Cookie Vargas
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..but some stupid with a flare gun Burned the place to the ground. curmudgeoness, gal-on-the-go, Person of Opinion, Miss Foreign Affairs in some other places NO CRYPTO No DM's No ads
Putin. Witkoff. Kushner. A Kremlin table. Sixth meeting. And this one lands 59 days before the midterms. Four years of war. A breakthrough right as the ballots get printed. If Reagan were speaking now, he might say, “DON’T Trust…AND verify.”
Just an FYI: the judge didn’t block the USPS ballot scanning rule from going into effect, she blocked them from making it mandatory. Make sure you have a back up plan to vote.
BonesSpurs McDraftDodger had the unmitigated gall to post this image & I just threw up in my mouth a little. At long last, sir, have you no sense of decency? #StolenValor
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
So the Trump administration has brought polygraphs back to multiple departments because information keeps getting out. Just a reminder: take precautions, protect your identity, and never assume your communications are completely private.
When old SVU episodes don’t hold up in modern times.
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
I still can’t believe that a nut job exclaimed, “They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs” and millions of Americans said, “That’s the guy I want as president.”
His wife, his staff, and Jennings should all face legal consequences. 😠😡
Oh, this is going to piss some folks off. They’ve repeated the lie so many times they thought nobody would check the receipts. We checked. Jeffries is the first Black party leader in congressional history, and the “bought by AIPAC” smear has been repeated like gospel. Here are the actual numbers.
When these Army generals and their staff refer to him as "No Tab Pete," they're calling out his performative masculinity. They're saying he's a little bitch. He didn't have the guts to attend these schools. He's weak. He's not a warrior. No Tab Pete. Delicious.
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)
Davey Hearn touched water in a public park & got hit with a felony DOJ's own filing blames a rushed, botched install, so why isn't this over for good? @democracydefendersfund.org, WLG & Steptoe are proud to rep him More on today's hearing @cnn.com at 6:45👇 -TN
Hearn’s Attorneys Demand Final Dismissal: “Government Has No Case and Never Did”
Statement from Davey Hearn’s counsel regarding the hearing on the motion to dismiss Hearn’s case with prejudice.
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Proving Mitch McConnell is alive would be the easiest thing in the world if he were alive.
Every state’s Secretary of State needs to tell us whether they intend to follow Trump’s new vote by mail rules for the midterms.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · yesterdayShe does not, however, block states from *voluntarily* participating in the new rule. Why? Because states get to decide how they run their elections. END/
The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026. So far. The scams, schemes and grifts have been endless, as the Trump Family seems to spend most of their time and energy finding new ways to profit off the presidency. Here is my Top 75. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026
So far.
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If you owe a woman $5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation. It's that simple.
Every Republican in Congress owns what Trump has done, is doing and is going to do. The vast majority of it would not have been possible without their collective acquiescence and enabling. He’s emboldened by the fact that Congress refuses to function as a separate branch of govt.
JUST IN: The D.C. Circuit rules 2-1 that the Trump administration may not implement a new system for states to bulk search DHS and Social Security data to verify voter citizenship. Voting rights groups say the system is fraught with errors. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders the Trump admin to provide 48 hours’ notice before doing any work on President Trump’s proposed arch.
