Kevin Phillips BONG
@kevinphillipsbong.bsky.social
(Slightly Silly Party)
Wow. At least Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld did us the courtesy of pretending that their useless war wasn't just about oil or imperialism.
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US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Trump says
The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, a move that raised oil prices and is likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and C...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Wow. At least Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld did us the courtesy of pretending that their useless war wasn't just about oil or imperialism.
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
Meanwhile, the government is more corrupt, costly, and inefficient than ever. It’s worth noting that the Clinton Administration managed to reduce the government workforce by 400,000 legally and with minimal disruption …
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Meanwhile, the government is more corrupt, costly, and inefficient than ever. It’s worth noting that the Clinton Administration managed to reduce the government workforce by 400,000 legally and with minimal disruption …
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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If you let the feds come after other cities’ freedom of expression and self-rule, eventually they’ll come after yours as well. (Lubbock went about 70/30 for Trump in 2024. Does the GOP really think that destroying a beloved local landmark will win them more votes?)
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Buddy Holly crosswalk in Texas hometown to be removed following order on roadway artwork
A crosswalk honoring Buddy Holly with a painted depiction of the rock and roll legend's iconic glasses will have to be removed from his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, city officials said.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If you let the feds come after other cities’ freedom of expression and self-rule, eventually they’ll come after yours as well. (Lubbock went about 70/30 for Trump in 2024. Does the GOP really think that destroying a beloved local landmark will win them more votes?)
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that, given that the president is immune from libel suits regarding official acts, private citizens and corporations should also be immune from libel suits initiated by the president relating to the reporting of those official acts.
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Trump threatens legal action, BBC apologizes for speech edit after top execs quit
A BBC spokesperson said Monday it would "respond directly in due course" after the president sent a letter threatening to seek $1 billion in damages from Britain's public broadcaster.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that, given that the president is immune from libel suits regarding official acts, private citizens and corporations should also be immune from libel suits initiated by the president relating to the reporting of those official acts.
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Hmmm… So private businesses can choose not to serve LGBTQ people, but they can’t choose not to serve anti-vaxxers? Curious.
www.propublica.org/article/idah...
www.propublica.org/article/idah...
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Hmmm… So private businesses can choose not to serve LGBTQ people, but they can’t choose not to serve anti-vaxxers? Curious.
www.propublica.org/article/idah...
www.propublica.org/article/idah...
No accountability = no representation, and no taxation without representation was literally the red line that triggered the revolution against King George. Yet here we are again. I am not proposing violence, but this is impeachable ten times over.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
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October 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
No accountability = no representation, and no taxation without representation was literally the red line that triggered the revolution against King George. Yet here we are again. I am not proposing violence, but this is impeachable ten times over.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
If I could say one thing to J. D. Vance:
“You keep insisting that we shouldn’t give money to other countries because we don’t have enough resources to take care of our own people. OK, but if we can’t take care of the people we have, then why are you encouraging us to have more babies?”
“You keep insisting that we shouldn’t give money to other countries because we don’t have enough resources to take care of our own people. OK, but if we can’t take care of the people we have, then why are you encouraging us to have more babies?”
October 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If I could say one thing to J. D. Vance:
“You keep insisting that we shouldn’t give money to other countries because we don’t have enough resources to take care of our own people. OK, but if we can’t take care of the people we have, then why are you encouraging us to have more babies?”
“You keep insisting that we shouldn’t give money to other countries because we don’t have enough resources to take care of our own people. OK, but if we can’t take care of the people we have, then why are you encouraging us to have more babies?”
Trump is literally sending the military against U.S. citizens, not to mention shredding the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments, but you’re OK with it as long as Obamacare subsidies come back? Dear Chuck, retire pls. We need people who can fight this century’s battles.
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Scoop: Schumer floats shutdown fix
Schumer and Senate Democrats are starting to think about how to get out of a shutdown if one happens.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump is literally sending the military against U.S. citizens, not to mention shredding the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments, but you’re OK with it as long as Obamacare subsidies come back? Dear Chuck, retire pls. We need people who can fight this century’s battles.
www.axios.com/2025/09/29/s...
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Trump probably never would’ve been president without Comey. I guess Cheeto Mussolini is OK with the FBI investigating other people’s corruption, but investigating his corruption is now a crime apparently. The Founders are spinning in their graves.
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Former FBI Director James Comey indicted days after Trump demanded his DOJ move 'now' to prosecute enemies
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted just days after President Trump issued a public demand for the DOJ to act "now" to prosecute him, sources say.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Trump probably never would’ve been president without Comey. I guess Cheeto Mussolini is OK with the FBI investigating other people’s corruption, but investigating his corruption is now a crime apparently. The Founders are spinning in their graves.
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I’m just wondering when people will realize that it’s 2025, we don’t actually need broadcast TV for entertainment, and the FCC and Sinclair are gatekeeping a content cemetery. (Keats and Yeats are not on their side.) Maybe Jimmy and Stephen should come over to streaming like everyone else under 75.
