So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
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So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
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> "One of the most fundamental concepts in fire, especially in terms of fire geography, is that roads are the dominant place where you see ignitions," Syphard said. www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
âKennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?â Dr Bill Foege
Thousands of Mike Johnson's own constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage following the passage of a budget bill he pushed for. And itâs all so he could help bankroll more tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich. Donât let him forget.
CDC cuts surveillance of foodborne illnesses due to spending cuts. RFK Jr apparently looking for more ways to make everyone sick. #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: âNo one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topicsâŚHeâs getting his information from somewhereâ
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
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Brazil and Portugal have the guts to stand up to him. Why can Portuguese stand up to Donald but not Americans or anyone else? newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/portugu...
Weâll waitâŚđ¤
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
The end of American science at HHS, NIH, and CDC. RFK Jr and Trump want to make personal and political based decisions â not science based decisions.
We are in very dark times. Itâll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
Roberts has zero credibility.
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Fascist is the only word
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âGuns are my most important issueâ, my coworker told me before Trump 1.0 was elected. Imagine three more decades of MAGA rule. This is a real possibility
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The Supreme Court deleted words âwell regulated militiaâ. This was before the Trump Supreme Court. Imagine what they will do now. Imagine decades of MAGA rule. This is a real possibility
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because itâs beeping. Itâs quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
And I donât care which side the shooter was on when you keep putting out Christmas cards like this Republicans, you own this too Us libs love our guns. We just donât masturbate with them in public like Republicans do.đđđ and would like to keep guns out of the wrong hands
AMERICA: âItâs a mental health issue.â REST OF THE WORLD: âWe have those. But donât have mass shootings.â AMERICA: âItâs video games.â WORLD: âWe have those too. But donât have mass shootings.â AMERICA B: âItâs cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.â WORLD: âGod, youâre stupid.â
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I think many of his basket of incompetence are just lackeys, relaying what Stephen Miller and âthe Project 2025â gang are telling Trump what to do
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Donaldâs regime checks almost all the boxes for a fascist regime. What can we do about it?
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others â Congress, the courts, the American people â from having a say or even knowing what heâs going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
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Trump family thinks Americans are suckers and losers. It is hard to argue. > Unfortunately for fans, the Trump venture into a âcrypto treasuryâ stock is also set up so the president and his family cash in first. Paywalled www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Sen. Adam Schiff to NBC: "This is clearly retribution. I mean, the idea that, what, they just picked John Bolton, a prominent critic of the president, at random? ⌠Anyone who says anything adverse to the president's interests gets the full weight of the federal government brought down on them."
Hereâs what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwellâs sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Yup
Virginia Giuffreâs family denounces âDAG Todd Blancheâs bizarre interviewâ of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
Heâs wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how heâd do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. Heâs using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.
John Bolton is about to get framed. The media is saying they're searching for classified documents. Some of the FBI agents took bags out of the vehicles to bring inside, but nothing has been seen coming out of the residence. -CNN
I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but âthe president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes himâ is in fact very alarming
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Meanwhile domestic terrorism and foreign espionage are ignored. From Putins puppet this makes sense. This will all end badly. Trumpâs FBI sole job has become domestic state police, targeting political enemies of the regime. Donald gave the DOJ and FBI their gestapo orders to attack Bolton.
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Surprised the choice wasnât gold
An American President messing with free elections because the leader of Russia told him to, is what we call a Russian Agent.
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Did Don Jr. purchase a black paint company for the family?
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
BREAKING: California Supreme Court rejects GOP effort to halt Gavin Newsomâs redistricting push
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Putin talks, Trump follows. Putin told Trump he lost election because of mail-in-ballots and if he had won, the Ukraine war ( âinvasionâ ) would have never happened! So easy for Putin to manipulate Donald and further the destruction of his enemy America. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Mortified that the leadership of... Europe... has to come here b/c we couldn't bother to hire a competent woman for the job & instead re-hired a child rapist insurrectionist felon who happens to be Putin's little lap bitch. What Zelenskyy must sit through is now our eternal shame. #SlavaUkraini đť
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The lies are getting cheaper and Trumpâs extortion is getting more profitable on media companies, law firms, universities
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Thatâs crazy that Donaldâs Epstein coverup has taken 1000 FBI agents to delete all Trumpâs Epstein connection evidence. More FBI agents to do the coverup than National Guardsmen to invade Washington DC!
Trump wired cash over 4000 times to Epstein totaling over $1.1 Billion. This was before billions was common. And trump was always in debt/broke with no banks willing to work with him. So how did that work? Why the money transfers? HmmmâŚ
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A message for the most âtransparent Administrationâ in history: Release the Epstein files.
Oh my God
A good argument if corn fields could vote.
Absolutely reasonable.
RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences? RUBIO: That's not the aim RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
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Going to start filling these with American citizens. There is not that much need for immigrant detention
we already have more bodies in prisons than every other country and it's costing taxpaying citizens a fuck ton of money. We really just want universal healthcare, not a police state where everything is way overpriced and nothing/nowhere is safe
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Trump understands his orders are to let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics and Poland next in line. Maybe Donald wins a Putin Prize?
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Trump understands his orders are to let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics and Poland next in line. Maybe Donald wins a Putin Prize?
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Trump understands his orders are to let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics and Poland next in line. Maybe Donald wins a Putin Prize?
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Trump understands he will let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics and Poland next in line. Maybe heâll get a Putin Prize?
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Trump understands he will let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics and Poland next in line. Maybe heâll get a Putin Prize?
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Trump understands he will let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics and Poland next in line. Maybe heâll get a Putin Prize?
Well done, Alaska.
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Trump understands he will let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics and Poland next in line. Maybe heâll get a Putin Prize?
if sandwiches are outlawed, only outlaws will have sandwiches
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Trump agreed to let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics, and Poland next in line. Donald wants a prize?
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Trump agreed to let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics and Poland next.
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Trump agreed to let Putin pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics, and Poland next in line.
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No pardon for you if youâre throwing sandwiches!
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Sounds like Trump agreed to let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics, and Poland next in line.
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Sounds like Trump agreed to let Putin slowly pound Ukraine into rubble with zero consequences. Baltics, and Poland next in line.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
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Alaska is good. Trump will concede everything to make Putin smile.
ANCHORAGEâŚ
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The American Gestapo is not a conspiracy theory. What they did to US Senator Alex Padilla is pure Nazi.
Gov Gavin Newsom (D-CA) at news conference now: "People are scared. People are fearful. A United States Senator was thrown to the ground in a federal building.... Wake up, America. This is a serious moment. Wake up to what's going on"
Trump has obliterated any remaining US admiration by inviting one of the worst criminals in the world to meet with him on American soil. Putin doesnât travel much these days because he could be arrested for his war crimes in Ukraine and because of the deaths of a long list of Russian dissidents.
A Bette Midler post đđđ
the bible really dropped the ball by not mentioning the apocalypse would be this stupid
Ghislaine Maxwellâs attorney - addressing me directly - says thereâs no such thing as prisoner work details outside the facility in the federal prison system. Yes there are. I have receipts.
Hereâs a big problem in the United States: Half the country thinks Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero and a guy who threw a sub should be jailed for life.
Newsom: âWake up, America. If he rigs this election, you wonât have a country anymore.â
Koh: If he were serious about cutting crime he wouldn't be proposing cutting $400 million from the ATF or cutting $500 million from the FBI, 700 agents or the DEA with with drug enforcement or the office of violence against women, 100 million from there
So, no national guard on January 6th, but definitely on August 11th. Makes total sense.
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC⌠he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
Heck yeah! Keep fighting
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The pedo in chief is sickening
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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This is only a test for the next insurrection of the U.S. government. Pete Hegseth is all onboard. This is why he was appointed.
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This is only a test for the next insurrection of the U.S. government. Pete Hegseth is all onboard. This is why he was appointed.
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This is only a test for the next insurrection of the U.S. government. Pete Hegseth is all onboard. This is why he was appointed.