Deborah Ludwig
@debludwig.bsky.social
Political junkie; former, possibly again future actress; travel bug - often solo; cancer survivor; author of Rebirth. Life mantra: Leap, and the net will appear.
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Giant corporations are lobbying Donald Trump for yet another tax handout — this time for research they've ALREADY DONE.
Give me a break.
The last thing American families need is a tax code rigged even more for billionaires and billionaire corporations.
Give me a break.
The last thing American families need is a tax code rigged even more for billionaires and billionaire corporations.
Democrats tee off on possible Treasury corporate tax move - Roll Call
A group of Democrats is leading opposition to a potential regulatory carve-out from a new minimum tax on corporate profits.
rollcall.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Giant corporations are lobbying Donald Trump for yet another tax handout — this time for research they've ALREADY DONE.
Give me a break.
The last thing American families need is a tax code rigged even more for billionaires and billionaire corporations.
Give me a break.
The last thing American families need is a tax code rigged even more for billionaires and billionaire corporations.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
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This, of course, as a complete lie, but that's the new Pentagon and Pentagon Press Corp for you, completely untrustworthy.
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This, of course, as a complete lie, but that's the new Pentagon and Pentagon Press Corp for you, completely untrustworthy.
What?? 🤯
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What?? 🤯
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Trump says he doesn't understand how talks with Russia failed. 1) Witkoff has a track record of getting things wrong. 2) They are in over their head and fail to understand how the terms of negotiation are a reflexive control operation designed to divide the US from its allies.
Donald Trump made an embarrassing admission about peace talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin after they ended yet again in failure.
Trump Makes Embarrassing Confession About Putin as Peace Push Flops
Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner have been attempting to bag a peace deal.
trib.al
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Trump says he doesn't understand how talks with Russia failed. 1) Witkoff has a track record of getting things wrong. 2) They are in over their head and fail to understand how the terms of negotiation are a reflexive control operation designed to divide the US from its allies.
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Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term.
Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on s...
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term.
Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
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NVIDIA's CEO spent the past year lobbying Trump to greenlight the sale of advanced AI chips to China, which could undercut US national security.
Now he's heading to Capitol Hill to push his agenda in secret meetings.
Huang should testify publicly.
Now he's heading to Capitol Hill to push his agenda in secret meetings.
Huang should testify publicly.
Ranking Member Warren's statement on NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill:
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NVIDIA's CEO spent the past year lobbying Trump to greenlight the sale of advanced AI chips to China, which could undercut US national security.
Now he's heading to Capitol Hill to push his agenda in secret meetings.
Huang should testify publicly.
Now he's heading to Capitol Hill to push his agenda in secret meetings.
Huang should testify publicly.
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We must connect the dots.
Trump is trying to normalize the word “enemy” to describe American citizens, while also normalizing military in our streets.
It’s not a coincidence.
Trump is trying to normalize the word “enemy” to describe American citizens, while also normalizing military in our streets.
It’s not a coincidence.
December 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We must connect the dots.
Trump is trying to normalize the word “enemy” to describe American citizens, while also normalizing military in our streets.
It’s not a coincidence.
Trump is trying to normalize the word “enemy” to describe American citizens, while also normalizing military in our streets.
It’s not a coincidence.
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Note who is missing from this table?
America.
Because we have taken Russia’s side.
bsky.app/profile/ones...
America.
Because we have taken Russia’s side.
bsky.app/profile/ones...
Today in Brussels, Rustem Umerov briefed Nat Sec advisors of Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Finland, and the United Kingdom on the peace talks in Geneva and Miami. There were also representatives of the EU and NATO.
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Note who is missing from this table?
America.
Because we have taken Russia’s side.
bsky.app/profile/ones...
America.
Because we have taken Russia’s side.
bsky.app/profile/ones...
I ask the same question. It’s disheartening to see so little pushback or criticism of them.
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I ask the same question. It’s disheartening to see so little pushback or criticism of them.
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America’s relentless air campaign against suspected drug-smuggling boats was a scandal waiting to happen. But who is responsible for the strike that some say amounts to a war crime? econ.st/48inKc4
Photo: Getty Images
Photo: Getty Images
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America’s relentless air campaign against suspected drug-smuggling boats was a scandal waiting to happen. But who is responsible for the strike that some say amounts to a war crime? econ.st/48inKc4
Photo: Getty Images
Photo: Getty Images
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There's a reason DC, with all its Roman architecture and nomenclature, doesn't have a triumphal arch. They are imperial. The practice is older, but they're primarily associated with the later surviving ones, exclusively reserved for emperors. Thus why the one in Paris is a Napoleonic monument.
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There's a reason DC, with all its Roman architecture and nomenclature, doesn't have a triumphal arch. They are imperial. The practice is older, but they're primarily associated with the later surviving ones, exclusively reserved for emperors. Thus why the one in Paris is a Napoleonic monument.
More wasting of taxpayer dollars…it’s infuriating.
Trump is doing victory laps with his trousers around his ankles and a visible skid mark.
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
More wasting of taxpayer dollars…it’s infuriating.
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Anyone who cares about Europe's future and loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe can take for its own defence and Ukraine's survival. America is lost. www.ft.com/content/3c23...
Brussels floats ‘emergency’ powers to raise €210bn from Russian assets
Contentious proposal to fund Ukraine would mark watershed moment for EU
www.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anyone who cares about Europe's future and loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe can take for its own defence and Ukraine's survival. America is lost. www.ft.com/content/3c23...
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NEW: Jim Jordan and House GOPers refused to let the American public hear directly from Jack Smith, per his attorney.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
NEW: Jim Jordan and House GOPers refused to let the American public hear directly from Jack Smith, per his attorney.
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Seemed?! Dude was in REM sleep while the Cabinet talked about national security. Drowsy Don didn’t just nod off he was one Werther’s Original away from full grandpa-at-Thanksgiving energy.
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Seemed?! Dude was in REM sleep while the Cabinet talked about national security. Drowsy Don didn’t just nod off he was one Werther’s Original away from full grandpa-at-Thanksgiving energy.
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America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.
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Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.
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Trump sent the National Guard to fight what he called "violent radical left terrorism" in Portland.
At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats.
Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."
At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats.
Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."
Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE
A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum.
www.propublica.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump sent the National Guard to fight what he called "violent radical left terrorism" in Portland.
At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats.
Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."
At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats.
Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."
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Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
moments after Matt Gaetz asks a question at the Pentagon press briefing, Laura Loomer gets her turn
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.
One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.