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Tina Traster

@ttraster.bsky.social
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Journalist, Documentary Maker, Thinker, Animal Lover, Protector of the First Amendment

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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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[ICYMI] A Local Library Is Forced To Brush Up On The First Amendment
Taxpayer-Funded Public Libraries Cannot Discriminate On View Point
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
First Amendment Lessons For The Library Board tinatraster.substack.com/p/a-local-li...
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A Local Library Is Forced To Brush Up On The First Amendment
Taxpayer-Funded Public Libraries Cannot Discriminate On View Point
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We've lost so much tinatraster.substack.com/p/a-bout-wit...
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A Bout With COVID Reminds Us How Much We’ve Lost
We Are So Much Worse Off Than We’ve Ever Been
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
9/11 rcbizjournal.com/2026/09/11/n...
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Nyack Mayor Joe Rand Leads Solemn 9-11 Memorial Service: A Pictorial -
Rand Urged Those Who Attended Ceremony To Remember Who We Were On 9/11 2001 -- A Nation That Came Together To Grieve and Recover; He Said We Need To Find Our Way Back To That Place
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Weighted Down, Seeking Meaning tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-the-...
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[ICYMI] The Specter of Loss in America Today Makes Death More Symbolic
The Erosion Of Our Nation In These Times Puts Other Losses in Stark Relief
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Death by 1,000 cuts tinatraster.substack.com/p/the-specte...
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The Specter of Loss in America Today Makes Death More Symbolic
The Erosion Of Our Nation In These Times Puts Other Losses in Stark Relief
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Leaning In To Authoritarian Times tinatraster.substack.com/p/county-exe...
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County Exec’s BusPatrol Fetish Turns To Retaliation
Leaning In During These Authoritarian Times -- I’m On “BusParole”
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A Bit of Thrilling Danger Helps Subdue A Throbbing Existential Fear tinatraster.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-t...
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A Bit of Thrilling Danger Helps Subdue A Throbbing Existential Fear
What Watching a Sunset and a Meteor Shower Means In An Era Of Constant Uncertainty
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hansard’s death allowed us to stop and take stock of his life and our own without Donald’s static. tinatraster.substack.com/p/once-we-we... PLEASE SUBSCRIBE/SUPPORT
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Once We Were A Community. That's What Glen Hansard's Death Reminded Us
We've Forgotten What It Feels Like To Have a Collective Experience Without Donald's Static
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Treading in the deep end tinatraster.substack.com/p/washington...
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Washington Vibe Trickles Down To Small Town Powerbrokers, Making A Mockery of the Justice System
A Saga About Bathing Suit Material Morphs Into a Story About Pool Rules, Policing and Political Maneuvering Ahead of the November Election
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
if you couldn't attend last week's screening and post-film panel of Steal This Story, Please! -- here is the panel discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-k...
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Steal This Story, Please Panel Discussion
YouTube video by broken hearted
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
What the Sam Hill is going on here? rcbizjournal.com/2026/07/26/o...
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Octogenarian's Park Trespassing Charges Dropped Hours After Arrest - Rockland County Business Journal
Octogenarian's Park Trespassing Charged Dropped Hours After Arrest; Mary Wallace Happy To Be Back in the Pool, But Will She Stay in Her Lane?
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
With #amygoodman and ZAZU before screening of #stealthisstoryplease. Followed by a panel I moderated on the Fourth Estate, Independent Media and Democracy. #DemocracyNow!
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Not afraid to show who she is tinatraster.substack.com/p/cait-conle...
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Cait Conley Is Not Afraid To Show Voters Who She Is Or Who She’s Worked For
New York Congressional District 17 Candidate Talks Cyber Security, Drones, Trans Rights in the Military, and Her Hopes of Restoring Inclusivity in America
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Town Engineer Stands By Claims rcbizjournal.com/2026/07/14/c...
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Clarkstown Residents Challenge Town Board On Disciplinary Action Taken Against Director Of Engineering - Rockland County Business Journal
Town Attorney Kevin Conway Says Gianatasio Was Under Year-Long Investigation & Failed To Disclose Business Interests
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A free press is not an ornament of democratic government; it is one of its load-bearing walls. tinatraster.substack.com/p/one-journa...
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One Journalist's Win is a Win For All
RCBJ Wins FOIL Case Against Rockland Green: Public Authority Ordered To Produce Documents, Pay Attorney’s Fees
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“A local journalist tracking how a public authority spends $18 million taxpayer dollars is engaged in exactly the work the First Amendment was written to protect – unglamorous, granular, and indispensable.” rcbizjournal.com/2026/07/12/r...
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RCBJ Wins FOIL Case Against Rockland Green: Public Authority Ordered To Produce Documents, Pay Attorney's Fees - Rockland County Business Journal
RCBJ Wins FOIL Case Against Rockland Green: Public Authority Ordered To Produce Documents, Pay Attorney's Fees; Judge Invokes First Amendment
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Betting on Cait to Win Back the House tinatraster.substack.com/p/cait-is-th...
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Cait Is The "It" Girl But She's Got A Tough Road Ahead
The Ex-Military District 17 Candidate Will Need A Broad Tent
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Let's Call It The 'Declaration of the Preservation of Independence' open.substack.com/pub/tinatras...
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Let's Call It The 'Declaration of the Preservation of Independence'
Time To Do It Again -- Renew Our Vows To American Democracy & Reclaim Our Freedoms
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
2.0 is needed tinatraster.substack.com/p/lets-call-...
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Let's Call It The 'Declaration of the Preservation of Independence'
Time To Do It Again -- Renew Our Vows To American Democracy & Reclaim Our Freedoms
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
There’s something comforting about grounded veterans repurposing their skills to fight an administration that is at war with us. We need more of this, which is just one reason I’m enamored with Cait Conley tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-ex-m...
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[ICYMI] Ex-Military Electeds Are Showing Us How To Fight the Regime
Cait Conley's Pitch Is A Good Fit For This Perilous Moment
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
tinatraster.substack.com/p/ex-militar... Military Chops To Fight The Regime
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Ex-Military Electeds Are Showing Us How To Fight the Regime
Cait Conley's Pitch Is A Good Fit For This Perilous Moment
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
tinatraster.substack.com/p/girls-gone... The Story and the Situation
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Girls Gone Missing Wasn't the Real Story
Tensions Between Hasidic & Secular in a New York County Shape Everything
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Use July Fourth To Start A Movement: Make America America Again
Donald Will Try To Hijack Our 250th Birthday; Don't Let Him
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-dona... And what I realized is that it was more disturbing to witness the crowd than it was to watch Donald’s hackneyed act because while Donald will eventually be gone, the fruits of his poison will permeate our world for a long time.
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[ICYMI] Donald Trots Out Every Hackneyed Stunt at Rockland Bund
But Watching The Mesmerized Crowd Is What Was Truly Disturbing
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Donald Trots Out Every Hackneyed Stunt at Rockland Bund
But Watching The Mesmerized Crowd Is What Was Truly Disturbing
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
On Every Channel tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-grab...
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[ICYMI] Grab the Remote: From Reality Show To RomComs -- Donald is the Star
He Plays A Host, A Housewife, A Contestant & A Spurned Husband
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
He's on Every Channel tinatraster.substack.com/p/grab-the-r...
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Grab the Remote: From Reality Show To RomComs -- Donald is the Star
He Plays A Host, A Housewife, A Contestant & A Spurned Husband
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Where are the men in white coats? tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-its-...
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[ICYMI] It's Time for the Men in the White Coats -- and MAGA Knows It
Donald Is Drowning In A Soup of Daily -- and Nightly --Demented Miasma
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Where are the men in the white coat? tinatraster.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
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It's Time for the Men in the White Coats -- and MAGA Knows It
Donald Is Drowning In A Soup of Daily -- and Nightly --Demented Miasma
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
While too many of us are treading water, or worse, the Emperor is conspiring to remake Washington D.C. in his image. tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-dona...
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[ICYMI] Donald's Nero Period Is Bringing Us Rome 2.0
Remaking The Nation's Capital In His Image With Arches, Statuary, & A Billion-Dollar Ballroom
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Donaldwood? Despot Center anyone?
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Donald's Nero Period Is Bringing Us Rome 2.0
Remaking The Nation's Capital In His Image With Arches, Statuary, & A Billion-Dollar Ballroom
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
And while you were distracted... tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-just...
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[ICYMI] Just When You Think It Can't Get Worse: Let's Bring Back Firing Squads To Execute Death Row Prisoners
Donald's Barbarism Is An Olympic Sport
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Cruelty and Spectacle: That's his brand
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Just When You Think It Can't Get Worse: Let's Bring Back Firing Squads To Execute Death Row Prisoners
Donald's Barbarism Is An Olympic Sport
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The Uninvited tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-the-...
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[ICYMI] The White House Correspondents' Association Must Uninvite Donald
No President Has Done More To Undermine The Principles of Democracy & The First Amendment, and The Press Corps Knows It
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Uninvite Him
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The White House Correspondents' Association Must Uninvite Donald
No President Has Done More To Undermine The Principles of Democracy & The First Amendment, and The Press Corps Knows It
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
We need to talk about what we're talking about tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-shou...
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[ICYMI] Should They Say The Hard Bits Out Loud
Yom HaShoah Asks Us To Remember. It's Also A Call To Action
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Should They Say The Hard Bits Out Loud
Yom HaShoah Asks Us To Remember. It's Also A Call To Action
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
youtu.be/ZcgbZcVhHxM Take a look/listen if you weren't there. This is a condensed version of a talk I gave at Sparkle Bookstore on Friday
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Tina Traster talks local media with the RBA Women's Leadership Council at Sparkle Books
YouTube video by Rockland County Business Journal - RCBJ Connect
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Get up on the desk SUBSCRIBE
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Time To Get Up On The Desk, Like They Did In Dead Poets Society
We Have To Exit Donald's Grip; The Media and the Military To Lead
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Time To Get Up On The Desk, Like They Did In Dead Poets Society
We Have To Exit Donald's Grip; The Media and the Military To Lead
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Like nature’s cycles, “No Kings” is becoming a regularly scheduled migration to vent frustration, fear and fury. We sing “We Shall Overcome” because we have in the past and we tell ourselves we will again. tinatraster.substack.com/p/there-will...
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There Will Be No Springtime In America
Donald's Desecration of Our Nation Makes Me Want To Clean House
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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There Will Be No Springtime In America
Donald's Desecration of Our Nation Makes Me Want To Clean House
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Twin Cities are America’s latter-day Ground Zero, where hope and humanity rise from the ashes of a protracted ethnic cleansing campaign SUBSCRIBE/SHARE/SUPPORT tinatraster.substack.com/p/meet-benso...
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Meet Benson & Ehret: Two Heroes Of The Minneapolis Rebellion
Both Will Grab Bullhorns at Ground Zero at the March 28 No Kings Event; Bruce Will Be There Too
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Go to a No Kings Protest. Do it for Minneapolis
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Meet Benson & Ehret: Two Heroes Of The Minneapolis Rebellion
Both Will Grab Bullhorns at Ground Zero at the March 28 No Kings Event; Bruce Will Be There Too
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Two Wars He Will Lose tinatraster.substack.com/p/icymi-dona...
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[ICYMI] Donald Wages Two Wars: One In Iran, The Other With The Press
He's Unlikely To Prevail at Either
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Two Wars He Will Lose tinatraster.substack.com SUBSCRIBE/SUPPORT
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What Now? | Tina Traster | Substack
Journalists ask questions and endeavor to answer them. This is my attempt to do that. Click to read "What Now?", by Tina Traster, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Donald's Fig of War Coverups tinatraster.substack.com/p/donald-wag...
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Donald Wages Two Wars: One In Iran, The Other With The Press
He's Unlikely To Prevail at Either
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
America's Holy War tinatraster.substack.com
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Donald & Pete's Excellent Excursion Is A Holy War
Dangerous Defense Secretary's Fanatical Christian Nationalism Poisoning America's Military
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Tina Traster @ttraster.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
tinatraster.substack.com/p/the-war-in... Fury runs through Donald’s veins. He can’t get through public speaking without threatening a person or a country with whatever weapons are in his quiver,
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The War In Iran Is Another "Me" Fest for Donald
A Warmongering Would-Be Warrior Uses Violence To Prop Up His Ego
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