Joanne Boyer
@wisdomvoices.bsky.social
Writer, Author, Proud Progressive, History Lover, Time Traveler and All-Around Nice Person. Also loves EFC
Chapter 4: The Party That Sold Itself Out
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Chapter 4: The Party That Sold Itself Out
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink"
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December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Chapter 4: The Party That Sold Itself Out
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But..but...he said he was going to make IVR free....78M American voters fell for the snake oil salesman (doesn't absolve @democrats.org of all their failures...but...). From the ashes a new republic will rise...I just won't be around to see it.
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New US Security Strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
But..but...he said he was going to make IVR free....78M American voters fell for the snake oil salesman (doesn't absolve @democrats.org of all their failures...but...). From the ashes a new republic will rise...I just won't be around to see it.
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If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court to Hear Trump's Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.
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Alas, the existential threat that @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I detail in #ScienceUnderSiege grows more acute w/ each passing day of this administration:
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The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone
RFK Jr.’s allies are in full control of U.S. immunization policy.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Alas, the existential threat that @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I detail in #ScienceUnderSiege grows more acute w/ each passing day of this administration:
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
No doubt the worst is yet to come. Looking for a ray of hope? If you get near the end of the great @wajali.bsky.social talk with @hcrichardson.bsky.social she gives an on point history lesson -- the person to lead us out of this has yet to be IDed.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
No doubt the worst is yet to come. Looking for a ray of hope? If you get near the end of the great @wajali.bsky.social talk with @hcrichardson.bsky.social she gives an on point history lesson -- the person to lead us out of this has yet to be IDed.
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Internal documents suggest Trump aims to undercut a key program for unaccompanied children and potentially outsource those legal services to a for-profit ICE contractor and Angelina Jolie’s NGO.
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Trump Is Poised To Privatize Legal Aid For Migrant Children
Internal documents suggest Trump aims to undercut a key program for unaccompanied children and potentially outsource those legal services to a for-profit ICE contractor and Angelina Jolie’s NGO.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Internal documents suggest Trump aims to undercut a key program for unaccompanied children and potentially outsource those legal services to a for-profit ICE contractor and Angelina Jolie’s NGO.
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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is cheering on Trump using his pardon power to end a high-profile corruption prosecution.
Ladies and gentlemen...The Democratic leadership!
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Ladies and gentlemen...The Democratic leadership!
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December 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is cheering on Trump using his pardon power to end a high-profile corruption prosecution.
Ladies and gentlemen...The Democratic leadership!
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Ladies and gentlemen...The Democratic leadership!
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"Not by moderating. By transforming."
TN-07 Aftyn Behn This Was Supposed to be Impossible
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TN-07 Aftyn Behn This Was Supposed to be Impossible
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TN-07 Aftyn Behn This Was Supposed to be Impossible
A Bernie Sanders Democrat in Trump +22 country. I drove to Nashville to see it.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Not by moderating. By transforming."
TN-07 Aftyn Behn This Was Supposed to be Impossible
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TN-07 Aftyn Behn This Was Supposed to be Impossible
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#tdih 1980, three nuns (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, and Dorothy Kazel) & one lay worker (Jean Donovan) were abducted, raped, & murdered 💔 in El Salvador by members of U.S. backed National Guard.
Reagan administration blamed the nuns for their own murder.
Read ⬇️
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Reagan administration blamed the nuns for their own murder.
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Dec. 2, 1980: Three Nuns and Lay Worker Killed in El Salvador
Three nuns and a lay worker were killed in El Salvador by members of the U.S.-backed National Guard.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#tdih 1980, three nuns (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, and Dorothy Kazel) & one lay worker (Jean Donovan) were abducted, raped, & murdered 💔 in El Salvador by members of U.S. backed National Guard.
Reagan administration blamed the nuns for their own murder.
Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/nu...
Reagan administration blamed the nuns for their own murder.
Read ⬇️
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In their defense, how could six Republican Supreme Court Justices have predicted in 2024 that allowing the most powerful person in the world to commit crimes with impunity could have a downside?
December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In their defense, how could six Republican Supreme Court Justices have predicted in 2024 that allowing the most powerful person in the world to commit crimes with impunity could have a downside?
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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#tdih 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery. One of countless actions in decades of protests of racism on public transportation (incl. Claudette Colvin & others earlier that year).
Women's Political Council mobilized boycott. ⬇️
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Women's Political Council mobilized boycott. ⬇️
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Dec. 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
#tdih 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery. One of countless actions in decades of protests of racism on public transportation (incl. Claudette Colvin & others earlier that year).
Women's Political Council mobilized boycott. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ro...
Women's Political Council mobilized boycott. ⬇️
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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Trump’s “mass deportation” is not deportation at all.
When people are captured without due process, that's kidnapping. When they’re sent to another country against their will, that's human trafficking. When they're put in a prison with no way to get out, that's a concentration camp.
When people are captured without due process, that's kidnapping. When they’re sent to another country against their will, that's human trafficking. When they're put in a prison with no way to get out, that's a concentration camp.
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Trump’s “mass deportation” is not deportation at all.
When people are captured without due process, that's kidnapping. When they’re sent to another country against their will, that's human trafficking. When they're put in a prison with no way to get out, that's a concentration camp.
When people are captured without due process, that's kidnapping. When they’re sent to another country against their will, that's human trafficking. When they're put in a prison with no way to get out, that's a concentration camp.
Tell me what reality we live in???!! Stock market at record highs today...play this video. It's all good right?🙃
Racism is expensive‼️
They got what they voted for‼️
They got what they voted for‼️
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Tell me what reality we live in???!! Stock market at record highs today...play this video. It's all good right?🙃
Imagine that...for-profit health insurers putting $$$ before MAHA..who could have known?
"As money gets tighter, including red ink with privatized Medicare Advantage plans, insurers have been cutting back on choices and benefits."
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"As money gets tighter, including red ink with privatized Medicare Advantage plans, insurers have been cutting back on choices and benefits."
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Blue Cross cuts seniors’ gym access
Blue Cross cuts seniors’ gym access
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November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Imagine that...for-profit health insurers putting $$$ before MAHA..who could have known?
"As money gets tighter, including red ink with privatized Medicare Advantage plans, insurers have been cutting back on choices and benefits."
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"As money gets tighter, including red ink with privatized Medicare Advantage plans, insurers have been cutting back on choices and benefits."
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⚠️ REVEALED: A bombshell move at the SEC could wipe out 98% of shareholder proposals — the mechanism investors use to push companies on pay, governance and climate risks. Legal experts say this interpretation of Delaware law would silence millions of shareholders.
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Wall Street’s Top Cop Wants To Silence Shareholders
Securities and Exchange Commissioner Paul Atkins wants to eliminate the vast majority of shareholder proposals from corporate governance.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
⚠️ REVEALED: A bombshell move at the SEC could wipe out 98% of shareholder proposals — the mechanism investors use to push companies on pay, governance and climate risks. Legal experts say this interpretation of Delaware law would silence millions of shareholders.
www.levernews.com/wall-streets...
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"But when you staff a government with loyalists instead of experts, this is the inevitable result: foreign policy by group text."
"Peace Over a Piece of Pie"
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"Peace Over a Piece of Pie"
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"Peace Over a Piece of Pie"
When loyalty replaces expertise, you don’t get diplomacy; you get a Miami-made surrender plan that shocks allies, delights Putin, and proves Trump’s team can’t negotiate their way out of a salad.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"But when you staff a government with loyalists instead of experts, this is the inevitable result: foreign policy by group text."
"Peace Over a Piece of Pie"
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"Peace Over a Piece of Pie"
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Why do we as a country accept the fact that medical care is based on for-profit insurers who create mythical things like "in-network?" No other educated country on the planet accepts that. Single Payer (HR 3421) by 2030...there is no other answer.
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3-year-old caught in health care dispute
3-year-old caught in health care dispute
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November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Why do we as a country accept the fact that medical care is based on for-profit insurers who create mythical things like "in-network?" No other educated country on the planet accepts that. Single Payer (HR 3421) by 2030...there is no other answer.
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A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
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Let’s keep turning up the heat on corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
Home Depot speaks out about ICE involvement as boycott calls grow
The retailer's premises have become a key target of immigration enforcement activities in recent months.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Let’s keep turning up the heat on corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
Great piece for those of us old enough to remember: "The contrast between the father we remember today and the son who disgraces his name tells the whole sad story of American decline."
On RFK's 100th Birthday, the Kennedy Name's Tragic Arc Mirrors American Decline
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On RFK's 100th Birthday, the Kennedy Name's Tragic Arc Mirrors American Decline
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On RFK's 100th Birthday, the Kennedy Name's Tragic Arc Mirrors American Decline
A European perspective on the day America should mourn the path it never took
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November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Great piece for those of us old enough to remember: "The contrast between the father we remember today and the son who disgraces his name tells the whole sad story of American decline."
On RFK's 100th Birthday, the Kennedy Name's Tragic Arc Mirrors American Decline
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On RFK's 100th Birthday, the Kennedy Name's Tragic Arc Mirrors American Decline
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Is there anyone in their right mind who thinks Trump's toadies are going to turn over all the files? I've done a lot of courtroom document discovery, and NO ONE ever turns over the real files. We are about to get the expurgated grease job of the century.
Trump Approves the Release of the Epstein Files, but Loopholes Remain
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November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Is there anyone in their right mind who thinks Trump's toadies are going to turn over all the files? I've done a lot of courtroom document discovery, and NO ONE ever turns over the real files. We are about to get the expurgated grease job of the century.
I know many people on my lists don't follow this. But in a world upside down this has brought more 24-hour joy than I can remember. Announcer proclaimed "it rattled the ribs and stirred the soul." And that was just the first goal!! #Scotland #WorldCup. Worth finding the highlights.
Scotland’s wild World Cup moment was built by collective will and individual brilliance
Scotland’s wild World Cup moment was built by collective will and individual brilliance
Steve Clarke’s history-making team has a ferocious work ethic that should typify what Scotland stands for
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November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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It was an honor for MK and me to meet with Pope Leo XIV – a son of Illinois – to express the pride and reverence of the people of this great state. Pope Leo XIV’s message of hope, compassion, unity, and peace resonates with Illinoisans of all faiths and traditions.
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It was an honor for MK and me to meet with Pope Leo XIV – a son of Illinois – to express the pride and reverence of the people of this great state. Pope Leo XIV’s message of hope, compassion, unity, and peace resonates with Illinoisans of all faiths and traditions.