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The Sooknanan Monologue
The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend until Judge Sooknanan entered an order to stop it.
ALLISON GILL
AUG 31, 2025
We’ve seen it before: the Trump regime attempting to clandestinely and illegally remove people from the United States under the cover of darkness, only to be ordered to stop operations mid-flight.
The Sooknanan Monologue - by Allison Gill - The Breakdown
#donald trump#stephen miller#mass deportations#children#judge sooknanan#guatemala#nosferatu#my edits
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Donald Trump again has no public events currently scheduled for Monday
#donald trump#labor day 2025#100 ways trump hurt workers in his first 100 days#economic policy institute
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MAGA, You Voted For This
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Newsom has passed the Montreal cognitive assessment
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Federal elections are administered at the state level and it is unclear whether the president has the constitutional power to enact such a measure.
Aug 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he will issue an executive order to require voter identification from every voter.
“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!,” Trump said on Truth Social.
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Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The California Highway Patrol reportedly will provide security protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris after she lost her Secret Service protection on Thursday.
California officials on Friday bestowed dignitary status on Harris, who has been a private citizen since leaving office on Jan. 19, and will provide her with security protection instead of the Secret Service, The Los Angeles Times reported.
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08/28/2025
by Kyle Mantyla
Earlier this week, Right Wing Watch noted the likelihood that Christian nationalist pseudo-historian was involved in convincing the Trump administration to order a review of exhibits within the Smithsonian Institution to ensure that they conform to and reflect the administration's ideology.
This theory gained more credence when Barton himself admitted on today's episode of "The WallBuilders Show" that he "was up at the White House a week ago and I told them, by far, the most racist and most historically inaccurate museum in Washington, DC, by far, has got to be the museum on African American history."
On today's program, Barton and his son Tim claimed that Smithsonian museums are rife with "anti-American bias" and the exhibits are guided by a "modern Marxist approach" designed to portray "America as a fundamentally flawed and evil nation."
The Barton are particularly upset that the museums seem to have "an obsession with slavery."
"Yes, slavery was part of America's story, but that's not the defining part of America's story," Tim Barton said. "When the story is being told that this is the most significant thing for American history, it's a very dishonest and disingenuous approach because there's so much more to the story than the fact that we had slaves for less than 100 years in our nation's history. That should be really something celebrated that we had slavery for almost the least amount of time in any nation's history in the history of the world. That's a pretty big deal."
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#david barton#smithsonian#tim barton#slavery#american history#faux christian nationalist history#right wing watch#politico#politifact#youtube
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He’s on another QAnon posting spree tonight.

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I just love what Newsom and his team are doing. It's about time that Democrats took off the gloves in fighting Trump.

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I miss former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg so much.
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Hypocrisy takes a train: In an insane moment, Transportation Secretary Duffy, a major critic of President Biden, takes credit for new Acela trains, funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed by Biden.
Trump had nothing to do with it.
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Trump, 79, Fundraises Off Desperate Push to Get Into Heaven
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Could you imagine the outrage if Biden had put his face on huge banners hanging from government buildings?
Or if Biden had sent or threatened to send troops into cities in red states?
And yet, Trump's march towards authoritarianism is going forward unabated, with about 44% of Americans supporting it.
Do his supporters really want to live in an American version of North Korea?
When the U.S. starts to resemble North Korea, you know we're in trouble...
Washington, DC, USA
Pyongyang, North Korea
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