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BREAKING — REVEALED: The REAL reason behind ICE’s run of deadly shootings — and it’s WORSE than ANYBODY thought. ICE just quietly confessed something TRULY HORRIFYING: agents were killing people because the White House demanded 2,000 arrests a day, no matter the human cost. After two men — neither of whom was even the target of the operations that killed them — were shot dead by ICE agents within days of each other, the agency has secretly ordered a nationwide freeze on traffic stops. Not publicly. Not with an apology. Just quiet internal guidance, leaked by ICE's own people who are horrified by what's happening. A senior ICE official told PunchUp exactly why agents are killing innocent people: "There is a demand for 2,000 arrests a day. Leaders are being fired for bad numbers." Exhausted, quota-driven agents were forcing dangerous confrontations just to hit Trump's numbers. "I would shut down ops until we got a handle on s--t," the insider said. "Not doing traffic stops. Not blocking the vehicles. If they run. They run. Find them later. Don't force a bad position." That's an ICE insider — not an activist, not a critic — begging the agency to stop because his own colleagues were creating deadly confrontations. The dead: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican homebuilder shot in Houston, whose passengers dispute ICE's claim he "weaponized his vehicle." And Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian man on his way to work in Biddeford, Maine — a man ICE admits wasn't even who they were looking for. This is Trump's covert mass-arrest blitz in action — the one that swept up over 10,000 people in five days. Numbers over lives. Quotas over safety. And when the bodies started piling up, even Republican Senator Susan Collins had seen enough, personally pushing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to halt "all non-urgent vehicle stops." ICE's public response? A shrug: "We are always evaluating our procedures... We will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics." Two innocent men are dead. ICE's own agents saw it coming and begged their bosses to stop. Trump's quota system killed them anyway. The real question is: exactly who and how many will be prosecuted once America drives Trump and his goons from office? Because if this kind of behavior doesn’t deserve accountability, we don’t know what does. Please like and share to spread the news.
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Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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BREAKING: "ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF JAPAN" — Trump’s mental fitness crisis just played out on live international television. Donald Trump’s rapidly deteriorating mental capabilities are embarrassing enough when exhibited to a domestic audience, but it’s even worse when a US president displays his ever-increasing dementia before a summit of global leaders. The man who spent four years mocking Joe Biden's every stumble just handed the world a highlight reel of disordered cognition that's going to be very hard to explain away. At the NATO summit in Turkey, 80-year-old Donald Trump — now the oldest president in American history — delivered a cascade of jaw-dropping gaffes that would have triggered wall-to-wall Republican outrage if they'd come from any Democrat. While sitting next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump repeatedly called him "President Putin" — the name of the man whose missiles are actively killing Zelensky's people. At one point Trump turned to reporters and asked: "Do you have a question for President Putin, please?" gesturing directly at the Ukrainian leader. Then, apparently realizing his gaffe and trying to recover, he told reporters to ask him questions that he could RELAY to the Russian president — as Zelensky sat right there watching. Trump also informed the world that "111 missiles" had been fired by "the Islamic Republic of Japan." Iran and Japan are, for the record, different countries on different continents. He then mangled the name of Obama's nuclear deal — the JCPOA — calling it the "JCPOC." And when a reporter asked about closing the skies over Ukraine, Trump replied "Close what?" requiring Secretary of State Marco Rubio to lean in and whisper the answer like a prompter at a middle school play. And then there was this gem: "Do you know who's number one on Tic Tac? I am." He meant TikTok. "Tic Tac" is a breath mint, and perhaps he’s number one among people who need the mint’s protection from halitosis. This is the same man who ran an entire presidential campaign on the premise that Joe Biden was too cognitively impaired to serve. Who gleefully amplified every Biden stumble. Whose allies produced supercuts and memes and demanded cognitive testing of the former president. Trump brags about "acing" cognitive tests — apparently unaware that the tests he's describing are dementia screenings. His White House physician says he's in "excellent health." Republicans are silent. And somewhere, Joe Biden is watching a man call Zelensky "Putin" on live international television. The hypocrisy isn't subtle — and neither is the dementia Trump is increasingly exhibiting. Please like and share if you think that diminished mental state is disqualifying for Trump to continue acting as president of the United States.
