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thefawcette.bsky.social @thefawcette.bsky.social · Jun 20
Trump's policies are the Maginot Line of economics. While Trump is creating tariffs to return poor-paying jobs to the US, China is focusing on the future, aiming to be the world leader in green energy, EVs, robotics and AI.
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CNN: You’re paying more for less this shopping season. Revenues driven by a 7% jump in ave selling price while order volume, which measures how much was bought in a certain time frame, declined 1% & shopping carts saw units per transaction drop by 2%.
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You’re paying more for less this shopping season. Now there’s proof | CNN Business
Black Friday once again proved that Americans are willing to shop when they spot bargains.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Trump says he'll release MRI results, doesn't know what was scanned. If you believe that I've got some Trump crypto to sell you.
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Trump says he'll release MRI results; he doesn't know what part of his body was scanned
President Donald Trump says he'll release the results of his MRI test that he received in October. During an exchange with reporters as he traveled back to Washington from Florida on Sunday, he said: ...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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She arrived here from Honduras when she was 7 years old.

She has no criminal record. She’s a college student.

Her parents and both her siblings live here.

With no warning, ICE arrested her, shackled her, and sent her to Honduras.

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College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
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November 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Benjamin Netanyahu seeks pardon from Israel's president. Netanyahu has been standing trial for the past five years on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with three separate cases.

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Benjamin Netanyahu seeks pardon from Israel's president
He denies any wrongdoing in three ongoing trials over allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Yet another con man on illegal drug peddler freed by Trump
"Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded 10,000 investors."
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Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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November 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Incredible corruption "Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends. David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.

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Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
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November 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Trump is more underwater than the OceanGate submersible Titan.
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The man Trump will pardon: "He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him." What does this say about Trump?
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The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
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November 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors. Republican-led committees in Senate & House say they will investigate report that DefSec Hegseth gave an order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling
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Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors
The Senate and House armed services committees’ pledge followed a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that a U.S. strike leave no survivors.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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What If Trump Wants Goliath to Win?
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What If Trump Wants Goliath to Win?
A guest essay on Ukraine from Nataliya Gumenyuk
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November 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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When the Germans did during war what Trump and Hegseth have done without a declaration of war, it was a war crime.
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
A screenshot of a tweet by Ken Dilanian quoting concerns that an order to kill boat occupants who are no longer able to fight would constitute a war crime. Below is a collage of nine infrared or night-vision aerial images showing small boats in the water. At the bottom is a caption referencing “Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Other than that ...
markhamillofficial.bsky.social Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d
What he said: 💯 🎯
November 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children.

This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
Subject: Deaths in children due to COVID-19 vaccines and CBER’s path forward Dear Team CBER, I am writing to report that OBPV career staff have found that at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination. These deaths arerelated to vaccination (likely/probable/possible attribution made by staff). That number is certainly an underestimate due to underreporting, and inherent bias in attribution. …. For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children. Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death. In many cases, such mandates were harmful. It is difficult to read cases where kids aged 7 to 16 may be dead as a result of covid vaccines. …. Putting these facts together, it is horrifying to consider that the US vaccine regulation, including our actions, may have harmed more children than we saved. This requires humility and introspection. Vinay Prasad MD MPH CBER Director, CMSO US FDA
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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People, pets trapped inside Tesla's that lose power because of their electric doors. They're cheap & aerodynamic - but dangerous. Manual overrides? Sure, if you can find where they're hidden in an emergency. Completely irresponsible design.

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The Electric Door Tesla Made Famous Is Now a Danger in Other Cars
Electric doors have locked owners out of their cars, or trapped them inside.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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CNN: The National Guard shooter "was approved for permanent asylum in the US by the Trump administration". Yes, he was evacuated from Afghanistan by Sleepy Joe but it's Sleepy Donnie's team that OK'd him becoming a US resident. www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
Afghan vetting process under renewed scrutiny following National Guard shooting in DC | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump is blaming the Biden administration for this week’s shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC, in part by insisting that the suspect, a 29-year-old Afghan, was am...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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It's as Trump doesn't see being in the drug trade or doing crypto scams as crimes? "Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case, who partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president"

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Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
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November 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Trump should be careful bringing charges against Sen Mark Kelly. Disclosure, questioning Hegseth could open many cans of worms.
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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As survivors clung to the side of the small boat "Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all."
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I lost my job, I can't afford turkey or pie, and my kids have measles. But at least I'm not seeing any trans people in the Macy's parade.
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Remember when Tulsi Gabbard said this? And Trump reposted it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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To all the ageists that believe in mandatory retirement ages or a maximum age for presidents. "I will reject the notion there is any useful universal demarcation btw middle age & old age -- it might be different for you than it is for me."
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Opinion | I’m 62. Stop Telling Me I’m Old.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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In this time of charity it's important to remember that Trump admitted he stole from charities, inc children with cancer, and is banned from running a charity.
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Trump Pays $2 Million to 8 Charities for Misuse of Foundation (Published 2019)
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November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A nation of immigrants
Cartoon free:
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November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM