Tom Clemons
@air1ctc.bsky.social
Born in North Carolina. Raised in Kentucky. Graduated University of Louisville Speed Scientific School. Retired information Technology Professional United Parcel Service (UPS) Airline. Proponent of democracy, separation of church and state, human rights.
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Great read:
Where to begin? The Epstein files? The betrayal of Ukraine? “Quiet, Piggy”? Trump’s DEATH PENALTY rants? His cratering poll numbers? Or the MTG revolt and her sudden decision to resign from Congress? Or her suggestion that Trump was like a domestic abuser?
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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MTG In The Wild
Plus: A mad week in review
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Great read:
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Yellowstone has long been a mecca for scientists studying how predators, like wolves and grizzly bears, affect everything from elk grazing to vegetation height. They are still debating how to make sense of what they’ve learned.
Reintroduced Carnivores’ Impacts on Ecosystems Are Still Coming Into Focus - Inside Climate News
Yellowstone has long been a mecca for scientists studying how predators affect everything from elk grazing to vegetation height. They are still debating how to make sense of what they’ve learned.
insideclimatenews.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yellowstone has long been a mecca for scientists studying how predators, like wolves and grizzly bears, affect everything from elk grazing to vegetation height. They are still debating how to make sense of what they’ve learned.
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Feds encountering loudmouthed Chicago women
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Feds encountering loudmouthed Chicago women
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Eighty years ago, Allies hauled Nazi brass like Göring and Hess into Nuremberg's courtroom 600, birthing war crimes and crimes against humanity charges that reshaped global justice, from Syria to Ukraine. #NurembergTrials #Germany
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Eighty years ago, Allies hauled Nazi brass like Göring and Hess into Nuremberg's courtroom 600, birthing war crimes and crimes against humanity charges that reshaped global justice, from Syria to Ukraine. #NurembergTrials #Germany
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Marjorie Taylor Greene never got “the joke that MAGA is about anything more than manipulation”—her failure to do so may be her one service to the nation, @davidfrum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/UkdTYodU
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene never got “the joke that MAGA is about anything more than manipulation”—her failure to do so may be her one service to the nation, @davidfrum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/UkdTYodU
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After months of exclusion, Europeans snag seats at Trump's Ukraine peace farce in Switzerland, desperate to torpedo his Russia-friendly land grab in Donbas. Bjoern Seibert leads the EU charge against Putin's windfall. #Ukraine
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
After months of exclusion, Europeans snag seats at Trump's Ukraine peace farce in Switzerland, desperate to torpedo his Russia-friendly land grab in Donbas. Bjoern Seibert leads the EU charge against Putin's windfall. #Ukraine
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After reporting by ProPublica and other publications, the administration is dropping an effort that could have led 830,000 people to lose eligibility for Social Security disability payments.
How the Trump Administration Abandoned Plans for a Major Cut in Disability Benefits for Older Workers
After meeting with advocates, the Trump administration confirmed it has scrapped a controversial regulation that would have cut disability benefits for older workers.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
After reporting by ProPublica and other publications, the administration is dropping an effort that could have led 830,000 people to lose eligibility for Social Security disability payments.
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Press restrictions were once the hallmark of autocracies. Now even democracies like the US and UK are imposing limits on journalists.
Press Freedom Is Under Fire Around the World
A dispute between an English local council and the newspaper that covers it shows how press limits are spreading to places once thought immune.
bloom.bg
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Press restrictions were once the hallmark of autocracies. Now even democracies like the US and UK are imposing limits on journalists.
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My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
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Europe is just an ongoing lesson in how polyglot folks are. The couple next to me are German (or maybe Swiss) who are speaking to the waiter (who resides at least in Portugal) in Italian, who is speaking to the table on other side in Spanish, and the one past that in Italian. And me in English.
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Europe is just an ongoing lesson in how polyglot folks are. The couple next to me are German (or maybe Swiss) who are speaking to the waiter (who resides at least in Portugal) in Italian, who is speaking to the table on other side in Spanish, and the one past that in Italian. And me in English.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's Chief of Staff, Ed Buckham, was Tom Delay's CoS and was in up to his eyeballs in the Jack Abramhoff scandal. He should've been in prison, imo. Norm Ornstein wrote about this in 2006 -- the shocking ethical breaches, and carrying water for Russians.
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Chief of Staff, Ed Buckham, was Tom Delay's CoS and was in up to his eyeballs in the Jack Abramhoff scandal. He should've been in prison, imo. Norm Ornstein wrote about this in 2006 -- the shocking ethical breaches, and carrying water for Russians.
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Yep. There's a reason "no fanatic like a convert" is an old expression.
Even as a diehard atheist, I've noticed that those that were born and raised into Catholicism are usually cool, but many who convert into it as adults seem indistinguishable from the villains in The Handmaid's Tale. Maybe they like the aesthetics more than any actual Jesus teachings?
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Yep. There's a reason "no fanatic like a convert" is an old expression.
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Israeli forces are exactly the same
Footage has surfaced online showing unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war executed while lying face down, accompanied by the approving shouts of those filming the scene.
This is not an isolated atrocity, it is russia’s pattern. Execution. Torture. Destruction.
This is not an isolated atrocity, it is russia’s pattern. Execution. Torture. Destruction.
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Israeli forces are exactly the same
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The Trump administration's effort to control mainstream media is expanding and accelerating.
Trump’s White House wants to tell CNN, WaPo who to hire and fire
The Trump administration's effort to control mainstream media is expanding and accelerating
www.salon.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The Trump administration's effort to control mainstream media is expanding and accelerating.
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when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.
Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
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“She would have never survived a primary.”
Trump addresses his split with Marjorie Taylor Greene following the announcement of her resignation.
Trump addresses his split with Marjorie Taylor Greene following the announcement of her resignation.
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“She would have never survived a primary.”
Trump addresses his split with Marjorie Taylor Greene following the announcement of her resignation.
Trump addresses his split with Marjorie Taylor Greene following the announcement of her resignation.
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This week, I demanded the release of a 2019 phone call transcript between President Trump and MBS. This obviously touched a nerve. The very next day, they spew lies to silence and intimidate me.
It’s not going to work
It’s not going to work
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This week, I demanded the release of a 2019 phone call transcript between President Trump and MBS. This obviously touched a nerve. The very next day, they spew lies to silence and intimidate me.
It’s not going to work
It’s not going to work
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Rep. Jason Crow's office is seeking a Capitol Police investigation into Trump for what they described as "intimidating, threatening, and concerning" social media posts.
It's highly unusual for a member of Congress to request a police investigation into a sitting president of the United States.
It's highly unusual for a member of Congress to request a police investigation into a sitting president of the United States.
Scoop: Democrat requests police investigation into Trump over "threatening" posts
"All of these posts are intimidating, threatening, and concerning," Rep. Jason Crow's office wrote.
www.axios.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Rep. Jason Crow's office is seeking a Capitol Police investigation into Trump for what they described as "intimidating, threatening, and concerning" social media posts.
It's highly unusual for a member of Congress to request a police investigation into a sitting president of the United States.
It's highly unusual for a member of Congress to request a police investigation into a sitting president of the United States.
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detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
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elusive to OUR party?
GET IT TOGETHER!!
Get some strong branding and merch out there NOW!!
It’s exhausting to be on a team so shit at clearly communicating who they are, and what they stand for.
We need to punch people in the mouth with it, and plaster it coast to coast.
GET IT TOGETHER!!
Get some strong branding and merch out there NOW!!
It’s exhausting to be on a team so shit at clearly communicating who they are, and what they stand for.
We need to punch people in the mouth with it, and plaster it coast to coast.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
elusive to OUR party?
GET IT TOGETHER!!
Get some strong branding and merch out there NOW!!
It’s exhausting to be on a team so shit at clearly communicating who they are, and what they stand for.
We need to punch people in the mouth with it, and plaster it coast to coast.
GET IT TOGETHER!!
Get some strong branding and merch out there NOW!!
It’s exhausting to be on a team so shit at clearly communicating who they are, and what they stand for.
We need to punch people in the mouth with it, and plaster it coast to coast.
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THIS time, we invest in unifying branding now and offer it for free to all the Dem nominees who want to use it. Make it EASY for voters to figure out who is on team DEMOCRACY!!
I swear to god, every mom and pop pizza shop has figured out how important branding is. Why is the concept so
I swear to god, every mom and pop pizza shop has figured out how important branding is. Why is the concept so
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
THIS time, we invest in unifying branding now and offer it for free to all the Dem nominees who want to use it. Make it EASY for voters to figure out who is on team DEMOCRACY!!
I swear to god, every mom and pop pizza shop has figured out how important branding is. Why is the concept so
I swear to god, every mom and pop pizza shop has figured out how important branding is. Why is the concept so
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I believe Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens have the pulse of the modern MAGA movement going forward.
You can laugh at them and dismiss them as cranks, but you have to pay attention to what they're selling.
This is what comes after Trump.
You can laugh at them and dismiss them as cranks, but you have to pay attention to what they're selling.
This is what comes after Trump.
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I believe Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens have the pulse of the modern MAGA movement going forward.
You can laugh at them and dismiss them as cranks, but you have to pay attention to what they're selling.
This is what comes after Trump.
You can laugh at them and dismiss them as cranks, but you have to pay attention to what they're selling.
This is what comes after Trump.
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After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.
Marjorie Taylor Greene no longer trusts the plan
After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM