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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Kristi Noem claimed a few months ago that they arrested the girlfriend of the leader of Antifa and that was going to lead to the prosecution of the entire “organization.” What happened with that? Any updates?

Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.

This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.

We’re def going back to the “roaring 50s” with a nice measles outbreak. Nice work MAHA n stuff

🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.” *THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again. “Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.” We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.

Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.

Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it.

He got high on catnip, then passed out after trying to open a bag of cat treats he pilfered from an upper cabinet somehow. Happy #Caturday

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i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

“No, WE didn’t forget the mother in this situation. YOU did. You voted for this… it was ok until it happened to YOU.” #ForcedBirthNation

This is Pancho. He’s mad because he asked for five more minutes and then you woke him up five minutes later. Unforgivable. 12/10 (IG: panchothediva)

It’s when my husband tells stories about the time he told a reporter he wanted her to have his baby, and then we learned all about felching, and the 37 affairs he documented in his diary during his previous marriage. There’s just no time like the holidays in the Kennedy house!

Stop accepting the cynical notion that “nothing can be done” about guns, or anything else for that matter. Every time you give up hope, the emperor has already won.

Maybe someone could ask the president not to post the all-clear on mass shootings before the suspect is in custody.

We got a sad reminder today that ISIS is still out there. Sofia and I offer our condolences to the soldiers killed today by this evil group

In other words, he’s on a date with his girlfriend.

the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver

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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Three Shirts McGee’s entire MAGA schtick was about draining the swamp, exposing the deep state cabal blah blah… Here he is palling around with Jeffrey Epstein. They are the monsters they were warning us about.

chat i sputtered

where is the tariff money being stored and why can’t we know about it

"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

Haaland: Affordability is real. We have a president downplaying the suffering that people are experiencing in our country. He is not listening. He’s in a bubble, and you can look at him and see that he’s never had to worry about missing a meal himself.

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

In my opinion the president shouldn't constantly be like "Holy shit did you guys see this?" and repeating a thing he kinda heard on TV. I don't think that should be mostly what the president does.

thanks brett kavanaugh!

“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump is causing mass confusion right now amid an active shooter situation at Brown University. Trump posted that the suspect was in custody, but Brown University and media reports say that is not true and that the situation remains active.

Beware misinformation online.

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I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

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When Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.

The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas. In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station." Read the declarations here: www.aclu.org/documents/fo...

So two months. 200 billion a month deficit, thanks to big “beautiful” bill BUT…. They were able to give tax breaks to rich Silicon Valley folks, and Elon etc Screw you all! They got theirs

All Republicans in Congress are faced with a choice. They either stand with Trump, Vance and Putin, or they stand with Ukraine, Europe, most Americans, and the civilized world. Of course, there is also a 3rd option which most of them usually choose - cowardly silence.

Just watched Netflix documentary on "The New Yorker" and Dick Cavett asked Carol Burnett, "What do you do when you want to let your hair down, presuming that is your hair." She immediately ripped the wig off her head and said, "Well, I take it off." Comedy over vanity. What a killer, funny move.

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Boyle: He would come on the local news doing his whole shtick: the biggest, the greatest, the most gold ever… then so many of those casinos went belly up. And by the way, do you know how bad that is? There used to be no competition from surrounding states. That’s how bad he is at business

Wishing you and yours a very happy 100th Dick Van Dyke-mas.

this is crazy: "ICE agents descended on one construction site in subzero temperatures, leading to a standoff with protesters and workers. One man was taken to hospital for exposure. The other waited out the siege and was taken to safety after the agents left." www.startribune.com/ice-agents-v...

Yeah, no. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

For some reason it was important for Kash to be in the middle of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team in the Oval Office. The man always works so hard at the FBI.

I’ve been voting to protect her rights for my entire life. She’s been voting against everyone’s.

A good reminder that because I'm not a conservative commentator, no one will pay me $150m. No major network is making me the editor in chief. I am just a lawyer who fights for democracy and built Democracy Docket from scratch. For $10 a month you can help it do its vital work. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

We are monitoring, thinking, and praying.

"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..." www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...

The taxpayers paying Trump to run ICE recruitment ads on Truth Social. The government is paying Trump’s company.

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Breaking: Fox “News” just attacked MeidasTouch co-founder Jordy and the MeidasTouch Podcast for refusing to buy the Trump administration’s excuse that the bruising and bandages on Trump’s hand are from “lots of handshaking.” Fox devoted an entire segment to smearing Jordy and the show. Our response.

Did they just try to cover up the crowd booing Trump at the Army Navy game? Did I mishear that?

Two days after the House of Representatives voted to restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees, Trump moves to illegally end collective bargaining for TSA workers. Trump may be the most anti-union president in American history.

Measles outbreaks are spreading across the U.S., and the country is now at risk of losing its disease-elimination status. Infectious disease experts say this is directly tied to Trump appointing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS. Are we great yet?

Wait, wait … Fox is SERIOUSLY, ACTUALLY trying to get their audience of lemmings to believe that the heavy makeup & band aids on Trump’s hand for months is from shaking hands?!? They are attacking Meidas for disputing that? They have nothing but contempt for their viewers. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

"Many in El Paso have close ties to Fort Bliss... On Saturday, area residents plan to hold a 'silent protest' at ICE offices near the Fort Bliss facility. Organizers ask demonstrators to wear black and hold signs that describe the conditions inside the camp..." www.ktep.org/2025-12-12/h...

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month... "The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Help report this account please. bsky.app/profile/isup...

I'm devastated by the news of a mass shooting at Brown University. My heart is with the victims, their families, and everyone impacted.

What does CBS have for us next week? The Political Journey & Philosophy of Mike Lindell?

Incredible free vacation opportunity for cool guys.

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.

This is what David Ellison paid for:

Trump is blatantly weaponizing the justice system to attack his political enemies while handing out pardons to his crooked allies and those who will commit violence on his behalf. So much for “law and order.” [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Yeah, like the President of the United States.

Brown University is a beautiful place, where people come to work and learn. I am filled with horror by news of this tragedy.

Another shooting. The details will shift, the outrage will fade. That’s the danger. Repetition trains acceptance. A country doesn’t collapse at once…it gets conditioned to look away.

Congratulations to the people of Chandler, AZ, who — despite a fierce lobbying campaign — defeated a massive AI data center that would have raised utility bills and drained scarce water. Oligarchs want working Americans to foot the bill while they profit. Not gonna happen!

This must be fake news because Trump said he ended this conflict.

Where do we get our doll and pencil ration card. "Trump declared, 'You know, you can give up certain products. You can give up pencils.' He added, 'You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter — two or three is nice, but you don’t need 37 dolls'...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I was told these kinds of things were not going to happen when Trump was president. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have a question for the press covering Trump — at what point does “I know nothing about it” stop being an acceptable answer to a legitimate question you know he knows plenty about?

i mean... uh... well... lordy. this defies summation. incredible story. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

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dreher and his friends would save us all a lot of time if they just said “jews”

Trump’s prosecutors in Comey case are shockingly bad lawyers. But, of course, it’s hard to find good lawyers willing to pursue baseless cases.

The last time we saw the Syrian president was when he was in the Oval Office and Trump was spraying his Trump Fragrance cologne on him while they had a love fest.

"As for the amount of money the program is expected to generate, the administration hasn’t offered details, but the president told reporters that, by his estimation, the program could generate '$50 trillion'..." LOL "In related news, this guy really isn’t good at math." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Adding -ism to every person or website that thinks I'm a big ol dummy and calling it a structural problem with America.

JUST IN: Trump has now issued a correction tweet. The President of the United States should not be live tweeting unverified information about a school shooting.

Bless Indiana for defying Trump this week!

He spends all his time building a ballroom, playing golf, receiving awards, getting praised, posting QAnon content, yelling at female reporters, and attacking Republicans.

Surprise! Happy holidays! The final two episodes of "Burn Order" were due to be posted this Monday, December 15th. But here they are, a little early. This is the complete series -- a total of six episodes. Free to listen at Apple podcasts or on any podcast app: podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...

Van Hollen: "Courts have rejected many of the admin's representations, including in the Abrego Garcia case. Trump puts out lies on social media but when they get to court judges are saying, 'What you're telling the public is just untrue.' We've seen DOJ lawyers be fired bc they didn't want to lie"

The idiot president says there's a suspect in custody, but there is NOT. Yet another mass shooting caused by Republicans. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

🩸🩸🩸 NEVER FORGET: Instead of honoring our Constitution's key principle of a Peaceful Transfer of Power, POS Donald Trump Abused his Power on Jan 6th by inciting this violent & deadly attack on our country's Capital and should be in prison for life 🩸🩸🩸