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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."- Mark Twain
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."- Mark Twain
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For the sake of posterity I thought I'd do a thread on all the epically stupid things Trump has done in recent days.
1) Let them eat ballroom
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
1) Let them eat ballroom
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
For the sake of posterity I thought I'd do a thread on all the epically stupid things Trump has done in recent days.
1) Let them eat ballroom
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
1) Let them eat ballroom
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Via @klasfeldreports.com, George Santos may not be done with the criminal justice system.
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Via @klasfeldreports.com, George Santos may not be done with the criminal justice system.
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To be unaware of one thing you don't wish to talk about is convenient.
To be unaware of *everything* you don't wish to talk about is either lying or incompetence. Or both.
To be unaware of *everything* you don't wish to talk about is either lying or incompetence. Or both.
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
To be unaware of one thing you don't wish to talk about is convenient.
To be unaware of *everything* you don't wish to talk about is either lying or incompetence. Or both.
To be unaware of *everything* you don't wish to talk about is either lying or incompetence. Or both.
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FYI: if the MAGA bots arriving mass report me and I lose this account, you can find me at www.muellershewrote.com or by listening to the Daily Beans podcast. Both are free to subscribe.
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www.muellershewrote.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
FYI: if the MAGA bots arriving mass report me and I lose this account, you can find me at www.muellershewrote.com or by listening to the Daily Beans podcast. Both are free to subscribe.
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The trump regime is setting up official agency accounts here on BlueSky, and they’re dragging their MAGA trolls with them. Block liberally.
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The trump regime is setting up official agency accounts here on BlueSky, and they’re dragging their MAGA trolls with them. Block liberally.
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Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.
October 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.
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The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.
If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity
In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
www.levernews.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.
If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
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If the Trump White House wants to ban all transgender people from owning guns because a handful were responsible for mass shootings, wait until they hear how many shootings straight cis white guys have done.
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If the Trump White House wants to ban all transgender people from owning guns because a handful were responsible for mass shootings, wait until they hear how many shootings straight cis white guys have done.
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This GOP competition to see who can debase themselves the most spectacularly is getting ridiculous.
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This GOP competition to see who can debase themselves the most spectacularly is getting ridiculous.
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BREAM: Trump talked about tough consequences on Putin. There's a package sitting in the Senate with more than 80 senators agreeing on a new sanctions package. You haven't signed onto that bill. Is it time for POTUS to use that lever?
SCHMITT: We need to follow the commander in chief's lead here
SCHMITT: We need to follow the commander in chief's lead here
August 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
BREAM: Trump talked about tough consequences on Putin. There's a package sitting in the Senate with more than 80 senators agreeing on a new sanctions package. You haven't signed onto that bill. Is it time for POTUS to use that lever?
SCHMITT: We need to follow the commander in chief's lead here
SCHMITT: We need to follow the commander in chief's lead here
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Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
August 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
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RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences?
RUBIO: That's not the aim
RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
RUBIO: That's not the aim
RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
August 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences?
RUBIO: That's not the aim
RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
RUBIO: That's not the aim
RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
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GOP Rep. Nick Lalota won’t talk to his constituents. So I will. Join me this Tuesday for a People’s Town Hall on Long Island.
Sign up now at Suffolkdems.com/swalwell
Sign up now at Suffolkdems.com/swalwell
August 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
GOP Rep. Nick Lalota won’t talk to his constituents. So I will. Join me this Tuesday for a People’s Town Hall on Long Island.
Sign up now at Suffolkdems.com/swalwell
Sign up now at Suffolkdems.com/swalwell
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Unanswered question: What did Maxwell offer up as her side of the bargain? This is unprecedented, lenient treatment of a sex offender serving a 20 year sentence. Her side of the deal must have been highly valuable—someone really wanted whatever she offered.
Ghislaine Maxwell, serving 20 yrs for sex trafficking minors, has been given permission to leave minimum security campus for work assignments, per @muellershewrote.com
www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
August 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Unanswered question: What did Maxwell offer up as her side of the bargain? This is unprecedented, lenient treatment of a sex offender serving a 20 year sentence. Her side of the deal must have been highly valuable—someone really wanted whatever she offered.
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"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
August 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
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The Secretary of Defense quote-tweeted a video of his Christian nationalist church pastor talking about how “women shouldn't have the right to vote."
Fox: “Another Sydney Sweeney ad is causing panic on the left.”
Fox: “Another Sydney Sweeney ad is causing panic on the left.”
August 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Secretary of Defense quote-tweeted a video of his Christian nationalist church pastor talking about how “women shouldn't have the right to vote."
Fox: “Another Sydney Sweeney ad is causing panic on the left.”
Fox: “Another Sydney Sweeney ad is causing panic on the left.”
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I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...
The FBI As We Knew It is Gone
It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.
asharangappa.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...
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NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.
She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.
She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.
August 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.
She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.
She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.