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Mueller, She Wrote

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NEW: I speak to expert @stevevladeck.bsky.social about the Insurrection Act and the possible implications. www.muellershewrote.com/p/what-to-kn...

What to know about the Insurrection Act

A recording from Allison Gill's live video

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January 16, 2026 at 5:14 PM

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Carol

@mdgbrkr.bsky.social

Invoke Article II SECTION 4 of the Constitution that details how to impeach Trump's entire Crime Regime for Treason, Bribery, and High Crimes, and Misdemeanors. It was written for a reason and is meant for the rare chance that Domestic Terrorists take over our government. DO IT NOW!

January 16, 2026 at 12:52 AM

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Osita Nwanevu

@ositanwanevu.com

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives.

Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.

It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago.

It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”.

It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing.

The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.

Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all.

As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.

January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM

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Asha Rangappa

@asharangappa.bsky.social

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

www.whitehouse.gov

January 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM

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Sam Adams

@samadams.bsky.social

having said myself that people don't need to watch the video, here's my colleague Susan Matthews making a strong case that, yes you do (she also describes it well enough that I feel okay ignoring her instruction)

Yes, You Should Watch the Video of the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

You can just watch the video.

slate.com

January 7, 2026 at 11:18 PM

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Konrad Adenauer formerly Honest Abe

@hombrelibre.bsky.social

January 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly

@robinkelly.house.gov

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.

She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM

Pretty Fly Poli Sci

@epee-chick.bsky.social

My heart hurts.

Candle in the window for murdered by ICE, Renee Nicole Good. Rest in power.

January 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM

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Sandy

@sandy174.bsky.social

@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social

I was wondering if you repost this dog. Her name is MELIA, only 3.5 years old and at the shelter 843 days. Shes looking for a quiet adult only home. Cat friendly. No dogs.

Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793

January 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM

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DemCast USA

@demcast.com

Keeper of the Flame (1942), starring Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy.
It feels… uncomfortably current✨

🎥 amouthful_of_cherries (IG)

December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM

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Sandy

@sandy174.bsky.social

MELIA is spending her second Christmas at the shelter. Lets end 2025 with a bang! By finding her a forever adult only home with no dogs. Cats are ok. Shes an amazing, smart, beautiful dog. Please adopt her

Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793

https://24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/PP3506/51416338

December 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

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December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM

Pretty Fly Poli Sci

@epee-chick.bsky.social

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is all John Roberts’ fault

Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

www.motherjones.com

November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM

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Charlotte Clymer

@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader

Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM

(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)

Sign the Petition

Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader

c.org

November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Nov 6

Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤

@sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks

Need a ride to a food bank, doctor, or the store?

Watch this video.

Then call 211.

#SheShed

October 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM

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Pat Fuller

@bannerite.bsky.social

If you know anyone with a Little Free Library, show them what this kind person did. #MomSky

October 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Pretty Fly Poli Sci

@epee-chick.bsky.social

This is a wonderful thing DoorDash is doing. Any other companies out there stepping up?

about.doordash.com/en-us/news/s...

DoorDash Launches Emergency Food Response As SNAP Funding Cliff Threatens To Impact 40 Million Americans

No one should go hungry—DoorDash launches an emergency food response delivering 1 million free meals through food banks and waiving fees for 300,000 SNAP recipient grocery orders.

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October 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM

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Just Jack

@just-jack-1.bsky.social

Even in the movies, scenes of the White House getting blown up by invading aliens or terrorists feel emotionally unsettling.

It’s the People’s House after all.

So imagine having to witness its destruction in real life…and the culprit is the President.

October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM