Every now and again I put together things that I don't usually think of at the same time. This seems a fitting merger of Star Trek wisdom and modern politics.
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Will the Justice Department comply with the law and release the full Epstein files today? #USPolitics
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For the first time in modern state history, a Democrat is running in every race on the Texas ballot next year, thanks to a recruitment campaign by Democratic groups and politicians. “No Republican gets a free ride in Texas,” Texas Democratic Party Chair Kendall Scudder said in an interview. Here's more from Texas Tribune.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/17/texas-democrats-down-ballot-2026/
Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, Gary Hart, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris
Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, Gary Hart, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT... #news #USnews #politics #USpolitics #Trump2 #project2025 #disaster #fascism #economy #mentalhealth
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Gregg Phillips, an election denier who co-produced rightwing propaganda "documentary" "2000 Mules," has been appointed Administrator of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery (ORR), according to Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket. Phillips has no experience in disaster management, but in his new position, will be responsible for enabling functions like search and rescue, debris removal and "everything that gets a community back up and running again," a FEMA staffer told Kabas. Here's more.
#USPolitics #USNews #TrumpAdministration #FEMA #GreggPhillips #ConspiracyTheories
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This classic Ed Zitron article will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about how corrupt CEOs advance their corporate juggernauts by any means they can get away with.
You'll also find out why NVIDIA's strange growth strategies are curiously reminding people of such historic market disasters as Lucent, WorldCom, and Enron.
In ironically saying that NVIDIA is NOT Enron, Sitron made ME think that that's only because the scale of the financial stakes are much higher today -- and, potentially more devastating.
Also the US currently has a regime that is all-in on making as much as they can off this scam before the bubble bursts.
Trust me, a lot of speculators are already shorting Ai stocks as fast as they can -- knowing that the party is about to come screeching to a halt.
Slightly of-topic side note: Trump is about to achieve a trifecta: crashing the US government and with it the economy, causing a stock market crash that will make Hoover's look minor by comparison, and destabilizing the world order leading to multiple new wars.
#NVIDIA #Ai #JensenHuang #EdZitron #USPolitics #Capitalism
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"When he was doing it to everyone one it was fine, but when he did it to ME and MY Family?!"
You don't get points for this, Howler Monkey.
#MTG #MargorieTaylorGreene #Trump #Fascism #USPOL #USPOLITICS
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PUTIN'S AGENT TRUMP
Trump says he is "disappointed" that Ukrainian President Zelensky hasn't read his peace proposal yet.
"Russia is, I believe, fine with it, but not sure that Zelensky is fine with it…His people love it, but he hasn't read it."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war
KGB's Codename For Trump is:
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Europe should take the fight to America, just by reporting accurately what is going on there and broadcasting it to the World.
Do the opposite of what the BBC is doing....
#EUPOL #Journalism #USA #USPOL #USPOLITICS #BBC
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The U.S. CDC's vaccine advisory committee has voted to remove the universal recommendation for hepatitis B vaccine at birth. @Independent@flipboard.com explains more about the transmission and seriousness of the virus and the rationale behind the universal recommendation.
#Health #Science #Medicine #Vaccination #HepatitisB #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration
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I truly don’t understand the press people that stand there in silence as Trump pulls his misogynistic bullshit and insults and degrades their fellow female reporters simply for asking valid questions.
They’re showing just how spineless they are, how their fear of losing access is far more important to them than doing what’s right, what NEEDS to be done.
Is there NO ONE on this planet that has the courage to stand up to this orange asshole? #USPolitics
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This Death On Trump's Head!
Trump's ridiculous order to send armed troops into US cities was the root cause of this tragedy.
No Troops = No Deaths!
Last night, a motorcade leaves Medstar Washington Hospital, transporting the remains of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom - one of the West Virginia National Guard troops shot in DC yesterday.
She unfortunately succumbed to her injuries.
Condolences to her family and friends...
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
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The number of non-criminal detainees arrested by ICE has surged by 2,000% under President Trump.
@CBSNews@flipboard.com reports: "On Nov. 16, the government figures show, ICE was holding 65,135 people in detention facilities throughout the U.S., the highest level ever publicly reported by the agency, which was created in 2003 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks."
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This is one of the two corrupt Lords exposed as taking cash for questions, or in other words CORRUPTION.
Isn't about time we threw American meddling out of our politics? They do not mean us well, only Traitors to the nation will side with the Trump regime....seeing as some are talking about Treason and Sedition.
#PalestineAction #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Trump #treason #Sedition #USPOL #USPOLITICS #Colonialism #FreeSpeech #HoL
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He’s completely normalized the fact that not only did he not divest himself of his personal businesses when he took office but that he spends time as President, while on the taxpayer’s clock, managing them and things that enrich himself. #USPolitics
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-enlists-his-sports-idol-jack-nicklaus-for-new-renovation-project/
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This one is undergoing Telephone Game alterations as it passes around social media.
What's actually happening is that #DonaldJTrump's new "big beautiful" law said that only "professional students" can have certain levels of student loans, and the RISE committee of the USDOE is having a bit of a barney about what "professional degrees" qualify for this because of a wording mis-match.
https://ed.gov/media/document/rise-2025-loan-limit-definitions-lily-112447.pdf
https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1087e#a_4
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My name is David. I'm a software engineer with various interests, including cooking, artwork, and gaming. Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.
My name is David. I'm a software engineer with various interests, including cooking, artwork, and gaming. Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.
I vote Democratic (I'm not registered, but I vote pretty much party-line and have done so for decades). I know a *lot* of Democratic voters personally. I *follow* a lot of influential Democratic people on the interwebs.
And based on all of that, Trump going after Clinton for his supposed ties to Epstein is quite possibly the *most* weaksauce threat he could have come up with, because every Democrat is pretty much like, "Yeah, he's probably guilty too. Go for it."