OldRetiredLady
@oldretiredlady.bsky.social
Rhode Islander, Antifacist, Loving City Life. DM = Block.
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A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
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Reminder: Trump pardoned the founder of a black market that imported fentanyl from China into the U.S.
So to be clear—he’s fine pardoning criminals who used weapons of mass destruction against the American people.
So to be clear—he’s fine pardoning criminals who used weapons of mass destruction against the American people.
Trump designates fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction amid drug cartel strikes
The order authorizes the Pentagon and DOJ to use "every tool" available to combat drug cartels.
www.axios.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Reminder: Trump pardoned the founder of a black market that imported fentanyl from China into the U.S.
So to be clear—he’s fine pardoning criminals who used weapons of mass destruction against the American people.
So to be clear—he’s fine pardoning criminals who used weapons of mass destruction against the American people.
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people thought they were voting for the anti-war guy who opposed the iraq war (he wasn't and he didn't) and they got a guy who is now designating fentanyl as a WMD before launching a preemptive regime-change war against venezuela. nice job, podcast bros. really did your audience a service in 2024.
December 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
people thought they were voting for the anti-war guy who opposed the iraq war (he wasn't and he didn't) and they got a guy who is now designating fentanyl as a WMD before launching a preemptive regime-change war against venezuela. nice job, podcast bros. really did your audience a service in 2024.
@nicollewallace.bsky.social I’m from East Providence, lived in downtown Providence until September, still have family living there. The last time my state suffered this kind of trauma was the Station Fire in 2003. I’m both gutted and furious that RI now joins the school shooting experience. Enough.
December 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
@nicollewallace.bsky.social I’m from East Providence, lived in downtown Providence until September, still have family living there. The last time my state suffered this kind of trauma was the Station Fire in 2003. I’m both gutted and furious that RI now joins the school shooting experience. Enough.
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
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All it took was one post from Trump and he proved that everything Rob Reiner ever said about him was true.
December 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
All it took was one post from Trump and he proved that everything Rob Reiner ever said about him was true.
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When I first read this story today the headline and the paragraph were different. (Jared was just getting cold feet, he had not yet announced he was giving up.)
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
When I first read this story today the headline and the paragraph were different. (Jared was just getting cold feet, he had not yet announced he was giving up.)
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
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While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
![Trump brings bigots out of hiding
WASHINGTON Once you notice it, you can't unsee it."
A
about a Trump rally near Phoenix where
couple of weeks ago, I wrote:
The Twitterverse, and social media a young man shouted "mother-f—.
"Let's not mince words, Donald generally, can be dark places, as can the ing tacos — go back to Mexico" at two Trump is a bigot and a racist." comments section of Washington Post
Latino protesters — and a 70-year-old
I cited a long list of incidents in which articles, and my email inbox. This is
retiree sucker-punched a demonstrator.
he targeted women, Latinos, African-
the seventh presidential campaign I've
And where is the condemnation of
Americans, Muslims, Asians and the covered in some form over 25 years, and this behavior? At the Las Vegas debate, disabled. Here's what I heard back from harsh criticism comes with the terri-
Trump's rivals all but ignored the front-
Trump's defenders:
tory. But the Trump backers venom is runner, who previously said of a black
"Let's not mince
without precedent. His supporters surely protestor at his event: "Maybe he should
words," somebody
aren't all bigots — but he is bringing the have been roughed up." Trump is burn-
tweeted under the name
bigoted in from the cold.
ing down the Republican house, and the
Helios Megistos. "Mil-
There is an obvious truth to what
American house, yet his rivals are on a
bank is an anti-white
white nationalist publisher Jared Tay-
march of the narcissists.
parasite and a bigoted
lor told The New Yorker this summer:
If Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Jeb
kike supremacist."
Trump's "support comes from people
Bush, John Kasich and other sensible
"[Trump] may well
who are more like me than he might like
candidates were to unite behind any one
be a bigot and a racist,"
to admit."
of them, that person could likely beat
DANA
one Michael Banfield
I write this not out of any hope of
Trump, and Ted Cruz. Instead, enabled
MILBANK
wrote me via email. "But changing the minds of Trump back-
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December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
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THERE’S a first.
“.. President Trump is being condemned by both right wing and centrist Republican members of Congress ..”
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“.. President Trump is being condemned by both right wing and centrist Republican members of Congress ..”
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December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
THERE’S a first.
“.. President Trump is being condemned by both right wing and centrist Republican members of Congress ..”
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/12/15/t...
“.. President Trump is being condemned by both right wing and centrist Republican members of Congress ..”
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/12/15/t...
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I don't want to hear from ANY Republican who doesn't strongly condemn Trump's despicable evil.
Let's remember Rep. Don Bacon was OK with Trump's J6 insurrection. He voted against impeachment and to keep him in power.
www.davedubya.com/2025/12/desp...
Let's remember Rep. Don Bacon was OK with Trump's J6 insurrection. He voted against impeachment and to keep him in power.
www.davedubya.com/2025/12/desp...
Despicable
Sometimes there are no words adequate enough to describe such hate, cruelty, and evil in one person. Blaming the victim and boasting about...
www.davedubya.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I don't want to hear from ANY Republican who doesn't strongly condemn Trump's despicable evil.
Let's remember Rep. Don Bacon was OK with Trump's J6 insurrection. He voted against impeachment and to keep him in power.
www.davedubya.com/2025/12/desp...
Let's remember Rep. Don Bacon was OK with Trump's J6 insurrection. He voted against impeachment and to keep him in power.
www.davedubya.com/2025/12/desp...
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ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
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Energy bills across the U.S. have increased 13% since Trump took office at the beginning of this year.
abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bi...
abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bi...
Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office, new report finds
The amount of money Americans are paying toward their energy bills has increased since President Donald Trump took office earlier this year, according to a new report.
abcnews.go.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Energy bills across the U.S. have increased 13% since Trump took office at the beginning of this year.
abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bi...
abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bi...
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Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.
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Usually, when I need an appointment at the VA, I can get one within 2 weeks. Today, I called for an appointment and the next available is in May, 2026. Firing 35K people will do that. The Trump administration hates veterans.
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Usually, when I need an appointment at the VA, I can get one within 2 weeks. Today, I called for an appointment and the next available is in May, 2026. Firing 35K people will do that. The Trump administration hates veterans.
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If the Supreme Court continues to bless Trump randomly pulling federal funding based on dubious interpretations of Title VI, two can tango...
The DEI ban's biggest irony? WaPo reports that for years, colleges have given men a quiet admissions edge to keep classes balanced. End that policy, and experts predict white men, the largest male subset, will be the most impacted.
Unintended consequences.
I am not shocked.
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Unintended consequences.
I am not shocked.
wapo.st/3KwTp0s
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
wapo.st
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If the Supreme Court continues to bless Trump randomly pulling federal funding based on dubious interpretations of Title VI, two can tango...
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Trump is never able to be anything other than who he is — even amidst tragedies like Rob Reiner’s death. Cruelty is always the point.
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Trump is never able to be anything other than who he is — even amidst tragedies like Rob Reiner’s death. Cruelty is always the point.
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Our DOJ and FBI are a fucking joke. Just a couple buildings teeming with dirty cops, protected by dirty judges.
Congressman Tom Massie is now saying that a whistleblower has informed him that the FBI may have the wrong suspect in the Washington, DC, pipe bomber case.
Here's video of the real pipe bomber.
Wonder why they can't identify the right person?
Here's video of the real pipe bomber.
Wonder why they can't identify the right person?
December 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Our DOJ and FBI are a fucking joke. Just a couple buildings teeming with dirty cops, protected by dirty judges.
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But the problem exists across society, and the devices we now rely on make it harder to break out of this dehumanizing cycle www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-...
Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones.
Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
But the problem exists across society, and the devices we now rely on make it harder to break out of this dehumanizing cycle www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-...
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
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As we wrote in 2024:
Hare Psychopathy Checklist:
“Perfect” score for total psychopath = 40
Average score in general population = 5
Average score for someone in maximum security prison = 22
Donald J. Trump = 34
Hare Psychopathy Checklist:
“Perfect” score for total psychopath = 40
Average score in general population = 5
Average score for someone in maximum security prison = 22
Donald J. Trump = 34
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
As we wrote in 2024:
Hare Psychopathy Checklist:
“Perfect” score for total psychopath = 40
Average score in general population = 5
Average score for someone in maximum security prison = 22
Donald J. Trump = 34
Hare Psychopathy Checklist:
“Perfect” score for total psychopath = 40
Average score in general population = 5
Average score for someone in maximum security prison = 22
Donald J. Trump = 34