Wingate Steitz
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December 10, 2025
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December 10, 2025
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-seven years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Hu...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
December 10, 2025
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#FBaRmy Fight For Freedom! We Are Reliving The Worst Parts Of History! Let's #Revolt Fascism! Fuck Trump Forever!✨️
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December 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
#FBaRmy Fight For Freedom! We Are Reliving The Worst Parts Of History! Let's #Revolt Fascism! Fuck Trump Forever!✨️
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Trump dusting off the old playbook
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Trump dusting off the old playbook
Throwing out rotting red meat in Pennsylvania
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December 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Trump dusting off the old playbook
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NOT True and NOT Fair. Trump and Congressional Republicans have also been heavily touting their “Just Die” plan.
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
NOT True and NOT Fair. Trump and Congressional Republicans have also been heavily touting their “Just Die” plan.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Trump: Two Dolls and Two Pencils for Everyone
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Trump: Two Dolls and Two Pencils for Everyone
"A chicken for every pot" didn't work out well for Hoover
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December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Trump: Two Dolls and Two Pencils for Everyone
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Trump is determined to turn the US into North Korea.
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump is determined to turn the US into North Korea.
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Congress is set to pass its $901 billion defense bill without including insurance coverage for families to get fertility treatment.
Lawmakers and advocates supporting the provision said House Speaker Johnson axed it based on objections to IVF.
Lawmakers and advocates supporting the provision said House Speaker Johnson axed it based on objections to IVF.
New IVF benefits for military families cut from defense bill again
Lawmakers and advocates supporting the provision said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) axed the provision based on personal objections to IVF.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Congress is set to pass its $901 billion defense bill without including insurance coverage for families to get fertility treatment.
Lawmakers and advocates supporting the provision said House Speaker Johnson axed it based on objections to IVF.
Lawmakers and advocates supporting the provision said House Speaker Johnson axed it based on objections to IVF.
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Pope Leo XIV spoke out against US President Donald Trump’s recent broadsides against Europe, saying the comments risked upending a longstanding transatlantic alliance
Trump Words Risk ‘Breaking Apart’ US-Europe Alliance, Pope Says
Pope Leo XIV spoke out against US President Donald Trump’s recent broadsides against Europe, saying the comments risked upending a longstanding transatlantic alliance.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Pope Leo XIV spoke out against US President Donald Trump’s recent broadsides against Europe, saying the comments risked upending a longstanding transatlantic alliance
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"The document warns that 'should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,' imperiling many countries’ reliability as allies."
Oh. *That's* the manner in which this administration cares about alliances.
Oh. *That's* the manner in which this administration cares about alliances.
New Trump Security Strategy Turns Against the Free World
... and toward racialism, Russia, and the right wing.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"The document warns that 'should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,' imperiling many countries’ reliability as allies."
Oh. *That's* the manner in which this administration cares about alliances.
Oh. *That's* the manner in which this administration cares about alliances.
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MAGA regime officials are now threatening retaliatory sanctions against the ICC (International Criminal Court) in fear that the ICC may try to prosecute them for their war crimes.
Innocent people don’t do this, only fascist criminals do.
Innocent people don’t do this, only fascist criminals do.
December 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
MAGA regime officials are now threatening retaliatory sanctions against the ICC (International Criminal Court) in fear that the ICC may try to prosecute them for their war crimes.
Innocent people don’t do this, only fascist criminals do.
Innocent people don’t do this, only fascist criminals do.
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NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/o...
Opinion | $27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?
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December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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GUARDIAN: “The richest .0001% hold 3x the wealth of the poorest half of humanity.”
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December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
GUARDIAN: “The richest .0001% hold 3x the wealth of the poorest half of humanity.”
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WATCH: “What I saw changed my life. They spent the night in their cars to get care in barns.”😳🇺🇸
Ex insurance company exec @wendellpotter.bsky.social tells Kanew a visit to a Remote Area Medical site in East Tennessee turned him into #MedicareForAll advocate
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Ex insurance company exec @wendellpotter.bsky.social tells Kanew a visit to a Remote Area Medical site in East Tennessee turned him into #MedicareForAll advocate
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December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
WATCH: “What I saw changed my life. They spent the night in their cars to get care in barns.”😳🇺🇸
Ex insurance company exec @wendellpotter.bsky.social tells Kanew a visit to a Remote Area Medical site in East Tennessee turned him into #MedicareForAll advocate
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DSFsimP...
Ex insurance company exec @wendellpotter.bsky.social tells Kanew a visit to a Remote Area Medical site in East Tennessee turned him into #MedicareForAll advocate
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NEW INTERVIEW: “THE CASE FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL” with ex insurance exec @wendellpotter.bsky.social
“The work I was doing was to mislead people.”
He helped stop universal health care and propped up a cruel system — then he had a crisis of conscience (in TN)
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“The work I was doing was to mislead people.”
He helped stop universal health care and propped up a cruel system — then he had a crisis of conscience (in TN)
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December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
NEW INTERVIEW: “THE CASE FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL” with ex insurance exec @wendellpotter.bsky.social
“The work I was doing was to mislead people.”
He helped stop universal health care and propped up a cruel system — then he had a crisis of conscience (in TN)
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DSFsimP...
“The work I was doing was to mislead people.”
He helped stop universal health care and propped up a cruel system — then he had a crisis of conscience (in TN)
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DSFsimP...
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"As we look to 2026, the most important question is whether the Supreme Court will finally recognize the unprecedented dangers to the rule of law posed by the Trump presidency and begin enforcing the Constitution."
The Assault on the Rule of Law
It is not hyperbole to say that this Trump presidency is unprecedented in the repeated violations of the Constitution.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"As we look to 2026, the most important question is whether the Supreme Court will finally recognize the unprecedented dangers to the rule of law posed by the Trump presidency and begin enforcing the Constitution."
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Good read. Those of us who didn't vote for him are owed a payback from those who did. A BIG payback.
Voters Got Us Into This Mess. They’re Getting Us Out.
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Voters Got Us Into This Mess. They’re Getting Us Out.
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Voters Got Us Into This Mess. They’re Getting Us Out.
Georgia on our minds.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Good read. Those of us who didn't vote for him are owed a payback from those who did. A BIG payback.
Voters Got Us Into This Mess. They’re Getting Us Out.
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Voters Got Us Into This Mess. They’re Getting Us Out.
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"At some point the regime has consolidated so much power that its popularity no longer matters." If *that* is happening, Trump's sinking approval is not the end of the story.
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4oIF0MJ
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4oIF0MJ
Trump’s Wager and the Authoritarian Shift
Is Trump getting weaker, or is the authoritarian danger increasing? Yes.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"At some point the regime has consolidated so much power that its popularity no longer matters." If *that* is happening, Trump's sinking approval is not the end of the story.
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4oIF0MJ
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4oIF0MJ
Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them.
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Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them.
An emergency video/podcast
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December 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them.
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The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The SCOTUS birthright case
Jasmine Crockett’s run for senate
Healthcare fears
Special guest Maria Cardona is helping us unpack it all on Coffee with the Contrarians at 9:15am ET on Substack. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss it: https://contrarian.substack.com/subscribe
Jasmine Crockett’s run for senate
Healthcare fears
Special guest Maria Cardona is helping us unpack it all on Coffee with the Contrarians at 9:15am ET on Substack. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss it: https://contrarian.substack.com/subscribe
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Trump Says That You Are the Problem
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Trump Says That You Are the Problem
Everything is perfect. Why aren’t you grateful?
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December 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trump Says That You Are the Problem
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Barack Obama in Santa hat surprises school children during visit to Chicago
Former President Barack Obama is in Chicago this week to review progress on the Obama Presidential Center, which is set to open in June. He stopped by the Bessie Coleman branch of the Chicago Public L...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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