Kathryn Ruud
@kathrynruud.bsky.social
Writer, commentator. Author, "Liberal parasites and other creepers: Rush Limbaugh, Ken Hamblin, and the discursive construction of group identities," in At War with Words (DeGruyter, Berlin & NY).
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Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
Not surprising. A whole lot of younger people voted against an old guy who DJT labeled "Sleepy Joe," and he guaranteed an economic boom on "Day One." Instead, young voters got an even sleepier, and far more disorganized old guy as the economy slides downward.
Pollster: Trump's net approval rating among voters under the age of 30 is going into a deep, dark black hole. Look at that, -46. That is a shift on the net approval of 56 points in the wrong direction since February. We almost never see drops this big, this quickly.
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Not surprising. A whole lot of younger people voted against an old guy who DJT labeled "Sleepy Joe," and he guaranteed an economic boom on "Day One." Instead, young voters got an even sleepier, and far more disorganized old guy as the economy slides downward.
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Donald Trump is killing our judicial system, killing our constitution. Killing the laws based on that Constitution.
I think I see the problem, he took a oath to execute the laws.
And he's killing them off one by one.
I think I see the problem, he took a oath to execute the laws.
And he's killing them off one by one.
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Donald Trump is killing our judicial system, killing our constitution. Killing the laws based on that Constitution.
I think I see the problem, he took a oath to execute the laws.
And he's killing them off one by one.
I think I see the problem, he took a oath to execute the laws.
And he's killing them off one by one.
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There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
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According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?
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The whole point of the FTC is to be insulated from political pressure.
Yet Trump is asking his MAGA Justices to re-write the rules for him so he can pick loyalists.
He says he should be able to fire anyone, anytime, for any reason.
If they let him, there’s no going back.
Yet Trump is asking his MAGA Justices to re-write the rules for him so he can pick loyalists.
He says he should be able to fire anyone, anytime, for any reason.
If they let him, there’s no going back.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The whole point of the FTC is to be insulated from political pressure.
Yet Trump is asking his MAGA Justices to re-write the rules for him so he can pick loyalists.
He says he should be able to fire anyone, anytime, for any reason.
If they let him, there’s no going back.
Yet Trump is asking his MAGA Justices to re-write the rules for him so he can pick loyalists.
He says he should be able to fire anyone, anytime, for any reason.
If they let him, there’s no going back.
"There are thousands of types of PFAS chemicals, which are nearly indestructible because they were engineered to repel liquids and heat. Scientists say they can accumulate in the human body and can increase the risk of certain cancers and other health problems when ingested."
New records show toxic 'forever chemicals' have recently tested above EPA limits in hundreds of cities and towns. Check your local water on our map.
Are there forever chemicals in your water? Here's the latest data.
New records show toxic 'forever chemicals' have recently tested above EPA limits in hundreds of cities and towns. Check your local water on our map.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"There are thousands of types of PFAS chemicals, which are nearly indestructible because they were engineered to repel liquids and heat. Scientists say they can accumulate in the human body and can increase the risk of certain cancers and other health problems when ingested."
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Today's Spiegel published a transcript of a conversation among European leaders in which they share a strong suspicion that Trump is planning to betray Ukraine—and NATO—and do a secret deal with Vladimir Putin.
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Today's Spiegel published a transcript of a conversation among European leaders in which they share a strong suspicion that Trump is planning to betray Ukraine—and NATO—and do a secret deal with Vladimir Putin.
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Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
This is how nearly EVERY conversation I have had with MAGA goes. The MAGA mindset is about ideology. Ideology = opinion, or values, or beliefs. Not facts.
So you give them the facts. Then crickets. Til the next false claim. It's tiresome and generally (to me) feels like a waste of time.
Thx, Jack.
So you give them the facts. Then crickets. Til the next false claim. It's tiresome and generally (to me) feels like a waste of time.
Thx, Jack.
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is how nearly EVERY conversation I have had with MAGA goes. The MAGA mindset is about ideology. Ideology = opinion, or values, or beliefs. Not facts.
So you give them the facts. Then crickets. Til the next false claim. It's tiresome and generally (to me) feels like a waste of time.
Thx, Jack.
So you give them the facts. Then crickets. Til the next false claim. It's tiresome and generally (to me) feels like a waste of time.
Thx, Jack.
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A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
popular.info
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
"How’d [Sec. of Interior] Burgum spend his time off during the shutdown? Not volunteering in parks, or supporting his staff, but rather by jetting off to Europe and the Middle East to meet with fellow billionaires."
Republicans in western states are pinning their hopes for reelection on worsened wildfires, ruined tourism, and defunded communities: wessiler.substack.com/p/trump-admi...
Trump Administration’s Public Lands Leadership Begins To Crumble
How an absent interior secretary, incompetence at the Forest Service, and proposed corruption for the BLM are colliding with low gas prices to throw public land management into chaos
wessiler.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"How’d [Sec. of Interior] Burgum spend his time off during the shutdown? Not volunteering in parks, or supporting his staff, but rather by jetting off to Europe and the Middle East to meet with fellow billionaires."
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
For Criminal Prez, life isn't hard enough for trans and intersex people. "Experts .. have repeatedly sounded the alarm about any rollbacks to protections for trans people behind bars given the disproportionate violence and abuse they face [12x greater] from prisoners and prison officials alike."
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
For Criminal Prez, life isn't hard enough for trans and intersex people. "Experts .. have repeatedly sounded the alarm about any rollbacks to protections for trans people behind bars given the disproportionate violence and abuse they face [12x greater] from prisoners and prison officials alike."
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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This is the small open boat Team Hegseth bombed and then bombed again. It's almost 1700 miles by sea from Trinidad to Miami. There is no way this boat was headed for the US.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is the small open boat Team Hegseth bombed and then bombed again. It's almost 1700 miles by sea from Trinidad to Miami. There is no way this boat was headed for the US.
"Shooting a pastor in the head may be part of this admin trying to see what they can get away with."
Decent fellow, decent language, decent model. It is refreshing to listen to him when we are floating in so much trash talk.
Decent fellow, decent language, decent model. It is refreshing to listen to him when we are floating in so much trash talk.
Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.
December 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"Shooting a pastor in the head may be part of this admin trying to see what they can get away with."
Decent fellow, decent language, decent model. It is refreshing to listen to him when we are floating in so much trash talk.
Decent fellow, decent language, decent model. It is refreshing to listen to him when we are floating in so much trash talk.
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The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
The path we go down (and our children and grandchildren will have no choice to go down) will be determined in the next decade.
"What's really important is the rate of sea level rise.
It's generally viewed that once you get above ~7-10mm per year, so that's something that will happen in the 2nd half of this century, that's when it becomes really very very challenging to adapt to"
Prof. Chris Stokes, @geogdurham.bsky.social
It's generally viewed that once you get above ~7-10mm per year, so that's something that will happen in the 2nd half of this century, that's when it becomes really very very challenging to adapt to"
Prof. Chris Stokes, @geogdurham.bsky.social
You’re Not Worried Enough About Sea Level Rise
YouTube video by PBS Terra
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The path we go down (and our children and grandchildren will have no choice to go down) will be determined in the next decade.
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REP. HIMES: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service. Any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
REP. HIMES: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service. Any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."
To the extent Criminal Prez has any organizational sense, it is aimed at the extraction of fossil fuels.
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
To the extent Criminal Prez has any organizational sense, it is aimed at the extraction of fossil fuels.