Annette Spencer
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Democrats should be screaming and warning about this but remain silent.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump officials to dismantle ‘global mothership’ of climate forecasting
Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Democrats should be screaming and warning about this but remain silent.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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‼️ A former sheriff from Florida (John Dougan), a member of the French military and a Swiss intelligence officer were among the 12 individuals sanctioned by the European Union in light of Russia's continued hybrid warfare targeting the EU and its partners.
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
‼️ A former sheriff from Florida (John Dougan), a member of the French military and a Swiss intelligence officer were among the 12 individuals sanctioned by the European Union in light of Russia's continued hybrid warfare targeting the EU and its partners.
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Trying to forecast the future is prone to uncertainty, though I am probably closer to the alarmist end of the spectrum.
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Trying to forecast the future is prone to uncertainty, though I am probably closer to the alarmist end of the spectrum.
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
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MAGA House Republicans slammed the door on affordable health care.
By a 204–203 vote, the GOP-controlled House blocked a Democratic bill to extend ACA subsidies.
Leadership cut the vote short, even as members were still trying to vote.
The anger and outrage is real
🤬🤬🤬
By a 204–203 vote, the GOP-controlled House blocked a Democratic bill to extend ACA subsidies.
Leadership cut the vote short, even as members were still trying to vote.
The anger and outrage is real
🤬🤬🤬
December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
MAGA House Republicans slammed the door on affordable health care.
By a 204–203 vote, the GOP-controlled House blocked a Democratic bill to extend ACA subsidies.
Leadership cut the vote short, even as members were still trying to vote.
The anger and outrage is real
🤬🤬🤬
By a 204–203 vote, the GOP-controlled House blocked a Democratic bill to extend ACA subsidies.
Leadership cut the vote short, even as members were still trying to vote.
The anger and outrage is real
🤬🤬🤬
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The distinction between Ukraine’s and Russia’s strategies is essential. One side is attacking the war-fighting capacity. The other is attacking society. lnk.thebulwark.com/3KKfIzP
The Psych-Ward Presidency
The president has no moral core. And, according to his own chief of staff, he’s surrounded by amateurs, opportunists, and drug users.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The distinction between Ukraine’s and Russia’s strategies is essential. One side is attacking the war-fighting capacity. The other is attacking society. lnk.thebulwark.com/3KKfIzP
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WOW: In a special election for Kentucky State Senate District 37, Democrat Gary Clemons has won with a staggering 72.5% of the vote, defeating Republican Calvin Leach, who received 25%.
Harris won the district by 6, so Clemons outperformed the 2024 results by roughly 42 points.
Harris won the district by 6, so Clemons outperformed the 2024 results by roughly 42 points.
December 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
WOW: In a special election for Kentucky State Senate District 37, Democrat Gary Clemons has won with a staggering 72.5% of the vote, defeating Republican Calvin Leach, who received 25%.
Harris won the district by 6, so Clemons outperformed the 2024 results by roughly 42 points.
Harris won the district by 6, so Clemons outperformed the 2024 results by roughly 42 points.
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WAR ALERT: UK intel says we’re on the edge of global conflict. MI6, Canada, Europe all prepping at the same time. Coincidence? Nope. This is coordinated. Brace yourselves.
Please read this excellent Substack from Dean Blundell, Dec 16, 2025.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Please read this excellent Substack from Dean Blundell, Dec 16, 2025.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
BREAKING: UK Intelligence Just Gave The World a Stark Warning - We're On The Precipice Of War.
When MI6, Canada, and Europe all start preparing for war at the same time, it’s not coincidence. It’s coordination.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
WAR ALERT: UK intel says we’re on the edge of global conflict. MI6, Canada, Europe all prepping at the same time. Coincidence? Nope. This is coordinated. Brace yourselves.
Please read this excellent Substack from Dean Blundell, Dec 16, 2025.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Please read this excellent Substack from Dean Blundell, Dec 16, 2025.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,’ Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now/msnbc/news/t...
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now/msnbc/news/t...
‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now
December 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,’ Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now/msnbc/news/t...
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.ms.now/msnbc/news/t...
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"[I]n February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID's work."
"They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."
"Officially, the death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country's history."
#USA #SouthSudan #Aid #Healthcare
"They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."
"Officially, the death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country's history."
#USA #SouthSudan #Aid #Healthcare
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"[I]n February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID's work."
"They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."
"Officially, the death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country's history."
#USA #SouthSudan #Aid #Healthcare
"They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."
"Officially, the death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country's history."
#USA #SouthSudan #Aid #Healthcare
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New in PN: The tech industry will come to regret its embrace of Trump
"A comprehensive anti-corruption, pro-consumer movement would inevitably target the industry and its indifference to the harms it creates. It could be incredibly potent, and tech barons would have no one to blame but themselves."
"A comprehensive anti-corruption, pro-consumer movement would inevitably target the industry and its indifference to the harms it creates. It could be incredibly potent, and tech barons would have no one to blame but themselves."
The tech industry will come to regret its embrace of Trump
For now, Silicon Valley is getting everything it wants. But a backlash is on its way.
www.publicnotice.co
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
New in PN: The tech industry will come to regret its embrace of Trump
"A comprehensive anti-corruption, pro-consumer movement would inevitably target the industry and its indifference to the harms it creates. It could be incredibly potent, and tech barons would have no one to blame but themselves."
"A comprehensive anti-corruption, pro-consumer movement would inevitably target the industry and its indifference to the harms it creates. It could be incredibly potent, and tech barons would have no one to blame but themselves."
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Some of the most useful insights into what’s happening to America are coming from political analysts outside the United States. Here’s a particularly lucid essay that I think you should read.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump
December 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Some of the most useful insights into what’s happening to America are coming from political analysts outside the United States. Here’s a particularly lucid essay that I think you should read.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-true-catastrophe-of-trump
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My political comm students wrote really great final papers. They absolutely hate clickbait, outragebait, fear appeals, and everything else that our modern media does to attract our attention and polarize us. They're exhausted and over it. The attention economy played itself.
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My political comm students wrote really great final papers. They absolutely hate clickbait, outragebait, fear appeals, and everything else that our modern media does to attract our attention and polarize us. They're exhausted and over it. The attention economy played itself.
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Israel pays US politicians to push anti-immigration rhetoric because the people around Netanyahu are heavily invested in corporate private prisons in the US and supplying ICE, the real reason ICE got such a massive budget is because Trump and his accomplices plan to pocket it. It’s corruption.
December 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Israel pays US politicians to push anti-immigration rhetoric because the people around Netanyahu are heavily invested in corporate private prisons in the US and supplying ICE, the real reason ICE got such a massive budget is because Trump and his accomplices plan to pocket it. It’s corruption.
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Long story, but worth the read.
According to this, Epstein got his wealth as a con man, charming the rich and powerful then leveraging new connections to more wealth and power. Often, he outright stole money & did not suffer repercussions.
Trump and Epstein, griftness recognizing griftness.
According to this, Epstein got his wealth as a con man, charming the rich and powerful then leveraging new connections to more wealth and power. Often, he outright stole money & did not suffer repercussions.
Trump and Epstein, griftness recognizing griftness.
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Long story, but worth the read.
According to this, Epstein got his wealth as a con man, charming the rich and powerful then leveraging new connections to more wealth and power. Often, he outright stole money & did not suffer repercussions.
Trump and Epstein, griftness recognizing griftness.
According to this, Epstein got his wealth as a con man, charming the rich and powerful then leveraging new connections to more wealth and power. Often, he outright stole money & did not suffer repercussions.
Trump and Epstein, griftness recognizing griftness.
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"The former dictator has lined up interviews with RT and a popular rightwing American podcaster, but is waiting for approval from Russian authorities to make a media appearance...."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes up on ophthalmology’
Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"The former dictator has lined up interviews with RT and a popular rightwing American podcaster, but is waiting for approval from Russian authorities to make a media appearance...."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Stephen Miller’s ethnic cleansing plot and how he’s setting the wheels in motion for genocide in the United States:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Stephen Miller’s ethnic cleansing plot and how he’s setting the wheels in motion for genocide in the United States:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Breaking:
The U.S. labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% — the highest since 2021.
The U.S. labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% — the highest since 2021.
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Breaking:
The U.S. labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% — the highest since 2021.
The U.S. labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October and November, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% — the highest since 2021.
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Trump's not building a ballroom - he's building a data center.
Note that Israel has the same type of data center as well.
I stumbled across this video on Substack. This is the best explanation I have heard connecting the dots as to why the tech bros are part of the presidency.
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Note that Israel has the same type of data center as well.
I stumbled across this video on Substack. This is the best explanation I have heard connecting the dots as to why the tech bros are part of the presidency.
🧵
Trump Isn’t Building a Ballroom
When Trump announced a $300 million ballroom at the White House, something went off in my brain.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Trump's not building a ballroom - he's building a data center.
Note that Israel has the same type of data center as well.
I stumbled across this video on Substack. This is the best explanation I have heard connecting the dots as to why the tech bros are part of the presidency.
🧵
Note that Israel has the same type of data center as well.
I stumbled across this video on Substack. This is the best explanation I have heard connecting the dots as to why the tech bros are part of the presidency.
🧵
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Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real. He and His Supporters Have It.
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Republicans spent years attacking Hunter Biden’s foreign ties. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner raised billions from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. And now he sits at the center of U.S. media consolidation and back-channel diplomacy. The double standard is glaring.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
Jared Kushner is backing a 'hostile takeover' of US infrastructure: analysis
Salon reporter Sophia Tesfaye says “the speed and scale of Jared Kushner’s re-emergence can’t be overstated,” and neither can his corruption.“In the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, hi...
www.rawstory.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Republicans spent years attacking Hunter Biden’s foreign ties. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner raised billions from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. And now he sits at the center of U.S. media consolidation and back-channel diplomacy. The double standard is glaring.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
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Reports that Jared Kushner dropped Trump Tower in Belgrade are good news. It shows that resistance works, despite an authoritarian regime working with US administration and money from the UAE. It will further isolate Vučić and reduce the interest of Trump in Serbia.
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
After Backlash, Jared Kushner Drops Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia
For more than two years, the U.S. president’s son-in-law had sought to build a complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reports that Jared Kushner dropped Trump Tower in Belgrade are good news. It shows that resistance works, despite an authoritarian regime working with US administration and money from the UAE. It will further isolate Vučić and reduce the interest of Trump in Serbia.
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...