adelita Grijalva was elected in a landslide...Speaker Mike Johnson is coming up with all these reasons why she shouldn't be sworn in...because she's going to be the 218th signature on the discharge petition for the Epstein files."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Joe Rogan on Trump's immigration policies: "It shows no heart. You're not gonna get any reasonable people to want to go along with that. Any kind person would look at that and go, 'This can't be the only way.'"

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Joe Rogan on Trump's immigration policies: "The way it looks is just horrific. When you're just arresting people in front of their kids—normal, regular people that have been here for 20 years—everybody who has a heart can't get along with that...That's crazy."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Joe Rogan: "The Democrats are pushing for [the release of the Epstein files]. The Republicans fought against it."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt criticizes Trump for sending the Texas National Guard to Illinois:

"We believe in the federalist system—that’s states’ rights. Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 3d

Gov. Wes Moore: "On behalf of 6.5 million Marylanders, my message to Trump is this: stop attempting to gut healthcare for working families and end this shutdown now. You're the one causing it. We're the ones feeling it. It needs to end."

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Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Twenty-four million Americans are going to have their premiums increased, almost doubled. Four million Americans are going to lose their coverage...A family of four is going to end up paying close to $4,000 more for their insurance."

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