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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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atrupar.com
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
1) Remember he said something similar about Marie Yovanovitch.
2) I'm really not sure how the cartels are going to play in Trump's imperial ambitions and I think most Americans should think seriously about that. Many of them are 2 degrees from US Special Forces training.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Trump on the president of Colombia: "He's gonna have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up ... he better wise up or he'll be next. I hope he's listening. He's gonna be next."
December 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
So they *are* able to stop a ship in international waters and seize control of it without killing everyone on board?

Huh.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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johnfugelsang.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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inquirer.com
While the federal government was shut down, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services altered the name under the official portrait of Admiral Rachel Levine to her birth name or “dead name.” Levine described the name change as a “petty action.”

🔗 www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
Trump administration alters the name of former Asst. Health Secretary Rachel Levine, the first open Senate-confirmed transgender official
Levine, a Pennsylvania doctor who served the state as physician general and secretary of health before joining the Biden administration, described the move as petty.
www.inquirer.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
COLBERT, on Paramount’s $108 billion bid for Warner:

“.. Wow. .. If my company's got that kind of green, I'm sure they can afford to un-cancel one of their best shows.”

$PSKY @latenightercom.bsky.social
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December 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
DENMARK INTELLIGENCE REPORT:

“.. The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
December 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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schumer.senate.gov
It takes a special kind of delusion to tell parents to buy their kids fewer toys and pencils while bragging about building a new White House ballroom and gold in the Oval Office.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
blakeyblakey-1-9.bsky.social
Fucking gross. You have my money and my vote if you pledge to end this atrocity
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
It’s striking how many of the most mundane features of American democracy, built centuries ago to protect against remembered tyrants from centuries prior, are still the bulwark against Trumpian fascism, while all the newfangled modern institutions simply collapsed on first contact with him
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 18h
JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.

That means the grand jury refused to indict.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 7d
U.S. prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz, "without prejudice."

It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.

The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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lincolnproject.us
Republicans can't pretend this administration is defendable forever. Their party is nearing a breaking point. Listen to Stuart Stevens on MSNOW
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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atrupar.com
Spencer Cox: "I disagree with Congresswoman Omar. I think she should be voted out of it. I think I can do that without attacking her religion or race or ethnic background. I know that the president disagrees with me ... he's not interested in uniting the country."
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the united states is currently being led by a bunch of little david dukes with a senescent outer-borough grand dragon at the top
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Although the pretense of adhering to democratic values has been abandoned by an administration that disdains democracy, free speech, and the rule of law, the theory is nonetheless the same: Unless America defends ethno-nationalism against the forces of multiracial democracy elsewhere, ethno-nationalism will not be safe here. The Trump administration’s rabid hostility toward the “Rainbow Nation” of South Africa, with its history all Americans can recognize, makes more sense in this context.
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. Greer’s comment at the hearing came on the heels of a report by NBC News showing that the pace of China’s purchase of soybeans in recent weeks was well short of reaching the agreed amount by the end of the calendar year.”

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www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/t...
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
First Democratic mayor in Miami in 30 years www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Democrat Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayor’s race, beats Trump’s pick
In addition to being the city’s first female mayor, Higgins is also the first Democrat and non-Hispanic elected to the position in decades.
www.miamiherald.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. Once upon a time, a chief executive openly signaling that he’d reorient a newsroom to appease a sitting president would be a five-alarm corporate scandal ..”

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December 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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jamellebouie.net
main economic message from
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
No one is going to want to come here
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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atrupar.com
Trump on Karoline Leavitt: "That beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun"
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The President is bragging again about passing a basic cognitive exam they give to determine if your brain still works.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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bethanyallen.bsky.social
Wow — even China doesn't do this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
It's like they are actively trying to kill the tourist industry.
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM