LGRooney
@lgrooney.bsky.social
Foreign Affairs, Politics, Eastern Europe, Church-State separation, Small business development, Finance
Your god has nothing to do with my Constitution.
Time only moves in one direction; sentiment & wistfulness are for the weak and dying.
Your god has nothing to do with my Constitution.
Time only moves in one direction; sentiment & wistfulness are for the weak and dying.
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LGRooney
@lgrooney.bsky.social
· Oct 23
I find it quite disheartening that a generation ago a group of Ds began migrating to the GOP over their desire to keep institutionalized racism but we can’t find GOPers today switching from GOP to D to save democracy. Many no longer in office publicly support Ds but no one’s going further.
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Tina Peters' attorney is backing the idea of President Trump using a military raid to free her from a prison in Colorado.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of Colorado's county clerks say Gov Polis (D) is betraying election workers with his silence on whether he'll free Peters.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of Colorado's county clerks say Gov Polis (D) is betraying election workers with his silence on whether he'll free Peters.
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Tina Peters' attorney is backing the idea of President Trump using a military raid to free her from a prison in Colorado.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of Colorado's county clerks say Gov Polis (D) is betraying election workers with his silence on whether he'll free Peters.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of Colorado's county clerks say Gov Polis (D) is betraying election workers with his silence on whether he'll free Peters.
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BREAKING: new emails CONFIRM my reporting that there are TRAINING VIDEOS instructing FBI personnel on how to review the Epstein Files. Plus, a lot more…
The emails reveal the special training given to FBI personnel working on what it called the “Epstein Transparency Project.” In some instances they referred to it as the “Special Redaction Project.” The training entailed PowerPoint slide presentations and video instruction on how to review the files.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
BREAKING: new emails CONFIRM my reporting that there are TRAINING VIDEOS instructing FBI personnel on how to review the Epstein Files. Plus, a lot more…
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Stephen Miller doesn’t want your brown gang members.
He wants your brown housekeepers & gardeners & contractors & elementary school students & pregnant moms & grandfathers & babies in car seats.
We tried to warn you. Now let’s work together to get these monsters out of power!
He wants your brown housekeepers & gardeners & contractors & elementary school students & pregnant moms & grandfathers & babies in car seats.
We tried to warn you. Now let’s work together to get these monsters out of power!
BREAKING: ICE Detention Crosses Record 65,000, October Arrests Top Record 40,000, Biggest Growth Among People with No Criminal History
open.substack.com/pub/austinko...
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BREAKING: ICE Detention Crosses Record 65,000, October Arrests Top Record 40,000, Biggest Growth Among People with No Criminal History
After over two months of no data, ICE's new detention numbers show a record 65,135 people in detention, biggest growth among immigrants with no criminal histories. GPS ankle monitors also grow to 35k.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Stephen Miller doesn’t want your brown gang members.
He wants your brown housekeepers & gardeners & contractors & elementary school students & pregnant moms & grandfathers & babies in car seats.
We tried to warn you. Now let’s work together to get these monsters out of power!
He wants your brown housekeepers & gardeners & contractors & elementary school students & pregnant moms & grandfathers & babies in car seats.
We tried to warn you. Now let’s work together to get these monsters out of power!
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites.
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites.
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
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Only 16% of Trump voters support Ukraine making territorial concessions to Russia and 72% are in favor of selling Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, according to a new poll by The Vandenberg Coalition.
72% of Trump voters also believe the US should help Ukraine and hold Russia accountable.
72% of Trump voters also believe the US should help Ukraine and hold Russia accountable.
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Only 16% of Trump voters support Ukraine making territorial concessions to Russia and 72% are in favor of selling Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, according to a new poll by The Vandenberg Coalition.
72% of Trump voters also believe the US should help Ukraine and hold Russia accountable.
72% of Trump voters also believe the US should help Ukraine and hold Russia accountable.
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Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is.
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is.
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”
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Every bit of this only reinforces Joyce Carol Oates’ absolute roast of Elon Musk as fundamentally lacking in the ability to enjoy anything normally human. “I built a tool that can insult people in a social setting better than anything ever invented” is a real personal tell.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Every bit of this only reinforces Joyce Carol Oates’ absolute roast of Elon Musk as fundamentally lacking in the ability to enjoy anything normally human. “I built a tool that can insult people in a social setting better than anything ever invented” is a real personal tell.
