Peter Montgomery
@petemontdc.com
Researcher and writer focused on right-wing movements for Right Wing Watch, a project of People For the American Way. Lover of dogs, poetry, singing, husband. Pennsylvania raised, long roots in DC. UU. Personal account. He/him.
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Peter Montgomery
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· Nov 12
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A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
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thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it
NEW: A variety of military and intelligence contractors have already signed on to help ICE's immigrant bounty hunter program. A review of procurement data shows 10 companies stand to make up to *ONE BILLION* dollars from the program by 2027. theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
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Leavitt: “These are heinous monsters.”
Reality: Half had no charges, “ICE’s own records say only 3% had been sentenced for a violent crime”
Reality: Half had no charges, “ICE’s own records say only 3% had been sentenced for a violent crime”
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Leavitt: “These are heinous monsters.”
Reality: Half had no charges, “ICE’s own records say only 3% had been sentenced for a violent crime”
Reality: Half had no charges, “ICE’s own records say only 3% had been sentenced for a violent crime”
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This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?
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Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison.
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Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison.
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
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December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
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ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
Captured media is a tool of authoritarian repression www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Captured media is a tool of authoritarian repression www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
I can't wait for the giant dance party on the Kennedy Center plaza when we celebrate the removal of this desecration
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I can't wait for the giant dance party on the Kennedy Center plaza when we celebrate the removal of this desecration
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
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Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
Not lawful, but that means nothing to Team Trump.
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Not lawful, but that means nothing to Team Trump.
Trump's black hole of neediness will not be satisfied until everything in Washington is covered in gold and named after him. Shame on his toadies that went along with this. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center board votes to rename ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
Kennedy Center trustees, installed earlier this year by President Trump, have voted to rename the center after him, said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Trump's black hole of neediness will not be satisfied until everything in Washington is covered in gold and named after him. Shame on his toadies that went along with this. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Glad to see @newrepublic.com crediting people who clearly saw the Trump threat. Still, given the harm now being done, it's not that satisfying to say "I told you so." My own Cassandra cred includes a year's worth of "Trumptastrophe" posts for @peoplefor.bsky.social www.peoplefor.org/trumptastrophe
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Glad to see @newrepublic.com crediting people who clearly saw the Trump threat. Still, given the harm now being done, it's not that satisfying to say "I told you so." My own Cassandra cred includes a year's worth of "Trumptastrophe" posts for @peoplefor.bsky.social www.peoplefor.org/trumptastrophe
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In 2014 during the net neutrality wars, Obama voiced his support for net neutrality. Republicans REPEATEDLY, for YEARS, (falsely) claimed this was an illegal, unethical affront to FCC independence.
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
FCC chief Brendan Carr tells Senate that his agency is 'not formally ... independent'
FCC chairman Brendan Carr testified to a congressional committee for the first time since ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show following a Carr threat.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
In 2014 during the net neutrality wars, Obama voiced his support for net neutrality. Republicans REPEATEDLY, for YEARS, (falsely) claimed this was an illegal, unethical affront to FCC independence.
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:
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NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
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December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
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Spain’s El País had by far the best main story of any major mainstream outlet I’ve seen:
Directly in the article, from the 1st paragraph. “Celebrating himself with a base of lies, half-truths and exaggerations in an effort to take control of the narrative on the economy.”
elpais.com/internaciona...
Directly in the article, from the 1st paragraph. “Celebrating himself with a base of lies, half-truths and exaggerations in an effort to take control of the narrative on the economy.”
elpais.com/internaciona...
Trump exagera en un discurso a la nación los logros de su primer año y culpa a Biden de la marcha de la economía
En una intervención apresurada y sombría desde la Casa Blanca, el presidente estadounidense desdeña las preocupaciones de sus compatriotas por el elevado coste de la vida
elpais.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Spain’s El País had by far the best main story of any major mainstream outlet I’ve seen:
Directly in the article, from the 1st paragraph. “Celebrating himself with a base of lies, half-truths and exaggerations in an effort to take control of the narrative on the economy.”
elpais.com/internaciona...
Directly in the article, from the 1st paragraph. “Celebrating himself with a base of lies, half-truths and exaggerations in an effort to take control of the narrative on the economy.”
elpais.com/internaciona...
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“The guidance to USCIS field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year…By comparison, between 2017 and this year to date, there had been just over 120 cases filed, according to the Justice Department.”
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“The guidance to USCIS field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year…By comparison, between 2017 and this year to date, there had been just over 120 cases filed, according to the Justice Department.”
Shout out to everyone who voted for Trump because he was supposedly the anti-war candidate
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Shout out to everyone who voted for Trump because he was supposedly the anti-war candidate
J.D. Vance gave a speech in PA today and said there is nobody more impatient to solve the affordability crisis than Donald Trump. Didn't Trump tell us affordability was a hoax?
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
J.D. Vance gave a speech in PA today and said there is nobody more impatient to solve the affordability crisis than Donald Trump. Didn't Trump tell us affordability was a hoax?
Team Trump has been begging people to register for JD Vance's speech in PA on Tuesday. Vance is teasing a "groundbreaking" and shocking "MAGA truth bomb"
December 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Team Trump has been begging people to register for JD Vance's speech in PA on Tuesday. Vance is teasing a "groundbreaking" and shocking "MAGA truth bomb"
NOT AT ALL BREAKING: Trump is a loathsome human being
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NOT AT ALL BREAKING: Trump is a loathsome human being
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Real-time experiment: what happens when the world’s leading economy reallocates its law enforcement resources to liquidation of its own labor force?
New numbers show ICE is devouring US law enforcement: 1 in 5 US marshals, 1 in 5 FBI agents, half of all DEA agents, and over two-thirds of all ATF agents are now assigned to ICE enforcement. These are agencies with critical jobs they're now NOT doing.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
ICE is Eating the Soul of America
Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law
www.doomsdayscenario.co
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Real-time experiment: what happens when the world’s leading economy reallocates its law enforcement resources to liquidation of its own labor force?
Kiss even more billions in tourism dollars good-bye, along with the U.S. jobs and businesses that depend on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Kiss even more billions in tourism dollars good-bye, along with the U.S. jobs and businesses that depend on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...