Sour Scooter
@writesomethink.bsky.social
Midwesterner transplanted to California.
Casual desert romper. Actively writer-curious. Pro pet. Anti igmo.
Casual desert romper. Actively writer-curious. Pro pet. Anti igmo.
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You can’t "lone wolf" your way to 93%.
January 9, 2026 at 12:20 AM
You can’t "lone wolf" your way to 93%.
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I am positive that every conservative who has ever praised states' rights and decried the onerous power of the federal government will immediately denounce this as an autocratic power grab, right?
More from the party of federalism: "the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the federal government, as represented by the president of the United States, tells them, for the good of the country, to do."
January 9, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I am positive that every conservative who has ever praised states' rights and decried the onerous power of the federal government will immediately denounce this as an autocratic power grab, right?
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Divest from Scotiabank. Let them see how good it is for their business then: Scotiabank CEO says Trump doctrine to dominate hemisphere will be good for business
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/n...
Scotiabank CEO says Trump doctrine to dominate hemisphere will be good for business
Financial data suggests Canadian banks are poised to profit if Donald Trump’s plan to takeover Venezuela’s oil industry comes to fruition.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Divest from Scotiabank. Let them see how good it is for their business then: Scotiabank CEO says Trump doctrine to dominate hemisphere will be good for business
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/n...
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Anyone who didn't see this coming is just willingly stupid. Trump was always clear he wanted to go invade places and steal their oil, and whatever else happened, who gives a crap. This wasn't about drugs, or democracy. He's fine with repressive regimes if they pay up
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
Maduro Is Gone, but Repression in Venezuela Has Intensified
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Anyone who didn't see this coming is just willingly stupid. Trump was always clear he wanted to go invade places and steal their oil, and whatever else happened, who gives a crap. This wasn't about drugs, or democracy. He's fine with repressive regimes if they pay up
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
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The President's powers come from the Constitution and Congress. There's no third source.
If neither grant a power—and, more importantly, if either prohibit it—then the President doesn't have it. Full stop.
If neither grant a power—and, more importantly, if either prohibit it—then the President doesn't have it. Full stop.
January 4, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The President's powers come from the Constitution and Congress. There's no third source.
If neither grant a power—and, more importantly, if either prohibit it—then the President doesn't have it. Full stop.
If neither grant a power—and, more importantly, if either prohibit it—then the President doesn't have it. Full stop.
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
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December 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security. It's a "papers-please" America where freedom is conditional and innocence comes last.
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
ICE is arguing in court that US CITIZENS can be detained, handcuffed, and biometrically screened unless they can prove citizenship on the spot. And that a REAL ID isn't enough. This isn't border security. It's a "papers-please" America where freedom is conditional and innocence comes last.
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Chemistry teachers always rocked
December 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Chemistry teachers always rocked
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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🚨ZIZZLING NEWS🚨
Trump admitted in a furious meltdown that he handed out pardons in exchange for favours.
In only 10 months, trump has dispensed some of his 1,600 pardons to drug lords, corrupt politicians and crypto dealers.
President Biden only gave 140 pardons in 4 years.
WATCH 👇🏻
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Trump admitted in a furious meltdown that he handed out pardons in exchange for favours.
In only 10 months, trump has dispensed some of his 1,600 pardons to drug lords, corrupt politicians and crypto dealers.
President Biden only gave 140 pardons in 4 years.
WATCH 👇🏻
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December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🚨ZIZZLING NEWS🚨
Trump admitted in a furious meltdown that he handed out pardons in exchange for favours.
In only 10 months, trump has dispensed some of his 1,600 pardons to drug lords, corrupt politicians and crypto dealers.
President Biden only gave 140 pardons in 4 years.
WATCH 👇🏻
1/2
Trump admitted in a furious meltdown that he handed out pardons in exchange for favours.
In only 10 months, trump has dispensed some of his 1,600 pardons to drug lords, corrupt politicians and crypto dealers.
President Biden only gave 140 pardons in 4 years.
WATCH 👇🏻
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
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The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
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“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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….yes.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
….yes.
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. @rbreich.bsky.social explains how we can neuter Citizens United through the states, without changing the Constitution or requiring all 50 states to sign on. It sounds like a great idea to me.
www.rawstory.com/citizens-uni...
www.rawstory.com/citizens-uni...
This grassroots rebellion can decapitate Supreme Court's catastrophic mistake
Several of you have told me that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that c...
www.rawstory.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
. @rbreich.bsky.social explains how we can neuter Citizens United through the states, without changing the Constitution or requiring all 50 states to sign on. It sounds like a great idea to me.
www.rawstory.com/citizens-uni...
www.rawstory.com/citizens-uni...
No.
Now you don’t have to read this drivel.
Now you don’t have to read this drivel.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
No.
Now you don’t have to read this drivel.
Now you don’t have to read this drivel.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.