Samela
@samelah.bsky.social
Jaded journo, political beast, loves droll cynics, avoids god-botherers, adores cats, dogs, birds, spiders and good theatre.
It is time people started saying "radical right". Surely the US right is far, far, far, farthest, off the chart right..........Investigating claims HUD website's 'radical left' pop-ups violated Hatch Act www.snopes.com/news/2025/10...
Investigating claims HUD website's 'radical left' pop-ups violated Hatch Act
A message on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development website blamed the October 2025 federal government shutdown on "The Radical Left."
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October 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It is time people started saying "radical right". Surely the US right is far, far, far, farthest, off the chart right..........Investigating claims HUD website's 'radical left' pop-ups violated Hatch Act www.snopes.com/news/2025/10...
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The Cato Institute is a conservative organization, but even they acknowledge where the problem is when it comes to politically motivated murders in this country.
September 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Cato Institute is a conservative organization, but even they acknowledge where the problem is when it comes to politically motivated murders in this country.
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Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
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Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
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It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...
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September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."
Because that's not how America works.
play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...
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That’s what’s up
September 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
That’s what’s up
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House Democrats today posted on Twitter an image of a birthday message that Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
Trump has denied having anything to do with the card, which was included in a leather-bound book of birthday messages for the late convicted sex offender's 50th birthday.
Trump has denied having anything to do with the card, which was included in a leather-bound book of birthday messages for the late convicted sex offender's 50th birthday.
House Democrats release lewd birthday message Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein
White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich posted on X that the note should help Trump’s case because "it’s not his signature."
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September 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
House Democrats today posted on Twitter an image of a birthday message that Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
Trump has denied having anything to do with the card, which was included in a leather-bound book of birthday messages for the late convicted sex offender's 50th birthday.
Trump has denied having anything to do with the card, which was included in a leather-bound book of birthday messages for the late convicted sex offender's 50th birthday.
Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
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September 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
NBNBNB. The sea is calling. www.facebook.com/share/p/19HB...
Redirecting...
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July 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
NBNBNB. The sea is calling. www.facebook.com/share/p/19HB...
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Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
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July 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
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Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad.
It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.
We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.
We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
July 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad.
It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.
We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.
We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
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The additional $80,000 that Noem received from the dark money group in 2023 represented a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 salary as South Dakota governor.
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…
www.propublica.org
July 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The additional $80,000 that Noem received from the dark money group in 2023 represented a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 salary as South Dakota governor.
By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social
@amierjeski.bsky.social
By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social
@amierjeski.bsky.social
China sees Trump's new law as 'one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm': analyst
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China sees Trump's new law as 'one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm': analyst
According to one analyst, only two groups are celebrating H.R. 1 — President Donald Trump's massive new budget law — on July 4: Republicans, and the Chinese Communist Party.New York Times columnist Th...
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July 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
China sees Trump's new law as 'one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm': analyst
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'Cult in a bottle': Hilarious mockery ensues as Trump launches new perfume line
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'Cult in a bottle': Mockery ensues as Trump launches new perfume line
President Donald Trump has officially entered the fragrance market, rolling out his personal scent collection named "Victory 45-47" on Monday.In a post on his Truth Social platform Monday evening, the...
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July 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
'Cult in a bottle': Hilarious mockery ensues as Trump launches new perfume line
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one more election thing this morning: because New York is large, people might lose sight of the Mamdani victory being local politics. but it is, and it points up the potential of local politics to reshape direction, to inspire broadly, to change the story
June 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
one more election thing this morning: because New York is large, people might lose sight of the Mamdani victory being local politics. but it is, and it points up the potential of local politics to reshape direction, to inspire broadly, to change the story
Bravo CNN! Thankyou for the courage and integrity to broadcast "Good Night, and Good Luck" starring the incomparable George Clooney journalist Edward R. Morrow reporting through that daunting McCarthy witch-hunt. The timing of this reminder of 1950s conservative political bullying is impeccable.
June 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Bravo CNN! Thankyou for the courage and integrity to broadcast "Good Night, and Good Luck" starring the incomparable George Clooney journalist Edward R. Morrow reporting through that daunting McCarthy witch-hunt. The timing of this reminder of 1950s conservative political bullying is impeccable.
'Handmaid’s Tale-esque': State Dep. tells employees to report each other for 'anti-Christian bias'
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'Handmaid’s Tale-esque': State Dep. tells employees to report each other for 'anti-Christian bias'
As part of its initiative to enforce a broad new executive order aimed at supporting federal employees who are Christians, the Trump administration has reportedly instructed State Department staff to ...
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April 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
'Handmaid’s Tale-esque': State Dep. tells employees to report each other for 'anti-Christian bias'
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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
Ah, yes. David Penberthy nails Trump’s economic nationalism.
April 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ah, yes. David Penberthy nails Trump’s economic nationalism.
The country that failed the IQ test just gets dumber and dumber.
My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
March 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The country that failed the IQ test just gets dumber and dumber.
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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President Trump's administration has cut off funding for Voice of America, Radio Liberty and other pro-democracy media that broadcast to undemocratic states.
#EuropeNews
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Trump cuts off funding for pro-democracy media outlets VOA and RFERL
President Trump's administration has cut off funding for Voice of America, Radio Liberty and other pro-democracy media that broadcast to undemocratic states.
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March 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
President Trump's administration has cut off funding for Voice of America, Radio Liberty and other pro-democracy media that broadcast to undemocratic states.
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