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Jeffrey M. Leatherwood

@rockinprofessor

Military historian and published author, best known for "Nine From Aberdeen," the WWII history of U.S. Army EOD operations. PhD from WVU (2009). Army veteran, acolyte musician. Proudly anti-MAGA and ex-GOP since 1996.

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WASHINGTON (AP) β€” Jasmine Crockett concedes Texas Senate primary to James Talarico and calls for Democrats to unify around the nominee.

04.03.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 1212 πŸ” 168 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 69
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wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

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crooksandliars.com Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Now Under Criminal Investigation | Crooks and Liars

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Now Under Criminal Investigation

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Tillis: β€œWhat we've seen is a disaster under your leadership, Ms. Noem.”

03.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 818 πŸ” 175 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 17

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #ONEV1 #DV1
Epstein: With both the Clintons testifying, Donny has no excuse not to do the same.

The suspicions and probe won’t go away. The Office of the President doesn’t automatically exonerate the current holder. bsky.app/profile/head...

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'A disaster': Sen. Tillis criticizes Noem's leadership at DHS Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., criticized Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's leadership as a "disaster" during a Senate oversight hearing. Tillis spoke about her response to the fatal ...

πŸ”₯#Tillis just launched a $100,000,000 ad campaign against this administration for the price of a cup of coffee
WOW πŸ’₯ and WOW 🎯

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Noem asked to retract comments calling Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pushed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to retract her previous statements labeling Renee Good and Alex Pretti as domestic terrorists. Noem said she was ...

Americans watched as federal agents killed two Minnesotans.

Now their families have to watch Kristi Noem continue to lie about it.

www.nbcnews.com/video/noem-a...

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I am going to enjoy this. Don't explain why it's not/it is whatever...just, take the Ws as they come and apply them forward to November.

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#MAGA

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www.rawstory.com Pete Hegseth snarls at reporter's 'gotcha question' when pressed on Iran war endgame

Pete Hegseth snarls at reporter's 'gotcha question' when pressed on Iran war endgame

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Rep. Keith Self: "All of the members of Congress that are bellyaching need to stop it. We've got young Americans in harm's way today. If you've got a complaint, let's deal with it afterwards, but right now if Congress wants to do something, let's get the defense industrial base moving faster."

02.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 642 πŸ” 125 πŸ’¬ 290 πŸ“Œ 157

"every once in a while, you might have a squirter that makes its way through"

thank you, mr. secretary.

02.03.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 503 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 18

To all those who are saying "I did not vote for this, this is not what I voted for when I voted for him!" -

Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Yes, you did.

We told you. We warned you. You didn't listen.

28.02.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 715 πŸ” 189 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 14
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Before Reagan, the government kept high taxes on the wealthy to protect the country from the risk of a monarchy-like concentration of power. Reagan’s policies opened the door for the wealthy to gain more influence in our government through trickle-down economics. Nixon, Bush and Trump followed.

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Rep. Jason Crow went to war three times. He’s watched working‑class Americans pay the price while DC elites beat the war drums. Americans are DONE with endless wars. We want affordable lives, not another Middle East conflict. Congress must return now, hold a War Powers vote, & stop Trump.

28.02.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 350 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4
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The Washington Post Dies in Daylight Civic vandalism and the mutilation of a great paper.

"The free market will not save the Post, because its owner is immune to market signals. Politics will not save the Post, because so long as Republican voters demand authoritarianism, no one can own a media outlet without taking on outsized risk."

05.02.2026 09:01 πŸ‘ 319 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

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Sesame Street - I Am Somebody
Sesame Street - I Am Somebody YouTube video by LittleJerryFan92 *RETIRED CHANNEL*

Jesse Jackson adapted his β€œI am Somebody” speech many times, never more memorably than this moving 1971 Sesame Street appearance. RIP. youtu.be/iTB1h18bHlY

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested at Sandringham home Former prince arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Photographs of unmarked police cars and plainclothes officers at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate just after 8am were published on Thursday. Thames Valley police later confirmed the arrest. Continue reading...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested at Sandringham home

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Amazing, though, that what should have been 9-0 is always 6-3, and you always know who two of them are.
Alito and Thomas aren't even bothering to render judgments anymore. They just decide what's good for Trump and defend it.

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South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

NEW: South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. by @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

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Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office The first set of files related to Peter Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the US will be published in early March, it has been announced in the House of Commons.

Breaking Sky News:

Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

He was led out of his London home by police officers this afternoon.

Mandelson has faced allegations that he leaked market-sensitive information from Downing Street to Jeffrey Epstein.

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β€œViolently pornographic riffing.” Rachel Maddow calls out all the β€œviolence porn” in Trump’s β€œgory” State of the Union speech.

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Trump’s β€˜war on fraud’ announcement recalls plan for assistant attorney general who answers to Vance The proposed position would further subordinate the Justice Department and the rule of law to the White House.

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced a β€œwar on fraud,” a term that the administration has used in increasingly broad and deceptive ways. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Fact-checking Trump’s State of the Union remarks.

Calling this economy β€œroaring” is like calling a flat tire β€œfully inflated.” All that chest-thumping, and reality is undefeated.

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When you have cats, you're never lonely in the bathroom.

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The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

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I support Rep. Massie reading the case file below to Congress, the Senate, and every TV news media program in the United States. READ IT.

cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFile...

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