Norseman
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Former GOP, currently Anti-MAGA, supports democracy and the values upon which the USA was founded. I may block you if I think you're a bot, bomb thrower or conspiracy believer.
“Appears is the most mamby pampy description of this gift to Putin.
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Appears is the most mamby pampy description of this gift to Putin.
Auchinloss for the win. The media and paid hack punditry continue to exult the occasional pushback against Trump/MAGA despite a long history of lockstep support for the worst of Trumpism. @repauchincloss.bsky.social
CNN: In the last couple of weeks or so, she's become kind of an ally on some issues. What do you make of this?
Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.
Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Auchinloss for the win. The media and paid hack punditry continue to exult the occasional pushback against Trump/MAGA despite a long history of lockstep support for the worst of Trumpism. @repauchincloss.bsky.social
@danvock.bsky.social are you going to announce your Substack newsletter?
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
@danvock.bsky.social are you going to announce your Substack newsletter?
More MAGA throwing fecal matter on the wall in their efforts to try and stop a good government action.
BREAKING: Escalating the fight over Missouri’s GOP gerrymander, AG Catherine Hanaway posted on X that she has referred the grassroots referendum campaign to ICE, without providing evidence for her allegation that it is “employing illegal aliens.”
Missouri AG Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
More MAGA throwing fecal matter on the wall in their efforts to try and stop a good government action.
JB’s righteous response to Ald. Sigcho-Lopez and other complainers should be: TALK TO THE HAND. Focus on the doable during these troubled times of Trumpian lawlessness and corruption.
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capitolfax.com/2025/11/21/p...
Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar » Pritzker says graduated tax not his priority for spring sessionCapitolFax.com
capitolfax.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
JB’s righteous response to Ald. Sigcho-Lopez and other complainers should be: TALK TO THE HAND. Focus on the doable during these troubled times of Trumpian lawlessness and corruption.
capitolfax.com/2025/11/21/p...
capitolfax.com/2025/11/21/p...
Too bad. That was the coolest thing I saw in Munich. Not the most poignant in a city full of history, but fun to watch.
Munich's famous river wave, the Eisbachwelle, vanished after a dredging in early November. Authorities are working to resurrect the beloved wave but impatient surfers have also tried their own methods. n.pr/43ETW6N
Surf's down! Munich, until now an inland surfing hotspot, has lost its biggest wave
Munich's famous river wave, the Eisbachwelle, vanished after a dredging in early November. Authorities are working to resurrect the beloved wave but impatient surfers have also tried their own methods.
n.pr
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Too bad. That was the coolest thing I saw in Munich. Not the most poignant in a city full of history, but fun to watch.
MO MAGA GOP playing their games to try and mislead voters.
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
MO MAGA GOP playing their games to try and mislead voters.
The MAGA GOP is throwing everything at the fan to distract voters from the fact they have no plan and don't really care about addressing the cost of healthcare.
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The MAGA GOP is throwing everything at the fan to distract voters from the fact they have no plan and don't really care about addressing the cost of healthcare.
It used to be recruitment of the best of the best. Now it’s the worst of the worst.
possibly drunk and off duty and/or plainclothes CPB male agent pulls gun on women in bathroom and fights with local police www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMTp96eJ/
Body camera and security footage show a U.S. Border Patrol agent fighting Long Beach police officers after he allegedly pulled out a gun inside a women's restroom at a local restaurant in July. The Lo...
TikTok video by CBS LA
www.tiktok.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It used to be recruitment of the best of the best. Now it’s the worst of the worst.
This article includes a discussion of the phony pardons of people convicted or indicted of state crimes related to his attempted coup. Unfortunately, by not mentioning that Trump has no authority to pardon state crimes it lends false legitimacy to them.
New in PN: The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now
"Trump has perverted the pardon power far beyond the most questionable actions of any other modern president, emboldening a diverse cast of crooked politicians and outright fraudsters in a new American age of corruption."
"Trump has perverted the pardon power far beyond the most questionable actions of any other modern president, emboldening a diverse cast of crooked politicians and outright fraudsters in a new American age of corruption."
The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now
Trump's abuse of the pardon power makes everything else look like child's play.
www.publicnotice.co
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This article includes a discussion of the phony pardons of people convicted or indicted of state crimes related to his attempted coup. Unfortunately, by not mentioning that Trump has no authority to pardon state crimes it lends false legitimacy to them.
This and the fact you don’t retreat immediately after scoring a major victory. You crush the morale of the folks. The other usual problem is that they needed to have better messaging. Trump had to be enjoying the dumb shit comment Sen. King made on Morning Joe. The Schumer snooze is horrible.
This is one of the reasons I said the Cave Caucus should have held out for at least a week, to make it clear Trump was unlawfully starving people.
As predicted in lots of places, including this morning's "One First," the extra 48 hours that the full Court bought for itself on Tuesday (by overriding Justice Jackson and extending her "administrative stay") was enough time for Congress to moot the SNAP case:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-192-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-192-...
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This and the fact you don’t retreat immediately after scoring a major victory. You crush the morale of the folks. The other usual problem is that they needed to have better messaging. Trump had to be enjoying the dumb shit comment Sen. King made on Morning Joe. The Schumer snooze is horrible.
Rewards for the coup participants.
Tucked inside the Senate’s 394-page shutdown deal: a clause that could give Josh Hawley and seven other Republicans at least $1 million each.
House voting on the funding bill now.
www.ksdk.com/article/news...
House voting on the funding bill now.
www.ksdk.com/article/news...
Tucked inside the Senate’s 394-page shutdown deal: a clause that could give Hawley and others at least $1 million each
A retroactive Senate provision could hand eight GOP senators million-dollar payouts, including Missouri’s Josh Hawley.
www.ksdk.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Rewards for the coup participants.
Short story. Kehoe wants to turn Missouri into Mississippi.
Kehoe to unveil plan to phase out Missouri's income tax www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
Kehoe to unveil plan to phase out Missouri's income tax www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
Kehoe to unveil plan to phase out Missouri's income tax
Gov. Mike Kehoe said he wants to eliminate the income tax
www.stltoday.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Short story. Kehoe wants to turn Missouri into Mississippi.
Kehoe to unveil plan to phase out Missouri's income tax www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
Kehoe to unveil plan to phase out Missouri's income tax www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
Is this a staff failure to identify and alert or another case where wimpy Sen Dem negotiators can't stand firm to MAGA malice?
Deal to end US shutdown would also allow some Republican senators to seek $500,000 for January 6 probe reut.rs/4qRAyxc
Deal to end US shutdown would also allow some Republican senators to seek $500,000 for January 6 probe
Legislation moving through Congress that would end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history would also allow eight Republican senators to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for alleged privacy violations stemming from the Biden administration's investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Is this a staff failure to identify and alert or another case where wimpy Sen Dem negotiators can't stand firm to MAGA malice?
Many people are saying that he's chickening out of Chicago to avoid getting hit with contempt for his lie-filled and cruelty-based disobedience of the court order.
Trump border commander could head to Charlotte, New Orleans, sources say reut.rs/3LDh8Ms
Trump border commander could head to Charlotte, New Orleans, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's top immigration enforcer in Chicago could leave as soon as this week and travel next to Charlotte, North Carolina, one current U.S. official and two former officials said.
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Many people are saying that he's chickening out of Chicago to avoid getting hit with contempt for his lie-filled and cruelty-based disobedience of the court order.
Whoever the big money men are who give to the Senate Dems, they should force the caucus to watch this before every future caucus meeting.
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Whoever the big money men are who give to the Senate Dems, they should force the caucus to watch this before every future caucus meeting.
My nominee for the worst messenger explaining why he and Dems folded the shutdown.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
My nominee for the worst messenger explaining why he and Dems folded the shutdown.
MAGA gets more shit and Dems look like shit. This deal is looking worse as we go.
"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
MAGA gets more shit and Dems look like shit. This deal is looking worse as we go.
Damn these guys are horrible at messaging.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Damn these guys are horrible at messaging.
A vote is a pretty looooowwww bar.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A vote is a pretty looooowwww bar.
We’re in the middle of a hard fight for a democracy against an unconstrained and corrupt enemy. Yet we keep getting goody 2 shoes wanting to put constraints on the good guys.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
We’re in the middle of a hard fight for a democracy against an unconstrained and corrupt enemy. Yet we keep getting goody 2 shoes wanting to put constraints on the good guys.
Folks have been working hard teaching people how to recognize MAGA GOP bullshit. The benefit of this training (or side effect for Schumer) is that people know this is S Dem leadership bullshit.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Folks have been working hard teaching people how to recognize MAGA GOP bullshit. The benefit of this training (or side effect for Schumer) is that people know this is S Dem leadership bullshit.
Schumer’s shot his wad and lost. I disagree Dems would get blamed if it went longer. The vibes were going against Trump. Tearing down East Wing, building ballroom and gilding the White House while people were suffering upset people. Now people won’t accept another shutdown knowing Dems quit.
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Schumer’s shot his wad and lost. I disagree Dems would get blamed if it went longer. The vibes were going against Trump. Tearing down East Wing, building ballroom and gilding the White House while people were suffering upset people. Now people won’t accept another shutdown knowing Dems quit.
Dems supposedly thinking for supporting the deal reported in the media 👇 AND IT BETTER BE GOOD AND CONVINCING.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Dems supposedly thinking for supporting the deal reported in the media 👇 AND IT BETTER BE GOOD AND CONVINCING.