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Zksam
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Retired public school teacher
My fav!
Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social

My way to resist right now…
later hit the door knocks
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Fresh Starts
Kindness changes everything
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December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🇺🇸 Former Trump adviser Bryan Lanza is now consulting for Russian oil giant Lukoil, Politico reports. Lanza is helping sell Lukoil’s non-Russian assets after new U.S. sanctions. He previously called returning Crimea to Ukraine “unrealistic.”
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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You don’t see this every day.

Ohio’s sitting Republican Governor tells the media that the number one thing his own party is attacking the Democratic gubernatorial candidate (Amy Acton) on was HIS decisionmaking.

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www.nbc4i.com/news/your-lo...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Want to get a sense of how bad the Trump economy is getting? Bean producers are now marketing "new recipes inspired by cooking strategies from the Depression" which ofc @axios.com is hyping as a "bean boom." 😏 www.axios.com/newsletters/...
December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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It's not a question of politics or party. Congress has a constitutional obligation to impeach and to remove a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors and forsakes his solemn oath.

And there has never been a president who has committed as many impeachable offenses than this one.
There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
December 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, representing the first major legal challenge to President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition.

Read more: https://wapo.st/4iR882N
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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They just don't want anyone traveling to the US for any reason at all
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I'm repeatedly hearing that Emil Bove was in urgent consultations with Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi and others at DOJ, about how to "shut down Boasberg." He feels threatened. I wonder why.
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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BREAKING: Trump admin asks DC Circuit to halt Boasberg's planned contempt hearings next week re Alien Enemies deportations, incl. testimony from fired DOJ immigration atty Erez Reuveni. DOJ says it will be a 'circus' and 'endless fishing expedition.' Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Notice (Other) – #206 in J.G.G. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00766) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE (Service of Mandamus Petition) by PAMELA J. BONDI, PETER B. HEGSETH, KRISTI L. NOEM, MARCO A. RUBIO, MADISON SHEAHAN, DONALD J. TRUMP, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SE...
storage.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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💔This is Kostyantynivka.

The city, where 78,179 people lived until 2022, but today the Russians are destroying every street

📷: Khyzhak Brigade
December 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.

This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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People who are saying that Trump's new National Security Strategy should not be taken seriously should ask themselves this: Was it right or wrong not to take Project 2025 seriously?
December 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Um, is the issue that has failed to address the affordability crisis or did he cause it? For I sure think his tariffs and the big ugly bill have caused the prices of food, utilities and health care to rise.
Trump's approval is at an all-time low.

The American people are smart. They know Trump is failing to address the affordability crisis and driving our economy into the ground.

www.axios.com/2025/12/12/t...
Trump's approval rating on the economy hits record low 31%
The decline comes as the administration is working to take on an affordability crisis.
www.axios.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Breaking news: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, over records related to the 2020 election, escalating the Trump administration’s efforts to boost the president’s false claims that his loss to Joe Biden was rigged.
DOJ sues Georgia county as Trump pushes debunked 2020 election fraud claims
President Donald Trump has increasingly pressured his administration to find widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite those claims having been debunked and dismissed in dozens of cases by ...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.
An estimated 200,000 people have fled fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo just days after Trump hailed a “historic” peace deal to end the conflict.
200,000 Flee Congo After Trump’s ‘Historic’ Peace Deal
Why the Rwanda-Congo accord misses the point.
foreignpolicy.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Once again, Republicans do not understand what Obamacare does because if they did, they'd know that THIS IS WHAT OBAMACARE DOES. I'm going to lose my mind.

www.politico.com/live-updates...
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The $4.50 price tag caught my eye. A reference to his becoming 45th POTUS? 🤔
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Good for him
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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For the first time in decades, I handed my successor an air traffic controller workforce that was growing instead of shrinking.

Disturbingly, the Trump administration can't or won't say whether that’s still the case.
December 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Trump is now running an astounding (even for him) 90 minutes late for his scheduled 3pm bill signing event
December 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The National Rifle Association is burning through its investment portfolio to pay its bills as legal perils increase and revenue from membership dues decline, according to an independent audit reviewed by NOTUS.
www.notus.org/money/nra-na...
The NRA Is Selling Off Its Investments to Make Ends Meet
The 154-year-old gun rights organization liquidated nearly $40 million worth of stock, fixed-income securities and other holdings, according to an independent audit reviewed by NOTUS.
www.notus.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM