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Madhouse Muse

@madhousemuse.bsky.social
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Polyglot; global citizen; hater of the current zeitgeist Obsessively measuring CO2 😷 and capturing beauty 📸 Buyer of physical media 📀📼

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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“We hope that other cities will take it as a lesson: We don’t have to bow down [to] the fascist deportation machine. We certainly don’t have to let its perpetrators benefit from our local economies and infrastructure." - Alderman Andre Vasquez
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amnesty International now officially calls for abolishing ICE.
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Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In 2020, Ken Paxton stole Texas for Trump by blocking 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Harris County [Houston]. And he can do it again. The attack on mail-in ballots and drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/how-paxton...
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How Paxton Will Steal Texas
The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
September 26, 2003: The day the world ended on #TheLastOfUs
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DJ Maryalee Scarlet @djmaryaleescarlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social warned us all.
“Once an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out. They will disregard term limits, they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it. They will take your money, they will steal your freedom, and if they are clever, they will eliminate any structural protections you had before the majority realizes the extent of the damage.”
― Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Disappointing but not surprising that Rob Bonta dropped the lawsuit. He didn't have the support of CA Governor Gavin Newsom, who wants to stay on good terms with media behemoth Paramount so he can get favorable coverage for his 2028 presidential run on CBS (& their other subsidiaries).
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Wars and tariffs may get the blame for inflation, but they have a costly accomplice: climate change" Yeah but the climate didn't decide to overheat itself, so let's call this what it is: Big-Oilflation. Pollutionflation. Lies-and-BSflation. Corrupt-lawmakerflation. Exxonflation. Shellflation etc
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Climate inflation is here
Climate change might be costing you hundreds of dollars a year.
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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW: One in five members of Congress reports investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds. Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry readsludge.com/2026/09/18/h...
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Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry
One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires. Reform has received £123.6m since 2019. £61m from Christopher Harborne living in Thailand, mentioned several times in Panama Papers. £44m from Ben Delo, recent returnee from Hong Kong, criminal conviction in the US.
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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires
“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A little-known Pentagon office staffed by Big Tech alums is dismantling safeguards and accelerating AI warfare as their former employers compete for lucrative military contracts.
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The Big Tech Alums Building Trump’s AI War Machine
A little-known Pentagon office staffed by Big Tech alums is dismantling safeguards and accelerating AI warfare as their former employers compete for lucrative military contracts.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A lot of people have said to me “but why would the government lie about the risks from Covid?” And I’m sorry but the answer is always because capital is valued over lives and they want you to go back to work, it was true in the mines, true on the railroads, true post-9/11, and true now.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"America's worst crises are not born of partisan rancor but of bipartisan collusion." - Sarah Kendzior I've been on a binge-reading spree of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social 's books. I loved Hiding in Plain Sight, They Knew, & The Last American Road Trip. Next up: The View from Flyover Country #Books
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” “Listen, honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” “Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just haven’t been a part of history.”‬ -Ms. Gloria Steinem
With Dorothy Pitman Hughes“The truth will set you free, but it’s gonna piss you off first.”“Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just haven’t been a part of history.”‬With Ms. Dolly Parton
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was a feminist icon and democracy defender who spent her life fighting for human rights. Her memory should inspire us all to do a little, or a lot, each day. Rest in Peace, Gloria Steinem. 💔
"Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy."
-Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 01/09/2026
Such iconic photos.
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who shot an iconic Vietnam War-era photo has died
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Slava "Sal" Veder died on Saturday, Aug. 22, just 8 days shy of his 100th birthday.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On traitors: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
Excerpt from article I wrote on US reps who chose Israel over the US — both GOP and Dem. Hakeem Jeffries is in there. So is his mentor, Pelosi. I published it in 2023, right after joining Substack. Ma...
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
All for a bunch of tax cuts to the richest families and corporations, while sending billions in weapons to apartheid nations to bomb women children and old people. No universal healthcare, nor childcare, skyrocketing living costs and another 100 bil war for Netanyahu. We need a revolution.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Billionaire Google Co-Founder Pumps $102m To Oppose California Wealth Tax, 5% On Assets Above $1bn. Imagine if they did the same to fight poverty. All over the world, Super-rich buy politicians, collect subsidies, lax laws, dodge taxes, cause most pollution. It is People v the Super-Rich.
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Billionaire Google Co-Founder Pumps $102 Million Into Fighting California Wealth Tax | Common Dreams
"Sergey Brin would rather spend $100 million to fund a shady opposition campaign than simply pay his fair share in taxes so millions of Californians don’t lose their healthcare."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This puts the current pace of US budget deficits into perspective. @eddyelfenbein.bsky.social
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
You might want to hold your breath before reading this headline: The CO2 that Exxon, Chevron, and the rest of Big Oil keeps pumping into the air is now starting to de-calcify our bodies, just like it's doing to the oceans. And... inhale!
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Scientists detect a surprising shift in human blood as atmospheric CO2 rises
Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be leaving a measurable imprint inside the human body. Researchers analyzing more than two decades of U.S. health data found that blood bicarbonate levels h...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17/08/2026
🚨NEW: Hakeem Jeffries declared his opposition to Medicare For All 72 hours after a Yale study shows it would save 100,000 lives & $1 trillion. Context: Jeffries raked in $391k from health PACs in 2026 & faced no primary pressure to hold the line on Dem priorities because a primary was blocked.
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Hakeem Jeffries’ Betrayal Shows Why Democratic Voters Are So Enraged
House Dems’ leader declared his opposition to Medicare For All on the same day a new poll shows almost all Democratic voters support it.
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Joshua Carns @joshuacarns.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There is one and only one most important issue for every American citizen this election and that is to transform the highly immoral for profit health care system (health for the rich) into a Medicare for all single payer system that covers every man woman and child in the US
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The company that killed bookstores is now killing books, literally.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 17/08/2026
They keep breaking things they can’t unbreak. It’d be nice if Congress gave a shit.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/08/2026
Flock told 404 Media in an email it never executed the partnership with Nexar. But the presentation still shows Flock’s ambitious plan to conscript rideshare and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its network. www.404media.co/flock-pitche...
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Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just received my copy of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social 's book _Hiding in Plain Sight_. Was disappointed to receive a new book that had a dirty & stained dust jacket (I'm very OCD about my books), but opened it up and found it to be an autographed copy! What a terrific surprise. #Books #BookSky
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/08/2026
Public safety does not come from masked armed agents taking people off our streets.

To immigrant New Yorkers: you belong in this City, and this City stands with you.

If you need legal support, our Immigration Legal Support Hotline is free, confidential and available regardless of your immigration status. Call 1-800-354-0365.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 03/08/2026
University of Cambridge historian Ben Zdencanovic explores America's long struggle to build a healthcare safety net.
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Trump administration is withholding more than $1B in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota, in latest example of weaponizing real and imagined fraud
For six decades, politicians have blurred the distinction between protecting Medicaid from abuse and using abuse to discredit Medicaid itself.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Correct
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The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020
It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No, I absolutely believe it. This shill for corporate interests is lining up capital for his 2028 presidential run. He also needs the media conglomerate on his side so he gets favorable coverage on CBS. This is not out of character; it IS his character.
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Tim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is my first article in Truthdig. It describes the late CIA Director R. James Woolsey as the godfather of national security capitalism and reveals how his Paladin Capital and other defense-oriented private equity funds are financed: by America's largest labor unions and their pension funds.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
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Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I've unearthed the bizarre backstory behind this Kafkaesque secret court that was suddenly awakened by the Trump administration. I talked to the only living judge who first sat on it. He tells me he got the job by playing tennis with the chief justice. @notus.com: www.notus.org/trump-white-...
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A Decades-Old Terrorist Deportation Court Is Being Used for the First Time
Judges on the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, created in 1996, have never heard a case — until now.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We just won a months-long halt to the illegal merger between Paramount and Warner Bros.    Stopping this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory in our efforts to uphold the law and protect the film and television industries.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Stunning is putting it mildly
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
YellowDot released this letter today calling for disaster preparedness for the heat jump this El Niño will bring. It’s signed by scientists, meteorologists, climate writers, concerned citizens & was sent to every Governor, major city Mayor, international Mayors. Sign + share if you can.
Letter outline the threats that will occur as a result of this looming historic El Niño will bring.
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Madhouse Muse @madhousemuse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Vote them out. 👇
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Julia Wick @sherlyholmes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NEW: As Boyle Heights warehouse fire burned, then-Bass advisor Yusef Robb remained in the mayor's press office's internal WhatsApp groups even after he started doing crisis PR for Lineage. lamaterial.com/p/bass-yusef...
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Bass Advisor Remained in Private Mayor's Office Chats While Doing P.R. for Lineage
Yusef Robb remained in the mayor’s internal communications channels for a week after beginning crisis PR work for the company that manages the Boyle Heights warehouse.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A report from 1937 Germany. Seems a lot like ICE in 2026 America.
Headline in Spokane (WA) Spokesman-Review 1/27/37: "Nazi Gestapo Far Above Law; Unseen Espionage System Can Do as It Pleases, New Decrees Reveal"
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 10/07/2026
Investigative producer @dcmonteverde.bsky.social was handcuffed and detained by sheriff’s deputies after a judge barred WWL-TV and other media outlets from covering a court proceeding that revealed the indictment of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill in New Orleans on July 2.
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Producer detained after judge closes courtroom for grand jury indictment
WWL-TV investigative producer Danny Monteverde was handcuffed and detained by deputies after questioning a judge’s decision to close a court …
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
BREAKING NEWS: We just won a court order temporarily blocking the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. This $110 billion proposed merger would increase costs and decrease options for working families, and harm the small businesses and workers in Oregon’s film and TV industry.
AG Rayfield secures court order temporarily blocking Warner Bros. / Paramount mergerToday, a federal judge sided with AG Rayfield and our multistate coalition and granted a temporary restraining order blocking Paramount’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Last week, we filed a lawsuit challenging the unlawful merger, which is expected to result in higher prices, lower content quality, and fewer movies and TV shows. “This proposed merger could mean real harm for Oregonians—for working families who will see higher costs and fewer options, for the small businesses and workers in our film and TV industry, and for our local movie theaters.  Pausing this merger now will keep irreversible harm from happening.”
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Greg Palast @gregpalast.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
👀 Thom Hartmann, the historian & @hartmannreport.com host, has put on his deerstalker and discovered that the #CitizensUnited decision was based on the fraudulent reporting of a key Supreme Court case way back in 1886. gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/thom-hartm...
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Thom Hartmann, Detective
The historian and talk show host puts on his deerstalker and discovers that Citizens United was based on the fraudulent reporting of an 1886 case.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For months, Senate Republicans said Jack Smith "spied" on Congress and broke the law. A judge just unsealed the files. Inside: routine phone records—that a call happened, when, how long. No message content at all. They lied. Here's the proof:
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While Trump Ranted On TV, He Was Losing Everywhere Else
The courts ruled against him again and again. Here’s the week he didn’t want you to see.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Jon Favreau: The government is giving guns and badges to violent, psychotic individuals and setting them loose on our streets
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