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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Nevada to provide access to its complete statewide voter registration database.
DOJ is now 0-22. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/nevada...
This is pretty much what you would expect someone who views sailors and soldiers as suckers and losers to say.
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $20.5M in 2025 — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 958x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
The President's daughter, whose wealth derives, in part from the fact that her spouse fluffed a dictator who chopped up a journalist w/a bonesaw, & whose daddy is deporting migrants at scale, is sharing what she claims to be reading this summer as she travels "From Miami to Iceland to Bedminster."
"You want to get on television, you go on Fox TV and say something bad about Bernie Sanders... I don't think there is anyone in the Democratic caucus who has a lower rating than John [Fetterman] does."
Bernie Sanders, to me, on John Fetterman.
Full intv: zeteo.com/p/bernie-san...
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