@scook2003.bsky.social
Be open to changing your mind based on provable facts. Admiting you're wrong is a strength, not a weakness. 50% tariffs imposed on those who argue with me.
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EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We were very happy to give this scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket because it is important to support independent journalists who are doing the hard work at this time. Giving this story to Marisa also guarantees it will be in The Washington Post verbatim exactly 48 hours later.
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Q: What advice are you giving Donald Trump?
JD Vance: “The advice I'm giving him is: Sir, trust your instincts. He's got the best instincts of any president I've ever seen, of any political leader I've ever seen.”
Definitely not a cult.
JD Vance: “The advice I'm giving him is: Sir, trust your instincts. He's got the best instincts of any president I've ever seen, of any political leader I've ever seen.”
Definitely not a cult.
June 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Q: What advice are you giving Donald Trump?
JD Vance: “The advice I'm giving him is: Sir, trust your instincts. He's got the best instincts of any president I've ever seen, of any political leader I've ever seen.”
Definitely not a cult.
JD Vance: “The advice I'm giving him is: Sir, trust your instincts. He's got the best instincts of any president I've ever seen, of any political leader I've ever seen.”
Definitely not a cult.
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U.S. spies and a U.S. intelligence agency—including Trump's own Director of National Intelligence—told the president that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.
He ignored them, preferring to listen to Israel and Fox News, and has now ordered the U.S. military to strike Iran.
He ignored them, preferring to listen to Israel and Fox News, and has now ordered the U.S. military to strike Iran.
Trump Rejects US Spies Who Said Iran Wasn’t Building Nukes
President Donald Trump has dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies that Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon before the conflict with Israel.
www.mississippifreepress.org
June 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
U.S. spies and a U.S. intelligence agency—including Trump's own Director of National Intelligence—told the president that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.
He ignored them, preferring to listen to Israel and Fox News, and has now ordered the U.S. military to strike Iran.
He ignored them, preferring to listen to Israel and Fox News, and has now ordered the U.S. military to strike Iran.
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What a load of enabling bullshit
Getting an explainer on CNN just now that this is "not necessarily at odds" w Trump promising not to get into any Mideast wars.
("He sees bombing as separate from entering a war.")
("He sees bombing as separate from entering a war.")
June 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
What a load of enabling bullshit
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Trump is once against arsonist and fireman. If he hadn't pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal (which our own State Dept. certified Iran was in compliance with), we wouldn't be here.
June 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Trump is once against arsonist and fireman. If he hadn't pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal (which our own State Dept. certified Iran was in compliance with), we wouldn't be here.
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Religion is the scourge of the earth. Old men use it to justify killing innocent people.
June 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Religion is the scourge of the earth. Old men use it to justify killing innocent people.
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Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?
June 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?
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My law firm is currently litigating 55 voting and election cases in 24 states. Two points:
This is a very large caseload for this point in the election cycle.
It is more evenly spread across states than usual which reflects the creep of voter suppression laws into even safe GOP states.
This is a very large caseload for this point in the election cycle.
It is more evenly spread across states than usual which reflects the creep of voter suppression laws into even safe GOP states.
June 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My law firm is currently litigating 55 voting and election cases in 24 states. Two points:
This is a very large caseload for this point in the election cycle.
It is more evenly spread across states than usual which reflects the creep of voter suppression laws into even safe GOP states.
This is a very large caseload for this point in the election cycle.
It is more evenly spread across states than usual which reflects the creep of voter suppression laws into even safe GOP states.
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San Diego erupts at ICE raiding a local restaurant and detaining ALL staff.
May 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
San Diego erupts at ICE raiding a local restaurant and detaining ALL staff.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
If only it was a true post.
If only it was a true post.
May 31, 2025 at 3:29 AM
🤣🤣🤣🤣
If only it was a true post.
If only it was a true post.
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Says the man who gave us the biggest tax burden since the War, highest ever national debt, largest fall in living standards on record and committed the biggest act of self-harm in our history with Brexit. Time to shut the fuck up you shambling oaf.
May 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Says the man who gave us the biggest tax burden since the War, highest ever national debt, largest fall in living standards on record and committed the biggest act of self-harm in our history with Brexit. Time to shut the fuck up you shambling oaf.
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Donald Trump on former President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: “I really don't feel sorry for him."
Just a vile, horrible human being.
Just a vile, horrible human being.
May 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Donald Trump on former President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: “I really don't feel sorry for him."
Just a vile, horrible human being.
Just a vile, horrible human being.
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We are governed by a lunatic
May 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We are governed by a lunatic
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JD Vance, joined by his wife, Usha Vance, met Pope Leo XIV following the pontiff’s inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square.
What do you notice?
What do you notice?
May 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
JD Vance, joined by his wife, Usha Vance, met Pope Leo XIV following the pontiff’s inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square.
What do you notice?
What do you notice?
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Brussels, Brexit & Fishing back on the front pages: have we learned anything from all the mistakes last time round?
Weight loss jabs may be too good to be true after all…
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Weight loss jabs may be too good to be true after all…
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
James O'Brien Daily
Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show.
Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...
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May 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Brussels, Brexit & Fishing back on the front pages: have we learned anything from all the mistakes last time round?
Weight loss jabs may be too good to be true after all…
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
Weight loss jabs may be too good to be true after all…
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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BREAKING: A woman was kicked out of a women’s bathroom at a Massachusetts hotel by a security guard who demanded she “prove her gender.”
No badge gives you the right to sexually harass someone in a bathroom. This is what fascism looks like in real time.
And it’s coming to your city next.
No badge gives you the right to sexually harass someone in a bathroom. This is what fascism looks like in real time.
And it’s coming to your city next.
May 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
BREAKING: A woman was kicked out of a women’s bathroom at a Massachusetts hotel by a security guard who demanded she “prove her gender.”
No badge gives you the right to sexually harass someone in a bathroom. This is what fascism looks like in real time.
And it’s coming to your city next.
No badge gives you the right to sexually harass someone in a bathroom. This is what fascism looks like in real time.
And it’s coming to your city next.
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DOGE was never about "efficiency”
May 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
DOGE was never about "efficiency”
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The cognitive dissonance just entered the confessional.
May 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The cognitive dissonance just entered the confessional.
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Musk’s #DOGE nightmare churns accounting errors and steals lifesaving AIDS and NIH grants; Convicted Felon Donald’s pet folly starves the vulnerable while runaway deficits rampage like a horror beast through the corpse of democracy.
www.theatlantic.com/...
www.theatlantic.com/...
DOGE Was Never About Saving Money - The Atlantic
If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren't in on the joke.
www.theatlantic.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Musk’s #DOGE nightmare churns accounting errors and steals lifesaving AIDS and NIH grants; Convicted Felon Donald’s pet folly starves the vulnerable while runaway deficits rampage like a horror beast through the corpse of democracy.
www.theatlantic.com/...
www.theatlantic.com/...