bendigoshafter.bsky.social
@bendigoshafter.bsky.social
Tarheel. Lawyer. Girl Dad.
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"The future of the United States, and likely of many of our allies, will depend on whether Trump’s systematic assaults on democratic nations and institutions here and abroad are successful."
This is an important piece
Everyone should read it:
"It’s clear that the president considers the rules-based democratic and economic order a barrier to his goal of establishing an autocracy. Given his dictatorial ambitions, it makes perfect sense for his regime to cozy up to strongmen while treating America’s principal democratic allies as enemies."
Make America Weak
Trump is systematically undermining America's interests at home and abroad.
www.publicnotice.co
December 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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How it started Vs. How its going
December 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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If they don't sanitize their input I wonder what else is possible.
Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.
December 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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An editor who thinks novelty is having a town hall with Alan Dershowitz, or publishing the thousandth anti-woke story, doesn’t think having first hand testimony of migrants suffering abuse because of US decisions is newsworthy.
Bari Weiss, cont'd: "I held that story because it wasn't ready. The story presented very powerful testimony of abuse in CECOT, but that testimony has already been reported... The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment in this prison... we simply need to do more."
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Schumer also disclosed that only 9,675 pages were released Friday Todd Blanche went on the Sunday shows and said “hundreds of thousands,” and corporate media repeated that number all damn day. END/
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Denmark’s foreign minister said Monday he was “deeply upset” by US President Donald Trump’s appointment of a special envoy to Greenland who declared that he wished to see the island become part of the United States. https://cnn.it/4p5V7E4
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Musk, an immigrant to America, called an American mayor a “traitor” for supporting other immigrants to America.

Just an unmitigated asshole.
December 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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In Hungary, Orban created a new model for authoritarians to gain control of the media without overt censorship.

He used regulatory and legal pressure to force media owners to sell their outlets to pro-regime allies.

In the US, Trump is using the same approach to consolidate media control.
During today's editorial call, Bari Weiss doubled down on pulling the CECOT segment while lashing out at Sharyn Alfonsi:

"The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms.

It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
#EpsteinCoverup is so blatantly hamfisted, it's political malpractice if Dems don't attack full bore: Impeach Bondi as the means to make it a defining issue next year in run-up to midterms.
Removing this obviously distributed-a-billion-times photo of Trump w/Melania, Epstein, & Maxwell from the DOJ release of files only points out the FBI team's foolish, slapdash attempt to cover up *any existence* of the adjudicated sexual assaulter FOTUS in them.

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December 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I will never forgive anyone who didn't vote for Clinton or Harris and brought us Trump. Moreso, the people in 2024 who saw what a fucking disaster Trump was and willingly gave him power. Trumpsters, third party voters and non voters, fuck you all to hell. You did this. You are to blame.
December 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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The NY Times interviewed over 30 of Epstein’s former employees, victims, & associates. The result is one of the most revealing looks into Trump’s sex crimes and friendship with Epstein seen in years.

We’ve condensed the massive story into a TIMELINE of some sex crimes related to Trump . . .
New claims of Trump pursuing underage girls
Drugging women, Epstein sex parties, and pressuring minors to drink? The Epstein Files are heavily redacted, but this incredible reporting from yesterday isn't.
trumpfile.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism.

He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff

BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?

HASSETT: Uhh --
December 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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“What more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.”

www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
Opinion: Our petty, hollow, squalid ogre in chief
Opinion: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.
www.sltrib.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Basically, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States taking the 5th on national TV to avoid answering why he did one of the most disgusting things any DOJ official has ever done in US history.
December 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt.

“I have never encountered anything like this." trib.al/0xSiFOr
December 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Congressional investigation now.
December 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Incredible words from real boxer Anthony Joshua after he knocked Jake Paul the fuck out lol
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM