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@gon1613.bsky.social
No, it’s “Me,me and me!”
It’s not just the policies, the threat to democracy, the corruption in the open air. Even if all those things were fine it is difficult to imagine someone with a personality less fit to be the president of a local bowling club, let alone the US.
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The New York Times is increasingly competing with NYT Pitchbot for satire. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Link?
December 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Indeed. But that’s kind of what he promised!
December 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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They love to talk about supporting the troops, hate to actually take care of the troops
Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs will abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs.

The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The Times looks at how Trump business interests overlap with SEC crypto cases in the second term. NYT finds that the SEC inherited 23 crypto cases, of which 14 were dropped, frozen, settled, or conceded. All of those had Trump ties. None of the remaining nine cases do www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
December 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Things we learn:

1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban

2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal

3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants

And much more. Read it.
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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A WSJ interview with Trump on the economy was interrupted multiple times by phone calls, including one from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, “who joined by speakerphone to discuss the administration’s plans for Washington, D.C., golf courses.”

www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Trump Isn’t Certain His Economic Policies Will Translate to Midterm Wins
In an interview, he said his efforts to secure investments in the U.S. haven’t fully taken effect and “I cannot tell you how that’s going to equate to the voter.”
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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The taxpayers paying Trump to run ICE recruitment ads on Truth Social. The government is paying Trump’s company.
December 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The Trump gold card
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Utterly shameless
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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“.. The commutation of Mr. Gentile’s sentence undid years of work by prosecutors in Brooklyn to expose a scheme that defrauded thousands of investors, many of whom were older Americans living on fixed incomes.”

@kenvogel.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/n...
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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🇺🇸 Former Trump adviser Bryan Lanza is now consulting for Russian oil giant Lukoil, Politico reports. Lanza is helping sell Lukoil’s non-Russian assets after new U.S. sanctions. He previously called returning Crimea to Ukraine “unrealistic.”
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Hungary can check out anytime it wants.
December 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
He can check out any time he wants
December 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Great work Trump / RFK.
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.
Hundreds are quarantined in South Carolina as measles spreads in 2 US outbreaks
Measles outbreaks in South Carolina and on the Arizona-Utah border are growing. In South Carolina, more than 250 people, including students from nine area elementary, middle and high schools are in quarantine.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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It’s all hands on deck today for the MAGA mob threats and intimidation.
December 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its web site that connected climate change to the burning of fossil fuels.
https://cnn.it/3YofNw4
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
All of them. That’s why none of them consider it seriously, not even Orban.
December 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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NEW: For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha.

For decades, the government cleaned it up.

But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal.

With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
The EPA Was Considering a Massive Lead Cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump Shifted Guidance.
The Trump administration says it will speed cleanups, but residents of the largest residential lead Superfund site worry fewer properties will be remediated.
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM