John Ryder
@jryder14.bsky.social
Husband. Grandfather. Retired Hospital Admin and Engineer. UoMich gradx2. Canoeing, biking, nature, space, science-fiction, science, philosophy, politics, the marginalized, justice, common good. Catholic.
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President Donald Trump made numerous false and misleading claims in his Tuesday speech to a joint session of Congress. The falsehoods spanned a variety of topics, including the economy, climate, immigration and more.
Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s statements.
Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s statements.
Fact-checking Trump’s address to Congress | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his Tuesday speech to a joint session of Congress. The falsehoods spanned a variety of topics, including the Department of Government Efficiency, i...
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March 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
President Donald Trump made numerous false and misleading claims in his Tuesday speech to a joint session of Congress. The falsehoods spanned a variety of topics, including the economy, climate, immigration and more.
Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s statements.
Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s statements.
Elissa did very well!
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Elissa did very well!
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The felon president who pardoned 1500 violent J6 Capitol rioters he incited that went on to viciously assault American police officers just called for “law and order.”
March 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The felon president who pardoned 1500 violent J6 Capitol rioters he incited that went on to viciously assault American police officers just called for “law and order.”
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Tim Walz: He's going to get cheers from a bunch of lap dogs that will kiss his boots. The same people that won't go and see their constituents.
March 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Tim Walz: He's going to get cheers from a bunch of lap dogs that will kiss his boots. The same people that won't go and see their constituents.
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Hitler claimed the Third Reich would last 1000 years
Trump claims he’s going to forge the most dominant civilization ever on earth
March 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Hitler claimed the Third Reich would last 1000 years
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So
We’re going to start a war with Denmark to get Greenland
With Panama to get the canal
With Mexico when we invade to attack the cartels
With Gaza to build that Trump statue
And maybe Canada to make it the 51st state
No wonder he supports Russia over Ukraine
Putin is his role model
We’re going to start a war with Denmark to get Greenland
With Panama to get the canal
With Mexico when we invade to attack the cartels
With Gaza to build that Trump statue
And maybe Canada to make it the 51st state
No wonder he supports Russia over Ukraine
Putin is his role model
March 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
So
We’re going to start a war with Denmark to get Greenland
With Panama to get the canal
With Mexico when we invade to attack the cartels
With Gaza to build that Trump statue
And maybe Canada to make it the 51st state
No wonder he supports Russia over Ukraine
Putin is his role model
We’re going to start a war with Denmark to get Greenland
With Panama to get the canal
With Mexico when we invade to attack the cartels
With Gaza to build that Trump statue
And maybe Canada to make it the 51st state
No wonder he supports Russia over Ukraine
Putin is his role model
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Seemed more like a threat than a joke
March 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Seemed more like a threat than a joke
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A little racist red meat for the home team.
Trump calls Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas and then the camera cuts to her
March 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
A little racist red meat for the home team.
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Not sure if crashing the stock market counts as a "little disturbance."
March 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Not sure if crashing the stock market counts as a "little disturbance."
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Sounds like a threat, don’t it?
March 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Sounds like a threat, don’t it?
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Although Trump has initiated the US withdrawal from the Paris agreement, it hasn’t yet taken effect. There’s a one-year waiting period for the US exit to become effective.
Latest updates: bloom.bg/3QK7Q0v
Latest updates: bloom.bg/3QK7Q0v
March 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Although Trump has initiated the US withdrawal from the Paris agreement, it hasn’t yet taken effect. There’s a one-year waiting period for the US exit to become effective.
Latest updates: bloom.bg/3QK7Q0v
Latest updates: bloom.bg/3QK7Q0v
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Trump just repeated the Kremlin lie about what the U.S. has spent in Ukraine, literally a figure that comes from Russian intelligence
He has been told over and over and over and over and over again that $350 billion is an insane lie and he will not stop telling it
He has been told over and over and over and over and over again that $350 billion is an insane lie and he will not stop telling it
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Trump just repeated the Kremlin lie about what the U.S. has spent in Ukraine, literally a figure that comes from Russian intelligence
He has been told over and over and over and over and over again that $350 billion is an insane lie and he will not stop telling it
He has been told over and over and over and over and over again that $350 billion is an insane lie and he will not stop telling it
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Vladimir Putin is loving every minute of this.
March 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Vladimir Putin is loving every minute of this.
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“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
—Eli Wiesel
—Eli Wiesel
I honestly don’t understand how the Democrats can sit there and listen to Trump’s lies and gaslighting. Their silence is humiliating.
March 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
—Eli Wiesel
—Eli Wiesel
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Bill Nye becomes target of MAGA after making claims about Elon Musk on CNN.
Nye said Musk’s actions at NOAA amounted to “fundamental corruption."
Nye said Musk’s actions at NOAA amounted to “fundamental corruption."
Bill Nye becomes target of MAGA after making claims about Elon Musk on CNN
Nye said Musk’s actions at NOAA amounted to “fundamental corruption”
www.independent.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Bill Nye becomes target of MAGA after making claims about Elon Musk on CNN.
Nye said Musk’s actions at NOAA amounted to “fundamental corruption."
Nye said Musk’s actions at NOAA amounted to “fundamental corruption."
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Meet Tony Ruiz – a disabled Army veteran just fired from the Los Angeles VA.
He has a message for Donald Trump:
He has a message for Donald Trump:
March 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Meet Tony Ruiz – a disabled Army veteran just fired from the Los Angeles VA.
He has a message for Donald Trump:
He has a message for Donald Trump:
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Bad regulations are bad but what is worse are bad regulations that change capriciously every few months.
March 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Bad regulations are bad but what is worse are bad regulations that change capriciously every few months.
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“Usually, when elected officials implement foolish policies,” Rogé Karma writes, “they believe the political upside outweighs the substantive downside. What makes Trump’s tariffs so unusual is that the politics of them also appear to be terrible.”
Trump’s Most Inexplicable Decision Yet
The tariffs are real, and they are spectacularly foolish
www.theatlantic.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Usually, when elected officials implement foolish policies,” Rogé Karma writes, “they believe the political upside outweighs the substantive downside. What makes Trump’s tariffs so unusual is that the politics of them also appear to be terrible.”
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The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
March 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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I've explained before that the legal challenge DOGE seems most worried about--for good reason--is an Appointments Clause challenge.
It took a while to get enough proof for suits. But it's getting there.
It took a while to get enough proof for suits. But it's getting there.
I’ve got a piece in today’s @nytimes about Elon Musk as walking/talking violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
Opinion | There Is No Musk Clause in the Constitution
Trump is on shaky ground when it comes to the way he has empowered perhaps the most important figure in the new administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I've explained before that the legal challenge DOGE seems most worried about--for good reason--is an Appointments Clause challenge.
It took a while to get enough proof for suits. But it's getting there.
It took a while to get enough proof for suits. But it's getting there.
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Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques
Wałęsa condemns Trump treatment of Zelensky, likening it to communist interrogation
notesfrompoland.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...
Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed
Many Kansas farmers are in limbo and waiting for promised payments under contracts they signed with the federal government. It comes after a federal directive from the Trump administration paused paym...
www.hppr.org
March 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM