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Citizen At Large (formerly San Diego at Large)
@sdatlarge.bsky.social
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Human, parent, partner, writer, critical thinker, world traveler, concierge entrepreneur, fan of food, wine & animals. 💍 🚒 🧑‍🚒 Proud mom of two Gen Z voters.✌🏽American ex-pat now living full time in Tuscany, Italy. 🇮🇹 🌏
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Republicans & Roberts Court 6: What have you done?! 🥺 #democracy
January 15, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
💯
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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tbradleywrites.bsky.social
Disgraced congressman Duncan Hunter is using what’s left of his political influence to help Raymond Liddy, son of infamous Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy, escape his conviction for child pornography.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/01/12/d... via @sandiegouniontribune.com
Disgraced congressman Duncan Hunter got a Trump pardon. Now he wants one for another notorious San Diego son of Washington.
Hunter is using what’s left of his political influence to help Raymond Liddy, son of infamous Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy, escape his conviction for child pornography.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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swin24.bsky.social
For those who say the existence of a mega billionaire class is in and of itself a policy failure or at least net negative: I don’t disagree but also… take the money and run
thiccreese.bsky.social Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 5d
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth.

My latest for @wired.com:
MacKenzie Scott Donates $45 Million to the Trevor Project
Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group that the organization calls “transformational.”
www.wired.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Senator Mark Kelly sues Pete Hegseth, DOD, and others over Hegseth's censure of Kelly and effort to reduce his retirement grade, alleging violations of the First Amendment, due process, Speech & Debate Clause, and federal laws.

Kelly is represented by Arnold & Porter.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MARK KELLY, United States Senator representing the State of Arizona, 120 Constitution Ave NE, Suite 516 Washington, D.C. 20002 Plaintiff, V. PETE HEGSETH, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense, 1600 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, 1600 Defense Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 JOHN PHELAN, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Navy, 1000 Navy Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20350 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, 1000 Navy Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20350 Defendants. Case No._ COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF 9. If permitted to stand, the Secretary's censure and the grade-determination proceedings that he has directed will inflict immediate and irreparable harm. The censure, the grade-reduction process, and its inevitable outcome impose official punishment for protected speech, chill legislative oversight, and threaten reductions in rank and pay. Each of these actions also signals to retired service members and Members of Congress that criticism of the Executive's use of the armed forces may be met with retaliation through military channels. The Constitution does not leave such injuries to be remedied after the fact. Speech or Debate, First Amendment, separation-of-powers, and due-process protections must be vindicated at the outset, before the Senator is forced to submit to an unconstitutional and legally baseless proceeding. Senator Kelly therefore brings this complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief. Defendants' actions violate the First Amendment, the Speech or Debate Clause, the separation of powers, due process, 10 U.S.C. § 1370, and the Administrative Procedure Act. 11. In particular, Senator Kelly respectfully asks this Court to declare the censure letter, reopening determination, retirement grade determination proceedings, and related actions unlawful and unconstitutional; to vacate those actions; to enjoin their enforcement; and to preserve the status of a coequal Congress and an apolitical military. PRAYER FOR RELIEF For these reasons, Plaintiff respectfully requests an order: a) declaring Defendants' actions unlawful; b) enjoining the enforcement of Defendants' actions; c) vacating and setting aside Defendants' actions under 5 U.S.C. § 706; d) staying the effective date of Defendants' actions under 5 U.S.C. § 705; e) preliminarily and permanently enjoining Defendants, their agents, employees, appointees, successors, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants from 45 Case 1:26-cv-00081 Document 1 Filed 01/12/26 Page 46 of 46 implementing, maintaining, or giving effect to Defendants' actions, including the Secretary of Defense's determinations and threats of further criminal or administrative action; f) awarding Plaintiff reasonable costs and attorney's fees in accordance with law, including but not limited to 28 U.S.C. § 2412; and g) issuing any and all other such relief as the Court deems just and proper.
January 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts
January 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: The Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center after President Trump’s intervention upset artists and donors. The opera has performed there since 1971.
Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned by declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.
nyti.ms
January 9, 2026 at 10:49 PM
sdatlarge.bsky.social
ENRAGING!!!
January 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
February 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
sdatlarge.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse: my dog sits like this.
Moose, a standard Australian labradoodle, sits like a human and looks at the camera.
January 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
This is how it feels to be an American lately
"Please scream inside your heart" headline from 2020
January 8, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
DANISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER: “🇺🇸 had 30 bases on Greenland, why did you leave? You can resume that tomorrow without attacking a NATO ally… the rationale lacks factual foundation and doesn’t stand any logic testing.”

(Unless the point is to hurt us and end NATO, a Putin/Xi goal)
January 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
We don't have to live like this.
January 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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npr.org
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
n.pr
January 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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djrothkopf.bsky.social
That this view guides Trump and Miller and by extension the actions of the world’s most powerful nation at this moment is the most dangerous turn taken in global affairs since the rise of fascism in the 1930s. It is actually even more dangerous given the destructive force…
January 6, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?" Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸" Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City." Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
sdatlarge.bsky.social
Oh, so the dimwit thought sharing (old, foreign) photos of dead birds and wind turbines would make us WANT the oil he is stealing.
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15d
Trump is posting more photos of dead birds and wind turbines today.

In one photo he captioned “Eagles going down!”, it’s actually a photo of a red kite from 2010 in Spain.

The other photo is from 2006 in Taiwan.
January 4, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
#NeverForget
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
sdatlarge.bsky.social
Does that mean another country could come to U.S. and capture 🍊🤡 and *his* wife?
January 3, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
No imminent threat. Only Congress gets to declare war. And this sounds like a war.
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14d
BREAKING: Residents in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas reported loud explosions and aircraft overflying the city in the early hours of Saturday morning, with multiples areas experiencing power outages
Caracas Residents Report Loud Explosions, Aircraft Overflying
Residents in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas reported loud explosions and aircraft overflying the city, with multiple areas experiencing power outages.
bloom.bg
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 AM
sdatlarge.bsky.social
Its 2:20 am and there are still 40+ people out dancing on my street, partying + fireworks and clubby tunes—
I LOVE IT! #2026 💥#NewYearsInItaly Happy New Year!!
January 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
*adjusts glasses* Your honor, human mortality, like the proverbial fire, was not ignited by my clients.
prdolan.bsky.social 🌒 West 🌒 @prdolan.bsky.social · 17d
Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!
Billy Joel listed 59 people in his single "we didnt start the fire." after Brigitte Bardot's Death, Only 3 Remain Alive.
December 31, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Nick Anderson, Raw Story
December 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM