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    The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.

    He was not dead.

    I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
    “Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
    43,121 17,262
    Mar 15, 2025
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    The Afrikaner stunt is the kind of thing that has backfired so far -- it creates legal arguments for other refugees about animus.

    But holy hell he's not hiding the white sheets.

    24,553 5,158
    May 12, 2025
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    Tammy Duckworth is just killing Hegseth.
    Gets him to admit he has never done internationals security arrangements. Doesn't know what SecDef has to do on same.

    She asks him to name ASEAN countries and significance of them. He names a bunch of countries that aren't part of ASEAN.

    23,095 4,562
    Jan 14, 2025
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    The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries.

    Now she's running for state house.

    eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

    What does India May want to accomplish in the Iowa House? May said she first got involved in Iowa politics earlier this year when she attended a town hall held by the state legislators in her area, including Thomson. In part, May said she went to oppose a bill that would deny state funding to libraries that are members of the American Library Association and Iowa Library Association, and another that would remove an exemption in Iowa's obscenity law that shields libraries and educational institutions. Neither bill ultimately passed. "I’m a nurse and a librarian, and I went to my first town hall this year to advocate for libraries and realized that there were a lot more pieces of legislation that were harmful on the Iowa level that I didn’t even hear about until it was too late," she said.
    20,529 4,992
    Jun 4, 2025
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    It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison.

    www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

    Former US attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber found dead at 43
    Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead Saturday morning, the Alexandria Police Department said. She was 43 years old. The cause and circumstance...
    17,370 6,377
    Mar 22, 2025
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    Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.

    Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.

    anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

    Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
    Democracy can't function without a free press
    16,420 6,130
    Jan 4, 2025
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    Oh, okay. Pam Bondi just fired the Epstein and Maxwell prosecutor, Maureen Comey.

    That'll kill the conspiracy theories.

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    Jul 16, 2025
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    The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

    Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees — Jim Himes and Mark Warner, both members of Gang of Eight — were not briefed before the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, per sources.
    14,160 4,295
    Jun 22, 2025
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    Remember that several people asked Pam Bondi during confirmation SPECIFICALLY what she would do on matters pertaining to Qatar (which she did not disclose) or GEO (pertinent to the Baraka arrest). She said she'd consult top career lawyer at DOJ abt recusal.

    Then she fired that lawyer.

    13,032 4,558
    May 12, 2025
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    Judge Alsup is not amused by reports that people he ordered reinstated were put on admin leave.

    storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

    The Court has read news reports that, in at least one agency, probationary employees are being rehired but then placed on administrative leave en masse. This is not allowed by the preliminary injunction, for it would not restore the services the preliminary injunction intends to restore. Defendants shall state the extent to which any rehired probationary employees are being placed on administrative leave by MARCH 18, 2025, AT NOON.
    11,949 3,413
    Mar 18, 2025
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    Posting this story about how Ann Telnaes got censored not least bc it'll disseminate the image Jeff Bezos censored.

    anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

    Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
    Democracy can't function without a free press
    11,845 3,706
    Jan 4, 2025
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    I made a little picture to help explain to the MAGAts why Pete Hegseth's utter ignorance about ASEAN actually matters, especially for a guy who says he wants to roll back Chinese influence.

    A map of the South China Sea and surrounding countries, which are marked as ASEAN members. There's a circle on the sea with the label, "Fight with China."
    11,839 3,256
    Jan 15, 2025
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    I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately.

    He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.

    11,491 4,395
    Jul 17, 2025
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    Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

    www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

    Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.
    11,408 4,225
    Oct 9, 2025
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    Photo from The Hill's Al Weaver (from Xitter) catches Tina Smith confronting Mike Lee.

    A photo taken in The Capitol, possibly just off the floor. Tina Smith, wearing black slacks and a maroon jacket, is facing off against Mike Lee, who is leaning towards her.
    10,841 1,833
    Jun 16, 2025
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    Here's Marco Rubio scolding Hillary about her email server, 10 years before texting Atlantic's EIC war plans on a disappearing Signal list.

    www.youtube.com/watch?featur...

    Marco Talks Russia and Syria on the Kelly File | Marco Rubio for President
    YouTube video by Marco Rubio
    10,785 3,176
    Mar 24, 2025
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    One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.

    10,721 2,293
    Nov 12, 2025
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    This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
    1) Plaintiff is natural born.
    2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
    3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
    4) He showed Real ID both times.

    Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social
    JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
    10,338 3,055
    Oct 1, 2025
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    Some questions that Mike Waltz and the others must answer:
    1) How did he preserve the thread and others for PRA
    2) What phones were everyone using
    3) What kind of security do those phones have
    4) WHERE were they using those phones
    5) What else is on the phones
    6) Why was Joe Kent included

    10,202 2,506
    Mar 24, 2025
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    Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

    Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com
    Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose
    Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event
    10,062 3,499
    Mar 8, 2026
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    On the bright side, the countries formerly known as America's allies now have a really nice excuse to stop sharing information -- that it'll just end up in some drunken cabinet member's cell phone.

    9,909 2,129
    Mar 24, 2025
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    Guys, I know you all still cling to conspiracy theories about Merrick Garland bc ... well, you watch too many TV lawyers who knew fuckall about the investigation.

    But this is a fact. A trial was scheduled to happen 3 years after Jan6, just like Bolsonaro got.

    Who killed it? John Roberts.

    9,524 2,652
    Sep 11, 2025
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    Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.

    Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley Welcome to socialism Quote Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor · 21h New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool. Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can. Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, Readers added context they thought people might want to know In February of 2015 then South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tweeted a similar energy conservation message on Facebook. facebook.com/share/1HySDDH9… Do you find this helpful? Context is written by people who use X, and appears when rated helpful by others. Find out more.
    8,127 1,871
    Jul 2, 2026
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    Ut oh. Tulsi was overseas during the Signal chat too.

    👀

    She refuses to answer whether she was using her own phone or not.

    8,468 2,021
    Mar 25, 2025
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    The frogs have spawned!

    Dublin represent! #NoKings

    The NoKings protest in front of the US Embassy in Dublin. There are four frogs and a chicken.
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    Oct 18, 2025