Todd G

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DC born and raised. I catch financial criminals.

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As the daughter of a Black Vietnam vet who suffered life long pain from a service related injury but was constantly turned away from care by the VA I can’t even bring myself to read this. My father eventually died of a treatable condition at 62 b/c he was sent home to take ibuprofen by a VA doc.

A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.

Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.

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If you paid attention to Trump's side of the debate, he had the same underlying problem Biden did, where over and over he would start a sentence and realize he couldn't say or remember the words that would come next, but where Biden stalled out, Trump just switched to blurting something unrelated

Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's lost it - he can't focus and his brains are leaking out his ears, but the press is very impressed with him because HE CAN STILL SHOUT

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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The U.S. govt decided to invest +$550 billion. $302B to roads, bridges, public transit, ports & airports, electric school & transit buses, EV charging... $78B to clean energy, buildings, & manufacturing. $25B to communities' resilience to climate change & other threats $36B water infrastructure.

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How Americans view America. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Chris Hayes

This is similar to the distinction I was drawing here, between the official act and the method employed in service of that act. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The perfectly valid presidential-immunity murder hypotheticalwww.washingtonpost.com Trump’s defenders (and some of his critics) are often missing the point of the argument.

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Gerardo Martí

Theme …

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Biden gives a prime time address: All citizens of any state where I win will receive $25,000. Any state where I lose I will garnish $25,000 of your wages.

I think the IRS needs to be ordered to release the tax returns for various Trump and Kushners, as well as various Supreme Court justices and Trump advisors.

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It’s incredibly funny that Trump has been screaming about Biden conspiring to file all these court cases against him (with no evidence). And now the Supreme Court says, well actually a president can do that if he wants.

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Joe Biden has the potential to do the legalest thing now

If the Supreme Court decides in favor of Trump’s claim that a sitting president has immunity from prosecution, the logical and legal thing for Biden to do would be to simply assassinate him before the election

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New York Times: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Too Old For This Fight And Should Drop Out And Let Luke Or Possibly C3PO Replace Him For The Good Of The Galaxy

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Joe Biden has to hurry up and commit fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection quickly so The New York Times will think he's fit to stay in the race.

@japersrink.bsky.social The Athletic ranked the Capitals in the bottom quartile of the league for all positions (center, wings, defense, and goalie). Is Carbery really that good? Or is The Athletic underrating the players? #askjapers

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This is a real image and my god it’s the funniest thing ever

get a load of the chyron Newsmax is displaying while Corey Lewandowski interviews Trump

Nice to know that Hockey HOF voters are still screwing it up on the regular.

Datsyuk, Roenick, Weber among 7-person '24 Hockey Hall class - ESPNwww.espn.com The 7-person 2024 Hockey Hall of Fame class will include Natalie Darwitz, Pavel Datsyuk, Jeremy Roenick, Shea Weber and Krissy Wendell-Pohl. Colin Campbell and David Poile were selected in the Builder...

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i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans | Cornell Chroniclenews.cornell.edu Researchers have found that when it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents.

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Thanks for Reggie Jackson for saying this, and contempt and defiance, in advance, to the worthless shitbirds who will say he shouldn’t have and that he oughta leave if he doesn’t like it. Regrettably those worthless shitbirds are now fairly mainstream. sports.yahoo.com/mlb-at-rickw...

MLB at Rickwood Field: Reggie Jackson recalls racist treatment in Alabama in stunning interviewsports.yahoo.com For three minutes, Mr. October laid out in stunning detail what it was like to be a Black player in Alabama in 1967.

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oh ok www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

Robert Winnett will not join The Post as editorwww.washingtonpost.com Robert Winnett, hired by Washington Post publisher William Lewis, faced questions about his U.K. work, including stories based on stolen records.

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What the trade for Pierre-Luc Dubois means for the Capitals’ lineup russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2024/06/20/w...

What the trade for Pierre-Luc Dubois means for the Capitals’ lineuprussianmachineneverbreaks.com When the Washington Capitals traded goaltender Darcy Kuemper to the Los Angeles Kings for centerman Pierre-Luc Dubois, they solved two problems at once -- at least in their minds. Kuemper, an expensiv...

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Four Years Ago Today

The indoor rally is held in deep red Tulsa, Oklahoma, where health restrictions on gatherings were lax. Former GOP candidate Herman Cain, an advocate of mask “freedom,” is among many who catches the virus at the superspreader event. He dies a month later.

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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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To complete the circle, they should have required that the commandments come from the Trump ™ Bible, thus breaking one of the commandments they’re requiring schools to post.

In theory, Louisiana Republicans already know their new law mandating Ten Commandments displays in classrooms is at odds with the First Amendment and Supreme Court precedent. In practice, they expect to get away with it anyway. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Why Louisiana’s radical new law on Ten Commandments, schools matterswww.msnbc.com The Supreme Court has said Ten Commandments displays in public schools are unconstitutional. Louisiana Republicans passed a new law on this anyway.

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Amazing. One of the greatest TV shows ever and some of the greatest TV acting performances ever (Andre Braugher as Frank Pembleton maybe THE best ever)

If the good news has not appeared here: NBC HAS SECURED THE MUSIC RIGHTS TO STREAM 'HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET' I REPEAT -- 'HOMICIDE' TO STREAM

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Related: it drives annoying people absolutely NUTS when you simply stop replying to them, depriving them of the argument-related dopamine they crave

Long ago, I realized I didn't have to have the last word, and that improved my life significantly.

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Republicans overwhelmingly disapprove of Trump's conviction in New York. Most Democrats approve of Hunter Biden's conviction in Delaware. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Republicans fume at Trump’s conviction. Democrats shrug at Hunter Biden’s.www.washingtonpost.com But then, the president’s son didn’t spend years undermining confidence in law enforcement.

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Without IVF, I would not be a father. When the Southern Baptists condemn IVF, they are saying that the wish my child did not exist. The Southern Baptist church has been on the wrong side of history since its inception.

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My grandfather worked in the Bitcoin mines of central Pennsylvania his entire life and never asked for a handout from anyone. It’s about time the people who took that world away from us are kicked out of power so that Trump can bring our Bitcoin jobs back!

Donald Trump: “We want all remaining Bitcoin to be made in the USA” I think it may be time to move this man into hospice care