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wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Raskin: Well, AOC and I have a $50 gift ban bill, which has been on the back burner for years under the Republicans.
In Congress, we are all governed by a $50 gift ban. And we can’t accept anything much more than a baseball cap. And most people are scared to do that. We just don’t take gifts.
Meantime, at the Supreme Court, they’re collecting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in so-called gifts from people who have a tremendous interest in the work of the Supreme Court. They take trips around the world. They take luxury vacations. They get, in Justice Thomas’s case, a $400,000 recreational vehicle, a motor coach.
I think Justice Thomas also picked up private school tuition for a great-nephew. I mean, just outrageous things. Members of Congress would go to jail for any of those things, and they’re just doing it.
So the $50 gift ban applies to Congress. It theoretically applies also to people in the executive branch, and it must apply to people in the judiciary, in the Supreme Court
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WOW! This is something you NEED to see!
Earlier today in Ireland, while Hunter Biden was receiving an award, a student began shouting about Gaza.
But instead of letting security remove the student, HUNTER STEPPED IN, stopped them, and delivered an absolutely WONDERFUL response.
No hostility. No running from a difficult question. Just compassion, dignity, and respect.
THAT is Joe Biden's son, through and through.
Like father, like son.
JUST LISTEN! 👇🇺🇸🇮🇪
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From @ErinBrockovich
“Polk County, Florida is located along the I-4 corridor between Orlando and Tampa (central Florida) and is known for its deep citrus and cattle-ranching heritage.
A Texas developer and Pace Road DC Development, LLC are planning to convert two vacant warehouses/buildings into a major data center off Pace Road near the Polk Parkway and I-4.
The city of Auburndale has approved zoning and future land use requests. Keep in mind there are residential neighborhoods and schools in the surrounding area.
AGAIN – residents are the last to learn about this and obviously don’t have much of a say.
It’s time we look at these backdoor deals taking place in town after town. This level of secrecy is happening on the LOCAL level.
It is time to expose it”
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🚨Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.”
We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.
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Absolute crazy scene out of my local Walmart in Oldsmar, Florida. Carbon monoxide levels were unsafe this AM and the store had to be evacuated. And Florida being Florida they are using airboats to ventilate the store. – at Oldsmar, FL
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Buttigieg: I think the statement Vance made recently that's so apt here is when he said, you don't turn around the Titanic overnight. It really captures the situation over there at the White House where you've got a sinking ship and weirdly, everybody's just clinging to the railings and doubling down.
SW United States quarry blast, seems like we would be better at this by now.
✨انفجااااااااار مخوووف كأنه سلاح
نووي😨😰
@grok اين وقع هذا ؟ولماذا بين الأعيان المدنيه ؟
#MiddleEast
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I know most of y’all aren’t from Dallas, TX and even fewer are from Plano, but this is IMPORTANT. Because it’s quietly happening everywhere.
Dallas Stars owner, CANADIAN billionaire Tom Gaglardi, plans on moving the Stars out of Dallas to a BRAND NEW arena in Plano, Texas, opening in 2031. The arena is projected to cost $1 billion. He wants taxpayers to pick up $700 million, including $250 million in future taxes diverted from PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Plano voted 54% NO last Tuesday! But city officials and Gaglardi won’t take no for an answer and are finding ways to “WORK AROUND” democracy and use public money to finance the project.
And by the way, cities that subsidize sports arenas get MINIMAL net revenue, which is why Dallas hasn’t rushed to build a new arena AND it will cause an insane amount of traffic on the Dallas North Tollway, which is already brutal!
Hold your local-level officials ACCOUNTABLE! Don’t think corruption is only at the top.
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If this is real, and I have a feeling it is based on things I’ve been hearing from Blanche recently, he’s going to get away scott free with billions. And laugh about it on his own private golf course. This country is fucked.
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Chuck Schumer got his son-in-law on Wall Street giant Blackstone’s payroll. Then his daughters got placed at Amazon, OpenAI, and Meta. Legalized bribery: buy access to the leader's household, and your monopolies stay untouchable.
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Billionaires borrow against their wealth TAX-FREE to pay for their lifestyle. Meanwhile, you’re paying taxes on every paycheck. I’ve got a bill to close that loophole and make billionaires pay their fair share.
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Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
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Florida will become the “Apostolic State” where smaller rural counties rob from larger counties .. Robbing Peter to pay Paul
It’s all a shell game . And DeSantis ADMITTED he only put it on the ballot to push voters to the polls to avoid getting totally shellacked in the election .
So he’s out 1/5/27 and leaves the mess for others to pick up
That’s his character, America
There's something about Florida's new property tax amendment that I don't think has gotten nearly enough attention.
Not every county in Florida experienced the same housing boom.
Think about the smaller, rural counties where a $180,000 house is still a pretty nice home. Places that don't have millions of tourists, luxury beachfront condos or enormous shopping centers generating tax revenue.
Those counties still have bills to pay.
They need sheriff's deputies, ambulances, firefighters, roads and schools, just like Palm Beach County or Miami-Dade.
And a fire truck doesn't cost less because you're in rural Florida.
Under Amendment 3, by 2028, qualifying homeowners won't pay non-school property taxes on the first $250,000 of their home's assessed value.
In some rural counties, that could eliminate those taxes on most owner-occupied homes.
Now think about what that does to a small county that already struggles to pay its bills.
You can argue that Florida governments have gotten too big, and there's certainly room to question how they've spent the additional money collected during the housing boom.
But what about the counties that never saw that kind of windfall?
You can't cut 25% of a sheriff's department that was already struggling to cover hundreds of square miles without somebody noticing.
Governor DeSantis has promised help for rural counties, but that funding still needs legislative approval.
And that's going to matter.
Because the Florida where people own million-dollar homes and the Florida where people work their entire lives to afford a $180,000 home are two very different places.
Amendment 3 applies to both. The consequences won't necessarily be the same.
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The Supreme Court let the bulldozers back into Big Bend National Park today. It's Stephen Miller's first day as chief of staff.
Texas ranchers oppose this wall. A Bush-appointed judge blocked it.
In January, Democrats run Congress. I will vote to cut off every dollar for it.
Breaking News: The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue construction of a wall along the southern border in Texas, including within Big Bend National Park. nyti.ms/4iGCTIa
