Excellent!

ksawin0in (@kelsea53) Absolute bullshit in DC. Get ready, they’re coming for you next.

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Appalling

The White House Ballroom Grift: Pay to Play at its Worst Pay to play at its worst.

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Kept From the Situation Room. Posting at Midnight. Staff Correcting Him Anonymously. The President Doesn't Know What's Happening in His Own War. A President Who Posts at Midnight to Say He's Winning Should Probably Know Whether His Own Peace Talks Are Happening

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Appalling

Donald Trump just became the first president in history to owe the American people $166 billion in refunds - NewsBreak Donald Trump’s administration just kicked off the largest tariff refund in U.S. history, and businesses are about to get $166 billion back. Starting at 8 p

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Another article that stops the $166 Billion dollar of illegal tariffs refunds at the businesses and does not address the refunds for the money extorted from those ordinary consumer to those businesses.

Consumers can and should get a refund from those businesses .

Rabbi who boasts of bulldozing Palestinian homes will light torch for Israel’s national day Human rights campaigners say honour for Avraham Zarbiv endorses ethnic cleansing and war crimes

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“You will have nothing left,” he declares in one voiceover, as the camera pans across a landscape of shattered buildings. “We will flatten you and destroy you.”

Don’t trust this dude one bit. If he is confirmed, we are more fucked.

Jamal X (@monty905410) Black History Stories Mae Louise Miller was 57 years old when she found out her childhood was a crime. She'd been held in slavery in Mississippi until 1961. For forty years after escaping, nobody tol...

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Mohammed from Gaza (@mohammedingaza) Today, my brother loay and I spent around 6 hours searching for a place to shelter our family… We walked through streets and alleys, knocked on doors, and asked everywhere… holding on to a small hope...

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American fascination with the appalling predatory super wealthy. As the French say,
“Behind every great fortune, there is a great crime.”
They’re not elite. Without empathy, they are assholes.
Another French insult. Fits perfectly.”The only thing he has going for him is that he has money.”

3 takeaways from a fiery hearing to confirm Trump’s Fed chief pick | CNN Business Confirmation hearings for Federal Reserve chairs are usually staid, rubber-stamp affairs. Not this one.

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No one asked about his presence in the Epstein files? Appalling.

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

Peter Thiel's "Palantir," The Company That Owns The Trump Regime, Just Published Their 22 Point Manifesto For America And It's Terrifying. 22 Points · A Tolkien-Themed Surveillance Empire · A Chairman Who Loved Epstein · A Philosopher-King Blogger On Speed-Dial · And The IBM-Nazi Template Nobody Wants To Name

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We need to take these folks down a peg. INM and the Holocaust is not a positive story.

Illegal Tariffs and Consumers: A System Designed to Screw the Ordinary Consumer As reported in this NPR article (https://www.npr.org/2026/04/19/nx-s1-5786635/tariff-refunds-customs-ace-portal) Customs and Border Patrol has created a Phase 1 portal as part of addressing the $165 B...

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This tariff-refund portal is about to be America's hottest website Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, the U.S. government has set Monday as the day when some companies can begin requesting refunds.

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If you are an ordinary citizen you should bitch to the business and get yourself YOUR refund. Screw this portal.

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Stumbling Stones: The Suit to Fight the Trump Attempt at Further Aryanization of America (Final Edit) https://newrepublic.com/post/209131/trump-sued-firing-black-officials-government

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It Ain’t Fun Being MAGA No More | Funny Country Parody Song | Anti Trump Satire 2026 YouTube video by The Resistance

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Stumbling Stones: The Suit to Fight the Trump Attempt at Further Aryanization of America https://newrepublic.com/post/209131/trump-sued-firing-black-officials-government

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Amir’s Cap Border Crossing “54 Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house, and Peter was following at a distance.

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Trump Sued for Firing Most of the Black Officials in Government President Trump has been purging Black officials in independent agencies at a higher rate than anyone else, a new lawsuit says.

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Excellent!

Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (take 2, test pressing) YouTube video by Nick Dellow

Fans of blues music will not want to miss the sound from the recently-discovered 1940 shellac master test pressing of Robert Johnson performing "Cross Road Blues"—a famous track, now available with vastly better sound. (via Ted Gioia)
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Retired Coast Guard officer with decades of public health experience is Trump’s pick to lead CDC | CNN The president named Dr. Erica Schwartz on Thursday to run the embattled agency, which has been without a permanent director since Dr. Susan Monarez’s ouster in August.

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If she fails, blame it on her. If she succeeds, take all the credit. Congrats for her. Tough spot. Hope they fix the bullet riddled windows now.

Freedom to do business!

XavierBecerra is running for governor to lead California while building the economy and working hard to protect the rights and freedoms of the community

#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1 #RU26 #BlueLegacy

France seeks release of 86-year-old French widow detained by ICE Agents detained Marie-Therese Ross in Alabama on 1 April after she overstayed her 90-day visa, according to DHS

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WOO! John Eastman has been OFFICIALLY DISBARRED.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data - NewsBreak Banks in the U.S. may not like the idea of being forced to collect citizenship data on customers, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says they better be

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data
Source: CNBC

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This reminds me of a mother responding “if a friend told you to jump off a Cliff, would you do it because s/he said so?”

Live updates: White House optimistic about Iran deal as key Pakistani negotiator visits Tehran | CNN The Trump administration feels “good about prospects of a deal” with Iran, the White House said Wednesday, while noting that Pakistan would be the likely location of a potential second round of talks....

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Happy talk it sounds like.