September 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I’m just wondering when people will realize that it’s 2025, we don’t actually need broadcast TV for entertainment, and the FCC and Sinclair are gatekeeping a content cemetery. (Keats and Yeats are not on their side.) Maybe Jimmy and Stephen should come over to streaming like everyone else under 75.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say something that, in normal times, I wouldn't have to go out on a limb to say: Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to die, but neither does he deserve to be worshipped. It's entirely possible to not celebrate someone's death while not celebrating their life either.
September 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'm going to go out on a limb and say something that, in normal times, I wouldn't have to go out on a limb to say: Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to die, but neither does he deserve to be worshipped. It's entirely possible to not celebrate someone's death while not celebrating their life either.
Now imagine a future Democratic president sending the military to “keep the peace” in a Republican city because the city’s lax gun laws make it “unsafe.” If that would bother you, then this should too. Every power you give Trump, you also give to that future Democrat.
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Trump threatens Chicago with apocalyptic force and Pritzker calls him a 'wannabe dictator'
President Donald Trump is amplifying his promises to dispatch the National Guard to Chicago by posting a parody image from “Apocalypse Now" featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom overhead.
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September 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Now imagine a future Democratic president sending the military to “keep the peace” in a Republican city because the city’s lax gun laws make it “unsafe.” If that would bother you, then this should too. Every power you give Trump, you also give to that future Democrat.
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Every accusation is a confession.
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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September 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Every accusation is a confession.
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But how can the Navy be sure that the boat was crewed by members of Tren de Aragua? There's no way they could see tattoos from that far off.
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Trump confirms U.S. strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat
President Trump says the U.S. military has struck a drug-laden vessel in the southern Caribbean after it left Venezuela. The strike comes a week after Washington deployed warships to the region.
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September 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
But how can the Navy be sure that the boat was crewed by members of Tren de Aragua? There's no way they could see tattoos from that far off.
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"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the U.S. attorney general to prosecute those who burned or in any way desecrated the American flag."
Yeah, um, about that ...
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Yeah, um, about that ...
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Pro-Trump Rioters Tear Down American Flag, Replace it With Trump Flag at U.S. Capitol Building
Thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to protest the president's loss in the 2020 election
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August 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the U.S. attorney general to prosecute those who burned or in any way desecrated the American flag."
Yeah, um, about that ...
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Yeah, um, about that ...
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Socialism (n): Government ownership of the means of production
Regulation isn't socialism. This is, literally. If you spent the last 50 years railing against the evils of "socialism" but are championing this, then no one should take you seriously ever again.
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Regulation isn't socialism. This is, literally. If you spent the last 50 years railing against the evils of "socialism" but are championing this, then no one should take you seriously ever again.
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US to take 10% equity stake in Intel, in Trump's latest corporate move
President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker that converts government grants into an equity share, the latest extraordinary intervention by the White House in corporate America.
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August 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Socialism (n): Government ownership of the means of production
Regulation isn't socialism. This is, literally. If you spent the last 50 years railing against the evils of "socialism" but are championing this, then no one should take you seriously ever again.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Regulation isn't socialism. This is, literally. If you spent the last 50 years railing against the evils of "socialism" but are championing this, then no one should take you seriously ever again.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
All I can say is, I guess now we know what kind of nation Texas would be if allowed to secede. Maybe it’s time to bring back the oldest American idea there is: no taxation without representation.
August 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
All I can say is, I guess now we know what kind of nation Texas would be if allowed to secede. Maybe it’s time to bring back the oldest American idea there is: no taxation without representation.
Republicans’ heads are gonna splode when they realize that (a) these days, turnout benefits them rather than Dems, (b) railing against mail-in and early voting suppresses GOP turnout more than Dem turnout, and (c) that was one reason Biden won in 2020. Discuss.
August 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Republicans’ heads are gonna splode when they realize that (a) these days, turnout benefits them rather than Dems, (b) railing against mail-in and early voting suppresses GOP turnout more than Dem turnout, and (c) that was one reason Biden won in 2020. Discuss.
Sounds a lot like OJ vowing to find the killer. But latest research suggests that severe autism cases aren’t going up; only mild/fully functional cases are, which is explainable by diagnostic procedure/labeling changes. (Asperger’s wasn’t a thing until the 1990s.)
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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
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August 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Sounds a lot like OJ vowing to find the killer. But latest research suggests that severe autism cases aren’t going up; only mild/fully functional cases are, which is explainable by diagnostic procedure/labeling changes. (Asperger’s wasn’t a thing until the 1990s.)
www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
A look into the Trump Administration’s plan for cutting costs at the VA
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Idiocracy - Visiting the Hospital
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August 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A look into the Trump Administration’s plan for cutting costs at the VA
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Texas, by virtue of being under single-party rule for over 30 years, had a head start on the blatant corruption and tyranny ( fascism) that is now embedded in the U.S. government. But this is extreme, even for them. History will not be kind to these goons.
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FBI granted request to 'locate' fleeing Texas House Democrats, Sen. Cornyn says
Sen. John Cornyn says FBI Director Kash Patel granted his request to assist with locating Texas Democrats who fled the state over GOP redistricting efforts.
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August 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Texas, by virtue of being under single-party rule for over 30 years, had a head start on the blatant corruption and tyranny ( fascism) that is now embedded in the U.S. government. But this is extreme, even for them. History will not be kind to these goons.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen...