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Documentary filmmaking & communication strategies for social justice, focus on rural issues. Producer Appalshop's Making Connection News. Tweets are my own.

Whitesburg, KY
Joined November 2008
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First it was $200 million, then it was $300 million, then it was $400 million completely covered by donations from his wealthy buddies. Now it's going to cost $1 billion, and it's all paid by taxpayers. Had enough yet?
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Last night Israel kidnapped & arrested 175 activists aboard the Flotilla for trying to bring much needed aid to Gaza. How do people not understand how evil this is? Israel continues to block starving Palestinians from receiving aid because it wants them to die. This is genocide.
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Our current economy is rigged. It just is. A new report shows that 88 of the largest companies in America, including: Amazon Citigroup Haliburton Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Disney paid ZERO corporate income tax last year.
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🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just revealed that Pete Hegseth ordered military members to an area in Kuwait with an ACTIVE WARNING they had ZERO defense against drone attacks and he IGNORED IT. Six were then KILLED. Survivors blame Hegseth. This is even WORSE than Benghazi.
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This should be a bigger story. Donald Trump launched military strikes on Iran, setting off a chain reaction that left Gulf countries scrambling for drone defense. Now, his sons are stepping in to sell those same countries the very drones the conflict made necessary. The president starts a war, the war creates demand, his own family moves in to profit, and foreign governments, desperate for American military backing, feel enormous pressure to buy. This is the first family in American history to profit from a war their father started without Congress’s consent. That is a level of corruption this country has never seen before. The American people deserve to know who exactly their government is working for, because right now it is not working for you. Welcome to Episode 14 of the Corruption Chronicles.
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Absolutely horrifying. Trump and Israel bombed a bridge in Karaj, Iran — while families were nearby enjoying picnics. Then they bombed it again when rescue teams rushed in. Bombing civilians is a war crime. Bombing rescuers is a war crime Bombing infrastructure is a war crime
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NEW: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy transferred $1 million to a super PAC for his son-in-law. Months later, one of the nation's biggest GOP donors, whose company is regulated by DoT, matched the donation. My dive into the new ethics of DC. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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A quick history of how @RepThomasMassie and I forced Trump to fire his own Attorney General Pam Bondi. Now, the Senate must demand the new Attorney General release all the Epstein files and begin prosecutions of the abusers before voting to confirm.
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Israel/US have bombed the B1 Bridge in Karaj, a monumental project that connected Tehran with northern regions of the country, including the Caspian Sea. A major transportation artery. We are witnessing war crimes in real time. Again and again and again.
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Donald Trump cares so much about our troops that he foreclosed 10,000 military families out of their homes to save the federal government a little money. Why? Because Joe Biden made a plan to help them but Trump shut it down. npr.org/2026/04/02/nx-s1-575…
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Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes. $1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity. One hour before the announcement. Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time. They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades. Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium. The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened. This is not the first time. It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves. But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it. Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind. These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world. I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here. This isn't politics anymore. This is a financial operation running out of the White House.
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Helluva midterm message.
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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Kristi Noem rigging the property appraiser’s exam while governor so her daughter could get her license, killing a puppy, & giving her boyfriend a powerful job in govt while cheating on her cross-dressing spouse is not that unusual on the spectrum of Republican politician behavior
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The White House has gotten this image of Karoline Leavitt censured from Getty because it was “unflattering “. Please don’t you dare share it.
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In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) Just before launching a war. FT has the scoop: ft.com/content/744ea8dc-6d93… In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.
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The Pentagon is denying a report by The Financial Times that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stockbroker was seeking to make large investments in major defense companies in the days before the U.S. and Israel struck Iran. That report is raising more concerns about the people in and around the Trump administration who seem to be profiting in unusual ways. @ElizLanders reports.
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Trump has 5 kids with 3 women he cheated on. Elon Musk has 14 kids with 4 women he cheated on. Pete Hegseth has 7 kids with 3 women he cheated on. RFK Jr has 7 kids with 3 women he cheated on. The Republican Party protects pedophiles. Family values - my ass.
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SHAME on every Republican who voted to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid with a so-called "Balanced Budget Amendment." It did not pass — but now they are on the record.
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