Paul Mooney
@pjmooney.bsky.social
American freelance journalist based in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Burma and Vietnam for more than 30 years. Army Veteran
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MTN: For years, the MAGA movement relied on blind devotion. But devotion doesn’t pay rent. It doesn’t cover hospital bills. It doesn’t save jobs. And as Americans look around, they’re realizing that Trump’s promises were nothing but performances of cruelty wrapped in lies — Reality is a bitch.
Trump Cuts Ties With Marjorie Taylor Greene, Calling Her ‘Wacky’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u... Actually, she cut ties with him. And he’s the one that’s whacky. Everything Trump says about other people actually refers to himself.
Trump Cuts Ties With Marjorie Taylor Greene, Calling Her ‘Wacky’
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Trump Cuts Ties With Marjorie Taylor Greene, Calling Her ‘Wacky’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u... Actually, she cut ties with him. And he’s the one that’s whacky. Everything Trump says about other people actually refers to himself.
MAGA is furious over Trump's immigration apostasy. The president’s comments on H-1B visas were “a little hard to stomach,” said one Fox News host.
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
MAGA is furious over Trump's immigration apostasy. The president’s comments on H-1B visas were “a little hard to stomach,” said one Fox News host.
Why Trump skipping a major climate summit may be for the best - Yeah, this way he won’t embarrass if he starts talking about windmills again.
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Why Trump skipping a major climate summit may be for the best - Yeah, this way he won’t embarrass if he starts talking about windmills again.
Debunked: The FBI threw cold water on a story on a right-wing website that named a former Capitol Police officer as a potential match for the individual who planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Debunked: The FBI threw cold water on a story on a right-wing website that named a former Capitol Police officer as a potential match for the individual who planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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"The reason why this is of concern, is—he's the president of the United States, he's been found in another case by a civil jury to have been liable for sexually abusing a woman in a department store, he's a convicted felon, and he's had dozens of women accuse him of sexual abuse."
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"The reason why this is of concern, is—he's the president of the United States, he's been found in another case by a civil jury to have been liable for sexually abusing a woman in a department store, he's a convicted felon, and he's had dozens of women accuse him of sexual abuse."
Trump has refused to take questions from the media the past few days. He doesn’t want to be asked about the Epstein Files. Why?
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trump has refused to take questions from the media the past few days. He doesn’t want to be asked about the Epstein Files. Why?
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Alex Wagner and Tim Miller explore how Trump's excuses collapse into a contradictory mess when you read the Epstein emails.
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Alex Wagner and Tim Miller explore how Trump's excuses collapse into a contradictory mess when you read the Epstein emails.
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Either Blanche was deceived by the sexual predator he moved into a cushier prison, or he is being untruthful about when he found out about Maxwell’s emails to Epstein.
Either way, this saga is nowhere close to ending. trib.al/lRY6CKG
Either way, this saga is nowhere close to ending. trib.al/lRY6CKG
How Did Todd Blanche’s Interview With Ghislaine Maxwell Miss This?
A recently released email suggests Maxwell knew Trump had spent time at Epstein’s house.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Either Blanche was deceived by the sexual predator he moved into a cushier prison, or he is being untruthful about when he found out about Maxwell’s emails to Epstein.
Either way, this saga is nowhere close to ending. trib.al/lRY6CKG
Either way, this saga is nowhere close to ending. trib.al/lRY6CKG
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One thing that seems like it would be potentially valuable right now is for some kind of private/academic consortium to try to compile and release data about the state of the economy, since it seems like official stats are almost certainly going to be either nonexistent or wildly unreliable.
NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One thing that seems like it would be potentially valuable right now is for some kind of private/academic consortium to try to compile and release data about the state of the economy, since it seems like official stats are almost certainly going to be either nonexistent or wildly unreliable.
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First they eat the dogs and cats. Then they take the houses.
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Vance is either clueless, dishonest or a liar. Yeah, some “illegal immigrant” got my $800,000 townhouse.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Vance is either clueless, dishonest or a liar. Yeah, some “illegal immigrant” got my $800,000 townhouse.
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@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him.
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Help my kindergartner keeps writing essays about the Woke Left.
Anyone who's familiar with kindergartners will find this claim hilarious btw
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Help my kindergartner keeps writing essays about the Woke Left.
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But His Emails...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
But His Emails...
Before he was elected in 2016, Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women by the pu**y and barging into rooms of partially dressed young pageant contestants.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
But His Emails...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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The President is a pedophile and people are now trying to justify pedophilia so that they can justify voting for a pedophile. That’s where we are.
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The President is a pedophile and people are now trying to justify pedophilia so that they can justify voting for a pedophile. That’s where we are.
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The U.S. has conducted 20 boat strikes in three months—“but repetition has not made these strikes any less troubling or any more legal,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
20 U.S. Boat Strikes in Three Months
The Trump administration is trying to treat its extrajudicial killings at sea as routine, even as more concerns emerge from the people who know the most about them.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The U.S. has conducted 20 boat strikes in three months—“but repetition has not made these strikes any less troubling or any more legal,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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“These rich, powerful old men are like 11-year-old boys talking about the crush that they have, and they're asking Jeffrey Epstein for advice about this.”
@timmiller.bsky.social and Alex Wagner discuss how the Epstein emails reveal how sex, power, and insecurity warped the elite.
@timmiller.bsky.social and Alex Wagner discuss how the Epstein emails reveal how sex, power, and insecurity warped the elite.
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“These rich, powerful old men are like 11-year-old boys talking about the crush that they have, and they're asking Jeffrey Epstein for advice about this.”
@timmiller.bsky.social and Alex Wagner discuss how the Epstein emails reveal how sex, power, and insecurity warped the elite.
@timmiller.bsky.social and Alex Wagner discuss how the Epstein emails reveal how sex, power, and insecurity warped the elite.
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He LIED! He had Epstein over in 2017 for Thanksgiving.
In 2019 Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: "I don't think I've spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan. I was not, yeah, a long time ago, I'd say maybe 15 years."
www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...
In 2019 Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: "I don't think I've spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan. I was not, yeah, a long time ago, I'd say maybe 15 years."
www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...
Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in office: emails
President Donald Trump's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued into his first term in the White House, so much so that Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump while the pres...
www.rawstory.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
He LIED! He had Epstein over in 2017 for Thanksgiving.
In 2019 Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: "I don't think I've spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan. I was not, yeah, a long time ago, I'd say maybe 15 years."
www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...
In 2019 Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: "I don't think I've spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan. I was not, yeah, a long time ago, I'd say maybe 15 years."
www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...
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“The accounts of the memo offer a window into how executive branch lawyers signed off on Mr. Trump’s desired course of action, including appearing to have accepted at face value the White House’s version of reality.”
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“The accounts of the memo offer a window into how executive branch lawyers signed off on Mr. Trump’s desired course of action, including appearing to have accepted at face value the White House’s version of reality.”
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In order to prevent Trump from blocking the release of the Epstein Files through legislation, at least two-thirds of the members present and voting in both the House and the Senate must vote in favor of overriding the veto. In the House, that means at least 290, and in the Senate, at least 67. 🔄
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
In order to prevent Trump from blocking the release of the Epstein Files through legislation, at least two-thirds of the members present and voting in both the House and the Senate must vote in favor of overriding the veto. In the House, that means at least 290, and in the Senate, at least 67. 🔄
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SHUT IT ALL DOWN.
A progressive analyst claimed during a podcast episode on Thursday that President Donald Trump is playing fans of the MAGA movement for "absolute fools" after his latest flip-flop.
Trump just played his own fans for 'absolute fools': analyst
A progressive analyst claimed during a podcast episode on Thursday that President Donald Trump is playing fans of the MAGA movement for "absolute fools" after his latest flip-flop. On Wednesday, lawmakers released tens of thousands of new documents from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's case fil...
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
SHUT IT ALL DOWN.
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