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What to Read Today (WaRT) A sarcastic, bitter, and defiant take on current events meant to goad authoritarians and charge the resistance. The only thing more dangerous than a lie told by a tyrant is a truth ignored by the masses. 🗽 Use @5calls.org ☎️

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/08/2026
Right-wing justice Samuel Alito complains that telemedicine abortion providers are undermining Dobbs and red-state bans. To which Dr. Angel Foster and her allies at The MAP respond: “Yeah, exactly.”
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She's remaking the abortion landscape one pill at a time
Far from buckling under Dobbs, the access movement has created “a whole new way of doing healthcare.”
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 23/07/2026
I’ll bet we start seeing Diaper Don selling MAGA branded diapers.
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The Worst Part of the Cyclosporiasis Response
As the government began to figure out why people were getting sick, the messaging got only worse.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 21/07/2026
Hey @govandybeshear.bsky.social, how about a face to face with the man? Stop running out the clock.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 12/07/2026
One by one the devil is calling them all home. Some men only improve the world by leaving it. via @epistemiccrisis.bsky.social
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 01/06/2026
250 years of history. Seven headliners quit, two are left. We get two acts, a cage fight, and "Trump's Hole" staring back from the East Wing. Fitting for the clearance sale of a bankrupt brand. @theatlantic.com
theatlantic.com
Trump’s 250th Celebration Is a Fiasco
The president has turned a solemn occasion into a Day of Trump.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 01/06/2026
He sued himself. Settled with himself. Stole $1.8 billion for the Jan 6th cop-beater crowd. Not a legal strategy—a closed-circuit heist. The court was just the laundry mat. @glennkirschner.bsky.social
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Judge to Decide if Trump's $10 Billion Lawsuit was "Fraud on the Court."
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 01/06/2026
It’s not Bondi they protect, it’s what she knows. 5–20 million Epstein documents. Survivors revealed and conspirators redacted. Bodi’s sworn deposition cracks it open. Comer killed it. The format is the operation. The machine protects itself. Always. 🗽 The WaRT @katiephang.bsky.social
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Pam Bondi Makes STUNNING ADMISSION During DISASTER TESTIMONY
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 13/05/2026
The map is the confession. When you can’t beat the voter, you redraw the voter. When you can’t redraw the voter, you redraw the legislator. They’re protecting themselves from The Files. Read the whole WaRT: thewart.me/warts/202605...
The Map Is the Weapon
The Regime isn't winning elections. It's deleting them. Two mechanisms, one objective: keep the House majority that would reopen Epstein from ever convening.
- The Court - Erase, Don't Argue: The Roberts Court vacated a 268-page district court finding of intentional racial discrimination in Alabama with a single unreasoned paragraph [Mother Jones]. That isn't jurisprudence.
That's a delete key with a robe on it.
Alabama's primary now splits - May 19 for some districts, August 11 for the targeted ones - with ballots already
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 12/05/2026
We’ve moved past “fake news” into “illegal news.” The goal isn’t to win the argument; it’s to make the cost of speaking too high for anyone to pay. More WaRTs like this at: thewart.me/warts/202605...
The Infrastructure of Silence: The
Regime's Press Purge
Trump isn't just "anti-press" anymore.
He's deploying the state security apparatus to map and neutralize anyone who remembers how a watchdog is supposed to work.
- The Two-Pronged Attack:
- Financial Bleeding: Kash Patel using defamation suits to bankrupt The Atlantic and Sarah Fitzgerald [Atlantic].
- Kinetic Coercion: Seizing Hannah
Nathanson's devices to map informant networks, bypassing magistrates because "the King's word" is the new law [Meidas Touch].
- The Loyalty Loop: Pardon 1,593 J6
thugs, fire the prosecutors who chased them. The logic is complete: political violence is a career path, and legal inquiry is a crime [kirschner/Rosen].
Bitter Take: We've moved past "fake news" into "illegal news." The goal isn't to win the argument; it's to make the cost of speaking too high for anyone to pay.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 12/05/2026
The Regime treats classified information like a digital blanket to hide the holes in the floor. You can’t deter a superpower with a press release and a gag order. Read today’s WaRT: thewart.me/warts/202605...
The Munitions Void: Empty
Magazines, Loud Mouths
The U.S. is projecting "strength" while operating on a skeleton. The conflict with Iran wasn't a victory; it was a material exhaustion event. We're not just broke; we're out of ammo.
- The Raw Truth: We've burned through nearly 50% of Patriot interceptors and over half of THAAD reserves [CSIS
Analysisl. Senator Mark Kelly called it "shocking." The "security umbrella" in the Pacific is now a lace curtain.
China is watching a bankrupt warehouse
[Face the Nation].
- The Gag Order: Donald Trump doesn't do
"strategic pivots." He does legal transgressions. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is trying to frame a warning about empty stockpiles as a "violation of oath." Translation: "Shut up about the fact that we're defenseless" [The Hill].
- The $1.5 Trillion Lie: The requested defense budget isn't for growth. It's a desperate attempt to refill the void after fighting a war without a purpose or a timeline.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 12/05/2026
The Constitution burns, Durbin complains about the ballroom. You voted for the "Big Beautiful Bill" and incinerated the guardrails on July 4th, 2025. The ballroom is gold leaf on the carcass of the republic you helped kill. Focus on the structural capture, Senator. The furniture is irrelevant.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 11/05/2026
The "MAGA 6" aren't just interpreting law; they're engineering a structural advantage. Alabama is reviving Jim Crow maps for the midterms, and the SCOTUS is primed to help. The play is simple: if you can't win the vote, rewrite the map. 🗺️⚖️
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 11/05/2026
DOJ has abandoned legal professionalism in favor of campaign rhetoric. @legalafmtn.bsky.social notes, their latest motion regarding Trump’s ballroom project isn’t a legal argument—it’s a “political rant masquerading as a motion,” filed in the wrong court and seeking relief that doesn’t exist.
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Trump Gets INSTANTLY SLAMMED for DERANGED Ballroom Filing
YouTube video by Legal AF
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 11/05/2026
Today I’m tracking the Proto-Dictator framework. From gutting election safeguards to weaponizing the DoD, the repression machine is being installed under the guise of "integrity." 📁 Here’s the Intel // 2026-05-11 thewart.me/news-trends/... @aaronparnas.bsky.social @legalafmtn.bsky.social
The Beijing Trip: A Study in
Global Contempt
Donald Trump is heading to Beijing (May 14-15) to meet Xi Jinping, but he's arriving as a geopolitical ghost. While the administration paints the trip as a power play, Meidas Touch highlights a coordinated shun: Saudi royalty, President Zelinski, and NATO members are effectively ghosting the U.S. Executive, pushing meetings into the "post-Trump" era.
The farce deepens with Netanyahu pressuring for an Iranian invasion as a
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 11/05/2026
Don Diaper is the loud, gold-plated distraction. The infrastructure of the state is being swapped for opaque algorithms and loyalists that don’t just ignore your dissent—they’ve deleted the mechanism for you to even lodge it. thewart.me/warts/202605...
Monday May 11, 2026
The Bottom Line: Stop calling it "erratic behavior." It's a feature, not a bug.
We've moved past "political disruption" and entered the Institutional Displacement phase. Trump is the loud, gold-plated distraction. The infrastructure of the state is being swapped for opaque algorithms and loyalists that doesn't just ignore your dissent-they've deleted the mechanism for you to even lodge it.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 10/05/2026
They gave us a map, they exposed their fear, and we know where to attack. Flood the machine—we'll break it! Your sister, your brother, your compadre. Phone banks are war rooms. Neighborhoods are mobilization hubs. Drag every single soul to the polls. Flood the machine. We break it. ✊🔥🔨
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The WaRT: 🧱 The Rigged Map & The Institutional Cloak
Sunday May 10, 2026 Let’s be real: we are watching a masterclass in how to kill a democracy without actually executing the voters. The goal is simple: Separate what voters want from who wins elections...
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 10/05/2026
They gave us a map, they exposed their fear, and we know where to attack. Flood the machine—we'll break it! Your sister, your brother, your compadre. Phone banks are war rooms. Neighborhoods are mobilization hubs. Drag every single soul to the polls. Flood the machine. We break it. ✊🔥🔨
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Republicans Are Building an Advantage in Redistricting. How Much Is It Worth?
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
Today's WaRT is ugly: - The Robert's Doctrine - The Tennessee Heist - The Virginia "Technicality" - Job Market Mirage - Love Tap in the Middle East - NATO's Naughty List - Doge-AI - The Crusade to Keep Immigrant Kids out of Schools thewart.me/warts/2026-0...
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
The Roberts Doctrine: 45 years of ideological grooming, from Reagan’s foot soldier to Chief Justice, Roberts has methodically been removing the final rail from Voting Rights Act.
politico.com
Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act
Roberts remains at the center of an impassioned debate about voting rights in America.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
The Tennessee Heist: A 50-year-old law repealed in a heartbeat just to split Memphis in three and kill the state’s only Black-led seat.
democracydocket.com
Heeding Trump, Tennessee GOP repeals state law to pass new map carving up majority-black district
The new map splits Memphis, a majority-Black city, between three districts.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
The Virginia “Technicality”: Voter-approved referendums are cute, but “procedural requirements” are where the bodies are buried. Red states are mapping out #JimCrow2.0
democracydocket.com
‘We shall overcome (again)’: In powerful statehouse protests, Black voters and leaders decry GOP’s Southern gerrymanders
Here are some of the most dramatic and powerful examples of how Black Americans — from elected officials to ordinary voters — have responded to the wave of GOP gerrymanders.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
The Job Market Mirage The job market isn't "recovering"—it's just shrinking. You still have a job, but you can no longer afford the commute to get to it. The "economic miracle" is just a slower slide into the abyss. 📉⛽️
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U.S. employers add a surprisingly strong 115,000 jobs in April, while unemployment remains low
The war has caused the biggest disruption of global oil supplies in history, but the conflict hasn't done much damage to the American job market so far.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
The "love tap": Trade fire with Tehran, strike the UAE, he calls it a “love tap.” Ignore it, they’re hiding the strategic impasse and the smell of $4.50/gallon gasoline. ⛽️ 📈
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Trump Is ‘Bored’ With the War He Started
He wants out, but Iran could likely keep going for months.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
NATO’s “Naughty List”: Collective security is dead. Now it’s just transactional coercion. Welcome to the era of “Strategic Autonomy,” or as I call it: “Every country for itself.”
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Trump’s Iran war ‘naughty’ list pushes Europe toward more independent defense
President Donald Trump’s threats to punish NATO allies over Iran war disputes have spurred Europe to pursue independent defense as trust in the U.S. partnership fades.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
DOGE-AI: Using ChatGPT to cancel $100M in humanities grants because they smelled like DEI. It’s not about the budget; it’s automated erasure of “un-approved” thought.
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Judge finds Trump's DOGE-led cancellation of humanities grants unconstitutional
The Trump administration's cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Governm...
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
The crusade against Plyler v. Doe is on. Extremists treat the right to an education as a luxury, saying it can be revoked. The legal standing is being meticulously engineering to tell immigrant children they don’t belong in a classroom.
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What are immigrant children’s rights to a public education? Pressure grows for restrictions.
Calls are growing among some to overturn a Supreme Court decision that gave immigrant children access to public education.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
He’s not "unserious"—he’s a precision tool for harassment. He's not leading the FBI; he's dismantling it so there's no one left to tell the truth. 🔧
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 09/05/2026
J. Edgar Boozer is so "unserious" that a federal judge has to stop him from browsing a journalist's hard drive like a bored teenager. Absolute clown show. 🤡
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Federal Judge BLOCKS Trump from Data SEIZURE
YouTube video by Legal AF
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 08/05/2026
"You come at me with these white supremacist tactics because you have the numbers, but you don't have the courage. Becuase if you really were visionary leaders, you'd run against these Black men with fair maps."
