Elena
@loverhersports50.bsky.social
Lover of women's sports. WNBA NWSL USWNT PWHL Unrivaled
Veggie lover. Educator
Greater Boston, MA. USA
Veggie lover. Educator
Greater Boston, MA. USA
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Americans know the economy is rigged against them.
President Trump is doubling down by allowing big corporations to rip people off with impunity.
President Trump is doubling down by allowing big corporations to rip people off with impunity.
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Americans know the economy is rigged against them.
President Trump is doubling down by allowing big corporations to rip people off with impunity.
President Trump is doubling down by allowing big corporations to rip people off with impunity.
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House Republicans have made it crystal clear whose team they're on.
And it's not yours.
And it's not yours.
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
House Republicans have made it crystal clear whose team they're on.
And it's not yours.
And it's not yours.
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As the descendant of people who were forcibly brought here in the early 18th century by Dutch and British slavers, please Representative, tell me more about "what American is all about."
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As the descendant of people who were forcibly brought here in the early 18th century by Dutch and British slavers, please Representative, tell me more about "what American is all about."
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He’s been pretty busy, as you can imagine. 🤡
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
He’s been pretty busy, as you can imagine. 🤡
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If Hegseth was watching the whole thing LIVE, why not stop the second strike on survivors—a move that he knew was illegal under U.S. and international law?
December 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If Hegseth was watching the whole thing LIVE, why not stop the second strike on survivors—a move that he knew was illegal under U.S. and international law?
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This latest Trump pardon of a Columbian drug king pin sentenced to 40
years in prison is just another in a string of pardons for big time drug traffickers
Law & Order, my ass!
War on drugs, my ass
Performative BS & Million Dollar Pardon$
years in prison is just another in a string of pardons for big time drug traffickers
Law & Order, my ass!
War on drugs, my ass
Performative BS & Million Dollar Pardon$
Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric
President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also pardoned more than 20 people serving time for serious drug crimes, some involving...
www.npr.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This latest Trump pardon of a Columbian drug king pin sentenced to 40
years in prison is just another in a string of pardons for big time drug traffickers
Law & Order, my ass!
War on drugs, my ass
Performative BS & Million Dollar Pardon$
years in prison is just another in a string of pardons for big time drug traffickers
Law & Order, my ass!
War on drugs, my ass
Performative BS & Million Dollar Pardon$
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These people are operating outside the State Department, rather like the “Three Amigos” of Trump’s first term.
Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for President Trump, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, are expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Moscow on Tuesday, as the White House pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine. Follow live.
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Envoy to Meet With Putin in Moscow
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
These people are operating outside the State Department, rather like the “Three Amigos” of Trump’s first term.
@ms.now
Why aren't both of the reporters on the @nytimes.com article about Negseth being acknowledged? The woman has been completely ignored by Nicole. Shameful.
Why aren't both of the reporters on the @nytimes.com article about Negseth being acknowledged? The woman has been completely ignored by Nicole. Shameful.
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@ms.now
Why aren't both of the reporters on the @nytimes.com article about Negseth being acknowledged? The woman has been completely ignored by Nicole. Shameful.
Why aren't both of the reporters on the @nytimes.com article about Negseth being acknowledged? The woman has been completely ignored by Nicole. Shameful.
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U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican who leads the Senate Armed Services Committee, is vowing to conduct “vigorous oversight” following reports that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military “to kill everybody” on an alleged drug boat.
buff.ly/lE07rAG
buff.ly/lE07rAG
Wicker Directs Inquiry Into Hegseth's Reported 'Kill Them All' Order, Vowing 'Vigorous Oversight' of Boat Strikes
Sen. Roger Wicker is vowing "vigorous oversight" amid reports Hegseth ordered the U.S. military "to kill everybody" in a boat strike.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican who leads the Senate Armed Services Committee, is vowing to conduct “vigorous oversight” following reports that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military “to kill everybody” on an alleged drug boat.
buff.ly/lE07rAG
buff.ly/lE07rAG
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Now that Karoline Leavitt just confirmed that Frank Bradley gave the order for the second strike that killed two people clinging to boat wreckage (per @atrupar.com) this seems doubly relevant:
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Now that Karoline Leavitt just confirmed that Frank Bradley gave the order for the second strike that killed two people clinging to boat wreckage (per @atrupar.com) this seems doubly relevant:
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Reporter: Admiral Bradley was the one who gave that order for a second strike?
Leavitt: And he was well within his authority to do so.
Leavitt: And he was well within his authority to do so.
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Reporter: Admiral Bradley was the one who gave that order for a second strike?
Leavitt: And he was well within his authority to do so.
Leavitt: And he was well within his authority to do so.
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Weija: Did Admiral Bradley order that second strike because there were still survivors after the initial strike?
Leavitt: Again, as I read for you, Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority in the law.
Leavitt: Again, as I read for you, Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority in the law.
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Weija: Did Admiral Bradley order that second strike because there were still survivors after the initial strike?
Leavitt: Again, as I read for you, Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority in the law.
Leavitt: Again, as I read for you, Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority in the law.
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Reporter: The president said that if someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn't mean you arrest the president. How is that different than what the administration is accusing Maduro of doing?
Leavitt: You're cherry picking the president's statement.
Leavitt: You're cherry picking the president's statement.
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reporter: The president said that if someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn't mean you arrest the president. How is that different than what the administration is accusing Maduro of doing?
Leavitt: You're cherry picking the president's statement.
Leavitt: You're cherry picking the president's statement.
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Day#316
Watch out. The new Gestapo is gaining power. Going after legal immigrants and Native Americans and now dissenters as well. The GO☭ SS is massive, invasive and controlled by the federal government.
So much for state control......right? You feel for that one didn't ya?
#proudblue #pinks
Watch out. The new Gestapo is gaining power. Going after legal immigrants and Native Americans and now dissenters as well. The GO☭ SS is massive, invasive and controlled by the federal government.
So much for state control......right? You feel for that one didn't ya?
#proudblue #pinks
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Day#316
Watch out. The new Gestapo is gaining power. Going after legal immigrants and Native Americans and now dissenters as well. The GO☭ SS is massive, invasive and controlled by the federal government.
So much for state control......right? You feel for that one didn't ya?
#proudblue #pinks
Watch out. The new Gestapo is gaining power. Going after legal immigrants and Native Americans and now dissenters as well. The GO☭ SS is massive, invasive and controlled by the federal government.
So much for state control......right? You feel for that one didn't ya?
#proudblue #pinks
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
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The Crimson does it again. Harvard can't stop tripping itself up over Epstein.
Harvard Endowment Appoints 3 New Directors, Including JPMorgan Exec Who Managed Epstein’s Bank Accounts | News | The Harvard Crimson
Three Harvard Business School alumni — Paul B. Edgerley, Mary Callahan Erdoes, and Raymond J. McGuire ’79 — were appointed to Harvard Management Company’s board of directors.
www.thecrimson.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The Crimson does it again. Harvard can't stop tripping itself up over Epstein.
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It is true that no one has grasped this scope.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It is true that no one has grasped this scope.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
But there are ways to deal with it.
First, track the way that Kristi Noem is converting it to personal grift, like her propaganda campaign.
Next, illustrate how this is a funding shift, from things Americans like to body snatching they hate.
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🚨SPECIAL ELECTION - TENNESSEE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 7🚨
Democrat: @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND🗓️
Area: Part of Nashville and points NW/W/SW.
Note: This is it. We need every last vote for Aftyn Behn within the borders of the map below. Let's shock the world.
Democrat: @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND🗓️
Area: Part of Nashville and points NW/W/SW.
Note: This is it. We need every last vote for Aftyn Behn within the borders of the map below. Let's shock the world.
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🚨SPECIAL ELECTION - TENNESSEE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 7🚨
Democrat: @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND🗓️
Area: Part of Nashville and points NW/W/SW.
Note: This is it. We need every last vote for Aftyn Behn within the borders of the map below. Let's shock the world.
Democrat: @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND🗓️
Area: Part of Nashville and points NW/W/SW.
Note: This is it. We need every last vote for Aftyn Behn within the borders of the map below. Let's shock the world.
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Trump's crypto memecoin.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump's crypto memecoin.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
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The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 28, 2025
The frontline in Ukraine is not facing imminent collapse despite recent Russian gains and Kremlin assertions.
understandingwar.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
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Per our organizers protesting OTG: the anti-ICE protestors held up ICE until the NYPD arrived, arrested demonstrators w/ almost no warning, & pushed people onto the street without provocation.
@Jessica Tisch: the NYPD is letting the Gestapo take New Yorkers hostage. Don’t help ICE - arrest them
@Jessica Tisch: the NYPD is letting the Gestapo take New Yorkers hostage. Don’t help ICE - arrest them
“As the agents moved to exit their vehicles, protesters blocked them, forming a barricade at the mouth of the garage with their bodies and piling mounds of garbage bags beside them. The standoff continued for the better part of an hour as more and more protesters arrived.”
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Per our organizers protesting OTG: the anti-ICE protestors held up ICE until the NYPD arrived, arrested demonstrators w/ almost no warning, & pushed people onto the street without provocation.
@Jessica Tisch: the NYPD is letting the Gestapo take New Yorkers hostage. Don’t help ICE - arrest them
@Jessica Tisch: the NYPD is letting the Gestapo take New Yorkers hostage. Don’t help ICE - arrest them
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Putin knows exactly how to get Trump on side, a former White House adviser who observed meetings between the pair has said. Fiona Hill told world affairs editor Sam Kiley how the Russian president is in tune with how his American counterpart can be flattered just by being around world leaders.
Fiona Hill: Russian expert on why Putin knows exactly how to get Trump on side
Vladimir Putin knows exactly how to get Donald Trump on side, a former White House adviser who observed meetings between the pair has said. In an hour-long interview, Fiona Hill told world affairs edi...
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Putin knows exactly how to get Trump on side, a former White House adviser who observed meetings between the pair has said. Fiona Hill told world affairs editor Sam Kiley how the Russian president is in tune with how his American counterpart can be flattered just by being around world leaders.
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For Witkoff, Kushner, and the Russians, the goal is reportedly to revitalize Russia’s $2 trillion economy through joint Russia-U.S. ventures.
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...
Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ Leaks
A Wall Street Journal report details how profit is at the center of Trump’s “peace” talks.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For Witkoff, Kushner, and the Russians, the goal is reportedly to revitalize Russia’s $2 trillion economy through joint Russia-U.S. ventures.
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM