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Jonathan Cohn from The Bulwark reveals a growing divide in the GOP as Trump pushes for a significant legislative bill amid concerns over Medicaid cuts. Activist Laura Loomer's rising influence highlights tensions, as she warns that these cuts threaten essential services for low-income Americans. Loomer's confrontational approach against Republicans who support Medicaid reductions complicates GOP politics. For full insights, read more: alternet.org/medicaid-big-beau #DonaldTrump #RepublicanParty #Medicaid #LauraLoomer #MAGA #JonathanCohn #TheBulwark #Congress

Alternet.org · 'Fight for MAGA’s soul': How a far-right conspiracy theorist could sway GOP Medicaid debateBy Alex Henderson
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US District #Judge #JohnMcConnell’s family endured similar #threats after he ruled that #Trump overstepped his authority in freezing #grants for #education & other services. #FarRight provocateur #LauraLoomer [& apparent Trump advisor] tweeted a photo of the judge’s daughter, who had worked at the US Education Dept as a policy advisor, & accused McConnell of protecting her paycheck. #ElonMusk amplified the post to his 219 million followers.

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The fact that #AlexWong was fired alongside of #MikeWaltz points to this decision being primarily based on the advice of #ConspiracyTheorist #LauraLoomer.

Loomer presented #Trump with a list of people she deemed unloyal to him during an Oval Office visit about a month ago. Alex Wong was at the top of her list.
This is pretty concerning. It wasn’t the Signal group chat that violated #NationalSecurity & #military #OpSec, it was the word of a 9/11 denier. This presidency is insane.

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@gemelliz #CanadaProud is charged with promoting #PP messages online. No doubt he’s expanded to destroying liberal messaging that’s not online. With #LauraLoomer #JordanPeterson. #KevinO’Leary. #ABDanielleSmith all kissing the ring and wanting to promote dissent in Canada, the #Conservatives are desperate in their bid to win. open.substack.com/pub/charliea

open.substack.comMAGA MAPLE: THE DESPERATE BID TO ELECT A MINI-ME TRUMPConservatives Play the Traitor Card
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I mean it wouldn't be an anti-Musk/Trump protests without fascist propagandists claiming *checks notes* millions of protestors were a paid psy-op (and also, Hamas, apparently.)

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Elon Musk Says Saturday’s Protesters Were Paid “Puppets.” That’s Not What I Saw.

"Musk chimed in on the same video: “The problem is the puppetmasters, not the puppets, as the latter have no idea why they are even there,” he wrote. “He had to read the paper he was given to understand the sign he was holding,” Musk wrote over a video of a protester explaining what his sign—which said “End the kakistocracy”—meant. Musk also shared several posts from the Wall Street Apes account on X, which has more than 929,000 followers, and right-wing influencer Mario Nawfal, who has more than two million followers, alleging—without evidence—that the protesters were paid.

Conspiracy theorist and journalist cosplayer Laura Loomer also alleged that “the radical left is BUSSING IN PROTESTERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY TO CAUSE CHAOS IN WASHINGTON DC” who she claimed were “pro-Hamas,”an apparent reference to the fact that some were holding Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyehs."

Folks, I don't know who needs to hear that it is feasibly impossible for a "puppet master" (man, he even talks like Goebbels) to pay MILLIONS of protestors, but it is. Please keep in mind that when it comes to Musk, who is literally a fucking nazi, this is the same guy who was accusing George Soros of paying hecklers at his Wisconsin Volkish Revival rally while he was dishing out million dollar checks to voters for "signing a petition" in an effort to buy a judicial election. As for Loomer, I'm pretty sure she also thinks her Uber driver and any particularly "swarthy" person she encounters in public spaces is also "Hamas" if her past social media transgressions are any indication.

The bigger picture here is pretty simple; for whatever the Hands Off protests did, didn't, will, or won't accomplish, if these nazi maggots are scared enough to lie about it with poorly-coordinated conspiracy theories to try and explain it away for the cult of Trump, that means *they* certainly noticed millions of people giving up their Saturday to tell Trump and Musk to get in the fucking sea.

Mother JonesElon Musk says Saturday's protesters were "paid puppets." That's not what I saw.Right wingers are trying to discount the mass mobilization the country saw on Saturday.

human cheezit is live-tweeting diplomacy and tariffs from a Florida Cheesecake Factory with secret service eyerolling hard enough to generate a Higgs boson

Laura "9/11 was an inside job and also I’m an Uber critic" Loomer walking into the White House like she's handing out pink slips at a MAGA bake sale. imagine getting fired from the NSA because a woman who live-tweeted herself getting banned from Twitter decided your vibes were off

not because you leaked something, not even because you did something... because you weren't vibing hard enough with the "eat the pets" caucus

elon, who is now macrodosing ketamine, spent the Mar-a-Lago strategy dinner balancing a fork and two spoons on his finger like a dissociating toddler. His date watched him like he was bending space-time

meanwhile canada, literal canada, is out here doing realpolitik with a moose and vibes

we are not a country, we are a "choose your own collapse" ARG with lag spikes

#VibeCheckSecurityClearance
#KetDiplomacy
#BananaRepublicButMakeItFlorida

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"she has charged that some school shootings were staged, accused Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis of 'exaggerating' her struggle with breast cancer, and questioned whether the 'deep state' might have used an atmospheric-research facility in Alaska to create a snowstorm over Des Moines. (Why? So that foul weather would suppress the turnout in the 2024 Iowa GOP caucuses and hurt Trump’s campaign.)"


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"If you don’t spend a lot of time online, you probably don’t know who Loomer is, and that’s healthy. To say that she is a 'conspiracy theorist' is not quite enough: She has referred to herself as a 'proud Islamophobe' and has claimed that 9/11 was an 'inside job';

~ John Nichols


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theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar

The Atlantic · The Conspiracy Theorist Advising TrumpBy Tom Nichols

Ist die ultrarechte Aktivistin Laura Loomer Trumps Einflüsterin?

Nachdem US-Präsident Trump mehrere Mitglieder seines Teams gefeuert hatte, machte sofort das Gerücht die Runde, dass die ultrarechte Influencerin Laura Loomer dahinter stecke. Wer ist diese Frau? Von Sebastian Hesse.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/

tagesschau.de · Ist die ultrarechte Aktivistin Laura Loomer Trumps Einflüsterin?By Sebastian Hesse

"As Trump was about to unleash his tariffs, the universally reviled Laura Loomer commandeered the Oval Office for a 30-minute meeting during which she successfully demanded the firing of six national security officials. ...

Trump's association with the toxic, unhinged Loomer at the precise moment Trump was releasing toxic, unhinged tariffs is raising alarm bells and eyebrows."

~ Robert B. Hubbell


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roberthubbell.substack.com/p/c

Today's Edition Newsletter · Courage and fear are contagious; let's choose courage.By Robert B. Hubbell