Don Van Deusen
@don-deusen.bsky.social
Retired layabout, hoarder and sit-down comedian. Live in NY's 19th district. Democracy, movies, history, art and photography, things old, mostly.
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REPORT via @newrepublic.com: Stephen Miller’s post-2020 plans went beyond politics
He aimed for a paramilitary, authoritarian “MAGA Terror State”
We @democracydefendersfund.org are pushing back through 225+ legal matters defending our democracy
Read👇 -TN newrepublic.com/article/2041...
He aimed for a paramilitary, authoritarian “MAGA Terror State”
We @democracydefendersfund.org are pushing back through 225+ legal matters defending our democracy
Read👇 -TN newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
REPORT via @newrepublic.com: Stephen Miller’s post-2020 plans went beyond politics
He aimed for a paramilitary, authoritarian “MAGA Terror State”
We @democracydefendersfund.org are pushing back through 225+ legal matters defending our democracy
Read👇 -TN newrepublic.com/article/2041...
He aimed for a paramilitary, authoritarian “MAGA Terror State”
We @democracydefendersfund.org are pushing back through 225+ legal matters defending our democracy
Read👇 -TN newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
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Whatever horrible thing happens in the country or the world. You can always count on this sick son of a bitch to make it worse.
👉 Rob Reiner was a better man than this lowlife POS will ever be.
👉 Rob Reiner was a better man than this lowlife POS will ever be.
December 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Whatever horrible thing happens in the country or the world. You can always count on this sick son of a bitch to make it worse.
👉 Rob Reiner was a better man than this lowlife POS will ever be.
👉 Rob Reiner was a better man than this lowlife POS will ever be.
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TRUMP: *calls Somalis "garbage"*
OMAR: The president is a bigot
NEWSMAX:
OMAR: The president is a bigot
NEWSMAX:
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
TRUMP: *calls Somalis "garbage"*
OMAR: The president is a bigot
NEWSMAX:
OMAR: The president is a bigot
NEWSMAX:
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Medicaid work requirements are devastating for people with aphasia. They struggle with paperwork, reporting deadlines, and complex digital portals.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia...
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Aphasia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Medicaid work requirements are devastating for people with aphasia. They struggle with paperwork, reporting deadlines, and complex digital portals.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia...
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Key Largo, Florida:
Trump’s lawless gang of masked thugs dragging a U.S. citizen, dressed in scrubs, on her way to work, out of her car.
Trump’s lawless gang of masked thugs dragging a U.S. citizen, dressed in scrubs, on her way to work, out of her car.
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Key Largo, Florida:
Trump’s lawless gang of masked thugs dragging a U.S. citizen, dressed in scrubs, on her way to work, out of her car.
Trump’s lawless gang of masked thugs dragging a U.S. citizen, dressed in scrubs, on her way to work, out of her car.
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Trump (This morning): "Our border has never been so secure! Nobody's coming in."
Trump (One hour later): "Criminals are pouring into our country at rates nobody's ever seen before!"
Trump (One hour later): "Criminals are pouring into our country at rates nobody's ever seen before!"
December 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Trump (This morning): "Our border has never been so secure! Nobody's coming in."
Trump (One hour later): "Criminals are pouring into our country at rates nobody's ever seen before!"
Trump (One hour later): "Criminals are pouring into our country at rates nobody's ever seen before!"
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KegBreath, the criminal in the Oval, and the boot-licking cowards around him can try to cover up the murders and war crimes, but the truth is coming out one way or the other.
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
KegBreath, the criminal in the Oval, and the boot-licking cowards around him can try to cover up the murders and war crimes, but the truth is coming out one way or the other.
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Mike Johnson claims releasing the Epstein files could jeopardize future cases and even threaten national security. None of that survives contact with the facts. And the national security excuse only raises bigger questions about who Epstein really was.
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=717o...
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=717o...
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Mike Johnson claims releasing the Epstein files could jeopardize future cases and even threaten national security. None of that survives contact with the facts. And the national security excuse only raises bigger questions about who Epstein really was.
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=717o...
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=717o...
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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There has been no breathless roadblock coverage of this shooting on cable channels or in major newspapers, afaik. wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
There has been no breathless roadblock coverage of this shooting on cable channels or in major newspapers, afaik. wgme.com/news/local/i...
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Nov. 28, 1925: Hoping to drum up publicity for his work as a stuntman for hire, Arthur “Shorty” Houghtaling dons a parachute and Santa suit and leaps from the top of the 11-story Wiss Building in Newark, N.J. His chute only partly opens and he suffers serious injury on landing.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Nov. 28, 1925: Hoping to drum up publicity for his work as a stuntman for hire, Arthur “Shorty” Houghtaling dons a parachute and Santa suit and leaps from the top of the 11-story Wiss Building in Newark, N.J. His chute only partly opens and he suffers serious injury on landing.
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Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …
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This plaque hangs at West Point. How long before Republicans take it down?
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This plaque hangs at West Point. How long before Republicans take it down?
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Reading great books that seem so timely -
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reading great books that seem so timely -
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This. They're a bunch of freaking gangsters.
DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This. They're a bunch of freaking gangsters.