River Tide
@eastslope.bsky.social
Rejector of our ongoing political fecklessness. What happened to civic engagement? Tans more, rusts less these days.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I was raised Catholic in a parish not far from St. Susanna’s, good on them for ignoring the Archdiocese of Boston getting mad over this
Dedham church keeps anti-ICE nativity scene despite pushback
St. Susanna’s ICE-focused nativity has drawn backlash from Catholic leaders and community members. Parish leaders say the display reflects the harsh realities of current immigration policies.
www.wbur.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I was raised Catholic in a parish not far from St. Susanna’s, good on them for ignoring the Archdiocese of Boston getting mad over this
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It's the moment when he takes the medal out of the box and puts it on himself for me. That's one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen lol. He's so desperate to get it.
December 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It's the moment when he takes the medal out of the box and puts it on himself for me. That's one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen lol. He's so desperate to get it.
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Host: About 8 in 10 of those who have coverage through the ACA said Congress should extend the tax credits. That includes 95% of Democrats and even 72% of Republicans.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Host: About 8 in 10 of those who have coverage through the ACA said Congress should extend the tax credits. That includes 95% of Democrats and even 72% of Republicans.
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With Trump distracted and disinterested, Republicans can't get their act together to extend the enhanced ACA tax credits, knowing voters will (deservedly) deal them a punishing blow if they don't.
This is a preview of the moral and political mess that will be the post-Trump GOP.
This is a preview of the moral and political mess that will be the post-Trump GOP.
New in PN: Republicans in the era of Late Trumpism
"As Trump’s political standing weakens along with his increasingly decrepit mind and body, his hold on the GOP is slipping. And the underlying political incoherence of the party that has only grown during his reign is being fully exposed."
"As Trump’s political standing weakens along with his increasingly decrepit mind and body, his hold on the GOP is slipping. And the underlying political incoherence of the party that has only grown during his reign is being fully exposed."
Republicans in the era of Late Trumpism
The end is in sight — and it's not pretty for the GOP.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
With Trump distracted and disinterested, Republicans can't get their act together to extend the enhanced ACA tax credits, knowing voters will (deservedly) deal them a punishing blow if they don't.
This is a preview of the moral and political mess that will be the post-Trump GOP.
This is a preview of the moral and political mess that will be the post-Trump GOP.
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#GVerse via @calltoactivism.bsky.social
🚨ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??
Mike Johnson waited 50 DAYS to swear in Adelita Grijalva but he swore in Matt Van Epps from Tennessee 48 HOURS after his special election.
Mike Johnson is a piece of shit.
🚨ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??
Mike Johnson waited 50 DAYS to swear in Adelita Grijalva but he swore in Matt Van Epps from Tennessee 48 HOURS after his special election.
Mike Johnson is a piece of shit.
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
#GVerse via @calltoactivism.bsky.social
🚨ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??
Mike Johnson waited 50 DAYS to swear in Adelita Grijalva but he swore in Matt Van Epps from Tennessee 48 HOURS after his special election.
Mike Johnson is a piece of shit.
🚨ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??
Mike Johnson waited 50 DAYS to swear in Adelita Grijalva but he swore in Matt Van Epps from Tennessee 48 HOURS after his special election.
Mike Johnson is a piece of shit.
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The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia will press on with its special military operation if its objectives cannot be met through negotiations.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia will press on with its special military operation if its objectives cannot be met through negotiations.
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The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
This strategy is nonsense, a fool's errand. Everything is untethered now. The only thing to do is laugh at them with derision. Everyone involved in this deserves to be called out; JD Vance most of all.
The Trump administration released its latest National Security Strategy--and one thing that can be said is that there is no more pretending. It’s a plan to weaken European unity, to make Europe MAGA, to force Europe to take economic dictation by the USA…. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The New US National Security Strategy
Trump Says Openly That the US Wants to Dominate Europe and Make it MAGA
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This strategy is nonsense, a fool's errand. Everything is untethered now. The only thing to do is laugh at them with derision. Everyone involved in this deserves to be called out; JD Vance most of all.
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Presidential Walk of Fatigue
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Presidential Walk of Fatigue
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All the worst people, running amuck.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
All the worst people, running amuck.
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It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Kavanaugh
FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Kavanaugh
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The first branch to make itself illegitimate.
SCOTUS forgets that its gravitas is all it has. Now that that is gone, what is it?
SCOTUS forgets that its gravitas is all it has. Now that that is gone, what is it?
December 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The first branch to make itself illegitimate.
SCOTUS forgets that its gravitas is all it has. Now that that is gone, what is it?
SCOTUS forgets that its gravitas is all it has. Now that that is gone, what is it?
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genuinely remarkable how depraved this government is
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
genuinely remarkable how depraved this government is
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That's the part that sticks with me.
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
this is just murder, and pointless murder at that.
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
That's the part that sticks with me.
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
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41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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They want us to be appalled, because caring about rules of war and human lives and the law all mark us out as inferior to them in their sick worldview.
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
They want us to be appalled, because caring about rules of war and human lives and the law all mark us out as inferior to them in their sick worldview.
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To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
No penalties because this is the Trump White House, where criminality, and incompetence, are celebrated.
IG’s bottom line: clear policy violations, clear OPSEC risk, no criminal referral, and no penalty. The systemic failures are acknowledged, but responsibility is diffused into training and process fixes.
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
No penalties because this is the Trump White House, where criminality, and incompetence, are celebrated.
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Officials reported the Secretary used additional Signal chats for DoD business. IG couldn’t verify content because he refused to provide phone access.
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Officials reported the Secretary used additional Signal chats for DoD business. IG couldn’t verify content because he refused to provide phone access.
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Using a personal phone and Signal for official business violated DoDI 8170.01. Nonpublic DoD information cannot be sent over non-DoD systems, regardless of classification status.
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Using a personal phone and Signal for official business violated DoDI 8170.01. Nonpublic DoD information cannot be sent over non-DoD systems, regardless of classification status.
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A custom setup was built so he could access his personal phone from inside his secure Pentagon office. IG couldn’t confirm it met security requirements.
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A custom setup was built so he could access his personal phone from inside his secure Pentagon office. IG couldn’t confirm it met security requirements.