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Catherine Schmidt
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Crone raised in Alaska proud liberal because I care about something other than money and myself. Lover of nature and with respect for all life. Married 41 years. Love books, archaeology, history, gardening and walking, liberty for all, resistance.
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needless to say this is a sick way for a man to talk about his employee, let alone one who is more than 50 years younger than him
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump on Karoline Leavitt: "That beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun"
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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2/ Klasfeld thread:

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klasfeldreports.com Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 23h
BREAKING

Trump’s troops must get out of Los Angeles, a federal judge rules.

(Ruling paused until Monday.)

Look out for more coverage soon at All Rise News.
The Founders designed our government to be a system of checks and balances. Defendants, however, make clear that the only check they want is a blank one. Six months after they first federalized the California National Guard, Defendants still retain control of approximately 300 Guardsmen, despite no evidence that execution of federal law is impeded in any way—let alone significantly. What’s more, Defendants have sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops. In response to Plaintiffs’ motion to enjoin this conduct, Defendants take the position that, after a valid initial federalization, all subsequent re-federalizations are completely, and forever, unreviewable by the courts. Defendants’ position is contrary to law. Accordingly, the Court ENJOINS Defendants’ federalization of California National Guard troops.
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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gottalaff.bsky.social
#TrumpTax
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
PIIE: “.. If tariffs stay at current levels, they will impose an annual tax increase of $1,700 for an average household .. the largest tax increase on US households since 1982 as a share of GDP ..”

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December 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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susiemadrak.bsky.social
Seems clear that the reason the corporate elite love AI is for the many opportunities it offers to steal from working people.
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d
Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time.
Instacart admits that customers are subject to "pricing tests."
Surveillance pricing is so much more pervasive than we know.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
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December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#ProLifeMyAss
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 22h
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION APPROVES SNAP EXCLUSIONS FOR SIX MORE STATES
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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gottalaff.bsky.social
But hey, at least we're finally FREE again to say "Merry Christmas" as we look into our disappointed kids' faces
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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#Media # Mergers #trump #JaredKushner #SaudiArabia #WarnerBros #CNN #Netflix #Propoganda #Credibility
#alt

Heather Cox Richardson 12/9/25
MEDIA MERGER AIMS TO CREATE RIGHT WING MEDIA ECOSYSTEM DOMINATED BY TRUMP
Heather Cox Richardson 12/9/25 MEDIA MERGER AIMS TO CREATE RIGHT WING MEDIA ECOSYSTEM DOMINATED BY TRUMP The fight to control the media narrative in a fight over ad media merger. As explained in Talking Point…the media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery, which used to be called Time Warner and includes news division CNN, had agreed to be acquired by Netflix. But, as the deal was moving forward, Paramount Skydance launched a hostile takeover to get Warner Bros. Discovery for itself. David Ellison, son of right-wing billionaire Larry Ellison, who co-founded software giant Oracle, bought Paramount over the summer and appears to be creating a right-wing media ecosystem dominated by the Trumps. Part of the financing for his purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery would come from the investment company of Trump son- in-law Jared Kushner, as well as from Saudi and Qatari sovereign wealth funds. Paramount told Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders they should accept its offer because Trump would never allow the Netflix deal to happen, and as Marshall notes, Trump appeared yesterday to agree with that suggestion.The Paramount merger gave Ellison control of CBS, which promptly turned rightward. At stake now is CNN,..., either to neuter it or turn it into another version of Fox News....reported that Ellison told Trump he would make “sweeping changes” to CNN... "Trump has told people close to him that he wants new ownership of CNN as well as changes to CNN programming.”
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#trump #Facts #Press #Credibility #ChatGPT #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 12/9/25
CHATGPT SAYS TRUMP PICKS FOR DOJ, FBI AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY DC ARE FACTUAL IMPOSSIBILITIES
Heather Cox Richardson 12/9/25 CHATGPT SAYS TRUMP PICKS FOR DOJ, FBI AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY DC ARE FACTUAL IMPOSSIBILITIES When G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers asked ChatGPT to fact- check an article for him yesterday, the chatbot couldn't get its head around modern America. It told him there were “multiple factual impossibilities” in his article, including his statements that “[t]he current Secretary of Defense is a former talk show host for Fox News,” “[t]he Deputy Director of the FBI used to guest-host Sean Hannity's show,” and “Jeanine Pirro is the U.S. District Attorney for DC." “Since none of these statements are true,” it told Morris, “they undermine credibility unless signposted as hyperbole, fiction, or satire. But of course, Morris's statements were not “factual impossibilities.” In the United States of America under President Donald J. Trump, they are true.
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Jan6 #RNC #DNC #Bomb #DC

Joyce Vance 12/7/25
Charges in the RNC/DNC Bomb Planting Case
FACTS

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Charges in the RNC/DNC Bomb Planting Case
Can we trust the FBI and this Justice Department after years of watching Donald Trump denigrate and politicize those previously independent agencies?
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December 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#PearlHarbor #History #DorisMiller #trump #Democray #Equality #Fascism #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25
PEARL HARBOR DAY AND A NEW ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller served aboard the USS West Virginia, in Pearl Harbor, HI, when the first of 9 Japanese torpedoes hit the ship...Miller had not been trained to use the weapons, as a Black man in the Navy, he was assigned to serve white officers...Miller began to fire one of the guns. He fired until he ran out of ammunition....as the impulse of WWII pushed Americans toward a more just & inclusive society after it, those determined not to share power warned that including people of color & women as equals would threaten their own liberty...Now, once again, democracy is under attack by those who believe some people are better than others. Trump & his cronies have abandoned the principles of democracy and openly embraced the hierarchical society the U.S. fought againstin WW II...They traded the rule of law for the rule of Trump, weaponizing the DOJ, ...They have openly rejected the world based on shared values of equality & democracy…Will we permit the destruction of democracy on our watch? When America came under attack, people like Doris Miller refused to let that happen. For all that American democracy still discriminated against him, it gave him room to stand up for the concept of human equality- & he laid down his life for it...We hear a lot these days about how American democracy is doomed & the radical right will win. Maybe. But the beauty of our system is that it gives us people like Doris Miller. Even better, it makes us people like Doris Miller.
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Satire #Humor #Trump #Cognitive #Test

Horowitz Report 12/7/25
TRUMP COGNITIVE TEST

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Trump Cognitive Test
TBR Sunday Read
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December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Goodnews

Aaron Parnas 12/7/25
GOODNEWS

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Major Good News Updates!!
Good morning everyone, and Happy Sunday!
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December 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Kindness #Community #Syria #refugee #immigrant
Aaron Parnas 12/7/25
GOOD NEWS

* A Syrian refugee in Ohio, Hazaa Alabdullah, has gone viral for bringing homemade food every week to his volunteer-run English class, sharing the hospitality he grew up uplifting fellow students from around the world
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Enviroment #Romania #Wildlife #Conservation
Aaron Parnas 12/7/25
GOOD NEWS
Young griffon vultures will be reintroduced to Romania’s Carpathian Mts a key step in building a “European Yellowstone” in the Făgăraș range, restore a fully functioning ecosystem by returning bison, beavers, & vultures
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Enviroment #Romania #Plastics #Recycle
Aaron Parnas 12/7/25
GOOD NEWS

Romania has achieved a remarkable 94% return rate for plastic, glass, and metal beverage containers just two years after launching its nationwide deposit-return system with RetuRO, transforming one of Europe’s weakest recycling
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#ICE #Brutality #Cruelty #Immigrates #Fascism #Video
Aaron Parnas 12/6/25

ICE UNLEASHES POLICE DOG ON MAN
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News: ICE unleashed dog on undocumented immigrant despite him not resisting causing serious injury.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#trump #NSS #ForeignPolicies #Fascism #EU #NATO #UN #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25
TRUMP ABDICATES U.S. INFLUENCE TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONSHIP OVER
Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25 TRUMP ABDICATES U.S. INFLUENCE TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONSHIP OVER Walking away from the U.S.-led international systems that reinforce the principles of national self-determination and have kept the world relatively safe since World War Il, the Trump administration is embracing the old idea of spheres of influence in which less powerful countries are controlled by great powers, a system in place before World War Il and favored now by Russia's president Vladimir Putin, among others. National security specialist 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.” European Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Ulrike Franke commented: “The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a speech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.” Today, Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk of Reuters reported that Pentagon officials this week told European diplomats in Washington, D.C., that the U.S. wants Europe to take over most of NATO's defense capabilities by 2027.
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#trump #NSS #ForeignPolicies #Fascism #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25
TRUMP’S U.S. TO TAKE OVER WESTERN HEMISPHERE FOR U.S. BUISNESSES, “COMMERCIAL DIPLOMACY”
Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25 TRUMP'S U.S. TO TAKE OVER WESTERN HEMISPHERE FOR U.S. BUISNESSES, "COMMERCIAL DIPLOMACY" In place of the post—World War Il rules-based international order, the Trump administration's NSS commits the U.S. to a world divided into spheres of interest by dominant countries. It calls for the U.S. to dominate the Western Hemisphere through what it calls “commercial diplomacy,”...The document calls for “closer collaboration between the U.S. Government and the American private sector. All our embassies must be aware of major business opportunities in their country...Every U.S. Government official that interacts with these countries should understand that part of their job is to help American companies compete and succeed.” It went on to make clear that this policy is a plan to help U.S. businesses take over Latin America and, perhaps, Canada. “The U.S. Government will identify strategic acquisition and investment opportunities for American companies in the region and present these opportunities for assessment by every U.S. Government financing program,”
December 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#trump #NSS #ForeignPolicies #NATO #UN #Freetrade #Fascism #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BACKS AWAY FROM INTERNATIONAL RULES BASED POLICIES
Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25 TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BACKS AWAY FROM INTERNATIONAL RULES BASED POLICIES The Trump administration's NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War Il. After a brief introduction touting what it claims are the administration's great successes, the document begins by announcing the U.S. will back away from the global engagements that underpin the rules-based international order that the World War II Allies put in place after that war to prevent another world war. The authors of the document claim that the system of institutions like the United Nations, alliances like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and free trade between nations that established a series of rules for foreign engagement and a web of shared interests around the globe has been bad for the U.S. because it undermined “the character of our nation.” Their vision of “our country’s inherent greatness and decency,” requires “the restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health,” “an America that cherishes its past glories and its heroes, and that looks forward to a new golden age,” and “growing numbers of strong, traditional families that raise healthy children.”
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The cartoonists run the week through the MRI.
Check out the results --->
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The Golden Age.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Hegseth #WarCrimes #AndrewKolvet

Heather Cox Richardson 12/4/25
Andrew Kolvet Turning Point USA: “Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean.”

Hegseth: “Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat.”
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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What's missing from this arrest affidavit, something that appears in ALL other January 6 affidavits, are data points showing that Brian Cole did ANYTHING between December 19, 2020, when Trump announced the rally and when he appears on Capitol Hill on January 5.
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Military #MyLai #Massacre #Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #Oaths #Heroes #Video

THE WORST AND THE BEST OF THE U.S. MILITARY

“KILL THEM ALL” PETE HEGSETH

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Lawrence: After report of Hegseth's 'kill everybody' order, Trump's first instinct was to lie
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December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM