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claudia-sahm.bsky.social
All kidding aside, this is a very troubling post that should feature prominently in the Senate confirmation hearings. Reminder if the Senate doesn’t confirm anyone, Powell stays as Fed Chair.
December 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.

When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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sanho.bsky.social
Seasons greetings.
Scrooge shouting from a window "You boy..yes you! Is he dead yet?"
December 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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normative.bsky.social
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
markjacob.bsky.social Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
Homeland Security tweet: Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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gailhelt.bsky.social
No, that’s not even remotely close to what that means.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Lutnick: "Donald Trump's economy grew 4.3%. That means that Americans overall, all of us, are going to earn 4.3% more money. We're making a raise, it's a simple way to do it."
December 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?

Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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pittsburghdan.bsky.social
This is extremely good @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Files Should Not Have Been Released This Way
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Trump makes questionable comments about young girls in 1992 video In a 1992 Entertainment Tonight video, Donald Trump greets a group of young girls at Trump Tower and then brags to the camera: "I am going to be dating her in ten years. Can you believe it?" Major Garrett has more.
December 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
What the holy hell is this
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
December 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I’d certainly take them over a mortuary molester like Stephen Miller.
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night
December 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
He's a very sick man.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Interesting aspect of this one: Trump had argued his decisions on the Guard were effectively unreviewable by the courts. Apparently, SCOTUS isn’t quite ready to put itself completely out of business.
December 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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ryanjreilly.com
“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
HahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhHahahahahahhahahahahahhaha OMG WHAT A DAMN PATHETIC TINY CLOWN BOY
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels.

I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4d
oh my god its literally Long Beach's wario
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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jamalgreene.bsky.social
The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
It's one long run on sentence. Did he get into his son's stash?
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
OMG Trump is so gone. We are in a dangerous place.
simonwdc.bsky.social Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 8d
The appropriate response to this insane performance is that Trump clearly needs to step down.
simonwdc.bsky.social Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 8d
Trump is so clearly insane. It’s a national emergency.
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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shoq.bsky.social
How the hell did they let him go on TV this high and this angry?
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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jamellebouie.net
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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governor.ca.gov
Trump tonight:

Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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djrothkopf.bsky.social
If the 25th amendment were triggered by any objective metric of presidential insanity or unfitness, Trump would have been launched out of the White House ten seconds into tonight’s speech. Or 11 months ago. Or daily since.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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the-independent.com
White House adds plaques below Biden and Obama portraits, calling them ‘the worst President in American history’ and ‘divisive’
White House adds insulting plaques below Biden and Obama portraits
www.independent.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This creepy little casket fondler and his lifetime supply of racist resentments is going to be the goddamn end of us.
explaintrade.com Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9d
-laughs nervously-

What the fuck?
> Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) by Stephen Miller (@StephenM), verified. The post reads: “American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property. These pillaged assets were then used to fund terrorism and flood our streets with killers, mercenaries and drugs.” Below is a quoted post by Marco Rubio (@marcorubio), verified, sharing a screenshot of a statement attributed to Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump). The statement claims Venezuela is surrounded by a large armada, accuses the Maduro government of stealing U.S. oil assets, financing terrorism, drug trafficking, and human trafficking, designates the Venezuelan regime as a “foreign terrorist organization,” orders a total blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, and calls for stolen assets to be returned to the United States immediately. The timestamp shows “5:46 pm · 17 Dec 25” and “229K Views.”
December 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
"a president that maybe wasn't watching" would have been Gerald Ford, because Venezuela's nationalization of its oil industry happened in 1976
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM