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@genxsoothsayer.bsky.social
I know a few things.
In reality, 🤷♂️ anything in its essence/entirety.
When confronted, I’ll admit it. Some knew me as Dante’s 🇺🇸 Inferno on Twitter.
M.S. Economics: degree
Stats analysis: trade
-Chitown emigrant
-Fed
-Moderate
-YIMBY
-NSFW
86 TYRANT TRUMP
In reality, 🤷♂️ anything in its essence/entirety.
When confronted, I’ll admit it. Some knew me as Dante’s 🇺🇸 Inferno on Twitter.
M.S. Economics: degree
Stats analysis: trade
-Chitown emigrant
-Fed
-Moderate
-YIMBY
-NSFW
86 TYRANT TRUMP
Pinned
If the replacement is less extreme than Noem, which seems far fetched to me, that’s great.
Usually, Trump replaces heads w/ more extreme MAGA views, but he’s aging fast & likely sees the cracks in his admin. It’s hard to tell on any day how deluded he is, but it seems hard for him to miss it, too.
Usually, Trump replaces heads w/ more extreme MAGA views, but he’s aging fast & likely sees the cracks in his admin. It’s hard to tell on any day how deluded he is, but it seems hard for him to miss it, too.
EXCLUSIVE: In conversations with three former DHS officials—who served in both the Biden and Trump administrations and are still in touch with current staff—it was made clear that Trump is indeed considering moving on from Noem. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social latest.
December 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
If the replacement is less extreme than Noem, which seems far fetched to me, that’s great.
Usually, Trump replaces heads w/ more extreme MAGA views, but he’s aging fast & likely sees the cracks in his admin. It’s hard to tell on any day how deluded he is, but it seems hard for him to miss it, too.
Usually, Trump replaces heads w/ more extreme MAGA views, but he’s aging fast & likely sees the cracks in his admin. It’s hard to tell on any day how deluded he is, but it seems hard for him to miss it, too.
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Read it here: lnk.thebulwark.com/3YjHshD
Trump Weighs Moving on From Noem
The DHS secretary has overseen the president’s most controversial domestic initiative. But her future is increasingly in doubt.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Read it here: lnk.thebulwark.com/3YjHshD
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EXCLUSIVE: In conversations with three former DHS officials—who served in both the Biden and Trump administrations and are still in touch with current staff—it was made clear that Trump is indeed considering moving on from Noem. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social latest.
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
EXCLUSIVE: In conversations with three former DHS officials—who served in both the Biden and Trump administrations and are still in touch with current staff—it was made clear that Trump is indeed considering moving on from Noem. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social latest.
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"A military that trades the Constitution for personal loyalty ceases to be American."
Pete Hegseth, Moral Failure, and the Erosion of Military Legitimacy
Congress needs to find out if any laws were broken and who is responsible.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"A military that trades the Constitution for personal loyalty ceases to be American."
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Treason with Benefits: Kushner & Witkoff Play With Putin
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
Treason with Benefits: Kushner & Witkoff Play With Putin
My latest episode of The Elephant in the Room
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Treason with Benefits: Kushner & Witkoff Play With Putin
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
“Reviews were dismal, even worse than the first. Mark Kennedy, in his zero star review for The Associated Press, called it an ‘incoherent mess.’”
🤔
I trust Ebert’s handpicked postmortem replacements over the average “top” critics
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I trust Ebert’s handpicked postmortem replacements over the average “top” critics
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“Reviews were dismal, even worse than the first. Mark Kennedy, in his zero star review for The Associated Press, called it an ‘incoherent mess.’”
🤔
I trust Ebert’s handpicked postmortem replacements over the average “top” critics
🤔
I trust Ebert’s handpicked postmortem replacements over the average “top” critics
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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, must decide whether to go to the Oslo ceremony. She may not be allowed to come home.
For Venezuela’s Machado, Collecting Nobel Peace Prize Could Mean Exile
If María Corina Machado leaves Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro may block her return.
on.wsj.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, must decide whether to go to the Oslo ceremony. She may not be allowed to come home.
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“We saw people directly sprayed, members of our press, everybody that was with me, my staff member, myself,” Grijalva said in her video report from Friday’s chaotic scene.
ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video
Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”
interc.pt
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“We saw people directly sprayed, members of our press, everybody that was with me, my staff member, myself,” Grijalva said in her video report from Friday’s chaotic scene.
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Ever since the government shutdown, it’s finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both, peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy. trib.al/aMtlppC
There’s No Doubt About It: The Great MAGA Crack-Up Has Begun
Every single prominent member of the Trump administration has had a very, very bad week.
trib.al
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Ever since the government shutdown, it’s finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both, peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy. trib.al/aMtlppC
He’s not wrong—Lemon
Journalist Don Lemon launched a scathing attack.
Don Lemon calls Trump 'racist' and 'bigoted' in fiery podcast rant
www.irishstar.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
He’s not wrong—Lemon
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Journalist Don Lemon launched a scathing attack.
Don Lemon calls Trump 'racist' and 'bigoted' in fiery podcast rant
www.irishstar.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Journalist Don Lemon launched a scathing attack.
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A foreign-born person who becomes naturalized is an *American*. It couldn't be more clear that Trump's immigration regime is about nativism, not immigration status. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l
Now Trump Is Threatening Naturalized Americans
He’s not just bashing refugees and illegal immigrants. He’s going after U.S. citizens born in other countries.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A foreign-born person who becomes naturalized is an *American*. It couldn't be more clear that Trump's immigration regime is about nativism, not immigration status. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l
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"You need liberal democracy to protect what journalism is. And I think part of the problem is that the traditional media doesn't know what to do as we slip further and further away from a pure liberal democracy."
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on The Rebooting Show with Brian Morrissey:
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on The Rebooting Show with Brian Morrissey:
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"You need liberal democracy to protect what journalism is. And I think part of the problem is that the traditional media doesn't know what to do as we slip further and further away from a pure liberal democracy."
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on The Rebooting Show with Brian Morrissey:
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on The Rebooting Show with Brian Morrissey:
Well this is fucking crazy, one of the few bulwarks of democracy, possibly slowing 🇺🇸 from going full autocracy, is being hobbled.
“‘I’m going into witness protection’
[Dodaro]…He meant it as a joke”
It’s no joke. This guy c/b a target for moronic, mayhem-loving MAGAs, who delight in violence.
“‘I’m going into witness protection’
[Dodaro]…He meant it as a joke”
It’s no joke. This guy c/b a target for moronic, mayhem-loving MAGAs, who delight in violence.
The government’s top watchdog is retiring — but the Trump probes continue
The government’s top watchdog is retiring — but the Trump probes continue
The comptroller general is wrapping up his term after an unprecedented year checking the Trump administration.
dlvr.it
December 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Well this is fucking crazy, one of the few bulwarks of democracy, possibly slowing 🇺🇸 from going full autocracy, is being hobbled.
“‘I’m going into witness protection’
[Dodaro]…He meant it as a joke”
It’s no joke. This guy c/b a target for moronic, mayhem-loving MAGAs, who delight in violence.
“‘I’m going into witness protection’
[Dodaro]…He meant it as a joke”
It’s no joke. This guy c/b a target for moronic, mayhem-loving MAGAs, who delight in violence.
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The government’s top watchdog is retiring — but the Trump probes continue
The government’s top watchdog is retiring — but the Trump probes continue
The comptroller general is wrapping up his term after an unprecedented year checking the Trump administration.
dlvr.it
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The government’s top watchdog is retiring — but the Trump probes continue
So this is what 🇺🇸 has become, a fiefdom
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So this is what 🇺🇸 has become, a fiefdom
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A major, 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Alaska on Saturday, according to the USGS.
Map: 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Alaska
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
nyti.ms
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A major, 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Alaska on Saturday, according to the USGS.
Whatever you think of Newsom—I don’t like many of his more progressive polices —you have to hand it to him, this is a masterclass in trolling, & the rest of the Dem pols could learn something from him 😂
December 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Whatever you think of Newsom—I don’t like many of his more progressive polices —you have to hand it to him, this is a masterclass in trolling, & the rest of the Dem pols could learn something from him 😂
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As Trump has directed ICE and Border Patrol to nab more undocumented immigrants, America’s agricultural fields have taken a back seat. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-30/hard-lives-in-california-fields-harvesting-watermelons?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
Hard lives in California's fields: 'The American dream eats us alive'
Immigrant farmworkers toil, season after season, in jobs that most Americans wouldn't endure for a week. It's a rough life that takes a heavy toll.
www.latimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
As Trump has directed ICE and Border Patrol to nab more undocumented immigrants, America’s agricultural fields have taken a back seat. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-30/hard-lives-in-california-fields-harvesting-watermelons?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
Quislings, all of them .
Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, on the president’s efforts to stretch America’s war powers—and lawmakers’ reluctance to stop him
Checks and Balance newsletter: Don’t count on Congress to restrain Donald Trump
Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, on the president’s efforts to stretch America’s war powers—and lawmakers’ reluctance to stop him
econ.st
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Quislings, all of them .
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Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, on the president’s efforts to stretch America’s war powers—and lawmakers’ reluctance to stop him
Checks and Balance newsletter: Don’t count on Congress to restrain Donald Trump
Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, on the president’s efforts to stretch America’s war powers—and lawmakers’ reluctance to stop him
econ.st
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, on the president’s efforts to stretch America’s war powers—and lawmakers’ reluctance to stop him
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Yvette Cooper has vowed to take on corruption all over the world as the UK prepares to host a major summit cracking down on “dirty money”.
Yvette Cooper vows to take on dirty money funding crime in UK and war in Ukraine
www.mirror.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Yvette Cooper has vowed to take on corruption all over the world as the UK prepares to host a major summit cracking down on “dirty money”.
Start by blocking all Trump Org Inc investments in the 🇬🇧 and flagging them as organized crime ventures, assumed to involve racketeering, bribery extortion and the like.
Yvette Cooper has vowed to take on corruption all over the world as the UK prepares to host a major summit cracking down on “dirty money”.
Yvette Cooper vows to take on dirty money funding crime in UK and war in Ukraine
www.mirror.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Start by blocking all Trump Org Inc investments in the 🇬🇧 and flagging them as organized crime ventures, assumed to involve racketeering, bribery extortion and the like.
Imagine being so wrong about something,
committing such a malevolent act,
& yet having this angry, childish face.
That sums up this admin.
Frankly—not to me overuse a taboo trope—it looks a little Hitleresque,
even if it doesn’t have all the hallmark behaviors of the despot.
committing such a malevolent act,
& yet having this angry, childish face.
That sums up this admin.
Frankly—not to me overuse a taboo trope—it looks a little Hitleresque,
even if it doesn’t have all the hallmark behaviors of the despot.
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Imagine being so wrong about something,
committing such a malevolent act,
& yet having this angry, childish face.
That sums up this admin.
Frankly—not to me overuse a taboo trope—it looks a little Hitleresque,
even if it doesn’t have all the hallmark behaviors of the despot.
committing such a malevolent act,
& yet having this angry, childish face.
That sums up this admin.
Frankly—not to me overuse a taboo trope—it looks a little Hitleresque,
even if it doesn’t have all the hallmark behaviors of the despot.
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Mounting evidence casts doubt that those killed—who now number over 80—were even trafficking drugs to the United States. And now, Trump is pardoning the Honduran ex-president convicted of crimes relating to flooding the U.S. with cocaine.
What’s the case for these bombings? trib.al/tf60iFD
What’s the case for these bombings? trib.al/tf60iFD
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
trib.al
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Mounting evidence casts doubt that those killed—who now number over 80—were even trafficking drugs to the United States. And now, Trump is pardoning the Honduran ex-president convicted of crimes relating to flooding the U.S. with cocaine.
What’s the case for these bombings? trib.al/tf60iFD
What’s the case for these bombings? trib.al/tf60iFD