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Mike Crampton
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Kenny Ken's asking me if I'm ready. I was born ready.

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@parkermolloy.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Impeachable offense in and of itself. The republic is dead.

#maralagotrials #nokings
Associated Press EN ® @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com Pentagon accepts $130 million donation to help pay the military during the government shutdown apnews.com/article/government-... Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-AssociatedPress \ PS - $I - AP News - 1d Pentagon accepts anonymous $130M gift for payroll amid shutdown By Konstantin Toropin
October 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Sometimes the you randomly come across something on the interwebs that helps clarify things.
niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social - 5h I don't think the Democratic Party has a very good theory of how people decide their vote. For a political party, this is probably bad. niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social - 5h I don't have a rock solid explanation either! It's only gotten stranger over the last 30 years! Because racism went from being bipartisan to a single party! And now racial animus drives our politics while we are forced to pretend it's about policy minutiae!
September 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Social media vetting of visitors to the United States will not stop with students and visa applicants.

It may not stop with visitors.

#elbowsup #handsoff #boycottusa #boycotttrump #maralagotrials
The cable indicated the Harvard pilot “will be expanded over time” and similar enhanced vetting could be applied to “other groups of visa applicants as appropriate”.
May 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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@Nonilex Don't ignore the Alina fucking Habba part of this story.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68014329

#elbowsup #handsoff #boycottusa #boycotttrump
It was during the civil lawsuit brought by E Jean Carroll - whom Trump was found to have assaulted in the 1990s - that Ms Habba hit the headlines for frequently quarrelling with Judge Lewis Kaplan. The judge went so far as to threaten her with jail time during closing arguments in the case, when she tried to introduce social media tweets that were not already in evidence. After a fiery back-and-forth, Judge Kaplan warned: "Ms Habba, you are on the verge of spending some time in the lock-up, now sit down." During other clashes, the judge reprimanded Ms Habba for failing to correctly introduce evidence, admonished her for not getting out of her chair while addressing the court and asked whether or not she grasped the meaning of the word "none". Ms Habba clashed with other jurists too, labelling Judge Arthur Engoron - the veteran 74-year-old who oversaw Trump's civil fraud case - "unhinged".
May 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01397-1

"...(CDC) by one-third..."!!!!!!!!

This is practically state-terrorism. At minimum homicidal.

But unlike the economic policies, won't be seen or felt for long enough to give cover, facilitate the "saving money" […]

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The administration seeks to cut the $9.6 billion budget for the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) by one-third and to eliminate programmes such as one aimed at preventing chronic diseases. That's despite the stated commitment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services oversees the CDC, to support such activities.
May 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01397-1

40%... 40%!!!!!

#elbowsup #handsoff #boycottusa #boycotttrump
National Institutes of Health The administration has proposed slashing the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from about $48 billion in 2025 to roughly $27 billion in 2026 — a cut of some 40%. If enacted, this would be the most drastic cut ever for the NIH, which is the world’s largest funder of biomedical research.
May 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Sacrilegious blasphemous MAGAlomaniacal narcissism is now the policy United States government.

There is no "joke" here. The only attempt at a joke is "haha, why are you getting so worked up about being trolled by a troll."

The anti-Gettysburg: government of the […]

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White House official account re-posts a Trump Truth Social post showing Trump as pope.
May 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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So this is fucked (among the other usual trolly insanity):

#elbowsup #handsoff #boycottusa #boycotttrump
Repeating banner from official White House website reading "LO-FI MAGA VIDEO TO RELAX/STUDY TO us" with "WATCH NOW" buttons.
May 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Re-posting Melissa Martin's spectacular article from a few weeks back about this.

https://melissamartin.substack.com/p/on-the-cliff

Hat tip to @NunavutBirder for the o.g. recommendation.

This is terrifying:

#elbowsup #boycottusa #handsoff
Graph showing precipitous drop in Net favorability of Volodymyr Zelensky among Republicans following Trump's criticism of him.
April 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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As Canadians, and Rest of the Worldians, we need to have a conversation about this. 50% of the U.S. will believe anything and it won't stop with Trump. The far right media eco-system has, in some ways, won. Not sure how you de-program this many people without a […]

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Chart of polling on immigration issues asking "Would you support or oppose the following?" Red box around "Designating large-scale fentanyl trafficking as a weapon of mass destruction" / 30% Strongly support / 22% Somewhat support / 11% Somewhat oppose / 18% Strongly oppose / 19% Not sure
April 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Quote from Thoreau's Walden, too long for the character limited, but starting from "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits. is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race, should find them; on that separate, but more free and honorable ground, where the State places those who are not with her but against her.—the only house in a slave-state in which a free man can abide with honor..."
April 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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How are there not emergency protests planned for this? Where are the Democrats? This is chain yourself to the White House gates time. Flood the entire area preventing the motorcade getting through.

#handsoff #elbowsup #boycottusa […]

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The alliance between Donald Trump and El Salvador president Nayib Bukele “has become an example for security and prosperity in our hemisphere”, Rubio added. The US president is due to meet Bukele at the White House on Monday.
April 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Canada's largest newspaper. In an editorial signed by its editorial board, stating the paper's own position:
As for the legislature, Mr. Trump’s gangster-like control over the Republican Party means that Republican Congress members don’t dare challenge their leader, lest they find themselves “primaried” in the next election. Their acquiescence to his use of emergency powers to capriciously add and subtract unjustified tariffs is a huge dereliction of duty by that branch of government.
April 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Quote from Thoreau's Walden, too long for the character limited, but starting from "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits. is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race, should find them; on that separate, but more free and honorable ground, where the State places those who are not with her but against her.—the only house in a slave-state in which a free man can abide with honor..."
March 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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O Canada, it's time to fundamentally re-align. The choice is not ours.

https://melissamartin.substack.com/p/on-the-cliff

#dontbuyamerican #boycottusa
That drop is shocking, all the more because it isn’t organic; it’s not an accumulation of things. They were told exactly when to start hating Zelenskyy, and why. They're doing it now to Canadians, too. We ignore it at our peril.
March 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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@brianpjcronin.bsky.social "Well, everyone knows government is here to fix problems. What this administration presupposes is... maybe it isn't."
Owen Wilson as Eli Cash in The Royal Tanenbaums pontificating at a party.
February 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Even the Guardian buried the lede here.

They're actually gonna do it. They're actually just going to blow up the whole financial system for no good reason (maybe other than personal enrichment).

Is this where they all just personally benefit from the crypto scam […]

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Also during his flight to New Orleans to watch the Super Bowl, Trump said the US may carry less debt than thought and said it could be because of fraud related to debt payments. The United States currently has $36.2tn public debt outstanding, according to the US treasury, which plays a central role in the global financial system. Trump has tasked billionaire Elon Musk’s government efficiency team with rooting out fraud and wasteful spending across the federal government. “We’re even looking at treasuries,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. “There could be a problem - you’ve been reading about that, with treasuries and that could be an interesting problem.” Audits being carried out by Musk’s efficiency team have disrupted operations at several federal agencies. Trump’s comments on Sunday about potential fraud related to US treasuries raises the question of what sort of action Musk’s team may take on treasuries.
February 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM