JoseyRider
@joseyrider.bsky.social
Lifetime Democrat. Retired. Women's rights, civil rights, environment/climate change, permaculture.
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JoseyRider
@joseyrider.bsky.social
· Nov 9
For anyone else wanting to stop your Medicare coverage (& the payment coming out of your Social Security check),
I'll save you some hours on hold.
This is the form you need to complete. Return it by hand, mail or fax to your closest SS office.
FORM: CMS-1763
www.cms.gov/Medicare/CMS...
I'll save you some hours on hold.
This is the form you need to complete. Return it by hand, mail or fax to your closest SS office.
FORM: CMS-1763
www.cms.gov/Medicare/CMS...
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remarkable amount of talk abt how Trump is going to administer Venezuela when he pretty clearly hasn't overthrown the current govt yet
Venezuela Regime Change and the Theater of the Absurd talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/venez...
Venezuela Regime Change and the Theater of the Absurd
On Saturday, a friend and I were comparing notes on the events...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
remarkable amount of talk abt how Trump is going to administer Venezuela when he pretty clearly hasn't overthrown the current govt yet
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"I've seen no indication that they know what they're going to do next," @markhertling.bsky.social says of the Venezuela operation. "There may be a plan, and he's just not giving it up to people...but on Saturday morning, he put America's sons and daughters in harm's way."
January 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM
"I've seen no indication that they know what they're going to do next," @markhertling.bsky.social says of the Venezuela operation. "There may be a plan, and he's just not giving it up to people...but on Saturday morning, he put America's sons and daughters in harm's way."
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fwiw, this is an independently owned and operated hotel (Hilton franchisee) and Hilton corporate has disavowed its action here
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
January 5, 2026 at 11:03 PM
fwiw, this is an independently owned and operated hotel (Hilton franchisee) and Hilton corporate has disavowed its action here
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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According to this reporting, the US broke the international system in the service of one faction of the Maduro regime.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Exclusive: Venezuelan leaders offered U.S. a path to stay in power without Maduro
Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez used Doha backchannels to offer Washington a 'Cartel Light' plan for a managed Venezuela transition that keeps chavismo in power.
www.miamiherald.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:46 AM
According to this reporting, the US broke the international system in the service of one faction of the Maduro regime.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.
Call Trump's power grab in Venezuela what it is
Corporate media must recognize they're being openly lied to—and report accordingly.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 6, 2026 at 12:49 AM
New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.
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UPDATE: Tomorrow's Jan 6 pubic hearing organized by House Democrats will include a range of public witnesses
Former Georgia Lt Gov. Geoff Duncan
Former Jan 6 prosecutor Brendan Ballou
Former Reps. Adam Kinzinger & ELaine Luria
And former Jan 6 defendant Pamela Hemphill
Former Georgia Lt Gov. Geoff Duncan
Former Jan 6 prosecutor Brendan Ballou
Former Reps. Adam Kinzinger & ELaine Luria
And former Jan 6 defendant Pamela Hemphill
January 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
UPDATE: Tomorrow's Jan 6 pubic hearing organized by House Democrats will include a range of public witnesses
Former Georgia Lt Gov. Geoff Duncan
Former Jan 6 prosecutor Brendan Ballou
Former Reps. Adam Kinzinger & ELaine Luria
And former Jan 6 defendant Pamela Hemphill
Former Georgia Lt Gov. Geoff Duncan
Former Jan 6 prosecutor Brendan Ballou
Former Reps. Adam Kinzinger & ELaine Luria
And former Jan 6 defendant Pamela Hemphill
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😳 Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson & American Moment founder Nick Solheim led a 2024 talk about colonizing Greenland. Gibson wrote yesterday that someone shld “pitch Rubio on building a charter city in Venezuela…” In reply, his colleague tagged an American Moment alum IN THE STATE DEPT. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 1:17 AM
👀👇🏼
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😳 Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson & American Moment founder Nick Solheim led a 2024 talk about colonizing Greenland. Gibson wrote yesterday that someone shld “pitch Rubio on building a charter city in Venezuela…” In reply, his colleague tagged an American Moment alum IN THE STATE DEPT. 1/
January 5, 2026 at 11:46 PM
😳 Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson & American Moment founder Nick Solheim led a 2024 talk about colonizing Greenland. Gibson wrote yesterday that someone shld “pitch Rubio on building a charter city in Venezuela…” In reply, his colleague tagged an American Moment alum IN THE STATE DEPT. 1/
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Lol: “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote."
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Lol: “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote."
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👀 #AmericaFirst
"U.S. may subsidize an effort by oil companies to rebuild the country's energy infrastructure — a project he said could take less than 18 months."
Trump is looking to spend our tax dollars to boost up big oil's "infrastructure" in Venezuela.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
"U.S. may subsidize an effort by oil companies to rebuild the country's energy infrastructure — a project he said could take less than 18 months."
Trump is looking to spend our tax dollars to boost up big oil's "infrastructure" in Venezuela.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
January 5, 2026 at 11:24 PM
👀 #AmericaFirst
"U.S. may subsidize an effort by oil companies to rebuild the country's energy infrastructure — a project he said could take less than 18 months."
Trump is looking to spend our tax dollars to boost up big oil's "infrastructure" in Venezuela.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
"U.S. may subsidize an effort by oil companies to rebuild the country's energy infrastructure — a project he said could take less than 18 months."
Trump is looking to spend our tax dollars to boost up big oil's "infrastructure" in Venezuela.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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NEW: Democracy Docket has relaunched its Defending Democracy audio podcast -- with three new episodes each week! Listen on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Defending Democracy with Marc Elias
Politics Podcast · Updated Weekly · Every week, election lawyer Marc Elias interviews lawmakers, policy leaders and changemakers about the problems facing our democracy and how we fix them.
podcasts.apple.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:27 AM
NEW: Democracy Docket has relaunched its Defending Democracy audio podcast -- with three new episodes each week! Listen on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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MEMPHIS: “Robert Hartheimer, the former CEO of Evolve Bank & Trust, pleaded guilty to child pornography charges… admitted he used his phone to solicit and send sexually explicit photos to and from a person who he thought was a 15-year-old boy…”
Former CEO of Evolve Bank & Trust pleads guilty to child pornography charges
Robert Hartheimer, the former CEO of Evolve Bank & Trust, pleaded guilty to child pornography charges on Monday.
www.fox13memphis.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:48 AM
MEMPHIS: “Robert Hartheimer, the former CEO of Evolve Bank & Trust, pleaded guilty to child pornography charges… admitted he used his phone to solicit and send sexually explicit photos to and from a person who he thought was a 15-year-old boy…”
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The American people can see for themselves how dishonest & cynical this is.
Drug trafficking warrants the use of military force to topple a foreign government in one instance, and then merits Trump pardoning the former Honduran President, lawfully convicted of the same crime?
Drug trafficking warrants the use of military force to topple a foreign government in one instance, and then merits Trump pardoning the former Honduran President, lawfully convicted of the same crime?
RUBIO: Maduro was indicted. Nobody ever did anything about it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
January 6, 2026 at 12:54 AM
The American people can see for themselves how dishonest & cynical this is.
Drug trafficking warrants the use of military force to topple a foreign government in one instance, and then merits Trump pardoning the former Honduran President, lawfully convicted of the same crime?
Drug trafficking warrants the use of military force to topple a foreign government in one instance, and then merits Trump pardoning the former Honduran President, lawfully convicted of the same crime?
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Notice how she cites the indictment, which *does not accuse Maduro of trafficking fentanyl.* Tom Massie has been almost alone in the GOP pointing that one.
MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places
CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela
CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela
January 5, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Notice how she cites the indictment, which *does not accuse Maduro of trafficking fentanyl.* Tom Massie has been almost alone in the GOP pointing that one.
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The American childhood vaccine schedule is similar to many of its European counterparts.
Suggesting otherwise is a lie.
And we aren’t Denmark. They have universal healthcare, low economic inequality, and low childhood poverty.
The President should focus on addressing those differences first.
Suggesting otherwise is a lie.
And we aren’t Denmark. They have universal healthcare, low economic inequality, and low childhood poverty.
The President should focus on addressing those differences first.
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 PM
The American childhood vaccine schedule is similar to many of its European counterparts.
Suggesting otherwise is a lie.
And we aren’t Denmark. They have universal healthcare, low economic inequality, and low childhood poverty.
The President should focus on addressing those differences first.
Suggesting otherwise is a lie.
And we aren’t Denmark. They have universal healthcare, low economic inequality, and low childhood poverty.
The President should focus on addressing those differences first.
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Denmark’s Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, to the United States: "If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country, then everything stops.”
January 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Denmark’s Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, to the United States: "If the United States chooses to attack another NATO country, then everything stops.”
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On his first day after leaving the FBI, Dan Bongino essentially confirms that he's going right back to podcasting and his radio show.
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
On his first day after leaving the FBI, Dan Bongino essentially confirms that he's going right back to podcasting and his radio show.
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Wow holy fucking shit. As someone in recovery, this is a living nightmare even I didn't see coming. Very cool. These are death machines that sometimes make kiddie porn. Simple as.
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Wow holy fucking shit. As someone in recovery, this is a living nightmare even I didn't see coming. Very cool. These are death machines that sometimes make kiddie porn. Simple as.
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130,000 Alabamans are about to lose their health insurance as a direct result of the “One big beautiful bill”, and a Florida man is tweeting like it’s some kind of win.
If you live in the state, call Sen. Tuberville and tell him what’s on your mind: 202-224-3121
If you live in the state, call Sen. Tuberville and tell him what’s on your mind: 202-224-3121
January 6, 2026 at 12:42 AM
130,000 Alabamans are about to lose their health insurance as a direct result of the “One big beautiful bill”, and a Florida man is tweeting like it’s some kind of win.
If you live in the state, call Sen. Tuberville and tell him what’s on your mind: 202-224-3121
If you live in the state, call Sen. Tuberville and tell him what’s on your mind: 202-224-3121
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These people are so far removed from ethics and professionalism that they don’t even know when they are revealing how unethical and unprofessional they truly are.
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 AM
These people are so far removed from ethics and professionalism that they don’t even know when they are revealing how unethical and unprofessional they truly are.
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"Despite being told by some trusted advisors and allies that he should not do what he was doing, Trump “rejected it whenever it didn’t fit him staying in office.”"
Jack Smith’s Testimony: A Reminder that Donald J. Trump Owns All of It
This article was originally published in CAFE on January 5, 2026.
contrarian.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:28 PM
"Despite being told by some trusted advisors and allies that he should not do what he was doing, Trump “rejected it whenever it didn’t fit him staying in office.”"
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Of course this is the case if you only remove the regime leader and not the actual regime. So you get the Maduro regime without Maduro.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | CIA Concluded Regime Loyalists Were Best Placed to Lead Venezuela After Maduro
President Trump was briefed on an intelligence report that found the country’s opposition would struggle to lead a temporary government.
www.wsj.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Of course this is the case if you only remove the regime leader and not the actual regime. So you get the Maduro regime without Maduro.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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It was a law enforcement operation so Senate Judiciary Committee members were ... excluded from the briefing:
January 5, 2026 at 10:44 PM
It was a law enforcement operation so Senate Judiciary Committee members were ... excluded from the briefing:
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The Hilton Hotel that refused reservations from DHS officials has now backpedalled and said it will accommodate them. Came after DHS X account posted emails. For years the right coalesced around businesses being able to refuse customers of certain demographics
www.404media.co/hilton-hotel...
www.404media.co/hilton-hotel...
Hilton Hotel That Refused DHS Reservations Backpedals
The hotel told 404 Media in a statement “We are in touch with the impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated.”
www.404media.co
January 5, 2026 at 11:14 PM
The Hilton Hotel that refused reservations from DHS officials has now backpedalled and said it will accommodate them. Came after DHS X account posted emails. For years the right coalesced around businesses being able to refuse customers of certain demographics
www.404media.co/hilton-hotel...
www.404media.co/hilton-hotel...