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"Nice punch, sir."
The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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“In effect, Trump has chosen white supremacy over actual national greatness.”
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Is This The End of the Free World?
Trump wants to MAGAfy Europe, too
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December 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“In effect, Trump has chosen white supremacy over actual national greatness.”
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Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)
Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)
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Wins 2025 hands down
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Wins 2025 hands down
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It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
Justice Gorsuch: Is it possible--"just maybe"--that we're setting our sights far too low and we should be blowing up many more structures of modern government?
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
“The picture is not of a “fortress Russia” serenely weathering Western pressure, but of a state cannibalizing its future to sustain a grinding, costly war.”
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Fall of Putin?
Putin’s fantasy of inevitable victory collides with increasingly grim economic realities at home.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“The picture is not of a “fortress Russia” serenely weathering Western pressure, but of a state cannibalizing its future to sustain a grinding, costly war.”
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Giving the president the pardon power was a mistake. The most corrupt president in American history is conducting a jailbreak for his fellow criminals.
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Giving the president the pardon power was a mistake. The most corrupt president in American history is conducting a jailbreak for his fellow criminals.
Anne Applebaum wrote: “The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly.”
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December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Anne Applebaum wrote: “The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly.”
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Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"
What’s at stake when Trump tries to seize more power from Congress:
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants Complete Control. Will the Supreme Court Hand It to Him?
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
What’s at stake when Trump tries to seize more power from Congress:
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
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Boudoir, 1921
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16564
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16564
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Boudoir, 1921
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16564
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16564
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December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
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Federal trial courts and district appellate courts are pushing back against Trump’s illegal use of Justice Dept to exact revenge on his enemies, while SCOTUS’s GOP supermajority continues to rubber stamp Trump’s white nationalist project to remake election law.
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Trump keeps picking unqualified lawyers to act as top prosecutors in his revenge campaign. Increasingly, judges are ruling this scheme illegal.
The Trump Lawyer Scandal Is About Something Much Deeper Than Legal Technicalities
The saga is emblematic of Trump’s most dangerous and self-serving tendencies.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Federal trial courts and district appellate courts are pushing back against Trump’s illegal use of Justice Dept to exact revenge on his enemies, while SCOTUS’s GOP supermajority continues to rubber stamp Trump’s white nationalist project to remake election law.
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[ gift article for its author ]
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Trump keeps picking unqualified lawyers to act as top prosecutors in his revenge campaign. Increasingly, judges are ruling this scheme illegal.
The Trump Lawyer Scandal Is About Something Much Deeper Than Legal Technicalities
The saga is emblematic of Trump’s most dangerous and self-serving tendencies.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Trump keeps picking unqualified lawyers to act as top prosecutors in his revenge campaign. Increasingly, judges are ruling this scheme illegal.
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From the Department of Cringe.
Naming buildings to glorify a sitting president is a sign of impending autocrocy.
The length to which officials in this country are willing to go to kiss the ring of the Orange King is a disgrace and an embarrassment.
Naming buildings to glorify a sitting president is a sign of impending autocrocy.
The length to which officials in this country are willing to go to kiss the ring of the Orange King is a disgrace and an embarrassment.
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
From the Department of Cringe.
Naming buildings to glorify a sitting president is a sign of impending autocrocy.
The length to which officials in this country are willing to go to kiss the ring of the Orange King is a disgrace and an embarrassment.
Naming buildings to glorify a sitting president is a sign of impending autocrocy.
The length to which officials in this country are willing to go to kiss the ring of the Orange King is a disgrace and an embarrassment.
Trump — a NYC landlord — has sent Kushner and Witkoff — two NYC landlords with no other qualifications — to represent Ukraine in negotiations with Putin.
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Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Trump — a NYC landlord — has sent Kushner and Witkoff — two NYC landlords with no other qualifications — to represent Ukraine in negotiations with Putin.
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yeah we’re gonna have to think bigger than “wealth tax” when it comes to Elon.
My proposal: he spends the rest of his life in a prison cell and his personal fortune is seized by the government and used to fund an expanded USAID
My proposal: he spends the rest of his life in a prison cell and his personal fortune is seized by the government and used to fund an expanded USAID
It woud be helpful if more people understood that a man who says and thinks such monstrous things now has enough money to purchase private armies and sway elections. We can solve part of this problem with two words: wealth tax.
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
yeah we’re gonna have to think bigger than “wealth tax” when it comes to Elon.
My proposal: he spends the rest of his life in a prison cell and his personal fortune is seized by the government and used to fund an expanded USAID
My proposal: he spends the rest of his life in a prison cell and his personal fortune is seized by the government and used to fund an expanded USAID
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A federal judge has ruled that ICE's "systemic failure to apply the probable cause standard, including the failure to consider escape risk" when making arrests in DC directly violates immigration law and DHS's own regulations.
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ICE: 0
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Judge blocks widespread immigration arrests in DC made without warrants or probable cause
Injunction was sought by civil liberties groups in lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A federal judge has ruled that ICE's "systemic failure to apply the probable cause standard, including the failure to consider escape risk" when making arrests in DC directly violates immigration law and DHS's own regulations.
DC: 1
ICE: 0
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DC: 1
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While we were sleeping, a huge ruling:
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
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Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
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![Excerpt from ruling:
“Bluntly put, why the Court ruled as it did remains unclear-and without reasoning,
this order cannot even be considered as persuasive. Second, Justice Kavanaugh's conclusion that the plaintiffs lacked standing in Perdomo rested on the claims asserted in that case specifically, plaintiffs there sought to enjoin defendants from targeting individuals for immigration stops based on certain factors, such as race or ethnicity, their accent, and the type of work they did. Id. Justice Kavanaugh reasoned that plaintiffs in Perdomo likely lacked standing under Lyons, as defendants may "stop suspected illegal immigrants based on a variety of factors," and thus "plaintiffs ha[d] no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future" based "only on [prohibited] factors." Id. at *3 (emphases in original). In contrast, this case concerns an entirely different context, namely, civil immigration arrests rather than immigration stops, which were at issue in Perdomo, and a different type of challenge. Specifically, plaintiffs are not arguing which factors defendants may consider in their application of a legal standard, but rather contend that defendants have abandoned the proper legal standard entirely. See Pls.' Reply at 8. Thus, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Perdomo, to the extent it has persuasive, let alone controlling, authority, is inapposite.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jech7rem6vijss4euf4fijao/bafkreidy2tm2mkrt4kkxcnhlmc6uess22cabrg7b5juyauqoolvoqd7teu@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
While we were sleeping, a huge ruling:
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A “newly filed civil action in the District Court for the District of Columbia could complicate that plan — and potentially derail the Comey case altogether.”
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December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A “newly filed civil action in the District Court for the District of Columbia could complicate that plan — and potentially derail the Comey case altogether.”
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So, any pardons a president issues can be reversed by his successor? Noted.
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
So, any pardons a president issues can be reversed by his successor? Noted.
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We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
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Former Fox Entertainment personalities committing international war crimes in the name of all Americans was the logical next step for Murdoch after decades of brainwashing his US viewers.
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Former Fox Entertainment personalities committing international war crimes in the name of all Americans was the logical next step for Murdoch after decades of brainwashing his US viewers.