Susanne Mentzer
@mezzomentzer.bsky.social
International opera singer (Met Opera, etc) voice professor SFCM, pooch lover .
Why does America First mean America Alone? Insane. Also, he is a broken record. Sad.
December 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Why does America First mean America Alone? Insane. Also, he is a broken record. Sad.
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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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Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the White House’s decision to end ASL interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from crucial updates from the government.
www.politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Trump didn't send armed agents to the Chicago area to quell violence. He sent them there to cause violence.
10/31/25🧊neo-nazis attacking Americans-2 blocks from Evanston Township HS🇺🇸🤬
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Trump didn't send armed agents to the Chicago area to quell violence. He sent them there to cause violence.
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.@heathercherone.bsky.social is a great source for what's happening on the ground in and around Chicago.
A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
BREAKING: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of raids across Chicago, Evanston and Skokie on Friday, does not have to report every weekday at 6 p.m. in person to the federal judge who has tried to rein in federal agents’ use of force, an appeals court ruled. @wttw.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
.@heathercherone.bsky.social is a great source for what's happening on the ground in and around Chicago.
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NEW: Court filings reveal that states using the Trump administration’s untested citizenship verification system to purge voter rolls may be mistakenly flagging eligible voters at an alarming rate, risking the chance of voters being disenfranchised.
Trump’s Voter Citizenship Database Is ‘Flawed’ and Could Lead to Disenfranchisement, Election Administrator Warns
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:45 AM
NEW: Court filings reveal that states using the Trump administration’s untested citizenship verification system to purge voter rolls may be mistakenly flagging eligible voters at an alarming rate, risking the chance of voters being disenfranchised.
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Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.
Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?
Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?
October 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.
Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?
Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?
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REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?
MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.
(So, no plan)
MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.
(So, no plan)
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?
MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.
(So, no plan)
MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.
(So, no plan)
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Breyer goes off on DOJ, saying the govt's "new national police force" is going to "intimidate" in order to bring about "certain types of behavior."
"And that's what's violative" out of the Posse Comitatus Act.
The law's designed "to get the federal govt out of states."
"And that's what's violative" out of the Posse Comitatus Act.
The law's designed "to get the federal govt out of states."
August 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Breyer goes off on DOJ, saying the govt's "new national police force" is going to "intimidate" in order to bring about "certain types of behavior."
"And that's what's violative" out of the Posse Comitatus Act.
The law's designed "to get the federal govt out of states."
"And that's what's violative" out of the Posse Comitatus Act.
The law's designed "to get the federal govt out of states."
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U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
August 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start
Combined.
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Why is not Trump’s letter a federal crime- lying to Congress -given its false claims re DC crime?And why shd he be immune from suit for this when anyone else wd be prosecuted.
Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Why is not Trump’s letter a federal crime- lying to Congress -given its false claims re DC crime?And why shd he be immune from suit for this when anyone else wd be prosecuted.
Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump fired the IRS commissioner just hours after the agency clashed with the White House over using tax data to help locate suspected undocumented immigrants. @jacobbogage.bsky.social @kadiagoba.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted
The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Trump fired the IRS commissioner just hours after the agency clashed with the White House over using tax data to help locate suspected undocumented immigrants. @jacobbogage.bsky.social @kadiagoba.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction.
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
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Sickening, revealing stuff from someone with the president’s ear
July 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Sickening, revealing stuff from someone with the president’s ear
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This is the line from the horrific SCOTUS decision today that will stick with me. “Sure, the president should follow the law - but the courts can’t force him to do it.” Rendering the Constitution a dead letter if the president decides he’d rather not deal with it.
June 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is the line from the horrific SCOTUS decision today that will stick with me. “Sure, the president should follow the law - but the courts can’t force him to do it.” Rendering the Constitution a dead letter if the president decides he’d rather not deal with it.
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Yet another Friday victory: a federal judge blocked the Department of Transportation from withholding billions of dollars in funding to states unless they complied with the Trump regime’s demands on immigration enforcement.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
Judge Blocks Trump’s Tying of Transportation Funds to Immigration Enforcement
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Yet another Friday victory: a federal judge blocked the Department of Transportation from withholding billions of dollars in funding to states unless they complied with the Trump regime’s demands on immigration enforcement.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
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"Wednesday’s show in the Oval Office was the asterisk hiding at the end of the text: Donald Trump does have a few human-rights lectures in him, but only on behalf of those with the right color skin," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Donald Trump Stages an Oval Office Mugging
Race-baiting South Africa’s visiting leader was a perfect summation of Trump’s racially charged second term.
www.newyorker.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Wednesday’s show in the Oval Office was the asterisk hiding at the end of the text: Donald Trump does have a few human-rights lectures in him, but only on behalf of those with the right color skin," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Does anyone else believe the Elon Doge thing was yet another gimmick?
May 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Does anyone else believe the Elon Doge thing was yet another gimmick?