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Diana Kimball's avatar

Thanks Mary. We all knew from the onset that info would be mysteriously copied and sent to russia with love. When will the felon’s supporters wake the hell up!!!!!

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Patricia Hamlin's avatar

They can’t wake up or they’d be woke. I think they like being ignorantly comatose.

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Robot Bender's avatar

I don't think they even know that they are in that state.

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Gail Paton's avatar

agreed, its called brainwashed ... by their own president

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James Williams's avatar

You're definitely not holding back—and yeah, it's wild how much has come to light and still some folks just refuse to see it. It's like reality is optional now. The blind loyalty is something else... What do you think it’ll take for them to actually wake up? Or is it just too far gone at this point?

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William E. Becker's avatar

This is how we come to understand that no matter how definitive objective reality may be, there are those who cling to their own created agreement about what reality is, sometimes to the most ridiculous and deadly ends. By definition, that is what cults are.

According to James Carville and others, our Speaker of the House believes in theocracy of the Young Earther persuasion and not democracy. At the present we seem especially well supplied with madness on many fronts. These forces can not be allowed to win regardless of the cost.

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DW's avatar

Omygawd, now I gotta look up who or whut? is a young earther🙀

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DW's avatar

Oh... creationists

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Richard La France's avatar

Arrest and putting them all in a situation like that place in El Salvador with no chance of being released.

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DW's avatar

No mattresses pillows sheets. like 80 men to a cage with only 2 toilets.

fed disgusting food. No mail or phone calls allowed

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DW's avatar

Good update: the senator from MD WAS ALLOWED TO SEE + speak with the prisoner today. They temp gave him his clothes and took him to a cafe to meet with senator. Back in prison for now. Forcing a constitutional crisis stage. Here we go. Sorry too late at night to remember names involved, mean no disrespect

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DW's avatar

"It's like reality is optional now."

Yup . HHS should be looking at corollaries of what could be any possible source of the TRUE Trump derangement amongst his followers.

( even when he makes up a disease, it's really still projection )

I have just one theory , well two. Maybe 3

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Einstein's avatar

It feels like it's gone too far. My grandmother used to say, "Expect the worst, pray for the best."

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Karen Scigliano's avatar

Forget waiting and hoping that some will do the right thing. This is a done deal. We need the military to take round them up, line them up and then pick them off.They would be doing their job of serving & protecting and we wouldnt have to wake up tomorrow to more terrorism from the criminals that weaponized our democracy into their own distorted version of hell.

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HarrisWalz FTW 2024's avatar

Anything he hadn't already sold or given to them to curry favor from the boxes in his bathroom at Merde de Lago.

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Jane Hee's avatar

How much is US GOVERNMENT paying El Salvador for imprisonment of our citizens and migrants?

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Two big unanswered questions are: where is tRump getting the funds to pay El Salvador to abuse the deportees and who is underwriting DOGE? Both of these operations are illegal, unconstitutional, and ought to be felonious.

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Janet Luongo's avatar

Good question. I do NOT want my tax dollars supporting a concentration camp.

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Fran Bowman's avatar

It's not the US government, it is the taxpayers. And it is (I have read) $3 or 6 million a year. But who knows?

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Debra Foreman's avatar

I believe it’s 6million

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Cate Salenger's avatar

Whatever it is, trump owns them now.

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James B's avatar

No.. We the Taxpayers own them. Trump is spending our tax dollars like he paid into them.

And we know he only pays $750 per year, if that.

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Patty Mooney's avatar

And brags that he doesn't take a presidential salary which the unwoke lap right up like he's some sort of philanthropist.

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John's avatar

But, DJT does take Secret Service protection. So no one can kill him.

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Cate Salenger's avatar

Did you have too remind me?

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Jane Hee's avatar

Hate to say this, but judging from the Monday meeting, I had a sense that Bukele owned trump. He’s the cool dictator and trump is the wannabe. Either way, it’s awful. Monday was the most depressing day to date for me regarding current affairs. Thanks everyone for responding. I appreciate the info.

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Cate Salenger's avatar

Can it get more depressing day by day? Yes. Seems like it will.

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Katrina Nuciforo's avatar

20 thousand a person a year

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bobbie cottrill's avatar

They have sold their souls to Russia and they are selling all of us one piece of data at a time. This is so illegal...put them all behind bars!!

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Heather.B's avatar

DOGE was always just a data mining scam and to fire legions of public service workers from the federal agencies investigating Musk and the companies he represents.

ZERO proof so far on systemic fraud. No fraud charges against anyone, just stealing our data and giving access to our info to Russia. DOGE was a front to broach governmental computers data.

Musk and DOGE SHOULD be in jail: Violation of privacy rights on all Americans, destruction of agencies within proper authorization!

If only the Republicans had the courage to impeach Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Bondi and all of those sycophants and prohibit DOGE 🤦‍♀️

Our country has become an embarrassment.

Four years of this 💩. It’s going to be long, but I can’t wait until this nightmare is over. Meanwhile I will be wearing these kinds of t-shirts everyday until this sh*tshow ends 👇

https://libtees.dashery.com/t-shirts

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William E. Becker's avatar

We can't wait that long. It's months at most.

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Einstein's avatar

Jail time? Impeachment? Wait 4 years? All of these ideas are cliche, fanciful. We don't have 4 years!! Too many of us don't even have 4 months!!! ... and I sincerely pray for all of us, but especially for women who can bear children! What a f-ing nightmare!!!

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Peter's avatar

Trump may be immune but Musk and the incels are not. And there will be a reckoning when the Reign of Terror is over.

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Annie Weeks's avatar

Incel is a wildly inaccurate descriptor for Musk.

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Peter's avatar

Not for the boy blunders that work for him. That is who my post referred to.

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PS's avatar

It will not be over. It's too late.

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Peter's avatar

"Did they give up with the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? It ain't over until we say it's over!" - Bluto Blutarsky

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DW's avatar

Japan / Pearl Harbor 1941

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PS's avatar

You are right! I'm afraid though, that it will have to be a longer war than most seem to think. The system was not prepared for this. Lessons have to be learned.

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Dan Beach's avatar

This is an amazing column, Mary. I am going to pass it around. Did anyone really think that Musk would 'not' siphon off vast tranches of data, or that it would 'not' pop up in Russia/China. Donold joined the Musk cult, since he figured it would serve his interests. But it is really overwhelming him, and it would not surprise me to see Donold ushered out, or 'disappeared,' as foreign forces infiltrate unimpeded. This would make a hell of a novel, if it weren't so frightening.

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Robert Lichtenstein's avatar

Mary: thank you so much for the work you are doing. Only with voices such as your will be awaken from this nightmare.

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Deb's avatar

Mary’s post is awesome. If you have tech savvy friends, I highly recommend the NPR story. They go into good somewhat techie detail provided by the whistleblower. It scares the living 💩 out of me (having worked in IT). The only thing that gave me super slight relief is that the info exfiltrated was in text format - notoriously tough to search (unless some AI protocols have been developed that make it easier). Super scary stuff.

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Diane B's avatar

Doge is a criminal mob engaging in massive theft from the public.

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Janie 🪡's avatar

The revenge tour of 'artofthedeal' is a disgusting stain on America...no one who cares is fooled by this goon gang...blondes wearing crosses included

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Sharon Maxey's avatar

Yes, agree—the blonde Barbies wearing crosses is a really nice touch. Did rump buy them specifically to wear when they’re out there, lying to the people?

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Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

This is the epitome of evil. And why would ANYONE expect a six times bankrupted mendacious narcissistic compulsive liar do anything different once he got in power?

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T.R.'s avatar
Apr 17Edited

Dickless

Overweening

Grievous

Egomaniacs

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MK's avatar

A friend of mine had a sign for the April 6 march that read:

Douchebag

Oligarches

Grifting

Every 1

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T.R.'s avatar

That's good too! :D

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Gary Hanks's avatar

I watched the report and interview regarding the NRLB on Rachel Maddow's show the other night. This is truly frightening. Having someone or something try to login to NRLB from Russia! Trump and Musk are far my dangerous than I ever imagined. We must stand together and do everything we can to fight these dangerous people and return sanity to government of, by, and for the people.

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DW's avatar

No they logged in 20 consecutive times !!! Didn't just try.

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Jim Ryan's avatar

What are Elmo and the Oligarchs worried about. They don't pay taxes anyway. Elmo and his crew should be arrested for theft , hacking v and treason for giving Russian agents access to our system. And for trying to intimidate the whistleblower. I say we go after Elmo and his brown shirts the same way they have gone after everyone else.

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Robot Bender's avatar

They want everyone else's wealth.

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Donna Walker's avatar

Thank you Mary for keeping us informed.

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Jim Gray's avatar

Remove Donald Trump NOW!

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Einstein's avatar

Drumpf, Vance, all Repuglicans, the Speaker of the House, the 5 male Supreme Crt justices, all Republican judicial appointees to the federal courts, the DOJ, FBI, CIA, military... They all gotta go!

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Norm's avatar

You know, Mary, this is all so predictable. Granted, some of the details have been surprising, but generally, only the gullible cultists among us did not believe your criminal uncle and his henchmen would use the power of the presidency to enrich themselves, with more power and more wealth.

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PS's avatar

I think absolutely no one believed it would be this bad.

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Virma's avatar

Probably not no one. I’m not at all a Washington insider (and never wanted to be), but I swear the first words out of my mouth when I learned the election in November had been called for Trump were: “Well, that’s the end of democracy in this country.” I was bitter and angry. And frightened.

If the threat to our rights was that clear to a nobody like me, I’m sure a lot of other people could see the same dangers that I did - Trump couldn’t keep his mouth shut on the campaign trail about his plans to be a despot, after all.

But I still hope we can grab our human decency and ethical values back from the sociopaths that only want us as chattel. I believe we’re pretty strongly motivated to work together for a better future. And we’re not nearly as incompetent as the people who are currently playacting the roles of government “leaders.”

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PS's avatar

Yes, I'm actually also with you there, in the feeling of pure fascism coming, just didn't think so fast and so unmasked.

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relawson96@gmail.com's avatar

Marco Rubio Hyprocrisy “the pot calling the kettle black”

Here’s the thing about Marco Rubio: he’s the son of Cuban immigrants, represents the state with the fourth-largest immigrant population in America, constantly bills himself and his background as the embodiment of the American Dream…and yet he seems to have much less sympathy for immigrants who have stories much like his.

He’s gotten into trouble before for this juxtaposition, when it was revealed that Rubio’s parents were not political refugees (as he often claims), but economic migrants. Now another doozy is coming out in Manuel Roig-Franzia’s biography of the Senator, “The Rise of Marco Rubio.”

A forthcoming biography of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is described by author Manuel Roig-Franzia as a “politician who built a political identity on his family story,” reveals an immigration hell for Rubio’s Cuban-born maternal grandfather, who was ordered deported from Florida because he flew in from Cuba without a visa, a decade before Rubio’s birth.

Roig-Franzia, a Style section writer for The Washington Post, writes that the grandfather’s treatment during his 1962 run-in with federal authorities “was not unlike the present-day experiences of many Mexicans and Central Americans who come to the United States legally but later run afoul of visa laws and find their lives irreversibly upended.”

Rubio was born a U.S. citizen in Miami in 1971 to two Cuban exiles who arrived in the U.S. in the late 1950s. Roig-Franzia reports that the grandfather, Pedro Victor García, did not leave the U.S. as ordered, but remained in Miami, possibly on retroactive refugee status.

Grandpapa Rubio emigrated to the US, “tried to make a living but never quite succeeded,” and returned to Cuba to work for the Treasury Ministry. After the Bay of Pigs debacle, in 1962, Pedro Victor García asked his bosses in Cuba for a vacation and decided to take “an incredibly risky step”:

He bought a ticket and boarded Pan American Airlines flight 2422 bound for Miami. Pedro Victor’s troubles began not long after the plane landed. He had a Cuban passport and a U.S. alien registration card, but he didn’t have a visa. … A U.S. immigration official named E.E. Spink detained the sixty-three-year-old grandfather. Spink signed a form that read, ‘you do not appear to me to be clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to enter the United States.’ A photographer snapped a mug shot of Pedro Victor with his alien registration number on a block in front of him. … His cheeks were sunken, there were bags under his eyes, and his mouth was tight. … The paper trail is inconclusive about whether he was forced to spend time in a detention facility. … On October 4, 1962, Pedro Victor appeared before a special inquiry officer, a kind of immigration judge, named Milton V. Milich … Pedro Victor’s hearing was recorded on an Editor Voicewriter … Now full of scratches and audible pops, the records are a remarkable artifact of another era. In thirty-three minutes of testimony they tell the story of a man caught in an immigration non-man’s land, a lesson about the laws that decide who gets to stay in the United States and who must go. … Milich orders ‘that the applicant be excluded and deported from the United States.’ … Pedro Victor … did not leave the country as ordered. In those days deportees weren’t necessarily thrown onto a plane … Pedro Victor’s legal status would remain unresolved for years. He stayed in Miami … [In 1967] Pedro Victor returned to the immigration bureaucracy to ask, once again, to become a permanent resident. … The form he filled out then states that he had been a Cuban refugee since February 1965. Refugee status may have been granted retroactively

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DW's avatar

Wow did not know this

Thank you

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Janet Luongo's avatar

Mary, your last 3 paragraphs are brilliant - about WHY we pay to sustain our GOVERNMENT: Our taxes go SERVICES "we don't even have to think about" - for sanitation, education, fire and police departments." I'd add highways and lit streets and nutrition for Moms and children, disaster relief. And so much more. You define government as "our attempt to determine how to live together in a way that works for all of us." we need to cherish and defend our American ideals that truly make us great.

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