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Marty Schick retweeted
And here we go! According to campaign reports, Indiana’s Lt. Governor, Micah Beckwith, accepted a $150,000 donation from “Demented Development.” Documents in donations to Congressman Marlin Stutzman list Michael Sherfick as “Demented Development” Managing Partner.
Yes that Michael Sherfick. 20 year criminal history. Who Micah previously claimed he had no idea about his lengthy criminal history when he showed up at the NBA Finals with him. Indiana Lt. Governor’s campaign it appears is now bankrolled by a guy whose criminal history includes sexual battery, federal bribery, and insurance fraud, related to arson. Maybe Micah can discuss this tomorrow at church…
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Presidents certainly have the right to pick their Chiefs of Staff, but selecting Stephen Miller shows that Donald Trump has learned nothing from the message Americans sent him in this election. Miller is the architect of some of the worst policies of this presidency, from the cruel and chaotic ICE enforcement to the tariffs jacking up your costs. Promoting him isn’t only bad for this Administration, it’s bad for the American people.
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Paralympian and Iowa Democrat Josh Turek will now sit in the former seat of Sen. Tom Harkin, who authored the Americans with Disabilities Act and made life more accessible for millions of Americans.
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33-year-old Alex Klinner died in Trump’s war back in March. But since, 7 months later, Trump still isn’t calling it a war — his widow and their three small KIDS (7-month-old twins and a 2-year-old son) are being denied basic benefits.
Because those are only available to soldiers who die in WARS — not “excursions.”
I don’t ever want to hear from another Republican that their party “supports our troops.” You send them off to die, then desert them when they do.
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It turns out that the person who dressed his children as Russian monsters for Halloween at the White House was Stephen Miller, Trump's homeland security adviser, a conspiracy theorist, Nazi, racist, and opponent of military aid to Ukraine (although, on that last point, they're all pretty much the same).
Now, a clarification regarding the supposedly Russian military uniform worn by Miller's son. The boy was wearing a Soviet military cap, a patch featuring the insignia of Russia's tank forces, and camouflage resembling the U.S. Marine Corps' MARPAT pattern. In other words, it wasn't an actual Russian military uniform but a peculiar hybrid costume assembled from different elements.
Unlike the boy, whose military outfit consisted of mismatched pieces, Miller's daughter's costume appeared to follow a fairly consistent Russian folk style.
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I remember the ad when his grandfather ran it. I’m glad he updated it!
In 1962, my grandad Birch ran for office, but there was one problem - nobody knew how to pronounce our name. So his campaign came up with a jingle to help voters remember it.
As we approach Election Day, I wanted to bring that tune back and put my own spin on it.
My grandad’s example inspired me to believe in the power of public service to make a real difference in people’s lives. He helped pass the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, authored the constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18 so that the young Americans fighting and dying in Vietnam would have a voice in choosing their leaders, and championed Title IX, opening doors for generations of women in college athletics.
I’m proud to carry on that tradition of service in my own way.
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Republicans want you to focus your attention on the name Dan Sullivan appearing on the ballot in Alaska twice and forget that the name Donald Trump appears 38,000 times in the Epstein files.
Republicans have knives out for Peltola as Democrats largely silent
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Welp, there it is. @VivekGRamaswamy is a vile human for unearthing all of this, and boy it has backfired!!! BIGLY!
Amy Acton's stepfather's surviving biological daughter spoke to The Daily Mail when they knocked on her door in Ohio, while sobbing.
She said: She believed Amy's story, because her father raped her sister more than once (the victim in this 1974 indictment); she remembered Amy lived in a tent with Donna and Cledith; it's been terrible for her family to see Vivek's ad run in Ohio; and she heard rumors her father had victimized even more young girls.
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First Lady Melania Trump is claiming credit for a ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky, southern Ukraine.
But the Vatican says it was Pope Leo XIV who phoned Putin on Oct. 16, while still in hospital after lung cancer surgery, and asked for a truce to get food and aid in. The Kremlin confirmed the call. Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin says the initiative was the pope's.
As @thedailybeast notes, it's reminiscent of 2016, when Melania said she wrote her RNC speech "with as little help as possible," only for whole passages to turn out to mirror Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech.
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.@BarackObama: Trump should be on HGTV. He's building a ballroom, paved over the Rose Garden, put a helicopter pad on the South Lawn, and what's up with the gold? He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory!
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Let's be very clear. Amy Acton's birth mother hasn't been in her life for 48 years. So when the birth mother calls Amy a liar, she's calling the 12 year-old child who was raped by her stepfather a liar. Ramaswami has reached a new disgusting low, even for Republicans.
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"This is literally the first time I've heard about this."
Master Sgt. Nicole Amor was killed by an Iranian drone 232 days ago, and the VP doesn't know? He hasn't asked a single question about this deadly attack and other troops in harm's way? There is a top-to-bottom failure of leadership happening here.
The first failure is that Trump and Vance clearly did nothing to ensure our troops were protected against predictable counterattacks in a war they chose to start. The second failure is taking zero accountability.
Our troops' blood is on their hands, and they must answer for it.
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He was lying flat on his back in the road with both hands in the air, shouting that he was a therapist and the man beside him was autistic and holding a toy truck.
A policeman shot Charles Kinsey anyway. Kinsey asked him why.
The officer said: "I don't know."
North Miami, Florida, 18 July 2016. Kinsey, 47, was a behavioural therapist. One of his patients, Arnaldo Rios Soto, a 26-year-old autistic man, had wandered out of a group home and was sitting in the middle of the road playing with a silver toy truck.
Someone called 911 and reported a man with a gun threatening to kill himself.
Kinsey did everything. He lay down in the road on his back. He put both hands straight up in the air where they could be seen. He shouted his identification, his job, his patient's condition, and that the object was a toy. It is on video.
A SWAT officer fired three rounds. One hit Kinsey in the leg.
Then he was rolled over and handcuffed, bleeding in the road, and left there for a reported twenty minutes before an ambulance got to him.
He asked the officer why he had shot him. He has testified that the answer was: *I don't know.*
The officer, Jonathan Aledda, said he had been trying to protect Kinsey and believed Rios Soto was armed and a threat. He was charged — which is itself unusual — and tried twice. The first trial produced a conviction on one count of culpable negligence. A judge threw it out. A second jury acquitted him in 2019.
Nobody has been held responsible.
Kinsey survived and gave interviews, and the sentence he keeps returning to is the one everybody should take from this.
He was unarmed, flat on his back, hands up, announcing himself, in daylight, on camera.
He did everything right, and it did not matter.
Every Black parent in America who has ever recited the rules to a teenager — hands visible, say sir, do not move, announce what you are doing — has had to reckon with Charles Kinsey, because he followed all of them, perfectly, out loud, and was shot anyway.
