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[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is the crowd to see James Talarico tonight in Ken Paxton’s home county.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior."

Hoffman is the 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender. A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He got out in 30 days.

This is MAGA's vision for the USA. Full story: https://t.co/cU1WnZKAfr

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. Hunter Biden completely exposes massive Trump family corruption. He reveals Don Jr received a staggering 600 million dollar DOD loan and Jared Kushner secured a 4 billion dollar Middle East fund.

The Trump administration is entirely bought by oligarchs.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ukraine’s positions are stronger now than in previous years. Since the beginning of the year, 590 square kilometers of our territory have been liberated and brought under Ukrainian control. The trend is certainly not in the occupier’s favor. We continue to increase the rate at which Russian personnel are being eliminated, and together with sanctions in all their forms, this is forcing Russia toward diplomacy.

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

“A couple hours ago I was in Donbas, and now I’m drinking coffee.”

Pilot Air Hooligan and singer DOROFEEVA joined forces to support the Sky Defense campaign.

Here’s a short glimpse of a fighter pilot’s life 🎥

And an easy way to support the cause:
https://t.co/tZ4OfCenGX

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

Ukrainian forces have carried out a powerful, lightning-fast, and extremely painful breakthrough for Russian troops in the Donbas.

Within just hours, Ukrainian units reportedly smashed through Russian defensive lines across multiple sectors and are now said to be fighting on the outskirts of Donetsk. What seemed almost impossible yesterday is now unfolding before everyone’s eyes.

Assault units, supported by drones, artillery, and armored vehicles, struck several key directions simultaneously. Russian defenses — built over many months — reportedly began collapsing under the pressure. Ukrainian columns pushed deep into enemy positions, cut critical logistics routes, and expanded into operational space.

Reports describe panic among Russian forces. Positions, equipment, and ammunition are allegedly being abandoned as some units retreat toward Makiivka and Horlivka. Ukrainian troops are said to be consolidating positions near Donetsk itself.

The city Russia long viewed as its main stronghold in the Donbas is now reportedly under direct pressure.

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

Xi Jinping personally called Volodymyr Zelensky and stunned him with an offer nobody expected from China.

According to sources close to the Office of the President, the Chinese leader reportedly stated directly:

“China is ready to ensure the return of Crimea and Donbas to Ukraine. We have enough influence over Moscow to make it happen.”

China has suddenly become actively involved in the process of ending the war in Ukraine and has allegedly decided to pressure Putin into stopping the fighting.

After the meeting between Trump and Xi Jinping, things suddenly began moving off dead center — a noticeable breakthrough reportedly took place.

For a long time, everyone understood that the main leverage over Russia was always located in Beijing. But until now, China had shown no real desire to end this war. And now, finally, something happened that shocked absolutely everyone.

You definitely were not ready for this…

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This man brushing a crow suddenly stops, but the bird gives the brush back as it wants more

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

[Doug Jones @DougJones]

Sixty one years ago brave foot soldiers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a peaceful demonstration to attain voting rights, only to be met by state troopers with billy clubs. After a great event with folks in Selma this morning we stopped by the bridge to remind folks that Alabama is still ground zero for voting rights. We hope you join us in Montgomery tomorrow for the All Roads Lead to the South rally at the State Capitol at 1pm and then make your voices heard by voting on Tuesday.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power

(video: defiancedispatch/IG)

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

This is a bombshell revelation:

Massie reveals Trump vetoed a bill to bring water to Colorado because their Rep Lauren Boebert pushed to expose the pedophiles in the Epstein files.

Trump has fought harder to protect child rapists than he has ever fought for the American people.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Jeffrey Epstein survivor Miss Rosa, just eviscerated the Trump Administration for releasing her name to the public 500+ times.

"I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I Woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times,while the rich and powerful remain protected by redactions. My name was exposed to the world. Now reporters from across the globe contact me. I cannot live without looking over my shoulder. I can only imagine the long-term impact this mistake will have on my life."

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Obama just said what every Democrat needs to hear:

“Can you talk in plain English? Not a bunch of gobbledygook. Just talk like normal people talk. ‘The rent is too high.’”

Mamdani fixed 100,000 potholes and taxed empty billionaire penthouses.

He didn’t need a focus group to explain why.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Congratulations to Mayor Mamdani. He inherited a huge budget deficit, brought it down to zero, and still invested in childcare, housing and city infrastructure.

When municipal governments stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Christmas, 1967. Vietnam. Bob Hope cracks a joke. Then the ground erupts. Rocket impact. The stage shakes. 10,000 troops hit the dirt — mud, helmets, silence.
Secret Service and MPs rush him. “Sir, we’re evacuating. Now.”

Bob Hope steps back to the mic.

He looks at 10,000 men flat on Christmas Day, 9,000 miles from their kids, and says:
“Relax, fellas. If they’re shooting at us, that means we’re the most important people in the world.”

The mud laughs. Then stands up.
And the show goes on.

That wasn’t bravery for cameras. That was Tuesday for Bob Hope.

1941: He starts with 300 soldiers in California. Sees their faces. Gets addicted.
“I looked at them, they laughed at me, and it was love at first sight,” he said.
He never kicked it.

So he chased the wars.

North Africa, 1943 — while the desert was still on fire.
South Pacific, 1944 — island to island, with snipers in the trees.
Korea, 1950 — performing in parkas, breath freezing on the mic.
Vietnam, 1964–1972 — every. single. Christmas.

No five-star hotels. He flew in C-130s with the troops. Ate what they ate. Slept on cots that smelled like mildew and diesel.
And he brought backup: Ann-Margret, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton.
Why? Because “a girl in sequins on a plywood stage in a war zone isn’t a show. It’s a reminder. That home is real. That you’re going back.”

He wasn’t drafted. He wasn’t paid extra.
He turned down millions to spend Christmas with strangers who had rifles.

31 Christmases in a row.
1942 to 1972. No breaks. No excuses.
Your dad missed one Christmas for work and you still bring it up.
Bob Hope missed 31 with his wife and kids… on purpose.

And when the wars “ended”? He kept going.
1983: Beirut, days after 241 Marines were killed.
1987: Persian Gulf.
1990: Desert Storm. He was 87. Eighty. Seven.

Four wars. Five decades. 11–15 million troops.
He buried friends. He flew through flak. He told jokes while doctors did triage 50 feet away.

A reporter asked him after that rocket attack: “Why risk it? You could do this in Vegas.”

Hope smiled. “Because Christmas in a war zone is when a laugh weighs the most.”

He died in 2003 at 100 years old.
No one remembers his monologue timing.
They remember the sound of hope — literal Hope — cutting through artillery.

He never fired a shot.
But he stood on more battlefields than most generals.
He never wore a uniform.
But he showed up more than anyone who did.

On the one day a year when being away from home breaks you… he was there.
31 times.

That’s not a career.
That’s a commitment.

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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump took $59 million from 590,000 Americans for a phone that may never exist.

Then quietly updated the terms:

“No guarantee a phone will be produced or sold.”

The crypto coin. The sneakers. The Bible. The gold card. The ballroom. The phone.

Every single time the same pattern.

Take the money. Change the terms. Walk away.

[Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @Chasten]

The same Duffys who threw endless fits on national television when Pete was working from our son's ICU bedside are now bragging about their multi-month, taxpayer-funded family road trip while gas and grocery prices soar for American families because of Trump's war of choice. How much more unfocused, unserious, and out of touch can you be?