Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter)
@pat120.bsky.social
Liberal, lifelong follower of US politics; BA Poli Sci. Firmly on Earth 1. Interested in DEMOCRACY, legal issues, voting rights. Reader of books. Quilter. Anglophile. Do not obey in advance!!! Support Ukraine! No DMs, thx.
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The lawless criminal in the Oval Office loses again.
👉 Another grand jury refuses to indict Leticia James.
abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-time-...
👉 Another grand jury refuses to indict Leticia James.
abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-time-...
For 2nd time, grand jury refuses to indict New York AG Letitia James: Sources
For a second time in a week, a federal grand jury in Virginia has refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud, sources say.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The lawless criminal in the Oval Office loses again.
👉 Another grand jury refuses to indict Leticia James.
abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-time-...
👉 Another grand jury refuses to indict Leticia James.
abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-time-...
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
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Gavin's latest troll
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Gavin's latest troll
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Anyone who thinks our beef with Venezuela is about drugs is in for a crude awakening
Bessent: "If something happens down in Venezuela, we could really see oil prices go down even more."
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Anyone who thinks our beef with Venezuela is about drugs is in for a crude awakening
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Trump is gonna mess around and organize this entire country for the resistance.
Unintended consequences can be brutal.
Unintended consequences can be brutal.
When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone.
This is what community looks like.💙
This is what community looks like.💙
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Trump is gonna mess around and organize this entire country for the resistance.
Unintended consequences can be brutal.
Unintended consequences can be brutal.
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Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
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I really can't recommend 'Who Goes Nazi?' by Dorothy Thompson highly enough. Published in 1941 & as relevant now as it was then.
President Trump defended Tucker Carlson on Sunday for his sympathetic interview with the white nationalist and racist antisemite Nick Fuentes, breaking a weekslong silence on an episode that had ignited bitter infighting among conservatives.
Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview
President Trump defended Mr. Carlson’s friendly interview with an openly antisemitic white supremacist that prompted denunciations from some on the right.
nyti.ms
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I really can't recommend 'Who Goes Nazi?' by Dorothy Thompson highly enough. Published in 1941 & as relevant now as it was then.
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I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
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👀 @WPLN asking the right questions!
@GovBillLee is playing hunger games with Tennessee families
@GovBillLee is playing hunger games with Tennessee families
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
👀 @WPLN asking the right questions!
@GovBillLee is playing hunger games with Tennessee families
@GovBillLee is playing hunger games with Tennessee families
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It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade.
https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv
https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade.
https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv
https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv
Will no one point out to her or to him that it's not HIS house, and he's doing this without the input or consent of its actual owners???? And what are those donors getting in return? Cause those guys don't give money for nothing.
Q: Is $300 million for the ballroom the operative figure and why did it go up so much?
LEAVITT: $300 million is the operative figure and again, it's not gonna cost the taxpayers a dime
LEAVITT: $300 million is the operative figure and again, it's not gonna cost the taxpayers a dime
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Will no one point out to her or to him that it's not HIS house, and he's doing this without the input or consent of its actual owners???? And what are those donors getting in return? Cause those guys don't give money for nothing.
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When Trump announces federal aid to a state and in the same breath notes that the state voted for him, he's signaling that states must vote for him if they want federal aid.
It's not a presidency, it's a Mafia-style protection racket.
It's not a presidency, it's a Mafia-style protection racket.
That's only 1.5% of what Kristi Noem's jets cost. America First, right?
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
When Trump announces federal aid to a state and in the same breath notes that the state voted for him, he's signaling that states must vote for him if they want federal aid.
It's not a presidency, it's a Mafia-style protection racket.
It's not a presidency, it's a Mafia-style protection racket.
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Matt Hildreth from @ruralorganizing.bsky.social:
We’re seeing the very early stages of a political shift in rural America. People who never questioned Trump are starting to wonder if he’s really on their side
ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/trumps-arg...
We’re seeing the very early stages of a political shift in rural America. People who never questioned Trump are starting to wonder if he’s really on their side
ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/trumps-arg...
Trump's Argentine Beef Plan Creates Rift with American Cattle Ranchers
We’re seeing the very early stages of a political shift in rural America. People who never questioned Trump are starting to wonder if he’s really on their side.
ruralorganizing.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Matt Hildreth from @ruralorganizing.bsky.social:
We’re seeing the very early stages of a political shift in rural America. People who never questioned Trump are starting to wonder if he’s really on their side
ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/trumps-arg...
We’re seeing the very early stages of a political shift in rural America. People who never questioned Trump are starting to wonder if he’s really on their side
ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/trumps-arg...
It makes me so sick to know that they've just taken a wrecking ball to this beautiful space.
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It makes me so sick to know that they've just taken a wrecking ball to this beautiful space.
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I thought the tariffs were paying for that.
JUST IN: U.S. national debt hits $38 trillion for the first time
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I thought the tariffs were paying for that.
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It always comes back to Obama.
www.wonkette.com/p/sure-trump...
www.wonkette.com/p/sure-trump...
Sure, Trump Tearing Down White House, But At Least Is Not Black Man With Feet On Resolute Desk
It's about respecting America and We the People's House, and not being Barack Obama.
www.wonkette.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It always comes back to Obama.
www.wonkette.com/p/sure-trump...
www.wonkette.com/p/sure-trump...
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When Trump or his goons talk about "antifa," they might as well be talking about demons or leprechauns.
But this fake threat shows how the Trump administration has fully absorbed real organized criminal gangs.
Yep, echoes of Nazi history in this.
www.salon.com/2025/10/22/h...
But this fake threat shows how the Trump administration has fully absorbed real organized criminal gangs.
Yep, echoes of Nazi history in this.
www.salon.com/2025/10/22/h...
How the Proud Boys invented antifa
The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump's White House
www.salon.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
When Trump or his goons talk about "antifa," they might as well be talking about demons or leprechauns.
But this fake threat shows how the Trump administration has fully absorbed real organized criminal gangs.
Yep, echoes of Nazi history in this.
www.salon.com/2025/10/22/h...
But this fake threat shows how the Trump administration has fully absorbed real organized criminal gangs.
Yep, echoes of Nazi history in this.
www.salon.com/2025/10/22/h...
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“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”
Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about.
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...
Sincerity is not the problem
As is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O...
www.pbump.net
October 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”
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Title 10, which gives the president limited authority to federalize the National Guard, does not provide the president with plenary (i.e. absolute and unchecked) authority.
Stephen Miller is claiming the powers of a tyrant. We must have oversight.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Stephen Miller is claiming the powers of a tyrant. We must have oversight.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking
Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment
www.independent.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Title 10, which gives the president limited authority to federalize the National Guard, does not provide the president with plenary (i.e. absolute and unchecked) authority.
Stephen Miller is claiming the powers of a tyrant. We must have oversight.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Stephen Miller is claiming the powers of a tyrant. We must have oversight.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trying to help get the word out
September 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Trying to help get the word out
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This morning's Portland post from Trump, finally, came less than 20 hours after the Supreme Court, yet again, gave Trump still more room to do what he pleases.
Telling a tyrant he can take lawless steps, unsurprisingly, will lead that tyrant to take more lawless steps.
Telling a tyrant he can take lawless steps, unsurprisingly, will lead that tyrant to take more lawless steps.
SCOTUS's Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid
Justice Kagan, dissenting for the Democratic appointees, noted the majority's "preliminary" order means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“
www.lawdork.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This morning's Portland post from Trump, finally, came less than 20 hours after the Supreme Court, yet again, gave Trump still more room to do what he pleases.
Telling a tyrant he can take lawless steps, unsurprisingly, will lead that tyrant to take more lawless steps.
Telling a tyrant he can take lawless steps, unsurprisingly, will lead that tyrant to take more lawless steps.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social How about this for at least part of the reason he’s doing this?
September 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social How about this for at least part of the reason he’s doing this?
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If you want a fun, nerdy read, check out Judge Nathan's (six-judge) concurrence in Öztürk on why the Second Circuit *isn't* going en banc to review the denials of stays to DOJ in the Öztürk and Mahdawi immigration cases.
It's smart, thoughtful, and sharply critical of Judge Menashi's contrary take:
It's smart, thoughtful, and sharply critical of Judge Menashi's contrary take:
ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov
September 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If you want a fun, nerdy read, check out Judge Nathan's (six-judge) concurrence in Öztürk on why the Second Circuit *isn't* going en banc to review the denials of stays to DOJ in the Öztürk and Mahdawi immigration cases.
It's smart, thoughtful, and sharply critical of Judge Menashi's contrary take:
It's smart, thoughtful, and sharply critical of Judge Menashi's contrary take: