Happy 65th Birthday, August 4th, to the best President in US History. The black man "they" feared, led with humor, dignity & grace for 8 yrs scandal-free, has a beautiful & accomplished family, and is beloved by millions around the world. @barackobama.bsky.social #BarackObama #ThePeoplesPresident
Fred Cochran
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Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
Trump 'Money Laundering' Shocker Exposes Todd Blanche's 'Obscene Protection Racket'. crooksandliars.com/2026/08/trum...
Trump 'Money Laundering' Shocker Exposes Todd Blanche's 'Obscene Protection Racket'
Court documents revealing that President Donald Trump was de-banked after a money laundering probe have been linked to a reinvigorated effort to protect him from prosecution by acting Attorney General...
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
The Hundred Pages, Part One: The “Cuba” Document and What It Does open.substack.com/pub/fredcoch...
The Hundred Pages, Part One: The “Cuba” Document and What It Does
What the State Department actually built when it published its Cuba report, who it was really aimed at, and why the timing tells you everything the document itself refuses to say
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"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
She has a point. Simply, the hypocrisy of these two morally impaired old, white men is appalling. They should both be in prison for their illegal actions. Period.
The Mountain of Dead open.substack.com/pub/fredcoch... There's a mountain. It is not metaphorical. It is made of real bodies, real bones, real blood that was real blood when it left real human beings who had names and families and plans for the following week, and it has been accumulating since 1775
The Mountain of Dead
Every American War. Every American Dead. From 1775 to This Morning.
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