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Lynn Fitch should be fired for this. "Mississippi’s attorney general [Lynn Fitch] says a Senatobia officer was justified in using force when he responded to a shoplifting call and fired at a moving vehicle...killing a 1-year-old boy who was inside the car." apnews.com/article/miss...

Mississippi AG says officer's force was justified during shoplifting call in which boy was killed

Mississippi’s attorney general says a Senatobia officer was justified in using force when he responded to a shoplifting call and fired at a moving vehicle that investigators said was driving toward po...

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There ARE birds on golf courses. He wasn't going to develop it. He only wanted to stiff taxpayers. "Trump donated the right to further develop [his golf course] to an environmental nonprofit—without giving up ownership of the golf club itself." www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

How Trump Turned His Golf Empire Into A Billion-Dollar Tax Shelter

For decades, the president has claimed charitable deductions on golf courses he never gave away. Now he’s pushing the scheme further—and apparently using the presidency to get away with it.

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Thanks, Trump, Republicans & MAGA...you own this. "Anticipating that Trump will be less sensitive to high energy prices after the midterm elections, Tehran is scrambling to inflict maximum pain now by escalating attacks in the Strait of Hormuz..." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

Tehran seeks to punish Trump in midterms with oil price pain, Iranian officials say

“They’re obsessed,” according to an Arab diplomat. “They think they can bring down a presidency.”

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Sorry, but if he is a “constitutional originalist” and he uses a Scalia-owned desk AND he clerked for Alito, he is NOT “brilliant,” he’s just another right -wing asshole.

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Musk is "at the Super Bowl...he’s furious that one of his tweets isn’t the most popular on [Twitter]...after the game, he flies to headquarters, calls in the engineers, makes them work all night until the platform’s algorithm primarily promotes his tweets." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

A filmmaker spent years in an Elon Musk rabbit hole. Conclusion? ‘Sociopathic.’

As the tech titan’s power grew, “he became more and more self-centered,” said Alex Gibney, director of a mammoth new documentary out Friday.

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Oh, really? The dude who purposefully made up and spread the rumor about Talarico seeking mental health care is a neo-Nazi who is close with Republicans? Imagine that.

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He STARTED a war against all advice, refuses to take any ownership of it, and throws his boy Putin economic lifelines to try and repair the damage...it's like starting a fire in the forest and throwing gas on it to put it out.

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“Trump signed an executive order on Friday waiving a sweeping sanctions package against Russia, citing U.S. national interests…” Note to Bezos Post: it is assuredly NOT in U.S. interests to unsanction Russia. It is in PUTIN’S.. Trump is a TRAITOR. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump signs executive order waiving sanctions against Russia

President Donald Trump cited “national interests” for the decision to waive a punishing sanctions package targeting Russian exports and leaders.

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Trump “initially promoted the task force, led by pro-Trump journalist John Solomon, as part of a push to uncover election fraud.” Note to Bezos Post: john Solomon is most certainly NOT a “journalist.” He’s a MAGA hack. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump’s election fraud task force is going after the people who investigated him

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his demands to see charges against former officials.

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All of them - including Grandma Sue, are terrible. "Believing that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles might step down after the election, a handful of Trump aides, including Stephen Miller, Bill Pulte and Lee Zeldin, have begun angling for the position..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Power struggle erupts in Trump’s White House as midterm losses loom

Top personnel are jockeying for position as some expect Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to step down after the elections.

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"Jane Doe explained to the police that her phone number and address had been leaked...she’d been receiving harassing phone calls. She had recorded one such call. In the recording, the man says, ‘'I’m probably just gonna, like, pull up to your house and shoot.'" www.newyorker.com/news/america...

The Doxing of Jane Doe

The alleged perpetrators in the “Cornell Seven” case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all.

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Trump and Republicans and rhe NRA - and mainstream media - have all been extolling the dad with the fun whi killed John Griffin. But LOOK 👀 who made it all possible. Yeah, an unarmed female teacher.

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So, Elon is now touting the Roadster…0-60 in a second, speeds as high as 230, with thrusters for “mid-air hops” and “flips” and “controlled landings.” There are increasing crash reports with the regular Tesla. Will this ever attain production? Or is this just Elon hype?

As if all this carnage is not enough, Republicans WANT even MORE guns -- including military-grade assault-style AR-15s -- in circulation. What the fuck is wrong with them?

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Just guessing from the first appearance, and her lies about being a "lawyer," I'd say her "engagement" with the media will be limited.

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She said on a right-wing “news” site that she “consulted many people “ in the legal field who advised her that she COULD call herself a lawyer. Maybe she’ll name some. Maybe the mainstream media can motivate itself to ask her to.

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Here we go…they’re setting the stage. They’re scared, they’re desperate, they’re going to do what they can to subvert the election results and the will of the people.

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Well, of course. This narcissistic psychopath and seditious traitor and Russian agent is going to throw a fucking fit and try to overthrow the election results. Republicans will try to help him. Watch.

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You KNOW who SHOULD be shot, right? "In my opinion, leakers should be shot," Trump said during a midterm campaign rally in Bullhead City, Arizona. "In the old days, we used to shoot leakers."

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