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Didnt get to watch the orange dude's temper tantrum last night, I was having dinner with some fine Americans instead...
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Larry Ellison will own a part of TikTok alongside the Chinese.

Great job @schumer.senate.gov and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Mike Johnson could call vote to protect our healthcare, but he’s sending the house home early. Mark my words: He wants them out of DC so they can’t protect our healthcare AND they won’t be around when the Epstein files AREN’T released tomorrow….
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Trump and Republicans claim they want to "protect children."

But they've rolled back child labor laws and environmental protections, blocked gun safety reform, and spread lies about vaccines that save children from deadly diseases.

Hello?
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.

28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Have you told your low info or MAGA family about this story of #ICELawlessness where #immigration officers who knew this woman was pregnant forced her on her stomach during detention & put their knee on her!

This is rough, but we must bear witness! We must speak up, call Congress & tell others.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.
The world’s richest person just hit another major milestone thanks to the soaring valuation of his rocket maker SpaceX.

Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The four Democrats on the Gang of Eight are demanding Pete Hegseth release the full, unedited tape of the controversial September 2nd double-tap boat strike before Congress leaves town for the year at the end of this coming week. tinyurl.com/4h8nb8ea
December 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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😳🇺🇸
December 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Reminder…you have a sexual predator in the WH. in this page from the House Oversight Committee, you’ll see that Diddy Rump is specifically named.
He, & all other predators & enablers deserve consequences.
Survivors deserve justice.
We the people deserve the truth. #ReleaseTheFiles
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The biggest ‘welfare queens’ in 🇺🇸 are corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes, and CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet — not hungry kids, or working parents who work multiple jobs.”
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”

Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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After our last post, MAGA voices rushed to claim that Trump had nothing to do with the traffic stop involving Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son, where federal agents demanded proof of his citizenship. Let’s be clear about why this is not a coincidence.
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Imagine your precious child, a high schooler, goes out to walk the dog & never comes back.

The reason: he gets abducted by #ICE who just release the dog.

Neighbors rescue the dog & return it with the news of #ICELawless.
Your son's detained for months in brutal conditions.
youtu.be/NumOmTjZHoY?...
Reseda student returns home after ICE detention
YouTube video by NBCLA
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December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM