Lucian K. Truscott IV
Lucian K. Truscott IV
@lktiv.bsky.social
Writer
Trump has his nose shoved so far up Putin’s ass, it’s amazing he can see enough to play golf. The question is, why? This week, we got our answer: Trump’s “peace deal” will make him and his family and his gang of American oligarchs much, much more wealthy.
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Trump's so-called peace deal: It's an unmitigated, out in the open, in broad daylight slobbering kiss on Putin's ass
The “peace deal” isn’t a ceasefire.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The way you beat a tyrant is standing up to his tyranny. Six members of Congress gave us an example of exactly that on Tuesday. Each of them is under special guard by Capitol Police because of threats to their lives by MAGA followers of Donald Trump.
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The Bill of Rights for soldiers
What you have to understand about the military is that it functions as a nearly absolute autocracy within the democracy that governs the rest of the country.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Our future is somewhere in one of those multi-acre data-centers that are popping up everywhere there is a fallow field that used to grow soybeans before Trump killed that market with tariffs.
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How do we know the drug boat videos aren’t fake?
I had breakfast with my old West Point friend, Gary Moyer, this morning, and out of the blue he said we have entered a time when we won’t be able to tell what’s real, and what isn’t.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Comey will walk free one day soon, and he will be able to sit back and watch Donald Trump try to lie his way out of a whole bunch of evidence that shows his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is the one corrupt thing he won’t get away with.
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This is what you get when incompetence meets ignorance and tips the hat to arrogance
James B.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It turns my stomach to say this, but we have not yet seen the bottom into which these wicked creatures have led us. Not even close.
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As my stomach turns
The House voted 427 to one to order the release of the files kept by the Department of Justice on convicted sex-trafficker, well-known pedophile, and friend of Donald Trump and other powerful men, Jef...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Larry Summers steps away due to Epstein emails.
This is a rather major Epstein development
From the Washington Post, this headline tonight:
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November 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
He will deny that he is weak, but that’s the danger all autocrats face in the end. When you have to deny that you’re weak, everybody already knows it, and they will treat you accordingly.
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He’s weak: What that means for Trump and Republicans
He’s going to lose the Epstein file vote in the House tomorrow.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It is not hard at all to say that Donald Trump’s long friendship with and personal business connections to the known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is the crime of the century.
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The deep dark secret behind the staying power of the Epstein story
Here is an ugly truth: practically every man, woman, and child in this country has either been a victim of sexual abuse or knows someone who has suffered abuse.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Refusing to vote to reopen the government unless the ACA subsidies are extended is maybe the single most popular thing Democrats have done since…jeez, I don’t even know when.
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Don’t lose sleep over the shutdown deal
Do not pass “Go.” Do not collect $200.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
We’ll be back to gazing at our newsfeeds and holding our breaths waiting to see if our Navy and Air Force have begun bombing Venezuela, or Delta Force special operators have rappelled from a helicopter into a drug lord compound somewhere in Mexico.
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WTF is wrong with these people?
I’ve been walking around all day with that headline in my head because it is applicable across such a broad range of stories that have made headlines over the past few days.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
So long as there are Confederate flags and Nazi flags and Nazi salutes and Jew haters and white supremacists walk proudly among us, we are a fallen country. We need to save ourselves from this horror before it’s too late.
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MAGA extremism has shown its Nazi colors
Enough is never enough.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
They’re shooting boats out of the waters off the coast of South and Central America. How long before someone walking down an American street carrying a sign with an “almost treasonous” criticism of Donald Trump is shot without warning?
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No defendants, no evidence, no lawyers, no courts, no judges, just dead people in the water
Trump’s rocket strikes on alleged drug boats in the Western Caribbean and Eastern Pacific are his dream of what law enforcement should be.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The parade of cars and people and cans and boxes of food, and back in Washington D.C., the SNAP program, even with its struggles, amount to living proof that this country has a soul. Even with all its struggles, that soul is a good one.
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How I learned that having enough food to eat should be a right, not a privilege
Blissful ignorance.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Let this be a clarion call to Presidents Biden and Obama and Clinton and Bush. We need you. You were elected by your fellow citizens to lead us while you were in office. We need your leadership now more than ever.
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For Trump, our despair is the point
He does it every day, often several times a day.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Who called Black people “monkeys” and “watermelon people” and praised those who believe in slavery as a group of Young Republicans recently did in yet another group text? Yabbos, that’s who.
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A nation not of laws, not of men, but of yabbos
The question has arisen among sane people again and again over the last ten years: Who are these people?
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October 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The two words are, chickenshit pretenders.
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In the real military, we had two words for toy soldiers like this
Chickenshit pretenders.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you visit Washington D.C. today, or next week, or the week after that, you will see soldiers in the streets carrying rifles, and you will see a national monument, the White House, that has been vandalized by a madman.

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A pretend king commits real vandalism on the White House
Two Americans, Judith A.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This is why big countries should not go to war. They will lose because the leaders of their armies are delusional ignorant fuckwits with too many gold bathroom fixtures and too much desperately unearned self-importance.
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Why big countries shouldn’t go to war
Trump and Hegseth sure do like the word, “lethal.” But it’s a meaningless word in the context of the modern world.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
He’ll sell tickets to people who want to attend the dinners and kiss his ass. He’s going to tack a gaudy, disgusting display of bad taste onto the history of our country and make billions of it. He’s Donald Trump. It’s what he does.
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Destroying our history is not a metaphor anymore
They started by banning the teaching of critical race theory.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I can guarantee this: No AI system would have put a headline on a column on the subject of artificial intelligence using the words “grilled cheese sandwich.”
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A grilled cheese sandwich and a glass of iced tea
That’s how much it’s taking to power the composition of this column.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I’m old enough to remember when going to a demonstration was a good time for guys to pick up chicks and for girls to check out some hot dudes.

Today, we marched to save each other’s lives.
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People marched across the whole damn country, and we marched in our small Pennsylvania town
I’m old enough to remember when going to a demonstration was a good time for guys to pick up chicks and for girls to check out some hot dudes.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Donald Trump wants a war with his “enemies within.” It might not happen this weekend, but American citizens will die in Trump’s undeclared war before this goes much further.
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Is Trump’s war on the cartels a dress rehearsal for a domestic war on his “enemies within?”
Donald Trump or whoever is running things for him in the White House – say hi to Keyboard Warrior Stephen Miller – has used the U.S.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM