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"The UFC event captures something about this moment in our history.
After all, it’s vulgar, it’s violent, it’s commercial, it’s grandiose, it’s tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."
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I still am struggling to wrap my head around the fact this is actually happening…
Don’t care what your political views are, EVERYONE should be absolutely embarrassed & ashamed that this is happening at the Lincoln Memorial & White House. What a joke.
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Two markers of American freedom.
June 13, 1776, 250 years ago today: The Continental Congress selects five members for the Committee of War and Ordnance.
June 13, 2026: Trump's name comes down from the Kennedy Center.
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Damnatio Memoriae Trumpi!
It turns out this necessary task didn’t have to wait until January 20, 2029. It began at the Kennedy Center today.
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The difference is that in 2029 there will be no tarp to obscure the removal of Trumpist desecrations. It will happen joyfully and proudly, in broad daylight.
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"Longwell started the Bulwark in 2018 for Never Trumpers like herself. It has since morphed into a popular, straight-shooting opinion news site...More than one million people have signed up for its newsletters; it has more than 140,000 paid subscribers."
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June 12, 2026: The liberation of the Kennedy Center.
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Jun 11
Some thoughts on the new Epstein Files revelations:
I’ve now read everything that’s come out from the new Haberman and Swan book, and the thing I keep coming back to is the Situation Room. They held multiple meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein files. That room is for war. It’s for national security emergencies. It is not for figuring out how to spin a scandal you’re telling the country is a hoax.
While the President was deflecting or calling this old news, his own Vice President and Chief of Staff were huddled in the most leak-proof room in America because they knew how bad it really was.
You don’t take a nothingburger to the Situation Room.
And I have to be honest, reading all this brings back a lot of frustration about what happened in the House of Representatives. I sat there and watched Mike Johnson send the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing these files. I watched him refuse to swear in a duly elected colleague for months just to stall the discharge petition. Month after month of excuses, arm twisting, and procedural games, all to keep this information from the public. We only got the files because survivors, families, and a handful of members in both parties simply refused to let it go.
So when people ask me why I talk so much about transparency and accountability, this is why. The truth eventually comes out. It always does.
The only question is whether your leaders helped reveal it or helped bury it.
Everyone who voted to keep these files hidden should have to answer for that.
Finally, notice what’s missing from all of this is any sign that Trump’s DOJ will actually investigate the powerful men named in these files.
Draw your own conclusions about why a Justice Department run by the President’s former defense lawyers might not be eager to pull that thread.
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Jun 12
A disgrace.
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Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty.
James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history.
Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired.
The wall is still empty.
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Jun 12
Oh. So. It's not just algae that's a problem. The Reflecting Pool is now leaking worse than it ever has (which was the reason Trump used to justify this entire project....the leaks) AND it appears the state of the art filter Obama had installed was not re-installed, hence, the algae in just 2 days instead of weeks/months with the filter. Because Obama is black.
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🚨 BREAKING: Internal Interior Department and National Park Service documents reportedly show bubbles, pinholes, and uneven blue coating emerging during Trump's rushed Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation.
The stated purpose of the project was to stop leaks.
But officials reportedly documented defects in the waterproofing layer itself:
• Bubbles and trapped air
• Pinholes and small holes
• Uneven, mottled blue coating
• Sections requiring rework
That's not just an aesthetic issue.
Pinholes and blistering are exactly the kinds of defects that can compromise a waterproofing system and shorten its lifespan.
The administration sold this as a fast, beautiful fix.
The documents reportedly show crews scrambling to correct quality problems while racing to meet a politically driven deadline.
A project intended to stop leaks was reportedly battling defects in the leak-prevention layer before it was even finished.
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Jun 11
Incredible. Scotland puts a wind turbine near Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen 20 years ago. He sues and loses. Then his resulting hatred of wind turbines now ends up with the US Secretaries of Defense & Interior fabricating absurd lies to justify killing wind energy in the US.
Burgum on wind turbines: We have a report from Hegseth that it’s a national security threat. You could launch an attack on the US in with a bunch of drones coming through a wind tower field, it would undetectable until it was came through because the radar interference
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Jun 12
This Iran deal must be horrible.
Jun 12
New tranche of UFO files and videos just dropped.
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Jun 12
BREAKING: Donald Trump just filed his emergency stay in the DC circuit to keep his name on the Kennedy Center & it is batsh** crazy
He clearly wrote big pieces himself
We have filed our opposition, fighting for the rule of law & the American people
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Jun 11
NEW.
“This election looks like a collision between an irresistible force & immovable object. The irresistible force is the share of Americans who disapprove of Trump...The immovable object is that it's going to be fought primarily on GOP-leaning terrain."
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I gather Trump is insisting—contrary to the advice of some of his own appointees at Justice—that DOJ file an emergency appeal to the DC circuit.
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BREAKING: Judge denies Trump request for stay on removing name from Kennedy Center. Apparently internal debate going on right now in Trump DOJ about whether to take one last desperate appeal to DC Circuit...
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Republican senators block effort to bar federal troops from election interference.
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BREAKING: Judge denies Trump request for stay on removing name from Kennedy Center. Apparently internal debate going on right now in Trump DOJ about whether to take one last desperate appeal to DC Circuit...
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Another grotesque aspect of Fight Night at the White House that I didn't mention (there are too many to keep up with!):
The Lincoln Memorial is being used as the site for the fighters' weigh-ins.
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