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Former Trump lawyer: ‘The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump’
Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb joins @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social to discuss Trump facing mounting losses last week in court on numerous fronts, both personal and presidential.
Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb joins @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social to discuss Trump facing mounting losses last week in court on numerous fronts, both personal and presidential.
Former Trump lawyer: ‘The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump’
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November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Former Trump lawyer: ‘The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump’
Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb joins @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social to discuss Trump facing mounting losses last week in court on numerous fronts, both personal and presidential.
Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb joins @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social to discuss Trump facing mounting losses last week in court on numerous fronts, both personal and presidential.
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I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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~ MBS ~ Saudi Arabia
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
~ MBS ~ Saudi Arabia
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Republicans know exactly what they are doing in these cases. Speculation that they might simply be waging an ideological battle — and that it could backfire politically — is either dangerous wishful thinking or uninformed. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
The Zero-Sum Game Behind Republican Voter Suppression
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Republicans know exactly what they are doing in these cases. Speculation that they might simply be waging an ideological battle — and that it could backfire politically — is either dangerous wishful thinking or uninformed. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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A reminder that this pattern of activity including the stupid handles and bio lines and emojis was catalogued in the Senate reports on Russia’s election interference in 2016 — a thing which actually happened!
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A reminder that this pattern of activity including the stupid handles and bio lines and emojis was catalogued in the Senate reports on Russia’s election interference in 2016 — a thing which actually happened!
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
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Holy fuck! I am so proud to be an American. This is San Diego, California. All across the country, American Patriots are channeling Paul Revere and warning their fellow neighbors when the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are approaching. 🙌💪👏✊️🇺🇸👇
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Holy fuck! I am so proud to be an American. This is San Diego, California. All across the country, American Patriots are channeling Paul Revere and warning their fellow neighbors when the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are approaching. 🙌💪👏✊️🇺🇸👇
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Important case.
The @apnews.com is fighting for press freedom.
The extortion / expulsion over the AP’s refusal to rename the Gulf of Mexico should have triggered the Fourth Estate to stand in unanimity with AP - like they did with the Admin’s Pentagon press pool “pledge”.
The @apnews.com is fighting for press freedom.
The extortion / expulsion over the AP’s refusal to rename the Gulf of Mexico should have triggered the Fourth Estate to stand in unanimity with AP - like they did with the Admin’s Pentagon press pool “pledge”.
Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Important case.
The @apnews.com is fighting for press freedom.
The extortion / expulsion over the AP’s refusal to rename the Gulf of Mexico should have triggered the Fourth Estate to stand in unanimity with AP - like they did with the Admin’s Pentagon press pool “pledge”.
The @apnews.com is fighting for press freedom.
The extortion / expulsion over the AP’s refusal to rename the Gulf of Mexico should have triggered the Fourth Estate to stand in unanimity with AP - like they did with the Admin’s Pentagon press pool “pledge”.
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A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw.
www.inquirer.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
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I'm a recovering heroin addict and the Twitter-cooked people make my addiction look like amateur hour.
Nazis weren't enough. Proof Elon thumbs the algo not enough. 2 likes on posts from 100K 'follower' accounts not enough. And now this shit. What's it gonna take?
Nazis weren't enough. Proof Elon thumbs the algo not enough. 2 likes on posts from 100K 'follower' accounts not enough. And now this shit. What's it gonna take?
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm a recovering heroin addict and the Twitter-cooked people make my addiction look like amateur hour.
Nazis weren't enough. Proof Elon thumbs the algo not enough. 2 likes on posts from 100K 'follower' accounts not enough. And now this shit. What's it gonna take?
Nazis weren't enough. Proof Elon thumbs the algo not enough. 2 likes on posts from 100K 'follower' accounts not enough. And now this shit. What's it gonna take?
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We need a coherent Dem position on this. What the fuck is wrong with the DNC?
November 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We need a coherent Dem position on this. What the fuck is wrong with the DNC?