Anne Rucker
@bartonrucker.bsky.social
New Orleanian first ⚜️, Expatriate second 🇪🇺. S-T-A-U-N-C-H™️ defender for the most vulnerable amongst us. Lover of brilliant drags in which (any of) ‘The PayPal Five’ are read for filth. Exhausted by and sad for MAGA evangelicals.
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
snyder.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
February 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
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i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
January 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM
i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
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This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.
January 31, 2025 at 5:07 AM
This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.
Oh that’s rich…
A Kremlin task force that aims to prevent external interference claimed today that the West is preparing to interfere in Russia’s 2026 federal parliamentary election.
The West is trying to interfere in our elections, Russia moans
Kremlin whacks the U.S. with claim about vote-meddling.
www.politico.eu
January 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Oh that’s rich…
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Doctors and nurses opposed to Robert F Kennedy’s junior‘s nomination are at the hearing today.
January 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Doctors and nurses opposed to Robert F Kennedy’s junior‘s nomination are at the hearing today.
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The Hegseth confirmation shows that Republican lawmakers have put party over country. They should be ashamed, but I doubt if they are.
January 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Hegseth confirmation shows that Republican lawmakers have put party over country. They should be ashamed, but I doubt if they are.
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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇
Well, are you?!
Well, are you?!
January 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇
Well, are you?!
Well, are you?!