Saints fan (obviously); #oilspill and #fracking watchdog, technophile, communicator, filmmaker, writer, dolphin hugger. Opinions I share here are mine alone.

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Joined January 2010
Opinion: This new tsunami of Elon Musk financing for Ken Paxton and others will only make the links between corruption and campaign finance reform that much more obvious, writes Casey Michel, a former Houston journalist. bit.ly/3WQb5tq
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Losing an election is not grounds for asylum. Yet the Trump Administration is giving Flávio Bolsonaro safe haven in the United States. In Brazil, he is under investigation for alleged corruption, money laundering and currency evasion, and was ordered to surrender his passports. The Trump Administration owes Congress answers on its role helping Bolsonaro flee Brazil in contravention of Brazilian law. apnews.com/article/brazil-fl…
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First $485k. Then $65k. Now $250k. The settlements with employees fired for comments about Charlie Kirk keep mounting. So do legal bills - at up to $925/hr. There’s a real cost to taxpayers to the state’s war on speech in the “Free State of Florida" orlandosentinel.com/2026/10/…
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But keep telling us how elitist Obama is
Trump's affordability message: "You could even come to Mar-a-Lago. You'll be my guest. The problem is that for $5,000 the most you'll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert. I'm not even sure you could buy that! No, don't go there. It's not a good place if you're price conscious."
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Trump admitted he blocked energy funding to punish blue states he lost in 2024, including $586 million for Illinois. Courts ruled it illegal. He's still blocking the money. Bipartisan permitting reform won't work if Trump ignores the law. He must reinstate the grants first.
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Lee West retweeted
According to the book, Kushner got Tillerson fired for a $50 million UAE payment because Tillerson supported Qatar. This panicked Qatar because they realized Kushner was a pay-to-play operative, so they bought Kushner's New York City apartments, which were in the red, hoping this would help.
This book is really damning for Kushner. It claims the UAE paid Kushner $50 million to get Rex Tillerson fired as Secretary of State.
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Wow. US envoy Mike Waltz & Cuban FM Bruno Rodriguez Parilla are having a shout-off on floor of UN General Assembly where FM walked up to the podium where Waltz is speaking & called him a liar. “You understand who you’re dealing with? This is America. Back up,” Waltz yelled back.
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Lee West retweeted
Strategic bombing is real, finally.
🧵On Sunday afternoon, British Storm Shadow cruise missiles smashed through the roof of Russia's Energia plant during the day shift. Energia manufactures the thermal batteries powering Iskander ballistic missiles, Pantsir systems, and UMPK glide bombs. 1/🧵
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This is a hostage situation by global financial interests that don’t want governments elected that don’t serve their interests. When their preferred right wing government wins, they institute austerity and impoverish the population, case in point, Milei in Argentina.
BREAKING: Brazil's stock market collapses nearly -30% and the Brazilian Real loses -10% after President Lula da Silva is unexpectedly re-elected. Brazil's stock market has lost over $200 billion of market cap today.
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ICE has detained this mentally ill US citizen in the Miami Detention Center in Indiana (an immigration prison) b/c he's deluded himself into believing he's the son of a Jamaican Prime Minister, even tho he has a Florida birth certificate. ICE really wants to deport him.
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Replying to @RpsAgainstTrump
Flavio goes to prison in January after his protections as a senator end and he can be tried for his Rachadinha and Banco Master crimes so obviously he's terrified of ending up like daddy. He'll spend the next few months suing everyone to annul it then bounce to Florida in January
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Lee West retweeted
Jared Kushner made a deal with the United Arab Emirates Mohamed bin Zayed told him he wanted Rex Tillerson fired as Secretary of State He was fired The next month, the UAE sent $50 million dollars to a bank account for Jared Kushner in Cyprus And Hunter Biden sold a painting
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New story and 🧵: Earlier this month, just a few days before early voting began, Ken Griffin, a hedge fund executive worth an estimated $57 billion, sent seven-figure donations to a pair of Florida politicians who seem to be stuck in surprisingly competitive elections...
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This is interesting. Key Putin 🇷🇺 aide Ushakov admits that the Anchorage plan of having Trump 🇺🇸 force Zelensky 🇺🇦 into agreeing to their demands hasn’t worked because of the role of Europe. That’s it: if Europe stays the course, 🇷🇺 can’t win.
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Armed Customs & Border Patrol agents stopped a person right in front of a polling place in Key Largo which is prohibited in Florida. It’s where people from different National Origins come to vote. A bartender was able to record the whole thing & he says it was deliberate.
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This is a lie.
The thing they said doesn't happen is happening again. There is a minimum of 20,000 noncitizens on California voter rolls. Pass the SAVE AMERICA ACT and secure our elections.
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The right wing bullshit machine is on full send. It is impressive how many hired American MAGA influencers suddenly became experts on Brazil.
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Unfortunately, Robert Mueller was only tasked with investigating Trump's campaign involvement with Russia, which means anything after he was elected wasn't subject to investigation. Mueller's team mainly focused on the Trump Tower meeting, which Emin set up. 2/
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Kushner's phone logged into a UAE bank account that received "hundreds of millions of dollars" from the Azerbaijani government around 2018. This isn't surprising to me. The Trump family has had close ties to Azerbaijan since 2013 through Emin Agalarov, who married the daughter of Azerbaijan's president. 1/
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פניתי הבוקר ליועצת המשפטית לממשלה בדרישה לפתוח בחקירה פלילית נגד בנימין נתניהו באשמת בגידה. בחודש האחרון ראש ממשלת ישראל, בנימין נתניהו, לוחץ על ראשי מערכת הביטחון לנקוט צעדים שעלולים לייצר מיסקלקולציה מול איראן. הניסיון לגרור את מדינת ישראל ערב הבחירות למלחמה, יחד עם הנכונות להקריב את חיילי צה״ל רק בשל חשש מהפסד בבחירות, הם בגידה במדינה, בביטחונה ובחיילי צה״ל.
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