Rachel Reid
@rachel-reid.bsky.social
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#AndrewEgger of #TheBulwark: “As long as I live, I don’t think I’ll get over this pure, #dumb fact: Trump told his fans he had to blow up the liberal order because it was the only way to secure the very benefits the liberal order was already bringing us.”
MUST READ from @hcrichardson.bsky.social:
MUST READ from @hcrichardson.bsky.social:
January 21, 2026
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, a visibly exhausted president of the United States of America rambled in angry free association in a speech before the world’s leaders.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:36 AM
#AndrewEgger of #TheBulwark: “As long as I live, I don’t think I’ll get over this pure, #dumb fact: Trump told his fans he had to blow up the liberal order because it was the only way to secure the very benefits the liberal order was already bringing us.”
MUST READ from @hcrichardson.bsky.social:
MUST READ from @hcrichardson.bsky.social:
Re Trump's free association, no energy, lie-filled ramble, Tom Nichols of The Atlantic: “No one can be watching this #Davos speech & reach any conclusion but that the President...is mentally disturbed & that something is deeply wrong w/him. This is both embarrassing & extremely dangerous.”
#unfit
#unfit
January 22, 2026 at 7:32 AM
1/3 Trump's not being described in #TheSecretOfSecrets by #DanBrown & has always been selfish but if the shoe fits:
“An increased fear of death produces…consistent…responses, all…selfish.Fear makes us #selfish. The more we fear death the more we cling to ourselves...exhibit increased #nationalism,
“An increased fear of death produces…consistent…responses, all…selfish.Fear makes us #selfish. The more we fear death the more we cling to ourselves...exhibit increased #nationalism,
January 22, 2026 at 7:08 AM
1/3 Trump's not being described in #TheSecretOfSecrets by #DanBrown & has always been selfish but if the shoe fits:
“An increased fear of death produces…consistent…responses, all…selfish.Fear makes us #selfish. The more we fear death the more we cling to ourselves...exhibit increased #nationalism,
“An increased fear of death produces…consistent…responses, all…selfish.Fear makes us #selfish. The more we fear death the more we cling to ourselves...exhibit increased #nationalism,
Trump's struggle w/a common binder clip showed how out-of-touch he is, again. Then added he wouldn't have admitted if it hurt him. So, #lie. #groceries #affordability
Somebody spent a long time creating his 1st yr's greatest hits but he just threw them on the floor. #PaperStraws
#ReleaseTheFiles
Somebody spent a long time creating his 1st yr's greatest hits but he just threw them on the floor. #PaperStraws
#ReleaseTheFiles
January 22, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Trump's struggle w/a common binder clip showed how out-of-touch he is, again. Then added he wouldn't have admitted if it hurt him. So, #lie. #groceries #affordability
Somebody spent a long time creating his 1st yr's greatest hits but he just threw them on the floor. #PaperStraws
#ReleaseTheFiles
Somebody spent a long time creating his 1st yr's greatest hits but he just threw them on the floor. #PaperStraws
#ReleaseTheFiles
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social MUST-READ: "in just a year since his 2nd inauguration, Trump has torn apart the work that took almost a century of struggle & painstaking negotiations from the world’s best diplomats to build" #Greenland 🇺🇸🇧🇬🇪🇪🇱🇻🇲🇰🇷🇴🇸🇮🇹🇷🇸🇰
The grievous, incredible, & fast dismantling of the US:
@hcrichardson.bsky.social MUST-READ: "in just a year since his 2nd inauguration, Trump has torn apart the work that took almost a century of struggle & painstaking negotiations from the world’s best diplomats to build" #Greenland 🇺🇸🇧🇬🇪🇪🇱🇻🇲🇰🇷🇴🇸🇮🇹🇷🇸🇰
The grievous, incredible, & fast dismantling of the US:
January 19, 2026
Late last night, Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour posted on social media that the staff of the U.S.
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January 21, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social MUST-READ: "in just a year since his 2nd inauguration, Trump has torn apart the work that took almost a century of struggle & painstaking negotiations from the world’s best diplomats to build" #Greenland 🇺🇸🇧🇬🇪🇪🇱🇻🇲🇰🇷🇴🇸🇮🇹🇷🇸🇰
The grievous, incredible, & fast dismantling of the US:
@hcrichardson.bsky.social MUST-READ: "in just a year since his 2nd inauguration, Trump has torn apart the work that took almost a century of struggle & painstaking negotiations from the world’s best diplomats to build" #Greenland 🇺🇸🇧🇬🇪🇪🇱🇻🇲🇰🇷🇴🇸🇮🇹🇷🇸🇰
The grievous, incredible, & fast dismantling of the US:
"Bull Connor ordered the police & fire depts to blast the children w/high-pressure fire hoses, club them, & use police dogs to attack them...Bull Connor’s ghost is walking the streets...in the guise of...Trump & others around him...Noem &...Homan, ppl who reject country & Constitution." #MLK #peace
Bull Connor's Ghost
Theophilus Eugene Connor, better known by his nickname, Bull, was the Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama—the head of the police—for the better part of three decades, until he was for...
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January 21, 2026 at 11:23 AM
'After Trump "started rewarding generous donors w/clemency, WSJ reported a dynamic that has “spawned a pardon-shopping industry where lobbyists say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered...as much as $6 million...according to people familiar with the offers.”' #pardons #grift
The controversy surrounding Trump’s pardons goes from bad to worse
The White House has confronted questions for months about whether presidential pardons are effectively for sale. Those questions just got louder.
www.ms.now
January 21, 2026 at 11:14 AM
"'The big problem in this case is that the Cabinet secretaries &, ostensibly, the president...are not honoring the First Amendment'...accused Donald Trump of being an 'authoritarian' & concluded...Kristi Noem &...Marco Rubio engaged in an 'unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people.'"
Reagan-appointed judge slams ‘unconstitutional conspiracy,’ calls Trump an ‘authoritarian’
“These Cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution,” Judge William Young concluded.
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January 21, 2026 at 11:06 AM
"'The big problem in this case is that the Cabinet secretaries &, ostensibly, the president...are not honoring the First Amendment'...accused Donald Trump of being an 'authoritarian' & concluded...Kristi Noem &...Marco Rubio engaged in an 'unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people.'"
"...How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia...A petulant, violent and deranged individual is running America." @pkrugman.bsky.social #democracy #ICE #Ukraine #Greenland #Denmark #Norway #NATO
It’s Sundowning in America
A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose
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January 21, 2026 at 10:45 AM
"...How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia...A petulant, violent and deranged individual is running America." @pkrugman.bsky.social #democracy #ICE #Ukraine #Greenland #Denmark #Norway #NATO
Republicans COULD: #ReleaseFiles
-work w/Dems to protect #allies & world order
-reclaim #tariffs power &/or #WarPowersResolutions (McConnell voted against)
-join Dems to block military against non-aggressor & authorize #Ukraine arms assistance
-cooperate w/Dems in exercising oversight #Contrarians
-work w/Dems to protect #allies & world order
-reclaim #tariffs power &/or #WarPowersResolutions (McConnell voted against)
-join Dems to block military against non-aggressor & authorize #Ukraine arms assistance
-cooperate w/Dems in exercising oversight #Contrarians
Words & Phrases
Trump, to his mind, doesn’t need no stinkin’ allies
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January 21, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Republicans COULD: #ReleaseFiles
-work w/Dems to protect #allies & world order
-reclaim #tariffs power &/or #WarPowersResolutions (McConnell voted against)
-join Dems to block military against non-aggressor & authorize #Ukraine arms assistance
-cooperate w/Dems in exercising oversight #Contrarians
-work w/Dems to protect #allies & world order
-reclaim #tariffs power &/or #WarPowersResolutions (McConnell voted against)
-join Dems to block military against non-aggressor & authorize #Ukraine arms assistance
-cooperate w/Dems in exercising oversight #Contrarians
It's offensive & cowardly that these #Minnesota companies are NOT demanding justice in the murder of #ReneeNicoleGood: #Target #BestBuy #USBancorp #3MCompany #Cargill #Medtronic #GeneralMlls #Ecolab #XcelEnergy #LandO'Lakes
It's the regular folks in MN & around the world who ARE demanding justice.
It's the regular folks in MN & around the world who ARE demanding justice.
January 21, 2026 at 3:38 AM
It's offensive & cowardly that these #Minnesota companies are NOT demanding justice in the murder of #ReneeNicoleGood: #Target #BestBuy #USBancorp #3MCompany #Cargill #Medtronic #GeneralMlls #Ecolab #XcelEnergy #LandO'Lakes
It's the regular folks in MN & around the world who ARE demanding justice.
It's the regular folks in MN & around the world who ARE demanding justice.
It took media too long (except @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social) to call his lies, lies. Now he's called unserious. NOPE. He's a lying #liar who lies & truly believes he's greater than God & the Pope.
USE FACTUAL WORDS: NUTS, CRAZY, MAD, PSYCHO, INSANE, CRUEL, GREEDY, RACIST, IGNORANT, CON MAN...
USE FACTUAL WORDS: NUTS, CRAZY, MAD, PSYCHO, INSANE, CRUEL, GREEDY, RACIST, IGNORANT, CON MAN...
Greenland Is What Happens When Trump Believes His Lies
A text message shows how delusion turns into foreign policy.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:03 AM
It took media too long (except @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social) to call his lies, lies. Now he's called unserious. NOPE. He's a lying #liar who lies & truly believes he's greater than God & the Pope.
USE FACTUAL WORDS: NUTS, CRAZY, MAD, PSYCHO, INSANE, CRUEL, GREEDY, RACIST, IGNORANT, CON MAN...
USE FACTUAL WORDS: NUTS, CRAZY, MAD, PSYCHO, INSANE, CRUEL, GREEDY, RACIST, IGNORANT, CON MAN...
Bessent: a complete canard to think Pres Trump’s action on Greenland is due to not receiving #NobelPrize. #liar
Trump: "...your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize...I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace…” #corrupt #grifter
#GREENLAND IS NOT FOR SALE 🇬🇱 🇩🇰🇺🇦 #NATO
Trump: "...your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize...I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace…” #corrupt #grifter
#GREENLAND IS NOT FOR SALE 🇬🇱 🇩🇰🇺🇦 #NATO
January 20, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Bessent: a complete canard to think Pres Trump’s action on Greenland is due to not receiving #NobelPrize. #liar
Trump: "...your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize...I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace…” #corrupt #grifter
#GREENLAND IS NOT FOR SALE 🇬🇱 🇩🇰🇺🇦 #NATO
Trump: "...your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize...I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace…” #corrupt #grifter
#GREENLAND IS NOT FOR SALE 🇬🇱 🇩🇰🇺🇦 #NATO
"It’s been astonishing how quickly corporate greed has been replaced by corporate fear: Businesses who hoped to profit from Trump now toe the line because they’re afraid of being punished." @pkrugman.bsky.social #ReleaseTheFiles
Big Business Should End Its Faustian Bargain With Trump
He’s out of control – and if you don’t hang together to counter him, you’ll hang separately
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January 19, 2026 at 12:54 PM
"It’s been astonishing how quickly corporate greed has been replaced by corporate fear: Businesses who hoped to profit from Trump now toe the line because they’re afraid of being punished." @pkrugman.bsky.social #ReleaseTheFiles
Trump's #BoardOfPeace is another obvious pay-to-play scheme with him in charge of "contributed" money. He wastes time on money-making grifts instead of lowering prices. He doesn't do anything for America's benefit.
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January 17, 2026
After the extraordinary pushback on President Donald J.
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January 18, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Trump's #BoardOfPeace is another obvious pay-to-play scheme with him in charge of "contributed" money. He wastes time on money-making grifts instead of lowering prices. He doesn't do anything for America's benefit.
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#ReleaseTheFiles
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Trump: "‘Look at the size of this, it’s massive, & that should be part of the United States...ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do...’"
Rep Don Bacon (R-NE):"...an attack on #Greenland... would lead to #impeachment. Invading an ally…is a high crime & a misdemeanor.” #NATO #Denmark
Rep Don Bacon (R-NE):"...an attack on #Greenland... would lead to #impeachment. Invading an ally…is a high crime & a misdemeanor.” #NATO #Denmark
January 16, 2026
Well, President Donald J.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Trump: "‘Look at the size of this, it’s massive, & that should be part of the United States...ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do...’"
Rep Don Bacon (R-NE):"...an attack on #Greenland... would lead to #impeachment. Invading an ally…is a high crime & a misdemeanor.” #NATO #Denmark
Rep Don Bacon (R-NE):"...an attack on #Greenland... would lead to #impeachment. Invading an ally…is a high crime & a misdemeanor.” #NATO #Denmark
@pkrugman.bsky.social: "It’s a #Nobel medal, a symbol of the honor, not the honor itself. Only a vain, insecure fool would imagine that blackmailing someone into handing their medal over adds to his stature."
#Violence he endorses & lies about in #Minneapolis #MN is not PEACEful. #ReneeNicoleGood
#Violence he endorses & lies about in #Minneapolis #MN is not PEACEful. #ReneeNicoleGood
January 17, 2026 at 8:13 AM
@pkrugman.bsky.social: "It’s a #Nobel medal, a symbol of the honor, not the honor itself. Only a vain, insecure fool would imagine that blackmailing someone into handing their medal over adds to his stature."
#Violence he endorses & lies about in #Minneapolis #MN is not PEACEful. #ReneeNicoleGood
#Violence he endorses & lies about in #Minneapolis #MN is not PEACEful. #ReneeNicoleGood
Trump's words: “fascists,” “enemies of the people,” “the enemy within,” “threats to #democracy” & “evil.” In 2022 & 2023, referred to federal agents as the 'Gestapo' - 20 times..."
His admin blames others using his exact words. Their hypocrisy & #gaslighting never ends. shorturl.at/nNs91
His admin blames others using his exact words. Their hypocrisy & #gaslighting never ends. shorturl.at/nNs91
The White House wants the left to stop sounding so much like Trump
Karoline Leavitt was appalled that people would equate federal agents with the Gestapo, seemingly unaware that Trump has done the same thing.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Trump's words: “fascists,” “enemies of the people,” “the enemy within,” “threats to #democracy” & “evil.” In 2022 & 2023, referred to federal agents as the 'Gestapo' - 20 times..."
His admin blames others using his exact words. Their hypocrisy & #gaslighting never ends. shorturl.at/nNs91
His admin blames others using his exact words. Their hypocrisy & #gaslighting never ends. shorturl.at/nNs91
2016, A ret Lt Col gave his to Trump: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart...This was much easier.” He faked #BoneSpurs so could NEVER EARN ONE.
Now: “María presented me with her #NobelPeacePrize for the work I have done” Pattern: DIDN'T EARN this one either. #undeserved #shame shorturl.at/hpY9g
Now: “María presented me with her #NobelPeacePrize for the work I have done” Pattern: DIDN'T EARN this one either. #undeserved #shame shorturl.at/hpY9g
Trump received a Nobel Peace Prize the same way he received a Purple Heart
The president seems to prefer a model where others do the heavily lifting and then generously turn over their honors.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:45 AM
2016, A ret Lt Col gave his to Trump: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart...This was much easier.” He faked #BoneSpurs so could NEVER EARN ONE.
Now: “María presented me with her #NobelPeacePrize for the work I have done” Pattern: DIDN'T EARN this one either. #undeserved #shame shorturl.at/hpY9g
Now: “María presented me with her #NobelPeacePrize for the work I have done” Pattern: DIDN'T EARN this one either. #undeserved #shame shorturl.at/hpY9g
#JenniferRubin said, #JeromePowell responded to #DOJ with 'searing moral clarity'.
Who else has that? The DOJ senior prosecutors who resigned "because Trump’s DOJ refused to investigate what may be one of the most serious excessive-force killings by a federal agent in decades" shorturl.at/t27il
Who else has that? The DOJ senior prosecutors who resigned "because Trump’s DOJ refused to investigate what may be one of the most serious excessive-force killings by a federal agent in decades" shorturl.at/t27il
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:57 AM
#JenniferRubin said, #JeromePowell responded to #DOJ with 'searing moral clarity'.
Who else has that? The DOJ senior prosecutors who resigned "because Trump’s DOJ refused to investigate what may be one of the most serious excessive-force killings by a federal agent in decades" shorturl.at/t27il
Who else has that? The DOJ senior prosecutors who resigned "because Trump’s DOJ refused to investigate what may be one of the most serious excessive-force killings by a federal agent in decades" shorturl.at/t27il
"Business leaders should remember: their conduct during the era of Trump’s unrestrained tyranny will fall under new scrutiny...by serious prosecutors pursuant to the corrupt foreign practice statue...Democrats need to start pressuring corporate America." #MoralClarity not #MobRule shorturl.at/PyDtv
Big Business Should Wake Up to the Trump Threat
Democrats need to engage corporate leaders
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January 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM
"Business leaders should remember: their conduct during the era of Trump’s unrestrained tyranny will fall under new scrutiny...by serious prosecutors pursuant to the corrupt foreign practice statue...Democrats need to start pressuring corporate America." #MoralClarity not #MobRule shorturl.at/PyDtv
How pathetic, embarrassing, and ridiculous that the Nobel Committee has to clarify that because of poor Needy-in-Chief Trump.
The Nobel Prize Committee makes clear:
"One truth remains. As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: 'Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.'"
"One truth remains. As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: 'Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.'"
January 16, 2026 at 4:06 AM
How pathetic, embarrassing, and ridiculous that the Nobel Committee has to clarify that because of poor Needy-in-Chief Trump.
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How many moms need to get shot in the face before members of congress support a sec Noam impeachment?
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
How many moms need to get shot in the face before members of congress support a sec Noam impeachment?
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Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...
Minneapolis Labor, Community Leaders Join Call for Jan. 23 General Strike to Demand ICE Out | Common Dreams
Minneapolis labor unions and community groups call for a general strike to push out federal immigration agents.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...
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