Joan McRobbie
@joanmcrobbie.bsky.social
Policy, communication, former journalist, HKS MPA.
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Not a right to free speech, a right to monologue bsky.app/profile/dani...
December 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Not a right to free speech, a right to monologue bsky.app/profile/dani...
This, by @paulwaldman.bsky.social with one quibble: the ballroom too has got to go.
"When it happens, Republicans will object (and you can only imagine the meltdown Trump himself will have on Truth Social). The response Dems give should be simple: *Too bad. We have the power now.* A strong message must be sent to the country and future generations that Trump will not be honored."
Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down
He's trying to create a physical legacy. The moment he's out of power, it has to be smashed to bits.
www.publicnotice.co
December 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This, by @paulwaldman.bsky.social with one quibble: the ballroom too has got to go.
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In one fell swoop, Trump has successfully achieved his goal of fucking up voting by mail.
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
share.google
December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In one fell swoop, Trump has successfully achieved his goal of fucking up voting by mail.
Turn up the volume for actual experts.
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Turn up the volume for actual experts.
@gregsargent.bsky.social documents how and why the "civilizational threat" Stephen Miller rants about is actually Stephen Miller. A soulless and dangerous psychotic.
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Stephen Miller’s sadistic designs go? trib.al/krfEI8s
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?
trib.al
December 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
@gregsargent.bsky.social documents how and why the "civilizational threat" Stephen Miller rants about is actually Stephen Miller. A soulless and dangerous psychotic.
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Stephen Miller isn’t just closing borders. He is trying to overturn decades of American history and progress.
Let’s stop pretending this is normal.
trib.al/KgnHyGq
Let’s stop pretending this is normal.
trib.al/KgnHyGq
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?
trib.al
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Stephen Miller isn’t just closing borders. He is trying to overturn decades of American history and progress.
Let’s stop pretending this is normal.
trib.al/KgnHyGq
Let’s stop pretending this is normal.
trib.al/KgnHyGq
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Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
wrd.cm
December 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Weiss has only been on the job two months and already has all of Bluesky raptly watching "60 Minutes"
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Weiss has only been on the job two months and already has all of Bluesky raptly watching "60 Minutes"
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social is right. Women have no role in the Republican party.
When Trump said they were ending DEI, Republican women didn’t realize he meant them, too.
Elise Stefanik announces she is dropping out of the NY governor’s race and retiring from Congress.
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social is right. Women have no role in the Republican party.
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the Trump administration is going to just turn off one of the most important sources of weather info and climate science because they can
Devastating and dangerous blow to the weather and climate community tonight, as 20,000 earth and space scientists meet at #AGU25.
New @ucs.org statement from @carlonimbus.bsky.social on the Trump administration plans to dismantle @ncar-ucar.bsky.social:
www.ucs.org/about/news/t...
New @ucs.org statement from @carlonimbus.bsky.social on the Trump administration plans to dismantle @ncar-ucar.bsky.social:
www.ucs.org/about/news/t...
Trump Administration Threatens to Dismantle Leading Climate and Weather Research Center
The Trump administration is threatening to dismantle one of the U.S.’ leading weather and climate research institutions.
www.ucs.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
the Trump administration is going to just turn off one of the most important sources of weather info and climate science because they can
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This is really smart and true and, in its way, the source of what makes him terrifying. Not one shred of recognizable humanity.
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This is really smart and true and, in its way, the source of what makes him terrifying. Not one shred of recognizable humanity.
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: "Let us create a historic moment of national catharsis. Let us nonviolently smash the Trump era into dust."
“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House as it was, and pay for it by seizing the assets of the Trump family.”
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: "Let us create a historic moment of national catharsis. Let us nonviolently smash the Trump era into dust."
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NATO Chief Rutte: "We need to be ready. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured."
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NATO Chief Rutte: "We need to be ready. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured."
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This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
The U.S. is not a member of the ICC, but the court can still prosecute individuals for actions carried out on the territory of ICC member nations.
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
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Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
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"Canada Plans to Fast-Track Immigration for US H1-B Visa Holders in New Talent Drive" ☹️ share.google/WtKFYfJNhfye...
Canada Plans to Fast-Track Immigration for US H1-B Visa Holders in New Talent Drive
The government says it will fast-track immigration for U.S. H-1B visa holders and spend more than $1 billion to attract researchers from the United States and the rest of the world.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
"Canada Plans to Fast-Track Immigration for US H1-B Visa Holders in New Talent Drive" ☹️ share.google/WtKFYfJNhfye...
@pkrugman.bsky.social "Social media billionaires have enough power to prevent us from protecting our own children. They have enough power to dictate U.S. foreign policy, punishing our erstwhile allies for daring to limit their ability to push their product"
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
@pkrugman.bsky.social "Social media billionaires have enough power to prevent us from protecting our own children. They have enough power to dictate U.S. foreign policy, punishing our erstwhile allies for daring to limit their ability to push their product"
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
@pkrugman.bsky.social
“The people trying to turn America into an authoritarian, white supremecist state…want to see Europe go down the same path.”
“The people trying to turn America into an authoritarian, white supremecist state…want to see Europe go down the same path.”
Is This The End of the Free World?
Trump wants to MAGAfy Europe, too
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@pkrugman.bsky.social
“The people trying to turn America into an authoritarian, white supremecist state…want to see Europe go down the same path.”
“The people trying to turn America into an authoritarian, white supremecist state…want to see Europe go down the same path.”
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News Analysis: President Trump has long portrayed European allies as freeloaders that fail to pay enough for their own security. That contempt is now official White House policy.
Trump’s Security Doctrine Leaves Europe at a Strategic Crossroads
A new White House policy document formalizes President Trump’s long-held contempt for Europe’s leaders. It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads.
nyti.ms
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
News Analysis: President Trump has long portrayed European allies as freeloaders that fail to pay enough for their own security. That contempt is now official White House policy.
“The entire boat strikes campaign. Is murder, full stop.”
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
“The entire boat strikes campaign. Is murder, full stop.”
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There was an attempted attack on the plane of President Zelenskyy as he was approaching Dublin. The kinds of drones used were too advanced to be simple civilian versions -- most probably this attack had a state military behind it. 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 2:17 AM
There was an attempted attack on the plane of President Zelenskyy as he was approaching Dublin. The kinds of drones used were too advanced to be simple civilian versions -- most probably this attack had a state military behind it. www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
What?
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 2:44 AM
What?