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· Nov 11
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Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
A must read from @gregsargent.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com
“Indeed, Miller’s grander aims are best understood as an effort to destroy the entire architecture of immigration and humanitarian resettlement put in place in the post–World War II era.”
“Indeed, Miller’s grander aims are best understood as an effort to destroy the entire architecture of immigration and humanitarian resettlement put in place in the post–World War II era.”
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A must read from @gregsargent.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com
“Indeed, Miller’s grander aims are best understood as an effort to destroy the entire architecture of immigration and humanitarian resettlement put in place in the post–World War II era.”
“Indeed, Miller’s grander aims are best understood as an effort to destroy the entire architecture of immigration and humanitarian resettlement put in place in the post–World War II era.”
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In his first term Trump went underwater in 538’s average after like three weeks. Of course he’d lost the popular vote by quite a bit that time.
Enten highlights that Trump is underwater on every key issue: "The report card is negative. Every single day since March 12 Trump has been in the red. 281 days in a row. The bottom line is Americans don't like what Trump is doing and they haven't liked what Trump's doing for a long period of time."
December 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
In his first term Trump went underwater in 538’s average after like three weeks. Of course he’d lost the popular vote by quite a bit that time.
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Worried that the escalation this week is designed to coincide with Friday's deadline for the DOJ to release the Epstein files
Gallego: "This is the Iraq War 2.0 with a South American flavor. I'm hoping this doesn't happen, but I'm telling you - if you look at what they have down there, all the assets they have down there, all the actions they're taking, this is absolutely an effort to get us involved in a war in Venezuela"
December 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Worried that the escalation this week is designed to coincide with Friday's deadline for the DOJ to release the Epstein files
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
Feels like a good time to re-post @zeblarson.bsky.social piece for us on this administration and Venezuela.
What Is Behind Trump’s Attacks on Venezuela? - Dame Magazine
The polycrisis that is the Trump administration can be difficult to fully keep track of: As Steve Bannon once said, the goal is to “flood the zone with shit” and paralyze us from being able to respond...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Feels like a good time to re-post @zeblarson.bsky.social piece for us on this administration and Venezuela.
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The war Trump is setting up against Venezuela looks a lot like Putin’s war on Ukraine:
/ Completely avoidable
/ Based on lies that no one believes
/ Defiant of international law
/ Basically an armed robbery
/ Completely avoidable
/ Based on lies that no one believes
/ Defiant of international law
/ Basically an armed robbery
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The war Trump is setting up against Venezuela looks a lot like Putin’s war on Ukraine:
/ Completely avoidable
/ Based on lies that no one believes
/ Defiant of international law
/ Basically an armed robbery
/ Completely avoidable
/ Based on lies that no one believes
/ Defiant of international law
/ Basically an armed robbery
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Actually any decent economist could tell you that this is false
Vance: "Why have rents gone down for 4 consecutive months? Because we're starting to get those illegal aliens out of the USA. Those criminals, those gang members, those people that are taking homes that ought by right go the people in this room. It's simple economics."
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Actually any decent economist could tell you that this is false
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I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
If masculinity is “under attack,” why does it still drive politics, money, culture, and power? The discourse says more about fear of femininity than concern for boys. From @nberlat.bsky.social
Who Exactly Is Having a “Crisis of Masculinity”? - Dame Magazine
“If we can’t convince young men of the honor involved and the unique contributions inherent in expressing what makes them male, we’ll lose them to niche, rabid online communities,” writes marketing gu...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If masculinity is “under attack,” why does it still drive politics, money, culture, and power? The discourse says more about fear of femininity than concern for boys. From @nberlat.bsky.social
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one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
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NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
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Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
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Applying my 4-category alarm rating:
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
“Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the ‘biggest waves of censorship’ on its platforms in years.”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Applying my 4-category alarm rating:
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
- Voting rights
- Free Elections
- Civil liberties 🚨
- Rule of law
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This.
It can happen to anyone.
That’s where we are.
It can happen to anyone.
That’s where we are.
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
This.
It can happen to anyone.
That’s where we are.
It can happen to anyone.
That’s where we are.
Magaziner's entire questioning was very well done.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Magaziner's entire questioning was very well done.
What happens when a fading strongman leaves behind a movement built on grievance, racism, and authoritarianism?
@themaxburns.bsky.social digs into the shadow succession of JD Vance, and what it means for democracy, pluralism, and the future of American power.
@themaxburns.bsky.social digs into the shadow succession of JD Vance, and what it means for democracy, pluralism, and the future of American power.
What Would a Vance Presidency Look Like? - Dame Magazine
To millions of people, Donald Trump is something more than human. His shadow seems to stretch across the entirety of American life, transmuting and reshaping parts of our culture that were once consid...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
What happens when a fading strongman leaves behind a movement built on grievance, racism, and authoritarianism?
@themaxburns.bsky.social digs into the shadow succession of JD Vance, and what it means for democracy, pluralism, and the future of American power.
@themaxburns.bsky.social digs into the shadow succession of JD Vance, and what it means for democracy, pluralism, and the future of American power.
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According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
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"Kim’s robotic stoicism might be an asset to her budding law career but it is a detriment to her budding acting career." #AllsFair www.damemagazine.com/2025/12/09/r... via @damemagazine.bsky.social
Ryan Murphy’s Redemption Arc of Kim Kardashian - Dame Magazine
“When are we gonna do revenge?” asks Naomi Watts’s character, Liberty Ronson, in All’s Fair, the Hulu vehicle Ryan Murphy built for Kim Kardashian that has its two-part season finale tonight, December...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Kim’s robotic stoicism might be an asset to her budding law career but it is a detriment to her budding acting career." #AllsFair www.damemagazine.com/2025/12/09/r... via @damemagazine.bsky.social
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Venezuela - Trump's Wag-the-Dog War
@zeblarson.bsky.social wrote a great piece for us on what this admin is doing now and some historical context
December 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Venezuela - Trump's Wag-the-Dog War
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The CNN journalist obsessively scrutinized President Biden’s age and health, but seems unaware that our current 79-year-old president is in rapid decline. We’re here to help.
via @damemagazine.bsky.social
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Hey Jake Tapper, Have You Noticed Trump Is Old and Unwell? - Dame Magazine
Dear Jake Tapper, We have important news to share with you: The president is ill. He’s old. He’s slurring his words. He’s stumbling on the stairs. He’s forgetting people’s names. His hands are bruised...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The CNN journalist obsessively scrutinized President Biden’s age and health, but seems unaware that our current 79-year-old president is in rapid decline. We’re here to help.
via @damemagazine.bsky.social
via @damemagazine.bsky.social
@zeblarson.bsky.social wrote a great piece for us on what this admin is doing now and some historical context
December 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@zeblarson.bsky.social wrote a great piece for us on what this admin is doing now and some historical context
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Woke up and saw that @damemagazine.bsky.social is asking Jake Tapper why he managed to turn one president's aging into a book but has no interest in staying on that beat: www.damemagazine.com/2025/12/10/h...
Hey Jake Tapper, Have You Noticed Trump Is Old and Unwell? - Dame Magazine
Dear Jake Tapper, We have important news to share with you: The president is ill. He’s old. He’s slurring his words. He’s stumbling on the stairs. He’s forgetting people’s names. His hands are bruised...
www.damemagazine.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Woke up and saw that @damemagazine.bsky.social is asking Jake Tapper why he managed to turn one president's aging into a book but has no interest in staying on that beat: www.damemagazine.com/2025/12/10/h...