A bombshell new report reveals that top military officials have kept Trump out of the room during Iran war operations because they fear his erratic behavior will put troops in harm’s way.
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🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
😕🇺🇸
Less than three hours after the polls closed, Viktor Orban conceded that he lost. Five years after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he still falsely claims that he won.
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There are also links to a couple of encouraging short videos on Hungary ousting their authoritarian leader, and a song playlist I enjoyed putting together called "Found Music." Thank you!
I'd be grateful if you checked out my latest Substack newsletter! It includes personal reflections on being/feeling still for a bit, and the great experience I had at our local No Kings event. ...
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Russians have just struck a Baptist church in the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. One person was killed.
It would be good if Trump, instead of posting pictures of himself as Jesus, showed some basic human decency and helped Ukrainian Christians survive this genocide.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted a violent and fictional Bible passage nearly word-for-word from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in his Wednesday night worship service at the Pentagon.
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org is demanding a CFTC investigation into anonymous traders who netted millions on suspiciously timed bets on US military actions—Iran ceasefire, Venezuela invasion & more
Alleged insider trading on war plans IS a national security threat
CFTC must act now - TN
If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:
Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M
That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.
It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.
💔🕯In Cherkasy yesterday, russians killed 8-year-old Bohdan during a Shahed drone attack on the city
At the moment of the strike, the boy was playing on a playground.
Cherkasy Secondary School No. 25 posted about the tragedy.
I am asking Christians — Protestant, Catholic, doesn’t matter — to say out loud what you know to be true in your hearts. For the simple, irreducible truth that Jesus Christ is not a meme. His image is not a political tool. His name is not a brand.
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Is this the real reason Israel won’t stop bombing and doesn’t want a peace deal?
Also: how is this not a bigger part of the *analysis* on 🇺🇸 networks?
We’ll hang up and listen.
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More on this playlist, including a few highlights, is at: substack.com/@benjdevries...
This week’s playlist includes artists or projects which landed on my radar in the past year. They’re new to me, and I’m grateful to have discovered them. I hope you and many other listeners discover them as well.
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One step further: it should be unthinkable that we would register people for the draft without first making sure that they are registered to vote. And indeed: it makes no sense generally to hold elections without making every effort to make it as easy as possible to vote! That’s what democracies do.
Yes, should be noted that when Vance joins Kushner and Witkoff he is not joining a team of negotiators but a pair of war profiteers.
Continued evil by ICE.👇
1/5. Orbán pioneered a model whereby oligarchs trade the fascist memes and electoral tricks they use to stay in power. He made Budapest a node between Moscow and Washington of the international far right.
BREAKING: Melania Trump address the nation on Jeffrey Epstein in shock statement, possibly breaking from Donald
She demands people stop linking her to Epstein and demands Congress take action to give survivors the ability to testify.
Congressmen are demanding it as well.
Something does not add up
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social on Fox: “February 11th, Netanyahu was in the situation room sitting at the table… Israel pushed us to do this.”
(H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
to the watching world, both here in the U.S. and around the world, is abhorrent.
These are the words of a mad man, and a war criminal on a genocidal scale.
Where are Trump's enablers and supporters, including millions of Christians, with the courage to denounce this evil, and to expect our President to act like a wise and just leader? The Christian witness we are presenting...
Screenshot of a tweet by Marc E. Elias stating that with his popularity declining, Donald Trump took steps to gain control over U.S. elections, promoting a Democracy Docket segment. The image shows Trump shaking hands with another man on an airport tarmac, with a vehicle and staff visible in the background.
The work Marc Elias and Democracy Docket is doing is vital.
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1) please avoid explicit content; 2) please let me know if you prefer I credit you by your full name in an accompanying post; 3) I may need to exclude some songs due to content, if so I'll ask you for an alternate; 4) depending on volume, I may need to include some songs in a follow-up playlist ...
