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[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Trump is accused of hacking the 2024 election by switching votes from Kamala Harris to himself, allegedly out of fear that he would face imprisonment if he lost.

[Kyle Keegan @realKyleKeegan]

It looks like the Reflecting Pool contractor did the coating on the new statues.

[Vanessa Trump @VanessaTrump08]

🇺🇸 Thomas Massie began reading names from the Epstein files on the House floor.

[MIKDUB🇺🇸🍀🌊 @McDuB126]

Roger Marshall fully supported Trump as he decimated rural Kansas. His unlawful tarriffs, his war of choice and the huge cuts to healthcare have left farmers with reduced markets, a fertilizer shortage which hasnt been realized yet and unaffordable healthcare if you can find any.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

So the people who crucified Lloyd Austin for taking 3 days to notify the White House about his emergency hospitalization - don’t give a flying fuck about Mitch McConnell going MIA for 70 days after his emergency hospitalization & still not posting a 10 second proof of life video.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Wisconsin Republicans have rejected a Democratic bill to provide housing for homeless veterans.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: A Stars & Stripes reporter DEFIES Pete Hegseth by announcing that she works for her newspaper, not him or Trump — and ends up paying for it with her job.

This is what journalistic courage looks like...

"Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker," Lara Korte wrote on X.

"I consider it a great privilege to live alongside members of the military and share their stories. It’s a shame for the institution and service members, who swore to defend the Constitution and deserve the right to a free and independent press."

"I’m proud of the work my colleagues and I do at Stars and Stripes, especially the last six months covering the protracted conflict in Iran. Military families and service members have trusted us to share their experience with the world and I don’t take that lightly."

"In the meantime, please read my latest story about the struggles that military families are going through right now. Hundreds have been stuck in limbo after evacuating Bahrain and are facing emotional and financial hardships," she concluded, linking to a story about the 1,300 U.S. Navy family members who were evacuated from Bahrain at the start of Trump's illegal war and who are now being told they cannot return for the "foreseeable future" and need to find new homes elsewhere.

That story is worth a read in full, but this post is specifically about Korte's unceremonious termination. Her firing is part of a move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to force out several top staffers at Stars & Stripes, including editor-in-chief Erik Slavin.

Slavin, like Korte, was dismissed today for supposed "insubordination." Of course, under this regime, penning anything less than nonstop, fawning coverage of our pedophile President and his illegal Iran War is seen as "insubordination." Slavin recently condemned "hypothetical censorship" that could soon hit the paper.

Publisher Max Lederer announced earlier this week that he would retire September 30 over fundamental differences with Pentagon leadership, only to receive a termination notice himself today. It comes after Hegseth installed MAGA apparatchik William Urban — who is an active-duty Navy captain and public affairs officer — as Lederer's deputy. Hegseth's tentacles have now snaked deeply inside the outlet.

Stars & Stripes, an official military publication, has long enjoyed editorial independence from the whims of the political appointees running the Pentagon, but this White House doesn't believe in independence of any sort. One need look no further than the political prosecutions coming out of the Justice Department for evidence of that. They believe in making everything partisan, as all fascist movements do.

The administration was particularly incensed by Stars & Stripes' coverage of the disgusting, inhumane conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, a state of affairs that has turned into a major scandal for the White House. The American people are outraged that our brave sailors are being abused by this administration in service of a failed, child-murdering war launched on behalf of Israel.

"In firing the editor of Stars and Stripes, Pentagon leadership is making clear their view that the newsroom should exist not as an independent outlet whose reporting serves to benefit U.S. troops, but as a mouthpiece to parrot Pentagon talking points," said National Press Club President Mark Schoeff Jr., calling the firings "another brazen attempt by the Pentagon to dictate coverage of the military."

Do you stand with these reporters?

Please ❤️ and share to demand that Congress investigate the terminations!

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Trump went on national TV claiming DHS found 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote across 4 states — including an exact number of 15,903 in Nevada. His Homeland Security Secretary then threatened local election officials with prison time if they didn’t comply with the administration’s demands.

A month later, DHS admitted to Nevada in a private call that it could only substantiate 185. Not 15,903 — 185. Their own official conceded on the record it “hasn’t had a full manual review of each one.” The list DHS did share doesn’t even include names and is nearly impossible to verify.

This is the same play every time: inflate a scary number, use it to justify sweeping voting restrictions like the SAVE America Act, then quietly walk it back once anyone checks the math. Iowa claimed 2,100+ noncitizens, revised to 277. Louisiana claimed 403 out of 2.96 million voters — 0.01%. Georgia: 20 out of 8 million. Texas: 2,700 out of 19 million, and that number kept shrinking the more counties dug in.

There is no noncitizen voting crisis. There’s a party that knows its own record — the economy, the cost of living, the corruption — can’t win them elections on the merits, so they’re manufacturing a fake crisis to justify making it harder for the people most likely to vote against them to cast a ballot at all.

The SAVE Act isn’t election security. It’s a survival plan for a party that can’t win honestly and a cabinet that expects jail time.

DHS, like all of Trump’s cabinet, is full of shit.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Another Republican pedophile pig, former Rep. Michael Caruso, 67. He made his grandson perform oral sex on him. 🤬 This disgusting POS is a Ron DeSantis appointee and Trump’s buddy. The GOP is the ‘Gang of Pedophiles.’ Release the Epstein files and stop the coverup. 🤬

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Here is a video of you voting to pass Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" act, which adds $4,700,000,000,000 to the national debt by 2035.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

So this Congress created a massive tax cut for the rich. Torched the budget. Now they want to cut more from working Americans to cover the disaster they created. This is the playbook. We don't have a budget problem. We have a massive oligarchy problem. They want to kill more Americans with healthcare and food aid cuts so they can get another yacht and private jet.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Erin Brockovich on data centers: “If this is so great and so awesome, what’s the non-disclosure agreement? Come out here and talk to these communities whose lives you are turning upside down. It’s no different than PG&E hiding the information and not coming out to talk to these people - oh behind your back I’m sorry I’m poisoning you. For the people, it’s their land, their home, their water, their resources, their sanctuary. It’s coming like a mass invasion”

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Give it about 75 days: Republicans will suddenly rediscover the national debt and use it as cover to cut Social Security and healthcare for the most vulnerable Americans, all while funding multi-billion-dollar wars overseas and pushing more tax cuts for the wealthy

[Bapfakurera @bapfakurera02]

No, this gave me goosebumps 😂😂 Is there a cat living on my head too? 😂”

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Ken Paxton has now voted several times against funding cancer research.

Cancer kills 35,000 Texans per year.

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

President Trump is operating an insider-trading scheme by selling information about his backroom stock grifts to rich investors. @HouseJudiciary Dems are demanding answers on the president’s latest corrupt plans to sell $100K monthly access to his market-moving Truth Social posts.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump promised to balance the budget.

Musk projected $2 trillion in savings.

This year, the deficit grew by 18% — with $200 billion of that due to refunds of his illegal tariffs.

My @nytopinion Chart

[PBS News @NewsHour]

"Never has the FCC gone after network content by targeting all of its local broadcast stations, and it's been over a half a century since the FCC actually called in any license for early renewal," @AGomezFCC told @RealAmnaNawaz.

"Clearly, this is just a pretext to go after Disney because this administration does not like the content it's seeing on Disney, and Disney has refused to bow to the intimidation and to the pressure"

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Make the GOP lose big, VOTE BLUE!