Aimé Fournier PhD (he/him)
@aimef.bsky.social
Math Professor, Research Scientist for geophysics, sustainable energy etc. plus background expertise in climate and weather, physics etc.
#ProtectingPedophiles. `The DoJ…redacted…names…of “politically exposed individuals…” The #Epstein grand jury documents are simply 119 blacked-out pages. Republican rep. Massie…said the…release “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law”'
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December 19, 2025
This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era.
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December 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#ProtectingPedophiles. `The DoJ…redacted…names…of “politically exposed individuals…” The #Epstein grand jury documents are simply 119 blacked-out pages. Republican rep. Massie…said the…release “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law”'
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Our founders never dreamt such weakness and pettiness could win office. `The government admitted that it withheld grants from the DoE according to “whether a grantee’s address was…in a State that tends to elect…Democratic candidates in state and national elections”'
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December 17, 2025
This morning, four vulnerable Republicans signed onto the discharge petition all House Democrats have signed to force Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring a bill to extend the premium tax credits for ...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Our founders never dreamt such weakness and pettiness could win office. `The government admitted that it withheld grants from the DoE according to “whether a grantee’s address was…in a State that tends to elect…Democratic candidates in state and national elections”'
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December 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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#NetanyahuWarCriminal calls them defiant. `Hamas’s decision-making…bureau told…that…Hamas could either surrender its weapons to a future Palestinian state or…its militants will disarm after a truce that lasts 5 to 10 years, with Israel’s guarantee to not continue the war'
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December 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
#NetanyahuWarCriminal calls them defiant. `Hamas’s decision-making…bureau told…that…Hamas could either surrender its weapons to a future Palestinian state or…its militants will disarm after a truce that lasts 5 to 10 years, with Israel’s guarantee to not continue the war'
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Heroes recognize and protect universal humanity, they don't see ethnicity. `A man…heroically tackled and disarmed one of the #BondiBeach gunmen…43-year-old #AhmedalAhmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop…The father-of-2 was shot twice during the unbelievable act'
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December 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Heroes recognize and protect universal humanity, they don't see ethnicity. `A man…heroically tackled and disarmed one of the #BondiBeach gunmen…43-year-old #AhmedalAhmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop…The father-of-2 was shot twice during the unbelievable act'
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What does the GOP offer but fear? `Undocumented immigrants are, as Rep. Rulli said today, “terrorizing our people,” “killing our children,” “raping our women”…[Sen.] Tuberville…claimed that Alabama Muslims embrace an “ideology…incompatible with our Western values”'
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December 12, 2025
Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state’s next governor.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What does the GOP offer but fear? `Undocumented immigrants are, as Rep. Rulli said today, “terrorizing our people,” “killing our children,” “raping our women”…[Sen.] Tuberville…claimed that Alabama Muslims embrace an “ideology…incompatible with our Western values”'
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Can't afford that 9%? `The cost for extending the ACA…tax credits—which benefit everyday Americans…would be about $350 billion over 10 years…for extending the 2017 tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy…more than $4 trillion over the same time period.'
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December 11, 2025
On Tuesday, President Donald J.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Can't afford that 9%? `The cost for extending the ACA…tax credits—which benefit everyday Americans…would be about $350 billion over 10 years…for extending the 2017 tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy…more than $4 trillion over the same time period.'
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Best for US security would be to prosecute them. `“There is growing concern...that…the ICC will turn its attention to the president…vice president…secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions…” a Trump administration official told…“We will not allow it…”'
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December 10, 2025
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-seven years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Hu...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Best for US security would be to prosecute them. `“There is growing concern...that…the ICC will turn its attention to the president…vice president…secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions…” a Trump administration official told…“We will not allow it…”'
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#Biden kept #USinflation relatively low. ` #Trump said he would grade his economy “A+++++.” Any problems with it, he…say, stem from…Biden’s having left…an economy in shambles…In fact, in October 2024, The Economist called the American economy “the #envyoftheworld.”'
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December 9, 2025
When G.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
#Biden kept #USinflation relatively low. ` #Trump said he would grade his economy “A+++++.” Any problems with it, he…say, stem from…Biden’s having left…an economy in shambles…In fact, in October 2024, The Economist called the American economy “the #envyoftheworld.”'
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`Trump’s tariffs…losses of $44 billion…for farmers…Trump…intends to give farmers one-time payments totalling $12 billion…Darin Self commented: “The President…unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters”'
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December 8, 2025
Last Wednesday, December 3, a reporter asked President Donald J.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
`Trump’s tariffs…losses of $44 billion…for farmers…Trump…intends to give farmers one-time payments totalling $12 billion…Darin Self commented: “The President…unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters”'
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`Trump and his cronies…have openly rejected the world based on shared values of equality and democracy for which Americans fought in World War II…building a world dominated by…elites close to Trump, who are raking in vast amounts of money from their machinations.'
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December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
`Trump and his cronies…have openly rejected the world based on shared values of equality and democracy for which Americans fought in World War II…building a world dominated by…elites close to Trump, who are raking in vast amounts of money from their machinations.'
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#NetanyahuWarCriminal is weak. "In 2025, only 47% of emergency medical teams were granted entry to Gaza…at a time when 100s of...doctors have been detained by the IDF with many still unaccounted for. Gaza does not have the manpower to cope with the numbers of injured." news.sky.com/story/12-yea...
12-year-old girl from Gaza receives vital brain operation after Israeli bombing near her home
Maryam is one of a few hundred patients who've been allowed by Israel to leave Gaza to receive critical medical help since the October 2025 agreement.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
#NetanyahuWarCriminal is weak. "In 2025, only 47% of emergency medical teams were granted entry to Gaza…at a time when 100s of...doctors have been detained by the IDF with many still unaccounted for. Gaza does not have the manpower to cope with the numbers of injured." news.sky.com/story/12-yea...
Important, documented analysis of how for decades the #Clintons, #Obama & #Biden actually disrespected and harmed rural voters, and the #DemocraticParty discarded and sabotaged their own organizers like #HowardDean who tried to regain rural voters. #Activists take note! www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
The Jackpod: Rural ressentiment, or ‘the country strikes back’
On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the modern history of the multi-faceted divide between rural and urban America and why it threatens democracy.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Important, documented analysis of how for decades the #Clintons, #Obama & #Biden actually disrespected and harmed rural voters, and the #DemocraticParty discarded and sabotaged their own organizers like #HowardDean who tried to regain rural voters. #Activists take note! www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
Obviously intending to suppress African Americans and civil rights champions, and please #whitesupremacists, `The new calendar follows… #Trump 's previous moves to reshape US history…to flag any signs at sites deemed to cast a negative light on past or living Americans.'
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National parks fee-free calendar drops MLK Day, Juneteenth and adds Trump's birthday
The Trump administration, which has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies, removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from next year's list of fare-exempt days for visitors at dozens of national par...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Obviously intending to suppress African Americans and civil rights champions, and please #whitesupremacists, `The new calendar follows… #Trump 's previous moves to reshape US history…to flag any signs at sites deemed to cast a negative light on past or living Americans.'
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Who isn't disgusted by the powerful reveling in reckless, savage impunity? ` #MegynKelly …"I’d really like to #seethemsuffer," the mother-of-3…continued. "I would like #Trump and #Hegseth to make it last a long time so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little."'
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'I'd Like to See Them Bleed Out': Megyn Kelly Gives Violent Response Over Drug Traffickers Being Killed in America's Boat Strikes
Megyn Kelly admitted she would like to see drug traffickers 'lose a limb and bleed out a little' in America's strikes against them.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Who isn't disgusted by the powerful reveling in reckless, savage impunity? ` #MegynKelly …"I’d really like to #seethemsuffer," the mother-of-3…continued. "I would like #Trump and #Hegseth to make it last a long time so that they lose a limb and bleed out a little."'
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#Neocolonialism? `Trump…promising…to “reward and encourage…governments, political parties, and movements broadly aligned with our principles”…Rubio noted that the administration is “more than willing to use America’s considerable leverage to protect our interests.”'
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December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
#Neocolonialism? `Trump…promising…to “reward and encourage…governments, political parties, and movements broadly aligned with our principles”…Rubio noted that the administration is “more than willing to use America’s considerable leverage to protect our interests.”'
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According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
Is #Trump actually reducing US safety? ` #SenatorPaul (R-KY) said: “… #Dueprocess …justice that our country was founded upon…Congress, if they had any kind of gumption…would not…allow[ the] administration to summarily execute people that are suspected of a crime.”'
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December 4, 2025
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Is #Trump actually reducing US safety? ` #SenatorPaul (R-KY) said: “… #Dueprocess …justice that our country was founded upon…Congress, if they had any kind of gumption…would not…allow[ the] administration to summarily execute people that are suspected of a crime.”'
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`“I hear…Somalians ripped off that state for $ billions…” Trump said…“and they contribute nothing…I don’t want ‘em in our country. Their country’s no good for a reason”…About 95% of the Somalis in Minnesota are already US citizens and…about 50% were born in the US'
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December 2, 2025
The news of last Friday, November 28, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Joint Special Operations commander overseeing an attack on a small vessel carrying 11 people on September 2 to “kill ev...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
`“I hear…Somalians ripped off that state for $ billions…” Trump said…“and they contribute nothing…I don’t want ‘em in our country. Their country’s no good for a reason”…About 95% of the Somalis in Minnesota are already US citizens and…about 50% were born in the US'
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Rediscovering their spine?. `Republican chairs… #MikeRogers (R-MI)… #RogerWicker (R-MS)…vowed to conduct oversight… #MikeTurner (R-OH) explained: “There are very serious concerns in Congress about…attacks on…so-called #drugboats …There is an ongoing investigation.”'
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December 1, 2025
President Donald J.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Rediscovering their spine?. `Republican chairs… #MikeRogers (R-MI)… #RogerWicker (R-MS)…vowed to conduct oversight… #MikeTurner (R-OH) explained: “There are very serious concerns in Congress about…attacks on…so-called #drugboats …There is an ongoing investigation.”'
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An honorable Republican. `Indiana state senator #GregWalker, a Republican…on his refusal…of…an Oval Office visit…suggesting the invitation violated the #HatchAct …He would have reported the violation…“if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington”'
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November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
An honorable Republican. `Indiana state senator #GregWalker, a Republican…on his refusal…of…an Oval Office visit…suggesting the invitation violated the #HatchAct …He would have reported the violation…“if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington”'
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Traitors? `The #WallStreetJournal …report that #Witkoff, #Kushner, and Dmitriev designed…to bypass US national security…and create opportunities for US businessmen to win multibillion-dollar deals to…energy and rare-earth minerals in Russia, Ukraine, and the Arctic'
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November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Traitors? `The #WallStreetJournal …report that #Witkoff, #Kushner, and Dmitriev designed…to bypass US national security…and create opportunities for US businessmen to win multibillion-dollar deals to…energy and rare-earth minerals in Russia, Ukraine, and the Arctic'
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#TrumpIncitesViolence against patriots. `The former Army JAG officer said…“reminding service members of their legal rights and obligations is not criminal in any way”…For example, several people…in the #January6, 2021, attack…were convicted of seditious conspiracy'
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Experts Say Democratic Video Not 'Seditious,' as Trump Claims - FactCheck.org
After six congressional Democrats released a video advising members of the U.S. military and national security community to "refuse illegal orders," President Donald Trump said the lawmakers should be...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#TrumpIncitesViolence against patriots. `The former Army JAG officer said…“reminding service members of their legal rights and obligations is not criminal in any way”…For example, several people…in the #January6, 2021, attack…were convicted of seditious conspiracy'
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Wouldn't letting 1 betrayer condemn 10,000s of allies show our weakness? `Over 40,000 Afghans…still actively pursuing resettlement…more than 10,000 approved to relocate…100s of veterans have urged the administration not to abandon those who fought alongside the Americans'
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What was 'Operation Allies Welcome,' which allowed some Afghans entry into the U.S.?
The Afghan man suspected of shooting two National Guard members entered the U.S. under the program in 2021. Here's a look at why it was set up and how those who entered the U.S. were vetted.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Wouldn't letting 1 betrayer condemn 10,000s of allies show our weakness? `Over 40,000 Afghans…still actively pursuing resettlement…more than 10,000 approved to relocate…100s of veterans have urged the administration not to abandon those who fought alongside the Americans'
www.npr.org/2025/11/27/n...
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Will we earn our children's thanks? `The president invited Americans…to observe the last Thursday…as a day of Thanksgiving…On November 19, Lincoln delivered an address at…Gettysburg…”That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish”'
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November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Will we earn our children's thanks? `The president invited Americans…to observe the last Thursday…as a day of Thanksgiving…On November 19, Lincoln delivered an address at…Gettysburg…”That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish”'
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