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Misery loves company.
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"While many prominent athletes, including LeBron James and Stephen Curry, criticized the Trump administration during its first term, fewer have done so during its second. 'I feel like I’m sometimes screaming into the void,' Martina Navratilova said."
Martina Navratilova discusses her criticism of Donald Trump: ‘I just can’t be compliant’
The tennis legend said she hopes to “make people think” about the current political moment.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This is still VERY illegal. The Trump admin says anyone who pays $1 million will be deemed to have "exceptional business ability" and become eligible for an employment-based immigrant visa.

But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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"I truthfully don't understand why we brought special operators into this to launch drone aircraft and destroy boats and kill people other than performative politics," @markhertling.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social. lnk.thebulwark.com/4rM6OSX?utm_...
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I think one of the broadcast networks should make @timmiller.bsky.social their principal nightly news anchor because he would bring back 1970s levels of ratings to the biz
"Why does he keep doing this to himself? It's like masochism. He's going to keep going on and trying to claim that he's a farmer?"

Tim Miller and Bill Kristol discuss Scott Bessent repeatedly alleging he's a soybean farmer.
December 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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"Why does he keep doing this to himself? It's like masochism. He's going to keep going on and trying to claim that he's a farmer?"

Tim Miller and Bill Kristol discuss Scott Bessent repeatedly alleging he's a soybean farmer.
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation."

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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It is kind of funny that he did the meme
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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“Report: U.S. spends the most on health but outcomes are among the worst” healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/09...

“22 studies agree: ‘Medicare for All’ saves money”
thehill.com/blogs/congre...

M4A bill first introduced 2003; every session, it gets killed in committee by corp Dems n Gop
Report: U.S. spends the most on health but outcomes are among the worst
A new report shows it's beyond time for journalists and voters to hold politicians accountable for the poor quality of America's health care.
healthjournalism.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The GOP plan to replace the ACA is practically old enough to study for it's drivers license test nowadays
FOX: What do you say to Americans who say to Republicans, where's your healthcare plan? If they're not getting their subsidy, what's option B?

McCORMICK: In the short term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this
December 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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sexual assault, corruption, kidnapping, theft, bribery, overall cruelty, racism, incessant lying, the childish fucking taunting, the shitty jokes, the hubris to mask his endless stupidity, hypocrisy, the cheating, complaining, the smell, oh the fucking smell, the shit stains...
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Wait...

FIFA actually has ethics codes?

And nobody thought to bring them up to stop Infantino from making that joke of a prize in the first place?
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been accused of breaching FIFA’s ethics codes in relation to the process that saw President Trump receive an inaugural peace prize.
Gianni Infantino accused of breaching FIFA’s ethics codes in relation to President Trump comments
Advocacy group FairSquare has also requested an investigation into President Trump being awarded the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize last Friday.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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A complaint has been filed against Gianni Infantino, accused by an NGO of having violated FIFA's "political neutrality" with Donald Trump

www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl...
Une plainte contre Gianni Infantino, accusé par une ONG d’avoir bafoué la « neutralité politique » de la FIFA avec Donald Trump
L’ONG britannique FairSquare a déposé une plainte, lundi, contre le patron de la Fédération internationale de football auprès de la commission d’éthique de l’instance à propos des circonstances dans l...
www.lemonde.fr
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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“Oh, this Crimea is so beautiful! WOW! It’s surrounded on four sides by ocean.”

— Trump

Will FIFA start giving out fake geography awards too? Asking for a friend.
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Community Note strikes again!
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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A win!

Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy

apnews.com/article/trum...
Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy
A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “a...
apnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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If there is a museum for political art anywhere this poster should go in it
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The details about how the Trump Regime is murdering people keeps changing … that is generally a very bad sign.
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."

Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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1) “Kaitlan Collins”
2) she’s smart & nice
3) a legitimate question about construction of a controversial project on WH grounds
4) Thanks for explanation
5) but actually she asked you about Venezuela
6) generally speaking if someone or something is irrelevant, the President doesn’t talk about them
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?

TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing

WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?

COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM