Tripp
@rbreade3.bsky.social
Librarian, writer, subjective constructor of reality, X-refugee, lover of blue skies.
So the most recent jobs report is the worst it's been since the pandemic, which means the only president as bad as Donald Trump on the economy is Donald Trump.
January 9, 2026 at 10:36 PM
So the most recent jobs report is the worst it's been since the pandemic, which means the only president as bad as Donald Trump on the economy is Donald Trump.
"There is no objective standard of conduct that could possibly explain why beating police officers is peaceful but attempting to flee from them is terrorism. This is not an oversight, but the essence of Trumpism."
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Trump Has Odd Views on Domestic Terrorism
The president seems to think that beating police officers is 'peaceful,' but attempting to flee from them is terrorism.
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January 9, 2026 at 10:26 AM
"There is no objective standard of conduct that could possibly explain why beating police officers is peaceful but attempting to flee from them is terrorism. This is not an oversight, but the essence of Trumpism."
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"There’s a lot we don’t know about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good.... But in the chaotic aftermath of the shooting, one thing became immediately clear: The Trump administration was lying about what happened."
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First the Shooting. Then the Lies.
The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM
"There’s a lot we don’t know about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good.... But in the chaotic aftermath of the shooting, one thing became immediately clear: The Trump administration was lying about what happened."
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I think this gets to the heart of Trump's interest in Venezuela.
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A White House Lackey Explains the Many Complex Reasons for the United States’ Invasion of Venezuela
In the early hours of January 3, 2026, President Trump ordered U.S. armed forces to conduct a targeted military operation in Venezuela that resulte...
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January 8, 2026 at 3:34 AM
I think this gets to the heart of Trump's interest in Venezuela.
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"Yet the biggest disappointment of 2025 may well have been not what Trump did but how so many let it happen. Trump has always been a mirror for other people’s souls, an X-ray revealing America’s dysfunction. "
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
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Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
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Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
A damage assessment of the President’s first year back in the White House.
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January 4, 2026 at 12:42 AM
"Yet the biggest disappointment of 2025 may well have been not what Trump did but how so many let it happen. Trump has always been a mirror for other people’s souls, an X-ray revealing America’s dysfunction. "
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
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Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
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Trump is hypocrisy incarnate. The U.S. will "come to [the] rescue" if Iran "violently" intervenes with peaceful protests says the man who all summer deployed military personnel to violently intervene with peaceful anti-ICE protests.
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Trump says U.S. will intervene if Iran 'violently kills' protestors
Protests erupted last week over the government's handling of a sharp fall in the nation's currency and soaring prices.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Trump is hypocrisy incarnate. The U.S. will "come to [the] rescue" if Iran "violently" intervenes with peaceful protests says the man who all summer deployed military personnel to violently intervene with peaceful anti-ICE protests.
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Yes, Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, has endorsed racial profiling as a legitimate tactic. He is exactly the repugnant person we all thought he was.
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Brett Kavanaugh Is Trying to Walk Back “Kavanaugh Stops.” Too Late.
It appears the justice has some regrets.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Yes, Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, has endorsed racial profiling as a legitimate tactic. He is exactly the repugnant person we all thought he was.
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Good grief. There really is no end to this man's pettiness and vanity. Well, the next president will have their work cut out for them, undoing this and all the other tacky reminders of the scourge that is Trump.
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Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says
The board of the performing arts centre voted to name it after President Donald Trump, rebranding it the 'Trump-Kennedy Center', press secretary Karoline Leavitt says.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Good grief. There really is no end to this man's pettiness and vanity. Well, the next president will have their work cut out for them, undoing this and all the other tacky reminders of the scourge that is Trump.
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Now that the political winds are shifting and even their most gerrymandered seats are at risk, suddenly these GOP skunks are expressing a concern for health care that they never had before now. Aww, nice try, sneak weasels, but we see right through you.
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GOP House Rep. says it's 'unacceptable' to allow ACA subsidies to expire
Rep. Mike Lawler says House Speaker Mike Johnson is correct in saying the health care system isn't working, but allowing ACA subsidies to expire without a plan to address rising costs is "idiotic."
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December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Now that the political winds are shifting and even their most gerrymandered seats are at risk, suddenly these GOP skunks are expressing a concern for health care that they never had before now. Aww, nice try, sneak weasels, but we see right through you.
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Remember: some of these same Republicans who are so muted or even silent in the face of Trump's repugnant comment about the murder of the Reiners are the same ones who excoriated Obama for wearing a tan suit. A tan suit. Let that sink in.
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Remember: some of these same Republicans who are so muted or even silent in the face of Trump's repugnant comment about the murder of the Reiners are the same ones who excoriated Obama for wearing a tan suit. A tan suit. Let that sink in.
Re: Susie Wiles's bombshell interview with Vanity Fair, I will give Trump this: his is the first cockroach presidency, in that revelations that would have annihilated other presidents and their administrations barely slow Il Douche and his MAGAts.
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Re: Susie Wiles's bombshell interview with Vanity Fair, I will give Trump this: his is the first cockroach presidency, in that revelations that would have annihilated other presidents and their administrations barely slow Il Douche and his MAGAts.
As we enter the holiday season, let's remember that 77M of our fellow citizens--the approximate number of Trump voters--are on the side of Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life.
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
As we enter the holiday season, let's remember that 77M of our fellow citizens--the approximate number of Trump voters--are on the side of Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life.
Another red-letter day for the Trump administration.
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Teachers working without pay in US military schools during shutdown received debt letters | CNN Politics
Teachers in US military schools abroad who have been working without pay during the government shutdown received letters this week telling them they owed money to the government, CNN has learned.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Another red-letter day for the Trump administration.
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Um, that ship has sailed. You're on record as having no principles.
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Barrett and Kavanaugh urge convention of conservative lawyers to stand up for their principles | CNN Politics
Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh delivered a pep talk to conservatives on Thursday night, telling an audience of right-leaning legal leaders and students in Washington, DC, they should s...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Um, that ship has sailed. You're on record as having no principles.
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"Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality."
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality."
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It's all on us now. We're the last remaining guardrail.
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It's all on us now. We're the last remaining guardrail.
In case more evidence was needed establishing that the GOP is now and has been for a while a party of lies and disinformation.
"PolitiFact ruling: False. The MSNBC footage Cruz was referring to was real and showed the Oct. 18 'No Kings' rally in Boston."
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"PolitiFact ruling: False. The MSNBC footage Cruz was referring to was real and showed the Oct. 18 'No Kings' rally in Boston."
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Fact check: Cruz said Dems shared 2017 footage and claimed it was 'No Kings'
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said Democrats are "dishonestly sending around a video from 2017" and claiming it showed an Oct. 18 "No Kings" rally in Boston.
www.houstonchronicle.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In case more evidence was needed establishing that the GOP is now and has been for a while a party of lies and disinformation.
"PolitiFact ruling: False. The MSNBC footage Cruz was referring to was real and showed the Oct. 18 'No Kings' rally in Boston."
www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
"PolitiFact ruling: False. The MSNBC footage Cruz was referring to was real and showed the Oct. 18 'No Kings' rally in Boston."
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The rot is bone deep in the GOP. Has been for decades.
"Peter Giunta, chief of staff to Mike Reilly, a New York assemblyman, posted, 'I Love Hitler'."
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"Peter Giunta, chief of staff to Mike Reilly, a New York assemblyman, posted, 'I Love Hitler'."
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Republicans Face Fallout From Racist and Homophobic Texts
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October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The rot is bone deep in the GOP. Has been for decades.
"Peter Giunta, chief of staff to Mike Reilly, a New York assemblyman, posted, 'I Love Hitler'."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
"Peter Giunta, chief of staff to Mike Reilly, a New York assemblyman, posted, 'I Love Hitler'."
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"Trumpism can also be seen as a multipronged effort to amputate the higher elements of the human spirit—learning, compassion, science, the pursuit of justice—and supplant those virtues with greed, retribution, ego, appetite."
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America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"Trumpism can also be seen as a multipronged effort to amputate the higher elements of the human spirit—learning, compassion, science, the pursuit of justice—and supplant those virtues with greed, retribution, ego, appetite."
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One America News is the only "news" outlet that signed Hegseth's first-amendment-crippling loyalty oath. OAN also happens to already have a government contact to provide propaganda to the Trump-gutted Voice of America. It's just corruption all the way down.
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
One America News is the only "news" outlet that signed Hegseth's first-amendment-crippling loyalty oath. OAN also happens to already have a government contact to provide propaganda to the Trump-gutted Voice of America. It's just corruption all the way down.
"Anderson’s newest film takes a distinct step in the Pynchon canon in that it more-clearly depicts what’s encoded in every Pynchon text: The war between the powerful and the powerless."
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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time
Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…
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October 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"Anderson’s newest film takes a distinct step in the Pynchon canon in that it more-clearly depicts what’s encoded in every Pynchon text: The war between the powerful and the powerless."
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I'm attending a No Kings's event, “Durham No Kings, No Billionaires!” www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Durham No Kings, No Billionaires! · Mobilize
Hello activism warriors!! October 18th is the next national mobilization date. We will gather at Central Park (501 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701 by the Farmer's Market) from 2pm-4pm. We plan to have a l...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I'm attending a No Kings's event, “Durham No Kings, No Billionaires!” www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...