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Joined March 2009
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Handed over to the enemies of earthen life but oligarchs, @gop, they worship money and turn their lip all that is wholesome and alive
In between 18’s volleyball games today, I sat down near Lake Michigan to get some fresh air and enjoy the sun. After a few minutes of mindless daydreaming, I looked down to see in between two huge slabs of seemingly immovable concrete, in a neutral area that joined the pieces, this tiny, but beautiful sign of life, and I thought of how it was a visual metaphor of our country and my hope for it.
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J. McDonough retweeted
SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit. While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall. Hello?
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Replying to @GuntherEagleman
It’s curious—perhaps even tragic—that some people believe appointing a judge entitles them to control the magistrate’s decisions. They behave as though the judge is bound to rule in line with the preferences or the wishes of those who appointed him, rather than according to the law. This idea is fundamentally flawed and ought to be obvious to anyone. Such a scenario might be conceivable in nations like China or Russia, but it strikes at the very heart of a judicial system’s integrity.
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Ronald Reagan has a message for MAGA as Trump declares trade wars against our allies: “We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag."
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J. McDonough retweeted
Sanders: Does anybody think it makes sense that we have a campaign finance system where one man (Musk) can put $270 million to get Trump elected and then his reward is that he becomes the most powerful person in government? That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.
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THERE ARE 2.9 TRILLION DOLLARS IN THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND. THIS IS WHAT TRUMP, MUSK, AND THE GOP ARE AFTER. THIS IS WHY THEY WANT TO DISMANTLE SOCIAL SECURITY. THIS IS MONEY WE TAXPAYERS HAVE CONTRIBUTED WITH EVERY PAYCHECK SINCE WE FIRST BEGAN WORKING. THIEVES!
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This is a five alarm fire. The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk. Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security. This should not be a partisan issue.
Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — USAID security chiefs on leave after trying to prevent Musk's DOGE from accessing classified material, officials say.
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Let me make something clear. It's not just Trump. He's simply the mascot who gets told where to sign. The real danger is heritage foundation, Thiel, EM, & his minions. They answer to Putin. We're in real trouble. I've BEEN warning/screaming about this for a long time. #FAFO
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J. McDonough retweeted
Please read this statement from the family of Rebecca Lobach. Read every damn word. And then share it with anyone you know who still cheers on this sorry excuse for a President. The President of the United States, the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense claimed, without evidence, that this accomplished warrior was only in the pilot’s seat because of “DEI”. She was in the top 20% of cadets nationwide—and it’s pathetic and disgusting that her family had to issue this statement to the country to justify her seat even in her death because the leaders she served under blamed her for the accident in front of the White House press corps within 12 hours of the crash on baseless speculation that she was unqualified because she was a woman. If you’re an American—or even if you’re just a decent person—this should make you burn.
Statement from the family of Rebecca Lobach, one of the pilots on the Black Hawk helicopter which crashed in D.C.
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REAGAN: “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies… beware of demagogues ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, national security, and the entire free world—while cynically waving the 🇺🇸 flag.”
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Who else feels this way? 🤔
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Maga, do you find this assessment disturbing? I'm not sure if it's happening, I'm just now hearing of it. What are your thoughts?
Treasury Sec. Bessent has given employees of Elon Musk full access to the Treasury Dept. computers and payment systems. The unidentified employees said they were working for Musk’s mythical DOGE. This allows Elon Musk full access to every American’s Social Security accounts as well as very private information. It also allows Musk access to confidential bids etc from his business competitors. Do you feel comfortable with Elon Musk having all of your financial information? And all of the financial data of all Americans? #DemVoice1 #DemsUnited #ProudBlue
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Doesn't anyone understand how Putin came to power? The oligarchs. He was nothing, a weak cypher with no base. The puppet eventually became a real boy but the lesson is the danger of combining billionaires & influence of major industries with total political power.
Replying to @Kasparov63
Musk is our best hope for containing Trump. He displays autonomy & brilliance that the standard Trump toadies lack. It may be the final masterstroke of the Founders' design that, should democracy fall to oligarchy, the oligarchs control the despot, insuring the US has no Putin.
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Ronald Reagan: “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies. We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.”
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America we have a problem: Taking Journalists off the air to appease Trump. Firing career prosecutors at DOJ. Cutting off student aid, loans, and grants. Silencing NIH & CDC. Leaving WHO. Reversing 60 years of civil rights gains. Firing Inspectors General. Where is Congress?!
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If there's one thing you do today, watch this from @Acosta.
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BREAKING: Jim Acosta has just issued the following powerful words in his farewell address to CNN viewers: “Don’t give into the lies. Don’t give into the fear. Hold onto the truth and to hope… Even if you have to get out your phone and record that message. Post it on your social media so other people can hear from you too.”
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J. McDonough retweeted
Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies"
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Holy Sh!t! I’m NEVER leaving this App. EVER! Colombian President Petro throws DOWN on Trump. Translation here: Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of DC, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks & Latinos, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman, Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in US history and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. Overthrow me, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
Trump, a mi no me gusta mucho viajar a los EEUU, es un poco aburridor, pero confieso que hay cosas meritorias, me gusta ir a los barrios negros de Washington, allí ví una lucha entera en la capital de los EEUU entre negros y latinos con barricadas, que me pareció una pendejada, porque deberían unirse. Confieso que me gusta Walt Withman y Paul Simon y Noam Chomsky y Miller Confieso que Sacco y Vanzetti, que tienen mi sangre, en la historia de los EEUU, son memorables y les sigo. Los asesinaron por lideres obreros con la silla eléctrica, los fascistas qué están dentro de EEUU como dentro de mi país No me gusta su petroleo, Trump, va a acabar con la especie humana por la codicia. Quizás algún día, junto a un trago de Whisky qué acepto, a pesar de mi gastritis, podamos hablar francamente de esto, pero es difícil porque usted me considera una raza inferior y no lo soy, ni ningún colombiano. Así que si conoce alguien terco, ese soy yo, punto. Puede con su fuerza económica y su soberbia intentar dar un golpe de estado como hicieron con Allende. Pero yo muero en mi ley, resistí la tortura y lo resisto a usted. No quiero esclavistas al lado de Colombia, ya tuvimos muchos y nos liberamos. Lo que quiero al lado de Colombia, son amantes de la libertad. Si usted no puede acompañarme yo voy a otros lados. Colombía es el corazón del mundo y usted no lo entendió, esta es la tierra de las mariposas amarillas, de la belleza de Remedios, pero tambien de los coroneles Aurelianos Buendía, de los cuales soy uno de ellos, quizás el último Me matarás, pero sobreviviré en mi pueblo que es antes del tuyo, en las Américas. Somos pueblos de los vientos, las montañas, del mar Caribe y de la libertad A usted no le gusta nuestra libertad, vale. Yo no estrecho mi mano con esclavistas blancos. Estrecho las manos de los blancos libertarios herederos de Lincoln y de los muchachos campesinos negros y blancos de los EEUU, ante cuyas tumbas llore y recé en un campo de batalla, al que llegue, después de caminar montañas de la toscana italiana y después de salvarme del covid. Ellos son EEUU y ante ellos me arrodillo, ante más nadie. Túmbeme presidente y le responderán las Américas y la humanidad. Colombia ahora deja de mirar el norte, mira al mundo, nuestra sangre viene de la sangre del califato de Córdoba, la civilización en ese entonces, de los latinos romanos del mediterraneo, la civilización de ese entonces, que fundaron la república, la democracia en Atenas; nuestra sangre tiene los resistentes negros convertidos en esclavos por ustedes. En Colombia está el primer territorio libre de América, antes de Washington, de toda la América, allí me cobijo en sus cantos africanos. Mi tierra es de orfebrería existente en época de los faraones egipcios, y de los primeros artistas del mundo en Chiribiquete. No nos dominarás nunca. Se opone el guerrero que cabalgaba nuestras tierras, gritando libertad y que se llama Bolívar Nuestros pueblos son algo temerosos, algo tímidos, son ingenuos y amables, amantes, pero sabrán ganar el canal de Panamá, que ustedes nos quitaron con violencia. Doscientos héroes de toda latinoamerica yacen en Bocas del Toro, actual Panamá, antes Colombia, que ustedes asesinaron. Yo levanto una bandera y como dijera Gaitán, así quede solo, seguirá enarbolada con la dignidad latinoamericana que es la dignidad de América, que su bisabuelo no conoció, y el mio sí, señor presidente inmigrante en los EEUU, Su bloqueo no me asusta; porque Colombia además de ser el país de la belleza, es el corazón del mundo. Se que ama la belleza como yo, no la irrespete y le brindará su dulzura. COLOMBIA A PARTiR DE HOY SE ABRE A TODO EL MUNDO, CON LOS BRAZOS ABIERTOS, SOMOS CONSTRUCTORES DE LIBERTAD, VIDA Y HUMANIDAD. Me informan que usted pone a nuestro fruto del trabajo humano 50% de arancel para entrar a EEUU, yo hago lo mismo. Que nuestra gente siembre maíz que se descubrió en Colombia y alimente al mundo
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