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"You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.” -Rose Tyler Just a weird, sassy ass millennial tired of living through historic times.-M

“Laura Follansbee, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C., predicted that the fence would limit Americans’ First Amendment rights. Lafayette Square has traditionally been a rallying point for protesters, given its proximity to the White House. ...

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d ago

Trump officials will present plans to permanently fence Lafayette Square, the public park across the street from the White House. It has been a longtime Secret Service priority, but some preservationists and civic leaders are concerned.

I read today in an article in The Daily Beast that some military leaders have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spit my drink out. I then realized that everyone should have the knowledge to appreciate this ruthless nickname. (thread)

The most dangerous person is the moron who thinks he knows everything with the ability to wreck the fortunes of a country and harm its people. We’ve had many bad presidents, but there was just nobody close to this bad.

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*In 2010 a federal drug task force opened a five-year case on Epstein and fourteen others, following roughly $50 mil in suspicious wire transfers. *Nobody was ever charged. *In 2025 the task force itself was abolished. 14 names are blacked out. The one they left visible belongs to the dead man.

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The VP wants nothing more than a promotion in 2028. Thursday showed again why he doesn’t deserve it. Upon arriving at the briefing room, it took him only 40 minutes to contradict his boss, insult the American military, and ask the country to feel grateful about gas prices going up. (Link below)

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Remember: They want you to fear Muslims, immigrants, and Black and brown people so you forget that a Muslim immigrant from Uganda and South Asia just hastened the safest New York City summer in history. They want you to believe MAGA propaganda over Mamdani’s proven example. Don’t fall for it. ❤️✊🏽

Someone has hacked the Republican Midterms Convention In Dallas's website to redirect to the DOJ Epstein Library page, which asked a question to ascertain if Donald Trump would be interested in having sex with you. (A negative reply means yes, he would!)

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Johnson: It took them 72 hours to come up with a bill to do redistricting. Can you imagine if they worked that hard to fix education or health care? Newsom: The governor right now, in not 72 hours but in 7.2 seconds, could affix his signature on a piece of paper and provide Medicaid expansion…

Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?

Haberman: Rubio, Hegseth, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel—these are people who believe, to one degree or another, they have to answer to Stephen Miller. Katie Miller… \