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"We should never forget it is our democracy that makes everything possible — our freedoms, our rights, our liberties, our dreams. And that it falls to every generation of Americans to defend and protect it."
Opinion | Joe Biden: What Americans should remember about Jan. 6
Four years ago, our democracy was put to the test — and prevailed.
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Yes. Imagine if this were Hunter Biden. That’s all you need to know about how badly this is being mishandled right now.
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Sounds like a certain petulant orange shitgibbon is getting lost wandering around the White House in addition to falling asleep on camera multiple times a week

Photo credit: Kaitlan Collins
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.

Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.

The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.

"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"

Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."

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December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Breaking:

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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She should sue them
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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It might be funny coming from a person who does interviews for a living, but these tech guys need to sit down (in this case actually) and shut up. The more they talk, the more we see and what we see is unearned aggrievement and deep insecurity that manifests as exhausting arrogance.
The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"Trump, in his way, is as much of a wolf as Putin. Europe has run out of excuses to pretend otherwise". My Swamp Notes with @martinsandbu.ft.com on why Europe must make those frozen Russian assets work for Ukraine. The time for that is now. as.ft.com/r/9144c41b-7...
Europe’s fateful moment
[FREE TO READ] The EU faces a historic choice: whether or not to unlock frozen Russian assets and save the Ukrainian war effort
as.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I know there is a lot going on right now but Trump continues to light all the levers of American global power on fire and hand huge wins to Russia and China. It is a form of national surrender, of unprecedented sabotage, that will leave this nation less prosperous, less safe, and far less free.
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:

The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Pardon incoming 🙄
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I honestly don’t know what’s more concerning. That the president of the United States keeps falling asleep in public or that everyone around him is too scared to wake him up.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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3 Questions:

1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?

www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.

Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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This is no different than refusing to allow Obama to appoint Garland to the Supreme Court because a new president would take office in ten months, and then confirming Barrett eight days before the 2020 election. There are no laws, no rules, no norms, only Calvinball.
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...
ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Joining @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social at 1030. I’m sure he will ask interesting questions.
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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TRYING TO FLIP” THE BOAT MEANS THE BOAT WAS CAPSIZED AND THEY WERE SHIPWRECKED IN THE WATER.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?

Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM