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Flower lover; dog lover (cats too); poetry & art are awesome; grateful for thoughtful, informed, informative, &/or funny posts. Semi-retired educator.
Still send snail mail. Prefer some anonymity, so won't ever be verified, but I'm real.
Still send snail mail. Prefer some anonymity, so won't ever be verified, but I'm real.
What we truly need is a government that’s run by intelligent people.
Caleb Ragland, president of the American Soybean Association, on Trump's farm bailout: "This is a band-aid on an open wound ... what we truly need are market-based solutions"
December 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What we truly need is a government that’s run by intelligent people.
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What’s happening at the Supreme Court this week is bigger than just one FTC commissioner. The majority seems ready to endorse the “unitary executive” theory, giving Trump the power to purge agency staffers and replace them with loyalists. It’s a frightening prospect we should be paying attention to.
Humphrey’s Who? The Big SCOTUS Case Few Understand
A decision over who Trump can fire will reshape how our entire government functions
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What’s happening at the Supreme Court this week is bigger than just one FTC commissioner. The majority seems ready to endorse the “unitary executive” theory, giving Trump the power to purge agency staffers and replace them with loyalists. It’s a frightening prospect we should be paying attention to.
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Can we agree to STOP CONSUMING POLITICO?
Trump has been named most influential politician in Europe by Politico
Putin 5th. LePen 4th. Farage 6th. Orban 12th. Zelenskyy 14th.
Can we pair it with FT that proclaimed head of Russia Today as one of the most influential people and throw it in trash?
Trump has been named most influential politician in Europe by Politico
Putin 5th. LePen 4th. Farage 6th. Orban 12th. Zelenskyy 14th.
Can we pair it with FT that proclaimed head of Russia Today as one of the most influential people and throw it in trash?
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Can we agree to STOP CONSUMING POLITICO?
Trump has been named most influential politician in Europe by Politico
Putin 5th. LePen 4th. Farage 6th. Orban 12th. Zelenskyy 14th.
Can we pair it with FT that proclaimed head of Russia Today as one of the most influential people and throw it in trash?
Trump has been named most influential politician in Europe by Politico
Putin 5th. LePen 4th. Farage 6th. Orban 12th. Zelenskyy 14th.
Can we pair it with FT that proclaimed head of Russia Today as one of the most influential people and throw it in trash?
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FBI Director Kash Patel has used the FBI jet to go on dates, a golf trip in Scotland, and various sports events.
Each trip cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.
The FBI must release the flight logs. Americans deserve to know how their money is spent.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Each trip cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.
The FBI must release the flight logs. Americans deserve to know how their money is spent.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Patel defends FBI leadership, jet use: ‘I’m entitled to a personal life’
FBI Director Kash Patel defended his handling of the bureau and his use of its private jet amid a storm of criticism over his leadership. Patel has faced mounting scrutiny in recent days, with a co…
thehill.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
FBI Director Kash Patel has used the FBI jet to go on dates, a golf trip in Scotland, and various sports events.
Each trip cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.
The FBI must release the flight logs. Americans deserve to know how their money is spent.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Each trip cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.
The FBI must release the flight logs. Americans deserve to know how their money is spent.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Supreme Court Is About to Give Trump His Crony State
During oral arguments, the conservative justices made clear that they intend to allow Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter—and reorder the separation of powers.
www.thenation.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Rand Paul being sane & right in this instance is messing with me.
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Rand Paul being sane & right in this instance is messing with me.
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Your fellow reporter just got blasted on national TV by the president of the United States as "obnoxious" and "terrible" -- and you follow it up with a crappy question about the midterms, which are 11 months away.
You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.
You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Your fellow reporter just got blasted on national TV by the president of the United States as "obnoxious" and "terrible" -- and you follow it up with a crappy question about the midterms, which are 11 months away.
You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.
You might want to think about another line of work. You aren't cut out for this.
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Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."
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Felon trump again destroyed US farm families in his failed tariff war with China as felon trump again puts US farmers on welfare. Meanwhile, China's exports are soaring
December 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Felon trump again destroyed US farm families in his failed tariff war with China as felon trump again puts US farmers on welfare. Meanwhile, China's exports are soaring
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Trump’s henchmen are openly bragging to Republican donors how the MAGA #SCOTUS will help them win elections by ruling the Republican’s way on campaign finance contribution and redistricting cases.
Trumpers are counting on right wing judicial coup from Roberts.
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Trumpers are counting on right wing judicial coup from Roberts.
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
December 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Trump’s henchmen are openly bragging to Republican donors how the MAGA #SCOTUS will help them win elections by ruling the Republican’s way on campaign finance contribution and redistricting cases.
Trumpers are counting on right wing judicial coup from Roberts.
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Trumpers are counting on right wing judicial coup from Roberts.
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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Ismael Ayala-Uribe came to the US at 4 yrs old & worked down the street from my parents house where he was detained in an immigration sweep. He died in ICE custody from lack of medical care.
This man died from being at the wrong place at the wrong time because of #IceLawlessness, cruelty & racism.
This man died from being at the wrong place at the wrong time because of #IceLawlessness, cruelty & racism.
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Ismael Ayala-Uribe came to the US at 4 yrs old & worked down the street from my parents house where he was detained in an immigration sweep. He died in ICE custody from lack of medical care.
This man died from being at the wrong place at the wrong time because of #IceLawlessness, cruelty & racism.
This man died from being at the wrong place at the wrong time because of #IceLawlessness, cruelty & racism.
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Trump said he’d have “no problem” releasing the full Venezuela boat strike video. He’s backpedaling because the truth is ugly and he knows it looks like a war crime.
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Trump said he’d have “no problem” releasing the full Venezuela boat strike video. He’s backpedaling because the truth is ugly and he knows it looks like a war crime.
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A Ukrainian woman married to a United States citizen has become one of the latest applicants to be detained by federal agents at their green card interview, despite her husband saying she had always had legal status.
ICE detains wife at green card interview despite always having legal status
Viktoriia Bulavina was arrested by federal agents despite having Temporary Protected Status, her husband told Newsweek.
www.newsweek.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A Ukrainian woman married to a United States citizen has become one of the latest applicants to be detained by federal agents at their green card interview, despite her husband saying she had always had legal status.
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Just in: Missouri organizers have turned in ≈300,000 signatures to block the GOP's new gerrymander there.
That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.
That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.
Campaign to put gerrymandered Missouri map on the ballot turns in 300,000 signatures • Missouri Independent
Roughly 300,000 signatures demanding Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map be placed on the 2026 ballot were submitted.
missouriindependent.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just in: Missouri organizers have turned in ≈300,000 signatures to block the GOP's new gerrymander there.
That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.
That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.
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Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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"The Ohio Department of Agriculture says two of the 72 black vulture carcasses cleaned up from a Clermont County elementary school’s campus tested presumptive positive for bird flu."
Bird flu found in 2 dead vultures at Cincinnati-area school
Ohio Department of Agriculture confirms bird flu in dead vultures found at Clermont County school. Ohio wildlife officials initially refused to help.
www.wishtv.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"The Ohio Department of Agriculture says two of the 72 black vulture carcasses cleaned up from a Clermont County elementary school’s campus tested presumptive positive for bird flu."
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
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A British NGO files a complaint against FIFA -- for violating the international body's own code of ethics.
@lemonde.fr
www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl...
@lemonde.fr
www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl...
Une plainte contre Gianni Infantino, accusé par une ONG d’avoir bafoué la « neutralité politique » de la FIFA avec Donald Trump
L’ONG britannique FairSquare a déposé une plainte, lundi, contre le patron de la Fédération internationale de football auprès de la commission d’éthique de l’instance à propos des circonstances dans l...
www.lemonde.fr
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A British NGO files a complaint against FIFA -- for violating the international body's own code of ethics.
@lemonde.fr
www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl...
@lemonde.fr
www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl...
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US gov oversight reports indicate $185B appropriated for Ukraine through 3/2025—this incl $$ for replenishing US defense stocks & aid to other NATO allies. Ca $90B of the amount was disbursed for Ukraine.
European nations have collectively committed more total aid to Ukraine than the US.
European nations have collectively committed more total aid to Ukraine than the US.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
US gov oversight reports indicate $185B appropriated for Ukraine through 3/2025—this incl $$ for replenishing US defense stocks & aid to other NATO allies. Ca $90B of the amount was disbursed for Ukraine.
European nations have collectively committed more total aid to Ukraine than the US.
European nations have collectively committed more total aid to Ukraine than the US.
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I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors.
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
Stephen Miller's War on Cancer Cures - emptywheel
Stephen Miller is cutting your access to health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researchers (and, given the unnecessary bump in DOD spending, to invade Canada to...
www.emptywheel.net
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors.
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
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Z: I want to express my gratitude for package of energy assistance, necessary equipment – this is exactly what will support UKR families, our people, children, and everyday life in our cities and communities, which continue to endure constant Russian attacks. We must protect lives. Thank you, Italy!
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Z: I want to express my gratitude for package of energy assistance, necessary equipment – this is exactly what will support UKR families, our people, children, and everyday life in our cities and communities, which continue to endure constant Russian attacks. We must protect lives. Thank you, Italy!
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How far back do you suppose he wants to go?
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
How far back do you suppose he wants to go?
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Trump is considering demolishing 4 historic Washington buildings, incl those that housed the Dep of Housing and VOA, per former gov official
WH is independently soliciting bids to recommend demolition of the historic buildings, w/o input of the General Services Administration.
WH is independently soliciting bids to recommend demolition of the historic buildings, w/o input of the General Services Administration.
December 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Trump is considering demolishing 4 historic Washington buildings, incl those that housed the Dep of Housing and VOA, per former gov official
WH is independently soliciting bids to recommend demolition of the historic buildings, w/o input of the General Services Administration.
WH is independently soliciting bids to recommend demolition of the historic buildings, w/o input of the General Services Administration.