Rich Gardner
@rlgardner190.bsky.social
Navy vet (PN3 1991-2001), Democrat, antiwar, supports Ukraine, History buff, like the "Avengers" movies and "Legends of Tomorrow" TV show..
Pictured is the USS LaSalle (AGF-3), I spent from late 1996 to late 1998 on there.
Pictured is the USS LaSalle (AGF-3), I spent from late 1996 to late 1998 on there.
Again, it's quite clear that Trump is fighting as hard as he possibly can to see to it that the Epstein files, if they're released, can't be verified by means of an eyewitness.
Raskin on Ghislaine Maxwell: "The fact she was able to be transferred to a prison camp where no sex offenders had ever been allowed to enter before, much less live there, is an indication they've got some kind of meeting of the minds about what Trump can provide to her & what she can provide to him"
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Again, it's quite clear that Trump is fighting as hard as he possibly can to see to it that the Epstein files, if they're released, can't be verified by means of an eyewitness.
Think I'll call this the "Sinema" problem, after former Senator Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ), who alienated Democrats WITHOUT picking up Republicans to replenish her voter base! Sydney Sweeney made... www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Sydney Sweeney's MAGA fans aren't supporting her turn as gay icon
Actress Sydney Sweeney solidified herself as a far-right darling after American Eagle’s controversial blue jeans ad which, some said gave a hat tip to eugenics , but that didn’t seem to help her ...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Think I'll call this the "Sinema" problem, after former Senator Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ), who alienated Democrats WITHOUT picking up Republicans to replenish her voter base! Sydney Sweeney made... www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
The cope is strong in this one!
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The cope is strong in this one!
Hmm. What’s Speaker Johnson up to? He seems suspiciously cooperative all of the sudden.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hmm. What’s Speaker Johnson up to? He seems suspiciously cooperative all of the sudden.
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Question: Why did top Trump officials choose to confront Representative Boebert in the Situation Room in order to try and get her to change he mind about keeping...
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Trump’s Top Officials Spent Wednesday Trying to Pressure Boebert
After weeks of delay by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Adelita...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Question: Why did top Trump officials choose to confront Representative Boebert in the Situation Room in order to try and get her to change he mind about keeping...
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Kharkiv residents forced to queue for bottles of water.
Sunday night was the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. The blogger then moves on to speak of the Trump Administration and how important it is to keep up the fight.
Georgian protesters, not being...
Sunday night was the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. The blogger then moves on to speak of the Trump Administration and how important it is to keep up the fight.
Georgian protesters, not being...
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Kharkiv residents forced to queue for bottles of water.
Sunday night was the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. The blogger then moves on to speak of the Trump Administration and how important it is to keep up the fight.
Georgian protesters, not being...
Sunday night was the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. The blogger then moves on to speak of the Trump Administration and how important it is to keep up the fight.
Georgian protesters, not being...
Our blogger enumerates the ways in which we can tell that Trump is acting like a kid with his hand caught in the cookie jar.
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Three Ways You Can Tell Trump Is Lying about Tariff Rebates - emptywheel
Trump's promises he'll pay tariff rebates isn't real. Rather, it's part of a two-sided effort to pressure SCOTUS not to make him pay back taxes he unlawfully collected.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Our blogger enumerates the ways in which we can tell that Trump is acting like a kid with his hand caught in the cookie jar.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/12/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/12/t...
The Trump Administration in Holland, apparently in the middle of the night, removed two historical panels from an exhibit that told the story of black soldiers during...
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Dutch officials rebuke Trump admin over removal of Black WWII vet memorials
Officials in the Netherlands are demanding answers from a U.S. commission after panels honoring Black vets at a World War II cemetery were taken down.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Trump Administration in Holland, apparently in the middle of the night, removed two historical panels from an exhibit that told the story of black soldiers during...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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I totally and completely mistrust any and all secret legal memos. Froomkin is right. The “Torture Memos” proved that any secret legal memo is most likely completely worthless and will sound ridiculous when exposed to the light of day.
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I totally and completely mistrust any and all secret legal memos. Froomkin is right. The “Torture Memos” proved that any secret legal memo is most likely completely worthless and will sound ridiculous when exposed to the light of day.
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This is as bogus as the Torture Memos: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. troops not liable in boat strikes, classified Justice Dept. memo says
In a classified memo, the Office of Legal Counsel said U.S. troops would not be liable for participating in boat strikes on alleged narco-traffickers.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is as bogus as the Torture Memos: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
The Trump Administration has been pursuing several mortgage fraud cases. The defense accuses it, especially in the NY AG Letitia James case, of selective/vindictive prosecution. The prosecution appears... talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Big Coverup Exposed in Bogus Mortgage Fraud Cases
A Scandal Within a Scandal The Trump DOJ’s bogus prosecution of New...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Trump Administration has been pursuing several mortgage fraud cases. The defense accuses it, especially in the NY AG Letitia James case, of selective/vindictive prosecution. The prosecution appears... talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
There’s a $50 billion Rural Health Fund. Can rural communities use it to keep their hospitals open? Ehh, no. Much of the money is already committed to other goals and the scale of the crisis is much too big to solve with what’s left.
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Only a Fraction of Republicans’ Much-Touted $50 Billion Rural Health Fund Can Help Struggling Hospitals Pay Their Bills
As President Donald Trump’s deadline for a massive budget bill drew near...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
There’s a $50 billion Rural Health Fund. Can rural communities use it to keep their hospitals open? Ehh, no. Much of the money is already committed to other goals and the scale of the crisis is much too big to solve with what’s left.
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Trump can get his followers to believe quite a bit, but when he tries to get them to believe that life is affordable, well...that’s a bit harder! Probably because they’re closer to the evidence than usual.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Trump can get his followers to believe quite a bit, but when he tries to get them to believe that life is affordable, well...that’s a bit harder! Probably because they’re closer to the evidence than usual.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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The story on the FBI Director Kash Patel is even worse that I relayed last night. When Patel assured British intelligence official that a certain employee would not be fired, Patel ***already knew*** that the man’s position had been...
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What Happens To Intelligence Sharing When The President Is A Putin Pal?
For one thing, you give sensitive posts to incompetent people!
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November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The story on the FBI Director Kash Patel is even worse that I relayed last night. When Patel assured British intelligence official that a certain employee would not be fired, Patel ***already knew*** that the man’s position had been...
crooksandliars.com/2025/11/what...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Oh, good grief! FBI Director Kash Patel promised a British official from Britain's intelligence service (MI5) that a certain employee would survive Trump's purges. A few months later, the employee was purged anyway. The NY Times refers... www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Kash Patel’s MI5 letdown adds to beleaguered FBI chief’s list of embarrassments
After months of missteps and failures, the last thing Patel needed was another embarrassing report that casts him in an unflattering light. Alas.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Oh, good grief! FBI Director Kash Patel promised a British official from Britain's intelligence service (MI5) that a certain employee would survive Trump's purges. A few months later, the employee was purged anyway. The NY Times refers... www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Surprised only that it took this long for the UK to reach the conclusion that it was enabling totally and utterly illegal behavior from the US. www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Surprised only that it took this long for the UK to reach the conclusion that it was enabling totally and utterly illegal behavior from the US. www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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I’m proud to represent a state with more than 1.6 million veterans—including the largest population of women veterans in the country. This resolution is about more than recognition; it’s about ensuring veterans get the care, benefits, and respect they’ve earned. #VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’m proud to represent a state with more than 1.6 million veterans—including the largest population of women veterans in the country. This resolution is about more than recognition; it’s about ensuring veterans get the care, benefits, and respect they’ve earned. #VeteransDay
“[the ACA] require that preexisting conditions are entirely paid for. You don't pay more if you have a lot of chronic medical conditions.“ And then, “chronic medical conditions” aren’t mentioned again! “Fox's resident quack...
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Fox Radiologist Pines For The Good Old Days When Preexisting Conditions Weren't Covered
Fox's resident quack anti-vaxxer radiologist Dr. Nicole Saphier said the quiet part out loud during a discussion about the ACA subsidies going away and what Republicans' so-called solutions are to kee...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“[the ACA] require that preexisting conditions are entirely paid for. You don't pay more if you have a lot of chronic medical conditions.“ And then, “chronic medical conditions” aren’t mentioned again! “Fox's resident quack...
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The Senate voted, but the government’s not reopened yet. It’ll take yet a while.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The Senate voted, but the government’s not reopened yet. It’ll take yet a while.
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Very interesting! “Boris Epshteyn, who coordinated Trump’s defense in the criminal cases, is there. He’s strenuously denied having played a coordinating role in the fake electors plot; and, yet, there he is.” Yeah. Hmm. WHY...
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DOJ Throws Weight Behind 2020 Conspiracy Theories
Here’s the thing: none of the fake elector arguments make sense if...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Very interesting! “Boris Epshteyn, who coordinated Trump’s defense in the criminal cases, is there. He’s strenuously denied having played a coordinating role in the fake electors plot; and, yet, there he is.” Yeah. Hmm. WHY...
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The back of the helicopter is NOT supposed to be hanging down like that! The Russian helicopter crashed soon afterwards.
Russians focus on bombing power plants. Three of them disabled. By also focusing on nuclear plants, they’re endangering wide areas
Zelenskyy says...
Russians focus on bombing power plants. Three of them disabled. By also focusing on nuclear plants, they’re endangering wide areas
Zelenskyy says...
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The back of the helicopter is NOT supposed to be hanging down like that! The Russian helicopter crashed soon afterwards.
Russians focus on bombing power plants. Three of them disabled. By also focusing on nuclear plants, they’re endangering wide areas
Zelenskyy says...
Russians focus on bombing power plants. Three of them disabled. By also focusing on nuclear plants, they’re endangering wide areas
Zelenskyy says...
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Four years ago today, I started my Substack newsletter The Good in Us. What a long, strange trip it continues to be!
Everything is at stake in the next three years. Let's stick together and fight the good fight.
www.marytrump.org/p/four-years...
Everything is at stake in the next three years. Let's stick together and fight the good fight.
www.marytrump.org/p/four-years...
Four Years
10 Nov , 2025
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November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Four years ago today, I started my Substack newsletter The Good in Us. What a long, strange trip it continues to be!
Everything is at stake in the next three years. Let's stick together and fight the good fight.
www.marytrump.org/p/four-years...
Everything is at stake in the next three years. Let's stick together and fight the good fight.
www.marytrump.org/p/four-years...
Senator Angus King may correct that Democratic Senators may not have been able to save the ACA, but Maddow and I agree that yes, the shutdown WAS working in favor of the Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Senator Angus King may correct that Democratic Senators may not have been able to save the ACA, but Maddow and I agree that yes, the shutdown WAS working in favor of the Democrats!