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"In the memo released by the White House, U.S. Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, physician to the president, wrote: "President Donald Trump remains in excellent health, demonstrating strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and overall physical function." "
That's his third medical checkup in 13 months. What's worse, the lying or the frequency of the tests?
White House releases report of Trump's physical exam - ABC News
https://abcnews.com/Politics/white-house-releases-report-trumps-physical-exam/story?id=133440907
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"In the memo released by the White House, U.S. Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, physician to the president, wrote: "President Donald Trump remains in excellent health, demonstrating strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and overall physical function." "
That's his third medical checkup in 13 months. What's worse, the lying or the frequency of the tests?
White House releases report of Trump's physical exam - ABC News
https://abcnews.com/Politics/white-house-releases-report-trumps-physical-exam/story?id=133440907
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This statement seemed pretty telling.
US conservatives seem to assume the military can do anything unless proven otherwise. In theory there are limits, but in practice they think the military is the awesome unstoppable force.
This attitude explains a lot.
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This statement seemed pretty telling.
US conservatives seem to assume the military can do anything unless proven otherwise. In theory there are limits, but in practice they think the military is the awesome unstoppable force.
This attitude explains a lot.
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Poetry.
I couldn't find better words.
... oh, wait...Shut THE FUCK up, you ugly fuck.
#StephenMiller #Democrats #USA #USPolitcs #MAGA #Trump #GOP #Midterms
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Poetry.
I couldn't find better words.
... oh, wait...Shut THE FUCK up, you ugly fuck.
#StephenMiller #Democrats #USA #USPolitcs #MAGA #Trump #GOP #Midterms
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Trump's DOJ included terms barring the IRS form pursuing claims against him or his family
A one-page document posted on the DOJ website early Tuesday includes a sweeping release under which the IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from pursuing “examinations” of Trump, “related or affiliated individuals,” and related trusts and businesses.
The waiver specifically encompasses “tax returns filed before the effective date” of the settlement, which was Monday.
Forever grift. The presidency is his slush fund and get out of jail free card.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/19/trump-irs-settlement-tax-returns-00927911
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Trump's DOJ included terms barring the IRS form pursuing claims against him or his family
A one-page document posted on the DOJ website early Tuesday includes a sweeping release under which the IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from pursuing “examinations” of Trump, “related or affiliated individuals,” and related trusts and businesses.
The waiver specifically encompasses “tax returns filed before the effective date” of the settlement, which was Monday.
Forever grift. The presidency is his slush fund and get out of jail free card.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/19/trump-irs-settlement-tax-returns-00927911
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RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/116580739604221829
For these fascist war criminals, unnecessary civilian deaths are a feature, and part of the project.
#fascism #uspol #uspolitcs #politics #FuckPeteHegseth #FuckStephenMiller
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RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/116580739604221829
For these fascist war criminals, unnecessary civilian deaths are a feature, and part of the project.
#fascism #uspol #uspolitcs #politics #FuckPeteHegseth #FuckStephenMiller
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Find Out Media - Meet, Greet & Follow
Find Out Social (https://findout.media/public/local), the folks behind the Find Out Podcast and Nola Hayes Is Not A Spy (https://wearefindout.com/) is now on the Fediverse, powered by Mastodon.
Fedizens: Here are some cool Find Out accounts to follow: @OfKittensAndRavens @timjchambers @Nola_Haynes @TimFullerton @j2pro @Bitermonkey
Find Out Folks: Here are a few active #USPolitcs posters here: @KimPerales @wdlindsy @servelan @Nonilex @gleick @newsguyusa
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Find Out Media - Meet, Greet & Follow
Find Out Social (https://findout.media/public/local), the folks behind the Find Out Podcast and Nola Hayes Is Not A Spy (https://wearefindout.com/) is now on the Fediverse, powered by Mastodon.
Fedizens: Here are some cool Find Out accounts to follow: @OfKittensAndRavens @timjchambers @Nola_Haynes @TimFullerton @j2pro @Bitermonkey
Find Out Folks: Here are a few active #USPolitcs posters here: @KimPerales @wdlindsy @servelan @Nonilex @gleick @newsguyusa
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In the long term, the euro could even replace the dollar as the reserve currency.
Incidentally, I already Putin and Orbán to be history, since Russia under Putin is degenerating into a regional power and may eventually break up into many separate states.
#trump #politics #usa #uspolitcs #economy -
Despite spending nearly $1 trillion annually on defense, the U.S. is running low on key weapons after a month of conflict with Iran.
The rapid depletion raises questions about military readiness.
https://theconversation.com/can-the-nearly-1-trillion-a-year-us-military-really-be-depleting-key-weapons-in-iran-280986
#Iran #USPolitcs
https://theconversation.com/can-the-nearly-1-trillion-a-year-us-military-really-be-depleting-key-weapons-in-iran-280986 -
Despite spending nearly $1 trillion annually on defense, the U.S. is running low on key weapons after a month of conflict with Iran.
The rapid depletion raises questions about military readiness.
https://theconversation.com/can-the-nearly-1-trillion-a-year-us-military-really-be-depleting-key-weapons-in-iran-280986
#Iran #USPolitcs
https://theconversation.com/can-the-nearly-1-trillion-a-year-us-military-really-be-depleting-key-weapons-in-iran-280986 -
The billionaire tax needs to be made THE litmus test for all Democratic candidates for office.
Corporate Democrats have been the root failure mode of the Democratic Party since at least Bill Clinton.
We must remove the corporate Democrats from power right after we remove Trump from power, or we will just get an even worse Trump in the near future.
If a candidate is not willing to support a billionaire wealth tax, then we know for sure they are a corporate Democrat and should not be elected.
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The billionaire tax needs to be made THE litmus test for all Democratic candidates for office.
Corporate Democrats have been the root failure mode of the Democratic Party since at least Bill Clinton.
We must remove the corporate Democrats from power right after we remove Trump from power, or we will just get an even worse Trump in the near future.
If a candidate is not willing to support a billionaire wealth tax, then we know for sure they are a corporate Democrat and should not be elected.
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@newsguyusa Keep in mind the head of CBS News is a full blown clown.
NYT Issues Correction After Bari Weiss Uses ‘Antifa’ Account Run By Alt-Right Trolls to Prove Left is Intolerant https://www.mediaite.com/online/nyt-issues-correction-after-bari-weiss-uses-alt-right-run-antifa-troll-account-to-prove-left-is-intolerant #bariweiss #cbsnews #uspolitcs
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@newsguyusa Keep in mind the head of CBS News is a full blown clown.
NYT Issues Correction After Bari Weiss Uses ‘Antifa’ Account Run By Alt-Right Trolls to Prove Left is Intolerant https://www.mediaite.com/online/nyt-issues-correction-after-bari-weiss-uses-alt-right-run-antifa-troll-account-to-prove-left-is-intolerant #bariweiss #cbsnews #uspolitcs
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No, that's not what #CitizensUnited did, though there is so much misinformation about the ruling.
In the ruling, unlimited expenditures was part of what was asked for, the SCOTUS refused, putting limits at the core of the ruling it handed down.
These stories of unlimited power handed to corporations are just sensationalized clickbait. They don't reflect what the ruling actually said, often getting it exactly backwards.
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#USPolitcs #Wicked #MovieCharacters #TFGPeople
Try this on for size.
It occured to me the peopel in the curerent admininstration are all in the movie/musical about Wicked.Yes, I used an AI to use proper terms and summerize (I rarely do this just FYI)
Wizard of Oz Charismatic illusionist, figurehead of power Donald Trump – maintains control through spectacle, propaganda, and illusion
Madam Morrible Propaganda enforcer, spins lies to support Wizard is Pam Bondi/Ice Barbis – loyal defender, messaging enforcer
Glinda Popular, ambitious, complicit but pragmatic are the Rank-and-file GOP members – go along despite knowing corruption, driven by ambition
Elphaba Branded “wicked,” principled resister is the opposition/whistleblowers/protestors – vilified truth-tellers, “No Kings Day” activists
Fiyero Starts complicit, defects to resist is the Defecting GOP members – break ranks, choose principle over ambition
Nessarose Rigid, insecure, clings to power are the hardline loyalists – double down on Trumpism out of ideology or fear
Boq Innocent citizen, transformed into Tin Man is the Ordinary citizens/minor players – dehumanized, reshaped into tools of the movement
Dr. Dillamondrepresents the Marginalized intellectual, silenced by regime Immigrants, marginalized groups, resisters – targeted and stripped of voice
Flying Monkeys Enforcers of Wizard’s will Stephen Miller, JD Vance, others – policy architects and attack-dogs who intimidate dissent
I'm sure there's countless movies and plays and book that fit, but Wicked seems topical now.
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It's important to remember that the majority of Americans aren't politically active at all; then of the remaining 30-40% a lot of them will just vote however their parents voted. #uspolitcs
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Gotta say, it looks like the Dems handed the baddies a win here....again.
The Voters stepped up, Chuck Schumer and the Dirty Eight did not.Has he resigned yet?
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I really could not care less about yet another think piece titled "I study Fascism, and this is why I left America".
Good for you. Those of us who have not fled America are trying to clean up the problem you ran away from, so you'll have to forgive me if I pass over the opportunity to read your profound wisdom on the matter.
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The thing is,.... I don't trust Chuck Schumer to play this, and it's not even my country but I can see it...
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Ah, maybe not.
"They've given us assurances"
Yeah, you and Neville Chamberlain...
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Just a coincidence I'm sure
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remember #DickCheney truly. as he was and by the fruits of his evil actions, not by what mainstream media wants us to remember him. i remember the "war on terror" and i grew up in during/in its aftermath.
i saw the damage abroad, learned about the deaths it/he caused, and the lie it was started on; #WeaponsOfMassDestruction (WMD) in Iraq, was a fabrication. i didn't/don't appreciate being lied at from every angle, even if i was a four year old
even then, the usa had/has actual #WMD! #uspolitcs
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Fox News Digital Falls for AI Videos of Fake SNAP Beneficiaries’ Complaints, Reports Threats to ‘Ransack’ Stores
https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-falls-for-ai-videos-snap-beneficiaries-complaints-ransack-stores/
#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #snap #foxnews #uspol #uspolitcs #americanpolitics #usgovernment
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#maga #magats #maplemagats #resisttrump #redhats #uspol #uspolitcs
Alt Text:
Bumper sticker on the back of a car. The sticker reads: "YOU CAN'T SPELL HATRED WITHOUT RED HAT." The words "HATRED" and "RED HAT" are in bold red letters. There are two symbols on either side of the text, each showing a red hat with a diagonal line through it, indicating a prohibition. -
Never forget that ever since the fall of #roe, #abortion has been expanded at every chance the #people are given to weigh in directly.
Every time it has been restricted, it is by unelected or unaccountable #Christofascists bringing back laws from the literal 1860s.
If a #nationalban happens, it will be because of #comstock_act rules, and it will be done by people actively hiding their motives to do so. #liberals cannot be trusted to act as a bulwark in this, but #ballotinitiatives are a place to start.
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In Part 3 of my deep-dive into the "He Gets Me" Superbowl Jesus ad, I address questions raised by readers, then get into image six: the alcoholic.
They're selling "reconciliation," but as explained in Part I, they don't actually believe in that. So I'm taking apart what their images say and mean to their own people.
Fair warning, today I am partially thwarted by the incredibly, and I really do mean incredibly in the vintage sense of "their denials are not credible," bad use of AI tools. There is genuine wow here, and maybe that's appropriate given that it's the weekend.
https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/02/17/superbowl-jesus-ad-part-3-some-notes-and-more-images/
Part 4 - where I get into _that_ aspect of this visual nightmare - will be out Monday.
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In Part 3 of my deep-dive into the "He Gets Me" Superbowl Jesus ad, I address questions raised by readers, then get into image six: the alcoholic.
They're selling "reconciliation," but as explained in Part I, they don't actually believe in that. So I'm taking apart what their images say and mean to their own people.
Fair warning, today I am partially thwarted by the incredibly, and I really do mean incredibly in the vintage sense of "their denials are not credible," bad use of AI tools. There is genuine wow here, and maybe that's appropriate given that it's the weekend.
https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/02/17/superbowl-jesus-ad-part-3-some-notes-and-more-images/
Part 4 - where I get into _that_ aspect of this visual nightmare - will be out Monday.
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@Hieronymous
While it can be fun or interesting to speculate #World #Politics #Pol #USPol #US #USA #USPolitcs...
At best polls are fragments of carefully selected people at a moment in time and a year out they're even more suspect.
#Polls a year out, up or down, are inherently shit. They just are. Remember the #RedWave? #PresidentHillary?
All polls, "polling results", require unfounded trust in some group of pollsters agenda, biases, profit incentives, questionable funding, dark money, etc., along with trust in the opinions of only around 3,000 people #polled by #NYT #NYTimes NY Times Siena #Poll... Folks with landline phones... Who don't know enough to not answer calls from strangers... Have time and interest in answering a telephone survey...
There's a built in bias to right wingers eager to chat with an axe to grind.
The #Times #Siena presidential choice of #Biden #Trump was of a mere 600 or so people with the same issues!
You can trust in polls if you'd like...
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CW: More depressing US politics
This lists the #republicans in North Dakota that voted against paying for school lunch while increasing their per diem for lunch.
Because these people need more breaks and the lower income people can shut up and take it.
We need to make sure people stay motivated and #VoteThemOut
