Charles Herold
cherold.bsky.social
Charles Herold
@cherold.bsky.social
Well, I'm just glad I didn't live to see this shitshow. Oh, wait, I'm still here. Fuck.

BTW, instablock to anyone who messages me who has never met me in person.

Mastodon:https://zirk.us/@cherold
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Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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So we know that Trump intervened to make Ghislaine Maxwell's life easier.

And that he intervened to make Andrew Tate's life easier.

I wonder how many sex traffickers Donald has gone out of his way to help that we don't know about.
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Lindsey Halligan: I was never alone with the grand jury.

Loaner AUSA: But the EDVA GJ Coordinator WAS alone with the foreperson and deputy.

😜

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.

Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I'd lost track of this story but am happy to see the Sackler's didn't get off scot-free, even if they still paid far too little.
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
On Medicare I get an OTC debit card I could use for food or medicine. But they've changed the rules, and now you can't use it for food unless you have a chronic health condition. So people too healthy to have a lot of health needs can now only spend the $2000 a year on health needs? WTF?
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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This behavior is a sickness in the republican party.⬇️
Stauber voted against this project he’s now taking credit for, as Republicans do constantly.
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Yes, it's your fault that you got hit by a car.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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oh cool, does that mean he's surrendering his trillion dollar pay package?
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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“People keep asking, ‘What’s wrong with the Democratic Party? What’s the right message?’” Kuster said. “They act like there are magic words. And it’s like, ‘It’s not a question of just getting the right words. It’s that *we are too freaking old*.’”

Yeah.
It’s My Party and I’ll Leave When I Want To
Talking to the gerontocracy.
nymag.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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NEW: “36% of Latino voters who voted for Trump in 2024 now say they are disappointed or regret their decision – representing more than 1 in 3 of his supporters having remorse directly tied to economic disappointment and broken promises.”

www.somosvotantes.com/press-releas...
Somos Votantes
www.somosvotantes.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Remember when the Trump administration ignored a judge's order to return planes deporting 200+ "alien enemies" to El Salvador in March?

In DC court just now, that judge said he'll force DOJ officials to testify. And maybe top Trump admin officials.

@notus.com:

www.notus.org/courts/feder...
Federal Judge Puts DOJ Back in the Crosshairs Over ‘Alien Enemy’ Deportation Flights
D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg started a Wednesday hearing by saying he would explore whether to make a “contempt referral” against top Trump administration officials.
www.notus.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"
There’s one person squarely to blame for Trump’s corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. He’s enabled so much of Trump’s lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it

New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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If you picked the worst five people on earth this century, President Trump has been friends with like three of them.
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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[a really long time ago]
ME: what are you drinking from
INVENTOR: a glass
ME: what's it made of
INVENTOR: glass
ME: what are those things on your face
INVENTOR: glasses
ME: jesus christ dude
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Comey hearing just ended. Govt admits 2d indictment never shown to full grand jury. Judge concerned. AUSA also admits DAG Blanche’s office told him not to disclose if previous prosecutors prepared a declination memo (saying why there was no case).
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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If this nation had moral standards, a pedophile would not be allowed to host a murderer in the Oval Office.
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Literally just lectured about this!

In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Does Nobel have a prize for most murders of fishermen on the high seas? Because, unlike peace between Ukraine and Russia, that's something that has actually happened. Repeatedly.
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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“The new indictment wasn’t a new indictment.”
https://wapo.st/4oPdaPL
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Celebrating International Men's Day by Googling “boobs” and punching a hole in the wall
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM