EmmaTK55
@emmatk.bsky.social
Professional NYC tour guide and art historian. Loves opera, cooking, birding, and books. Politics junkie. Oversharer. 💙
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The regime sure is hoping those issues will disappear now!
There are two, maybe 2.5 over-arching issues animating American politics right now:
• the affordability crisis
• Trump's deep unpopularity
• the Epstein files (that's the 0.5)
What happened in Venezuela addresses none of these.
• the affordability crisis
• Trump's deep unpopularity
• the Epstein files (that's the 0.5)
What happened in Venezuela addresses none of these.
January 3, 2026 at 6:07 PM
The regime sure is hoping those issues will disappear now!
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Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
January 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
@kim.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov PLEASE SPEAK UP! Get on the steps of the Capitol and SPEAK UP!!
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM
@kim.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov PLEASE SPEAK UP! Get on the steps of the Capitol and SPEAK UP!!
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No discussion of democracy. No discussion of elections. Plenty of talk by Trump about running the country and taking the oil. Let’s not forget to thank John Roberts for his role in immunizing this international criminal.
January 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
No discussion of democracy. No discussion of elections. Plenty of talk by Trump about running the country and taking the oil. Let’s not forget to thank John Roberts for his role in immunizing this international criminal.
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Hakeem Jeffries is absolutely worthless. His only demand is that Dems get a briefing on what just happened.
“Far too many questions remain unanswered…”
“Far too many questions remain unanswered…”
January 3, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Hakeem Jeffries is absolutely worthless. His only demand is that Dems get a briefing on what just happened.
“Far too many questions remain unanswered…”
“Far too many questions remain unanswered…”
“We are going to run the country until we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition…judicious because that’s what we’re all about. … We’re going to take back the oil.”
This all sounds very familiar. Cheney and Rumsfeld must be chortling with glee from the depths of Hell.
#nowarforoil
This all sounds very familiar. Cheney and Rumsfeld must be chortling with glee from the depths of Hell.
#nowarforoil
Trump:
-“we’re going to run Venezuela” (maybe for a while)
-says 🇺🇸 oil companies will profit
-“we’re not afraid of boots on the ground”
Sound familiar? #Venzuela #IraqFiascoRedux
-“we’re going to run Venezuela” (maybe for a while)
-says 🇺🇸 oil companies will profit
-“we’re not afraid of boots on the ground”
Sound familiar? #Venzuela #IraqFiascoRedux
January 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
“We are going to run the country until we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition…judicious because that’s what we’re all about. … We’re going to take back the oil.”
This all sounds very familiar. Cheney and Rumsfeld must be chortling with glee from the depths of Hell.
#nowarforoil
This all sounds very familiar. Cheney and Rumsfeld must be chortling with glee from the depths of Hell.
#nowarforoil
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"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
A-freakin’-men!! OMG those Amendments must be followed properly. Thank you @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
I know, I know, it's nigh impossible for me to look at a problem in and/or caused by the United States and not think 'if y'all would just take the Reconstruction Amendments serious....'
.........but if y'all would just take the Reconstruction Amendments serious!!!
.........but if y'all would just take the Reconstruction Amendments serious!!!
January 3, 2026 at 4:57 PM
A-freakin’-men!! OMG those Amendments must be followed properly. Thank you @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
He wants to be Putin so freakin’ bad.
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
He wants to be Putin so freakin’ bad.
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Trump makes it clear this is about oil. (After the oil companies helped buy him the election)
January 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Trump makes it clear this is about oil. (After the oil companies helped buy him the election)
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The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
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I’ll never ever believe that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris lost their elections and Jack Smith’s damning testimony only helps to cement that for me.
January 1, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I’ll never ever believe that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris lost their elections and Jack Smith’s damning testimony only helps to cement that for me.
I agree, @djrothkopf.bsky.social, but line that stood out for me even more was this one: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivity.”
@hcrichardson.bsky.social did you hear this? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is no cowboy!
@hcrichardson.bsky.social did you hear this? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is no cowboy!
This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes.
Good.
Good.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I agree, @djrothkopf.bsky.social, but line that stood out for me even more was this one: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivity.”
@hcrichardson.bsky.social did you hear this? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is no cowboy!
@hcrichardson.bsky.social did you hear this? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is no cowboy!
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More ethnic cleansing: Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank watched as Israeli military bulldozers pulled down their homes as part of a nearly year-long incursion into the territory's northern refugee camps. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
Palestinians watch as Israeli bulldozers claw down their West Bank homes
Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank watched as Israeli military bulldozers pulled down their homes Wednesday as part of a nearly year-long incursion into the territory's northern refugee ca...
www.pbs.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
More ethnic cleansing: Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank watched as Israeli military bulldozers pulled down their homes as part of a nearly year-long incursion into the territory's northern refugee camps. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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“Did you believe you had sufficient evidence to obtain and sustain a conviction against Donald Trump for interference with the lawful transfer of power?”
JACK SMITH: “Yes.”
JACK SMITH: “Yes.”
December 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
“Did you believe you had sufficient evidence to obtain and sustain a conviction against Donald Trump for interference with the lawful transfer of power?”
JACK SMITH: “Yes.”
JACK SMITH: “Yes.”
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In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."
December 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."
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Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.
December 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.
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unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.
December 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.
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I do think it’s unfair for all of us to be finding out when not even half the country really wanted to fuck around.
December 31, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I do think it’s unfair for all of us to be finding out when not even half the country really wanted to fuck around.
Read it and weep. RFK Jr. is signing the death warrants for hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Read it and weep. RFK Jr. is signing the death warrants for hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Sarah Cooper is back. 👏
December 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Sarah Cooper is back. 👏
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Must be stressful meeting the boss before a big meeting.
This 🤡 has a private convo with Putin (receiving his marching orders) while his meeting with Zelenskyy is a public circus?
December 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Must be stressful meeting the boss before a big meeting.
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.