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The last century of American history:
Republicans screw up.
Democrats clean up the mess.
Voters forget how incompetent Republicans are, give them power again.
Republicans screw up again.
Democrats clean up the mess.
Rinse & repeat.
#BlueWaveVoteToday
The GOP is all talk when it comes to vets
They disrespect vets by lying them into Iraq, doing Bibi's bidding in Iran, highfiving after blocking burn pit compensation & cutting benefits to subsidize billionaires
Repugs are chickenhawk backstabbers
#DemsFightForVeteransCare
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CBS heavily edited Trump's interview on 60 Minutes. The black and white clips did not appear in Sunday night's broadcast. The network removed sections where Trump made false claims and fabrications. This is part of his explanation about the war in Ukraine.
This meme was created BEFORE Trumpโs 2nd term
#HoldTheCrooksAccountable
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AOC just called out the media for spending years fixated on Bidenโs cognition while barely touching Trumpโs very real cognitive decline and escalating erratic behavior.
For the past 2 years, Congressional Republicans have stood silently by as Trump has engaged in unprecedented levels of corruption.
As ever, it will be left to the Democrats to #HoldTheCrooksAccountable.
Annie Andrews is replacing the sister of an anti-gay legislator who was in the closet that replaced a vehemently racist senator with a secret biracial child.
Youโve come a long way, South Carolina.
The federal minimum wage was last raised in 2009 by President Obama & a Democratic Congress.
Inflation has increased over 50% since then, but Republicans have blocked increases.
Soon itโll be put up or shut up time for Republicans who claim to be the party of working people.
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Stephen Miller makes his maiden speech as Trump Minister of Propaganda.
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Oh hold up one damn minute, how the hell did I miss Michael Steele being all out of fucks to give. Whooo boy!!๐จ๐จ๐จ
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BREAKING: Leader @HakeemJeffries announces Democrats will immediately bring forward a bill to BAN members of Congress from trading stocks:
โThereโs a cost to corruption...
Thatโs why I strongly support banning members of Congress from being able to trade stock.โ
Axios reports that House Republicans may move to impeach Pete Hegseth before the new Democratic majority is sworn in
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For years, MAGA has accused Democrats of being paid protesters, paid activists, bots and political operatives.
Meanwhile, some of their biggest influencers have been collecting thousands of dollars to push political misinformation on X without disclosing whoโs paying them, or that their posts are paid for at all.
Remember Tenet media? This is worse. These people have been willingly posting lies to get paid.
Hereโs the difference though. Weโre grassroots, the real patriots. Theyโre trying to cash in. We organize, volunteer, research, share information and show up because we believe in something. They believe in a lie. Whether they know it or not.
Nobody had to pay us to give a damn. And trust me, no one did. There were no โSoros checksโ or $200 per protest. Thatโs a MAGA thing.
Tuesdayโs election results showed what a grassroots movement can accomplish. We were underfunded, with social media against us and we still kicked ass all across the country. So now, of course, come the screams of โrigged electionโ by people unable to do math.
MAGA has always been a grift.
Maybe Elon should spend less time tweaking the algorithm to blunt everybody elseโs free speech and more time enforcing the terms of service on his own platform.
Because I guarantee you this too will be investigated.
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MAGA extremists are tripling down on their chaos, cruelty and corruption after being wiped out on Tuesday.
Exhibit A is Stephen Miller.
We will hold the crooks accountable.
It's all over but the counting for Lauren Boebert and her brief, useless, divisive political career. The AP is slow to make the call, but Polymarket bettors, who know which votes remain to be counted, give Boebert a 1.3% chance of holding on to her seat.
Good riddance!!
More pay-to-play Trump Administration corruption
I look forward to seeing all of the grifters face the music in public hearings
ProPublica has a new investigation into the Trump administrationโs push to open public lands to private AI data center development. And the financial connections are worth paying attention to. While these officials have financial connections to the industry, theyโre also overseeing policies that could make its expansion easier.
Lee Zeldin, EPA administrator, disclosed buying and selling shares in Datavault AI in May 2025. Zeldinโs EPA has proposed eliminating federal minimum public-notice and comment requirements for certain air pollution permits. That means states could decide whether communities even get an opportunity to weigh in on qualifying projects.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has between $18.1 million and $64.4 million invested in AI companies through Arthur Ventures, the investment firm he co-founded. He retained those financial interests when he joined the administration. Burgum, meanwhile, has met with representatives of Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet more than 20 times. He also attended a private dinner with UAE AI officials and investor Amos Hochstein before signing an AI cooperation agreement with the UAE.
Hereโs the scale of whatโs happening:
A USGS report identified 91.3 million acres of Interior-managed public land as potentially suitable for data centers. The BLM is reviewing approximately 15 data center applications and 17 associated infrastructure projects across six Western states.
Steve Pearce, director of the Bureau of Land Management, has held investments in Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Alphabet. He also has an investment in Titan Development, which has managed land acquisitions for data centers in the Southwest. He pledged to divest many of his AI holdings, but not Titan.
Michael Boren, USDA undersecretary overseeing the Forest Service, reported $1.5 million to $6.1 million in financial interests in Elon Muskโs xAI and up to $500,000 in Valar Atomics. Valar is pursuing a massive Utah data center project powered by more than 450 proposed small nuclear plants.
And we still donโt know how much taxpayers will actually receive for allowing these private companies to use public land. Interior says the primary payment will be annual fair-market-value rent.
ProPublica also found hundreds of administration appointees and their spouses have financial ties to major AI companies, including Nvidia, Alphabet and Meta. The officials involved say they are complying with federal ethics requirements. Doesnโt look like it. The overlap between personal financial interests, government policy and private development on public land raises some very legitimate questions.
We canโt make it any clearer than we did on Tuesday. We donโt want this shit. We donโt care that your buddies and you want to make money. Stop it.