
Blue Armadillo
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Blue Armadillo
@MichaelMSmith9
Yellow Dog Democrat, preaching the Organic Gospel, cook,gardener, jazz fan, USAF brat, HOOK'EM HORNS, retired, https://t.co/NF8Dwqi4bH
Central Texas Katılım Temmuz 2018
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@Suzierizzo1 @OohWah90 He had to know this. Yet chose to embarrass himself.
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@ClayTravis Keep defending stupidity Clay.
It looks good on you.
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Trump was also not alive yet on Pearl Harbor Day, Jake. This was a joke about the importance of keeping surprises in war. As everyone with a functional brain recognized.
Jake Tapper 🦅@jaketapper
FWIW Prime Minister Takaichi was born 20 years after Pearl Harbor
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@TracesofTexas No topless sun bathers on the southern lawn as in my day. 🤣
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Barton Springs pool in Austin, 1947. You are looking from west to east, toward downtown Austin. Don't y'all know this was a happy, carefree time? The war was over, the Great Depression a memory, and folks were breathing a collective sigh of relief. Such innocent times! 🎶Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end 🎵
Taken by Neil Douglass and courtesy the @AustinPublicLib

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Your property tax bill is a result of MAGA TX Comptroller forcing your local appraisal districts to raise your home values just to get the money TX already allotted to your schools… while they give your proerty tax money to the rich guy who was already sending his kids to private school… and slash PublicEd $… during a massive surplus.
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On this day in 1966, Texas Western's "Glory Road" squad upset Kentucky to win the National Championship 👏
The Miners were the first team to start an all-black starting five in a Championship Game.
#MarchMadness
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From today’s New York Times:
Across both of his terms, Mr. Trump has granted clemency to more than 70 allies, donors and others convicted in fraud cases. In his second term, Mr. Trump’s pace of pardoning those convicted of fraud has increased. In the first year of his second term, he handed out nearly three dozen pardons and commutations for people accused of fraud.
Mr. Trump is unabashed about using the government to reward friends and supporters and punish foes. Still, his handling of fraud cases stands out. Not only are there striking similarities between some of the crimes that were prosecuted and those that were pardoned, but the president also has excused some of those who have stolen the most.
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Last March, Mr. Trump pardoned Trevor Milton, the founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola, who had been sentenced to four years in prison on allegations he had defrauded his investors. Before Mr. Trump granted the pardon, his campaign received donations from Mr. Milton and his wife totaling more than $1.8 million.
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Mr. Herrera and the others pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, but Mr. Trump pardoned them before sentencing. The clemency grants came after Mr. Herrera’s daughter, Isabela Herrera, donated $2.5 million in 2024 — and then another $1 million in 2025 — to MAGA Inc., a super PAC devoted to Mr. Trump and run by his allies.
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Mr. Weinstein has not been as fortunate as Adriana Camberos. In 2021, Mr. Trump commuted the sentence she was serving for a fraud scheme involving fake energy drinks. A lawyer who had worked in the Trump White House assisted her with her case. Three years later, Ms. Camberos was convicted with her brother of defrauding food wholesalers. In January, Mr. Trump pardoned them both, with no explanation.
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Imagine that — a rich felon convicted of fraud excusing rich felons convicted of fraud … if the price is right.
They say actions speak louder than words, and Trump’s actions on behalf of large-scale fraudsters speak as clearly as his actions on large-scale drug traffickers (see Trump pardoned drug traffickers including former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and Silk Road online drug market founder Ross Ulbricht).
Particularly galling is pardoning a fraudster who then goes out and frauds again and then scores a second fraud pardon. How do you square fraud x2/pardon x2 with the claim that you’re serious about cracking down on fraud?
The old saying was “justice is blind.” The current saying is “you get as much justice as you can afford to buy.”
If we’re serious about rooting out fraud, I know exactly where we should start.

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The Secretary of the Navy @SECNAV told the world Sgt. Kevin Lee Lloyd’s children would receive combat-related benefits and be guided through the process.
Today, those benefits were denied by the CRSC board.
Sgt. Kevin Lee Lloyd was poisoned during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007 while serving with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, Fox Company out of Kaneohe Bay—after being ordered into burn pits.
That exposure led to the cancer that killed him.
The Marine Corps took two years to process his paperwork—and didn’t approve his medical retirement until the day after he died.
Now the CRSC board says only he could apply.
He’s dead.
So our three children—including our son with Type 1 diabetes—have been denied the benefits he paid for with his life.
This is exactly why the Major Richard Star Act matters.
#StandWithSgtLloyd #Veteran #RichardStarAct #CRSC #BurnPits
@USMC
@DeptofDefense
@DeptVetAffairs
@VeteransAffairs
@HouseVetAffairs
@SenateVA
@BurnPits360
@MilitaryTimes
@MarineCorpsTimes
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Hey Hegseth, what about those Americans who don’t worship Jesus Christ? What about those Americans who are Jewish? Muslim? Hindu? Or those Americans who are non-believers? Should they too get down “on bended knee” and pray for our troops? Or Pete, bcuz you’re a white Christian Nationalist, do you want ALL Americans to be FORCED to pray to Jesus Christ?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Hegseth: "May almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight. To the American people, please pray for them every day on bended knee with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ."
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@WalshFreedom No words to fully describe what a departure from the "civic religion" of the last 75 years this is. Even on the eve of D-Day, FDR invoked God's protection for his far more religiously uniform fighting force, not Jesus. This, from the SecDef, ignores the diversity of his people.
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If you've never been in a church,
If you don't bend the knee when you pray...
If you do bend the knee, but would NEVER pray to, for, or about Jesus...
If you don't believe in a supernatural power at work in the world at all, like more and more young Americans...
Are YOU included?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Hegseth: "May almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight. To the American people, please pray for them every day on bended knee with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ."
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Markwayne Mullin's PAC spent millions on private jets, golf oklahoman.com/story/news/pol…
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spot-on, from @anneapplebaum
Money quote:
"Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places."
"He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before."
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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