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Greg Principato
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Retired aviation association executive. Love travel, sports (Nationals, NY Giants and Notre Dame), and family.
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Rep. Casten has it absolutely correct: Trump is *both* weaker *and* more dangerous than ever.

Buckle up, but don't be afraid. Because fear is how he wins.
seancasten.bsky.social Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 8h
Let's be clear. Donald Trump will indict the Fed Chair, kidnap foreign leaders and kill American citizens in MN if it distracts you from asking WTF is in the Epstein files because HIS BASE doesn't like pedophiles. None of this is normal. But everything he does is from weakness right now.
January 12, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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I wrote up my analysis of what Ross's movements and actions reveal about whether or not he had a "reasonable belief that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury" (the legal standard). I list 7 crucial moments that suggest he did not. asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...
Friday Round Up! 1/9/26
It was a bad shoot.
asharangappa.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
gregprincipato.bsky.social
Absolutely unbelievable. (Though honestly from these evil people, totally and sadly believable).
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d
Imagine looking at the period after WWII and especially after the Cold War as an era of American weakness.

Unless, I suppose, if becoming the strongest, wealthiest country in history sounds bad to you because some brown people were a part oft, and you'd rather be weaker if it means being whiter.
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 5d
Stephen Miller: This whole period that happened after World War II where the West began apologizing and groveling and begging—

Host: I don't even know what you're talking about right now. I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela.
January 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.
January 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
gregprincipato.bsky.social
Sums it up. Sadly.
markjacob.bsky.social Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6d
He'll let Putin have Europe and let Xi have Asia. He doesn't think the Africans are people, so he doesn't care about that continent, except for any resources he can steal.
January 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
This is not a Christian nation. It’s not a Jewish nation, and it’s not a Muslim nation. There is no state religion. It’s a secular nation. It’s a nation founded upon religious freedom. Grow up and quit spreading disinformation.
January 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
gregprincipato.bsky.social
Hmmm
portlandken.bsky.social Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 8d
During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
January 4, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen.

fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...

(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
‘Blind Into Caracas’
Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. None of them seem to have wondered what happens a day, a month, a decade from now.
fallows.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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It's idiotic to ask him these things while his mind is freshly full of Russian propaganda. Ru wants to occupy all of Ukraine, destroy everything Ukrainian, absorb, russify, and rebuild as Ru. That's what they're attempting to do in the occupied territories. It's genocidal intent, not good will.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
gregprincipato.bsky.social
OMG. WITKOFF ABSOLUTELY FUCKING DISGUSTING
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d
War is peace. Russia is fully committed to peace in Ukraine.
Over the last two days in Florida, the Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev held productive and constructive meetings with the American delegation to advance President Trump’s peace plan on Ukraine. The American delegation included Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and White House staff member Josh Gruenbaum. Russia remains fully committed to achieving peace in Ukraine. Russia highly values the efforts and support of the United States to resolve the Ukrainian conflict and re-establish global security.
December 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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maxboot.bsky.social
Appalling and alarming:
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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iamjenmcg.bsky.social
Tonight on @pbsnews.org David Brooks asked why if 20 men were mentioned as having sexually abused women in reports to the FBI why had they not been indicted

Sir, any woman in America could answer that question for you
December 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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OMG
zeeshanaleem.bsky.social Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 23d
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
gregprincipato.bsky.social
Disgusting. Absolutely fucking Un-American
rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 25d
It was never about illegal immigration
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
A truth: What makes antisemitism so uniquely dangerous is that it’s always been found on BOTH the left & the right.

An observation: Whenever I speak that truth, people on the left say it’s only a problem on the right, and people on the right say it’s only a problem on the left. They’re both wrong.
December 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
This is good. Read this.👇
emilynussbaum.bsky.social Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 27d
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
gregprincipato.bsky.social
Great question
drducko.myatproto.social DrDucko 🦆End ICE for Good. @drducko.myatproto.social · 27d
Nothing about Cuomo surprises me.

But WhyTF does a state cover the expenses of an elected official charged with breaking the law? WhyTF does that continue AFTER they leave office?
lindseyboylan.bsky.social Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 27d
“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...
December 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
Yes Katie, there are words. There are words. Evil, psychopathic, hateful, dangerous, not human, monstrous, pathologically narcissistic, something a mass murderer or a serial killer would say…that’s just a start, I’ve got more. Did I say evil? There are words.
December 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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New Yorkers - is this how you want your tax dollars spent?
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
gregprincipato.bsky.social
Two things: there was a time when this would never even be news. I was on a flight when this happened in 1989. Plane came back. We got off and got on another flight. Second, this actually shows how safe aviation really is!
December 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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OMG!!!!!
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Dec 11
Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado’s escape from Venezuela was particularly risky because her team had to inform the US military that she was escaping so they wouldn’t mistake her boat for an alleged narco boat and bomb it.

Full Story: bit.ly/3XJXIsh
Photo of María Corina Machado on a balcony in Oslo, Norway after escaping Venezuela. She had almost completed an escape that had been in the works for about two months and was carried out by a Venezuelan network that has helped other people to flee the country, the person close to the operation said. The group said it made an important call to the U.S. military before they set out to sea, warning American forces in the region of the vessel's occupants to avoid the kind of airstrike that has hit more than 20 other similar vessels in the past three months, killing more than 80 people. "We coordinated that she was going to leave by a specific area so that they would not blow up the boat," said the person close to the operation. The Trump administration was aware of the operation, said people familiar with the matter, but the extent of its involvement was unclear.
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
ICE is not above the Constitution.
They often use administrative warrants—not signed by judges—to enter homes or detain people.
That violates the Fourth Amendment.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM