Damon Bernstein
@damonkb54.bsky.social
Learned enough history to recognize that US democracy is at risk. Learned enough law to see that the complicity of members of one political party is the root cause.
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Trump has given up on his biggest campaign promise.
Now he mocks the cost of living crisis and calls affordability a "con job."
Meanwhile, corporations that have the power to jack up prices, suppress wages, and bust unions are laughing all the way to the bank (and funding Trump's ballroom).
Now he mocks the cost of living crisis and calls affordability a "con job."
Meanwhile, corporations that have the power to jack up prices, suppress wages, and bust unions are laughing all the way to the bank (and funding Trump's ballroom).
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Trump has given up on his biggest campaign promise.
Now he mocks the cost of living crisis and calls affordability a "con job."
Meanwhile, corporations that have the power to jack up prices, suppress wages, and bust unions are laughing all the way to the bank (and funding Trump's ballroom).
Now he mocks the cost of living crisis and calls affordability a "con job."
Meanwhile, corporations that have the power to jack up prices, suppress wages, and bust unions are laughing all the way to the bank (and funding Trump's ballroom).
Come on @washingtonpost.com, why isn't the headline: "Grifters Without Borders Remains the Trump Administration's One Foreign Policy Success"
December 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Come on @washingtonpost.com, why isn't the headline: "Grifters Without Borders Remains the Trump Administration's One Foreign Policy Success"
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JFC. The weakening of America continues.
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
JFC. The weakening of America continues.
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Amnesty International inspected two state owned detention facilities in Florida being run by Gov DeSantis…
🆘PLEASE WATCH AND REPOST‼️👇
🆘🆘SEVERE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS & TORTURE
🐊🐊ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ IS OPEN & WORSE THAN BEFORE
👀👀👀👀WATCH, LEARN & SHARE👇👇👇
youtu.be/XP2NRIOf3dA?...
🆘PLEASE WATCH AND REPOST‼️👇
🆘🆘SEVERE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS & TORTURE
🐊🐊ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ IS OPEN & WORSE THAN BEFORE
👀👀👀👀WATCH, LEARN & SHARE👇👇👇
youtu.be/XP2NRIOf3dA?...
Bombshell Amnesty report shows TORTURE at “Alligator Alcatraz” and other FL detention center. 🚨🚨
YouTube video by Jess Craven 101
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Amnesty International inspected two state owned detention facilities in Florida being run by Gov DeSantis…
🆘PLEASE WATCH AND REPOST‼️👇
🆘🆘SEVERE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS & TORTURE
🐊🐊ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ IS OPEN & WORSE THAN BEFORE
👀👀👀👀WATCH, LEARN & SHARE👇👇👇
youtu.be/XP2NRIOf3dA?...
🆘PLEASE WATCH AND REPOST‼️👇
🆘🆘SEVERE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS & TORTURE
🐊🐊ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ IS OPEN & WORSE THAN BEFORE
👀👀👀👀WATCH, LEARN & SHARE👇👇👇
youtu.be/XP2NRIOf3dA?...
Hey, @nicollewallace.bsky.social, do you know how bad that second boat strike looked? Pete KegsHead who gleefully released the video of the first strike as soon as he could, but before that 2nd strike was raised by the @washingtonpost.com, he elected not to mention it. That's how bad!
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hey, @nicollewallace.bsky.social, do you know how bad that second boat strike looked? Pete KegsHead who gleefully released the video of the first strike as soon as he could, but before that 2nd strike was raised by the @washingtonpost.com, he elected not to mention it. That's how bad!
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This is why MAGA are being told Somalis stole a quadrillion dollars. To distract from this. "The Pentagon is giving Don Jr. hundreds of millions of dollars." -- Sane People. "Somalis stole a billion times that much you have TDS!" -- Your Piece Of Crap Drunk Maga Uncle.
Shouldn’t this news about Trump Jr. spend at least a few hours atop the newscycle?
Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract
Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.
finance.yahoo.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This is why MAGA are being told Somalis stole a quadrillion dollars. To distract from this. "The Pentagon is giving Don Jr. hundreds of millions of dollars." -- Sane People. "Somalis stole a billion times that much you have TDS!" -- Your Piece Of Crap Drunk Maga Uncle.
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Tom Cotton would not even be in Congress, were it not for the huge defense contractors supporting him from the beginning and keeping him flush with cash.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Tom Cotton would not even be in Congress, were it not for the huge defense contractors supporting him from the beginning and keeping him flush with cash.
Hey, @arimelber.bsky.social, has anyone even asked why the US government would use a missile that costs more than $100,000 to kill to unarmed people?
December 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Hey, @arimelber.bsky.social, has anyone even asked why the US government would use a missile that costs more than $100,000 to kill to unarmed people?
Hey, @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social and @washingtonpost.com, does anyone really think there's nothing in the pardons for Trump or his friends or in Venezuelan oil for them either? No inconsistencies at all. It's all about the money.
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Hey, @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social and @washingtonpost.com, does anyone really think there's nothing in the pardons for Trump or his friends or in Venezuelan oil for them either? No inconsistencies at all. It's all about the money.
Hey, @arimelber.bsky.social, even if KegsHead had left the room, is there any doubt his staff would have notified him that there were two survivors ...immediately after that fog of war cleared?
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Hey, @arimelber.bsky.social, even if KegsHead had left the room, is there any doubt his staff would have notified him that there were two survivors ...immediately after that fog of war cleared?
Hey, @nicollewallace.bsky.social, did anyone ask Tom Cotton why a $100,000 plus missile that was a direct hit left the boat sufficiently seaworthy that those two survivors could have been on their way if they simply flipped it over?
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Hey, @nicollewallace.bsky.social, did anyone ask Tom Cotton why a $100,000 plus missile that was a direct hit left the boat sufficiently seaworthy that those two survivors could have been on their way if they simply flipped it over?
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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RUSSIA GETS: Reduced economic pressure.
THE UNITES STATES GETS: The possibility Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can make money in Russia at some point in the future.
UKRAINE AND EUROPE GET: Screwed.
THE UNITES STATES GETS: The possibility Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can make money in Russia at some point in the future.
UKRAINE AND EUROPE GET: Screwed.
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia
President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...
www.france24.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
RUSSIA GETS: Reduced economic pressure.
THE UNITES STATES GETS: The possibility Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can make money in Russia at some point in the future.
UKRAINE AND EUROPE GET: Screwed.
THE UNITES STATES GETS: The possibility Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can make money in Russia at some point in the future.
UKRAINE AND EUROPE GET: Screwed.
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European reaction to the new American national strategy document
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
European reaction to the new American national strategy document
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.
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I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Hey, is anyone else wondering if the DC Bomber announcement was today made to deflect from the War Crimes Hearing on Capitol Hill?
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Hey, is anyone else wondering if the DC Bomber announcement was today made to deflect from the War Crimes Hearing on Capitol Hill?
Hey, @nytimes.com, isn't the real headline: "Knowing That His Days on Earth Are Numbered, Trump Wants Civilization to Die Off Too"?
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Hey, @nytimes.com, isn't the real headline: "Knowing That His Days on Earth Are Numbered, Trump Wants Civilization to Die Off Too"?
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New Republic: The Bureau of Economic Analysis cancels its crucial advance analysis of GNP for the 3rd quarter. Labor Department has refused to issue its monthly jobs report, and Bureau of Labor Statistics canceled its report on inflation. It’s like when Trump cured Covid by blocking Covid data.
December 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New Republic: The Bureau of Economic Analysis cancels its crucial advance analysis of GNP for the 3rd quarter. Labor Department has refused to issue its monthly jobs report, and Bureau of Labor Statistics canceled its report on inflation. It’s like when Trump cured Covid by blocking Covid data.
Let's face it, @morningjoe.bsky.social, KegsHead wasn't blinded by an fog of war. All that smoke and fire he blamed things on had dissipated or they wouldn't have been able to see the shipwrecked men... they intentionally killed.
December 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Let's face it, @morningjoe.bsky.social, KegsHead wasn't blinded by an fog of war. All that smoke and fire he blamed things on had dissipated or they wouldn't have been able to see the shipwrecked men... they intentionally killed.
Is Trump's promotion of his planned pardon a trial balloon, so he can weigh public blow back against the profit he'll receive in bribes?
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Is Trump's promotion of his planned pardon a trial balloon, so he can weigh public blow back against the profit he'll receive in bribes?