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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.
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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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#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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CISA/DOGE Software Engineer's Login Credentials Appeared in Multiple Leaks From Info-Stealing Malware in Recent Years
https://m.slashdot.org/story/441927
#technology #tech #security #cybersecurity #datasecurity #infrastructuresecurity #doge #cisa #uspol #uspolitcs
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CISA/DOGE Software Engineer's Login Credentials Appeared in Multiple Leaks From Info-Stealing Malware in Recent Years
https://m.slashdot.org/story/441927
#technology #tech #security #cybersecurity #datasecurity #infrastructuresecurity #doge #cisa #uspol #uspolitcs
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The few #maga commenters left are definitely only the dumbest ones still hanging on.
They all fail to understand how the USA is not going to win a #tarriffs war with the entire world, and think the isolation will actually make the #usa better.
They are so afraid of the outside world they want this, and there is no helping those folks.
We should make it a requirement to be able to write an essay before you receive #goverment retirement.
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The few #maga commenters left are definitely only the dumbest ones still hanging on.
They all fail to understand how the USA is not going to win a #tarriffs war with the entire world, and think the isolation will actually make the #usa better.
They are so afraid of the outside world they want this, and there is no helping those folks.
We should make it a requirement to be able to write an essay before you receive #goverment retirement.
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#maga #magats #maplemagats #resisttrump #redhats #uspol #uspolitcs
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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. -
I have nothing more to say other than I am pretty sure I am watching a fucking #coup take place in the #usa by #techbros and I gotta say -
Kinda pissed #california said I can't have a gun for five years.
Good luck and I hope I'm alive this time next year.
My death will be #recorded and if anyone would like to help a #mentallyill man seek #asylum -
I will take everything and go right now honestly.
I am shouting until I either am safe or die.
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Holy Smokes. I knew it was bad, but this bad?
A few choice quotes:
- Sounds like Harris really took the urban and black vote for granted...
in Philadelphia, many of the field offices “were filthy and lacked basic supplies like tables, chairs, cleaning products and printers, staff members said,” with city campaign staffers “being forced to raid the campaign’s better-stocked suburban offices or to raise money independently.” That is when they even had field offices, and in many predominantly Black neighborhoods “campaign staff members were operating out of public parks, grocery-store parking lots and church basements.”
Even when there were T-shirts, they could be slapdash (one box of them said “Harriz-Walz”). A “get-out-the-vote bus tour for [Pennsylvania’s] Black mayors” had its funding pulled without explanation. The head of a pro-Harris group “recounted frantic campaign staff members in Philadelphia, Detroit and North Carolina calling him in the final weeks of the race to say they did not have enough money to provide food or water to volunteers.”
In Georgia, a county party chair “said the Harris campaign’s get-out-the-vote operation had been nonexistent, even as he had pleaded for resources.” Black staff members reportedly felt that the Black vote was being taken for granted, and when they aired their complaints in a post-election call, Harris’s deputy campaign manager “told staff members that talking to the press would ruin their career prospects.
- Lavish spending with little substance
“paying for an avalanche of advertising, social-media influencers, a for-hire door-knocking operation, thousands of staff, pricey rallies, a splashy Oprah town hall, celebrity concerts and even drone shows.”
“the campaign spent around $900,000 to book advertising on the exterior of the Sphere venue in Las Vegas.” YouTube host Roland Martin received $350,000 from the campaign for a “media buy,” at least part of which appeared to consist of an interview on his show that racked up under 130,000 views.
Democratic megadonor John Morgan says that consultants saw the giant pool of money as being like getting the “keys to the candy store,” and concludes that much of the money was essentially stolen, albeit legally.
Harris made the same error that Hillary Clinton did in 2016, deploying resources in states like Texas that she was clearly not going to win that could have instead been used in states she desperately needed to win. “We spent money in stupid ways because we had a really bad strategy,” a former DNC consultant told Puck. They even bought an expensive TV ad in Florida, a state Harris knew she wouldn’t win, just to “troll” Donald Trump.
Other aspects make the Harris campaign look like little more than a multi-level marketing scheme. For instance, they spent “$111 million in online ads seeking donations,” in other words ads asking for money to pay for more ads asking for money!
The article is pretty scathing, worth reading. Don't give money to grifters.#harriswalz2024 #uspol #uspolitcs #harris #democrats #democraticparty #dnc
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polls are closing soon, so for all you americans, you can still vote as soon as you get in line in time, even if they close before you vote. #uspolitcs #election2024 #harriswaltz2024
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polls are closing soon, so for all you americans, you can still vote as soon as you get in line in time, even if they close before you vote. #uspolitcs #election2024 #harriswaltz2024
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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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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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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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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.
