M DeGroff-Kirchgraber
@mdegraber.bsky.social
Exhausted non-binary queer neurodivergent goblin. They/them
*UwUs in Thylacine*
*UwUs in Thylacine*
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Trump’s Truth Social spree filled with foreign users posing as MAGA influencers
Trump’s Truth Social spree filled with foreign users posing as MAGA influencers
Trump’s Truth Social spree filled with foreign users posing as MAGA influencers
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Trump’s Truth Social spree filled with foreign users posing as MAGA influencers
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I am going to repeat this forever: Supply-side crackdowns on drug use are useless, even fatal. They move addicts toward more dangerous substances, they create incentives for dealers to cut other drugs with the more dangerous substances (Xanax cut with whatever) so more casual users die, too.
This is very convincing to me, a guy who got hit on the head and forgot how most fentanyl ingredients were coming from China.
Sen. Roger Marshall defends Hegseth: "Look, we're losing 200 Americans every day to drug poisoning from these drug lords. This is a war. And it's ugly. War is never pretty ... that strike probably saved thousands of American lives."
December 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I am going to repeat this forever: Supply-side crackdowns on drug use are useless, even fatal. They move addicts toward more dangerous substances, they create incentives for dealers to cut other drugs with the more dangerous substances (Xanax cut with whatever) so more casual users die, too.
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Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
All these members of Congress who “don’t know the details” of current events should be impeached and replaced by people who will actually do their fucking jobs.
Q: You outlined the dangers posed by drugs. So what explanation do you have for Trump pardoning the former president of Honduras?
SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I don't know the details. Happy to look into it. I can't speak to it
Q: Alright. Um. Ok. Like, no thought on it?
MARSHALL: I haven't researched it
SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I don't know the details. Happy to look into it. I can't speak to it
Q: Alright. Um. Ok. Like, no thought on it?
MARSHALL: I haven't researched it
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
All these members of Congress who “don’t know the details” of current events should be impeached and replaced by people who will actually do their fucking jobs.
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Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."
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Sadism is central to Trump-MAGA politics, and it's getting worse:
*Hegseth tweets vile cartoon on bombings
*Megyn Kelly wants bombing victims to "bleed"
*Sick new WH video glorifies migrant suffering
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I go deep on sadism/MAGA:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
*Hegseth tweets vile cartoon on bombings
*Megyn Kelly wants bombing victims to "bleed"
*Sick new WH video glorifies migrant suffering
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I go deep on sadism/MAGA:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
Trump Tirades at Media Darken as MAGA Bloodlust on Bombings Boils Over
As Trump and MAGA hit new levels of depravity on his boat bombings and anti-immigrant crackdown, the writer of a piece connecting these dots discusses the centrality of sadism to Trump-MAGA politics.
newrepublic.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Sadism is central to Trump-MAGA politics, and it's getting worse:
*Hegseth tweets vile cartoon on bombings
*Megyn Kelly wants bombing victims to "bleed"
*Sick new WH video glorifies migrant suffering
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I go deep on sadism/MAGA:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
*Hegseth tweets vile cartoon on bombings
*Megyn Kelly wants bombing victims to "bleed"
*Sick new WH video glorifies migrant suffering
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I go deep on sadism/MAGA:
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
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1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
popular.info
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
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Republicans had a very bad day yesterday:
-Trump fell asleep during his cabinet meeting.
-Republicans continue to lose critical cases in court.
-They vastly underperformed in a Tennessee congressional special election.
They are panicking and will become much worse. Pay attention.
-Trump fell asleep during his cabinet meeting.
-Republicans continue to lose critical cases in court.
-They vastly underperformed in a Tennessee congressional special election.
They are panicking and will become much worse. Pay attention.
December 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Republicans had a very bad day yesterday:
-Trump fell asleep during his cabinet meeting.
-Republicans continue to lose critical cases in court.
-They vastly underperformed in a Tennessee congressional special election.
They are panicking and will become much worse. Pay attention.
-Trump fell asleep during his cabinet meeting.
-Republicans continue to lose critical cases in court.
-They vastly underperformed in a Tennessee congressional special election.
They are panicking and will become much worse. Pay attention.
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Millions of Americans with student loan debt are hanging on the edge of a cliff — a debt default cliff.
And the Trump Administration is making it harder for them to hold on.
And the Trump Administration is making it harder for them to hold on.
Millions of Americans with student loan debt are hanging on the edge of a cliff
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Millions of Americans with student loan debt are hanging on the edge of a cliff — a debt default cliff.
And the Trump Administration is making it harder for them to hold on.
And the Trump Administration is making it harder for them to hold on.
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Trump has been trying to go full dictator this entire time, if he could just do it he already would have. His public support plummeting isn’t going to make the task easier
Reality Time:
If Trump truly intends to go full dictator, it'll happen in the next 11 months. The way he's destroying the country, there is a full on GOP bloodbath coming next Nov, and when that happens and Dems take ALL of Congress, he knows he's going to be impeached, removed, and jailed.
If Trump truly intends to go full dictator, it'll happen in the next 11 months. The way he's destroying the country, there is a full on GOP bloodbath coming next Nov, and when that happens and Dems take ALL of Congress, he knows he's going to be impeached, removed, and jailed.
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Trump has been trying to go full dictator this entire time, if he could just do it he already would have. His public support plummeting isn’t going to make the task easier
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It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.
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Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed legislation that formally establishes a process for state-level vaccine guidelines and expands pharmacy access to COVID-19 and other shots for young children across Illinois.
Gov. JB Pritzker signs law on Illinois vaccine guidelines amid ongoing tumult with Trump administration
The new law, part of the Illinois governor’s ongoing battle with the Trump administration, expands pharmacy access to COVID-19 and other shots for young children across Illinois, among other …
trib.al
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed legislation that formally establishes a process for state-level vaccine guidelines and expands pharmacy access to COVID-19 and other shots for young children across Illinois.
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President Donald Trump falsely claimed Tuesday that all pardons and commutations signed by former President Joe Biden are now “invalid” because they were allegedly authorized using the autopen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
President Donald Trump falsely claimed Tuesday that all pardons and commutations signed by former President Joe Biden are now “invalid” because they were allegedly authorized using the autopen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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the president says absolutely crazy stuff all the time on social media and it doesn't make headlines because everyone paying attention knows he's nuts
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
the president says absolutely crazy stuff all the time on social media and it doesn't make headlines because everyone paying attention knows he's nuts
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I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
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STAY IN LINE!
Polls close at 7 PM! If you are in line before 7 PM, you can still vote!
Call 1-833-DEM-VOTE if you have any problems.
Polls close at 7 PM! If you are in line before 7 PM, you can still vote!
Call 1-833-DEM-VOTE if you have any problems.
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
STAY IN LINE!
Polls close at 7 PM! If you are in line before 7 PM, you can still vote!
Call 1-833-DEM-VOTE if you have any problems.
Polls close at 7 PM! If you are in line before 7 PM, you can still vote!
Call 1-833-DEM-VOTE if you have any problems.
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Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Last Big Case Against Trump Has Been Dropped
The U.S. justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold the president and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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JUST IN: One Big Beautiful Bill ban on Planned Parenthood is blocked again by Judge Indira Talwani (MA/Obama), this time on suit brought by 22 states & DC. Judge says ban's lack of clarity imposes unconstitutional burden on states. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Judge blocks provision of law that strips Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood affiliates
The judge’s order lifting the funding ban applies to 22 states and D.C.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
JUST IN: One Big Beautiful Bill ban on Planned Parenthood is blocked again by Judge Indira Talwani (MA/Obama), this time on suit brought by 22 states & DC. Judge says ban's lack of clarity imposes unconstitutional burden on states. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
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I don't know what the role of journalism is if not to "referee the news." Your whole job is exercising your professional judgment to determine what people need to know and why it matters!
The NYT’s Patrick Healy asks a ridiculously both-sides question in which he tars critics as partisans who want the Times to “referee the news.” How about telling readers clearly that Trump is dismantling democracy? You offer the evidence. You’re just afraid to draw the conclusion. 🧵 2/4
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I don't know what the role of journalism is if not to "referee the news." Your whole job is exercising your professional judgment to determine what people need to know and why it matters!
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NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports.
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports.
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
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So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Just for muscle memory's sake, it would be fun if everyone thought of one way to make political hay over this. Got a GOP MoC? Call them out for being the party of crime publicly. Got a MAGAt family member? Call and ask why they're freeing cocaine traffickers.
So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Just for muscle memory's sake, it would be fun if everyone thought of one way to make political hay over this. Got a GOP MoC? Call them out for being the party of crime publicly. Got a MAGAt family member? Call and ask why they're freeing cocaine traffickers.
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i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...