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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
FRIENDS: Really American will be using this hashtag to remind everyone that 30 days is enough time to change the direction of this country, if every one of us shows up. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
Managed to harvest five chicken coop roof pumpkins before dusk. (And spiders that jump in your hair.) The first one grew upside down and weighs almost 45 pounds. Cinderellas are super dense squash. If you’ve been checking your registration and get illegally taken off the voter rolls in these next 30 days, call 866- OUR-VOTE.
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
This is Garrett Langley, the CEO of Flock Surveillance Cameras. Please DO NOT REPOST HIS IMAGE, because while his company wants to photograph you wherever you go,... and digitally store everything you do,... they themselves do not want to be photographed,... because they value their privacy.
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
new gym playlist is just gonna be the Game of Thrones soundtrack tbh, the score is too good
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Trump inherited an economy The Economist called “The Envy of the World" and ran it into the ground, just like everything else he inherited.
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Absentee ballot voters in Montana won’t have to comply with an onerous birthdate verification requirement after a state court blocked the measure Friday night, ruling that it violates the state constitution. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
You’re not getting $5000. JFC.
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
Trump's lying has increased in its severity, hyperbolism, and defensiveness. Have you noticed? He's always claimed to be the best "this" and the smartest "that," and yesterday he actually said: “I know more about everything than anybody in this room. Anybody. Anywhere in the world.” Yes, he really said this. This signals a functional deterioration, born of distress. Some psychologists use the term "pseudologia fantastica" to describe it - in most cases, the person is unaware they are doing it, and unable to stop. It's persistent, compulsive, absurd, and a precursor to panic. When a narcissistic sociopath is trying to force-feed his alternative reality, and they notice it's not working, and they see their predicament getting worse, they become increasingly desperate - and they put forth fantastical and unfiltered absolutes. This is a deception pattern that rarely works to deceive, because it is so exaggerative and cartoonish. It also often consumes the subject, in an uncontrollable way that more people notice - even some who haven't noticed it before, like people in Ohio just did. Trump is decompensating --- and decaying --- and more people in more places now notice the decline.
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
April 23, 2026 — “Our job will take one week and will cost about a million and a half dollars.” April 23, 2026 — “It’s two weeks versus more than three years.” July 13, 2026: “It will be refilled and put back into service soon.” This morning and $19 million later...
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement. propublica.org/article/disab…
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In 30 days, we will take back American and hold Trump accountable. It's coming... #BlueWaveIn30Days
It's time to hold Trump accountable. VOTE BLUE No Matter Who!
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
Simon has been found dead, reportedly from "suicide." RIP to Simon and to all whistleblowers who have died too young. The truth about Lutnick will never die
I am the British whistleblower who reported evidence concerning Howard Lutnick, his links to Jeffrey Epstein, and Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC to the FBI in 2020–21. Listen to the BBC File on 4 documentary about my whistleblower story: bbc.com/audio/play/m002yx47 BBC News: bbc.com/news/articles/c9q28d… I later shared evidence with the House Oversight Committee, which subsequently questioned Lutnick behind closed doors. My disclosures also contributed to regulatory action in the US and UK, including a £96m HMRC tax assessment relating to BGC’s partnership scheme. I believe the true tax exposure is substantially higher. I also reported to the FBI and financial regulators matters involving Cantor Fitzgerald’s Relief Fund and BGC/Cantor’s annual 9/11 Charity Day. The personal consequences of whistleblowing, and the retaliation I say followed, have been devastating for my family and me. Mother Jones previously reported that documents I uncovered revealed a years-long business tie between Howard Lutnick, Cantor Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Epstein through AdFin, including a 2018 exchange in which Lutnick and Epstein discussed the company directly: motherjones.com/politics/202… motherjones.com/politics/202… Follow me here on X and on LinkedIn. I intend to share more of the evidence and the story behind what happened.
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
Here’s another reminder that when JD Vance says “give us a chance. Give us a couple more years,” his and Trump’s promise on the 2024 campaign trail was that they’d make everything better on day 1.
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
Replying to @David_J_Bier
This is why people hate border patrol and ICE
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
Border Patrol does not believe in the Constitution
A motorist visiting a Southern California border area from Orange County was detained by Border Patrol agents who unlawfully demanded he stop recording, violating his First Amendment rights. The agents threatened to search his vehicle without a warrant or articulable probable cause, leading the driver to explicitly invoke his Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure. The video concludes with an agent appearing to physically signal a K9 unit to manufacture a false alert, which is an illegal law enforcement tactic used to bypass constitutional rights and justify an unlawful search.
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
Plague outbreak in Russia I want to see if anti vaccine anti science people say they wouldn't take antibiotics if they got plague, because they trust their natural immune system
Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies after breaking test tube and 200 people she was in contact with are put in quarantine trib.al/Gg440lL
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
Pneumonic plague is caused by the same bacterium as the Black Death -which wiped out half of Europe's population At least we now have antibiotics
#BREAKING: Lab technician dies of suspected pneumonic plague in Russia after breaking test tube.
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
“When you’re an American soldier, you go to work every day, and step back like 20 or 30 years with tech.” Dan Driscoll wanted to modernize the military. Pete Hegseth forced him out. The former Secretary of the Army speaks for the first time since resigning in September. Read: rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
Jake Tapper on leaders deliberately fueling tribalism in the US: “These people are doing so, so they can make money and accrue power. Hate is easy. Hate is lazy. It's comfort food for the weak. But they're selling it to us because it works.”
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Pfred Pfluger retweeted
🚨☣️BREAKING: Plague outbreak expands, Russia BSL-3 lab accident - FIVE hospitals now quarantined🚨☣️ The plague outbreak in Siberia, Russia has expanded w/5 hospitals now under QUARANTINE: Irkutsk Hospitals No. 1, No.3, No.10, Ivano-Matreninskaya Children's Hospital, and an unnamed maternity hospital (Lyudi Baikala news, Moscow Times). Quarantine is NOT voluntary. Even in the U.S., quarantine is among the most extraordinary measures gov't can impose on American citizens who haven't been convicted, or even accused, of committing a crime. Quarantine means being forcibly confined and medically examined by law. U.S. quarantine can be imposed on anyone infected by a legally quarantinable disease listed below (this can change). One should assume Russia's quarantine protocols are even more severe. As of 2026, under Executive Order 14047, legally quarantinable diseases in the U.S. are: ■ Plague ■ Smallpox ■ Viral hemorrhagic fevers ■ Cholera ■ Diphtheria ■ Yellow fever ■ Infectious tuberculosis ■ Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) ■ Flu that can cause a pandemic ■ Measles Photo: Russia’s RKhBZ defense troops perform nuclear, biological, and chemical defense training (w/permission from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation) — from BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO by Annie Jacobsen (Dutton, 2026).
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