Ira Clements (@ClementsIra) profile picture

veteran, single male, liberal dem, very progressive. If pushed, I push back.

New York
Joined February 2012
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The Trump administration moved to cut 6.3 million more Americans off food stamps. Pretty sure starving folks in his base isn’t gonna win back their votes.
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BBC asks court to permit Jack Smith to sit for deposition in Trump's $10 billion defamation suit vs the media organization: Smith has "strong evidence" that the January 6th violence was "foreseeable to Trump, that he caused it, and that he and his co-conspirators leveraged it”
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Black people were forced to work from sunrise to sunset in cotton fields, tobacco farms, rice plantations and sugarcane fields. They received no wages and had little control over their lives. Other people became wealthy from their suffering.
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Castro: We need to bring our deported veterans back. They deserve to be living in the United States of America. They put their lives on the line for our country. They should be here in the U.S.
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We’ve won the war we never started but it still has to continue indefinitely.
Trump: "America did not start a war with Iran" (fact check: Trump started a war with Iran)
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Democrats in the midterms gained vote share across the board—from the bluest to reddest counties.
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It's unconscionable that we've deported veterans! Bring them home!
Pulido on Deported Veterans: I find it unfathomable that we can’t bring them back. We have a president right now that doesn’t like bureaucracy and can do things with the signing of a pen, with just signing something. Those people deserve to be in this country. Bring them back. Bring them back home.
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A reminder that I had to limit this to 75 because I ran out of column space.
The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026. So far. The scams, schemes and grifts have been endless, as the Trump Family seems to spend most of their time and energy finding new ways to profit off the presidency. Here is my Top 75. open.substack.com/pub/meidas

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🚹Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.” We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.
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Having an incompetent, traitorous piece of sh*t like @SecWar leading the Military is a slap in the face to every single human being who has ever served this country. They deserve better. #VeteransDay2026
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This Veterans Day, let us renew our commitment to those who served by confronting the injustices too many veterans still face, from homelessness and isolation to the threat of deportation. Our responsibility to those who served does not end when they come home.
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BREAKING: An election group Just found evidence sufficient to potentially change The 2024 presidential election results from Trump to Harris They found evidence sufficient to declare Harris as the Winner of the 2024 Election
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Democrat Cindy Holscher is now leading Ty Masterson by 7,564 votes for Kansas governor. It’s time for this race to be called and Masterson to concede.
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You work for Putin, Netanyahu, and Xi.
SECRETARY RUBIO: We work for America. We don't work for the global order, we don't work for other countries. We work for the United States.
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Pulido on Deported Veterans: I find it unfathomable that we can’t bring them back. We have a president right now that doesn’t like bureaucracy and can do things with the signing of a pen, with just signing something. Those people deserve to be in this country. Bring them back. Bring them back home.
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Nothing says “we have nothing to hide” quite like threatening the people investigating you
The White House is already trying to intimidate Democrats and stop them from investigating corruption in the Trump administration before they even take control of the House. Punchbowl News obtained a letter from White House Counsel Will Scharf to incoming House Oversight Chairman Robert Garcia, warning Democrats over their plans to investigate the administration. Scharf accused Democrats of planning to “harass and aggrandize” and warned that subpoenas could amount to “blatant criminality” and warrant further investigation. Trump has already called on the DOJ to investigate Democrats over their planned oversight.
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Where is all of this "Socialism" talk from John Fetterman coming from? That's a Maga "Talking point." If John doesn't want to be a Democrat, he can leave OUR party. WE don't need him anymore.
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THIS WAVE AIN’T DONE YET North Carolina House Seat just FLIPPED D: 257 R: 169 LET’S FUCKING GO!!!
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Over 20,500 children have been illegally deported from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia. The treatment of Ukraine’s children over the last four years is the clearest example of Russia’s total disregard for life. Russia can only run its horrific system of child deportation, indoctrination and illegal adoption thanks to a network of people and entities. The EU has sanctioned those responsible and will keep working to bring Ukrainian kids home. My speech in #EPlenary ↓
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Why is the groveling in front of Putin? What kind of sick public humiliation ritual is this? JFC.
BREAKING: The U.S. is to seek Putin’s ‘blessing’ for Europe to join future peace talks for Ukraine. vist.ly/5sbcu
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