Anthony Hipp
@anthonyhipp.bsky.social
Ex-Twitter Pro Democracy. Believe in the rule of law and that character matters.
“Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.”
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December 1, 2025
President Donald J.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.”
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It is the system Russia’s president Vladimir Putin exploits in Russia, and President Donald J. Trump is working to establish it in the United States of America.
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November 30, 2025
On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It is the system Russia’s president Vladimir Putin exploits in Russia, and President Donald J. Trump is working to establish it in the United States of America.
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November 30, 2025
November 30, 2025
On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...
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November 30, 2025
“… But secondly, doesn’t he have anything better to do? I can make a big list of things that are more important for him to focus on.”
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November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“… But secondly, doesn’t he have anything better to do? I can make a big list of things that are more important for him to focus on.”
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Now, everyone involved will have to pick a side, and there is only one side to be on in an issue like this.
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The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come
“You must refuse illegal orders.” That’s what was said in the video made by six Democratic members of Congress.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Now, everyone involved will have to pick a side, and there is only one side to be on in an issue like this.
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Every day, I am struck by all the ways in which we are reliving the 1890s.
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November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Every day, I am struck by all the ways in which we are reliving the 1890s.
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“… support the Constitution, do my job, hold this administration accountable, hold this president accountable when he is out of line. That’s the responsibility of every U.S. senator and every member of Congress. He’s not going to silence us.”
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November 24, 2025
U.S.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“… support the Constitution, do my job, hold this administration accountable, hold this president accountable when he is out of line. That’s the responsibility of every U.S. senator and every member of Congress. He’s not going to silence us.”
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November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
… they asked President Abraham Lincoln to make a few appropriate remarks. While they probably thought he would not attend, or that if he came he would simply mouth a few platitudes and sit down, President Lincoln had something different in mind. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 18, 2025
For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
… they asked President Abraham Lincoln to make a few appropriate remarks. While they probably thought he would not attend, or that if he came he would simply mouth a few platitudes and sit down, President Lincoln had something different in mind. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Trump says we have always been on the same side of every issue with Saudi Arabia? WT actual F???
Trump is so corrupt.
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Trump is so corrupt.
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Trump BLOWS UP IN OVAL at Press Event with SAUDI PRINCE
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November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Trump says we have always been on the same side of every issue with Saudi Arabia? WT actual F???
Trump is so corrupt.
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Trump is so corrupt.
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wow. not the worst thing that's happened in this white house. but a literal tate fanboy/former tate lawyer intervened to get tate off the hook. sex predators have to look out for each other.
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
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The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
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November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
wow. not the worst thing that's happened in this white house. but a literal tate fanboy/former tate lawyer intervened to get tate off the hook. sex predators have to look out for each other.
The signs were clear: Trump had lost control of the House Republicans.
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November 17, 2025 (Monday)
President Donald J.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The signs were clear: Trump had lost control of the House Republicans.
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Trump’s New Sham: The House Should Vote to Force Me to Release the Epstein Files That I Won’t Release talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Trump’s New Sham: The House Should Vote to Force Me to Release the Epstein Files That I Won’t Release
LOL Wut? Poised to lose a House vote this week calling for...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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“Whatever inherent importance it has, it has had the effect of not only making Trump look guilty but — I would argue more importantly — impotent and absurd. Strongmen aren’t good guys.”
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Trump Has the Look of the Weak Horse; People Are Acting Accordingly
One of my instrument panel watchwords for understanding politics is that all...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“Whatever inherent importance it has, it has had the effect of not only making Trump look guilty but — I would argue more importantly — impotent and absurd. Strongmen aren’t good guys.”
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Trump Has the Look of the Weak Horse; People Are Acting Accordingly talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
… where a majority of people would prefer to live in a world where a child does not have to sell her body to older men in order to save enough money to get braces on her teeth.
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November 16, 2025
On Thursday, November 13, Michael Schmidt reported in the New York Times the story of the 17-year-old girl the House Ethics Committee found former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) likely paid to have ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
… where a majority of people would prefer to live in a world where a child does not have to sell her body to older men in order to save enough money to get braces on her teeth.
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Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo (which was 25 years old yesterday—congratulations, Josh and the TPM folks!) wrote: “Investigate whoever he wants. Trumps drowning on every front.”
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November 14, 2025
In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo (which was 25 years old yesterday—congratulations, Josh and the TPM folks!) wrote: “Investigate whoever he wants. Trumps drowning on every front.”
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But the administration’s attempt to convince Americans to believe them, rather than their lyin’ eyes, doesn’t appear to be succeeding very well.
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November 13, 2025
We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
But the administration’s attempt to convince Americans to believe them, rather than their lyin’ eyes, doesn’t appear to be succeeding very well.
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Jason Kander: “Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.”
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 249. 11/13/25
… The latest batch of Epstein documents released by Democrats on House Oversight show how he weaved an intricate web of rich and powerful people around the globe to compromise them and use them for hi...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Jason Kander: “Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.”
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“Either Republicans finally decide to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits this year. Or the American people will throw Republicans out of their jobs next year and end the speakership of Donald J. Trump once and for all.”
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November 12, 2025
It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“Either Republicans finally decide to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits this year. Or the American people will throw Republicans out of their jobs next year and end the speakership of Donald J. Trump once and for all.”
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