James L. Bruno
@jameslbruno.bsky.social
Bestselling author, journalist, diplomat. Appeared on CNN, NPR, Fox, SiriusXM, BBC. Contribute to Washington Monthly; POLITICO. Fugitive hunter & raconteur. https://jameslbruno.substack.com/
When you tune into the news and hear nothing but hosannas to Great Leader Trump, you’ll know the MAGA revolution is complete and that you and your family better mind what you say or else suffer the consequences.
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Weekly Mind Dump: Trump's Subjugation of News Media Leads Us to Dictatorship
The CBS takeover by MAGA-friendly forces advances autocratic rule; when all media are echoing the same propaganda, you'll know the takeover is complete.
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December 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
When you tune into the news and hear nothing but hosannas to Great Leader Trump, you’ll know the MAGA revolution is complete and that you and your family better mind what you say or else suffer the consequences.
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
So Trumpy to name a fool as "special envoy" to a country you openly plan to seize by force. The latest in the ongoing farce that calls itself a presidency. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Trump’s new point person on Greenland says administration not ‘trying to conquer anybody’
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R), who is also now President Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, said Tuesday that the Trump administration does not aim “to conquer anybody.” “Look, the United States has...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So Trumpy to name a fool as "special envoy" to a country you openly plan to seize by force. The latest in the ongoing farce that calls itself a presidency. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Notice how Trump talks about seizing Greenland whenever his association with Epstein gains in the headlines?
And the dolt Jeff Landry allows himself to be played by Trump, the definition of a "useful idiot."
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And the dolt Jeff Landry allows himself to be played by Trump, the definition of a "useful idiot."
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Greenland rejects U.S. annexation after Trump names Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy
Residents of the Danish territory appear to have little interest in joining the United States.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Notice how Trump talks about seizing Greenland whenever his association with Epstein gains in the headlines?
And the dolt Jeff Landry allows himself to be played by Trump, the definition of a "useful idiot."
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And the dolt Jeff Landry allows himself to be played by Trump, the definition of a "useful idiot."
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A fan of alternate history, I lay out what would happen should Trump and the MAGA movement bounce back and fulfill their goals to transform America into a full-fledged fascist dictatorship. Happy New Year!
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Dispatch from Political Prisoner #11400591
After Trump succeeded in his second coup plot, they came after critics like myself. Thoughts from an American political prisoner.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A fan of alternate history, I lay out what would happen should Trump and the MAGA movement bounce back and fulfill their goals to transform America into a full-fledged fascist dictatorship. Happy New Year!
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Launch of the first “Trump class” battleship.
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🚨🚨 Breaking news 🚨🚨 Bilder av det nye krigsskipet til Trump har lekket ut! USS TRUMPSHIP 🚢⚓️🤡 #trump #trumpship #battleship #clown #fyp
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December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Launch of the first “Trump class” battleship.
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Trump’s psychosis, dementia and physical decline have turned the nation into the world’s largest insane asylum and is destroying the country. It’s a waste of time to try to come to terms with those who blindly worship the Col. Kurtz in the White House.
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America's Journey into the Heart of Darkness is Reaching the Point of No Return
“The present time…is that peculiar time, which never happens to a nation but once.” ~ Thomas Paine.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Trump’s psychosis, dementia and physical decline have turned the nation into the world’s largest insane asylum and is destroying the country. It’s a waste of time to try to come to terms with those who blindly worship the Col. Kurtz in the White House.
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"Elise Stefanik's Glass Eyes"
Stefanik’s rise and fall constitutes a morality tale of this warped era. This essay, which I wrote four years ago, captures the soullessness of a hyper-ambitious young politician whose unctuous guile fooled no one.
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Stefanik’s rise and fall constitutes a morality tale of this warped era. This essay, which I wrote four years ago, captures the soullessness of a hyper-ambitious young politician whose unctuous guile fooled no one.
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Elise Stefanik's Glass Eyes
Once heralded as “the future of hopeful, aspirational politics in America,” Elise Stefanik is now little more than a self-serving and soulless political hack.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
"Elise Stefanik's Glass Eyes"
Stefanik’s rise and fall constitutes a morality tale of this warped era. This essay, which I wrote four years ago, captures the soullessness of a hyper-ambitious young politician whose unctuous guile fooled no one.
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Stefanik’s rise and fall constitutes a morality tale of this warped era. This essay, which I wrote four years ago, captures the soullessness of a hyper-ambitious young politician whose unctuous guile fooled no one.
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Elise Stefanik finds out that actions have consequences. Who knew that selling your soul for political power could crash your career? Gosh! JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, et al: pay very close attention. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Rep. Elise Stefanik ends her campaign for New York governor and won't seek reelection to House
Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress, abruptly bowing out of what was expected to be a bruising Repub...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Elise Stefanik finds out that actions have consequences. Who knew that selling your soul for political power could crash your career? Gosh! JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, et al: pay very close attention. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
The Bread & Circuses shtick is beginning to wear thin with voters. finance.yahoo.com/news/1-776-c...
$1,776 Checks and Holidays: Trump’s 24-Hour Blitz to Win Voters
In the span of less than 24 hours, President Donald Trump unveiled a series of initiatives with widespread appeal — with promises of more to come — as he also contends with falling popularity and econ...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The Bread & Circuses shtick is beginning to wear thin with voters. finance.yahoo.com/news/1-776-c...
This outrage will be reversed - along with the other ego-tripping violations this mad hatter has foisted. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center
President Donald Trump’s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said, in a move that was quickly denounced a...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This outrage will be reversed - along with the other ego-tripping violations this mad hatter has foisted. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
I knew they reminded me of somebody.
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I knew they reminded me of somebody.
Susan Wiles is yet another example of the runaway incompetence of the Trump administration, running off at the mouth to a reporter unfiltered.
This is Communications 101 and she flunked. I'd like to see Wiles granting more interviews. Go girl!
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This is Communications 101 and she flunked. I'd like to see Wiles granting more interviews. Go girl!
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‘Extremely demoralizing’: Republicans respond to the bombastic Wiles interview
The chief of staff’s Vanity Fair interview raises questions about why the White House even participated.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Susan Wiles is yet another example of the runaway incompetence of the Trump administration, running off at the mouth to a reporter unfiltered.
This is Communications 101 and she flunked. I'd like to see Wiles granting more interviews. Go girl!
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This is Communications 101 and she flunked. I'd like to see Wiles granting more interviews. Go girl!
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Thomas Edsall certainly has away with words:
"Peering into President Trump’s mind-set — the logic underpinning his priorities, his morality, his decision making — is like opening up a garbage pail left out for days during a summer heat wave."
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"Peering into President Trump’s mind-set — the logic underpinning his priorities, his morality, his decision making — is like opening up a garbage pail left out for days during a summer heat wave."
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Opinion | Trump Says He Doesn’t Want the Best for His Enemies. But There Is Someone He Wants the Best For.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Thomas Edsall certainly has away with words:
"Peering into President Trump’s mind-set — the logic underpinning his priorities, his morality, his decision making — is like opening up a garbage pail left out for days during a summer heat wave."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
"Peering into President Trump’s mind-set — the logic underpinning his priorities, his morality, his decision making — is like opening up a garbage pail left out for days during a summer heat wave."
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Uh-oh! Guess it's time to fire another BLS chief.
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Unemployment rate hit 4-year high in November even as economy added jobs
The US economy added 64,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate crept up to 4.6%, according to Labor Department data published Tuesday.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Uh-oh! Guess it's time to fire another BLS chief.
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More proof that Trump is an intelligence community's nightmare: the CIA had to pull a highly sensitive, well-placed source inside the Kremlin due to Trump's careless and cavalier treatment of highly classified national security information.
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Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017 | CNN Politics
In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administr...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
More proof that Trump is an intelligence community's nightmare: the CIA had to pull a highly sensitive, well-placed source inside the Kremlin due to Trump's careless and cavalier treatment of highly classified national security information.
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What we are witnessing is the building of the “Dual State”–which allows a normal life for most citizens (“normative state”) while at the same time has emplaced a system of terror that targets political opponents and minority groups (“prerogative state”).
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Weekly Mind Dump: Yes, It Can Happen Here
We are witnessing the fast emergence of a Dual State in which normal laws govern the lives of those who aren't enemies of the state. For the rest: Anything goes.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What we are witnessing is the building of the “Dual State”–which allows a normal life for most citizens (“normative state”) while at the same time has emplaced a system of terror that targets political opponents and minority groups (“prerogative state”).
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We’re exactly halfway on the road to full-on fascism.
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We’re exactly halfway on the road to full-on fascism.
Anyone who has had lingering doubts about Trump's treasonously aligning the U.S. with Moscow, read this:
“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said.
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“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said.
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Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision
Moscow welcomes White House document critical of the EU as talks to end the Ukraine war enter a key phase
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December 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Anyone who has had lingering doubts about Trump's treasonously aligning the U.S. with Moscow, read this:
“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said.
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“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said.
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Trumpism is exceeding McCarthyism in duration and malice. The NATO alliance risks becoming undone. The big winner will be China, whose domination could dominate the globe for decades, further degrading democracy, human rights and economic transparency.
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Trump's Blood & Soil, Dial for Dollars National Security Strategy
Trumpism’s damage to U.S. national security will be immeasurable and long-lasting, perhaps even irreversible. His National Security Strategy is more a mood than a plan.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Trumpism is exceeding McCarthyism in duration and malice. The NATO alliance risks becoming undone. The big winner will be China, whose domination could dominate the globe for decades, further degrading democracy, human rights and economic transparency.
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"In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day."
He has a coin minted with his face, names public buildings after himself. Kim Jong Un is jealous.
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He has a coin minted with his face, names public buildings after himself. Kim Jong Un is jealous.
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National parks cut free entry for MLK Day, add Trump's birthday
NPS changed its free admission days in 2026, removing MLK Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day."
He has a coin minted with his face, names public buildings after himself. Kim Jong Un is jealous.
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He has a coin minted with his face, names public buildings after himself. Kim Jong Un is jealous.
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"Still, we continue to hope that the Supreme Court will yet restrain Mr. Trump’s unlawful actions."
Why?
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Why?
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job
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December 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Still, we continue to hope that the Supreme Court will yet restrain Mr. Trump’s unlawful actions."
Why?
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Why?
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