Renee Cascada🥄
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Blue dot awake in red state, Gardner, mom, & grandmother. Climate change is real. Vaccines Save Lives #SlavaUkraine🌻 PUSH BACK-Don't Comply, "We had whistles, they had guns"
“The truth — that the current vice president is by far the worst person ever to hold the office…The prospect of this callow and sinister opportunist taking the place of the erratic buffoon now governing us may be the single scariest thought in world politics today.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...
Opinion | Call the Veep, Agent Mulder!
Have the “space Jews” come to get us at last?
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Trump is all for Saudi Arabia developing nukes, though...
"Do you really think anybody in the Kremlin ever cared about your comfort? Because all of this is material for Putin’s power. The only reason he may care about the gas lines is because there might be some sort of revolution about it." Nina Khrushcheva tells me from Moscow. puck.news/nina-khrusch...
Behind Russian Lines
In a conversation from Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev’s granddaughter describes a society adjusting to shortages, tighter government surveillance, blocked cellphone service, and the realization that Putin’...
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“Trump quietly denied nearly 6,000 clemency applications this month from people who mostly lacked political connections and had waited patiently in a queue while he awarded pardons and commutations to allies who had skipped the line.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Trump Rejected Nearly 6,000 Clemency Applications Amid Hope of Pardon Wave
Expectations were raised for a raft of pardons in connection with the country’s 250th birthday but the president granted fewer than 20 on July 3.
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Absolutely! Even if mitch were alive, he is obviously unable to fulfill his duties. Kentucky should have its 2 senators.
✰˚* Cheryl ˚* ✰@exhaustedbluegirl.bsky.social · 2w agoThis Mitch McConnell disappearance is total bullshit. The governor should be able to assign a replacement after so many days. How have we gotten ourselves into such a place that we can allow this to continue? I’m just an average American but it makes no sense. We are no longer America. We gave up.
Hey Kentuckians! Aren’t you curious about Mitch? Can he still represent your interests? Or don’t you care? Demand that your Senator responds to your Congressional needs. At least McConnell’s doctors should reveal current medical status.
*Karim A. A. Khan The letter was publicly reported and reproduced in May 2024. Sen. Tom Cotton’s office confirmed the letter’s authenticity The letter warned that the senators would bar Khan and his family (and other ICC employees) from entering the US: “You have been warned.” #factcheck
EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants
Read the full letter, obtained by Zeteo, which threatens sanctions in defense of Netanyahu.
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Mitch McConnell can't post a video, pick up a phone, make a public appearance, or do a short interview. However he can collect a taxpayer funded 6 figure salary.
Congresspeople are supposed to show up at work. Every day Mitch McConnell 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 to show up, he 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 to represent Kentucky. If Mitch is dead, 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙨 are 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 to report his death. Even if Andy Beshear could do better, remember that 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙨 keep 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 the people. #USDemocracy #MomSky
Donald Trump is so monumentally stupid, when he heard that the CHIPS Act helps companies making transistors, he thought it was all about trans people. And when he heard refugees were in need of asylum, he thought they had all been freed from insane asylums. #StupidestPresidentEver
While the United States wastes billions of dollars a pointless war, China is cleaning our clock technologically. Instead of crying about Canadian smoke, Americas would have been better served if Donald Trump had made something like this happen.
Some European Union members – notably Ireland and Greece – have never given up on the idea of profiting from fascist russia's genocidal war on Ukraine. That's why the EU will never work in its current form, under the unanimity rule.
Al Jazeera: Iran’s Fars news agency, citing a military source, reports that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed as long as aggressive US actions continue.
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Recordings from inside U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn's office allege pressure to 'break the law'
Was there pressure inside Marsha Blackburn's U.S. Senate office to break the law? That's the provocative question raised by new recordings just obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
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🚨MARSHA STAFFER: “IT’S GONNA BE HELL. YOU’RE GONNA BE ASKED TO BREAK THE LAW.” Phil Williams got tapes from INSIDE @MarshaBlackburn’s office showing Marsha + “bald-headed psychopath” Ward Baker illegally make taxpayer-funded staffers do campaign work - and Marsha is lying about the ethics probe.
Why does @theatlantic.com say things like this? Are things like free dental care just too much, too dangerous??
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:
WATCH: @the_real_erin_brockovich tells @theovon about the damaged caused by a “closed-loop cooling system” — which is what DC Blox plans for the data center by the Nashville Zoo 🤔 They keep implying there’s nothing to worry about. Obviously false. @nonewdatacenters
Somehow I doubt this threat will deter a regime that in January killed thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of its own people to stay in power.
4. Moreover, ICE did not need additional funding in April to purchase body cams. On July 4, 2025, Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which provided ICE with $75 billion in additional funding — with few restrictions. Since then, ICE has been sitting on tens of billions of dollars.
2. Homan argued ICE officers weren't using body cams when they killed two people in six days is that Democrats held up DHS funding. But did ICE not purchase body cams in April when the funding was approved. In fact, ICE had not purchased body cams at the time of Homan’s statement.
ICE is lying about body cams. These documents prove it.
"As soon as they had funding they bought them"
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1. ICE is lying about body cams and I have the documents that prove it. On July 14, Tom Homan, who oversees ICE's immigration crackdown at the White House, said that ICE purchased body cams as soon as Democrats approved funding for DHS in April. That is a lie.
The negative reactions to this post seem to be split pretty evenly between “the Democrats would never have the spine for this” and “this doesn’t doesn’t go nearly far enough.” Both are probably true! Both are addressed in the piece itself! And neither is a reason not to push for it anyway!
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 2w agoNew at The Watch: More on how and why Democrats should make it possible for victims and their families to sue Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and other political appointees for violence inflicted by immigration agents.
FACT CHECK: 03/20/25: FDA announced it was pushing back the implementation of its “Food Traceability Rule” by 30 months. This would have made tracing cyclosporiasis back to Taylor Farms much easier. Six days later, Taylor Farms made a $1,000,000 payment to Trump’s PAC was on March 26, 2025.
“It’s the equivalent of firing the air traffic controllers and expecting the planes to land safely on their own.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
The Purge: How the White House Broke the NSC and How to Fix It
Dismantling the machinery that coordinates U.S. foreign policy led to disaster, from ill-conceived tariffs to the calamitous war with Iran.
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Russian warship carries out rare live-fire exercise 45 miles off UK coast
Russian warship carries out rare live-fire exercise 45 miles off UK coast
Neustrashimy suddenly announced it intended to fire its guns and conducted 30-minute drill south of Plymouth A Russian warship conducted a rare live-fire exercise in the Channel 45 miles south of Plymouth on Monday, the day Andy Burnham was appointed as prime minister. The Neustrashimy suddenly announced it intended to fire its guns and requested that a British warship, which had been tracking it, retreat to a safe distance. Continue reading...
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