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Alex Pretti's father: Our son was shot and killed by the government, federal immigration agents, on January 24th, 2026. We learned about his death from the media as we saw him being shot repeatedly in the back after helping a woman from his community. This was not a protest that Alex was at. His hands were in the air, and his face was on the ground when he was executed by ICE agents. We know exactly what our eyes saw. No one from the federal government called us on that day. But they did go on TV to tell lies about Alex. No one has called us since. No one has recanted those lies.
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On this day in 1985, the Royals defeated the Cardinals 11-0 in game 7 to win their first World Series in franchise history!
Bret Saberhagen was the winning pitcher, throwing a complete game shutout and earning WS MVP honors👑
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Alex Singleton had NINETEEN tackles in this game. Still leads the NFL in tackles. By a lot.
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Sean Payton stated the Broncos building never lost faith in Bo Nix
“He’s our guy”
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⚠️ TEXAS VOTER ALERT: Multiple voters in Bexar County report touchscreen voting machines switching their selections from Democrat Gina Hinojosa to Republican Greg Abbott and from Democrat James Talarico to Republican Ken Paxton, with some voters having to correct their choices repeatedly, according to KSAT.
Election officials blame likely touchscreen sensitivity or user error and say they’re investigating the complaints.
No deliberate tampering has been established. CHECK EVERY SELECTION AND YOUR PRINTED BALLOT BEFORE CASTING IT. If anything is wrong, alert a poll worker immediately. Once your ballot is cast, you cannot correct it.
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Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
Republicans control the Supreme Court.
Republicans control the DOJ.
This is what they did with two years in control:
trump gets:
- Gold all over the Oval Office
- BILLIONS in crypto for himself
- $400 million dollar Qatari bribe jet
- Millions in media and tech settlements
- Gold bars and diamond rings for tariff relief
- BILLIONS in Pentagon contracts for his sons
- $100,000 per month per person for insider info
- $600 million dollar ballroom at taxpayer expense
YOU GET:
- A war in Iran
- Higher gas prices
- Higher utility prices
- Higher grocery prices
- Higher housing prices
- Higher healthcare costs
- 21 dead American soldiers
- loss of trust from allies around the globe
- ICE thugs abusing our friends and neighbors
Now they want TWO MORE YEARS in office,
While they actively try to STEAL your vote.
WE ARE NOT POWERLESS.
Your vote can change this.
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The 2014 Royals' Wild Card Game comeback ended with Salvador Perez delivering the walk-off hit. Kansas City had waited years just to get back to October, and the postseason run that followed had to survive this game first.
That's what makes the clip more than one walk-off. It became the opening scene of a Royals run that fans had been waiting decades to experience.
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Ike used that globe to plan the largest amphibious invasion in history with patience and precision. Hegseth’s team couldn’t move it across the Pentagon without putting a hole in it because waiting for the specialists felt like too much trouble. The metaphor is almost painfully on-the-nose.
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The East Wing. The Rose Garden. The reflecting pool. The Kennedy Center. The south lawn turned into a helipad. D.C.’s iconic Japanese cherry trees. 300 oaks razed for a golf course. Historic artifacts destroyed for a mere lack of patience. They’re a cult of destructive privilege.
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They broke Eisenhower’s globe because they didn’t want to wait for a team of specialist historians to move it.
I cannot think of a more apt metaphor for Pete Hegseth’s DoD.
Every single thing they touch….
"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by curators. Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They dropped it...The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide."
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Did you know? George Brett is the only player in MLB history to win the batting title in 3 different decades, winning it in 1976, 1980, and 1990.
The greatest third baseman in baseball history, argue with a wall
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The most underrated word in American politics today is “decency.”
Most of us try to be good parents, good neighbors, good colleagues, good citizens.
Decent people.
A political movement built on gleeful cruelty, open racism, wanton lies, and proud loutishness won’t last.
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Trump’s own appointees asked the government’s election security agency to secretly hack a voting machine and send the results to the White House. The career staff refused.
ProPublica broke this story. Early in this term, political appointees at Homeland Security went to CISA with a request. Buy a voting machine in secret. Break into it. Don’t tell the company that makes it what you find. Report back so it can go to the White House. That’s the opposite of how CISA works. When it finds a weakness, the whole point is to get it patched.
One former official said the plan looked like something they could keep in their back pocket to invalidate any election results they don’t like. The staff kept telling the appointees it couldn’t be done. Part of the reason? DOGE had already laid off the specialists who could pull it off.
This is the agency Trump created. In 2020 it called that election the most secure in American history, and Trump fired the director for saying so. Since then a third of its workforce is gone, states say they’ll never share information with it again, and its election security plan came out at thirteen pages after early voting had already started.
So the agency built to protect the vote has been gutted, and the people who gutted it asked what was left to hack a voting machine. I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
