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Jeannine Johnson

@leinani.bsky.social
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
MAGA know they cannot win on ideas and policy so they commit voter suppression in broad daylight. That is the story of actual stolen elections. MAGA have no regard for Democracy or a government represented by We the People. We should believe them, and ensure they never have that kind of power again.
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How GOP Stole the 2024 Election—And How They're Planning to Steal the 2026 Midterms
The Virginia Supreme Court striking down the will of the people is another example of the two-tiered system governing our country
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Corporate media invites a Predator to their WHCD because they profit off him!
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Corporate media invites a Predator to their WHCD because they profit off him!
Everything wrong with corporate media
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Trump has no exit plan—nor any plan for that matter. His incompetence borders on criminal. His track record of surrender in Afghanistan tells all he will never commit to keeping troops in Iran for years and that Trump’s Iran war will end like so many of his other ventures: A total failure.
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Trump’s Operation Epic Fury is already an Epic Failure—and it’s about to get worse!
History tell us this
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The first people Hitler put into camps after he became Chancellor 1933 were his political opponents. Between 1933-39, criminal courts sentenced tens of thousands of anti-Nazi politicians & union workers to prison for “political crimes.” Imprisoning Jewish Germans didn't begin in earnest until 1938.
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If you ever wondered how Germans became Nazis, you’re seeing it firsthand with Renee Good’s murder
History is screaming at us!
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Piggy Trump had the nerve to say Renee Good was “disrespectful.” Disrespect gets you killed? Standing your ground gets you shot in the head? Not bowing low enough earns you a bullet? We know what disrespect actually looks like on J6. Those men were convicted. And Trump pardoned them all.
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Blood, Bruises, and a Broken Law
Who gets mercy and who gets murdered
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
You Don’t Get to Break the Constitution Just Because the Bastard Had It Coming So no, this isn’t America standing up to tyranny. This is America trying it on in the mirror. Republicans didn’t lose control. They handed it over. Again.
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You Don’t Get to Break the Constitution Just Because the Bastard Had It Coming
Because “he deserved it” has never been a constitutional argument
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
In 2025 Republicans increased the nat'l debt limit by $4 trillion, added $500 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the rich, caused 1 million deaths worldwide, made ICE the largest law enforcement agency & cancelled public broadcasting & healthcare subsidies. We need a Blue Wave in 2026!
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Immigrants are the best of us. America is deeper than this. Older than it. It will outgrow this rotted relic the way it always outgrows small, nasty forces that mistake cruelty for strength. This fear-fermenting footnote is not the future. It is a warning left by history, so we need not repeat it.
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Fuck You Stephen Miller
The Skin-Tag of Spite
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The Invisible Ten Co-Conspirators The Epstein saga isn’t fading because it isn’t just about Epstein. It’s about how power insulates itself. How elites protect elites. How accountability evaporates when the accused have the right friends, the right lawyers, and the right leverage.
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The Invisible Ten Co-Conspirators
Ten possible co-conspirators sit buried beneath DOJ redactions, protected not by innocence but by silence, delay, and a Justice Department terrified of naming names.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"I’ve got news for Donny. the only legacy he’s building is one where his headstone will require a 24-hour security detail to ensure that a permanent piss-moat doesn’t form around it. all that shit he’s inflicting on America will be going fuckity-bye." I can hardly wait.
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dumbest president ever invents the battleship
it’s all so stupid and pointless
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
There’s a deep sickness at the head of this government. And then last night Trump goes off for 20 minutes quite literally shouting at the country like an old man yelling at kids on his lawn. No president of the United States has ever behaved this way. It’s embarrassing. It’s humiliating America.
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Was That a Speech or a Breakdown?
A stark look at the speech that blurred the line between leadership and losing control on the world stage…
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The latest iteration of the National Defense Authorization Act was released yesterday and authorizes $900.6 billion in spending. What it doesn't do is change the name of the Department of Defense. So no more SOW; back to SecDef.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We don’t know the exact reason why. But we can say with 100% certainty that this pardon of a man responsible for more American deaths than Bin Laden personally benefits Trump. As we all know, Trump only loyalty is to himself—and this is yet another example of that.
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Trump just pardoned a person responsible for more American deaths than Bin Laden
Trump 100% personally profited from this pardon
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The “Epstein Files Transparency Act” passes the House via a nearly unanimous vote of 427-1. Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana is the single holdout
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Hopefully the Saudi pilots won't use them to fly into any buildings
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Special Victims Unit.....
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The Democrats willing to capitulate to Republicans need to go. Durbin should resign immediately so Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker can replace him with a Democrat with a spine. As for the rest, they need to be primaried.
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Where Things Stand
It’s always better to know
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Look at the photograph. That is not empathy. That is annoyance. That is indifference deep enough to drown in. There is a void inside his chest where a soul should be. And he fills it with suffering. This is who Donald Trump is. He doesn’t give a f*ck about anyone but himself.
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Portrait of a Man Who Doesn’t Give a Fuck
Starring: indifference, ego, and forty-two million people he is actively fighting to starve.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
If the Supreme Court has the backbone to strike down these tariffs, it won’t just be a legal victory—it’ll be a constitutional exorcism. If the Court sides with Trump, they won’t just be blessing tariffs; they’ll be blessing tyranny.
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The Supreme Court vs. The Tariff King
Trump’s trade war isn’t a patriotic crusade; it’s a pocket-picking, economy-wrecking tax scheme that punishes American families while pretending to protect them. And the Supreme Court knows it.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The normal playbook — negotiation, dialogue, compromise — would involve leadership. But Trump doesn’t negotiate with equals. He dictates. And when dictation fails, he detonates.
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Democracy Dies Under His Gaze
The shutdown should end with dialogue. Instead, Trump reaches for destruction. The filibuster is only the latest victim of his obsession with total control.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
To KKKaroline: I am not a Hamas terrorist. I am not a violent criminal. I am not an undocumented immigrant. I am an American. I am a mother. I am a citizen. I love this country enough to march for it. I love this country enough to fight for the idea of what it could still be.
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Karoline Leavitt Can Kiss My Ass
You don’t get to call me a terrorist for loving my country enough to fight for it.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
It was exciting to watch the Molokai Hoe race on Sunday, one of the world’s greatest ocean endurance races, a race in which my father and his brothers won in 1954, 71 years ago, as part of the winning Hui Nalu O Hawai'i Canoe Club crew.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A new TRO issued Illinois Judge Sarah Ellis stops the Trump Regime from using military-grade firepower on journalists, members of the clergy, and First Amendment protesters. Amazing isn't it that American citizens have to be protected from our own government for lawful peaceful protests?
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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Use of Riot Control Weapons Against Journalists and Clergy
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Diane @losarcos59.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
We know from 2020 that when Trump is losing politically, he turns to crime, even to insurrection. And then he turns everything around, accusing Democrats of the crimes that he himself is committing. That is what he is doing with Chicago and Portland.
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The end of politics
Forest fires and tornados and hurricanes are the common enemies of all Americans.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
To wield Christ’s name as justification for cruelty is nothing less than taking His name in vain. The cross, which bears witness to mercy, justice, and sacrifice, becomes a prop for oppression when Christians assent to or endorse such state violence.
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I Was a Stranger: A Christian Response to the Raids in Chicago.
The recent reports of U.S.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Following Project 2025, Trump is inventing a war that does not exist in order to carry out repression using federalized state National Guard soldiers. It’s bullshit, all of it. Trump wants a war he can win, & he doesn’t care if it’s against Venezuela or Portland or Chicago or Memphis or New Orleans.
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“This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law.”
That is a quote from the temporary restraining order issued by District Judge Karin Immergut blocking President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
For years, the MAGA movement has cloaked itself in a sense of righteous morality. The Epstein files were a test—and MAGA failed it. Instead of defending the vulnerable, they defended Trump. Instead of demanding truth, they embraced lies. The mask is off. And we can never unsee what lies beneath.
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The Mask Is Off: MAGA’s “Pedophile” Crusade Was Always a Lie
The Epstein files prove it was never about protecting kids—it was about defending Trump at all costs.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Spot on.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The gov't has been “shut down” for over 8 months since Trump took office a 2nd time. They've shut down parts of the gov't they don’t like (USAID), fired, laid off, or furloughed, hundreds of thousands of federal employees, impounded appropriations from Congress for activities/states they oppose.
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This shutdown is different
Here’s what’s at stake, and why Dems must hold the line.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Trump needs AI to help him depict Democrats in a bad light. In contrast, all we need is to look at the very real footage and images of Trump to define him for who he really is.
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We don’t need AI generated images to show Trump for the vile, traitor that he is!
We have real footage that does that.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
For years, the right has refused to reckon with the consequences of its own policies on guns, violence, and mental health...Concern for violence only stretches as far as the color of the shooter’s skin, their religion, or now, their gender identity.
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Deafening Silence After Mormon Church Shooter Not A "Transgender Leftist" But A Trump Supporter
The event is a case study in how shootings are covered in America.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
once again Donny has decided that he gets to kill whoever he wants because reasons...and offers no tangible proof that this ship was operated by a cartel or was transporting drugs beyond his say-so. we’re no longer just an international laughingstock. we’re now a lawless, sadistic pariah as well.
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elderly psychopath blows up another boat
Donny offers no proof, but he does have plenty of thoughts about football
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
For 10 years, far-right extremists have been the killers, and Republicans have been their enablers. Not protectors of life or defenders of democracy. But apologists, propagandists, and profiteers of hate. It is hypocrisy weaponized. It is complicity sanctified.
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The Deadly Arithmetic of Right-Wing Extremism: 2015–2025
Republicans Exploit Kirk’s Death While Ignoring a Decade of Far-Right Carnage
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
You go Chicago!
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Samantha Paige (she/they) (@samantha705901)
Sure doesn’t look like Chicago wants Trump’s help.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I know Senator Tammy Duckworth lives in Chicago and represents Illinois. But she went to school in Hawai'i during her formative years (high school and university) and makes us ALL proud.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The left is turning the American tradition into a deracinated ideological creed. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny, a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It's a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America will cease to exist. WTF
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Is he dead yet? I still don't understand.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Waikiki can still enchant.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I'm not a scientist—and neither is RFK, Jr - this 71-year-old without medical training—who boasts that he picks up and eats roadkill, literally suffered a worm eating part of his brain and overcame a 14-year heroin addiction—thinks he should decide for an entire country what vaccines are not needed.
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Can We Stop Supporting Sociopathic Leaders?
A Saturday Prompt
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes: “I am not going to abide by government officials saying one thing to the public — what they really mean to the public — and coming in here to the court and telling me something different, like I’m an idiot,” she said. “The court is not going to be gaslit.” Amen.
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Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
Who, us? "Not official policy"
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GovTrack.us @govtrack.us · 04/08/2025
Short Legislative Recap Part Two covering the end of the Senate’s summer session: www.govtrack.us/posts/527/20...
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Senate Recap Part Two - GovTrack.us
Original reporting and other news from GovTrack.us
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The U.S., its allies, and established American Jewish organizations (many of which were mute or equivocal for far too long) must do more. They should follow José Andrés’s admonition: “If we want to light the darkness, we need to extend our soul to the hungry. And we need to do it now.”
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It’s Not a Linguistic Debate, it’s Man-Made Starvation
Defense of Israel cannot condone the indefensible
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Trump is intent on rewriting history so he can whitewash his legacy.He continues to believe that if he tells the lies for long enough, they will morph into truth, at least in the minds of the public.Today he told reporters: “Everything is fake with the Democrats.". Always confession and projection.
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Rewriting History
Even with the Epstein drama still unfolding, MAGA Republicans are making plans to consolidate their hold on the American psyche.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Trump & GOP Will Finally Bring Healthcare to its Knees I used to work for an insurance consultant prior to HIPAA and the ACA. (I even remember Clinton's efforts.) I now work at a hospital. So I know that insurance companies are only in it for profit but this really opened my eyes.
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Trump & GOP Will Finally Bring Healthcare to its Knees
The new GOP budget breaks the back of an already fragile and failing healthcare system in the United States.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The same MAGA influencers who blew a gasket over Barbie two summers ago are similarly panty-twisted about Superman. But here’s the thing: Gunn’s Superman was written and shot months before Trump and his fascist goons even took office. Hmmm. I thought the same thing too. Is Trump the real villain?
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Sunday Pages: "Superman"
A film by James Gunn
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Trump has been alone in the world for his entire life. He has never had what any of us would call a real friend. Epstein wasn’t a friend. He was Trump’s pimp. Their relationship, like all of Trump’s relationships, was entirely transactional. You keep my secret, and I’ll keep yours.
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Trump thought Epstein had taken his secret to the grave. How wrong he was.
Donald Trump’s love letter to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday has only one subject: the secrets they shared.
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The problem Trump faces with his MAGA base is that he infected them for years with a steady diet of lies about Epstein’s connections to Democrats and conspiracies that feed their need to believe that God is on their side & everyone who doesn’t believe as they do is evil.
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MAGA crack-up over Epstein shows how flimsy Republican coalition is
Democrats should rejoice!
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Jeannine Johnson @leinani.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
If you thought egg prices were high...
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