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Posts by Allen Laird

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Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"

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WOW. THE WINNING. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP SIR. WE CANNOT HANDLE ANY MORE OF THIS GOLDEN ERA!!

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I have no idea why this event exists. IMO, the purpose of journalism is to interrogate power, not schmooze with it

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Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Dear Media:

Blindly quoting the President without fact-checking or context is just misinformation with a press pass.

We don’t need stenographers; we need journalists. Do your job.

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Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United.

Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%.

Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit.

But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

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(around photos of Jeff Bezos and an Amazon employee) Jeff Bezos made $90 billion in profit... because of their hard work.

Amazon's profits went UP 45%, but its taxes went DOWN 87%.

Thanks to Trump's "Big Ugly Bill," Amazon paid just $1.2 billion in taxes (down from $9 billion last year).

Hardworking Americans are struggling, while Republicans hand massive tax breaks to the Epstein class.

(around photos of Jeff Bezos and an Amazon employee) Jeff Bezos made $90 billion in profit... because of their hard work. Amazon's profits went UP 45%, but its taxes went DOWN 87%. Thanks to Trump's "Big Ugly Bill," Amazon paid just $1.2 billion in taxes (down from $9 billion last year). Hardworking Americans are struggling, while Republicans hand massive tax breaks to the Epstein class.

Tax the rich.

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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

An examination by ProPublica shows how thoroughly and expansively the Trump administration has overhauled the federal government into what some fear is a vehicle for making sure elections go his way.

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The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

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IT HAS BEEN 110 DAYS SINCE TRUMP’S DOJ WAS SUPPOSED TO RELEASE THE FULL EPSTEIN FILES. THEY STILL HAVE NOT. TIME TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE, CONGRESS!

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Schools bombed.

Gas prices skyrocketed.

American soldiers’ lives lost.

And no clarity about whether Iran will continue to control a crucial trade route.

A total Trump boondoggle — from the beginning.

A war that no one wants & never should have started.

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“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

How fuckin’ explicit does Trump have to be? He is calling for a nuclear strike. — Seek his removal immediately!

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The broken database that could upend the 2026 election President Trump and the election conspiracy theorists he surrounds himself with are determined to exclude people from voting in the 2026 election based on one database: the Department of Homeland…

1. Trump is determined to exclude people from voting in the 2026 election based on one database: the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements or SAVE.

Follow along for all the details.

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Urgent Update: Several Lawmakers Call for 25th Amendment as Trump Threatens to Blow up All of Iran on Unhinged Easter Holiday We are not living through normal times. I will never normalize what we are living through.

Urgent: Several lawmakers call for the 25th Amendment as Trump melts down.

Trump threatens to bomb all of Iran, including civilian infrastructure.

We are not living in normal times. I won’t normalize it. Subscribe to support independent media that will call out an unhinged President.

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I think it’s worth asking again — and seriously — what exactly do we have a 25th Amendment for if not for this?

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Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.

Elon Musk has made a particularly bold demand of his Wall Street advisers ahead of the initial public offering of SpaceX. Musk is requiring banks, law firms, auditors and other advisers working on the IPO to buy subscriptions to Grok, his A.I. chatbot.

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WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With Tax Day coming up, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)

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The average gas price is over $4.00 per gallon.

Diesel prices are over $5.00.

Trump and Republicans’ war with Iran is costing Americans at the pump.

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The Trump Regime dropped 23,000 DOJ criminal cases for drugs, trafficking, fraud, gangs, & terrorism.

Additionally, the "law & order" regime pardoned nearly 1,600 domestic terrorists, many of whom have since been re-arrested for rape, child kidnapping, child molestation, & child porn.

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Encouraging kids to be their authentic selves is suicide prevention.

Conversion therapy is a death sentence.

It’s time we all get clear on that.

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$1 billion spent every day on this war while the death toll rises and Trump is backed into a corner.

Meanwhile, at home...

Gas prices are skyrocketing. Food is even more expensive. Mortgage rates are going up. Household debt is at a record high. The job market is drying up.

Are we great yet?

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Kristi Noem Is Gone. We Can't Forget What Happened on Her Watch. March 31 is Kristi Noem’s last day at DHS.

Firing Kristi Noem doesn’t mean Trump should be able to get away with a case of amnesia over everything that happened in Minneapolis. Read the details, connect the dots, and remember to say their names, especially Renee Good and Alex Pretti. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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European allies say Russia is helping Iran more than the U.S. has acknowledged, sources say The Europeans also argue that the war in Ukraine is intertwined with the war in Iran due to the cooperation between Russia and Iran.

European allies say Russia is helping Iran more than the U.S. has publicly acknowledged, sources say.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/rus...

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Imagine needing a reminder that “No Kings” is the baseline for our democracy.

These mass protests are for the people pretending “King” is a U.S. job title and trading their dignity for a red hat.

It’s “We the People”, not “We the Fanboys”.

Get the memo.

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Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East.

KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

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This administration is everything our kindergarten teachers warned us about.

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Mike Lindell loses bid to overturn defamation verdict. Plus, his lawyers face sanctions. A jury found Lindell liable for 2020 election-related statements about a former Dominion Voting Systems employee.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell not only just lost his latest motion to overturn a defamation verdict related to the 2020 election — the judge also said lawyers for the media company he founded must explain why they shouldn't be fined and referred to their state bars for disciplinary proceedings.

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It’s not just millions of Americans turning out in droves to call out Donald Trump. Protesters worldwide have taken to the streets for ‘No Kings’ rallies. In Italy, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia, crowds marched with signs condemning Trump and his war with Iran.

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Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals.

Two of the officers targeted are Black and two are women.

The highly unusual move has prompted some senior officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender.

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