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 This person, whose only reaction to seeing a video of a toddler under barbed wire is to write "Build the Wall," has "Christ First" in her profile. Of course, she does. It's so predictable. #CruelChristians

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 I wonder if this is the headline that caused us not to be able to see headlines anymore.

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 All of the prosecutors and attorneys general in the Donald Trump cases have to be protected by security.

The prosecutor in the Hunter Biden case does not.

It's almost as if Democrats aren't domestic terrorists. 
 In the New York fraud case, Donald Trump's lawyers will call the following character witnesses to attest to Donald's enormous wealth and blemishless honesty: 

John Barron;

John Miller; and

David Dennison.

They will all look strikingly similar—except for their jaunty hats. 
 Republicans keep getting devoured by the monsters they created.

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 Donald is not going to be pleased with his latest courtroom portrait.

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 Trump is not a reliable source for ANYTHING. But this is all over Twitter. But I can't find any ruling on the statute of limitations.

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 Whenever Rock Hudson is trending, I like to remind everyone how his so-called "friends" Ronald and Nancy Reagan refused to acknowledge, much less help, him as he died of AIDS. 

And the Reagans watched thousands of Americans die of the illness while refusing to even mention it. 
 It wouldn't be the first time dotty Donald confused Wales with whales. 

https://bird.makeup/@meidastouch/1708512811842998299

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 Tonight, @935f92d8  voted to tank the American economy, deprive our military of paychecks, and starve children just to score some cheap political points. 

He is a despicable human being. 
 @935f92d8 My video reading Ted Cruz for filth, but only out of Christian concern. Glory!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvZKRgUkXGA 
 I am so pleased that the House's most bratty Republican brats did not get their way today. 
 And this is alleged to be tied to why she recently had the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act changed to shield releasing documents about her expenses.

A whistleblower has claimed her office falsified and illegally withheld FOIA-requested documents.

The graft is hereditary.

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 And just so everyone knows, I realize that it is really a lectern, but all the reporting and tweets speak of a podium. 
 Anyone following what's happening with Sarah Huckabee Sanders? She is said to have spent 20k of public money to fly a friend to France, then faked receipts & said the $20k was spent on a podium. When public demanded to see it, she bought a $700 one on Amazon. Wild #PodiumGate

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 And this is alleged to be tied to why she recently had the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act changed to shield releasing documents about her expenses.

A whistleblower has claimed her office falsified and illegally withheld FOIA-requested documents.

The graft is hereditary.

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 Jenna Ellis tweeting a rumor she doesn’t want to be repeated. She’s smart that way. 

I didn’t know about it without her tweet. Thanks, Jenna!

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 Republicans’ braggadocios impeachment spin vs. Republicans’ humiliating impeachment reality:

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 Don Jr is mocking Ron DeSantis for having makeup applied to his face during a break in the debate. The son of a man who wears more foundation than Trixie Mattel continues to prove to be the least self-aware person in America.

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 A Trump property when paying taxes vs. that Trump property when applying for loans:

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 So far, the following things have been declared to be fraudulent enterprises AS A MATTER OF LAW:

Trump University ✅

Trump Foundation ✅

Trump Organization ✅

BONUS: The Eric Trump Foundation was found to have fraudulently promised all money raised went to kids with cancer. 
 I hope the IRS and the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser accept the Trumps' public representation that Mar-a-Lago is worth over 1 billion dollars at tax time. 
 Cassidy Hutchinson alleges that sex-trafficking, drugging sexpest Matt Gaetz made inappropriate moves on her TWICE. #Maddow 
 Donald Trump wants a federal government shutdown to ruin our economy because it will stop the funding of his criminal investigations.

[State DA Fani Willis and state AG Letitia James file their nails, trying to subdue a creeping smile.] 
 People who smeared their poo on the walls of the Capitol are angry that John Fetterman is not respecting the decorum of the building. 
 In the last few days:

"Jeb Bush got us into the Middle East."

"Joe Biden is going to get us into World War II"

"Windmills are making whales batty."

"I'm up in the polls against Obama."

But *do* go on about Biden's mental decline.

https://bird.makeup/@parkerpbutler/1706395285541224697 
 In one Truth, Trump manages to alienate not only voters AGAINST abortion bans (by taking sole credit for the overturn of Roe v. Wade, a decision he, clearly, never read, and any subsequent bans) but also voters FOR those bans, as they tend not to like any exception. #StableGenius

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 "Why  doesn't the FBI raid Senate Democrat's [sic] homes[?????]"

Does this idiot think Bob Menendez took the photos of the gold ingots that appear in his indictments?

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 Donald Trump thinks (1) he ran against Barack Obama, and (2) he's currently leading Barack Obama in the polls.

But *do* go on about how Joe Biden is experiencing cognitive decline.  #DementiaDonald

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 The more I get to know Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the less I like him.

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 Today in Republican Family Values:

Man who drugged an underage girl to have sex with her endorses an adulterer and another adulterer, divorced from a man who exposed his penis to an underage girl in a bowling alley, who sexually groped her date while seated behind a child.

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 Donald responds to a request to gag him because he attacks people by attacking someone.

The man has ZERO impulse control. 
 And THIS is why adults with impulse control don't flip off people who have access to embarrassing security video of you.

You give them a reason to release it.

https://bird.makeup/@ronfilipkowski/1702802944511353305 
 MAGA is equal parts (1) the gullibility to believe lies (2) the delusion to believe those lies are true.

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 Kristi Noem is a vocal defender of “traditional marriage,” which she defines as “a special, God-given union between one man and one woman.” 

And, apparently, at least one other man. #ChristianHypocrites

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 The least surprising words we will read tonight.

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 Honestly, my only surprise is that Lauren Boebert is cultivated enough to even go to a theater.

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 Apparently, road shows of musicals police antisocial conduct more carefully than Congress.

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 Elon Musk, the Tokyo Rose for Russia's genocidal war on Ukraine. 
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-kremlin-peskov-details-musk-phone-call-putin-1751071 
 "This nation does NOT belong to THEM—this nation belongs to YOU."

This vile notion that our country only belongs to a subset of citizens who only agree with you is not just fundamentally undemocratic. It's evil.

https://bird.makeup/@realdonparody/1700347328933064991 
 Ashton Kutcher's glowing character reference for convicted rapist Danny Masterson praises him for being an "intentional human being." 

It must be so disappointing to be an inadvertent one.

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 The two types of people in the world are people who know Henry Ford was a successful automaker—and people who know that Henry Ford was a successful automaker who was also a notorious anti-Semite who sided with an enemy against US interests. 

Hmmmmm..... sound familiar?

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