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The #SAVEAct, which CD7's current representative co-sponsored and voted for in the House of Representatives last month, is scheduled to come up for a vote in the Senate this week. I was asked about my position on this bill at the Alexandria Area Indivisible forum earlier this month & here's my response. Long story short, voting is a fundamental constitutional right and I would vote against any legislation that at its heart is voter suppression legislation as I believe this is. #WeCanDoBetter #MN07 #saveacttaxesvoters

This is unhinged. The President of the United States went on a late-night rant, making clear he believes the Supreme Court justices he appointed owe him their loyalty and should always rule in his favor. The President of the United States is openly attacking the independence of the judiciary, the very institution that stands between every American and unchecked executive power. Courts don’t work for the President. They work for the Constitution. And a president attacking the judiciary for doing its job is telling you he believes he is above the law.

The U.S. job market is the worst in decades. And the main cause of this is completely incompetent government.

Here is what’s really going on with regard to the funding stalemate in Congress. ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens on the streets of Minneapolis. Democrats then said: before we write you another check, agree to the same rules every police department in America already follows. Judicial warrants before entering homes. Visible ID. Body cameras. No raids at schools and hospitals. We immediately pushed for votes to fund TSA, the Coast Guard, and FEMA. Republicans blocked it. We tried to fund FEMA alone. Republicans blocked that too. Their position was to fund ICE with no strings attached, or shut the whole thing down. So DHS shut down. Then yesterday, the White House sent a letter admitting we were right. But they still won’t agree to judicial warrants or to take the masks off, which means agents can still break down your door without a judge’s approval and you still can’t see their faces when they do it. We’ve been ready to fund your airport security since day one, not to mention Coast Guard, FEMA and the rest. Republicans chose to protect ICE from accountability instead. #FundDHSFreezeICE

Republicans are lying to the American people when they say the SAVE Act is a voter ID law—it’s a proof-of-citizenship requirement that would make voting harder, if not impossible, for a lot of people. Passports are expensive, documents don’t always match, and the process can be a mess (been there). We should be making voting easier, not adding more hurdles. Democrats can own this by proposing their own bill that accepts a range of IDs, and includes automatic voter registration and Election Day as a national holiday for starters.

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

No lies detected.

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When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

Things that never happened before Trump: -Every president in our history who has lost has conceded, except Donald Trump. -No rioters have EVER attacked the Capitol while holding flags of their ringleader - The President of the United States. -No President has ever broken the rules of law by ignoring every SCOTUS ruling against him. -No President has ever sold watches, fragrance, phones, and crypto WHILE president. -No cabinet has been so devoid of free-will that POTUS can force them to wear matching shoes of the wrong size like synchronized clowns. -No President has ever tripled the deficit. -No American President has ever been owned by a Russian President. -No US President has ever made $1.3 billion a year AS president. -No US President has ever been convicted of 34 felonies. -No President has ever been this hurt and broken by late night comedians and pop stars. -No US President has ever been a lifelong "partner in crime" to a convicted Pedophile. -No US President has ever marked his territory by spraying his name on every structure. -Trump is the only US President who has a diehard following of worshippers that do not see him as President but as a religion meant to be obeyed. -And no US President has EVER been this despised by the world and every American not indoctrinated by the theology of moronology.

9 out of 10 MAGA women say Trump is they only man they would leave their brother for.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

Fun fact: Most of the electricity generated in Iowa (Chuck Grassley) and South Dakota (Thune) is generated by wind turbines, and their states have among the lowest electric rates in the US.

Convicted fraudsters Trump has pardoned this year: Jason Galanis — ~$200M+ Joseph Schwartz — ~$38M Lawrence Duran — ~$205M (Medicare fraud billed; ~$87M paid) Carlos Watson — ~$60M investor fraud Trevor Milton — ~$20M+ investor losses Todd Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud Julie Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud Devon Archer — ~$60M tribal bond scheme George Santos — ~$44K–$1M+ (multiple fraud schemes) Michele Fiore — ~$70K charity fraud Brian Kelsey — ~$90K campaign finance fraud Scott Jenkins — ~$75K bribery/fraud scheme Paul Walczak — ~$10M+ tax fraud Adriana Camberos — ~$1M+ counterfeit/fraud

The US war with Iran has now cost over $21 billion. In two weeks. $21,000,000,000. DOGE canceled $100 million in humanities grants to reduce the deficit. The deficit was not reduced. This war costs that every 12 hours. $21 billion for a war launched on a feeling. With no congressional authorization. With no exit strategy. With a rejected peace deal. With 14 Americans dead. With the Strait closed to American ships. With Canada, Switzerland, and Japan saying no. With JD Vance blaming Biden for the gas prices it caused. Rand Paul found $37 billion in missing border wall money. Pete Hegseth wants a celebration. $21 billion. Two weeks. Never stop connecting the dots.

The same idiots who think Trump, who dodged the draft five times, knows how to win a war also think Trump, who declared bankruptcy six times, knows how to run the economy. That’s what Trump Derangement Syndrome actually looks like.

The MAGA bubble simply is NOT going to break, regardless of how bad the Trump/GOP stories get. 30-40% of the public are hearing/reading nothing but right wing spin due to our toxified, consolidated, plutocrat-owned media. That's the #1 problem that will have to be dealt with.

During the Obama years conservatives lost their minds over a tan suit. During the Trump years they learned to defend indictments, fraud verdicts, pedophiles, and criminal trials. That’s not evolution that’s moral collapse.

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Somehow Republicans won the presidency, House, and Senate without the SAVE Act. Yet somehow they will never win again without it? All this while advocates cannot produce any credible evidence of mass voter fraud that is supposedly making it impossible for Republicans to win.

Notice how they say "The Trump Administration" is being paid a 10 BILLION DOLLAR broker fee for the sale of TickTock... NOT the American Government, NOT The American People...The Trump Administration Really ? Anybody ?!?