Mary Chesney, PhD, APRN, CPNP
@mlchesney.bsky.social
Retired pediatric nurse practitioner & nursing professor; health & public policy nerd; advocate for child health & environment; feisty grandma
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From being asked to drop cases for political reasons to finding evidence for flimsy investigations, over 60 attorneys who recently resigned or were fired from the DOJ outline the events that most alarmed them over the last 10 months with Trump.
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
From being asked to drop cases for political reasons to finding evidence for flimsy investigations, over 60 attorneys who recently resigned or were fired from the DOJ outline the events that most alarmed them over the last 10 months with Trump.
The government websites have become an embarrassment beyond recognition. No professionalism and a level of cruelty and immaturity that makes me ashamed for my country.
I want a government that doesn’t sound like a deeply damaged, bratty boy when it communicates with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The government websites have become an embarrassment beyond recognition. No professionalism and a level of cruelty and immaturity that makes me ashamed for my country.
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Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.
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Fact-check: true 😕
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Fact-check: true 😕
Here's the solution to the issue you describe, Rep. Comer--Medicare for all.
Comer: "This is a fake economy. You can't have 1/3 of America receiving some type of free government healthcare and then have another 1/3 that's getting a subsidized rate. That falls on the final 1/3 that's having to pay increased premiums."
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here's the solution to the issue you describe, Rep. Comer--Medicare for all.
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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🤣This guy does these impressions so good! Trump swears so many Black folks love him. Just one of many lies from that fucking bigot.
November 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🤣This guy does these impressions so good! Trump swears so many Black folks love him. Just one of many lies from that fucking bigot.
The other differential is that Obama usually golfed at one of the D.C. area courses. Trump is golfing at Mar-a-lago and costing us the Airforce I plane trips & weekend stays of all of his staff & secret service at Mar-a-lago. The money spent is monumentally more with Trump.
He didn’t!
Trump played far more often in his first term (260+ in four years versus Obama’s 330+ over eight years) — and is playing *more often* this time around.
Term 1: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Term 2: www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
Trump played far more often in his first term (260+ in four years versus Obama’s 330+ over eight years) — and is playing *more often* this time around.
Term 1: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Term 2: www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
TAPPER: Obama's comments came within a day of Trump hosting a Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago while SNAP benefits are set to run out. Your response?
BESSENT: I believe President Obama played a record amount of golf of any president, so I'm not sure why he's out there throwing stones
BESSENT: I believe President Obama played a record amount of golf of any president, so I'm not sure why he's out there throwing stones
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The other differential is that Obama usually golfed at one of the D.C. area courses. Trump is golfing at Mar-a-lago and costing us the Airforce I plane trips & weekend stays of all of his staff & secret service at Mar-a-lago. The money spent is monumentally more with Trump.
This. This is how you reframe questions from a feckless press.
@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This. This is how you reframe questions from a feckless press.
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The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.
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“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
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I can’t wait for the companies to literally start paying me to take these prescriptions, according to his calculations.
Trump: "You never had anybody here that knew what the hell they were doing. I'll be honest with you. It makes me angry ... we're gonna get drug reductions of 500%."
October 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I can’t wait for the companies to literally start paying me to take these prescriptions, according to his calculations.
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AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.
October 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.
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Jane Goodall's final message from her last interview:
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Jane Goodall's final message from her last interview:
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This is absolutely right on every point and everyone who sits on a governing board or serves as president or provost or similar should please make the time to read it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is absolutely right on every point and everyone who sits on a governing board or serves as president or provost or similar should please make the time to read it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social
LOL. Truth.
If Congress shuts down and stops working, how will we be able to tell?
October 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
LOL. Truth.
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"Jack Ciattarelli - like Donald Trump - has no respect for Veterans and no regard for our military ... If this can happen to Congresswoman Sherrill, it can happen to any of us," VoteVets warns after Republican operatives illegally obtain unredacted service records.
September 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Jack Ciattarelli - like Donald Trump - has no respect for Veterans and no regard for our military ... If this can happen to Congresswoman Sherrill, it can happen to any of us," VoteVets warns after Republican operatives illegally obtain unredacted service records.
This is unnecessary and illegal use of force. This officer should lose his job and face criminal charges. I do not want my tax dollars funding this type of brutality & inhumanity.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is unnecessary and illegal use of force. This officer should lose his job and face criminal charges. I do not want my tax dollars funding this type of brutality & inhumanity.
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Read the Dekleptocracy substack: "When a phantom foundation with no address, no registration and a founder who might not exist, wires $100 million to the president's crypto company, America has a problem"
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/trumps-she...
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/trumps-she...
Trump's Shell Game Threatens American Security
We're pushing to make anti-corruption a top priority on the political agenda to fight authoritarianism, strengthen the rule of law and protect democracy.
dekleptocracy.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Read the Dekleptocracy substack: "When a phantom foundation with no address, no registration and a founder who might not exist, wires $100 million to the president's crypto company, America has a problem"
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/trumps-she...
dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/trumps-she...
If Trump's followers would ever listen to an entire speech instead of listening to the sanitized, white-washed summaries on FOX, maybe they would see that he is unhinged and embarrassing on the national stage. This speech was bonkers.
Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
September 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If Trump's followers would ever listen to an entire speech instead of listening to the sanitized, white-washed summaries on FOX, maybe they would see that he is unhinged and embarrassing on the national stage. This speech was bonkers.
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This ought to be engraved somewhere.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
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