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bawteach.bsky.social
@bawteach.bsky.social
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“And the seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look
Behind, from where we came
And go round and round and round, in the circle game”
Joni Mitchell
The Circle Game
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From border towns to major tourist draws, international visitor numbers have dropped since Trump returned to office in January.
Visitors to US plunge amid concerns about Donald Trump's policies
www.newsweek.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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A divided U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool.
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, U.S. appeals court rules
The court allowed the tariffs to remain in place through Oct. 14 to give the Trump administration a chance to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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August 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Yeah, this is a highly unusual all-hands-on-deck meeting that wouldn’t be happening if Alaska was productive.

5 European leaders, the head of NATO and the head of the EU don’t just drop everything and fly to DC.

H/T: @radiofreetom.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Wake the fuck up to what's going on in this country... We're going to put everything on the damn line... People haven't given up yet. We're going to do this. We can win this November. We can win next November, and then we can get this country back on track."
August 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
August 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
August 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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He spends $200 MILLION of your💰on a ballroom and his family doesn’t deny making billions off his presidency.

As you cheer for him caging brown ice cream men & kids, he invades DC to cover a child sex trafficking ring and trashes the constitution to cling to power.

He laughs.
August 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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When you see Cuomo attacking Mamdani over his rent stabilized one bedroom in Queens, do recall this please:
August 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
August 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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My law firm is currently litigating 48 voting and election cases in 23 states including 7 redistricting cases in AL, GA, LA, NC TX, & WI.
August 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.

And then that guy was "silenced" forever.

And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
August 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Karl: The transformation has been gradual and unmistakable.

By February, some golden urns on the mantle.

April, gold adornments appear on the walls.

By July, it's gold everywhere.

Just this week more scaffolding popped up, even more new gold trim appeared.
August 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Texas hasn't received FEMA aid yet. The callous disregard from officials is shocking. I hope Texans remember this in 2026. Ultimately, it seems the priority is enriching the wealthy using funds collected from struggling individuals.
August 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🚨🚨🚨

IT GETS WORSE 😳

"Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN."

Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
July 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Are we great yet?
July 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.
Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
www.npr.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Fact check:

mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).

This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.

Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
August 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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‘South Park’ clip: ICE recruitment video
August 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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It’s important to have those hard conversations.

Pleased to be part of the new Democratic Veterans Caucus to help highlight the facts of how this Administration is harming military veterans and their families.
August 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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All you really need to know about the federal prison facility to which Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred is that the official signage looks like the kind of place that offers 2-for-1 slider specials, 10-cent wing happy hours, and a live karaoke band every Tues. night.

She sex trafficked kids.
August 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I wrote this last Friday and was clearly ahead of the curve. Become a Democracy Docket premium member now to make sure you get my latest updated analysis tomorrow.

Link: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
August 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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To athletes and coaches around the world: REFUSE to come to the United States for the 2028 Olympics. Do NOT endorse what is happening in the country. Do not come. That’s how you show you are against the authoritarian takeover.
August 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Parts of the Constitution were erased from the Library of Congress website, including the section featuring the foreign emoluments clause.

The removal was blamed on a "coding error."

Here's a reminder of what the clause says, just in case Congress ever decides to enforce it...
August 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM