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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Thank You sir for the blessing! No name grandpa your Kitty Tuxedo Man keeps getting bigger! OMG! He weighs a ton!Patches is still a diva!

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Patty Keeshan's avatar

The norms are not "nearly gone" -- they are being broken. And proud patriots are getting louder and more effective in their defiance. Everything this lawless regime is doing gets more wildly unpopular by the month. And more Americans are waking up to the magnitude of the harms.

Trump is not all powerful. And we are not helpless. Our victory will be born of love of country, a positive feedback loop of hope and action, and our collective commitment to core American values and aspirations.

Patria

by Keith Boynton

July 4, 2025

You do not love her less when her shirts are torn,

Here standard bloody, draggin in the mud,

Her ankles fettered, chafed, her eyes cast down,

Her ghoulish captors dancing in her defeat;

This is the time, instead, to love her more,

With all the fervency of desperate hope,

Which sees, beyond the black horizon, fire

That may be battle, or the burst of down.

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David Hurwitz's avatar

As difficult as it may be at this time, I want my fellow Chicagoans to remember, particularly those in our magnificent Latino community who are being terrorized by wannabe tough guy and goon Greg Bovino and other modem-day Amalekites in the Trump regime’s CBP and ICE Gestapos, that “This land is your land;” that justice is real and these little Eichmann, brownshirt thugs will be held fully legally accountable for their egregious abuses of power and crimes against humanity, that these lawless and belligerent federal agencies will be lawfully and peacefully abolished and obliterated from “beneath the heavens,” and to “Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them.”

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Nice article sir! Today is sad day for me! A family member of mine passed away he was 81! Let freedom reign for everyone in America!

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David Hurwitz's avatar

May his memory be a blessing.

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Thank You for the blessing for my family! My cousin death shocked me in a big way! He was 81 ! A United Auto Worker! He belong to the union of that of which I mentioned!

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto: “Hey We Nazis Don’t Care”

Bill Gates has labeled Elon Musk of DOGE fame as “the richest man in the world killing the poorest people in the world” This was after Cheeto and the gang abandoned the USAID program whose budget for 2025 was $35B But Cheeto and his billionaire Nazi cronies don’t care

Of course cruel Cheeto being the sadist he is, he gets off and takes delight in hurting people So Cheeto closed USAID and cut off medical and nutritional aid to African nations who are struggling economically For example Somalia’s entire budget is $350M and most of that is spent on defense, not on supporting medical care And now with no vaccine support to Somalian communities there is a severe outbreak of diptheria

The greedy inhumane billionaires are now in favor of getting rid of the life saving peanut paste for starving children that are in warehouses They could distribute the paste and stop paying storage fees but no, “We don’t care”

Meanwhile the money that Argentina gets($40B) help out investing billionaires in this country but could have been used for USAID for medical and nutritional aid What have WE the People become under this Nazi regime?

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Plenty to see here, a good summary of what I knew.

Your head needs work, though. *Leningrad* is the best historical analog for this shit. The best we can do is wear trump down through a reverse-seige, letting him cut off his own air supply with his supporters as we moon his cosplay Brownshirts.

Thermopylae - all the defenders present died, it was a brilliant loss

Waterloo - this one works, but was more of a classic line battle

Lepanto - this one was a mass counter offensive, the Ottomans continued on

Normandy Beaches - this one was a mass counter-offensive, decisive, but still not a defense

My point is that we need to use history properly. The lessons of Russia defending against invaders is draw the fuckers in and pin them down. Winter is coming.

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John Gannitto's avatar

The 10th Amendment states the following:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to

the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Why don't the blue states use the 10th Amendment to combat Trump? C'mon people of Illinois, write and call your State legislators (NOT Federal) to impose the 10th Amendment.

All blue states people should start writing & calling your State legislators (NOT Federal) to impose the 10th Amendment as a preemptive strategy to combat Trump.

He's coming for us all one-by-one.

Our forefathers put this Amendment to the Constitution for THIS VERY REASON. USE IT!!!

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John Koten's avatar

Between the attack on the streets and the attack on health care, snap and government employees, doesn't it all seem like a deliberate effort to stir the sort of civil unrest that could be used to justify something far worse?

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Trying's avatar

Seriously, you tell us that what the Trump lawyers said in court is untrue and that they lacked candor towards the tribunal. We have been hearing that with respect to most of what Trump's DOJ has been doing, especially with regard to his unfounded, vindictive prosecutions. much of this was glaringly put on national stage when Pam Bondi went before congress recently.

This is a fight that lawyers should be taking to the jurisdictional bar associations with grievances. Those DOJ lawyers, from Bondi on down, must be brought before bar grievance committees to explain their unethical, professional misconduct. Just put them there and see how they respond. If they pull those same stunts, disbar them. Disbar every lawyer that promotes or defends the Trump autocracy until we figuratively do what the Henchman in Shakespear's Henry VI, Part 2 suggested.

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Maxine Hunter's avatar

All I can say on this Halloween Day or any day now is: There are many devils out there helping to destroy our country. They "ain't" the Happy Halloween devils either. Thanks, Edwin, for always laying it out so clearly. Take care

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Matthew Winston's avatar

We The People are the backstop for Democracy, and we will not be denied by a self-serving grifter. The more emboldened he becomes, the more likely it is that he and his accomplices will live out the rest of their lives incarcerated for their crimes.

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Jason Merchey's avatar

And I worry that when or if the sane majority and the Dems in Congress gain power, they may be tempted to go too far.

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BaritoneWoman's avatar

I'm more worried that they will not go far enough.

I don't want "justice". I don't want "revenge"

I. Want. PUNISHMENT. for Trump's minions.

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chev_chelios's avatar

WoW....great piece...anyone and everyone that has been totally oblivious to what is taking place in this country by the tRUMP regime had better read this article, that lays out the truth of what's taking place and wake the hell up before it's all gone !

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gayle gibson's avatar

"Did you enjoy the article?" - How could any sane person enjoy this news? It's altogether horrible. But i am grateful to you for researching, writing and publishing, and being leaders in the fight against tyranny and corruption.

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