Everything posted by Satchel
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ICE activity/raids
Can anyone imagine what a tragedy it would be if Trump were found unresponsive in the Oval before he was able to grant blanket pardons to all of the criminals in his administration?
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Tariff wars, they have began
Why does the Supreme Court keep delaying its tariff ruling? Are they looking for a way to give Trump a win?
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Texas -- a failed state
What kind of candidate would impress you?
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Trump’s America
Trump opposes Y’all Street; Fox BusinessTrump calls NYSE Dallas expansion plans 'unbelievably bad...President Donald Trump calls NYSE Dallas expansion 'unbelievably bad' for New York, adding that Mayor Zohran Mamdani's leadership will face a 'big test' as financial firms head to Texas.
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ICE activity/raids
I’m not sure who’s Nuremberg like trial will be more compelling - Todd Blanche’s or Stephen Miller’s.
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Trump’s America
According to former Apprentice producer, Bill Pruitt, he’s well practiced in slinging around the Maga term of endearment for Black people.
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Trump’s America
Y’all think Trump would bomb American cities if we started calling him stinky?
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Trump’s America
So I guess our best hope is a Big Mac and a bucket of chicken?
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Media Bias Thread
I can’t get over how unalterably opposed to DEI Weiss is and yet she assumed a position she knows she is uniquely unqualified for.
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New (?) University in Austin
These interlopers really do want Austin to be weird.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
The Nobel Committee states that a Nobel Prize, once awarded, cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to another person, emphasizing the decision is final, even if the physical medal can change hands (like being sold or given away). This clarification comes after Venezuelan leader María Corina Machado presented her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to Donald Trump, an act the Committee acknowledged as a medal transfer but clarified does not change the laureate.
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Trump’s America
Jamie Raskin is probing to determine if some J6 criminals are now ICE agents. I fully expect him to find that some most definitely are.
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Trump’s America
After the longest two weeks in the history of time, I present The Great Healthcare Plan: https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/trump-great-healthcare-plan-affordability-aca/809759/ President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled his long-awaited plan to make healthcare more affordable for Americans. The proposal, dubbed the “Great Healthcare Plan,” would send money directly to consumers to purchase insurance, fund a cost-sharing reduction program in the Affordable Care Act exchanges and end kickbacks from pharmacy benefit managers to brokerage middlemen. It would also codify the “most favored nation” deals for cheaper drugs that Trump has notched with pharmaceutical companies, and make more prescription drugs available for over-the-counter purchase. In a statement, the White House said the “Great Healthcare Plan” will “slash prescription drug prices, reduce insurance premiums, hold big insurance companies accountable, and maximize price transparency in the American healthcare system.” However, the blueprint is short — Thursday’s release is just one page — and vague on details. It also includes number of policies that experts are unsure would move the needle on healthcare costs. That includes sending money directly to consumers so they can buy insurance, a popular solution among conservatives for ameliorating sharp premium hikes for Affordable Care Act plans this year. Premiums have doubled on average for ACA plans in 2026 after more generous subsidies for the coverage expired on Dec. 31. The president has maligned the subsidies, which drove record enrollment in ACA plans, as a handout to insurance companies. “I want to end this flagrant scam and put extra money straight into the healthcare savings account in your name, and you go out and buy your own healthcare, and you’ll make a great deal,” Trump said in a video announcing the plan. However, those health savings accounts, or HSAs, are currently limited to high-deductible bronze and catastrophic plans in the ACA exchanges, so only a subset of enrollees would benefit from the infusion of federal dollars. Moreover, money in HSAs can’t be used to pay for monthly premiums. Swapping the enhanced ACA subsidies for deposits in an HSA would measurably worsen healthcare affordability, according to 70% of experts surveyed by the Cornell Health Policy Center in December.
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ICE activity/raids
Puppy killer says Americans should carry proof of citizenship with them
- Candace Owens
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academic fuckery at aggy
The Times of IndiaTexas professors flee to other states amid crushing polit...News News: A recent AAUP survey reveals a growing crisis in Texas higher education, with many professors seeking jobs out-of-state due to political interference,
- Trump’s America
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Texas -- a failed state
Good Lord!
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ICE activity/raids
The Department of Homeland Security shared a propaganda video on the social media site X. https://sojo.net/articles/opinion/ice-quotes-bible-new-propaganda-video The one-minute video opens with footage of helicopters taking off, and a man with a thick Southern accent says, “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes. Many times.” As people in military fatigues don masks and ready weapons inside the helicopter, the man quotes Isaiah 6:8: “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’” As the helicopter takes off, a sonorous cover of Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” plays before the man finishes the verse: “I said, ‘Here am I. Send me.’” A cut to a close-up of an arm patch that reads “U.S. Customs and Border Protection.” The final half of the video cycles through shots of ICE agents patrolling a river, flying over the border wall, and looking through night vision while singers chant, “Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down.” In other words, the video rips Isaiah’s call narrative (6:1-13) out of its original context to baptize ICE’s war on non-white Americans.