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Democracy. #Resist. Android enthusiast. Cat Mom.

My views expressed here are solely my own.
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This is why I subscribe to Wired. I think you get a free trial.

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DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Wow.

"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”

- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”

They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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No matter the outcome in TN-7, the lesson for Democrats is that they need to run candidates in every district, and they need to talk to rural voters face-to-face, where they are.
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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He seems to be constantly fighting 'wokeness' these days...
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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We didn’t hit it twice

We did hit it twice and that’s legal

The Admiral did it

We didn’t see them

I’m in the fog of war and you’re not even though I am right where you are
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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NEW: Trump just called JD Vance incompetent.
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Pete Hegseth's nameplate during today's cabinet meeting featured an unfortunate error.

(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Jeanette Rubio dozes through Marco Rubio making a belabored effort to fumble through what is expected at him despite his glaring deficits. No, wait, sorry, this time it’s Donald Trump.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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NEW: DOGE is far from dead, contrary to recent reporting. Instead, its operatives have “burrowed into” federal agencies “like ticks.”

Here’s what the DOGE crew is up to now:

From @makenakelly.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him.

So there’s that, too.
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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The Trump administration this year launched the broadest overhaul of federal law enforcement in a generation, ordering thousands of agents to to focus on deporting immigrants.

That shift has taken a toll on the government's ability to prosecute people for just about everything else.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I just re-subscribed to @washingtonpost.com

They earned my subscription with the boat strike story

Over the weekend I cancelled @nytimes.com. But it's an annual subscription, so there's time to change my mind

Facts. Just give me facts. Simon Says stories are propaganda, not fact.
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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8/ In my opinion, because the Roberts Court has refused to enforce the rule of law against Donald Trump, Trump has aggregated to himself the power to murder Venezuelans, in service of warmongering.
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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there is no legitimate definition of the term "democracy" under which maps like these are "democratic." this level of stovepiping is banana republic shit. this is effectively no different from stuffing a ballot box
Indiana Republicans have unveiled their proposal to re-gerrymander the congressional map & expand their current 7-2 majority to 9-0.

The Dem-held 1st would flip to Trump+12 & the 7th to Trump+19. All 7 GOP seats would be at least Trump+18.

Interactive map:
davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...
December 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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The MRI *following* the cognitive test is a tell.
December 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Investing in a positive vision for a liberal future, rather than remaining in a defensive crouch on behalf of a liberal past.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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The U.S. president speaks and relates information like a mentally disabled person or a person with a head injury. I will never understand how this is not front-page, top-of-the-hour news.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results

Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.

Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?

Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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This is all true but

1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law

2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up

The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Pete. Bus. Under.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?

Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM