VicZ
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Nam Vet, OSS honorary member, ASA all the way, 98B. Married 44 years. Survived hurricanes, a Typhoon, a flood, Nor'easters, F5 Tornado. Lifelong factory worker, AAS degrees Biology and Computer Science . Father to several MAGAts. 😞 No cults. No porn.
Trump has literally ruined a decade of American life.
The US Justice Department dropped its case against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying the hurried renovations ordered by President Donald Trump had been botched. ➡️ u.afp.com/SrvP
Massive anti-corruption protests took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. Thousands of people called for the return of former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Fedorov was tackling massive corruption around procurement when he was abruptly let go, prompting protests to reinstate him.
Nothing says "not political" like admitting in writing you did it to 16 states that all voted the same way 👇
The Trump Regime Lost All Week. Here’s What They’d Rather Hide.
A judge guts their mail-ballot scheme, they confess in court, and a red-state town beats their $100,000 shakedown
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Cecilia Vega says she was pressured by Bari Weiss and other CBS execs to include misinformation and political bias in reporting that aired this year. "Never in my career, until now, have I felt that those edits, that those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics."
“60 Minutes” correspondent says Bari Weiss pressured her to report on events that “never happened”
Cecilia Vega said CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pressured her to include “misinformation” and “political bias” in several news segments.
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The Trump regime isn’t fooling anyone by playing games with the Iran war casualty numbers. It’s just reminding us that the regime can’t be trusted.
Military Families Express Outrage After Pentagon Lowers Number of U.S. Troop Deaths in Iran War (Gift Article)
The change in the number to 14 from 18 this week has prompted scrutiny over the Defense Department’s accounting and reporting practices.
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Maria Bartiromo is a classic propagandist in the tradition of Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose. Truth is irrelevant to her.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Maria Bartiromo push complete BS about public schools secretly making kids trans without the knowledge of their parents. McMahon says she's doing a number of investigations about it.
If Trump had a chance to sign Obama's 2015 Iran nuclear deal without Obama's name on it, he'd take it in a minute. 18 U.S. soldiers and thousands of Iranians are dead, tens of billions of U.S. dollars are wasted, and gas prices are soaring for one reason alone: Trump's unhinged ego.
ICE is murdering people because the Trump regime wants ICE to murder people. If the regime didn't want ICE to murder people, it would publicly crack down on ICE agents who murder people. But the regime doesn't. Because it wants ICE to murder people.
BASH: Do you know specifically what happened to officers involved in the Texas and Maine shootings? Are they on administrative leave? HOMAN: I don't know specifically. The policy would be to put them on administrative leave B: But as border czar, you don't know for sure if they have been? H: No
The NY Times’ story about the unethical way Adm. Daryl Caudle became chief of naval operations features an appearance by lawyer Timothy Parlatore, who helped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth negotiate a $50,000 settlement with a woman who accused him of raping her in 2017. (NYT gift link) 3/3🧵
Hegseth Told Senator He Paid $50,000 to Woman Who Accused Him of Rape (Gift Article)
The settlement’s existence after a 2017 accusation had been documented before the defense secretary nominee’s confirmation hearing this month, but the amount had not been known publicly.
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Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president got into this without a strategic goal…At first this was about regime change, then it became about nuclear weapons, then about ballistic missiles, then about the navy. They're flailing."
A president this naive is the most dangerous thing America faces at this critical moment.
"[Donald Trump's] a man who doesn't think. He's a man who acts on impulse. He's a man who acts on what he thinks in the moment serves him the best, gets him the most attention, and gives him a feeling of power. And that's why he did this. There's no other reason."
President Trump tells Axios that he may restart major combat operations in Iran. Also, two military officers say they were forced out by Defense Secretary Hegseth for questioning his policies. MS NOW Pentagon Reporter Priya Sridhar has more details. MS NOW's Ayman Mohyel.... youtu.be/UBDX4GyAxnQ?...
'Deeply disturbing': Kirby says Pentagon purge will take 'a generation or more' to recover from
YouTube video by MS NOW
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The orange felon’s $10B frivolous lawsuit against BBC has now opened his disgusting family and top sycophants like Crimestress Ivanka, crime slumlord Kushner and KKK crypt keeper Stephen Miller to possible subpoenas and be forced to turn over communications related to Jan 6. Good.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett speaks about the conditions at Delaney Hall. #ICE
Iran: Has periodic demonstrations where they shout “Death to America” - scary! Gets a full blown war. Saudi Arabia: killed almost 3,000 people in an attack on US soil, chopped up a Saudi-American journalist and made him disappear. Gets to develop nuclear weapons. Is it me, or is this wrong?
New US government report reaches new heights of absurdity. The 15 dot points need to be read to be believed.
US Gov Accuses Cuba of Creating All Progressivism In The US Over Past 50 Years
New column by Lee Camp
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If Andy Beshear does not push this to a conclusion that either has him appointing McConnell's replacement, or McConnell reappearing, Beshear will be out of Democratic politics. We need rabble-rousers, not the same quiet, proper Dems who keep losing.