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 08/05/2026
Your "vote" is a suggestion; the procedural fine print is where they bury the bodies. The DementiaDon's legal team didn't need to win the argument—they just needed a typo in the constitution. A masterclass in disenfranchisement. 💀
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 08/05/2026
The "Emergency" isn't the exception anymore. It's the new state of the system. Governance by law is dead; now it's governance by attrition. The guardrails aren’t just broken—they’re erased to make room for a bigger ego. Here is today’s #WaRT. Dig in. 🗽💀
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/05/2026
"Your racist maps won't silence us!" TN voters were kicked while watching their rights be stripped away. Mother Jones' @garrisonhayes.bsky.social reports on the scene:
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 07/05/2026
The #VRA didn't just 'expire'—it was executed by a #SCOTUS taking leads from a #J6 conspiracist. If the lead plaintiff in the case that gutted your right to vote thinks elections are a simulation, you're looking at the blueprint for a permanent regime 🗳️💀 #WaRT #ManagedDemocracy
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 07/05/2026
The 'most powerful #military in history' is held hostage by a few dozen drones & small boats. We're trading #oil spikes for 'one-page memorandums' while #China plays the adult. The asymmetry isn't just tactical—it's embarrassing. 🚢⛽️ #TheWaRT #HormuzHustle #twar
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 07/05/2026
Rule of Law? Try Rule by Law. When the #FBI stops chasing criminals and starts raiding redistricting champions & journalists, it’s not 'justice'—it’s a purge with a badge. The warrants are the cover; the intimidation is the product. 🚔🤐 #TheWaRT #JusticeWeaponized #PressFreedom
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 07/05/2026
#POTUS is playing 4D chess with the courts, but losing the 1D battle of the #gas pump. You can't 'purge' your way out of $4.48/gallon. The gap between White House 'strength' and public 'disapproval' is where the next crisis lives. 📉⛽️ #TheWaRT #EconomicSqueeze #InstitutionalDecay
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 05/05/2026
#Trump makes yet another threat. #Europe is like 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽 "... and so?" "European leaders appear to be slowly moving toward the conclusion that many threats from U.S. President Donald Trump might be best met with a shrug." #WeThePeople are #TheResistance 🗽 #GoVote 🗳️
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 03/05/2026
Here’s the play: eliminating #DACA is unpopular so, the admin just renders it pointless in the courts This erosion of responsibility consolidates power in a Unitary Executive. It’s done with #IranWar powers, gutting the #VRA, slow walking naturalizations, etc #WeThePeople are #TheResistance 🗽
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 03/05/2026
It’s not politics. The joke indictment creates a "legal failure", proving the "deep state" must be destroyed. The logic short circuits rational thought. Circular logic is a cult tactic and needs to be called out for what it is—a mind game. @knittingcultlady.bsky.social @legalafmtn.bsky.social
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 03/05/2026
The "Imminence" of the threat is relative to the "Eminence" of the liar. KegsBreath says "obliterated" threats and "aspirational" goals are "imminent". Who needs facts when you have a title and a total lack of shame? @glennkirschner.bsky.social shows the only thing imminent is a total meltdown.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 30/04/2026
A "movement" can still be a dumpster fire without being a "cult." @knittingcultlady.bsky.social says wacky rituals define a cult less than labor exploitation. Turns out, being a Groyper is less "Children of God" and more "dedicated fan-girl" behavior. 🙄 #CultSpecialist #SarcasticAnalysis
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Are Nick Fuentes and his “groypers” a cult? Thoughts about fans versus cults
YouTube video by Knitting Cult Lady
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 30/04/2026
1/5 Political violence [is no longer] a tool for a specific party; it [has become] an ideology of its own. In "Blood Populism," adherents are united not by shared policy goals, but by a shared belief that violence [is] justified in achieving political outcomes. #BloodPopulism #PoliticalViolence 🗽
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Rise of the Blood Populist
Most Americans fully reject political violence. It’s time to differentiate between those who tolerate it and everyone else.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 30/04/2026
... Trump’s assault on democratic norms [is being] successfully resisted through democratic means. In #Hungary, Viktor Orbán [attempted the] same power-consolidation strategy that #Trump is attempting now, and voters defeated him through peaceful #organizing. #WeThePeople are #TheResistance 🗽
theatlantic.com
Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence
Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else.
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 29/04/2026
Lincoln just wasn't enough. We've officially moved from #President to “Hellenistic #Warlord energy. 🏺🚩 🖕 #POTUS #MAGA #WeThePeople are #TheResistance 🗽
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Trump no longer sees himself as peer to Lincoln and is focused on becoming like Alexander the Great
YouTube video by Aaron Parnas
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 18/04/2026
🍗 #Trump 🌮 is trying to surrender, and he’s ducking that up too. OTOH ducking up more means more people reject the extreme, cultish views of #MAGA 🖕.
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Trump Can't Even Surrender Right
That was the peace that was
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 10/11/2025
You vote against and your caucus votes for. Interesting. Looks like you’re saving face. Politics much?
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 10/11/2025
#SurrenderCaucus You “got” an empty promise. We are watching. We never forget. #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽
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Congressman Brad Sherman @repbradsherman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Today, I joined two-thirds of my daughters, Lucy and Naomi, and Studio City resident and constituent Bill Nye to rally against America’s Chief Monarchist, #DonaldTrump. 1/3
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🗽 The WaRT @thewart.me · 14/06/2025
We’ve got the right to choose it There ain’t no way we’ll lose it This is our life, this is our song We’ll fight the powers that be just Don’t pick our destiny ’cause You don’t know us, you don’t belong ~ “We’re Not Gonna Take It” byTwisted Sister #NoKings #WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez @gomez.house.gov · 14/06/2025
If they think we’re going to stop, they’re f*ckin’ dead wrong!
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