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Progressive Advocate, Former Contributing Editor Dailykos, Collective Analytics, Programmer, Web Designer, Hard Rock Musician & former member of the Black Rock Coalition frankvyanwalton.substack.com

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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 8h
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Hegseth announces a new drone command and cuts to 20% of generals in ‘State of the Force’ speech
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced some major changes to the U.S. military on Wednesday in what he called his “State of the Force” address, including establishing a new drone command and cutting...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 8h
#ElectionHoax #DHS www.rawstory.com/crew-doj/
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Watchdog demands Trump DHS put up or shut up on voting claims in court
Watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is pressing forward with litigation demanding the Department of Homeland Security hand over the information supporting their ...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 8h
#DogcatcherRace www.rawstory.com/trump-electi...
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Trump DOJ lets fly new indictments in quest to prove election fraud claims
A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for unlawfully voting in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, highlighting the administration’s effort to keep election security a...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 8h
#PeteHegseth #Nitwit #UberFitness #TotalT www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2677...
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Hegseth mocked for 'not achieving full extension' after speech about troop fitness
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s fixation on military fitness became a punchline when a retired lieutenant general was asked to evaluate his own workout form.CNN’s Kasie Hunt noted Wednesday that Hegs...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 8h
Senate #RonWyden #EpsteinFiles www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Trump DOJ accused of using bonkers Epstein scheme to protect Wall Street banker: report
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) accused the Justice Department of "secretly hiding" an FBI interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein to protect Wall Street.Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Co...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 8h
#EricSchmitt #GotchaFail #JacSmith www.rawstory.com/eric-schmitt...
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MAGA aide involved in botched Eric Schmitt gotcha could lose his promotion: report
A planned White House promotion for Sen. Eric Schmitt's general counsel is reportedly now in jeopardy after the Missouri Republican's attempted gotcha moment against former special counsel Jack Smith ...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 14h
#JackSmith #EricSchmidt #Hawkeyes www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Eric Schmitt's bad Jack Smith intel came directly from White House: Top GOP senator
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A top Republican senator suspects Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was handed his bad intel directly by the White House before his possibly career-ending Jack Smith slam dunk.Schmitt was ma...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 14h
#ToddBlanche www.rawstory.com/todd-blanche...
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Todd Blanche gets in fiery shouting match with reporter: 'I'm allowed to fight!'
Attorney General Todd Blanche fired back at reporters who questioned how he could accuse federal judges of bias after calling his own fight with the judiciary a "war."Blanche faced the questions Wedne...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 14h
#DataCenters www.rawstory.com/data-centers/
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GOP data center bill goes down in flames as Dems rage against 'toothless' protections
Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-led data center bill Wednesday, dismissing it as empty political theater designed to help vulnerable Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) survive his first full term in office....
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 14h
#CleanEnergy #SolarPower #Florida www.rawstory.com/byron-donald...
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Byron Donalds rages at 'fad' taking over his home state: 'We know how this works'
Despite the Trump administration’s hostility towards renewable energy, information released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that utility solar capacity — large-scale projects that ...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
# AICatastrophe www.rawstory.com/trump-midter...
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Trump’s ‘unrestrained ignorance’ is leaving Americans exposed to new 'viruses': expert
President Donald Trump’s “unrestrained ignorance” is leaving Americans exposed to three dangers, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman warned Tuesday.In a scathing column,...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Nitwit #IowaHawkeyes www.rawstory.com/eric-schmitt...
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Eric Schmitt's attempt to play off his stunning blunder immediately backfires: 'No sauce'
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) found himself humiliated on Tuesday at the hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith, when he tried to corner Smith in supposed "perjury" that he hadn't been in Atlanta b...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MisaelRamos #Protest #DHS #DPS #Texas #Austin #Protest www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eywf...
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DSA Candidates Are Getting ARRESTED By Trump's DHS Now!?
YouTube video by U.S. Democratic Socialists
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MAGA #Undercover #TransHate #BibleThumping www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b_6...
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I Went UNDERCOVER as a Republican for a YEAR
YouTube video by Powered By Rainbows™
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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A message to my MAGA brother
When the right’s agenda includes inflicting physical harm on millions, right vs left becomes much more than “just politics”.
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#ElonMusk #Fraud #ElectionTheft www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-26...
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Upcoming doc Elon Musk ‘doesn’t want you to see’ exposes him as a ‘fraud’: journalist
Journalist Molly Jong-Fast claimed to have gotten an early look at an upcoming documentary about Tesla CEO and Trump ally Elon Musk, and after watching the first two hours, said she realized why the b...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Immigration #ICEtapo Rep #MariaElviraSalazar www.rawstory.com/trump-267794...
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Trump unleashes 13-post tirade against Florida Republican who defied him
President Donald Trump’s social media lit up Saturday as he shared a flurry of online posts criticizing Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) after the Florida Republican sharply broke with the president o...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#ElectionHoax #VoterFraud www.youtube.com/watch?v=b74O...
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Voter fraud is a lie
YouTube video by Mr. Beat
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Venezuela #Oildeal www.rawstory.com/trump-venezu...
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Trump's 'biggest oil deal' doomed to collapse as investigation exposes legal flaws
President Donald Trump's touted "biggest oil deal in world history" with Venezuela faces legal and logistical problems likely to sink it.The Guardian reported Saturday that nearly every major claim th...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#VivekRamaswamy #GettingDragged www.rawstory.com/vivek-ramasw...
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Trump voters tear apart Vivek Ramaswamy in scathing focus group: 'You're mud to me'
President Donald Trump's voters shredded Vivek Ramaswamy's bid for Ohio governor, knocking the Republican as rich, out of touch and full of empty promises.The voters, all of whom backed Trump in 2024 ...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#FBI #StephanMiller www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...
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Stephen Miller threat probe costs two veteran FBI terror officials their posts: report
Two FBI counterterrorism chiefs were demoted over the pace of their probe into alleged threats to the wife of top White House aide Stephen Miller.Bloomberg Law reported on Saturday that the head of th...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Trump #MediaHate www.rawstory.com/trump-media-...
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Trump snaps 'quiet!' at female reporter in unfiltered moment
President Donald Trump snapped at a female reporter asking about press access, telling her "quiet" and then pointing at her and calling her "fake news."The exchange unfolded Saturday as Trump spoke wi...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#WhiteSupremacy #Savages #MAGA #History #Facts #BlackWallStreet www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6UK...
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White Folks ERUPT As The FORBIDDEN Black History Goes Viral (Total Meltdown)
YouTube video by Real Talk TV
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Senator #AlePadilla #DHS #ICETapo #VoterSuppression #Whistleblower www.youtube.com/watch?v=MehU...
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Illegal 2026 Election Plot? Padilla Explains.
YouTube video by Senator Alex Padilla
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BrandonHerrera #MikeJohnson #MarcoRubio #MikeCollins #PrestonParra #NickFuentes #RichardSpencer #CharlesJohnson #WilliamPaul #DavidAlanScheerII #MarshalRawson #JamesAlexFieldsJr #IdentityEvropa #JonHusted #StephenWoytek #Rhodesia #MichaelBelchik #Racism www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9V7...
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Marco Rubio Says Nazis Aren't Right-Wing — Republicans Say Otherwise
YouTube video by Brittany Page
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Judge #StephanieGallagher #ContemptOfCourt #IllegalDeportation #Asylum #ELA www.rawstory.com/trump-deport...
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Trump's own appointee holds his admin in contempt for defying 3 court orders
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump has held his administration in contempt for deporting a 19-year-old asylum seeker to El Salvador a second time, in violation of three court orders, ...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#USPS #SaveDatabase #VoterSuppression #VoterPurge #MailinBallots www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hZP...
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BOMBSHELL: Supreme Court UPENDS election with SHOCK RULING
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Conservatives #Europe #WakeUp www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ8-...
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White Conservative Moves to Europe & Realizes She Was Brainwashed
YouTube video by Young Don Reacts
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#KenanjiBrownJackson #ShadowDocket #Authoritarianism www.rawstory.com/trump-suprem...
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Supreme Court justice rips 'potentially corrosive' tactic fueling Trump's 'harmful acts'
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tore into her Supreme Court colleagues for repeatedly clearing the way for Trump administration policies through rushed emergency orders.Jackson made the remarks during a...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Judge #JudySheindlin #Progress #LoveItOrLeaveIt www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFIl...
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Judge Judy Climbed Through Opened Doors—Then Tried to Slam Them Shut
YouTube video by The Amazing Lucas
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#AI #Datacenter #Treason www.rawstory.com/trump-ai-267...
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Trump brands AI skeptics 'traitors' as his DOJ threatens prison for aiding 'foreign power'
President Donald Trump is casting Americans who oppose AI and data centers as agents of China, and a new Justice Department warning has raised alarm that the administration could try to prosecute them...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#ICEtapo #ConcentrationCamps ground.news/article/ices...
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Watchdog Says ICE Spent Millions on Poorly Planned Detention Projects
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing ill-conceived plans to rapidly increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise ...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#MeToo #HarveyWinstein #Convicted ground.news/article/harv...
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Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2006 sex crime in New York
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday, more than a year after a jury found the former Hollywood mogul guilty of sexually assaulting former “Project Runway” production assistan...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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MS NOW and CNN says they have been granted access to White House
US news ‌outlets ​MS ​NOW and ⁠CNN ​said ​on Thursday that ​they ​had been ‌granted ⁠access to ​the ​White ⁠House.
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#USDA #MeatRecall ground.news/article/pork...
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Massive Meat Recall Affects Beef, Pork and More: USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a massive meat recall on more than 167,000 pounds of of raw pork, beef, and goat products that officials said were produced without the benefit of fede...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#BenjaminNetanyahou #WarCriminal #Genocide ground.news/article/neta...
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Netanyahu Calls Departing UN Delegates 'Moral Cowards' After Dozens Walk Out as He Took the Podium
Dozens of diplomats, including representatives from Arab and Muslim-majority states, left the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu began a combative speech defending Israel's military actions.
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#IranWar #StraitOfHormuz #Blockade ground.news/article/us-a...
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US and Iran discuss phased deal to reopen Hormuz and end US blockade: Reuters
US and Iranian negotiators in New York are exploring a phased path out of war that would involve Tehran reopening the Strait of Hormuz and Washington lifting its economic blockade of Iran, sources clo...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#DefyingCourtOrders #Contempt #MediaBan www.youtube.com/watch?v=qis_...
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🚨 BREAKING: Trump DEFIES JUDGE’S ORDER…
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Trump BEATEN as Judge GRANTS Injunction and Restores Media White House Press Credentials!
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Gaza #Genocide #AbdulElSayed www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFRG.... Is Gaza a Genocide?
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Scott Galloway Asks Absurd Genocide Question
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#PaulLePage #IllegalDetention www.rawstory.com/paul-lepage-...
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Trump-loving candidate shamed over ICE complaint: 'Mass deportations are getting personal'
A Republican congressional candidate sparked backlash by expressing outrage at a family member's looming deportation.Paul LePage, the former Maine governor currently seeking the state's open 2nd Congr...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#DefyingCourtOrder #Contempt www.rawstory.com/white-house-...
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White House defies court ruling by shutting out news agencies after being ordered not to
Reporters for Politico, CNN and MS NOW were still barred from the White House hours after a federal judge ordered their access restored.Journalists from all three outlets were turned away at Secret Se...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#UN #IranWar #DeadChildren www.rawstory.com/iran-2677922...
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US delegation storms out as Iranian president holds up images of slain children
The United States delegation to the United Nations was seen storming out of the General Assembly Hall in New York Wednesday as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian held up images of children who are wi...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#China #XiJinping #Communism www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Trump's 'gala for a communist' is ripping apart his own red state base: lawmakers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ronald Reagan’s vision of America as a “shining city upon a hill” is being torn apart as President Donald Trump attacks America’s free press — while giving a communist leader the re...
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#FBI #Hacked #AWSServers #Exfiltration #EmployeeFiles #ExpertisePurge #Incompetence www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsa...
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🚨Trump’s FBI GETS HACKED…
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump demands 600k lbs of Mystery Meat for our burgers frankvyanwalton.substack.com/p/trump-dema...
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Trump demands 600k lbs of Mystery Meat for our burgers
#MysteryMeat
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#MysteryMeat www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNxd...
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"Fast Food Nation," Mystery Meat & Trump's Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Vyan @vyan1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Laura Loomer Says She’s “Pissed” After Trump Praises Mamdani
NEW YORK CITY, New York — President Donald Trump’s unexpectedly cordial meeting with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani drew backlash from some of Trump’s most outspoken supporters, including political act...
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