@lkelggren.bsky.social
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"It's a free country." You've been saying it since you were a kid.
Is it true any more...and what it is on the horizon? My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
Is it true any more...and what it is on the horizon? My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
It's a Free Country...or Is It?
We're Not What We Used to Be
open.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"It's a free country." You've been saying it since you were a kid.
Is it true any more...and what it is on the horizon? My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
Is it true any more...and what it is on the horizon? My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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"Is it a free country when the government can incarcerate people without due process? Is it a free country when judges who express legal opinions that do not conform to the beliefs of the president or those around him are threatened with impeachment?"
"It's a free country." You've been saying it since you were a kid.
Is it true any more...and what it is on the horizon? My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
Is it true any more...and what it is on the horizon? My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
It's a Free Country...or Is It?
We're Not What We Used to Be
open.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"Is it a free country when the government can incarcerate people without due process? Is it a free country when judges who express legal opinions that do not conform to the beliefs of the president or those around him are threatened with impeachment?"
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This should INFURIATE you
March 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This should INFURIATE you
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Chants of TAX THE RICH! From today’s Indivisible empty chair town hall for Darrell Issa - who just so happens to be the richest person in Congress. @velshi.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org
March 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Chants of TAX THE RICH! From today’s Indivisible empty chair town hall for Darrell Issa - who just so happens to be the richest person in Congress. @velshi.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org
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Trump won’t admit we’re fucked because he hates being wrong—even though it’s painfully obvious to everyone, including him, that he’s driving the economy into a ditch while he reaps the financial gains.
BARTIROMO: Are you expecting a recession this year?
TRUMP: I hate to predict things like that. There is a period of transition.
TRUMP: I hate to predict things like that. There is a period of transition.
March 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Trump won’t admit we’re fucked because he hates being wrong—even though it’s painfully obvious to everyone, including him, that he’s driving the economy into a ditch while he reaps the financial gains.
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JUST HITTING THE DOCKET:
Federal judge in Rhode Island has just entered a preliminary injunction that indefinitely blocks Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans, saying the Trump Administration “put itself above Congress.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judge in Rhode Island has just entered a preliminary injunction that indefinitely blocks Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans, saying the Trump Administration “put itself above Congress.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
JUST HITTING THE DOCKET:
Federal judge in Rhode Island has just entered a preliminary injunction that indefinitely blocks Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans, saying the Trump Administration “put itself above Congress.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judge in Rhode Island has just entered a preliminary injunction that indefinitely blocks Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans, saying the Trump Administration “put itself above Congress.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
March 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
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Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.
March 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
March 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Slashing IRS staff will end up costing the U.S. government.
Multiple studies have shown that for every dollar spent by the IRS, the agency returns between $5 and $12.
New @propublica.org by @andykroll.bsky.social
Multiple studies have shown that for every dollar spent by the IRS, the agency returns between $5 and $12.
New @propublica.org by @andykroll.bsky.social
How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y...
www.propublica.org
March 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Slashing IRS staff will end up costing the U.S. government.
Multiple studies have shown that for every dollar spent by the IRS, the agency returns between $5 and $12.
New @propublica.org by @andykroll.bsky.social
Multiple studies have shown that for every dollar spent by the IRS, the agency returns between $5 and $12.
New @propublica.org by @andykroll.bsky.social
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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My response to the Democratic response. This is not the time for normal politics.
"America does not need a 'resistance,' or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social:
Democrats Are Acting Too Normal
In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.
www.theatlantic.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
My response to the Democratic response. This is not the time for normal politics.
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I was proud to be part of the United States team that rallied the world to support Ukraine. Now, I’m horrified by what we’ve become. A tragic day for democracy and an indelible stain on America’s history.
February 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I was proud to be part of the United States team that rallied the world to support Ukraine. Now, I’m horrified by what we’ve become. A tragic day for democracy and an indelible stain on America’s history.
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Trump and Musk, between them, have 18 children (that we know about) with 7 women.
Family values, GOP-style.
Family values, GOP-style.
February 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Trump and Musk, between them, have 18 children (that we know about) with 7 women.
Family values, GOP-style.
Family values, GOP-style.
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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
February 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
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Absolutely atrocious on every level.
Trump attacks Zelenskyy: "He refuses to have elections. He's low in the real Ukrainian polls ... the only thing he was really good at was playing Joe Biden like a fiddle ... a dictator without elections, Zelenskyy gotta move fast or he won't have a country left."
February 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Absolutely atrocious on every level.
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3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.
February 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.
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Trump posts a fake Time magazine cover with a crown on his head and a headline calling himself a king, while falsely attacking President Zelensky—who is courageously fighting for his country’s survival—as a dictator. This is sick and disgusting rejection of basic human values.
February 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Trump posts a fake Time magazine cover with a crown on his head and a headline calling himself a king, while falsely attacking President Zelensky—who is courageously fighting for his country’s survival—as a dictator. This is sick and disgusting rejection of basic human values.
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Bringing back the Nancy Reagan classics.
February 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Bringing back the Nancy Reagan classics.
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Rubio: Secretary of Shakedowns
I think it's the first case in human history where a nation fighting for its survival against a major aggressor is being forced—by a non-combatant partner—into paying Versailles-style reparations over military aid that had earlier been provided purposefully at no cost.
February 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Rubio: Secretary of Shakedowns
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I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.
February 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.
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Can anyone find a copy of this wrap ad that the Post had no problem running last fall? Would love to see it.
thehill.com/media/514849...
thehill.com/media/514849...
February 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Can anyone find a copy of this wrap ad that the Post had no problem running last fall? Would love to see it.
thehill.com/media/514849...
thehill.com/media/514849...
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.