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A Nation Without Empathy Is Just a Crime Syndicate With a Flag
Today’s song: “They’ll Let Your Freeze and Call It Freedom”
How the Republican Party Became America’s Ministry of Propaganda
Louise’s Daily Song: America’s Ministry of Propaganda
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Saturday Report 5/10/25 — Is the Trump administration “looking into” suspending habeas corpus for you & me the same way they did for Kilmar Garcia?
— Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is “looking into” being able to suspend habeas corpus for you and me the same way they did to Kilmar Garcia. They want to be able to kick in our doors and arrest us and throw us in jail for as long as they want without any specific charge, without a warrant, without our hav…
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Recommended Reading
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Everything he does is intentional - why can't we get that through our heads? How about Mao? or Kim Jung Un? Castro? OBL? Son of a Sheik? Stalin? the H name? How far back into history do we have to go and keep asking that question? Genghis Khan? How many names need be named before we get it through our heads that everything he does is intentional? Not looney. Were all the Pharaohs looney? How about moguls, kings, tyrants and despots of anything age? Or did they just do whatever they wanted just because they could?