John Leone
@jcleone.bsky.social
As retired as humanly possible. Fan of the sport of professional cycling. I miss Paul Sherwen.
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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
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Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
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Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
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Seems to be real
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Seems to be real
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Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
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Stowe Mountain Rescue in Vermont has noticed a troubling trend among skiers. Influenced by social media, inexperienced skiers are venturing out of bounds, getting lost and needing rescue.
Vermont rescue team sees surge in calls as social media lures skiers into danger
Stowe Mountain Rescue in Vermont has noticed a troubling trend among skiers. Influenced by social media, inexperienced skiers are venturing out of bounds, getting lost and needing rescue.
bit.ly
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Stowe Mountain Rescue in Vermont has noticed a troubling trend among skiers. Influenced by social media, inexperienced skiers are venturing out of bounds, getting lost and needing rescue.
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This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.
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Trump: "I just helped our farmers out because they're starting to do really well ... right out of the tariff money. It cost us nothing."
December 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Trump: "I just helped our farmers out because they're starting to do really well ... right out of the tariff money. It cost us nothing."
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Huge Win for Rümeysa Öztürk!
“I hope one day we can create a world where everyone uses education to learn, connect, civically engage and benefit others – rather than criminalize and punish those whose opinions differ from our own.”
- Rümeysa Öztürk
AAUP stands in solidarity with Rümeysa Öztürk!
“I hope one day we can create a world where everyone uses education to learn, connect, civically engage and benefit others – rather than criminalize and punish those whose opinions differ from our own.”
- Rümeysa Öztürk
AAUP stands in solidarity with Rümeysa Öztürk!
Tufts student can resume research after Trump officials revoked her visa, judge rules
Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested in March amid White House’s crackdown on foreign students’ pro-Palestinian advocacy
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Huge Win for Rümeysa Öztürk!
“I hope one day we can create a world where everyone uses education to learn, connect, civically engage and benefit others – rather than criminalize and punish those whose opinions differ from our own.”
- Rümeysa Öztürk
AAUP stands in solidarity with Rümeysa Öztürk!
“I hope one day we can create a world where everyone uses education to learn, connect, civically engage and benefit others – rather than criminalize and punish those whose opinions differ from our own.”
- Rümeysa Öztürk
AAUP stands in solidarity with Rümeysa Öztürk!
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Trump just called Biden "a sleepy son of a bitch."
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Trump just called Biden "a sleepy son of a bitch."
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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Trump is just gonna try to lie his way through it: "You're getting lower prices, bigger paychecks. Inflation -- we're crushing it. And you're getting much higher wages. The only thing that's really going up big is the stock market and your 401ks."
December 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Trump is just gonna try to lie his way through it: "You're getting lower prices, bigger paychecks. Inflation -- we're crushing it. And you're getting much higher wages. The only thing that's really going up big is the stock market and your 401ks."
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Trump on 2028: "They say I'm not allowed to run. I don't know what the hell that's all about. He said, 'Four more years.' You see the new hat? We have four more years -- 2028."
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Trump on 2028: "They say I'm not allowed to run. I don't know what the hell that's all about. He said, 'Four more years.' You see the new hat? We have four more years -- 2028."
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
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After years of conservative complaints, the Justice Department moved to kill a decades-old provision of civil rights law that allows statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial discrimination.
Justice Dept. kills long-time tool used to prove racial discrimination
The decades-old provision of civil rights law allows statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial discrimination.
wapo.st
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
After years of conservative complaints, the Justice Department moved to kill a decades-old provision of civil rights law that allows statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial discrimination.
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MS-13 gang members told Hondurans to vote for the Trump-backed right-wing candidate or “we’ll kill you and your whole fucking family.”
MS-13 and Trump Backed the Same Presidential Candidate in Honduras
MS-13 told Hondurans to vote for the Trump-backed candidate or “we’ll kill you and your whole fucking family.”
interc.pt
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
MS-13 gang members told Hondurans to vote for the Trump-backed right-wing candidate or “we’ll kill you and your whole fucking family.”
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Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...
The Most Awful Responsibility – Alex Wellerstein
alexwellerstein.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...
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Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The driving rationale of this opinion would let Hegseth fire all Black soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.
DC Cir., 2-1, holds that district court gave too little deference to Sec. Hegseth's determination that banning trans people from the military advances combat rediness, unit cohesion, and cost control. Stays the PI.
Trump judges Katsas, Rao in the majority.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump judges Katsas, Rao in the majority.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The driving rationale of this opinion would let Hegseth fire all Black soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.
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Ossoff: "She's gonna have to give up her insurance in the middle of chemotherapy while she's fighting breast cancer. What are people supposed to do when they lose health insurance in the middle of a cancer battle? ... this is life or death"
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ossoff: "She's gonna have to give up her insurance in the middle of chemotherapy while she's fighting breast cancer. What are people supposed to do when they lose health insurance in the middle of a cancer battle? ... this is life or death"
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The Trump administration’s unconstitutional attacks on birthright citizenship have fueled months of fear and uncertainty for families like Thomas’.
No parent should have to worry about their children losing their rights as Americans.
No parent should have to worry about their children losing their rights as Americans.
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Trump administration’s unconstitutional attacks on birthright citizenship have fueled months of fear and uncertainty for families like Thomas’.
No parent should have to worry about their children losing their rights as Americans.
No parent should have to worry about their children losing their rights as Americans.
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FOX: What do you say to Americans who say to Republicans, where's your healthcare plan? If they're not getting their subsidy, what's option B?
McCORMICK: In the short term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this
McCORMICK: In the short term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this
December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
FOX: What do you say to Americans who say to Republicans, where's your healthcare plan? If they're not getting their subsidy, what's option B?
McCORMICK: In the short term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this
McCORMICK: In the short term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this
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POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up