Gwen Moritz
@gmoritz.bsky.social
Contributing editor at Arkansas Business Publishing Group, aspiring snarkmaster
And even when there's something he is supposed to pay for -- taxes, labor, vendor bills -- he does everything in his power to keep from paying the amount due. Anyone who thinks he is personally paying for a ballroom hasn't been paying attention.
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
And even when there's something he is supposed to pay for -- taxes, labor, vendor bills -- he does everything in his power to keep from paying the amount due. Anyone who thinks he is personally paying for a ballroom hasn't been paying attention.
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POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
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ALERT: At US House Homeland Security Committee about violence against law enforcement, Democrats have put the January 6th plaque on a stand behind the Democratic members of panel
(House leadership has declined to hang the plaque at Capitol by mandated 2023 deadline)
(House leadership has declined to hang the plaque at Capitol by mandated 2023 deadline)
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
ALERT: At US House Homeland Security Committee about violence against law enforcement, Democrats have put the January 6th plaque on a stand behind the Democratic members of panel
(House leadership has declined to hang the plaque at Capitol by mandated 2023 deadline)
(House leadership has declined to hang the plaque at Capitol by mandated 2023 deadline)
I'm so old, I remember when it was shocking that the woman-abuser who represented Republican attitudes toward law and order told police not to be "too nice" to suspects they arrested. Now slow, painful death without arrest, evidence or conviction seems to be a turn-on.
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I'm so old, I remember when it was shocking that the woman-abuser who represented Republican attitudes toward law and order told police not to be "too nice" to suspects they arrested. Now slow, painful death without arrest, evidence or conviction seems to be a turn-on.
Some death peddlers are clearly the good kind of death peddlers who need to be free to live among us and amass all the firearms they can afford.
Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon reut.rs/3Y3ziKg
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Some death peddlers are clearly the good kind of death peddlers who need to be free to live among us and amass all the firearms they can afford.
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Breaking News: A federal court said that Alina Habba, a Trump-appointed lawyer, had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. She was neither confirmed by the Senate nor appointed by district trial court judges — the two traditional pathways.
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba, Former Trump Lawyer, Is Serving Unlawfully as U.S. Attorney
The judges wrote that the Trump Administration appeared to have become frustrated by legal and political barriers that have prevented its preferred U.S. attorneys from leading federal prosecutors’ offices.
nyti.ms
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Breaking News: A federal court said that Alina Habba, a Trump-appointed lawyer, had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. She was neither confirmed by the Senate nor appointed by district trial court judges — the two traditional pathways.
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It’s quaint, I know, but the President of the United States calling for the hanging of Democratic service members for saying that no one should follow an illegal order should inspire a conversation about the 25th Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It’s quaint, I know, but the President of the United States calling for the hanging of Democratic service members for saying that no one should follow an illegal order should inspire a conversation about the 25th Amendment.
From an acquaintance in central Arkansas.
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
From an acquaintance in central Arkansas.
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It's not based on instincts, but facts, analysis, theory, and modelling. They don't want to hire 3,000 economists, and 3,000 economists don't report to the Fed Chair.
Trump on the Fed Chair job: "It's all based on instincts. I see they wanna hire 3,000 economists. 3,000! To report to the Fed Chairman. What are they gonna do?"
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It's not based on instincts, but facts, analysis, theory, and modelling. They don't want to hire 3,000 economists, and 3,000 economists don't report to the Fed Chair.
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Massie: “[Speaker Johnson is] trying to say the rich, powerful men who flew to Epstein Island are the victims now. The only way a ‘Christian man’ can stand up there and sell a lie like that is if he’s already decided in his head that protecting them is somehow okay.”
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Massie: “[Speaker Johnson is] trying to say the rich, powerful men who flew to Epstein Island are the victims now. The only way a ‘Christian man’ can stand up there and sell a lie like that is if he’s already decided in his head that protecting them is somehow okay.”
Yikes. That stings.
Seriously, it must be nice to have someone you care for stick up for you when you stand up to Trump
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Yikes. That stings.
Understand where the speaker is coming from: If Republican politicians redistrict to protect their deeply unpopular leader, it's a very good thing. But if voters statewide approve redistricting 2-to-1, it's immoral.
Mike Johnson: “I'll make a comment about the tragedy in California last night…It's just a blatant example of Gavin Newsom's immoral leadership and the fact that they will do anything to try to rig the system to win.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Understand where the speaker is coming from: If Republican politicians redistrict to protect their deeply unpopular leader, it's a very good thing. But if voters statewide approve redistricting 2-to-1, it's immoral.
If I were empaneled as a juror on a MISDEMEANOR assault trial involving throwing a sandwich at a cop, I’d vote to acquit. Immediately. #12hangrymen
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Trump just defied two judges and took complete ownership of the SNAP emergency in a single post.
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Trump just defied two judges and took complete ownership of the SNAP emergency in a single post.
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Made a table showing how many households, kids, seniors and people with disabilities used SNAP last year in districts currently represented by Republicans. www.pbump.net/o/heres-how-...
Here’s how many people use SNAP in Republicans’ districts
President Trump has announced (on social media, naturally) that his administration will continue to withhold Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds during the government shutdown despi...
www.pbump.net
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Made a table showing how many households, kids, seniors and people with disabilities used SNAP last year in districts currently represented by Republicans. www.pbump.net/o/heres-how-...
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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
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So wait, Trump “cut a deal” with China to: buy the soybeans they were already buying before the trade war, but now China gets advanced AI chips too?? Where is the win??
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
So wait, Trump “cut a deal” with China to: buy the soybeans they were already buying before the trade war, but now China gets advanced AI chips too?? Where is the win??
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over?
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over?
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson, a legend in Arkansas jurisprudence, died Monday evening at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He was 85. His wife, Cathi Compton, told me he had been acutely ill for nine weeks.
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson, a legend in Arkansas jurisprudence, died Monday evening at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He was 85. His wife, Cathi Compton, told me he had been acutely ill for nine weeks.
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I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.
October 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.
I used to think it was a over-the-top for @emptywheel.bsky.social to call Miller "Discount Goebbels," but it turns out to be on-the-nose. Read up on "degenerate art" and what the original Goebbels said about it.
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I used to think it was a over-the-top for @emptywheel.bsky.social to call Miller "Discount Goebbels," but it turns out to be on-the-nose. Read up on "degenerate art" and what the original Goebbels said about it.
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A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...