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A #NAFO & #Fella circa 2022. History and Politics Junky Who Loves Fiona the Hippo, THE Ohio State Buckeyes, NAFO Fellas, and Food ✌🏻
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My admiration for Mamdani has no bounds.

That took guts
I am LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY at this meeting! Republican campaign consultants built their entire midterm strategy around making Mamdani into the devil incarnate and the face of Democratic Party, then Trump slobbers all over him today in the Oval!
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Truth👇
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Ed Martin — Trump’s “chief enforcer” — is reportedly using personal devices and auto-deleting apps to skirt records preservation laws.

He cannot dodge oversight and accountability.

DOJ and NARA must act to recover records.
americanoversight.org/american-ove...
American Oversight Demands Urgent Action Amid Claims Ed Martin — Trump’s DOJ “Chief Enforcer” — Used Auto-Deleting Apps - American Oversight
We demanded urgent recovery and preservation following reports the head of DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group conducted government business in the shadows.
americanoversight.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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In the very early days of Nazi rule local law enforcement would sometimes intervene if a local was being threatened by Nazis acting unlawfully. There was still an idea that the law mattered. That didn’t last long.

Not saying things will get that bad here but we seem to be in a similar stage.
First of all, this judge is a hero.

Secondly, my god this is egregious conduct. Imagine being this judge, driving this poor kid home, only to have ICE threaten to smash your car windows on your way out of the lot??
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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NEW: Trump has offered his personal support to MAGA influencer Nick Sortor and invited him to the White House as a star journalist. While Sortor was at an event with Trump, Bondi, Patel and Noem, a warrant for his arrest was active in Kentucky.

jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/maga-influ...
MAGA influencer invited to White House as a favorite Trump "journalist" has an active warrant for his arrest
A woman said he stole her dog, then assaulted her after she rebuffed his sexual advances. Now Nick Sortor is facing arrest in Kentucky for violating his probation.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#FiverFriday 🥰
#NAFO #Fellas

Oleg needs our help with this one!
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The GOP is the party of violence.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The way out of the conflict?
The way out of the conflict is for Russia to leave Ukraine.
That's the way out of the conflict."

-Sanna Marin
Former prime minister of Finland

Do you agree with her?😊
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Goddam right. You do the right thing -- which this republic desperately needs done -- and they pull your credentials. So what? You have a phone and your have your sources. or you should. And you continue to report on this presidency as your colleagues now do outside the Pentagon. Enough dishonor.
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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🧐 Formulations originally written in Russian found in US “peace plan” - The Guardian

The document contains several phrases that would sound natural in Russian…

⚡️ Zelensky has already spoken with JD Vance, - RBC-Ukraine
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today is the Day of Dignity and Freedom – it is a commemoration of the price of Ukraine’s independence.

With a neighbor like Russia, defending one’s own dignity, freedom, and independence is an extremely difficult task – but without it, the Ukrainian people cannot be preserved.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The sentencing hearing of Nathan Gill has begun.

Follow @thenerve.news for updates throughout the day.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Three more bodies were recovered from rubble in Ternopil, a woman and two children, bringing the Russian missile strike death toll to 31 including six children, National Police reports. Ninety-four were injured including 18 children, with identification and search for missing ongoing.
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Trump’s Complicity in the Khashoggi Murder:
How Donald Trump’s cover-up of Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination revealed the pattern of corruption that still defines his relationship with Saudi Arabia... and the world
www.avindman.com/p/trumps-com...
Trump’s Complicity in the Khashoggi Murder
How Donald Trump’s cover-up of Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination revealed the pattern of corruption that still defines his relationship with Saudi Arabia... and the world
www.avindman.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Endorsed.
Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.

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November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Y'all realize he is quite insane?

He has had so many Cap't Queeg and the strawberries moments that I have long since lost count.
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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It should be easy for educated, rational citizens to hold these two thoughts in mind: drug traffickers are the bad guys but due process of law protects us all.

Being against blowing up alleged drug traffickers at sea on the president's word does NOT make one a supporter of drug traffickers.
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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He is the pig.
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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MBS literally ordered his thugs to hack apart a @washingtonpost.com journalist with a bonesaw.

You are the company you keep!
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Even the murderer, the guy who ordered the journalist to be executed and dismembered with a bone saw, looks a bit embarassed for our American president.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM