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🎯🎯Must read piece on how John Roberts created the conditions for Trump’s rise and has enabled his criminality at every turn by @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🎯🎯Must read piece on how John Roberts created the conditions for Trump’s rise and has enabled his criminality at every turn by @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
Missouri GOP Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
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Trump Guns are now running commercials on Fox News
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trump Guns are now running commercials on Fox News
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MTG has been in Congress since 2020 & is resigning Jan 5, 2026. I just want to point out one thing.
She spent 5 years attacking the left & never feared for her life.
She spent 5 weeks mildly critiquing MAGA & the backlash is so severe she is resigning.
5 years vs 5 weeks. That says it all.
She spent 5 years attacking the left & never feared for her life.
She spent 5 weeks mildly critiquing MAGA & the backlash is so severe she is resigning.
5 years vs 5 weeks. That says it all.
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
MTG has been in Congress since 2020 & is resigning Jan 5, 2026. I just want to point out one thing.
She spent 5 years attacking the left & never feared for her life.
She spent 5 weeks mildly critiquing MAGA & the backlash is so severe she is resigning.
5 years vs 5 weeks. That says it all.
She spent 5 years attacking the left & never feared for her life.
She spent 5 weeks mildly critiquing MAGA & the backlash is so severe she is resigning.
5 years vs 5 weeks. That says it all.
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“ICE is just targeting brown people who have an accent, snatching people out of their cars”
Racial profiling is all they do
Racial profiling is all they do
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“ICE is just targeting brown people who have an accent, snatching people out of their cars”
Racial profiling is all they do
Racial profiling is all they do
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"I want to speak out against the politicization of the military and to protect the Constitution.”
Jackie Robinson is one of the many veterans who joined us on Capitol Hill this week to meet with elected officials and make it clear that troops shouldn't be patrolling our streets.
Jackie Robinson is one of the many veterans who joined us on Capitol Hill this week to meet with elected officials and make it clear that troops shouldn't be patrolling our streets.
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"I want to speak out against the politicization of the military and to protect the Constitution.”
Jackie Robinson is one of the many veterans who joined us on Capitol Hill this week to meet with elected officials and make it clear that troops shouldn't be patrolling our streets.
Jackie Robinson is one of the many veterans who joined us on Capitol Hill this week to meet with elected officials and make it clear that troops shouldn't be patrolling our streets.
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
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RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked
CDC’s Autism Website ‘Update’ Came Directly From Kennedy, He Says
Ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis called the update a “national embarrassment.”
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked
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Having just learned that Musk has programmed Grok to spread Libel and defamatory material about public figures—and having confirmed (see my Bluesky feed)—it’s doing this to me right now to a horrifying degree, I’m publishing an updated version of my extremely strange bio.
Reading time: ~75 minutes.
Reading time: ~75 minutes.
BIO | home
www.sethabramson.net
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Having just learned that Musk has programmed Grok to spread Libel and defamatory material about public figures—and having confirmed (see my Bluesky feed)—it’s doing this to me right now to a horrifying degree, I’m publishing an updated version of my extremely strange bio.
Reading time: ~75 minutes.
Reading time: ~75 minutes.
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In an interview today, Netanyahu says the following
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
Netanyahu: ‘There will not be a Palestinian state,’ even at cost of ties with Saudis
In interview with Telegram channel, PM says border deal with Syria 'preferable' but won't budge on security demands; Israel to boost arms industry to ease reliance on US
www.timesofisrael.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In an interview today, Netanyahu says the following
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
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Todd Blanche tried to justify giving Maxwell special treatment and privileges because of her supposed “cooperation.”
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Todd Blanche tried to justify giving Maxwell special treatment and privileges because of her supposed “cooperation.”
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Nothing to see here. Just the White House needing to reassure the public that Piggy doesn't want to murder members of Congress. 😩
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Nothing to see here. Just the White House needing to reassure the public that Piggy doesn't want to murder members of Congress. 😩
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WHITE HOUSE STATEMENTS:
November 21, 2021: "Joe Biden waved to reporters as he returned to the Oval Office following his colonoscopy."
November 21, 2025: "President Donald Trump didn't really mean it when he said Democrats in the House and Senate should be executed."
Which one do y'all prefer?
November 21, 2021: "Joe Biden waved to reporters as he returned to the Oval Office following his colonoscopy."
November 21, 2025: "President Donald Trump didn't really mean it when he said Democrats in the House and Senate should be executed."
Which one do y'all prefer?
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
WHITE HOUSE STATEMENTS:
November 21, 2021: "Joe Biden waved to reporters as he returned to the Oval Office following his colonoscopy."
November 21, 2025: "President Donald Trump didn't really mean it when he said Democrats in the House and Senate should be executed."
Which one do y'all prefer?
November 21, 2021: "Joe Biden waved to reporters as he returned to the Oval Office following his colonoscopy."
November 21, 2025: "President Donald Trump didn't really mean it when he said Democrats in the House and Senate should be executed."
Which one do y'all prefer?
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation’s top diplomat, worked on a secret plan for Ukraine to surrender to Russia, which illegally invaded it twice, with no future security guarantees against Russia trying a third time.
WH: The peace plan for Ukraine was drafted by Rubio and Witkoff
“They have been quietly working on it over the past month,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
“They have been quietly working on it over the past month,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
BREAKING: Leaked U.S. "Peace Plan": Full Translation of 28 Key Terms Presented to Ukraine
www.onestnetwork.com/post/leaked-...
www.onestnetwork.com/post/leaked-...
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation’s top diplomat, worked on a secret plan for Ukraine to surrender to Russia, which illegally invaded it twice, with no future security guarantees against Russia trying a third time.
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NEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.
The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.
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Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Judge Oldham's call for the end of certifying questions from CA5 to state Supreme Courts includes this somewhat inexplicable shot at this here website.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Judge Oldham's call for the end of certifying questions from CA5 to state Supreme Courts includes this somewhat inexplicable shot at this here website.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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This is a fabulous read:
"Bovino’s Border Patrol raiders have one playbook — terror — and it’s less effective each time they deploy it. So far, it’s aging in nuclear half-lives. The shock value is wearing off..."
"Bovino’s Border Patrol raiders have one playbook — terror — and it’s less effective each time they deploy it. So far, it’s aging in nuclear half-lives. The shock value is wearing off..."
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is a fabulous read:
"Bovino’s Border Patrol raiders have one playbook — terror — and it’s less effective each time they deploy it. So far, it’s aging in nuclear half-lives. The shock value is wearing off..."
"Bovino’s Border Patrol raiders have one playbook — terror — and it’s less effective each time they deploy it. So far, it’s aging in nuclear half-lives. The shock value is wearing off..."
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"Congress deliberately created two different oaths…That structure is not…trivia; it is grounded on the bedrock American civil–military relations. Ignoring it leads to the misleading assumption that everyone in uniform bears equal responsibility when confronted with an unlawful command."
What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
And why it matters there are two military oaths.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Congress deliberately created two different oaths…That structure is not…trivia; it is grounded on the bedrock American civil–military relations. Ignoring it leads to the misleading assumption that everyone in uniform bears equal responsibility when confronted with an unlawful command."
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Bought and sold
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Bought and sold
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this morning's Fox & Friends featured commercials for Trump Watches *and* Trump-branded handguns. a level of presidential grifting that was unfathomable a decade ago.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
this morning's Fox & Friends featured commercials for Trump Watches *and* Trump-branded handguns. a level of presidential grifting that was unfathomable a decade ago.
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The 5th Circuit at this point is just judges who have Fox News addled minds, pickled by an Elon Musk mentality, who also write poorly.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The 5th Circuit at this point is just judges who have Fox News addled minds, pickled by an Elon Musk mentality, who also write poorly.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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