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This from @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me is one of the things I was most proud of from my three and a half years at Rolling Stone

For starters, it was a print mag feature that underscored via original reporting and the public record how vastly the trump personality cult has…
There are well upwards of a BILLION dollars (of OUR money) this year funneled to projects designed specifically to make Trump feel Good about himself: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trumps private and public furious response to the onrush of media coverage about his mind, health, age, sleep…
December 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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This has potential for some good trouble for the OU students.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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New in PN: @kevinmkruse.bsky.social on Trump making Nixon look like a choir boy

"He’s following the Spiro Agnew playbook of browbeating the press, but the howling from the WH over the war crimes scandal shows how it can backfire. It only reveals sore spots that need more attention from reporters."
Kevin Kruse on Trump making Nixon look like a choir boy
"Trump is engaged in a constant war with the media like we’ve never seen from a president before."
www.publicnotice.co
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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"..When the Secretary of Homeland Security can’t stay in a hearing long enough to answer basic questions and when the public trusts the protesters more than the person running the agency, you don’t have a messaging problem. You have a legitimacy crisis.."
#BlueCrew
ICE Melts Under Noem’s Shadow
ICE isn’t just losing support; it’s imploding under its own cruelty, incompetence, and Kristi Noem’s vanishing act, leaving America questioning who the real threat is.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Only the best people, right?🙄

Imagine how French leaders must have felt having this guy assigned to be our ambassador there.
December 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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“Since he was sworn back into office nearly a year ago, Donald Trump and several administration officials have already informally discussed the idea of preemptively pardoning an array of Trump advisers, policymakers, and others…
December 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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#GVerse While you fly around the country, playing dress-up for the cameras. 🤣 Mic drop!🎤
December 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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WALKINSHAW: Are you familiar with the Proud Boys?

GLASHEEN: I'm familiar with the name

WALKINSHAW: Does the FBI still designate them as an extremist organization? They did during Trump's first term

GLASHEEN: We are in the process right now of changing our, uh, categories for domestic terrorism
December 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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NEW: The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy is worse than you may have heard. It turns Trump's racism, corruption, and appeasement into official US policy. For my OUR LAND newsletter, I gave it a read so you don't have to.

link.motherjones.com/public/43021...
December 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Trump on Americans' healthcare costs going up by 200-300%: "Don't make it sound so bad"
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?

TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
www.nature.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Since it's the 25th anniversary of the corrupt SCOTUS decision that guaranteed we'd never know who really won the 2000 election, I thought I'd mention for those of you who may have been too young or just not paying attention to politics then that HBO has an excellent movie called "Recount" about it.
December 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Americans are expected to spend more than ever on holiday gifts—but they’re cutting back on nonessentials to afford it.
Half Of Americans Say It’s Harder To Afford Holiday Gifts This Year
Americans are expected to spend more than ever on holiday gifts—but they’re cutting back on nonessentials to afford it.
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Trump, trying to pardon someone he doesn't have the authority to pardon...
December 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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BREAKING: Donald Trump goes on a deranged rant claiming countries want him to serve as the leader of Europe.

This level of delusion is not normal.
December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Apparently, Lauren Boebert has been cosplaying as Kash Patel lately, as evidenced by a recent Federal Election Commission filing that showed she spent thousands of campaign dollars to visit Kid Rock, who is rumored to be her boyfriend.
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Harris: Under Trump’s leadership, prices are up, unemployment is up, inflation is up.. He said—I have to count the pluses—A+++++. That’s how he rated the economy. There is nothing A+ about any of this.
December 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Orcas and dolphins are working together off the BC coast to catch salmon.
Animals are banding together in the face of humankind's systematic destruction of the biosphere.
I wish them luck and long life.
December 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The entire United States government has been reorganized in service of Donald Trump’s paranoia and bizarre obsessions.
December 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This newspaper is owned by the world's 4th wealthiest person:
December 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Shit you see in LA are these little courier robots just casually strolling on by.
December 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Alzheimer's ward escapee told attendees of a White House dinner last night that several countries want him to serve as the ruler of Europe.
December 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Sending him to Costa Rica wasn't sufficiently cruel enough to satisfy Trump and Miller.
For weeks, Trump officials have refused to send him to Costa Rica even though he said he'd accept that. The ruling savagely details extensive misconduct here.

We all know what happened: Trump/Miller decided sending him there wouldn't be sufficiently dehumanizing. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM