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Anne
@newwriter25.bsky.social
Regular person, with opinions
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The largest healthcare fraud in US history, according to DOJ, was perpetrated by Rick Scott of Florida. He was fined $1.7 billion, but escaped prison thanks to his powerful GOP connections within DOJ. Scott went on to become a leader in the Florida GOP and the state's senior senator.
Ron Johnson: "Understand, Somalis have just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government."
December 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.
December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Ask your MAGA dad or brother what he thinks about this. What if you were in this restroom? What if These men are just posing as #ice?

How can you even tell if they aren't showing badges & don't have a standard uniform?

Ask your mom & sister what they'd feel if they were in there.
#ICELawlessness
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Trump’s comments and accompanying lawsuits aren’t simply about proving non-existent fraud in 2020; they’re part of an actual sprawling plan to sow doubt in future elections — specifically, any important elections that Republicans lose.

@justinglawe.bsky.social writes in @atrupar.com latest PN:
Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election
In Georgia, the Big Lie has become the new Lost Cause.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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🚨 REMINDER: 30% of the U.S. population STILL HAS TIME TO ENROLL in #ACA healthcare coverage starting in January.

If you live in CA, IL, MD, NV, NJ, NM, PA, RI, VA or WA, you still have until New Year's Eve to #GetCovered starting January 1st!

acasignups.net/25/12/25/gro...
Grouching towards Enrollment: My 2026 ACA OEP Guide
Almost exactly a year ago I began my 2025 ACA Open Enrollment Period guide with the following words: This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies ...
acasignups.net
December 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Trump is banning fact-checkers--yes, those people who do the research to learn the truth--from entering the USA.

When Trump says he supports free speech, what he means is supports his right to lie. Those who tell the truth are therefore his natural enemies.
December 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Kash Patel made the FBI buy a custom fleet of armored BMW X5 for him to ride around in. trib.al/9pBbwTB

Patel’s FBI spokesperson claimed—without evidence—that this is actually saving the American taxpayer money. The standard version of the X5 costs about $70,000.
December 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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These declines are MASSIVE.

And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.

“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”

THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.

Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs.

Thousands of farms set to go bankrupt as grain farmers in particular hit by trade disruptions caused by price hikes. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs
Thousands of farms set to go bankrupt as grain farmers in particular hit by trade disruptions caused by price hikes
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Protecting the Great Lakes means stopping invasive species at the source.

We’re challenging a final rule from the U.S. EPA that lets most existing cargo vessels avoid modern ballast water treatment, allowing invasive species to spread between ports.

https://act.elpc.org/495fQ53
Environmental Groups Challenge EPA Final Rule on Vessels Discharging Invasives in the Great Lakes | Environmental Law & Policy Center
act.elpc.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I recommend everyone read The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan to learn more about why ballast treatment cannot be optional

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
December 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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(Reuters) - China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged on.

@reuters.com
www.producer.com/daily/china-...
China imports no US soybeans for third month; Argentine arrivals up 634 per cent | The Western Producer
China imported no soybeans from the United States for a third straight month in November, as buyers turned to South American supplies amid fears of a shortfall if the trade war with Washington dragged...
www.producer.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.
December 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#GVerse #BreakingNews #Update
The Associated Press is now reporting that at least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ's Epstein File website since they went up.
December 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Most Americans don’t fully grasp what is the most powerful animating force in my former political party: white Christian nationalism. It’s real, and, bcuz Trump is an empty vessel, it’s a movement that uses him to grow in power & influence. And it’s growing. I hear it every day from Trump voters.👇
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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My god.

From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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"Where are the countless hours of footage that Jeffrey Epstein secretly recorded of people in his various homes?! We know Trump’s DOJ possesses numerous hard drives which contain footage taken from Epstein’s homes." It was stored by Epstein in his NYC townhouse. The FBI seized it. Where is it now?
Where is the footage Jeffrey Epstein secretly recorded of people in his houses?!
This footage could finally lead to justice for the survivors
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM