Alesia Duncombe
@duncmom.bsky.social
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“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…”
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
January 17, 2026 at 8:58 AM
“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…”
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
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you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
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How can anyone continue to support this??
ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
How can anyone continue to support this??
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Listening to these 8 Dem Senators explain their vote convinces me that they are either idiots or liars. Either is plausible.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Listening to these 8 Dem Senators explain their vote convinces me that they are either idiots or liars. Either is plausible.
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Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
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Trump's ballroom fiasco looks even worse against backdrop of bad economic news:
*layoffs mounting
*food stamps expiring
*health care premiums soaring
*consumer sentiment sliding
On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems:
newrepublic.com/article/2024...
*layoffs mounting
*food stamps expiring
*health care premiums soaring
*consumer sentiment sliding
On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems:
newrepublic.com/article/2024...
Trump Ballroom Fiasco Takes Worse Turn as Economic Data Gets Brutal
As the ballroom story gets more damaging for Trump against a backdrop of terrible economic news, a progressive organizer explains how all this gives Democrats a big opening to regain crucial lost grou...
newrepublic.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Trump's ballroom fiasco looks even worse against backdrop of bad economic news:
*layoffs mounting
*food stamps expiring
*health care premiums soaring
*consumer sentiment sliding
On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems:
newrepublic.com/article/2024...
*layoffs mounting
*food stamps expiring
*health care premiums soaring
*consumer sentiment sliding
On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems:
newrepublic.com/article/2024...
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Trumps attack/invasion of Portland has ended up being a massive advert for Portland! It seems like such a cool place! 👏
Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Trumps attack/invasion of Portland has ended up being a massive advert for Portland! It seems like such a cool place! 👏
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Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House.
This government shutdown is on them.
This government shutdown is on them.
October 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House.
This government shutdown is on them.
This government shutdown is on them.
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BREAKING NEWS: Oregon sues Trump administration over unlawful federalization of National Guard. Read more.
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Oregon sues Trump administration over unlawful federalization of National Guard. Read more.
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Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen.
The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words.
The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives.
Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.
The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words.
The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives.
Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.
August 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen.
The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words.
The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives.
Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.
The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words.
The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives.
Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.
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NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
newrepublic.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/1982...
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This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
Budget agreements won’t matter, funding obligations won’t matter, expended funds on the basis of promised reimbursement won’t matter.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
“We don’t have an appropriations process. It’s broken. It’s been broken for a while,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
He predicted that there will be CRs and rescission packages for the next four years.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
He predicted that there will be CRs and rescission packages for the next four years.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
July 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
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Given the evidence my investigators have seen, this reeks of a coverup.
Trump Administration Acknowledges Lack of Evidence From Epstein Documents
www.nytimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Given the evidence my investigators have seen, this reeks of a coverup.
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one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion."
But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
in addition to his "shylocks" comment, i can't imagine the media backlash if Biden said anything like from this screenshot - that he "hates Republicans" - and i'm also tired of having this "IMAGINE IF BIDEN!" thought experiment but it's just a constant reminder of the double standards
July 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
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Amazingly, some news organizations are still using the term "fiscal hawk" to describe Republicans who are professing concern about the Trump bill adding $3.3 trillion to the debt.
If those Republicans vote for the bill in the end, *at that point* can we stop calling them that?
If those Republicans vote for the bill in the end, *at that point* can we stop calling them that?
June 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Amazingly, some news organizations are still using the term "fiscal hawk" to describe Republicans who are professing concern about the Trump bill adding $3.3 trillion to the debt.
If those Republicans vote for the bill in the end, *at that point* can we stop calling them that?
If those Republicans vote for the bill in the end, *at that point* can we stop calling them that?
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An interesting thing about electing a "cognitively irresponsible" leader like Trump is that he has filled his Cabinet with people who are likewise irresponsible. None of these folks will answer questions or allow Congress to fulfill its oversight role. None of them are accountable.
DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
May 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
An interesting thing about electing a "cognitively irresponsible" leader like Trump is that he has filled his Cabinet with people who are likewise irresponsible. None of these folks will answer questions or allow Congress to fulfill its oversight role. None of them are accountable.
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This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.
I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
May 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.
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Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
May 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
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The king is insane, but it's his courtiers in GOP leadership who I want to see prosecuted if we survive this. They are letting the mad king destroy not just the US economy but the global one too. And for idiotic whims. No one thinks this is a good idea. No one.
Hang them by their fucking thumbs.
Hang them by their fucking thumbs.
May 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The king is insane, but it's his courtiers in GOP leadership who I want to see prosecuted if we survive this. They are letting the mad king destroy not just the US economy but the global one too. And for idiotic whims. No one thinks this is a good idea. No one.
Hang them by their fucking thumbs.
Hang them by their fucking thumbs.
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It's a smart move because most foreign powers already have Mike Waltz's contact information.
Trump preposterously claims he actually promoted Mike Waltz to UN ambassador
May 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It's a smart move because most foreign powers already have Mike Waltz's contact information.
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North America in three quotes by heads of state.
May 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
North America in three quotes by heads of state.
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A science communicator launched an effort to pair artists with scientists whose jobs were eliminated or whose research funding was halted by the Trump administration. The result? Powerful portraits of researchers and their work. ⚛️🧪
doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...
doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...
Portraits of dismissed scientists personalize US government cuts to science
A hurricane researcher. An invasive-insect entomologist. An e-cigarette toxicologist. A biomedical librarian. Those are some of the people included in Silenced Science Stories, a visual storytelling p...
doi.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A science communicator launched an effort to pair artists with scientists whose jobs were eliminated or whose research funding was halted by the Trump administration. The result? Powerful portraits of researchers and their work. ⚛️🧪
doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...
doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...