@bettymal.bsky.social
I’m a family doc who ended up on the wrong side of the stethoscope.
It's a real treat to watch @lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social tonight. His deep knowledge of Senate workings frames legislative decisions in ways that other commentators can't match.
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It's a real treat to watch @lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social tonight. His deep knowledge of Senate workings frames legislative decisions in ways that other commentators can't match.
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If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
It's a real treat to watch Lawrence O'Donnell tonight. His deep knowledge of Senate workings frames legislative decisions in ways that other commentators can't match.
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It's a real treat to watch Lawrence O'Donnell tonight. His deep knowledge of Senate workings frames legislative decisions in ways that other commentators can't match.
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Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
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Every time he's in front of a camera and mic. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein.
Make him scared of a camera.
Make him scared of a camera.
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Every time he's in front of a camera and mic. Epstein. Epstein. Epstein.
Make him scared of a camera.
Make him scared of a camera.
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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Schumer led Senate Democrats in fighting Trump over healthcare, period.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Schumer led Senate Democrats in fighting Trump over healthcare, period.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
The last 24 hours have been hell and that doesn't always bring out the best in people. Watching Lawrence O'Donnell made me glad he's on the air.
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 AM
The last 24 hours have been hell and that doesn't always bring out the best in people. Watching Lawrence O'Donnell made me glad he's on the air.
This is how we lose. A prominent person posted that they were angry and suggested that every D senator be primaried. When I respectfully questioned the wisdom of that, I was blocked. And, a person who told me I was wrong to question person #1 also blocked me. This is counterproductive; sigh.
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This is how we lose. A prominent person posted that they were angry and suggested that every D senator be primaried. When I respectfully questioned the wisdom of that, I was blocked. And, a person who told me I was wrong to question person #1 also blocked me. This is counterproductive; sigh.
Sen Cortez-Mastro is the chair of Democratic outreach yet is one of the 8 who caved. I doubt that she will be effective going forward.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Sen Cortez-Mastro is the chair of Democratic outreach yet is one of the 8 who caved. I doubt that she will be effective going forward.
Making the best of where Ds are means we need to message smartly.
Dems want ALL Americans to have enough food and good healthcare.
Or
Rs want hardworking Americans to go hungry and to go without decent healthcare coverage.
Or
Rs are serving up hunger and medical bankruptcy; Ds serve you.
Dems want ALL Americans to have enough food and good healthcare.
Or
Rs want hardworking Americans to go hungry and to go without decent healthcare coverage.
Or
Rs are serving up hunger and medical bankruptcy; Ds serve you.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Making the best of where Ds are means we need to message smartly.
Dems want ALL Americans to have enough food and good healthcare.
Or
Rs want hardworking Americans to go hungry and to go without decent healthcare coverage.
Or
Rs are serving up hunger and medical bankruptcy; Ds serve you.
Dems want ALL Americans to have enough food and good healthcare.
Or
Rs want hardworking Americans to go hungry and to go without decent healthcare coverage.
Or
Rs are serving up hunger and medical bankruptcy; Ds serve you.
Why are people blaming Democrats writ large when it really was 7 D senators?
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Why are people blaming Democrats writ large when it really was 7 D senators?
Politically-based hate might bring about the demise of our democracy. Too many excuse the bad behaviors of their "side" despite screaming when the other guys did it.
Two examples from my own posts from this week.
1. Too many gleefully danced on Dick Cheney's grave and bristled at me
1/2
Two examples from my own posts from this week.
1. Too many gleefully danced on Dick Cheney's grave and bristled at me
1/2
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Politically-based hate might bring about the demise of our democracy. Too many excuse the bad behaviors of their "side" despite screaming when the other guys did it.
Two examples from my own posts from this week.
1. Too many gleefully danced on Dick Cheney's grave and bristled at me
1/2
Two examples from my own posts from this week.
1. Too many gleefully danced on Dick Cheney's grave and bristled at me
1/2
@atrupar.com since so many people interact with your content, please consider taking down the still photo of Trump in the Oval today. The video of the event makes it clear that he did seem concerned and only struck the pose in the photo when doctors intervened.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
@atrupar.com since so many people interact with your content, please consider taking down the still photo of Trump in the Oval today. The video of the event makes it clear that he did seem concerned and only struck the pose in the photo when doctors intervened.
Protesters should mock ICE and CBP by bringing subs to every protest.
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Protesters should mock ICE and CBP by bringing subs to every protest.
The photo circulating
where Trump seems to be ignoring someone who fainted in the Oval Office is not a true reflection of his response. In the video, he was initially concerned and did watch people attend to the man who fainted. He only turned back when it was clear the situation was under control.
where Trump seems to be ignoring someone who fainted in the Oval Office is not a true reflection of his response. In the video, he was initially concerned and did watch people attend to the man who fainted. He only turned back when it was clear the situation was under control.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The photo circulating
where Trump seems to be ignoring someone who fainted in the Oval Office is not a true reflection of his response. In the video, he was initially concerned and did watch people attend to the man who fainted. He only turned back when it was clear the situation was under control.
where Trump seems to be ignoring someone who fainted in the Oval Office is not a true reflection of his response. In the video, he was initially concerned and did watch people attend to the man who fainted. He only turned back when it was clear the situation was under control.
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If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.
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Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
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Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going.
Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/factchecki...
Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/factchecki...
![• "We have no inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "It's at 2%. It's-- it's the perfect inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "Right now [grocery prices are] going down." Grocery prices are up 1.4% since
Trump came to office.
• "A year ago, we were a dead country." Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it "the envy of the world."
• "11,888 murderers were let into our country." Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump's first term.
• "Washington, DC, was... almost like a crime capital of the world." In 2023, per PolitiFact, "at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
• "[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn't leave his bedroom." Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone - Ukraine - not under the control of US forces.
• "I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn't do it." There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn't a 3,000-year-old conflict.
• "Communist, not socialist. Communist. He's far worse than a socialist."
Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
• "I can't give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally." The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
• "They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums-- into the United States of America." Asylum seekers don't come from "insane asylums."
Obviously.
• "One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged." It wasn't. The courts agreed.
• "And a lotta people say when it's rigged you're allowed to do it again." A lot of people don't say this. The US Constitution doesn't, for sure.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svawqo4jxobyyuqmixplvcux/bafkreicrg2pdihe5ntgygv6uxk37yldeygsbewwpbsjw7a7xwqjohmap6i@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going.
Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/factchecki...
Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
zeteo.com/p/factchecki...
It's always so painful to watch Trump being interviewed because it's just one lie after another. Nora O'Donnell is catching him on some but he floods the zone so that many lies go unchecked.
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It's always so painful to watch Trump being interviewed because it's just one lie after another. Nora O'Donnell is catching him on some but he floods the zone so that many lies go unchecked.
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Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.
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Apparently there are still people who'll confess in public that they believe no investigation happened before Jack Smith, when a great deal of the investigation was done by then.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Apparently there are still people who'll confess in public that they believe no investigation happened before Jack Smith, when a great deal of the investigation was done by then.
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if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...
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The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.
Trump said he has instructed the Defense Department to “prepare for possible action” in Nigeria over the country’s alleged killing of Christians.
Trump tells Defense Department to 'prepare for possible action' in Nigeria
The move came a day after Trump designated Nigeria a "country of particular concern" over alleged violations of religious freedom.
nbcnews.to
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.