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Rep. Mike Turner really watched Margaret Brennan read court docs alleging a politician shoved his wife and held a gun to her head and replied, "that type of speculation is better for TMZ than CBS." Accountability is apparently just trashy gossip to these people.
🚨BREAKING: Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he called off the attacks at Iran because a deal on the Strait of Hormuz is "eminent" and "ultimately the denuclearization" Minutes later, Iran's IRGC launched an anti-ship cruise missile at a US-backed oil tanker.
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Let that roll around your brain for a little bit and wonder why are they doing that?. The system as it is is corrupt it needs correction. It needs to put these corporation checkmate fast.🤯🚨🚨😡😡
Robert ReichCorporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Other states must get on board.
"Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness." ~ Abraham Lincoln
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Padilla wrote it so a president can’t gut it. Independent funding. Judges fill empty seats after 14 days. A board split evenly between parties. They studied every trick Trump used on the other watchdogs. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-law...
Although Trump's speech, in which he repeated false claims about election fraud, has ended, House Republicans are pressing for more information. In a series of letters to his Cabinet, a House committee requested classified briefings and documents related to his claims of widespread voter fraud.
House GOP Committee requests classified briefings on Trump’s election fraud claimsDespite weeks of experts debunking Trump's voter fraud lies, some Republicans aren't convinced. A House Committee wants the Office of National Intelligence, the FBI and the DHS to give them "classifie...www.democracydocket.com
Republicans rigged the maps, but Black voters are changing the game. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study findsBlack voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court rulingwww.theguardian.com
it would be an all time bag fumble for the WNBA to finally gain some mainstream attention and popularity & then immediately let itself get taken over by chuds who will never watch or care about women’s sports
Good to know after a tough weekend on the golf course the president is back at work laser focused on improving the lives of Americans by resuming his deranged AI marathon.
Some ethics institute should commission a study on Doug Burgum. Raised on a farm in North Dakota, started a software firm, sold it for $1 billion, became governor as a relatively moderate GOP politician. Then he threw it all away to parrot lies for a boss who’ll abandon him at the first opportunity
Jonathan LarsenOn July 5, DOI Secretary Doug Burgum told CNN's Dana Bash: "...we have got all the photographs ... I'm not sure why you and others in the media think that you want to keep trying to question ... Think: This is an industrial liner. … literally, it would never just like peel off or fall off."
“Only the dumbest racist dipshits want anything to do with us” is very dark and also very funny
Adam SerwerNot only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
We’re going to expand the Port of Vancouver. That will create 17,000 good jobs and make it easier to sell Canadian goods to new markets around the world.
Looks like Big Oil’s decision to agree to Donald’s request for a billion dollar bribe is paying off handsomely.
Sanho Tree“Chevron just announced its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell clocked its second-highest quarterly profits. And while ExxonMobil's profits came in beneath what Wall Street analysts had expected, it still managed to double its earnings compared with this time last year.“ Tax them into oblivion.🤬
The DOJ has lost 19 straight cases trying to seize voter files. The mail ballot order is blocked. Birthright citizenship is dead. Every win came from a lower court. A reminder that John Roberts needs to go. Now. Tell Congress: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John RobertsContact Congress today!actionnetwork.org