Andromeda M31
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Andromeda M31
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Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)
Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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"A superpower emeritus about ready to be stripped for parts." That's where we are now. And the not-so-long road here began with the Citizens United decision.

New from @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-f...
The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk, and Corruption
A ‘naïve’ Supreme Court delivered lawless greed and cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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CJR has a fair-minded piece on why I left the Times. All in the past now; I'm basically full-time on Substack www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.
www.cjr.org
January 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Before the election, I warned that Trump would pardon all of the Jan. 6 defendants and some of them would form the core of a new rightwing paramilitary organization loyal to Trump.

At the time, people dismissed me as alarmist. I stand by that prediction.
REPORTER: Is there now a place for the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers in the political conversation following your pardons?

TRUMP: Well, we have to see
January 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Call at least one Congressional Republican’s office every weekday and urge them not to confirm Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard or Cash Patel…OR, ask how they can justify Trump’s J6 pardons. (“Is someone missing a spine?”) Flood the phone lines everyday. You’ll feel better for having made the effort. ✊🏼
January 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel because he wants to show Republicans that he is the boss. That he can strip them of their dignity by making them support terrible nominees.

Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
January 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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WHEW!

I guess only billionaire geniuses are susceptible to doing that extremely specific move by accident.
January 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Seeing a lot of msm coverage put this down as just “dismantling DEI”
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
January 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Let me know if anyone in corporate media asks Jim Jordan about how his star witness in the Biden impeachment inquiry just got 6 years in prison for making it all up.
Ex-FBI informant who fabricated claims about Bidens sentenced to 6 years
www.reuters.com/legal/ex-fbi...

Good News!
www.reuters.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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In general, I think almost everyone will be shocked by how quickly America descends into crony capitalism 7/
November 14, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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Democracy dies in cowardice.
October 26, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90

McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66

Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
October 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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Carl Sagan when asked, "What do you see when you look at the Pale Blue Dot"?
October 18, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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The audio of the call with Tim Walz and Trump where Trump praises him and Walz shows actual concern with understanding for the protesters’ grievance while squashing bad actors. Call starts 1 minute in. youtu.be/pOc_n4dleVg?...
LEAKED: Trump's STUNNING PHONE CALL to Tim Walz Revealed
YouTube video by Adam Mockler
youtu.be
August 10, 2024 at 12:50 AM
file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/12/02/53673B54-BD6B-43BA-9543-6627C231DBD2/RPReplay_Final1720639014.mov
July 11, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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For the sake of the whole planet, this man can never be in power again.
December 10, 2023 at 4:25 PM
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Well, that got my attention!
December 10, 2023 at 12:45 AM
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When he tried to get his case transferred out of Georgia state court to federal court, Trump argued he was entitled to do that because he was a federal officer performing his official duties. But now that he’s facing removal from state ballots under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment... /1
November 21, 2023 at 9:04 PM