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Doing my morning reading, and want to call out @thebulwark.com, with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social (and others) for consistently smart takes that make me think.
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Trump on Monday walked back his previous support for releasing video footage of the attack.
Trump Continues To Distance Himself From Controversial Venezuelan Drug Boat Strike: ‘I Don’t Get Involved’
Trump on Monday walked back his previous support for releasing video footage of the attack.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
A federal judge struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.
December 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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tadstoermer.bsky.social
The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
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The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
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December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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tadstoermer.bsky.social
“The next ambitious sociopath watching this has already learned the lesson: the presidency is the biggest jackpot in American life and nothing stops you from cashing out.”

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Has Trump transformed the presidency? This is the wrong question.
Trump hasn’t transformed the presidency. He’s revealed what the presidency always was—what it was designed to be.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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magixarc.bsky.social
#Trump threw himself a fake #KennedyCenter gala while China hit a $1T trade surplus because of his tariffs, public health is collapsing under anti-science #autocracy, layoffs are surging, and he’s prepping a $12B bailout to fix a crisis he caused. #uspolitics
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The Kennedys Would Like a Word: Trump’s Gala of Decline
As babies die of whooping cough and China posts a trillion-dollar surplus, Trump lectures the nation on gold paint and tariff fantasies.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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NEWS: Mike Johnson braces for 'mass exodus' of House Republicans.

Trump caught committing same mortgage fraud he is prosecuting Letitia James for.

Trump's Thailand peace deal is effectively over.

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NEWS: Mike Johnson Braces for 'Mass Exodus' of House Republicans this Month as Dozens set to Retire
Mike Johnson braces for 'mass exodus' of House Republicans. Trump caught committing same mortgage fraud he is prosecuting Letitia James for. Trump's Thailand peace deal is effectively over.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
NEWS: Russia praises Trump’s national security strategy as one that aligns with their vision.

Trump orders FBI to compile list of Americans who are “extremists.”

Trump furious as Congressman refuses to flip from Republican to Democrat after pardon. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
NEWS: Russia Praises Trump’s National Security Strategy While Trump Orders FBI to Compile Nationwide List of Alleged American “Extremists”
Good afternoon, everyone, and Happy Sunday.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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magixarc.bsky.social
Trump turned the Kennedy Center Honors into a 30-minute monologue about marble dust, HVAC units, and sending troops into U.S. cities, and somehow that wasn’t even the scariest part.
#uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Flag Day Cage Match
What Trump didn’t say about affordability, and why the rest was worse
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December 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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zavaletas.bsky.social
Trump Trump’s attack on Somali Minnesotans reveals how whole communities become targets through tone, not law. As suspicion moves into daily life, protections weaken unevenly, showing the early mechanics of democratic erosion in the U.S.
#Immigration #Democracy #AuthoritarianDrift
From Legal Belonging to Collective Suspicion: Somali Communities and Authoritarian Drift
The Politics of Suspicion and the Slow Unmaking of Equal Citizenship
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December 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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magixarc.bsky.social
#Trump accepts a FIFA Peace Prize while the #Pentagon briefs #Congress on a drone strike that killed two shipwrecked men waving for help. Parks go free on Trump’s birthday, and the president’s cognitive decline is becoming impossible to ignore. #uspolitics
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Trump Wins the FIFA Peace Prize (and Other Signs the Empire Has Lost the Plot)
Missile strikes on shipwrecked men, a press corps purged, Juneteenth stripped of free entry, Rachel Levine erased, and a president who may not know where he is.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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magixarc.bsky.social
U.S. faces its first international #war-crimes complaint, Hegseth is hit with impeachment articles, #SCOTUS greenlights partisan map-rigging, Trump “ends” a war in Congo he can’t pronounce, and a 90,000-sq-ft #WhiteHouse ballroom rises from the rubble. #uspolitics
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Peace, War, Gerrymanders, and a Ballroom Fit for Caligula
The U.S. is hauled before a human-rights tribunal while Trump expands his power, his palace, and his delusions, now with FIFA glitter.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Five years after the Jan. 5 pipe bombs nearly changed history, the #FBI finally has a suspect. What they also uncovered is the hypocrisy at the heart of Trump’s Jan. 6 rewrite. #uspolitics #PamBondi #danbongino
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A Face for the Crime, No Spine for the Truth
The Jan. 5 pipe bomb arrest shatters conspiracy theories, and exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of the Trump pardon machine.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Trump’s “boat strikes” in the Caribbean, why the admin claims they’re “saving American lives,” and why the numbers don’t add up. #uspolitics #climatecrisis
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The Math of Murder
How Trump’s Caribbean kill doctrine masks the real forces killing Americans, and the living world
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December 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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economist.com
The National Security Strategy says that America should curb the sense in Europe that Russia is a threat and warns that NATO cannot be “a perpetually expanding alliance”.

Alarmingly, it has nothing to say about the repeated aggression of Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy
Allies may panic; despots will cheer
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December 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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maddie-says.bsky.social
📣 Millions of Americans rely on ACA subsidies to afford health insurance. But that is set to expire in a few weeks, and Congress still hasn’t acted. Without renewal, premiums could more than double, pushing many out of coverage.

Here is what you can do: bit.ly/4isOJVK
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Guardrails 12/06
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
yavdems.bsky.social
If attending this month's general meeting and Volunteer Appreciation Holiday Party, please consider a donation to the Prescott Community Cupboard or bring food, clothing, or hygiene items for the Yavapai County Food Bank. RSVP here
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December 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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debbie156.bsky.social
Resisters-you know what to do.
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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mjfree.bsky.social
🩸🩸🩸 NEVER FORGET: Instead of honoring our Constitution's key principle of a Peaceful Transfer of Power, POS Donald Trump Abused his Power on Jan 6th by inciting this violent & deadly attack on our country's Capital and should be in prison for life 🩸🩸🩸
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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newsweek.com
Polling shows that 45 percent of people who voted for Trump in 2024 do not want him to serve another term in office.
Donald Trump Voters Don’t Want a Third Term as Approval Rating Sinks
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December 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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“These were indiscriminate enforcement actions going after any person who appeared to be an immigrant. … What’s motivating them is just sheer numbers.”
Most immigrants arrested in Trump’s D.C. crackdown had no criminal records
A Post analysis of federal data shows that the arrests of immigrants with no prior criminal record shot up sixfold during the Trump administration’s crackdown.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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magixarc.bsky.social
“Secretary of War Crimes” era just hit a new level: confirmed kill-everyone orders, GOP oversight mutiny, and the Pentagon refusing to send lawyers to briefings.
Plus: Trump nukes fuel-efficiency rules, billionaires bankroll a privatization Trojan horse #uspolitics
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Secretary of War Crimes and the Ministry of Poisoned Air
Hegseth’s kill orders, Trump’s anti-climate crusade, billionaire baby bonds, and the CDC’s anti-vax makeover, your daily tour through America’s authoritarian renovation project.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM