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Obama: Imagine if I had done *ANY* of this
Obama: Imagine if I had done *ANY* of this YouTube video by MeidasTouch

Exactly. Just imagine.

Had President Obama shredded our constitution and rights, Mitch McConnell, as *minority leader,* would’ve held full court press and stopped everything happening NOW in its tracks.

Where is OUR minority leader?

It’s time to #ChuckSchumer

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youtube.com/shorts/xvriw...

10.05.2025 13:52 👍 2004 🔁 593 💬 89 📌 27
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Leaving MAGA - Leaving MAGA MISSION STATEMENT Empower others to leave MAGA and tell their stories. Foster reconciliation with their friends and family. Develop movement leaders to help others leave. Dear MAGA Americans, I was a ...

Do you have MAGA friends/relatives who now have regrets?
Some now see that they're the victims.But it's an actual cult. Very difficult to escape.
Don't berate the ones who have the courage to try.
Share this link quietly.
Leave it open where they see it.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
LeavingMaga.org

28.04.2025 13:02 👍 202 🔁 138 💬 12 📌 5
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The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

21.04.2025 17:25 👍 37473 🔁 7786 💬 3808 📌 3106
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19.04.2025 12:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The 314 Personal Things DOGE Now Knows About You #ABlueView🧵1/2

What a malevolent government, & the corrupt men who control it, can do with this incredibly long, detailed list of personal, private info to track and control citizens, is truly terrifying: tinyurl.com/2fucya5u

17.04.2025 15:56 👍 66 🔁 54 💬 2 📌 2
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

18.04.2025 01:02 👍 123465 🔁 25737 💬 8120 📌 5989
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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

15.04.2025 21:05 👍 43970 🔁 13806 💬 1431 📌 567
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Today, while the market collapsed and four soldiers who died on an exercise in Lithuania arrived at Dover, where was Donald Trump? Was he monitoring the markets? Was he there for the arrival of these heroes?

Nope: he was golfing, with the Saudis

04.04.2025 23:28 👍 9574 🔁 2634 💬 501 📌 108

Republicans in congress are the only ones who can stop this tariff insanity and they are nearly completely MIA.

04.04.2025 17:34 👍 229 🔁 42 💬 17 📌 1
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Donald Trump elected not to attend the dignified transfer of 4 fallen U.S. soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. The soldiers died in Lithuania during a training exercise.

Trump was paid millions by the Saudis to attend the LIV Golf dinner in Florida — so he was otherwise occupied.

The…

04.04.2025 03:32 👍 3166 🔁 1493 💬 249 📌 148

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

03.04.2025 03:29 👍 28151 🔁 13860 💬 910 📌 3510

Breaking:

NEW YORK (AP) - Dow drops 1,680 in its biggest wipeout since 2020 as fears of fallout from tariffs shake markets and S&P 500 sinks 4.8%.

03.04.2025 20:10 👍 2875 🔁 700 💬 96 📌 100
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

31.03.2025 23:06 👍 24922 🔁 13042 💬 588 📌 1002
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harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC.

time.com/7269604/el-s...

www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...

21.03.2025 19:08 👍 3931 🔁 1297 💬 286 📌 130
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Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

16.03.2025 15:59 👍 22444 🔁 6171 💬 547 📌 881

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

09.03.2025 00:55 👍 17140 🔁 7316 💬 704 📌 329
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Days in Office - 47 - Since January 20, 2025

Days Spent Golfing - 13

Time Spent Golfing - 27.66% - Percentage of Presidency

F47’s FL golf weekends are costing taxpayers $18m. Where is the outrage from Congress & F47’s MAGA supporters?
🔗 shorturl.at/6lcJx

08.03.2025 23:27 👍 883 🔁 445 💬 56 📌 21

Donald Trump has completely surrendered to Russia. It’s a tragedy for Ukraine and for democracy and an indelible stain on our nation’s history.

04.03.2025 00:09 👍 949 🔁 191 💬 44 📌 10
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Trump working hard to lower grocery prices for you. Oh, and alienate leaders of the free world while he’s at it.
⛳️ trumpgolftrack.com/

01.03.2025 21:09 👍 240 🔁 103 💬 9 📌 5

are you fucking kidding me? the Space Nazi wore a tee shirt and baseball cap to a cabinet meeting

28.02.2025 19:07 👍 2757 🔁 405 💬 174 📌 16
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

28.02.2025 22:45 👍 67678 🔁 19223 💬 1256 📌 1039

From our latest: “there are brave Americans who are making it damn clear that we are not just gonna roll over for America’s Hitler or his dorky, deadbeat dad super-villain friend.”

23.02.2025 15:31 👍 2008 🔁 598 💬 41 📌 17
We (the original researchers, not the poster) develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence – including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles – indicate that our index proxies for movements in policy-related economic uncertainty. Our US index spikes near tight presidential elections, Gulf Wars I and II, the 9/11 attacks, the failure of Lehman Brothers, the 2011 debt-ceiling dispute and other major battles over fiscal policy. Using firm-level data, we find that policy uncertainty is associated with greater stock price volatility and reduced investment and employment in policy-sensitive sectors like defense, healthcare, finance and infrastructure construction. At the macro level, innovations in policy uncertainty foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major economies. Extending our US index back to 1900, EPU rose dramatically in the 1930s (from late 1931) and has drifted upwards since the 1960s.

The index for January 2025 reached its highest point of any time since the mid 1990s, when the primary index begins. It's higher than during the worst months of the pandemic, when global trade and economic activity slowed abruptly, causing a massive global recession.

Greater policy uncertainty, or the degree to which markets and expert forecasters disagree about the likely trajectory of the economy, is known to delay investment and hiring (Bernanke 1983), reductions in spending by households and firms, and constrained credit, with more adverse effects for developing countries. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index measures the degree to which businesses, investors, and economic forecasters are uncertain about government policies related to fiscal and monetary policy, trade policy, and regulation. 

Link for data: https://www.policyuncertainty.com/.

We (the original researchers, not the poster) develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence – including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles – indicate that our index proxies for movements in policy-related economic uncertainty. Our US index spikes near tight presidential elections, Gulf Wars I and II, the 9/11 attacks, the failure of Lehman Brothers, the 2011 debt-ceiling dispute and other major battles over fiscal policy. Using firm-level data, we find that policy uncertainty is associated with greater stock price volatility and reduced investment and employment in policy-sensitive sectors like defense, healthcare, finance and infrastructure construction. At the macro level, innovations in policy uncertainty foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major economies. Extending our US index back to 1900, EPU rose dramatically in the 1930s (from late 1931) and has drifted upwards since the 1960s. The index for January 2025 reached its highest point of any time since the mid 1990s, when the primary index begins. It's higher than during the worst months of the pandemic, when global trade and economic activity slowed abruptly, causing a massive global recession. Greater policy uncertainty, or the degree to which markets and expert forecasters disagree about the likely trajectory of the economy, is known to delay investment and hiring (Bernanke 1983), reductions in spending by households and firms, and constrained credit, with more adverse effects for developing countries. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index measures the degree to which businesses, investors, and economic forecasters are uncertain about government policies related to fiscal and monetary policy, trade policy, and regulation. Link for data: https://www.policyuncertainty.com/.

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic.

Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

16.02.2025 14:56 👍 2004 🔁 839 💬 66 📌 129
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09.02.2025 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Now Will We Believe What Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes? (Gift Article) There can be no appeasement. None.

Good morning! This incredible NYT op-ed by @katherinestewart.bsky.social needs to be the very first thing that you read today. The next thing to do is send it to all your friends who still don't believe Trump is a crisis. This lays it all out (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

07.02.2025 12:42 👍 408 🔁 264 💬 28 📌 24
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Onward to the NFC Championship ➡️

See you on Sunday at 3:00pm on FOX.

acmemarkets | #FlyEaglesFly

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