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Cheney used the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks as a pretext to assert a muscular executive authority that Trump now amplifies and exploits to challenge the system of checks and balances.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Godfather of the Trump presidency’: the direct through-line from Dick Cheney to Donald Trump

A proponent of the unitary executive theory, Cheney helped expand the vast presidential powers Trump enjoys today

www.theguardian.com

November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM

Ed Murrow, too 🎙️

@jamkam6969.bsky.social

Cheney used the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks as a pretext to assert a muscular executive authority that Trump now amplifies and exploits to challenge the system of checks and balances.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Godfather of the Trump presidency’: the direct through-line from Dick Cheney to Donald Trump

A proponent of the unitary executive theory, Cheney helped expand the vast presidential powers Trump enjoys today

www.theguardian.com

November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM

Reposted by Ed Murrow, too 🎙️

Ed Murrow, too 🎙️

@jamkam6969.bsky.social

Unbridled vulgarity coupled with obscene and condescending disdain for the plight of the very people who blindly trusted him.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s gold sign outside Oval Office prompts backlash

Lawmakers outraged that president gilding White House as Snap food stamps in jeopardy amid longest US shutdown

www.theguardian.com

November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM

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@jamkam6969.bsky.social

Unbridled vulgarity coupled with obscene and condescending disdain for the plight of the very people who blindly trusted him.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s gold sign outside Oval Office prompts backlash

Lawmakers outraged that president gilding White House as Snap food stamps in jeopardy amid longest US shutdown

www.theguardian.com

November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM

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💙Joani in the sky with cubic zirconia 💙

@greeneyedlady07.bsky.social

The time for women has arrived. Let’s ROLL! 💙💙💙

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

This is what a New Era looks like.

November 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.msnbc.com

"The agent grabbed Ms. Stagi by the hair, put her into a chokehold, dragged her through the street and threw her down a grassy embankment.

Ms. Stagi said, “I’m 5-2. I’m not assaulting him..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

An Altercation With ICE Prompts a Police Chief to Push Back

www.nytimes.com

November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.msnbc.com

rightwing guy inherits insurance empire from his dad.

struck with revelation that the rich should run everything! "a proper elite that takes care of the country".

builds JD vance from dust to ensure just that.

profits!

gets wapo treatment as a big thinker.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future

Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.

www.washingtonpost.com

November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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@jamkam6969.bsky.social

Anniversary shout out to, of all miscreants, North Korea’s gem of virtue, dear leader, for interjecting dotard into American cultists lexicon.

November 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM

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SassySenora701

@sassysenior70.bsky.social

November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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@jamkam6969.bsky.social

The best campaigner D’s have that they didn’t acknowledge (yet).

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump threatens to cut funds if ‘communist’ Mamdani wins mayoral election

President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post as Mamdani hits back at Trump’s ‘threat – it is not the law’

www.theguardian.com

November 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM

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Raider

@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

When the GOP dismisses SNAP recipients by telling them to 'just get jobs,' they ignore that 70% of those individuals are already
employed full-time.

November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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@jamkam6969.bsky.social

As they happily destroyed people’s lives and took a wrecking ball to a nation’s ideals, their gluttony was a hallmark of their numbness to the misery they wrought.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10d

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

November 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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@jamkam6969.bsky.social

Proving again and again that delicious satire ain’t dead yet.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

A South Park Halloween: latest episode destroys Trump over White House demolition

A special haunted episode conjures supernatural forces, including the ghost of Melania, for another attack on the president and his cronies

www.theguardian.com

November 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM

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The Guardian

@theguardian.com

A South Park Halloween: latest episode destroys Trump over White House demolition

A special haunted episode conjures supernatural forces, including the ghost of Melania, for another attack on the president and his cronies

www.theguardian.com

November 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM

Ed Murrow, too 🎙️

@jamkam6969.bsky.social

The idea of character is fundamentally what keeps the promise of America alive; it’s now anemic thanks to this craven crowd.
www.salon.com/2025/10/31/j...

John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump

Legal scholar Lisa Graves on why this Supreme Court chief justice is the worst in history

www.salon.com

October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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Kat Abughazaleh

@katmabu.bsky.social

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal