lcstem
@lcstem.bsky.social
Concerned American. Former CIA officer. 🇺🇸
By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:39 PM
By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
The Vice President of the United States
January 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM
The Vice President of the United States
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This is blatantly illegal. A president can’t go into the oil business and then decide where to spend the money. We are completely untethered from our founding document with a lawless president and a Republican Congress which has abdicated all Constitutional authority.
January 7, 2026 at 12:44 AM
This is blatantly illegal. A president can’t go into the oil business and then decide where to spend the money. We are completely untethered from our founding document with a lawless president and a Republican Congress which has abdicated all Constitutional authority.
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This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
January 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
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Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences
Everything Reacting to Everything, All at Once
Why the Trump administration is posting messages like “THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE” after the attack on Venezuela
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences
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Me and Bongino have those last two sentences in common.
January 7, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Me and Bongino have those last two sentences in common.
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Trump makes a deal with Maduro’s VP to pillage oil from their country in exchange for the Maduro regime remaining in power while Fox and Republicans continue to tell the Latino community that he is going to put Machado in power because he wants freedom & democracy in Venezuela.
January 7, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Trump makes a deal with Maduro’s VP to pillage oil from their country in exchange for the Maduro regime remaining in power while Fox and Republicans continue to tell the Latino community that he is going to put Machado in power because he wants freedom & democracy in Venezuela.
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Along with the standard Jan. 6 denialism, the White House website suggested that assassination attempts against Trump have been orchestrated by rogue forces inside the government.
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talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-whi...
The White House’s J6 Revisionism Includes a Wild New Conspiracy Theory
The White House marked the fifth anniversary of the Capitol attack by...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Along with the standard Jan. 6 denialism, the White House website suggested that assassination attempts against Trump have been orchestrated by rogue forces inside the government.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-whi...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-whi...
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the Völkischer Beobachter in September 1939
January 7, 2026 at 1:13 AM
the Völkischer Beobachter in September 1939
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“It is a sad fact—but a fact nonetheless—that we have in the White House a fundamentally anti-American administration. But that is the world in which we live for now, and dealing with it is the task patriotic Americans face.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/january-6t...
www.thebulwark.com/p/january-6t...
January 6th and the Never-Ending Coup
Trump’s insurrection could happen again.
www.thebulwark.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:13 AM
“It is a sad fact—but a fact nonetheless—that we have in the White House a fundamentally anti-American administration. But that is the world in which we live for now, and dealing with it is the task patriotic Americans face.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/january-6t...
www.thebulwark.com/p/january-6t...
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Serious answer. If part of the U.S. govt takes possession of money/property from Venezuela and hands it to Donald Trump, that is an appropriation to Donald Trump and must be authorized by law as well.
If a check/gift goes directly to Donald Trump, it's a bribe/emolument.
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If a check/gift goes directly to Donald Trump, it's a bribe/emolument.
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I think the idea is that this money never gets to the Treasury.
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Serious answer. If part of the U.S. govt takes possession of money/property from Venezuela and hands it to Donald Trump, that is an appropriation to Donald Trump and must be authorized by law as well.
If a check/gift goes directly to Donald Trump, it's a bribe/emolument.
bsky.app/profile/toom...
If a check/gift goes directly to Donald Trump, it's a bribe/emolument.
bsky.app/profile/toom...
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It’s absolutely tragic to see back-to-back pedestrian fatalities in the Richmond metro. These losses are casualties of building for cars, not humans. Every metro region locality should double down on Vision Zero and save lives.
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www.wric.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It’s absolutely tragic to see back-to-back pedestrian fatalities in the Richmond metro. These losses are casualties of building for cars, not humans. Every metro region locality should double down on Vision Zero and save lives.
www.wric.com/news/local-n...
www.wric.com/news/local-n...
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vaccination rates inherently take years to fall like this, especially in an aging population, but remember — we also don't have much of a cushion when it comes to measles herd immunity
The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.
December 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
vaccination rates inherently take years to fall like this, especially in an aging population, but remember — we also don't have much of a cushion when it comes to measles herd immunity
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NEWS: The Trump administration has canceled the 50-year lease given to the National Links Trust to manage the D.C. golf courses at East Potomac Park, Rock Creek, and Langston. The group won the leases five years ago, and had started work renovating the Rock Creek course.
December 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
NEWS: The Trump administration has canceled the 50-year lease given to the National Links Trust to manage the D.C. golf courses at East Potomac Park, Rock Creek, and Langston. The group won the leases five years ago, and had started work renovating the Rock Creek course.
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Honestly pretty shocking it was just 50% before the pandemic but falling by half in 5 years is horrifying
The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.
December 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Honestly pretty shocking it was just 50% before the pandemic but falling by half in 5 years is horrifying
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what a terrible and senseless loss of life in service of a tyrant
one surprise prediction for 2026 -- the Russian populace has had enough of the human and economic devastation and real cracks begin to present
one surprise prediction for 2026 -- the Russian populace has had enough of the human and economic devastation and real cracks begin to present
December 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
what a terrible and senseless loss of life in service of a tyrant
one surprise prediction for 2026 -- the Russian populace has had enough of the human and economic devastation and real cracks begin to present
one surprise prediction for 2026 -- the Russian populace has had enough of the human and economic devastation and real cracks begin to present
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"One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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While most people spent Thanksgiving with their feet firmly on the ground, Chris Williams finally got to spend a day journeying to the stars, fulfilling a lifelong dream.
A Maryland astronaut achieves his childhood dream of traveling to space
NASA astronaut Chris Williams talks about his journey from the Montgomery County school system to space.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
While most people spent Thanksgiving with their feet firmly on the ground, Chris Williams finally got to spend a day journeying to the stars, fulfilling a lifelong dream.
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More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
December 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
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Oh, hey, that's my article.
The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
www.ms.now
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Oh, hey, that's my article.
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Russia launched waves of missiles and attack drones on Kyiv on Saturday. The hourslong assault came as President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine prepared to meet with President Trump on Sunday to discuss a plan to end the war.
Russia Pummels Kyiv Before Trump-Zelensky Meeting
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault, which continued for nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Russia launched waves of missiles and attack drones on Kyiv on Saturday. The hourslong assault came as President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine prepared to meet with President Trump on Sunday to discuss a plan to end the war.