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@cristabelle.bsky.social
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Just a girl, living in a MAGA world. Trying to find reason, logic, civility, morals & reliance on the Constitution & Bill of Rights. Old school.
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jptruss.bsky.social
This is why @radiofreetom.bsky.social keeps telling y'all the fight isn't over yet. It's not.
ariberman.bsky.social Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 2h
Breaking: Indiana State Senate rejects 9-0 Republican gerrymandered congressional map, stands up to Trump’s pressure campaign of threats and intimidation. Huge victory for democracy & defeat for Trump in gerrymandering war he started
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d
Couple of things here:

1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently

2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"

3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"

4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I've stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an "aura" around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks - Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to "ace" this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am "slowing up," am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am "slowing up," but it's not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it's seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean "THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES." They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful "source" of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! 908 ReTruths 3.07k Likes Dec 09, 2025, 9:11 PM
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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theatlantic.com
Tom Stoppard's plays "hold us in the moment before, outside of time, when the impossible is always happening," @petridishes.bsky.social writes:
Tom Stoppard Achieved the Impossible
His plays hold us in the moment outside of time.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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the-downballot.com
Here are all 25 red-to-blue flips this year, as well as the corresponding list. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
December 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
"While many prominent athletes, including LeBron James and Stephen Curry, criticized the Trump administration during its first term, fewer have done so during its second. 'I feel like I’m sometimes screaming into the void,' Martina Navratilova said."
Martina Navratilova discusses her criticism of Donald Trump: ‘I just can’t be compliant’
The tennis legend said she hopes to “make people think” about the current political moment.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation."

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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kaskosz.bsky.social
Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."

Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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bradlander.bsky.social
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.“

We’ll take the Statue of Liberty & these new U.S. citizens.

You can keep Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, and their small, cruel, heartless racism.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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gpgomez.bsky.social
The problem is not the pardon power. The problem is us. We weren't supposed to elect a crook as POTUS. If we did, the people we elected in Congress are supposed to do something about it. We're idiots, so we've elected crooks & cowards all the way up the line.

The problem is us. We need to fix us.
markjacob.bsky.social Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8d
Giving the president the pardon power was a mistake. The most corrupt president in American history is conducting a jailbreak for his fellow criminals.
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
Presidential Walk of Fatigue
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
It's a bit surprising that Pete Hegseth asked for two shots when he usually asks for four or five.
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Whatever you may think about the Tish James case, the defense's legal claims of vindictive prosecution and the evidence of a corrupt use of DOJ power just got ...

stronger (trying a second indictment) and
stronger (grand jury denial) and
stronger (DOJ determined to try again)
Grand jury declines to indict Letitia James again | CNN Politics
A grand jury voted against indicting New York Attorney General Letitia James after being asked to look at the mortgage fraud case against her a second time, according to multiple people familiar with ...
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
omg
December 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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tracinski.bsky.social
My latest: "It is possible there are more ways to abuse the pardon power than Trump has found so far, but we would be hard pressed to think what they would be."

www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-par...
Trump’s Pardons Cover Every Conceivable Form of Corruption
He is doling them to crooks, cronies, campaign contributors, violent insurrectionists, child sex offenders, convicted drug dealers, and others
www.theunpopulist.net
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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rtushnet.bsky.social
I'm struggling to articulate this in my teaching: there is a point in preserving the ideals of avoiding fear or favor and exercising reasoned judgment in law, even if they have to be kept in exile
davidnir.com David Nir @davidnir.com · 6d
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
You love to see it.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed
Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
HAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
December 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
What does a Trump presidency look like when he goes into it knowing he has immunity from prosecution for pretty much anything he does?

It looks like this one.
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Elon Musk bought Twitter and converted it into a worldwide clearinghouse for unadulterated, out-and-open Nazism. It’s a global crisis, and yet US media and politicians still won’t even acknowledge Musk’s own publicly stated views, much less the poisonous role of his site.
usapolling.bsky.social Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 7d
Among Republicans - " The Holocaust of Jews and Nazi Germany was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe"

Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%

Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
They really thing if they say "cultures" it's not clear they mean "people" bsky.app/profile/just...
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8d
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."

He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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petersagal.bsky.social
NYT: Is the President tired?

Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
Asked whether Mr. Trump fell asleep, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement that the president was "listening attentively and running the entire" meeting. She cited Mr. Trump's response during a question and answer segment at the end of the meeting, when he delivered a tirade against Somali immigrants.
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM