i am a pisces rising. Do you know how rare that is?
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At one point, when I was in college, the best move was to just ignore TPUSA people and the like. Today, it’s the friendlier face of an international organization whose 30+ year old leaders works in coordination with foreign elected reactionaries.
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Everyday, you gotta go in and hear some guy who cannot watch a five-minute YouTube tutorial on Excel talk about how he’s “been learning a lot about AI.”
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Did nothing wrong
At the University of Michigan, a woman confronted students at a Turning Point USA debate table, demanding to see their permit before slapping one of them across the face on camera.
Campus police tackled and handcuffed her moments later. As she was led away, she shouted, "I should have killed you while I had the chance."
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The guy who compared a Trump rally to Jonestown on live Fox News was invited by the Trump campaign. They called his work phone on Monday and asked him to come.
His name is Tom Hoyle. He's 57 and runs a small custom printing shop in Charlotte called MadPark Designs with his business partner. He's hated Trump since 1989, back when he was a sophomore in college. And he really, really doesn't like getting sales calls on the shop line, from anybody.
So when the rally people called, he said yes. He even signed up with his real name and contact info, because he wanted it on the record that they invited him.
Then he had to get through the door. A private security guy asked him straight up if he was a Trump supporter. Tom told him he supports the Constitution, then started talking about his shirt, which was for an old death metal band called Death. He kept going about the history of Florida death metal until the guard gave up and let him in.
His plan going in was honestly pretty juvenile. He and a buddy he grew up with figured he'd wait a few minutes into the speech and yell something filthy.
Then a Fox News reporter, Lucas Tomlinson, found him standing off by himself and asked if he could interview him live. Tom thinks a white guy with a big beard and a ball cap was pretty much exactly what they were looking for.
He told himself he wasn't going to cuss on national TV, so he made it up on the spot. He says the first line and then just waits. The reporter goes "Wait, the Jonestown Massacre?" and that's when he finishes it.
He told The Handbasket he picked that up from Billy Crystal, who said on Letterman back in the '80s that you always let the other guy set up your punchline. Tomlinson set it up for him perfectly.
A few minutes later some men who said they were Secret Service pulled him aside. He asked if this was about the concession stand, because it closed early and he was starving. They didn't love that and walked him out. On his way out he passed the guard from the front door and told him, hey man, you didn't vet me too well.
Think about how many people had a shot at stopping this. The campaign's call list found him. The signup form had his name. A guard questioned him to his face. A Fox crew put him on live TV. Every one of them took one look at the beard and the hat and filled in the rest.
That's how almost all of this screening works. Asking somebody what they actually believe takes time, and looking at them takes a second, so everybody just looks.
The one check that actually caught him came after he'd already said it on national TV.
Fox: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
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Ted Cruz announces that all the Jews are goin to HELL
.@SenTedCruz (R-TX) criticizes U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hamilton (D-KS) over his comments on Muslims going to heaven: "Interesting idea, we show up there at heaven, first thing you see is Osama Bin Laden."
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who believes this bullshit?
Q: You and Trump have spent years blaming Joe Biden for inflation and a big reason why prices exploded is Washington flooded the economy with stimulus money. Now, the president is promising everybody a check for $5,000 if Republicans win. How is this different from what Biden did?
Vance:
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Steven L. Schleicher, lawyer representing the family of Alex Pretti: "How is it possible that the Department of Justice is not sharing evidence? ...And why are elected officials not asked everyday...about the murder of a United States citizen at the hands of the government?"
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BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨
Two straight conservative men forced to kiss as Lula begins rolling out terrifying left-wing agenda in Brazil.
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Trump: "I don't want you to have to think too much. I'd like to koohhhhh or biiiiiiiing"
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This man:
- Lost his green card at 21 because of a single drug possession conviction.
- Won protection against removal to Iran.
- Checked in with ICE for 23 years.
- Married a US citizen in 2016
- Was arrested at his home by ICE in 2025 so they could send him to a third country
JUST IN: Significant decision from the 10th Circuit: the 6 month "reasonable" period of detention for ICE detainees with final orders of removal does *not* reset over time.
The Trump admin had argued the 6 months reset everytime ICE redetained someone.
ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10…
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ICE responded this morning to some questions about why they violently detained a U.S. citizen in North Long Beach. Here's the latest and what we know from eyewitnesses: lbpost.com/news/immigration/…
lbpost.com/news/immigration/…
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'Help me!' Video of ICE violently detaining man who says he's U.S. citizen sparks outrage latimes.com/california/story…
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