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BREAKING: French Senator Claude Malhuret TORCHES Trump and his alcoholic, drug-addicted administration on the floor of the Luxembourg Palace: "Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction!" This might be the greatest MAGA takedown of all time. Nobody was spared... "A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump's presidency to Nero's Court. I was wrong. It's the miracle court. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health," he said, referring to RFK Jr. Malhuret's comparison to the mad Emperor Nero is fitting. It's said that he fiddled while Rome burned. In Trump's case, he's building a ballroom while the entire world goes up in flames. "A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy. An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces," Malhuret continued, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. "An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice. A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security," Malhuret went on, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Bondi previously worked for the Ballard Partners firm which raked in $115,000 a month by lobbying on behalf of Qatar. "A Turkish proverb says 'When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus," said Malhuret. "His fine team has decided to create a competitor to the UN. Since the creation of the Board of Peace, Trump has triggered more military strikes than Biden during his entire term." "Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction," he continued. "Bomb more to win more." This is how the world now sees the American president: as a pedophile desperately exploiting his role as commander-in-chief to obscure the fact that he preyed on children with his long-time pal Jeffrey Epstein. "There isn't a single country where Trump did not take advantage of the situation to enrich himself without ever forgetting his family. A Boeing plane offered by Qatar," he said, referring to the $400 million jet that Qatar "gifted" to Trump. "Investment in all Gulf projects or elsewhere. Stock market manipulation that only a few insiders benefit from." "Any one of these conflicts of interest would have caused an immediate procedure of impeachment here," Malhuret. "But we are not here. We are in MAGA's America where public business is conducted in favor of private interests." Rarely have we heard such an exhaustive yet succinct distillation of the Trump administration's rampant criminality and incompetence. By focusing on individual Cabinet members and what makes them uniquely unfit for office and then expanding the aperture to the broader patterns of corruption and malignancy, Malhuret delivered a master class in political messaging. Every mainstream outlet in the U.S. should be running this speech to show Americans what the world thinks of our leaders. Since they won't, please make sure to like and share to spread this far and wide!
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BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney blindsides Trump by forming a super alliance of 40 powerful countries to defeat his disastrous MAGA agenda. Carney has become one of Trump's most brilliant adversaries... According to Politico, the European Union, composed of 27 nations, as well as a geopolitical bloc of 12 Indo-Pacific countries, have begun negotiations to form one of the largest economic alliances in the entire world. This historic pivot comes as Trump continues to wage erratic tariff wars on close allies, turning the once-stable United States into a deeply unreliable partner. The talks are being led by Canada and will be the fruit of Carney's vision of a world in which the so-called "middle powers" unite to undermine Trump's tariffs and make themselves immune to his bullying coercion. If successful — and it certainly appears to be heading in that direction — the supply chains of countries as far off as Canada, Malaysia, and Germany could be intwined into one super supply chain. “The work is definitely coming along,” a Canadian government official said to POLITICO. “We’ve had very fruitful discussions on it with other partners around the world.” “We see a lot of value in increasing trade among the EU and [Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership] parties, which would also contribute to enhancing supply chain resilience,” stated a Japanese trade official. Last month, Carney gave an astonishing speech at the Davos World Economic Forum during which he announced the end of American dominance, stating that the "bargain no longer" works for the rest of the world. American hegemony once offered benefits, now it offers only chaos. "Let me be direct, we are in the midst of a rupture not a transition," Carney said during that speech. "Over the past two decades a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid the bare risks of extreme global integration." "But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons," he said, referring to Trump. "Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructures as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination." He predicted that allied nations would "diversify to hedge against uncertainty" and "rebuild sovereignty" and that's exactly what's happening with this nascent trade alliance. Carney said that the deal will "create a new trading bloc of 1.5 billion people." Left out in the cold would be the American people, who will be forced to stand by as the citizens of other nations enjoy easier, cheaper access to reliable goods. Trump has made us a world pariah, and the price will be shouldered by your wallet. “We hope that if that’s a success, if you can see tangible benefits in different areas, that could also entice other countries to join in and team up in a positive sense,” said Klemens Kober, the Director of Trade Policy, EU Customs, Transatlantic Relations at the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce. “So the more the merrier," Kober added. This is what happens when you elect an ignorant conman and give him unilateral power over foreign policy. Trump and his MAGA sycophants thought that the rest of the world would simply roll over as America proceeded to pillage and ransack their coffers. Instead, they'e banding together to completely shatter the balance of power forever. Please like and share!
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BREAKING: Tatiana Schlossberg, fierce critic of her cousin RFK Jr.’s health policies, succumbs to cancer at 35. As Tatiana Schlossberg spent the last weeks of her life fighting blood cancer, she spent much of her dwindling energy also fighting against the dangerous ideology being pushed by her own cousin. In her final months, the 35-year-old journalist, environmentalist, and daughter of Caroline Kennedy did what few dared — she publicly condemned Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine extremism and his role in dismantling the very medical system keeping her alive. In a devastating essay written while battling aggressive leukemia, Schlossberg laid bare the human cost of RFK Jr.’s war on science. As she endured chemotherapy, stem cell transplants, and life-threatening complications, she watched in horror as her cousin — newly empowered as Health and Human Services Secretary — slashed funding for medical research, attacked vaccine science, and destabilized the institutions she depended on to survive. “This is the system keeping me alive,” she wrote. “And he is tearing it down.” Schlossberg didn’t speak in abstractions. She named names. She called out RFK Jr.’s obsession with conspiracy theories, his attacks on vaccine science, and his reckless crusade against the very public-health infrastructure that saved her life. While she fought leukemia, her cousin was questioning the safety of the same medical advances that gave her a fighting chance. She didn’t mince words: RFK Jr. was “an embarrassment” to her and to the Kennedy family — a devastating indictment from someone who understood the cost of his policies not in theory, but in blood, bone marrow, and hospital rooms. Her story laid bare the cruelty of political extremism masquerading as “skepticism.” While RFK Jr. dismantled research funding and undermined trust in science, Schlossberg clung to treatments made possible only through decades of publicly funded research — the very investments he sought to gut. In the end, her voice became a moral reckoning. As she faced death, she used her remaining strength not to shield her family name, but to tell the truth: that anti-science ideology kills, that misinformation has consequences, and that her cousin’s crusade endangered countless lives — including her own. Tatiana Schlossberg did not live to see the future she hoped for. But in her final words, she left behind something more powerful than political spin: a witness, a warning, and a legacy of courage that stands in stark contrast to the reckless agenda she bravely condemned. Let us hope that RFK Jr.’s dangerous, conspiracy-laden agenda is quickly condemned and reversed by actually competent scientists and that he is quickly removed from the position he is so supremely unqualified for. Only then will Tatiana Schlossberg be able to truly rest in peace. Please like and share in her memory!
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Just hours after Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, tragically died, Donald Trump has launched a series of social media attacks against her family. RETWEET if you stand with @CarolineKennedy against these despicable attacks!
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BREAKING: Trump just quietly STABBED America’s nurses in the back with his “One Big Beautiful Bill”! While grinning next to his billionaire Education Secretary, Donald Trump signed a disgusting provision that DEMOTES advanced nursing degrees, social work, physical therapy, and physician assistant programs from “professional” to “non-professional” status. Translation: Future nurses now get capped at a pathetic $57,500 in federal loans… while lawyers and doctors keep their $200,000+ limit. This is straight out of the Project 2025 playbook: defund female-dominated professions, crush the middle class, and make it impossible for working-class heroes to become the nurses who save YOUR life one day. Trump voters, especially the ones in scrubs who showed up for him in 2024… how does it feel to be betrayed THIS fast? Nurses keep us alive. Trump just told them they’re second-class. Spread this far and wide. Our healthcare heroes deserve better than this heartless MAGA attack! 💔👩‍⚕️ #TrumpHatesNurses #BigBeautifulBetrayal
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The first hibiscus bloom! Lovely likkle signs of renewal #TreasureBeach 🇯🇲
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Replying to @BarackObama
Funny how Republicans suddenly pretend Pelosi was “the problem” when the same party spent decades blocking every bill that actually helped Americans — healthcare, wages, student debt, veteran care… They scream “corruption” but stayed silent when Trump funneled tax dollars into his own businesses, pardoned his friends, and let billionaires write policy. If Pelosi was so “evil,” why did they fight harder to stop her than to govern the country? Tell me again who’s ruining America — the woman who passed laws, or the guy who tried to overthrow an election and still cries like a victim?
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this is what we mean when we say plant agriculture isn't inherently ethical. and why ideologies like veganism fail under scrutiny
you should stop eating cashews because the fruit that its harvested from burns ppl and the main workers of cashew farms in 3rd world countries are children children are getting disfigured for your cashews
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This is how it’s done. Thank you @NYMag!
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The irony is that Trump’s 34 felony convictions would prevent him from getting a job at McDonald’s.
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This should be the story and Headline - teapawt.net/aaronparnas/status/184…
We need to make this clip of JD Vance refusing to say Trump lost the 2020 election go viral.
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Vance had to lie about the 2020 election to be selected as VP
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Vance is a pathological liar and could not even admit Trump lost the 2020 Election, which should be the headline.
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BREAKING: In a stunning response, swing voters are saying it was JD Vance’s refusal to admit Donald Trump lost in 2020 that made them swing to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’ side. Retweet so all Americans see this and know Walz won the debate.
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