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Score one for 'never ever doubt the stupidity of Trump II'
So far looking good for Team "I've Made a Huge Mistake" here
Susie Wiles Calls Explosive Vanity Fair Story A 'Disingenuously Framed Hit Piece'
www.huffpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Score one for 'never ever doubt the stupidity of Trump II'
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This might be one downside of the unitary executive theory in action
Defense attys everywhere updating their vindictive prosecution shell motions... "Not only did she confirm that Mr. Trump is using criminal prosecution to retaliate against adversaries...she said that 'when there’s an opportunity [for "retribution"], he will go for it.'”
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This might be one downside of the unitary executive theory in action
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Trust Phil.
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Trust Phil.
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More of @klasfeldreports.com's liveblog of the Hannah Dugan trial: A description of the Signal avatars the ICE team seeking to arrest a guy used.
One of the participants, DEA agent Bryan Ayers, used a profile picture of a skull over a coffee cup, with hypodermic needles as crossbones.
Another unidentified participant in the Frozen Water chat used an avatar of a man licking a gun.
Another unidentified participant in the Frozen Water chat used an avatar of a man licking a gun.
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
More of @klasfeldreports.com's liveblog of the Hannah Dugan trial: A description of the Signal avatars the ICE team seeking to arrest a guy used.
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For those in upstate New York, this has a horrible local connection: he’s being held in the Broome County (Binghamton) jail, under a 287(g) agreement our sheriff made with ICE.
A Chinese dissident filmed Uyghur detention sites and then released the video on YouTube after fleeing China. He sought asylum in the US. Now the Trump admin wants to deport him to a country with strong ties to China.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
He Recorded China’s Detention of Uyghurs. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him to Uganda.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
For those in upstate New York, this has a horrible local connection: he’s being held in the Broome County (Binghamton) jail, under a 287(g) agreement our sheriff made with ICE.
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Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I legit don’t understand why Wiles gave those interviews
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I legit don’t understand why Wiles gave those interviews
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This isn't about public opinion leadership (does anyone think that's what Democrats are doing right now?) - it's thermostatic public opinion moving against the direction of policy change.
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This isn't about public opinion leadership (does anyone think that's what Democrats are doing right now?) - it's thermostatic public opinion moving against the direction of policy change.
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It really cannot be overemphasized enough that JD Vance follows a host of open Nazis on Twitter.
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
December 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It really cannot be overemphasized enough that JD Vance follows a host of open Nazis on Twitter.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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As AG Bondi knows, her 3/14/25 Alien Enemies Act guidance deprived the removed individuals of any due process as to whether they were in fact "terrorists." SCOTUS was *unanimous* that she acted unconstitutionally. She should stop her unseemly, politicized tantrums.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
As AG Bondi knows, her 3/14/25 Alien Enemies Act guidance deprived the removed individuals of any due process as to whether they were in fact "terrorists." SCOTUS was *unanimous* that she acted unconstitutionally. She should stop her unseemly, politicized tantrums.
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If you get your groceries anywhere other than Walmart, Trump and his cronies have ensured you're paying a higher price for your Lays, Gatorade, and Pepsi
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you get your groceries anywhere other than Walmart, Trump and his cronies have ensured you're paying a higher price for your Lays, Gatorade, and Pepsi
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when you read this it is very clear that Wiles thinks she is flexing the administration's muscle. relatedly, it is also very clear that the White House is completely delusional about its standing with the public. they are high on their own supply.
Trump’s Inner Circle, On the Record (Part 2 of 2)
Susie Wiles discusses the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s war tactics, and “retribution” against Letitia James.
www.vanityfair.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
when you read this it is very clear that Wiles thinks she is flexing the administration's muscle. relatedly, it is also very clear that the White House is completely delusional about its standing with the public. they are high on their own supply.
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(2/2) Or just think that the left is worse for whatever reason (Free Press reader types).
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
(2/2) Or just think that the left is worse for whatever reason (Free Press reader types).
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(1/2) Although they may not admit it, Trump's base loves him *because* of things like his disgusting comments on Rob Reiner (not despite them).
That's not to say this might turn some swing voter types off. But most ppl who support him either love that he does this (his real base)....
That's not to say this might turn some swing voter types off. But most ppl who support him either love that he does this (his real base)....
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
(1/2) Although they may not admit it, Trump's base loves him *because* of things like his disgusting comments on Rob Reiner (not despite them).
That's not to say this might turn some swing voter types off. But most ppl who support him either love that he does this (his real base)....
That's not to say this might turn some swing voter types off. But most ppl who support him either love that he does this (his real base)....
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Good morning from Milwaukee.
Day Two of Judge Hannah Dugan’s trial has just begun here in federal court with the cross-examination of FBI agent Jeffrey Baker, who arrested the undocumented immigrant over whose case Dugan presided.
Look out for updates on All Rise News buff.ly/wMeyLRC
Day Two of Judge Hannah Dugan’s trial has just begun here in federal court with the cross-examination of FBI agent Jeffrey Baker, who arrested the undocumented immigrant over whose case Dugan presided.
Look out for updates on All Rise News buff.ly/wMeyLRC
December 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Good morning from Milwaukee.
Day Two of Judge Hannah Dugan’s trial has just begun here in federal court with the cross-examination of FBI agent Jeffrey Baker, who arrested the undocumented immigrant over whose case Dugan presided.
Look out for updates on All Rise News buff.ly/wMeyLRC
Day Two of Judge Hannah Dugan’s trial has just begun here in federal court with the cross-examination of FBI agent Jeffrey Baker, who arrested the undocumented immigrant over whose case Dugan presided.
Look out for updates on All Rise News buff.ly/wMeyLRC
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The Chief of Staff seemingly doesn't have the power to figure out how a high profile prisoner got moved to comfier digs.
[Remember, we are not obliged to believe that Susie Wiles was telling the truth about a lot of this.]
[Remember, we are not obliged to believe that Susie Wiles was telling the truth about a lot of this.]
December 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Chief of Staff seemingly doesn't have the power to figure out how a high profile prisoner got moved to comfier digs.
[Remember, we are not obliged to believe that Susie Wiles was telling the truth about a lot of this.]
[Remember, we are not obliged to believe that Susie Wiles was telling the truth about a lot of this.]
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Would probably get at least a million
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Would probably get at least a million
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Unsurprisingly, Trump's immigration crackdown is not delivering labor market improvements for the US-born
Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 3.9% to 4.3% while native-born employment has decreased by a similar amount
Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 3.9% to 4.3% while native-born employment has decreased by a similar amount
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Unsurprisingly, Trump's immigration crackdown is not delivering labor market improvements for the US-born
Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 3.9% to 4.3% while native-born employment has decreased by a similar amount
Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 3.9% to 4.3% while native-born employment has decreased by a similar amount
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👀 White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Trump, Vance, Musk, Vought and Bondi: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
December 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
👀 White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Trump, Vance, Musk, Vought and Bondi: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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One version sends Substack dispatches chronicling the problems with the MAGA movement. The other mass amplified the Birther conspiracy and explicitly wanted to waterboard bureaucrats. We are not the same.
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
One version sends Substack dispatches chronicling the problems with the MAGA movement. The other mass amplified the Birther conspiracy and explicitly wanted to waterboard bureaucrats. We are not the same.
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As it so often goes with anti-anti-Trumpist attempts to manufacture an equivalence, all this does is more vividly accentuate the contrast, the massive chasm, that exists between the sides.
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
As it so often goes with anti-anti-Trumpist attempts to manufacture an equivalence, all this does is more vividly accentuate the contrast, the massive chasm, that exists between the sides.
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Unwittingly self-discrediting to portray more or less standard center-left progressivism as an equivalent to what was essentially the forerunner to Trumpism.
December 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Unwittingly self-discrediting to portray more or less standard center-left progressivism as an equivalent to what was essentially the forerunner to Trumpism.
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On U.S. soil, the worst antisemitic massacre in living memory was perpetrated by one of Vance's white nationalist fellow travelers, who was specifically incensed about the Jewish community providing aid to refugees and asylum seekers.
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
December 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
On U.S. soil, the worst antisemitic massacre in living memory was perpetrated by one of Vance's white nationalist fellow travelers, who was specifically incensed about the Jewish community providing aid to refugees and asylum seekers.
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Wow, given all the inflation and recession mongering under Biden, I bet you must be running wall-to-wall articles about Trump tanking the economy. Let me just shoot over to your website and check it out. [crickets]
Breaking news: The U.S. labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6 percent, the highest since 2021, underscoring concerns about the strength of the economy.
Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November; unemployment rate up
The labor market cool down continued this fall, according to new jobs numbers released on a delayed scheduled by the Labor Department.
wapo.st
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Wow, given all the inflation and recession mongering under Biden, I bet you must be running wall-to-wall articles about Trump tanking the economy. Let me just shoot over to your website and check it out. [crickets]