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John Burman retweeted
They raised a disgustingly ignorant racist child who’s life will be miserable because of it.
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This isn’t how it works. Rubio is putting Trump above the rule of law.
Asked if Hegseth's orders on Iran, boat strikes, Maduro and Yemen were lawful, Rubio said "the president is the commander in chief." Also: "Ultimately our job is to execute on the president's orders ... in the end, the decision is the president's."
John Burman retweeted
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
@PoppyLegion
#EveryPoppyCounts #PoppyAppeal
John Burman retweeted
This Remembrance Day, we remember the four soldiers who lost their lives at CFB Wainwright. Their sacrifice reminds us that freedom and democracy are never to be taken for granted.
We owe the Canada we cherish today to the courage and sacrifice of men and women in uniform.
John Burman retweeted
Yes, it is unreal. It had in fact been thoroughly debunked by the time you posted this.
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I have never seen hospitals this bad. Hospitals are laying off nurses and health care workers while emergency rooms are overflowing and patients are stuck in hallways.
Make it make sense.
Doug Ford has purposefully underfunded our hospitals for years, and now patients and frontline workers are paying the price.
We need MORE nurses, not fewer. #onpoli
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Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was taken to a detention center and held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care, even though my skin burned from the chemicals.
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BREAKING: The Trump White House is now suggesting that CONGRESS could be committing CRIMES simply by investigating the administration.
White House counsel has warned Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming Democratic chair of the House Oversight Committee, that some planned investigations could cross into criminal territory.
Apparently, congressional oversight is perfectly acceptable… until Congress starts overseeing Donald Trump.
I guess the new Republican definition of checks and balances is: Trump writes the checks, and everyone else gets threatened if they try to check the balance.
The Constitution gives Congress oversight powers. It doesn’t come with an exemption for presidents who find accountability inconvenient.
John Burman retweeted
Today is Remembrance Day, when we pause to remember the horrific sacrifices of war made on our behalf by the generations that came before. Donald the draft dodger has demanded that we do not use that name. As with so much else, he should be ignored.
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ICE is raping girls in concentration camps. Report confirmed girls tested positive for pregnancy, and no one is talking about this!
Every pregnant girl in ICE concentration camps needs to have their babies genetically tested to find their rapists.
RAPE is internationally recognized as a method of GENOCIDE and a crime against HUMANITY.
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Zelenskyy: I see changes in what the US team says. From the start I told US envoys Witkoff and Kushner that Ukraine is not real estate.
You cannot talk about two kilometers plus, two kilometers minus on the land of people whose lives were destroyed. 1/
John Burman retweeted
Batshit crazy
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Abdul El-Sayed's message to the 11 Dems who were absent for the Hegseth vote:
"Show up and do your job."
Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed: "Can you imagine being Pete Hegseth right now? Like, why are you still in your job? I mean, it's an open question. Like, Pete, like really just open question. Why are you still doing this job? You are really bad at this. You are failing your responsibility. You have mishandled this war."
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🇷🇺🇨🇦Michaił Diegtiariew grozi Kanadzie. Minister sportu Rosji twierdzi, że odmowa wydania wiz dla rosyjskich hokeistów na mistrzostwa świata juniorów skończy się bardzo źle dla Kanady. Oto jego wypowiedź.
🗣️Mamy plan B na tę sytuację, ale nie będziemy go ujawniać. Wszystko potoczy się dobrze dla Rosji, a dla Kanady źle, ponieważ straci ona prawo do organizowania międzynarodowych imprez sportowych - stwierdził Diegtiariew.
Co ja o tym sądzę? Rosja w obecnej chwili nie ma planu na radzenie sobie z wydawaniem wiz, dlatego Diegtiariew grodzi Kanadzie odebraniem prawa do organizacji imprez sportowych. Ma to na celu zmusić ich do zmiany decyzji. Najpewniej Rosjanie nie zdawali sobie sprawy, jak duża koalicja państw będzie przeciwna powrotowi ich hokeistów.
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NEW: Remember Aliya Rahman, the Minneapolis resident whose image went viral earlier this year after ICE agents violently dragged her out of her car as she was driving to a doctor’s appointment?
Today, she sued the U.S. government. huffpost.com/entry/aliya-rah…
