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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined.

That is an astonishing figure historically.

The national debt just crossed $39 trillion.

President Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office.

That’s approximately 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789.

In 2016, Trump said he would pay down the national debt “over a period of eight years.”

Instead:

- First term: +$7.8 trillion
- Second term: roughly +$4–5 trillion already

And yes, COVID affected first-term spending.

It does not explain adding another trillion dollars every five months without a pandemic.

A political movement built on:
“fiscal conservatism”
“small government”
“balanced budgets”

has now overseen the largest debt expansion tied to any single presidency in American history.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Experts SOUND ALARM after Trump issues memo that could allow his staff to delete millions of White House emails in violation of record preservation laws.

The timing alone should set off alarm bells. The Trump administration is currently being challenged in court over its preservation of government documents. And this week, it issued new internal guidance that a leading archives expert says gives White House staff "license to do the exact opposite" of preserving records.

The memo, issued by White House Counsel David Alan Warrington to Executive Office of the President staffers, represents a "significant departure from historical practice" — Warrington's own words. It quietly rewrites the rules around which communications need to be saved and how.

University of Maryland professor Jason R. Baron, who specializes in archives and the law, read the memo and sounded the alarm immediately. The new guidance, he told the Washington Post, provides nothing that "prevents the White House from directing the transfer or destruction of White House records, including tens of millions of emails, either before or after the end of the president's second term in office."

The key sleight of hand is buried in the language. The memo says EOP components are "free to retain" previous record-preservation policies. As Baron points out, that also means they are free not to. Text messages now only need to be preserved "when they are the sole record of official decision-making" — and staffers are merely "encouraged" to memorialize those exchanges in another format rather than preserving the original exchange directly.

Translation: if someone decides a text isn't the "sole record" of something, they can delete it. And nobody has to take a screenshot.

Federal law is unambiguous. Presidents and their staff are required to preserve records related to government activity and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of each administration. Warrington’s memo, however, doesn't clarify whether these records will actually be turned over, and doesn't specify how Trump or Vance will personally preserve their own records.

This is the administration that used Signal to discuss active military strikes in a chat that included a journalist. The administration that has fired numerous inspectors general. The administration that is fighting records requests in court while issuing internal guidance that makes destruction discretionary.

"While paying lip service to the need to preserve White House records," Baron said, "the memo actually gives EOP staff license to do the exact opposite." Nixon erased 18 minutes of tape. Trump's team may be preparing to erase tens of millions of emails.

Please like and share this post if you believe the American people have a right to know what their government did — even after it leaves office.

[Russel L. Honore' @ltgrusselhonore]

@SteveSchmidtSES

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Donald Trump can keep Michelle’s name out of his filthy, pedo mouth.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents violently pepper-sprayed a woman just for filming them… while she stood on the other side of a fence, in Ventura Village, Minneapolis.

In the video, she’s doing nothing more than looking at her phone, recording ICE/Border Patrol activity… a First Amendment right.

Then, out of nowhere, one agent sees her, walks toward her, and pepper-sprays her right in the face.

A woman who was no threat, not obstructing… just documenting federal agents.

And just so everyone is clear of the law…

-Standing there with a phone is not a crime.
-Being on the other side of a fence doesn’t impede anything.
-And pepper-spraying someone for filming is assault, period.

ICE/Border Patrol agents are treating citizens like hostile enemies for exercising constitutional rights.

If you can be assaulted by an ICE agent for holding a damn phone, then the “rule of law,” we were all taught to trust, is dead.

And the biggest lie in all of this?

They call it “law enforcement,” but this behavior looks a hell of a lot more like intimidation, suppression, and unchecked violence.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

This is especially alarming bc it’s not a one off incident. https://t.co/DNLAg3quLH

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Statement from Alex Pretti’s parents, Michael and Susan Pretti:

“We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world.

Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting.

Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.”

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NEW Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom:

“We stand in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland. Building on the process begun last week, we stand ready to engage in a dialogue based on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity that we stand firmly behind.

Tariff threats undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. We will continue to stand united and coordinated in our response. We are committed to upholding our sovereignty.”

[The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @MsEntropy]

I cannot express how deeply disturbing it is to me that Molly is correct here.

Like, I absolutely know this shit inside out. I warn about it all the time — and it’s still so utterly barbaric that my mind just knee-jerk wants to deny it.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.

I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states. I’ve been attacked on Fox News, berated by the VP and others and like many of you, I’ve gotten death threats.

So please believe me when I say this. Things have changed.

ICE is going to be the vehicle for fascism in this country. The extra-judicial practices (no warrants, no ID), the masks (anonymity leads to horrors again and again throughout history), the dehumanization of immigrants and Democrats (dehumanization precedes arrests, torture, murder, again and again).

No we are not going to be Nazi Germany because nothing in history matches Nazi Germany.

But fascism has arrived in America. Here is how it is going to happen:

ICE will be the vehicle, the gestapo empowered by the President, to enforce his will, first among vulnerable undocumented people, then among legal immigrants, then among political rivals, then among citizens who speak out against the Trump grift.

This is not a hypothetical. It’s happening.

That Big Dumb Racist bill gives $170 billion dollars for an organization which has no respect for the constitution, no oversight, nothing but marching orders from a couple racist, power-hungry madmen.

$170 billion to build hidden prisons with no oversight. To put this in perspective, this is 62% larger than the entire federal prison system.

$170 billion to drag people out of their places of work, parks, homes. $170 billion to hire racist little man babies who hide their faces as they assault children, old people, pregnant women.

How do you think this goes? How has this ever gone in history? We are entering a dark period.

Our only hope is to draw the line now. To stick up for our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and loved ones, who are undocumented and being hunted.

If morality or empathy for them is not enough to motivate you, fine. Then let this be your motivation: if you don’t draw this line, you are next.

Do you think Trump will grow a conscience? Do you think Stephen Miller will have any trouble going from, “these people are criminals” (them) to “these people are helping criminals?” (You, by being against Trump). To “we must arrest the traitors opposing our efforts to arrest criminals?” (You or anyone you care about who publicly opposes Trump.)

Do you think republican congressman are going to care? To lift onefinger to protect you? To do anything which gets in the way of Trump’s agenda?

A person who has no problem letting children with cancer die in order to put a few dollars in the pockets of rich men will have no problem with letting Democrats and activists rot in jail for trying to stop it.

This has happened again and again throughout the world. And now it’s happening here.

I wish I had concrete plans. I don’t. Not now. All I know is the first step for change is identifying the gravity of the truth.

And the truth is fascism has arrived in America.

And we must stop it in its tracks or it will swallow all of us.

[Harold__Finch @HaroldWren22]

@mariashriver

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A federal judge just forced the Trump administration to reveal every official involved in letting detainee flights leave the U.S. after a court ordered them stopped.

The filings are due Dec 5.

If the names match what the court already suspects, this explodes fast.

What happens next isn’t small. It’s criminal if proven.

More soon.

https://t.co/U0Sl9bqASJ

[Pack @PackAtHeart]

Nashville, TN

“ESFJ, seeking permanent pack.”

[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

When 35-year-old republicans got caught supporting Hitler in a group chat, JD Vance called them “kids.”

When 15 year old children get sexually abused by the president and his pals, they called them “young women.”

This is your republican party, Family Values and all

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Just a little thank you. I didn't really know where to start really so this is from the heart.

Hard to believe this looks like it could happen to save so MANY dogs!

https://t.co/61BP5E0FQs

[Roberta Upton Rejoin EU @robertajane_U]

@acnewsitics Right wing violence

[VH @vhnow]

@acnewsitics

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Clay is worried that releasing the Epstein files will “injure the Republican Party.”

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

There it is. She will say absolutely anything.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Sounds like 1933 Berlin.