GDeWeese
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
-- The Declaration of Independence
Retired Soldier, Lawyer, Husband, Father
-- The Declaration of Independence
Retired Soldier, Lawyer, Husband, Father
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15 years after the ACA became law and Republicans STILL can’t come up with more than a “concept” of a plan.
Dr Oz on the GOP healthcare plan: "We have some ideas out there. Congress is working through some concepts"
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
15 years after the ACA became law and Republicans STILL can’t come up with more than a “concept” of a plan.
More BS from Trumplandia.
The supposedly surprise vote yesterday to rename the Kennedy Center, in defiance with current law, clearly was not a surprise move because they were ready with the materials to add his name today.
The supposedly surprise vote yesterday to rename the Kennedy Center, in defiance with current law, clearly was not a surprise move because they were ready with the materials to add his name today.
Update from Shawn McCreesh
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
More BS from Trumplandia.
The supposedly surprise vote yesterday to rename the Kennedy Center, in defiance with current law, clearly was not a surprise move because they were ready with the materials to add his name today.
The supposedly surprise vote yesterday to rename the Kennedy Center, in defiance with current law, clearly was not a surprise move because they were ready with the materials to add his name today.
Tish James is a hero.
It's not just that she is standing firm and fighting for marginalized people communities and their families, it is that she is doing so with so much kindness, love and compassion.
It's not just that she is standing firm and fighting for marginalized people communities and their families, it is that she is doing so with so much kindness, love and compassion.
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Tish James is a hero.
It's not just that she is standing firm and fighting for marginalized people communities and their families, it is that she is doing so with so much kindness, love and compassion.
It's not just that she is standing firm and fighting for marginalized people communities and their families, it is that she is doing so with so much kindness, love and compassion.
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Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
This is so sick and twisted.
December 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is so sick and twisted.
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Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
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President Trump says he's pardoning Tina Peters even though the law says he can't pardon state charges.
Colorado's AG tells me Peters isn't getting out while the claim is litigated.
Colorado's AG tells me Peters isn't getting out while the claim is litigated.
December 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
President Trump says he's pardoning Tina Peters even though the law says he can't pardon state charges.
Colorado's AG tells me Peters isn't getting out while the claim is litigated.
Colorado's AG tells me Peters isn't getting out while the claim is litigated.
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"You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They don’t need that many. And you don't need 37 gold baby carriages. 2 or 3 is nice. You must go without, even though affordability is a hoax. See? I've fixed the problem!"
December 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They don’t need that many. And you don't need 37 gold baby carriages. 2 or 3 is nice. You must go without, even though affordability is a hoax. See? I've fixed the problem!"
Noem is incapable of shame.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Noem is incapable of shame.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
Autocaracies ban words because by limiting vocabulary, they limit ideas and better control the population.
That's what is happening here.
That's what is happening here.
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Autocaracies ban words because by limiting vocabulary, they limit ideas and better control the population.
That's what is happening here.
That's what is happening here.
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NASHVILLE JUDGES request heightened security from @GovBillLee after Rep Andy Ogles posts their pics with the phrase “we are at war”
A sitting congressman putting judges in danger. Pinocchiogles is going get people hurt. A disgrace to the office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
A sitting congressman putting judges in danger. Pinocchiogles is going get people hurt. A disgrace to the office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
NASHVILLE JUDGES request heightened security from @GovBillLee after Rep Andy Ogles posts their pics with the phrase “we are at war”
A sitting congressman putting judges in danger. Pinocchiogles is going get people hurt. A disgrace to the office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
A sitting congressman putting judges in danger. Pinocchiogles is going get people hurt. A disgrace to the office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Adopting a sans serif font was DEI because it was easier for people with disabilities to read and so needed to be changed? What is wrong with these people?
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Adopting a sans serif font was DEI because it was easier for people with disabilities to read and so needed to be changed? What is wrong with these people?
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Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
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Our Chief Legal Counsel @andrewbakaj.bsky.social on SCOTUS potentially giving Trump more power over independent agency firings:
"The framers created a system of checks and balances to prevent exactly what the Supreme Court is set to do."
whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblowe...
"The framers created a system of checks and balances to prevent exactly what the Supreme Court is set to do."
whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblowe...
Whistleblower Aid Cautions against Supreme Court’s Expanding Presidential Power over Independent Agencies - Whistleblower Aid
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 9, 2025 – Following reporting that the Supreme Court may be poised to give unprecedented power to the President over independent agencies, Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Coun...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Our Chief Legal Counsel @andrewbakaj.bsky.social on SCOTUS potentially giving Trump more power over independent agency firings:
"The framers created a system of checks and balances to prevent exactly what the Supreme Court is set to do."
whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblowe...
"The framers created a system of checks and balances to prevent exactly what the Supreme Court is set to do."
whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblowe...
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James Garfield was murdered by a man who thought he deserved a government job. Chester Arthur—once a machine politician—responded by helping create civil service reform.
Today’s GOP wants to undo that progress and return to patronage politics.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Today’s GOP wants to undo that progress and return to patronage politics.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
The GOP’s War on Civil Service: A Rejection of Its Own History
A look at how Garfield’s murder and Arthur’s unexpected courage created modern civil service protections—and why today’s GOP is trying to dismantle them.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
James Garfield was murdered by a man who thought he deserved a government job. Chester Arthur—once a machine politician—responded by helping create civil service reform.
Today’s GOP wants to undo that progress and return to patronage politics.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Today’s GOP wants to undo that progress and return to patronage politics.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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The Trump Administration is destroying the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. The most vulnerable Americans will pay the price.
Former Civil Rights Division staff outline the impact of the Administration's actions in a letter signed by over 200 people.
Please read and tell Congress to intervene!
Former Civil Rights Division staff outline the impact of the Administration's actions in a letter signed by over 200 people.
Please read and tell Congress to intervene!
www.thejusticeconnection.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The Trump Administration is destroying the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. The most vulnerable Americans will pay the price.
Former Civil Rights Division staff outline the impact of the Administration's actions in a letter signed by over 200 people.
Please read and tell Congress to intervene!
Former Civil Rights Division staff outline the impact of the Administration's actions in a letter signed by over 200 people.
Please read and tell Congress to intervene!
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Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
Trump on his farm bailout: "This money would not be possible without tariffs ... because of tariffs, this is possible."
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
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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
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.