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goldengateblond.bsky.social
and just like that, i became a one-issue voter
kenjennings.bsky.social Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17h
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 8, 2026 at 6:20 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
"The next Democratic president has to be ruthless... [they] should run on a plan to prosecute Elon Musk... there has to be accountability... the [next] Democratic president has to put the fear of God into their Republican opponents"

My advice to the Dems.

Full discussion: zeteo.com/p/the-venezu...
January 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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normative.bsky.social
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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maddenifico.bsky.social
This gentleman's analogy encapsulates the pedophile president's blithering idiocy in Venezuela to perfection. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
January 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
we did it! a perfectly structured democracy. it's got checks, it's got balances. this thing is made to last. there's only one weakness: bad guys. if somehow some bad guys who don't care about decorum got elected they could basically just tip the whole thing over. luckily such men are unelectable
January 4, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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garyalexander.bsky.social
"Maduro was bad, but" shut the fuck up, you people will never learn.
January 3, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
To all of you who thought, "What could go wrong electing a stupid, immature, vulgar, child rapist with advanced dementia and no impulse control as our president?":

I don't like to say, "I told you so," but I'm willing to enthusiastically make an exception.
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
The Trump regime repeatedly lied to Congress about their intention to pursue regime change in Venezuela. They didn’t get Congressional approval for regime change, but did it anyway.

Demanding a briefing in response is both pathetic and nonsensical. Calling for impeachment is the obvious response.
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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karlbode.com
I tried to outline my thinking on this earlier this year
America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal - Dame Magazine
America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error....
www.damemagazine.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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joanwestenberg.com
The most successful grift of the modern era was convincing the smartest people in the world that 'changing the world' means optimizing the click-through rate on ads for mattresses that ship in a box
December 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps.  Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
theshot.net.au
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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cooperlund.online
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece.

Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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ericholthaus.com
This is the place that made me want to become a meteorologist 💔
usatoday.com USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 22d
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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forbestonow.bsky.social
This powerful and emotional remembrance of Rob Reiner by Seth Meyers also contains a searing indictment of the truly pathetic man at the head of the US government.

youtu.be/CUW2GmKtqO0?...
Seth Remembers Rob Reiner
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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December 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
I think the headline for this one says it all.

From my newsletter:
I'm tired of being governed by losers
From the White House to Silicon Valley, the lamest people on the planet are holding onto the reins of power.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
It is monday morning, which means I have again done the thing which I am known to do

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Cartoon: The news cycle
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow. As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in ...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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elainejohnson.bsky.social
Well, it’s official.

Johnson Legal is off to the High Court of Australia for the first ever climate case to be heard before the Court.

We are representing Hunter Valley residents defending their win against coal company MACH Energy.

Follow the case here 👇👇👇

www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...
MACH Energy v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group — Johnson Legal | Australian Environmental Lawyers
In the first High Court of Australia hearing on climate change, Johnson Legal is acting for DAMSHEG defending the landmark decision of the NSW Court of Appeal in Denman v MACH Energy. The Court found ...
www.johnsonlegal.au
December 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
Seven conclusions about what we've learned about Trumpism and the resilience of American democracy across 2025 — the big one: Donald Trump is losing. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump is losing.
Seven conclusions as 2025 winds down.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
December 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM