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Jeff Elder
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Citizen of the world.
Trump wants to pardon other heads of state that are guilty of crimes to set the precedent that his long list of crimes are not worth pursuing after his term. I hope we can reinstate the rule of law after his Golden Age of Corruption.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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📉 Russia has begun selling off gold from state reserves due to worsening financial problems, — Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

National Welfare Fund is rapidly losing liquid assets: from $113.5 billion in 2022 to $51.6 billion in 2025.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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We’re going to look with a fresh pair of eyes at city government — and what powers we have to deliver for New Yorkers.

And that’s one of many reasons I’m excited to have Lina as one of our transition’s Co-chairs.
"I've long been inspired by Lina Khan's protection of people across this country in the face of corporate greed"

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mamdani tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social how Lina Khan will get creative to lower prices for New Yorkers

zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Steal from cops, get pardoned by Trump — it’s like the MAGA loyalty rewards program.
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
NO. This is a juvenile, nativist & racist response to a tragedy. I'm so tired of having our Prez respond in the most divisive, polarizing way to events like this.

gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Every single word of this. Read it, repeat it, scream it, live it, insist on it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We should be able to hold reasonable complex views re Israel. Tucker's resignation reveals much more abt his rigid views than Mamdani's. Does he support emigrants to the occupied West Bank? M. has already called 'globalize the intifada' not helpful language.

www.cbsnews.com/news/civil-r...
Civil rights groups sue to stop DOJ from closing office tasked with preventing unrest in cities
The Trump administration has for months planned to close the Justice Department Community Relations Service.
www.cbsnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Dan Driscoll is a WFOV (white friend of Vance), unqualified for the job, but meant to carry JD's depth of knowledge related to Ukr - remember his "who cares about Ukraine?"). Really, it should be: who cares what Dan thinks. These guys are all Vichy.

gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. Army Secretary’s Unusual Role in Ukraine Peace Negotiations
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Well if this doesn't look like lighting the match so that Trump can put out the fire. That's his only hope for staying in power. Let's make sure he can't www.cbsnews.com/news/civil-r...
Civil rights groups sue to stop DOJ from closing office tasked with preventing unrest in cities
The Trump administration has for months planned to close the Justice Department Community Relations Service.
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:

www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Federal Judge has blocked the federal government from using IRS taxpayer information. Remember the nerds of Doge broke through all our tax information. They wanted to help them make ICE more efficient. But it is all illegal. 47000 tax payers affected follow and vote.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The fact that only 3 (by my count) Republican members of Congress have spoken out about the Witkoff situation shows how thoroughly corrupted and compromised the entire party has become from top to bottom. None of this is about just Trump - it is the entire political party.
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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I really wish journalists would stop using the word "retribution" to describe Trump's efforts to criminalize opposition to him, as it treats his claim that his adversaries did something wrong in the first place.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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🚨 MAJOR NEWS: GOP Rep. Don Bacon is now calling for Trump envoy Steve Witkoff to be fired after the leaked transcript of him coaching a Putin adviser on how to butter up Trump into a Ukraine “peace” deal.
Subscribe ✊🇺🇸 iamdonnyevans.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Trump envoy reportedly told kremlin official that #Ukraine must cede land for peace deal

by Joseph Gedeon and Hugo Lowell in Washington

Steve Witkoff told yuri ushakov in October phone call that peace would require russia gaining control of Donetsk

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal
Steve Witkoff told Yuri Ushakov in October phone call that peace would require Russia gaining control of Donetsk
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff isn’t working for the US, or for humanity. He’s working for Vladimir Putin. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The BBC is now so fearful of Trump that it edited a statement of opinion about Trump out of the broadcast of a speech by a respected historian. It is a measure of how dangerously pliant much of the press has become in the face of Trump's threats.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Bloomberg has audio files of Trump envoy Steve Witkoff coaching the Russians how to pitch their extreme Ukraine demands to Trump as a peace plan.

Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I read about another guy who did this....

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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump claimed on social media on Sunday that “UKRAINE ‘LEADERSHIP’ HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS”, - CNN

‼️ 78 times Zelensky has expressed gratitude to the US…
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM