Phyllis Hirsen
@phylliserene.bsky.social
Liberal senior, fan of democracy.
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As President Trump continues the boat strikes and with the declaration of a “blockade” of all sanctioned vessels transporting Venezuelan oil, he has all but abandoned the public pretense that his goal is simply stopping migrants and drugs.
Trump faces narrowing options on Venezuela action
The Trump administration has backed itself into a corner on Venezuela, with President Nicolás Maduro’s removal by force or war the only compelling options.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As President Trump continues the boat strikes and with the declaration of a “blockade” of all sanctioned vessels transporting Venezuelan oil, he has all but abandoned the public pretense that his goal is simply stopping migrants and drugs.
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The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassador and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of Trump’s “America First” priorities.
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Trump removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully...
apnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassador and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of Trump’s “America First” priorities.
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This is the story Bari Weiss apparently doesn't want you to hear.
Trump has been sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Trump has been sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Trump Is Sending People To The Camps
“More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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The vast majority of people want to see this ban passed — and I'm one of them.
Let's get this done.
Let's get this done.
December 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The vast majority of people want to see this ban passed — and I'm one of them.
Let's get this done.
Let's get this done.
December 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Vladimir Putin wanted useful idiot Steve Witkoff to represent the US because he targeted him as someone whose greed would be easy to exploit. And when it comes to the Trump admin, Putin gets what he wants. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
December 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Vladimir Putin wanted useful idiot Steve Witkoff to represent the US because he targeted him as someone whose greed would be easy to exploit. And when it comes to the Trump admin, Putin gets what he wants. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
Attorney General Pam Bondi Was Secretly Recorded in Video Published by James O’Keefe
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was secretly recorded discussing the FBI's files on Jeffrey Epstein in a video published by James O'Keefe.
www.mediaite.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Did Trump’s DOJ really think dropping hundreds of blacked-out pages counted as complying with the law?
I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.
I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.
December 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Did Trump’s DOJ really think dropping hundreds of blacked-out pages counted as complying with the law?
I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.
I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.
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In Washington these days, the word often whispered by Republicans and shouted by Democrats and Never Trumpers is “unhinged.” Trump's own top aide calls it an "alcoholic's personality." This was a week that Trump's uninhibited second term was on display. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Shouting, Ranting, Insulting: Trump’s Uninhibited Second Term
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In Washington these days, the word often whispered by Republicans and shouted by Democrats and Never Trumpers is “unhinged.” Trump's own top aide calls it an "alcoholic's personality." This was a week that Trump's uninhibited second term was on display. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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Statement from Maria Farmer: “This is amazing. Thank you for believing me. I feel redeemed. This is one of the best days of my life. Of course, it's mixed with the fact that I'm devastated about all the other little girls like Virginia who were harmed because the FBI didn't do their job. 1/
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Statement from Maria Farmer: “This is amazing. Thank you for believing me. I feel redeemed. This is one of the best days of my life. Of course, it's mixed with the fact that I'm devastated about all the other little girls like Virginia who were harmed because the FBI didn't do their job. 1/
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Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."
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When they wanted to release the files early this year, they paid $1M in overtime and put 1000 people on it - until they realized what was in the files. Now they’re slow walking the release.
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
When they wanted to release the files early this year, they paid $1M in overtime and put 1000 people on it - until they realized what was in the files. Now they’re slow walking the release.
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Will continue to remind the Nazi immigrant from South Africa threw the Nazi salute twice at trump's inauguration.
December 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Will continue to remind the Nazi immigrant from South Africa threw the Nazi salute twice at trump's inauguration.
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Holy S***!! 🤯
“The president and his most rabid supporters have a plan in their back pockets to invalidate the results of the 2026 midterms if Democrats win the House.” trib.al/FjJXiRp
The Simple, Legal Way Trump Could Steal the Midterms
A little-known section of the Constitution may hold the key to overturning Democratic wins in 2026.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...
This US citizen went on his lunch break and ended up in a chokehold by a masked federal agent and detained, video shows | CNN
Mubashir had just stepped outside into the snowy Minneapolis winter weather to take his lunch break when he says he saw a masked federal officer running toward him “at full speed.”
www.cnn.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/u...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”
“A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”
Opinion | The Reasonable Majority Is No Longer Silent
Donald Trump is confronting a backlash of the reasonable.
nyti.ms
December 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”
“A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”
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There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/gcWulzo
😡 We PROMISED to care for our veterans.
"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
😡 We PROMISED to care for our veterans.
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“The president and his most rabid supporters have a plan in their back pockets to invalidate the results of the 2026 midterms if Democrats win the House.” trib.al/FjJXiRp
The Simple, Legal Way Trump Could Steal the Midterms
A little-known section of the Constitution may hold the key to overturning Democratic wins in 2026.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“The president and his most rabid supporters have a plan in their back pockets to invalidate the results of the 2026 midterms if Democrats win the House.” trib.al/FjJXiRp
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"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...