sarahshackelford24
@5988.bsky.social
Retired Librarian and French Teacher
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I've been fighting a cold for a week and enjoying a detailed replay of "Surviving the Aftermath," a game I gladly recommend.
A few times while you were going on about some TV show, I almost wrote, “Don’t you have some writing to do !??”
Yet I wasted yesterday binge watching new season of the awful “Emily in Paris” (which takes place in Rome) just to see the scenes of Rome, the clothing & good looking men. So I get it.
Yet I wasted yesterday binge watching new season of the awful “Emily in Paris” (which takes place in Rome) just to see the scenes of Rome, the clothing & good looking men. So I get it.
December 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I've been fighting a cold for a week and enjoying a detailed replay of "Surviving the Aftermath," a game I gladly recommend.
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In both pageantry and policy, Trump has established a new, more audacious version of the imperial presidency that goes far beyond even the one associated with Richard Nixon, for whom the term was popularized half a century ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In both pageantry and policy, Trump has established a new, more audacious version of the imperial presidency that goes far beyond even the one associated with Richard Nixon, for whom the term was popularized half a century ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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Imagine being a journalist and thinking that withholding evidence is "complying with the spirit if not the intent" of a law and not, say, a sign that criminals might be meddling with or destroying the evidence they're withholding.
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Imagine being a journalist and thinking that withholding evidence is "complying with the spirit if not the intent" of a law and not, say, a sign that criminals might be meddling with or destroying the evidence they're withholding.
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Trump’s DOJ and AG Pam Bondi are now breaking the law to protect powerful pedophiles. #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
December 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump’s DOJ and AG Pam Bondi are now breaking the law to protect powerful pedophiles. #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
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The Epstein Files Transparency Act is clear: while protecting survivors, ALL of these records are required to be released today. Not just some.
The Trump administration can't move the goalposts. They're cemented in law.
thehill.com/policy/natio...
The Trump administration can't move the goalposts. They're cemented in law.
thehill.com/policy/natio...
thehill.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Epstein Files Transparency Act is clear: while protecting survivors, ALL of these records are required to be released today. Not just some.
The Trump administration can't move the goalposts. They're cemented in law.
thehill.com/policy/natio...
The Trump administration can't move the goalposts. They're cemented in law.
thehill.com/policy/natio...
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Jack Smith still wants to speak in public:
In a new letter, Smith says he wants the American public to "hear the facts" about his two criminal cases against Trump — asking the House Judiciary Committee to release video of his closed-door deposition and schedule an open and public hearing.
In a new letter, Smith says he wants the American public to "hear the facts" about his two criminal cases against Trump — asking the House Judiciary Committee to release video of his closed-door deposition and schedule an open and public hearing.
Jack Smith says Americans should 'hear the fact' of Trump probes, wants deposition tapes released
Jack Smith wants the American public to “hear the facts” about his two criminal cases against Trump, asking Trump ally Jim Jordan to release video of his eight-
www.nbcnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Jack Smith still wants to speak in public:
In a new letter, Smith says he wants the American public to "hear the facts" about his two criminal cases against Trump — asking the House Judiciary Committee to release video of his closed-door deposition and schedule an open and public hearing.
In a new letter, Smith says he wants the American public to "hear the facts" about his two criminal cases against Trump — asking the House Judiciary Committee to release video of his closed-door deposition and schedule an open and public hearing.
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The "law" is what the people with guns say it is.
Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
December 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The "law" is what the people with guns say it is.
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Trump Spews Lies About The Economy In His Year-End Address To Nation
Trump Spews Lies About The Economy In His Year-End Address To Nation
Trump Spews Lies About The Economy In His Year-End Address To Nation
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Trump Spews Lies About The Economy In His Year-End Address To Nation
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The president keeps claiming Joe Biden left him a disaster and he is fixing it. In fact, Biden handed over a good economy that Trump made worse with his tariffs.
Trump Spews Lies About The Economy In His Year-End Address To Nation
The president keeps claiming Joe Biden left him a disaster and he is fixing it. In fact, Biden handed over a good economy that Trump made worse with his tariffs.
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The president keeps claiming Joe Biden left him a disaster and he is fixing it. In fact, Biden handed over a good economy that Trump made worse with his tariffs.
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Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!”
The Economist, one year ago:
The Economist, one year ago:
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!”
The Economist, one year ago:
The Economist, one year ago:
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For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
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Watching the narrative fall apart in seconds.
Trump Official Tries To Claim Antifa Is Top National 'Threat'—Then Flails Over Simple Questions
www.comicsands.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Watching the narrative fall apart in seconds.
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“I don’t know about you, but if a country I wanted to visit was asking for all that information—while at the same time ramping up hostile mass surveillance and grabbing innocent people off the street without due process—I would think twice about visiting.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
Come to Trump's America...If You Dare
The Trump regime is pushing a paranoid new policy that will further discourage international travelers. The reputation of America's aggression is growing.
www.americaamerica.news
December 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
“I don’t know about you, but if a country I wanted to visit was asking for all that information—while at the same time ramping up hostile mass surveillance and grabbing innocent people off the street without due process—I would think twice about visiting.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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HAPPENING NOW:
SCOTUS is hearing arguments on whether Trump exceeded his authority by firing the last Democratic FTC commissioner. A ruling in his favor could overturn 90-year-old precedent that lets Congress shield independent agency officials from arbitrary removal.
SCOTUS is hearing arguments on whether Trump exceeded his authority by firing the last Democratic FTC commissioner. A ruling in his favor could overturn 90-year-old precedent that lets Congress shield independent agency officials from arbitrary removal.
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments In Trump’s Bid for Total Control of Government
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
HAPPENING NOW:
SCOTUS is hearing arguments on whether Trump exceeded his authority by firing the last Democratic FTC commissioner. A ruling in his favor could overturn 90-year-old precedent that lets Congress shield independent agency officials from arbitrary removal.
SCOTUS is hearing arguments on whether Trump exceeded his authority by firing the last Democratic FTC commissioner. A ruling in his favor could overturn 90-year-old precedent that lets Congress shield independent agency officials from arbitrary removal.
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Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization.
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization.
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship.
What a betrayal of American values!
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Breaking News: The developer of an app that tracks ICE raids sued Trump officials, saying that they pressured Apple to remove it.
App That Tracks ICE Raids Sues U.S., Saying Officials Pressured Apple to Remove It
The developer of ICEBlock, which notifies users of ICE agent sightings, said Attorney General Pam Bondi censored his free speech.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Breaking News: The developer of an app that tracks ICE raids sued Trump officials, saying that they pressured Apple to remove it.
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Breaking: Kushner and Saudi Arabia are part of Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. This could give them control of CNN and more: www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Breaking: Kushner and Saudi Arabia are part of Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. This could give them control of CNN and more: www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Given the largely supine nature of Congress under Republican control, the stability of American democracy depends more than it should on the Supreme Court,” the editorial board writes. “So far, it is failing to live up to its constitutional role.”
“Given the largely supine nature of Congress under Republican control, the stability of American democracy depends more than it should on the Supreme Court,” the editorial board writes. “So far, it is failing to live up to its constitutional role.”
Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job
Until the court imposes limits, the administration will keep acting as if there are none.
nyti.ms
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Given the largely supine nature of Congress under Republican control, the stability of American democracy depends more than it should on the Supreme Court,” the editorial board writes. “So far, it is failing to live up to its constitutional role.”
“Given the largely supine nature of Congress under Republican control, the stability of American democracy depends more than it should on the Supreme Court,” the editorial board writes. “So far, it is failing to live up to its constitutional role.”
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I offered to pay $1.99 a gallon for gas today, after informing the attendant that's the going rate, according to president Trump. What do you know but he refused to fill my tank!
If he’s so mad about Fox & Friends Weekend he should give them back the host he poached to run the Pentagon.
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I offered to pay $1.99 a gallon for gas today, after informing the attendant that's the going rate, according to president Trump. What do you know but he refused to fill my tank!
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President Trump has declared himself “the affordability president,” while brushing off concerns about rising costs as “a con job by the Democrats.”
But there’s little evidence that his push to reframe the economic narrative is resonating with Americans.
But there’s little evidence that his push to reframe the economic narrative is resonating with Americans.
Trump struggles to persuade Americans to ignore affordability issues
A president who has often seemed to float above the laws of politics confronts a new political reality.
wapo.st
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
President Trump has declared himself “the affordability president,” while brushing off concerns about rising costs as “a con job by the Democrats.”
But there’s little evidence that his push to reframe the economic narrative is resonating with Americans.
But there’s little evidence that his push to reframe the economic narrative is resonating with Americans.
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Sweeping immigration changes by the Trump administration have resulted in the cancellation of oath ceremonies, the last step in the process of becoming a citizen. The actions are the latest attempt to tighten who can call themselves an American. w/ Orlando Mayorquín www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/u...
One Step From Citizenship, Some Find It Eludes Their Grasp
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sweeping immigration changes by the Trump administration have resulted in the cancellation of oath ceremonies, the last step in the process of becoming a citizen. The actions are the latest attempt to tighten who can call themselves an American. w/ Orlando Mayorquín www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/u...
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The coming season in America will be marked by emotional distance where proximity once existed. It will be made of empty chairs and blocked social media accounts and separate holidays and protracted non-communication.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-civil-wa...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-civil-wa...
A Civil War Hasn't Come to America, a Cold War Has
The heralds of disaster are hard at work right now.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The coming season in America will be marked by emotional distance where proximity once existed. It will be made of empty chairs and blocked social media accounts and separate holidays and protracted non-communication.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-civil-wa...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/a-civil-wa...