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FTP: LAPD killed her dog. He was wearing his Knicks jersey. His name was Jameson. A golden doodle. One of the sweetest, most gentle breeds alive. A neighbor called a noise complaint. That's it. 20 officers showed up. Then a helicopter. For a noise complaint in an apartment complex. And they shot Jameson dead. In front of his owner. In front of her child. No warning. No de-escalation. Nothing. The media is barely covering this. No headlines. No outrage. Like it never happened. If this was your dog... your child watching... how would you feel? Jameson deserved better. That little boy deserved better. His mama deserved better.
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You should do the Epstein Files instead
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If you told me 20 years ago I’d agree with Bill Kristol…
"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history. It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump." open.substack.com/pub/thebul…
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Trump keeps making commercials for the Democrats—if they are smart enough to use them. SOME people who are wealthy today DID invent a new or better product or service. Or, like Trump, they inherited a lot of money and THOUGHT that made them special.
Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants. According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet: “These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country…. Whether it’s fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me. Guys like me, they built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining. They didn’t build anything, they couldn’t build anything.”
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Only Israel can have nukes, disallow inspections, invade sovereign territory, commit war crimes, poison and destroy water supplies, kill innocent women and children, spit on and kill Christians, and destroy historic sites with impunity … and US dollars!
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Does Trump have any self-awareness? Whatever sketchy things Graham Platner has done, Trump does worse on a slow Sunday morning. huffpost.com/entry/latest-ne…
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I didn’t vote for Trump, but I hoped he would keep his “no new wars” promise. Now he’s lying about it. substack.com/@rawstory/note/…

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Jimmy Dore tells Tucker Carlson that Thomas Massie's primary loss in Kentucky is proof the United States is not a democracy but an oligarchy run by international billionaires who sit above the government. Dore points to the 2015 Princeton study showing the wishes of 90% of Americans are never reflected in legislation, only the top 10% are. JIMMY DORE: “How dare we preach democracy around the world and tell people that the people in China are oppressed when we obviously don't have democracy here.” JIMMY DORE: “In China, the government sits above capital, and so the economy works for the people. But in the United States, capital is above the government, and so the economy doesn't work for the people. It works for a handful of international globalist billionaires.” JIMMY DORE: “Which is why we have homelessness everywhere. We have the biggest prison population in the world. We still go bankrupt just to get educated. You get bankrupt when you get sick. And we live in a surveillance state.” JIMMY DORE: “We're like China, except we have more street crime and slower trains. And we get lectured constantly in the most self-righteous way by the worst people.” Massie was the last man in Congress voting the Constitution as written. @jimmy_dore is right to say it out loud.
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This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it. More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months. And here’s the part that should make your blood boil. Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence. The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it. Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price. We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us. wapo.st/3QmJjSz
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Someone put a note on ABC7’s story about Trump saying California cheated in their recent primary election, saying that the conservative Heritage Foundation found 1,620 cases of election fraud. They left out that’s from 1982 to 2025, a span of 43 years. #withoutevidence
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That’s about 38 cases per year, or not quite enough to change the outcome of a race for dogcatcher in Mayberry. I applaud Heritage for putting this data up, even though it doesn’t say what conservatives want it to.
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