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Ann M Robie
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Democrat without illusions. It's going to be a long, tough slog.
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propublica.org
Who are the Venezuelan immigrants Trump sent to CECOT?

Earlier this year, our team compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.

These are their stories.
https://propub.li/492QTqQ
The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.
upshot.nytimes.com The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 4d
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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willmckinley.bsky.social
Here's a downloadable link to the 60 MINUTES piece that Trump's enablers at Paramount's CBS refused to air.

Share it far and wide.

Thanks @jasonparis.bsky.social for posting. #60Minutes
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it
December 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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elivalley.bsky.social
Ben knows what he's talking about, he paid Candace Owens a hefty salary to vomit up antisemitism and other bigotries for YEARS before she added Israel to her list of obsessions.
Tweet with embedded video: Daily Wire @realDailyWire "The people who refused to condemn Candace’s truly vicious attacks – and some of them are speaking here tonight – are guilty of cowardice." @benshapiro https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/2001820739398438946
December 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…
December 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
annmrobie.bsky.social
Can't repost this enough!!
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6d
Dear @sfchronicle.com: I should not as a subscribe who also has your app, be forced to sign in every time I read a story.

Cc: too many places
December 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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fritschner.bsky.social
Just remembered the James OKeefe sting video with a DOJ official from early September: “They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files [and] leave all the liberal, Democratic people”
December 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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jamellebouie.net
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.

Just like it’s still the department of defense
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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bstewdlh.bsky.social
NYT acting like it was no big deal Brooks was there, and then this final line from the Buzzfeed story: "After the event, they took the guest list and shredded it."
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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jayapal.house.gov
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.

28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
Trump's ridiculous primetime address was yet another sign that his presidency is failing www.vox.com/politics/472...
The revealing pointlessness of Trump’s primetime speech
The president is a desperate man.
www.vox.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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markwarner.bsky.social
Trump’s speech is a sad attempt at distraction.

Americans know the truth: costs are up, unemployment is up, and he STILL won’t release the Epstein Files.
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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gregtinti.bsky.social
It’s like someone is below the podium stabbing him in the calves as he tries to speak.
December 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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wyden.senate.gov
Senate News: Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into their latest government funding bill that would make it easier to sell off public lands and national parks, and may have the votes to do it. If you care about protecting your public lands, now’s the time to make it known.
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”
December 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Lookin for a last minute Christmas gift idea? Send them a Holler hat! 🧢 🎁 🎄

tnholler.com/new-holler-h...
December 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works.
Lindsey halligan text exchange Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know. Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect. Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
I think part of why this is breaking thru, I think, in ways that u don’t see other trump comments (even when he’s saying things like we need to cleanse the hills of Somali bloodlines) do not is because it’s just so uniquely gross and depraved. Normal people who aren’t liberals can tell that Reiner…
December 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM