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Bonnie Samuel

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Recently a law passed Congress, & signed by Trump. It stipulates that All Epstein files to be released Dec 19, yesterday, & also defines what is to be redacted and not to be redacted.
lawyers and some Congress persons are whining today-isn’t it time to take some action against the lawbreakers ?

December 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

The Mamdani Moment
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The Mamdani Moment

And the Future of the Democratic Party

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October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

The Nobel Prize is about character, not headlines
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The Nobel Prize is about character, not headlines

Trump’s Peace Prize fixation reveals more about him than about peace.

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October 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

Life in the Shadow of the American Dream
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Life in the Shadow of the American Dream

Voices of Americans

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August 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

Legal AF's Substack
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Put LEGAL AF on your daily must- read list….Michael Popok explains the law, so critical in these times.

Legal AF's Substack | Substack

Breaking news at the intersection of law & politics with sharp & witty commentary curated by Legal AF x MeidasTouch’s co-founder, Michael Popok. Click to read Legal AF's Substack, a Substack publicati...

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August 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

Bernie Sanders hired an Iowa organizer. What he's working on now
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Bernie Sanders hired an Iowa organizer. What he's working on now

An interview with Evan Burger

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April 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

*gazes wistfully out a window*

Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement, Banned From Next Elections

Judges convicted the far-right leader of misusing EU funds and barred her from running in the 2027 French presidential elections.

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March 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM

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Andrew Duff

@andrewduffeu.bsky.social

Lots of nonsense in the ‘news’ about Le Pen. Unlike other MEPs, she and her colleagues treated the EU with contempt and systematically abused the EP’s complicated funding system. It was not a mistake. It was criminal behaviour. @europarl.europa.eu

March 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

How Democrats can come back from the dead
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How Democrats can come back from the dead

There is only one way for the Democratic Party to survive

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March 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

Digging deep on Iowa's new transgender discrimination law
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Digging deep on Iowa's new transgender discrimination law

March 3 edition of "KHOI's Capitol Week"

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March 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM

Bonnie Samuel

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Art Cullen on Substack

Here is my column: I am constipated, but not dead. https://open.substack.com/pub/artcullen/p/i-survived-to-climb-on-my-soapbox?r=d6scw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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March 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

AG Pam Bondi Isn’t Filing Criminal Charges, It’s Just A Lawsuit
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AG Pam Bondi Isn’t Filing Criminal Charges, It’s Just A Lawsuit

But it's still dangerous

www.dworkinsubstack.com

February 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025

On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.

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February 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

This Is What Accomplices Do
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Scott Dworkin on The Dworkin Report

NEW: We must make it clear to Trump and his maga cult—no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security—EVER. Let’s try to get 1,000 letters sent to Congress today: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/...

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February 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM

Bonnie Samuel

@bonniesamuel44.bsky.social

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February 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM

Bonnie Samuel

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Jane Ayrie @janeayrie.bsky.social · Dec 1

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
#writingcommunity

Day 13

Cover of the Penguin Classics edition of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens. A black and white drawing of a mob rushing past. In the foreground a woman with her back to the viewer raises a sword in one hand while holding a dagger in the other. My choice for Day 13 of the Book Challenge to pick books that have stayed with or influenced you.

January 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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CNN

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Israel launched a "large-scale military operation" in the occupied West Bank, days after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza went into effect

As fighting in Gaza stops, Israel launches major military campaign in West Bank | CNN

The Israeli military killed at least seven Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday as the prime minister announced the start of a “large-scale military operation” in the restive city of Jeni...

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January 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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The Guardian

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So this is Trump’s ‘golden age’ – chaos, dysfunction and a coalition of creeps | Marina Hyde

Confusing and capricious, he started as he means to go on. To all the leaders pledging to work with him: good luck with that Full American democracy is barely 60 years old, yet seems to be in an advanced state of cognitive decline. At his inauguration…

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January 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM

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Reason Magazine

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Mexico wouldn't be the first country where the U.S. government has tried to mix the war on terror with the war on drugs.

Trump goes after Mexico by designating drug cartels terrorist organizations

The new Trump administration is "designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations" as part of a crackdown on drug trafficking across the

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January 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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Glenn Kirschner

@glennkirschner.bsky.social

In new court filing, federal prosecutors announce that Garland will publicly release Vol. 1 of Jack Smith's report (Trump's election crimes) & will provide Vol. 2 (Trump's classified documents crimes) to House & Senate Judiciary committee members, thereby PRESERVING the evidence for future use.