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kpete

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February 26, 2021

Flush, please.

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February 25, 2021

Manhattan DA has obtained former potus's tax returns including "millions of pages of docs"

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has obtained former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and related records, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The records include millions of pages of documents, the sources say.
https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1364943494884786182?s=20

February 25, 2021

Snowflake Speaks:

Ted Cruz’s Dog Dishes
By Barry Blitt
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https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/blitts-kvetchbook/ted-cruzs-dog-dishes
February 25, 2021

Why people are broke...duh.

February 24, 2021

Brexit is a machine to generate perpetual grievance. It's doing its job perfectly

from: The Guardian
..........

It is frustrating for remainers who still crave a moment of vindication, when the fraud is proved beyond doubt and the tide of opinion turns. But for that to happen, Brexit would have to be measured in terms of trade and diplomacy. Those aren’t the leavers’ metrics. They long ago swapped economic argument for culture war bluster.

For the true believers, a good Brexit is one that keeps the grievance alive; that makes foreigners the scapegoat for bad government; that continues to indulge the twin national myths of victimhood and heroic defiance. Measured for that purpose, Johnson’s pointless Brexit is perfect.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/23/brexit-machine-perpetual-grievance-britain-brussels

Kinda resonates, dontcha think?

February 24, 2021

"Government Uses T-Word about the Oath Keepers"

Watkins and her confederates in sedition and insurrection are members of domestic terrorist cells that they and the Sedition Caucus call “militias”.

Some call it treason:

...Second, because the defendant has been indicted on an enumerated offense “calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government,” the defendant has been charged with a federal crime of terrorism as defined under 18 U.S.C §§ 2332b(g)(5). Therefore, an additional basis for detention under 18 U.S.C § 3142(g)(1) is applicable…


THE REST:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/02/23/government-uses-t-word-about-the-oath-keepers/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/24/2017728/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Turning-the-corner-on-a-deadly-pandemic#comment_80357127

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