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Russia Russia Russia looks like less of a “hoax” by the hour doesn’t it?
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I have a very bad feeling about tonight. russians love symbolic dates, And tomorrow is putin’s birthday. I’m afraid they may try to mark it with Another massive attack on Ukraine. I really hope I’m wrong. Please, keep Ukraine In your thoughts tonight. Pray for all of us, I just want every Ukrainian to wake up alive tomorrow🙏
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Dear media, Donald Trump filled a high school gym and then bragged about his crowd size. It's your responsibility to say IT WAS A HIGH SCHOOL GYM.
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Donald Trump Jr’s investment firm became a stakeholder in a military contractor last year. Trump’s “Department of War” just gave them a $2.9 billion contract — their largest new hardware manufacturing contract. FYI, this is what corruption looks like. reuters.com/business/aerospa…
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It’s revolting to me how much of the GOP messaging going into the midterms relies on persecuting the trans community. It’s not just Texas. It’s happening in multiple states. They know they have nothing meaningful to stump on so instead are using tropes and fear tactics to marginalize a tiny fraction of the population-putting good people in harms way. Literally Hitler-esque tactics. There is no bottom. None! If we stand together, we can vote the GOP into oblivion! Let’s do this!
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MAGA: “Democrats hate Trump because he says what he means!” Trump: “I wouldn’t care if Iran bombed Los Angeles and San Diego.” MAGA: “That’s not what he meant!”
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You can reasonably dispute the meaning of a lot Trump says because he’s so incoherent and inarticulate. But what you can’t reasonably dispute is that he is a sadistic and delusional narcissistic sociopath, at once both psychopathic and psychotic, who is lacking in morality, conscience, empathy, remorse, and impulse control, and whose only concern if a city (in any country, including ours) were to be wiped off the face of the Earth, would be how it affects him.
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Miranda is drinking the Kool-Aid I’m afraid.
So millions of people crossed the border with measles and it just waited until an anti-vaxxer becomes HHS secretary to start spreading?????
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This is psychosis. The president of the United States is psychotic. Is the media going to start talking about this, or continue to normalize it?
Trump: It was just announced that we have the best economic numbers of any president in the history of our country Press: Who announced that? Trump: Me. I just announced it.
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RT @BiatchDulce: I don't fucking care what the Constitutional law experts say. There's a massive flaw in the Constitution when someone th…
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Thank you Joe Biden for the infrastructure money because @RonDeSantis won’t give credit where credit is due.
Today, I was proud to announce that the new I-95 interchange at Oslo Road in Indian River County has been completed a year ahead of schedule. This is the first new interchange built in this area in nearly 50 years. This new interchange is an investment in congestion relief and public safety. Oslo Road commuters will see their drive times cut in half, and emergency response times along I-95 will be reduced by up to 56 percent. As part of this project, @MyFDOT acquired right of way near the interchange to create a dedicated gopher tortoise relocation habitat for Southeast Florida.
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Trump just spoke at a Nebraska arena normally used for pig shows. Honestly, it’s only fitting the biggest pig in America was the headliner. 🐷🤣
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A lot of what Trump has done can be undone the minute he’s gone. THIS, however, cannot: the fact that all of America's allies now know that in any four year period, a single man can rip up all treaties, social norms, and economic partnerships. America is no longer a country they can trust. America is no longer a country with which long-term deals can be made. America is no longer a country that prioritizes peace. Most countries will likely grow their military as a result. Most countries will likely make deals with other countries as a result. This damage will likely take more than a generation to START to be undone, if ever. And THAT will be MAGA’s legacy.
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This is not a joke. The Russian biological war research should have us all concerned and stopping ALL flight from Russia, and all Russians from entry. The longer this goes on the more countries we will have to stop flight from. FYI: the Russians were working on a plague that is resistant to antibiotics
Russia's plague outbreak is getting worse, now with 5 hospitals in Irkutsk quarantined, universities canceling classes and accusations from healthcare workers that the government is attempting a media cover-up. Nearly 200 contacts of a 28-year-old anti-plague laboratory worker who died last week are reportedly under isolation or medical observation. Irkutsk universities are canceling classes citing a “case of pneumonic plague,” while an aluminum plant introduced mandatory masks. A local government warning advising residents not to travel to Shelekhov was published and later deleted. Healthcare workers claim doctors are discussing plague internally while avoiding the diagnosis in official documents. Russian health authorities continue to deny any plague outbreak, attributing the woman's death to “pneumonia of unknown origin.” Pneumonic plague is far worse that it's Bubonic cousin as its transmitted directly between humans.
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Richard Hirt retweeted
My sister's longtime dentist practice got bought out by a private equity-backed dental group four months ago. Same office. Same hygienists. Same chairs. Zero new equipment. Last week they sent the new fee schedule for anyone with insurance. A routine cleaning that used to run $120 is now billed at $310, with the group quietly dropping several insurance plans they used to accept. When patients asked why, the new regional manager gave a scripted line about "aligning with market standards." Private equity figured out the same trick everywhere. They're buying up the things you can't opt out of: dental, veterinary care, urgent care, hospice, because they know you can't just skip your kid's cavity or your dog's surgery. This isn't inflation. It's leveraged debt getting loaded onto places you have no choice but to keep paying.
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Did you know that the policies of Joe Biden’s administration significantly contributed to the domestic construction boom that eventually allowed U.S. crude steel production to surpass Japan’s in 2025 for the first time in 26 years? THIS is what real leadership looks like.
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Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Rick Scott “Free healthcare never works.” Actually taxpayer’s “free” healthcare works well in over 70 countries.
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The whole world needs to ban ALL flights to and from Russia
🚨☣️BREAKING: Plague outbreak expands, Russia BSL-3 lab accident - FIVE hospitals now quarantined🚨☣️ The plague outbreak in Siberia, Russia has expanded w/5 hospitals now under QUARANTINE: Irkutsk Hospitals No. 1, No.3, No.10, Ivano-Matreninskaya Children's Hospital, and an unnamed maternity hospital (Lyudi Baikala news, Moscow Times). Quarantine is NOT voluntary. Even in the U.S., quarantine is among the most extraordinary measures gov't can impose on American citizens who haven't been convicted, or even accused, of committing a crime. Quarantine means being forcibly confined and medically examined by law. U.S. quarantine can be imposed on anyone infected by a legally quarantinable disease listed below (this can change). One should assume Russia's quarantine protocols are even more severe. As of 2026, under Executive Order 14047, legally quarantinable diseases in the U.S. are: ■ Plague ■ Smallpox ■ Viral hemorrhagic fevers ■ Cholera ■ Diphtheria ■ Yellow fever ■ Infectious tuberculosis ■ Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) ■ Flu that can cause a pandemic ■ Measles Photo: Russia’s RKhBZ defense troops perform nuclear, biological, and chemical defense training (w/permission from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation) — from BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO by Annie Jacobsen (Dutton, 2026).
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