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bvaello.bsky.social
@bvaello.bsky.social
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Pediatrician that believes in science and human rights. Doing my best to survive in my beloved Texas, ruined by 30 yrs of GOP rule.
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johnjharwood.bsky.social
please join me tomorrow at 3 pm in a Substack Live conversation with Heather Cox Richardson. we'll discuss Trump's attempt to impose a white nationalist vision on America, and take your questions.

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LIVE SOON: talking with Heather Cox Richardson about the continuing struggle to defend America from white nationalism
Starting Dec 17 at 3:00 PM EST
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December 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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teapainusa.bsky.social
He sounds exactly like what he is: a madman.
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.

Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
December 16, 2025
December 16, 2025
While President Donald J.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Ford cancels EV battery deal worth $6.5 billion with South Korea's LG Energy Solution reut.rs/4p2LQg2
Ford cancels EV battery deal worth $6.5 billion with South Korea's LG Energy Solution
South Korea's LG Energy Solution said on Wednesday that Ford Motor has terminated an electric vehicle (EV) battery-supply deal worth about 9.6 trillion won ($6.50 billion).
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December 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Trump’s ballroom went from $200 million to $250 million to $300 million to $350 million to $400 million to …
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
It’s a joke for Trump, Vance, Witkoff and anyone else to even remotely suggest that Putin wants peace and Ukraine is the problem.
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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diffusedwavelength.bsky.social
For those unfamiliar, the University of Austin is not serious or an institution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...
December 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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bmazing.bsky.social
Imagine what it would take for Larry Summers to dump you right now
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin.

Via @ngluckman.bsky.social

www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
According to LinkedIn, roughly 20 university employees have left this year. That's a lot for a new institution that had 34 staff members listed on its website this week (the number is separate from faculty). The departures include the president, the provost, the lead fund raiser, the executive director of admissions, as well as people who worked in events, operations, and other positions. Over the summer, the provost and the lead fund raiser also left the university, according to their LinkedIn profiles. Summers, the former Harvard president, stepped down from the advisory board in July, saying that he was "not comfortable with the course that UATX has set nor the messages it promulgates and so am withdrawing." (His colleagues on the board, Zimmer and Pinker, stepped down shortly after the university's launch, with Zimmer saying that UATX's critical statements about higher education "diverged very significantly from my own views.")
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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maks23.bsky.social
🇪🇺✅
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
This is one tough read.
jeisinger.bsky.social Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 2h
NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.

The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.

@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy

www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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neilwillard.bsky.social
Lordy . . . there are tapes.
Vanity Fair’s Chris Whipple on Wiles: ‘Every interview was recorded, everything was on tape’ | CNN Politics
After multiple interviews with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Vanity Fair Writer Chris Whipple explains his reporting on Trump’s inner circle. Whipple joined NewsNight’s panel and addressed CNN Senior Po...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
bvaello.bsky.social
We must force the GOP to stop our drifting towards isolationism and all it's negative consequences.

www.thebulwark.com?utm_campaign...
The Bulwark | Substack
The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported b...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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gingercatdusty.bsky.social
When stuffs gets really bad in the world we watch movies that aren't as evil as real life...like the Blair Witch Project...Dusty says sarcastically. Hope you can find some positivity in all the mess. This family loves you all. Hugs ❄️❄️❄️💙
December 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
NYT continues that stubborn tradition of discussing Trump's promise of tariff revenues w/o disclosing that Trump may have to pay half the revenue raised back to importers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Appearing last week in Mount Pocono, Pa., Mr. Trump highlighted the roughly $12 billion in emergency aid that his administration had newly earmarked for farmers. He said the aid, meant to help farmers struggling financially because of the president’s own trade war, came “right out of the tariff money.” Mr. Trump had previously teased that he would tap the same tariff revenue to provide “a little rebate” to all Americans, a refrain he repeated into December amid concerns that U.S. duties had edged consumer prices higher. At one point, the president pegged the amount as “at least $2,000 a person,” excluding those with higher incomes, though the administration did not unfurl any additional details about its plans. The calls for a tariff rebate resembled an idea that Mr. Trump had proposed at the start of his term, when he mused about paying a dividend to families based on savings extracted by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as it slashed the ranks of federal government. That ultimately never materialized. Similarly, Mr. Trump has not made a concerted push in Congress for tariff rebates. But some conservatives have encouraged the White House to pursue other paths altogether, perhaps by temporarily reducing the amount that workers and employers pay in payroll taxes, a longtime goal for some on the right. “You never want to just send checks to people that aren’t related to working,” said Stephen Moore, a conservative economist who advised Mr. Trump in his first term and raised the idea in a meeting with him recently. He said checks alone could “increase inflation, not reduce it.” Tariff rebates could also prove expensive, cutting deeply into the roughly $200 billion that the government has collected in customs revenue this year, according to new figures released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday. If the administration were to follow through with a version of Mr. Trump’s proposal — $2,000 rebates to people who earn less than $100,000 annually — it could cost the government almost two times more money than it has collected in tariff revenue this year, according to the Yale Budget Lab.
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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billyball.bsky.social
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billyball.bsky.social Billy Ball @billyball.bsky.social · 15h
Astonishing.

At thelivingsouth.com, I wrote about President Trump replacing the special "no-fee" day at the National Park Service with, among other things, a special day scheduled for his own birthday.
December 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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suzb.bsky.social
Today is the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party as @hcrichardson.bsky.social (HCR) pointed out in her Politics Chat. But it's Susie Wiles who is spilling the tea today.
December 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Kash says it’s unfair for people to criticize him for using the FBI jet to see his girlfriend because he only goes to about 15% of her music performances, and nobody criticized the former directors for going on vacations.
December 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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zangerliberia.bsky.social
We blew up 3 new sets of people & this a.m. war criminals hegseth & Rubio say they'll show Congress part 2 of their "double tap", but not us because it's classified.Can't the Felon declassify it w his mind? Can you say coverup?
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Remember the Torture Memos? The Boat Strike Memos May Be Worse.
The Trump administration needs to release the legal analysis underpinning its controversial military campaign.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks
The house, controlled by the worst of the worst people in America, who are controlled by billionaire super villains worldwide.

Voted yes to incarcerate, physically violate, and torture immigrant children.

I'm not alarmed. This is the feature, not a bug.

I am sickened though.

#SheShed
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · 16h
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
It's weird how the Reiner thing was the breaking point for some of the most abject Trump apologists
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d
Rod Dreher—a close friend of JD Vance—is starting to acknowledge the pathology of the man in the White House. 1/https://x.com/roddreher/status/2000587916574118238?s=46
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM