@ellenthurnau.bsky.social
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Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."
December 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."
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Marc Elias is one of the heroes of our time, leaving Big Law to fight this assault on democracy at every level. Heather Cox Richardson is my second inspiration, using her deep history knowledge to show how these disparate attacks fit larger patterns—and to chart a path forward against all adversity.
Some news as I try to bring some order to all the different things I do:
American Conversations: Marc Elias
Hi Folks:
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Marc Elias is one of the heroes of our time, leaving Big Law to fight this assault on democracy at every level. Heather Cox Richardson is my second inspiration, using her deep history knowledge to show how these disparate attacks fit larger patterns—and to chart a path forward against all adversity.
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ChatGPT cannot fathom that we are living in this timeline.
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
ChatGPT cannot fathom that we are living in this timeline.
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“When a government uses the imagery of death to project strength, it is no longer fighting terrorism; it’s rehearsing dictatorship.”
www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
Far-right MKs sport noose-shaped pins at hearing on controversial death penalty bill
Ben Gvir draws condemnation after display at Knesset meeting; MKs pushing bill mandating capital punishment are told its language may not be constitutional
www.timesofisrael.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“When a government uses the imagery of death to project strength, it is no longer fighting terrorism; it’s rehearsing dictatorship.”
www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
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I recount here when in 2020 Trump attacked Benson for sending out absentee ballot apps—among his effort to cast doubt on the results.
The GOP is doing it now wrt to her role in MI elections
@hcrichardson.bsky.social wrote about Trump’s attack on Benson at the time
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D38...
The GOP is doing it now wrt to her role in MI elections
@hcrichardson.bsky.social wrote about Trump’s attack on Benson at the time
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D38...
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I recount here when in 2020 Trump attacked Benson for sending out absentee ballot apps—among his effort to cast doubt on the results.
The GOP is doing it now wrt to her role in MI elections
@hcrichardson.bsky.social wrote about Trump’s attack on Benson at the time
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D38...
The GOP is doing it now wrt to her role in MI elections
@hcrichardson.bsky.social wrote about Trump’s attack on Benson at the time
www.facebook.com/share/p/1D38...
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1. I agree with this take 2. This is far more optimistic than I'm used to seeing from The Bulwark and I'm down with it.
"They wanted this to go differently."
The crackdown isn’t going as planned. Courts are blocking schemes, cities are pushing back, and protesters are making life very uncomfortable for Trump’s enforcers.
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social explain how resistance is working.
The crackdown isn’t going as planned. Courts are blocking schemes, cities are pushing back, and protesters are making life very uncomfortable for Trump’s enforcers.
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social explain how resistance is working.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
1. I agree with this take 2. This is far more optimistic than I'm used to seeing from The Bulwark and I'm down with it.
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Potentially a big day on the Hill tomorrow…
Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and SecState Marco Rubio are expected to brief the Gang of 8 tomorrow afternoon
Separately, outgoing Southern Command commander Adm. Alvin Holsey is expected to virtually meet HASC and SASC leaders.
Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and SecState Marco Rubio are expected to brief the Gang of 8 tomorrow afternoon
Separately, outgoing Southern Command commander Adm. Alvin Holsey is expected to virtually meet HASC and SASC leaders.
December 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Potentially a big day on the Hill tomorrow…
Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and SecState Marco Rubio are expected to brief the Gang of 8 tomorrow afternoon
Separately, outgoing Southern Command commander Adm. Alvin Holsey is expected to virtually meet HASC and SASC leaders.
Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and SecState Marco Rubio are expected to brief the Gang of 8 tomorrow afternoon
Separately, outgoing Southern Command commander Adm. Alvin Holsey is expected to virtually meet HASC and SASC leaders.
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To recap:
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
December 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
To recap:
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
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Trump is letting NVIDIA export cutting-edge AI chips that his own DOJ revealed are being illegally smuggled into China.
His own DOJ called these chips "building blocks of AI superiority."
Trump and Lutnick need to answer to Congress on why they are selling out US security.
His own DOJ called these chips "building blocks of AI superiority."
Trump and Lutnick need to answer to Congress on why they are selling out US security.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Trump is letting NVIDIA export cutting-edge AI chips that his own DOJ revealed are being illegally smuggled into China.
His own DOJ called these chips "building blocks of AI superiority."
Trump and Lutnick need to answer to Congress on why they are selling out US security.
His own DOJ called these chips "building blocks of AI superiority."
Trump and Lutnick need to answer to Congress on why they are selling out US security.
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RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety Study
The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,...
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
>100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)
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This is eugenics in decent tailoring.
What Kennedy has been pushing and Duffy here channels is the idea that poor health is a moral choice. Good people live the right way (getting their pull-ups in at Gate 17) and enjoy good health.
Lazy weak people don't, and get what's coming to them.
Monsters.
What Kennedy has been pushing and Duffy here channels is the idea that poor health is a moral choice. Good people live the right way (getting their pull-ups in at Gate 17) and enjoy good health.
Lazy weak people don't, and get what's coming to them.
Monsters.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is eugenics in decent tailoring.
What Kennedy has been pushing and Duffy here channels is the idea that poor health is a moral choice. Good people live the right way (getting their pull-ups in at Gate 17) and enjoy good health.
Lazy weak people don't, and get what's coming to them.
Monsters.
What Kennedy has been pushing and Duffy here channels is the idea that poor health is a moral choice. Good people live the right way (getting their pull-ups in at Gate 17) and enjoy good health.
Lazy weak people don't, and get what's coming to them.
Monsters.
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The incompetence of Duffy, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of the administration reminds us just how laughably unfit and unqualified they are.
The good news: the resistance is surging, our resilience is unbreakable, and come midterms, we will hold them accountable.
The good news: the resistance is surging, our resilience is unbreakable, and come midterms, we will hold them accountable.
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The incompetence of Duffy, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of the administration reminds us just how laughably unfit and unqualified they are.
The good news: the resistance is surging, our resilience is unbreakable, and come midterms, we will hold them accountable.
The good news: the resistance is surging, our resilience is unbreakable, and come midterms, we will hold them accountable.
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of an entire cabinet full of corrrupt weirdos and boobs, Duffy stands out as just garden variety dumb.
Real "elect me for student body and I'll put a vending machine in the lunch room" ass kind of guy
Real "elect me for student body and I'll put a vending machine in the lunch room" ass kind of guy
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
of an entire cabinet full of corrrupt weirdos and boobs, Duffy stands out as just garden variety dumb.
Real "elect me for student body and I'll put a vending machine in the lunch room" ass kind of guy
Real "elect me for student body and I'll put a vending machine in the lunch room" ass kind of guy
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Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... "I can attest to the fact that in our nation’s history, never has a more damning [IG] statement been written about the conduct of an American Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)."
Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States
The Steady State | by J, William Leonard
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... "I can attest to the fact that in our nation’s history, never has a more damning [IG] statement been written about the conduct of an American Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)."
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The chemical industry finally got its wish.
Under the leadership of former chemical industry insiders, Trump's EPA nearly doubles the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale, by @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under the leadership of former chemical industry insiders, Trump's EPA nearly doubles the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale, by @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The chemical industry finally got its wish.
Under the leadership of former chemical industry insiders, Trump's EPA nearly doubles the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale, by @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under the leadership of former chemical industry insiders, Trump's EPA nearly doubles the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale, by @fastlerner.bsky.social
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To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.
They are going after that college students' family now. JFC www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.
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Peace talks between the US and Ukraine have stumbled over one main issue: how to force Ukraine to give up what the Kremlin has failed to seize during the war — the entirety of the Donbas region.
What the US wants from Ukraine: Leave Donbas, one way or another
Kyiv keeps insisting war should be frozen along current lines.
www.politico.eu
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Peace talks between the US and Ukraine have stumbled over one main issue: how to force Ukraine to give up what the Kremlin has failed to seize during the war — the entirety of the Donbas region.
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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The likes of Trump and Musk are trying to start a war in Europe.
This is blatantly clear now.
They are backing Russia.
This is blatantly clear now.
They are backing Russia.
December 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The likes of Trump and Musk are trying to start a war in Europe.
This is blatantly clear now.
They are backing Russia.
This is blatantly clear now.
They are backing Russia.
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Unusual Machines just landed another contact with a company trying to sell drones to the Defense Dept.
Donald Trump Jr. is an advisor to Unusual Machines.
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Donald Trump Jr. is an advisor to Unusual Machines.
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Oh yeah
The company, Unusual Machines—
In the last 3 months, it's announced $15.2 million in military-linked orders, including a direct U.S. Army buy.
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The company, Unusual Machines—
In the last 3 months, it's announced $15.2 million in military-linked orders, including a direct U.S. Army buy.
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After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.
www.forbes.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Unusual Machines just landed another contact with a company trying to sell drones to the Defense Dept.
Donald Trump Jr. is an advisor to Unusual Machines.
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Donald Trump Jr. is an advisor to Unusual Machines.
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
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It’s as if Anne Frank was describing the state sanctioned terror in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
December, 2025
December, 2025
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s as if Anne Frank was describing the state sanctioned terror in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
December, 2025
December, 2025
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Son-in-Law Watch:
When he’s not brokering geopolitical surrenders in meetings with Putin, he’s financing global media consolidation.
When he’s not brokering geopolitical surrenders in meetings with Putin, he’s financing global media consolidation.
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Son-in-Law Watch:
When he’s not brokering geopolitical surrenders in meetings with Putin, he’s financing global media consolidation.
When he’s not brokering geopolitical surrenders in meetings with Putin, he’s financing global media consolidation.