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MAGAs saw millions take to the streets multiple times in No Kings rallies, and not only did you not take it seriously, but you also mocked it. You're pretty quiet now, though.
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The reason God gave us the Internet,... was so this video about former representative Lauren Boebert,... could be retweeted until everyone in America has seen it at least once:
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Ron DeSantis redrew Florida's congressional map to take out four Democratic seats. Democrats won all four.
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BREAKING: A top GOP official just said on a hot mic, "Stephen Miller as chief-of-staff is game over. In 2028 Democrats will win 500 electoral votes and a Senate supermajority. They learned no lessons from Tuesday. America didn't vote for more Stephen 'Nosferatu Goebbels' Miller."
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This is really interesting:
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RT @Alvin1492840: 9. The Apple Tax: Why 4K looks like 480p on your iPhone. If you complained about 480p on your iPhone, you fell into a tr…
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In 1942, a drunk German officer sat at dinner and bragged about the Jewish woman he had selected from the brothel the Nazis had forced open in town. He said her name out loud. The Tunisian Arab sitting across from him stayed calm, smiled, poured more wine, and finished the meal. Then he drove the officer home, sped through the dark streets, and knocked on a door close to midnight. That night, he hid 25 people for four months. He never spoke about it again. His name was Khaled Abdul-Wahab. He was 31 years old, a wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York and spoke fluent German. Nazi officers trusted him. They invited him to their dinners. Tunisia was the only Arab country directly occupied by Nazi Germany during the war. Jewish families were pushed from their homes. More than 5,000 Jewish men were sent to forced labor camps. Yellow stars marked every chest. That December night in the coastal town of Mahdia, Khaled listened as the officer boasted. The woman he named belonged to a family Khaled had known all his life. He left immediately. He drove through the night. He knocked on their door at midnight. Pack nothing. Come now. He gathered 25 people — mothers, fathers, cousins, and children — and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm, hiding them inside the olive press, stables, and storage buildings. This was not one brave act. It was four straight months of courage. He fed them while supplies grew scarce. He kept babies quiet. He trusted his servants to stay silent. When German soldiers arrived to count Jewish families, the hidden people pinned yellow stars onto their clothes and stood motionless. When the soldiers left, the stars came off again. One night, a drunken soldier wandered onto the farm and discovered them. An eleven-year-old girl hiding under a bed watched him laugh and threaten to kill everyone there. Then Khaled appeared. She remembered him her entire life as a guardian angel. He calmly walked the soldier outside, took away his weapon, and sent him off the property. Nobody on that farm died. In May 1943, British forces liberated Tunisia. All 25 people returned home alive. Khaled went back to a quiet life. He married, raised daughters, painted, and worked in government service. He never told anyone what he had done. Not his wife. Not his children. No one. He died on September 4, 1997, at the age of 86. His story was buried with him. Ten years later, his daughter Faiza was sitting in a café in Paris reading a Sunday newspaper when she came across an interview with an American historian describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews in 1942. The historian mentioned her father by name. She was 45 years old and had never heard the story before. She contacted the historian. One of the children saved on the farm had left behind 83 pages of testimony before her death. Every detail matched. “I rediscovered my father,” Faiza later said. Khaled was nominated for Israel’s highest honor given to non-Jews who saved Jewish lives. He would have been the first Arab to receive it. The committee declined, saying he had not risked his own life enough. Faiza answered with a line history should never forget: “My father opened his home to Jews. They did not open theirs to us.” Today, the 25 people Khaled saved have hundreds of descendants living across Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl hidden beneath the bed grew up, moved to Paris, and built a family of her own. None of them would exist if Khaled had stayed silent that night. He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he spent the rest of his life saying nothing about it. The world nearly forgot him twice. Now you know his name.
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"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it." -- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (#1)
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The 2026 midterms in one picture.
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🚨 THE SENATE JUST FLIPPED. Democrats are projected at 54–44 after flipping 7 Republican seats: Maine, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas (NBC News). With the House also going Democratic, a Republican president now faces a Congress he doesn't control: committees, confirmations for judges and Cabinet picks, and what gets a floor vote. Trump told CBS that Democrats are "gonna want to work with me." Otherwise, he says, he'd veto everything. Will they? Comment below 👇 and follow @untameablethoughts Sources: AP, NBC News, CBS News, NPR, Ballotpedia (Nov. 3–4, 2026). Alaska and Mississippi races were still uncalled when this was made.
Photo: U.S. Capitol west front, public domain (Architect of the Capitol), via Wikimedia Commons. #Senate #Midterms2026 #ElectionResults #Democrats #Congress #Trump #BreakingNews #Politics #News #UntameableThoughts
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Trump and the GOP were warned. They chose to FAFO. Tonight they found out.
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In TX, where exit polls found Trump won 55% of Latinos in 2024, the Voter Poll tonight found that 65% of Latinos believed Trump's immigration enforcement actions have gone too far. 91% of Latinos who felt that way voted for Talarico; 88% for Hinojosa. FAFO indeed. @madrid_mike
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Democrats didn’t just win the Senate and Governor’s races in Texas. -We’re likely going to win ALL 17 of Texas’s statewide races. -We also won the Texas House. -We also won the Texas Senate. -We also won all 5 of the U.S. House seats they gerrymandered. This is a bloodbath.
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Huge swings of Latino men and young men back to Democrats. Need to keep them in the party in 2028.
Latinos are actually better than they were in 2020 even on this horrendous night for the GOP, suggesting many of these gains may be durable. But millennials, Gen Z and the suburbs are worse.
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The swings tonight among groups that swung right in 2024.
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right-leaning analyst Sean Trende on this Democratic landslide: "This is like nothing we've seen in our lifetime. A complete collapse of the Republican coalition." Exactly what the despicable man who is the worst president in US history deserves. yes, @TheRickWilson, #ETTD
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Brian M Carroll retweeted
Tehran brought regime change to the US. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it." -- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis (#1)
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Brian M Carroll retweeted
It turns out the president is far better at wiping out Republicans than Iranians.
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