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Tom Magnuson

@tmagi.bsky.social
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Elderly, somewhat AADD, OCD, Historian of early NC, of Military Hiistory, and the History of Technology

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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 9h
Gosh, it would be nice to have a day every now and then when the President doesn't embarrass me. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-1-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 1, 2026
John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 9h
More good reasons for a Dem-led Congress to Impeach our moronic "Secretaru of War": www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
theatlantic.com
Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy
His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 12h
Trump, like Netanyahu, needs to stay in power to stay out of jail. Similarly, the six conservative Supremes need to keep Trump in power to achieve their nefarious ends. In sum, this means WE NEED EVERY VOTE THIS ELECTION for our democratic republic to survive..VOTE! www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
truthdig.com
The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Could Hand the GOP the Midterms
The full impact of the ruling will depend on how the administration and its red state allies construe a single word in the decision.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
fessor Cox-Richardson reviews Americas Middle Eastern Follies, the ones we are still using to rationalize even more foolish violence. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 30, 2026
A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thom Hartmann illuminates the shameful performance of Republicans attempting to smear Jasck Smith by comparing it to a previous attempt at a coup during FDR's first term. I've studied the 1934 event and concur that the analogy is sound. hartmannreport.com/p/the-final-...
hartmannreport.com
The Final Stage of a Strongman’s Takeover Is Turning the Law Against the People Who Defended It
The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system…
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An engineer's thoughts on current US drift toward dictatorship. medium.com/@kirby.jamey...
medium.com
To the Esteemed Members of the United States Congress, and the Representatives of the Free Press
With the utmost respect for the enduring institutions of this Republic, I submit this humble correspondence, occasioned by a matter of…
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Corrupt governments pay more to borrow money and corruption has cost the US its triple A rating for creditors. That is why mortgages and car loans cost more now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore
Blame Trump for rising borrowing costs.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PAID OBSERV ER DESCRIBES NAKED KING! www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This rather long essay introduces another major factor on the ballot this Fall. It scared the dickens out of me. newrepublic.com/article/2150...
newrepublic.com
We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse
End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
nce again NC makes national news with the GOP capture of the judiciary: www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
MORE CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST? cybernews.com/tech/dutch-g...
cybernews.com
Dutch government builds Linux-based sovereign workspace
DAWO gives Dutch digital sovereignty a Linux-based workspace for office, storage, backup, and admin tools. See how the system works
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jojo says what is on many a mind right now, thank you, Jojo. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/one-tiny-h...
jojofromjerz.substack.com
One Tiny-Handed Tyrant. An Entire Country’s Shame.
He threatened annihilation, courted a dictator, and showed the world how far we’ve fallen.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When told that his ballroom would not meet fire codes, the developer said, "I am the code." Fire the SOB! heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 23, 2026
Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two speeches on world affairs could not have been more differrent than that of the orange toddler and the UN's presiding officer: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 22, 2026
In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At last, somebody supports ridding the country of the GOP one way or another. Good idea, tricky to deliver it though..... www.wonkette.com/p/the-republ...
wonkette.com
The Republican Party Has No Place In A Democracy
Time to starting banning fascists!
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ayn Rand had great appeal to ambitious young men, some outgrew the unpitying, selfish philosophy, frequently after learning to love another, some did not; the latter we call Republicans. hartmannreport.com/p/did-ayn-ra...
hartmannreport.com
Did Ayn Rand Plant the Ideological Seed That Trumpism Is Harvesting Today?
From a killer she once called an “ideal man” to a political movement built around radical self-interest, the roots of today’s assault on government run deeper and darker than most Americans realize.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The US government is terrortizing tis residents and citizens at unprecedented levels. Let us do our best to stop our government from continuously embarrassing us. hartmannreport.com/p/my-republi...
hartmannreport.com
My Republican Dad Fought Fascism, Then Gave Me Kafka. Trump Just Made Me Understand Why.
He believed due process separated America from the authoritarian governments his generation fought. That line is now being tested…
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-... unhinged behavior confirms the conclusion that the ROP must never bever again be in power: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 14, 2026
This morning, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski of ProPublica broke the news that Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, spent hundreds of thousands of...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And now for something completely different and unexpected: substack.com/note/p-21478...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sorrow rightfully overwhelms us when we contemplate the horrors perpetrated in our name. We really must take responsibility and begin the process of repairing and restoring democracy. snyder.substack.com/p/helping-th...
snyder.substack.com
Helping the Terrorists to Win
A Quarter Century after 9/11
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The madman's keepers have given up, he's gleefully heading thecountry towartd an abyss. He is Thelma and Louise. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 9, 2026
Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A report on food safety under the Trump-Kennedy regiem ; shooting craps with our food: hartmannreport.com/p/a-brazilia...
hartmannreport.com
A Brazilian Meat Billionaire Walked Into Trump’s Oval Office. What Happened Next Should Terrify Us All…
The mystery surrounding 660 million pounds of imported beef exposes a much larger story about money, deregulation, food safety, and who Trump’s billionaire-run government really serves...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Engineering, science, and technology may yet save us from our gluttany: engineerine.com/canadas-cold...
engineerine.com
Canada’s Cold Fusion Breakthrough: The Energy Shift No One Saw Coming
Canada may have unlocked the impossible: a stable cold fusion reaction that produces limitless clean energy from hydrogen with no heat, no radiation, and no waste. If verified globally, this discovery could replace fossil fuels forever and transform the future of civilization.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The murderous bastards of ICE kill more and more detainees detainees IN OUR NAME: popular.info/p/update-ice...
popular.info
UPDATE: ICE is leaving hospitals with millions in unpaid bills
Last year, Popular Information broke the news that on October 3, 2025, U.S.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
US government brings joy, Joy, JOY to the heart of Putin by trashing our military. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-31-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 31, 2026
Alex Horton and Tara Copp of the Washington Post reported on Sunday, August 30, that military leaders are warning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that a plan to continue large-scale operations in Iran ...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wow! Atlantic takes ever resentful Major Hegseth to the woodshed big-time. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Hegseth’s Pentagon Lurches off the Rails
The resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is the latest sign of severe dysfunction in the Defense Department.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pity the Palestinians and damn their oppressors. www.truthdig.com/articles/bes...
truthdig.com
Besieged by Settlers, Palestinians on a West Bank Hilltop Refuse to Leave
For seven months, Israeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian homes in a village near Nablus, but the families remain defiant.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you've noted that our government has become a kakistocracym read the following as a primer on what happens when an elected government becomes the personal fief of a family. hartmannreport.com/p/sex-money-...
hartmannreport.com
Sex, Money, and Revenge: What Happens When a Country Becomes One Man’s Property
When one man turns prosecutors, tax collectors, billionaires, and elections into weapons of personal power, democracy itself becomes the next thing he owns…
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hegseth-Trump will break the chains of _Posse Comitatus_ by reforming the senior officer corps before 2028. www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...
newsweek.com
Pete Hegseth faces questions as Army sets leadership vacancy record
The Pentagon has described acting Army chief LaNeve as "completely trusted by Secretary Hegseth" to carry out his "vision."
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Read this litany of our crimes against humanity resulting from Musk/Doge/Trump/GOP cavalier destruction of US AID. Remember it in November, the GOP can never again be trusted to govern in our name. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If Trump is evver gone, after he's gone, how will we recover his pelf? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains
Lessons from fallen autocrats
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Prof HXCR provides a case study in how one of Trump's crifts works. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-27-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 27, 2026
This morning, a headline in the Guardian read: “RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.” The story by Michelle R.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Pro-MIC press advocates for keeping US forces in the Persian Gulf; easy to advocate from a safe distance. There is no mention in the article about US-Israeli starting a war. We are confronting the cost our GOP cfowardice and Presidential stupidity. nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-...
nationalinterest.org
Why the US Military Should Stay In the Gulf States
US withdrawal from the bases in the Gulf states would only solidify Iran’s control over a critical international waterway.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Chief Justice Roberts and his five subversives polishes Trump's shoes, once again disregarding evidence in favor of ideology. The six whores of the court must be subdued. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The Supreme Court Isn’t Interested in Facts
In decision after decision, the conservative justices are ignoring the evidentiary record that lower courts have worked hard to establish.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Autonymous robot soldiers, Americah Daleks are in test phase, the decisions regarding whether and how to use the tech needs to begin .....in public. truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org
The UN and Red Cross Are Calling for Restrictions on AI Drones and Killer Robots
In a world where autonomous weapons can choose targets on their own, data can put us all at risk, a US veteran warns.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Bobby the bug-lover is guilty of murder by neglect and mayhem by disinformation. Ipeachment should begin next January and be completed by March. Then maybe the country will get the vaccines it needs. hartmannreport.com/p/rfk-jr-get...
hartmannreport.com
RFK Jr. Gets Busted as America’s Vaccine Defenses Collapse
Covid is surging, measles is killing again, and the man running America’s health system spent years attacking the very vaccines that could save lives…
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Prof HCR chronicals the various disasters fomented by the POTUS so far this week: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 25, 2026
Trump started the morning on social media saying: “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to [be] doing much bus...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Trump's incredibly stupid misjudgement of Canada, and Canada's sovereign right to retaliate. It all comes to a head in the first days of September, '26. deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
deanblundell.substack.com
BREAKING: The Annexation Papers. What Trump/Lutnick Actually Demanded From Canada Behind Closed Doors, Why It Was Never A Trade Deal, And Why He’s About To Enter The Find-Out Portion Of The Program
The snapback clause was the least offensive thing in that document. The verified list of American demands reads like articles of surrender. Now Carney is going to punch him in the mouth.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Finally, The Corpulent Fraudster has played a vital card, he demanded that the world join the USA inpuishingnIran for not caving to the Bully-in-Charge; Canda and China have already said no. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 24, 2026
On Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney instructed Canadian negotiators to walk away from talks with officials from the Trump administration over new tariffs of 50% Trump had imposed on $28 billio...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My guess is, history will say of us, we grew fat, dumb, and happy and forgot that we were resposnible for our government. hartmannreport.com/p/epilogue-w...
hartmannreport.com
Epilogue: What History Will Say About Us (August 23)
The final chapters from Who Stole The American Dream?
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Kow the enemies of democrats and republicans, that is, people who believe ingovernment by the people, and folks who believe government should govern for people...Prof HCR tells it all. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-21-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 21, 2026
On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about 70 of his enslaved and free Black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slaveholding and t...
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The problem is nobody takes Trump at his word;surprise, surprise, surprise. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
theatlantic.com
Thank You for Your Inattention to This Matter
The good news is that the world has stopped responding breathlessly to Donald Trump’s every empty provocation. That’s also the bad news.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A list of 15 elections stolen by Republicans since from Nixon's subversion of peace talks with Vietnam until the p[resent. hartmannreport.com/p/trump-take...
hartmannreport.com
Trump Takes a 58-Year Republican Election Playbook to a Terrifying New Level
What began in the shadows with Nixon and Reagan is now happening openly as Trump targets the machinery of the 2026 election.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It seems to be that Republican desdtruction of our most basic public health services, if done by a foreign enemy, would constitute "Crimes Against Humanity." How shall we punishe the scum-sucking pigs when they lose power? heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-20-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 20, 2026
On Saturday, August 15, the New York Times editorial board published an op-ed noting that the Republicans are trying to hide the cuts they have made to health care in the U.S.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Another silent "lie" to the American people. Suppressing embarrassing news further's public distrust of our government. Did te Iranian bomb run cause any US casualties? I suspect we will never know. news.google.com/read/CBMiyAF...
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Google News
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How America's working class created America's oligarchy, read it and weep: hartmannreport.com/p/republican...
hartmannreport.com
Republicans Rigged America’s Debt: Now We’re Paying the Billionaires Forever
They called themselves fiscal conservatives while running up trillions in debt — and sticking working Americans with the bill…
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The felon in the White House shows his real colors and his disdain for law and public good: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Last Loyal Constituency
The administration delivers a win for financial crooks at the expense of honest businesses.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
How the GOP has turned the UA into the world's largest money laundry: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
A Green Light for Crooks
The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jojo from Jersey says, "“Fuck the troops” is a bold fucking slogan to carry into the midterms." jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/five-thous...
jojofromjerz.substack.com
Five Thousand Sailors and Marines Deserve Better Than This Shit
200 Days Without Port and Cadet Bone Spurs Wants More
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Tom Magnuson @tmagi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Pay no heed to any publication that posits this or that wind og the Republican Party. There is only the Party desperately trying to destroy the US repulic so as to stay in power foreverl they cannot win elections so they steal them.
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