@haroldrberk.bsky.social
ICE and Border Protection Are Out of Control: Time to Replace Them with Trained Professionals
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ICE and Border Protection Are Out of Control: Time to Replace Them with Trained Professionals
Noem and DHS Recruited ICE and BP from White Supremacist Groups
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February 10, 2026 at 9:26 AM
ICE and Border Protection Are Out of Control: Time to Replace Them with Trained Professionals
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25th Amendment to Constitution allows Congress create a body with authority to remove the president from office due to disability. If JD Vance as Vice President agrees, Trump is immediately removed as president and the Vice President, Vance becomes president. This is alternative to vote by Cabinet
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
25th Amendment to Constitution allows Congress create a body with authority to remove the president from office due to disability. If JD Vance as Vice President agrees, Trump is immediately removed as president and the Vice President, Vance becomes president. This is alternative to vote by Cabinet
25th Amendment to Constitution allows Congress create a body with authority to remove the president from office due to disability. If JD Vance as Vice President agrees, Trump is immediately removed as president and the Vice President, Vance becomes president. This is alternative to vote by Cabinet
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
25th Amendment to Constitution allows Congress create a body with authority to remove the president from office due to disability. If JD Vance as Vice President agrees, Trump is immediately removed as president and the Vice President, Vance becomes president. This is alternative to vote by Cabinet
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ICE has its own Health Services Corps, which it operates in 17 large detention centers, but an increasingly large majority of people are held in private detention centers where the healthcare is operated by contractor or subcontractor, where ICE basically just manages the insurance claims.
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
ICE has its own Health Services Corps, which it operates in 17 large detention centers, but an increasingly large majority of people are held in private detention centers where the healthcare is operated by contractor or subcontractor, where ICE basically just manages the insurance claims.
@hegseth should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors on ordering military fire deadly missiles at boats on seas without really knowing much of anything about the occupants of the boats. If they ere engaged in drug running Coast Guard should have arrested. If not, Hegseth did war crimes.
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
@hegseth should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors on ordering military fire deadly missiles at boats on seas without really knowing much of anything about the occupants of the boats. If they ere engaged in drug running Coast Guard should have arrested. If not, Hegseth did war crimes.
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Right-wing complaints over mainstream media coverage amount to hair-splitting over the exact extent of Hegseth’s responsibility for the allegedly unlawful killings.
Scrounging for a Hegseth defense, right-wing commentators seize on NY Times report
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December 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Right-wing complaints over mainstream media coverage amount to hair-splitting over the exact extent of Hegseth’s responsibility for the allegedly unlawful killings.
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@djrothkopf.bsky.social suggests "the party may soon be over for the frat boy atop our military establishment." Some of the signs: military leaks, bipartisan probes and Trump's eventual need for a fall guy. www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth...
Why Blowhard Pentagon Pete Just Put Himself in the Crosshairs
White House efforts to defend Pete Hegseth have stirred up a hornet’s nest of real life warriors.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
@djrothkopf.bsky.social suggests "the party may soon be over for the frat boy atop our military establishment." Some of the signs: military leaks, bipartisan probes and Trump's eventual need for a fall guy. www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth...
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@juddlegum.bsky.social: "Prior to Trump’s victory in 2024, Kushner pledged to have no foreign policy or other role in a second Trump administration. He used this promise to wave away concerns about Affinity Partners being used as a vehicle for foreign influence." open.substack.com/pub/populari...
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
@juddlegum.bsky.social: "Prior to Trump’s victory in 2024, Kushner pledged to have no foreign policy or other role in a second Trump administration. He used this promise to wave away concerns about Affinity Partners being used as a vehicle for foreign influence." open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest Weekly Survey www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/12/mba-...
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest Weekly Survey
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 1.4 percent from one week earlier, ...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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"The American Revolution" is an antidote to the nihilistic nastiness coming out of today's Cabinet meeting, and the end of my piece on this 12-hour documentary suggests why: "We are now what we have been all along — diverse, and the better for it." jilllawrence.substack.com/p/american-r...
The American Revolution I Didn't Know
Thoughts on a 12-hour teachable "moment" from Ken Burns
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December 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"The American Revolution" is an antidote to the nihilistic nastiness coming out of today's Cabinet meeting, and the end of my piece on this 12-hour documentary suggests why: "We are now what we have been all along — diverse, and the better for it." jilllawrence.substack.com/p/american-r...
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Fox’s Greg Gutfeld on double tap boat strike: “It's just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it”
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Fox’s Greg Gutfeld on double tap boat strike: “It's just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it”
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I'm struggling to understand how this helps the fight against antisemitism.
I do see how much money you can raise on this message.
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I do see how much money you can raise on this message.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I'm struggling to understand how this helps the fight against antisemitism.
I do see how much money you can raise on this message.
ejewishphilanthropy.com/marc-rowan-d...
I do see how much money you can raise on this message.
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Ok this is slightly encouraging. Aftyn Behn is outperforming Kamala Harris' percentages and all we have are the very rural deep deep red precincts reporting so far. Fingers crossed.
December 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Ok this is slightly encouraging. Aftyn Behn is outperforming Kamala Harris' percentages and all we have are the very rural deep deep red precincts reporting so far. Fingers crossed.
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By the numbers:
Three weeks of talking about affordability
Thousands of prices rising
Hundreds of tariffs raised
Zero substantive policies announced
Dozens of lies that prices are coming down
One billionaire calling your concern about affordability a “con job.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Three weeks of talking about affordability
Thousands of prices rising
Hundreds of tariffs raised
Zero substantive policies announced
Dozens of lies that prices are coming down
One billionaire calling your concern about affordability a “con job.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 AM
By the numbers:
Three weeks of talking about affordability
Thousands of prices rising
Hundreds of tariffs raised
Zero substantive policies announced
Dozens of lies that prices are coming down
One billionaire calling your concern about affordability a “con job.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Three weeks of talking about affordability
Thousands of prices rising
Hundreds of tariffs raised
Zero substantive policies announced
Dozens of lies that prices are coming down
One billionaire calling your concern about affordability a “con job.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Well there it is. My final word on Tn07 Special Election. Well done Aftyn Behn.
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Well there it is. My final word on Tn07 Special Election. Well done Aftyn Behn.
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Some background! I wrote about Tennessee in 2023, asking whether it's still a democracy
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Is Tennessee a Democracy?
What happened when a Republican supermajority gained control—and wasn’t satisfied
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December 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Some background! I wrote about Tennessee in 2023, asking whether it's still a democracy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I had to take 2 breaks while reading this book, but it’s very well written. We owe her. It’s the least we can do for her memory. There still seems to be a perception that when this happens to a male it is somehow worse than a female. It’s about Epstein/Maxwell heinous crimes, but also gender issues.
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I had to take 2 breaks while reading this book, but it’s very well written. We owe her. It’s the least we can do for her memory. There still seems to be a perception that when this happens to a male it is somehow worse than a female. It’s about Epstein/Maxwell heinous crimes, but also gender issues.
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NYT: Is the President tired?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
NYT: Is the President tired?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?
@katiewalshstx.bsky.social
You said "Eleanor the Great", had "wobbly material and tentative direction." The material consisted of a former roommate of a Holocaust survivor recounting the horrors her roommate experienced in Hitler's Death Camps. I thought Ms. Johansson's direction was on the money.
You said "Eleanor the Great", had "wobbly material and tentative direction." The material consisted of a former roommate of a Holocaust survivor recounting the horrors her roommate experienced in Hitler's Death Camps. I thought Ms. Johansson's direction was on the money.
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
@katiewalshstx.bsky.social
You said "Eleanor the Great", had "wobbly material and tentative direction." The material consisted of a former roommate of a Holocaust survivor recounting the horrors her roommate experienced in Hitler's Death Camps. I thought Ms. Johansson's direction was on the money.
You said "Eleanor the Great", had "wobbly material and tentative direction." The material consisted of a former roommate of a Holocaust survivor recounting the horrors her roommate experienced in Hitler's Death Camps. I thought Ms. Johansson's direction was on the money.
@katiewalshstx.bsky.social
I read your review of "Eleanor the Great" You missed the need to tell others what happened in the Holocaust. As to why did Ms. Johansson select this script for her directorial debut, I think the answer is that it was hard and a real challenge. I say a Director was Born.
I read your review of "Eleanor the Great" You missed the need to tell others what happened in the Holocaust. As to why did Ms. Johansson select this script for her directorial debut, I think the answer is that it was hard and a real challenge. I say a Director was Born.
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
@katiewalshstx.bsky.social
I read your review of "Eleanor the Great" You missed the need to tell others what happened in the Holocaust. As to why did Ms. Johansson select this script for her directorial debut, I think the answer is that it was hard and a real challenge. I say a Director was Born.
I read your review of "Eleanor the Great" You missed the need to tell others what happened in the Holocaust. As to why did Ms. Johansson select this script for her directorial debut, I think the answer is that it was hard and a real challenge. I say a Director was Born.
Is Trump Teetering Into 25th Amendment Land?
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Is Trump Teetering Into 25th Amendment Land?
Trump's Ever Increasing Mental Chaos is Apparent to All.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Is Trump Teetering Into 25th Amendment Land?
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