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This is a terrible development.
The Administration is destroying the scientific institutions that helped make America great. It will take years to rebuild from this.
The Administration is destroying the scientific institutions that helped make America great. It will take years to rebuild from this.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is a terrible development.
The Administration is destroying the scientific institutions that helped make America great. It will take years to rebuild from this.
The Administration is destroying the scientific institutions that helped make America great. It will take years to rebuild from this.
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NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions.
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
NEW: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) says Colorado will not release Tina Peters after President Trump announced he is pardoning her state-level convictions.
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
"This is a lawless act. It's an act of intimidation," Weiser said. "It has no basis in the American law."
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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At this hearing, @padilla.senate.gov asked me whether mass deportation is making us more safe. Here was my response.
December 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
At this hearing, @padilla.senate.gov asked me whether mass deportation is making us more safe. Here was my response.
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don't miss it, as it's buried in my latest analysis of the year's legislative results: where each state stands on who controls its government heading into 2026
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
December 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
don't miss it, as it's buried in my latest analysis of the year's legislative results: where each state stands on who controls its government heading into 2026
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
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Read the full report and our timeline of early 200 attacks on the First Amendment:
www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
Chokehold: Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance
This Free Press report examines the Trump administration’s hostile relationship with dissent and free expression in 2025. It analyzes how Trump and his political enablers have sought to undermine and ...
www.freepress.net
December 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Read the full report and our timeline of early 200 attacks on the First Amendment:
www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
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So, you know how people say stuff like, "just repost this & you'll have supported journalism"?
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Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
But this time... it's literally true!
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December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So, you know how people say stuff like, "just repost this & you'll have supported journalism"?
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
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While I welcome any support for education and investing in our kids’ future, I will never support vouchers. That includes any measures that siphon off scarce public K-12 school dollars to benefit private and parochial schools. That’s why I am a no here. coloradosun.com/2025/12/05/c...
Colorado governor plans to opt into Trump-endorsed initiative that some fear will lead to voucher program
The federal program would dole out scholarships to both public and private school students through donations from taxpayers in exchange for federal tax credits
coloradosun.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
While I welcome any support for education and investing in our kids’ future, I will never support vouchers. That includes any measures that siphon off scarce public K-12 school dollars to benefit private and parochial schools. That’s why I am a no here. coloradosun.com/2025/12/05/c...
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To all of you readers who submitted noxious nominations for the 17th annual Golden Duke awards, we thank you for your service. Now it’s time to vote! May the sickest sleazebag win.
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talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/grift...
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
To all of you readers who submitted noxious nominations for the 17th annual Golden Duke awards, we thank you for your service. Now it’s time to vote! May the sickest sleazebag win.
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talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/grift...
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Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments.
Seems like a key detail!
Seems like a key detail!
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments.
Seems like a key detail!
Seems like a key detail!
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AG's across the country need to know how their constituents feel. Too important to ignore. Your state?👇 Give 'em a call.
"The new suits — filed against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — mirror the department’s cases against eight states from earlier this year."
"The new suits — filed against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — mirror the department’s cases against eight states from earlier this year."
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
AG's across the country need to know how their constituents feel. Too important to ignore. Your state?👇 Give 'em a call.
"The new suits — filed against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — mirror the department’s cases against eight states from earlier this year."
"The new suits — filed against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — mirror the department’s cases against eight states from earlier this year."
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This is what happens when you have the least qualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history.
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This is what happens when you have the least qualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history.
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I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.
Senator Mark Kelly speaks out with clarity about our current reality. www.c-span.org/program/news...
Sen. Mark Kelly Holds News Conference on Military Orders
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) holds a news conference on President Trump's military orders and a video message from Democrats like Sen. Kelly reminding troops to not follow illegal orders.
www.c-span.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Senator Mark Kelly speaks out with clarity about our current reality. www.c-span.org/program/news...
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The Trump administration's corruption has extended to selling out Ukraine—and America's interests—to Russia so that the Trump family and their friends can make a few bucks.
Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Trump administration's corruption has extended to selling out Ukraine—and America's interests—to Russia so that the Trump family and their friends can make a few bucks.
Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are not serious people. I won't let them stop me from holding this Administration accountable.
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are not serious people. I won't let them stop me from holding this Administration accountable.
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ICYMI: By me in January
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals
The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. therevelator.org/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals
The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. therevelator.org/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals • The Revelator
The waters around the U.S. are home to threatened species who need conservation policies to save them from extinction. They won’t get that for the next four years.
therevelator.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
ICYMI: By me in January
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals
The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. therevelator.org/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s Second Term Will Be Bad News for Endangered Ocean and Coastal Animals
The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. therevelator.org/donald-trump...
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❗️🇪🇺🇺🇦 The full text of the EU plan to end the war in Ukraine is published by The Telegraph
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
❗️🇪🇺🇺🇦 The full text of the EU plan to end the war in Ukraine is published by The Telegraph
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Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
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We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
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West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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The great @timothysnyder.bsky.social explains why this new Trump-backed Ukraine plan sells out Ukraine, Europe, and democracies across the world. Take a few minutes and watch.
It is hard to put into words how much damage Trump is doing to our own country, how unfit and malevolent he is.
It is hard to put into words how much damage Trump is doing to our own country, how unfit and malevolent he is.
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The great @timothysnyder.bsky.social explains why this new Trump-backed Ukraine plan sells out Ukraine, Europe, and democracies across the world. Take a few minutes and watch.
It is hard to put into words how much damage Trump is doing to our own country, how unfit and malevolent he is.
It is hard to put into words how much damage Trump is doing to our own country, how unfit and malevolent he is.
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Governing the right way means you show up time and time again, not only during election time. It means listening to and learning from the people of Colorado whenever you have the opportunity.
#thisiswhatdemocracylookslike #philforcolorado #copolitics
#thisiswhatdemocracylookslike #philforcolorado #copolitics
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Governing the right way means you show up time and time again, not only during election time. It means listening to and learning from the people of Colorado whenever you have the opportunity.
#thisiswhatdemocracylookslike #philforcolorado #copolitics
#thisiswhatdemocracylookslike #philforcolorado #copolitics