Tripp
@rbreade3.bsky.social
Librarian, writer, subjective constructor of reality, X-refugee, lover of blue skies.
Yes, Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, has endorsed racial profiling as a legitimate tactic. He is exactly the repugnant person we all thought he was.
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Brett Kavanaugh Is Trying to Walk Back “Kavanaugh Stops.” Too Late.
It appears the justice has some regrets.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Yes, Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, has endorsed racial profiling as a legitimate tactic. He is exactly the repugnant person we all thought he was.
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Good grief. There really is no end to this man's pettiness and vanity. Well, the next president will have their work cut out for them, undoing this and all the other tacky reminders of the scourge that is Trump.
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Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says
The board of the performing arts centre voted to name it after President Donald Trump, rebranding it the 'Trump-Kennedy Center', press secretary Karoline Leavitt says.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Good grief. There really is no end to this man's pettiness and vanity. Well, the next president will have their work cut out for them, undoing this and all the other tacky reminders of the scourge that is Trump.
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Now that the political winds are shifting and even their most gerrymandered seats are at risk, suddenly these GOP skunks are expressing a concern for health care that they never had before now. Aww, nice try, sneak weasels, but we see right through you.
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GOP House Rep. says it's 'unacceptable' to allow ACA subsidies to expire
Rep. Mike Lawler says House Speaker Mike Johnson is correct in saying the health care system isn't working, but allowing ACA subsidies to expire without a plan to address rising costs is "idiotic."
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December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Now that the political winds are shifting and even their most gerrymandered seats are at risk, suddenly these GOP skunks are expressing a concern for health care that they never had before now. Aww, nice try, sneak weasels, but we see right through you.
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Remember: some of these same Republicans who are so muted or even silent in the face of Trump's repugnant comment about the murder of the Reiners are the same ones who excoriated Obama for wearing a tan suit. A tan suit. Let that sink in.
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Remember: some of these same Republicans who are so muted or even silent in the face of Trump's repugnant comment about the murder of the Reiners are the same ones who excoriated Obama for wearing a tan suit. A tan suit. Let that sink in.
Re: Susie Wiles's bombshell interview with Vanity Fair, I will give Trump this: his is the first cockroach presidency, in that revelations that would have annihilated other presidents and their administrations barely slow Il Douche and his MAGAts.
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Re: Susie Wiles's bombshell interview with Vanity Fair, I will give Trump this: his is the first cockroach presidency, in that revelations that would have annihilated other presidents and their administrations barely slow Il Douche and his MAGAts.
As we enter the holiday season, let's remember that 77M of our fellow citizens--the approximate number of Trump voters--are on the side of Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life.
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
As we enter the holiday season, let's remember that 77M of our fellow citizens--the approximate number of Trump voters--are on the side of Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life.
Another red-letter day for the Trump administration.
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Teachers working without pay in US military schools during shutdown received debt letters | CNN Politics
Teachers in US military schools abroad who have been working without pay during the government shutdown received letters this week telling them they owed money to the government, CNN has learned.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Another red-letter day for the Trump administration.
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Um, that ship has sailed. You're on record as having no principles.
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Barrett and Kavanaugh urge convention of conservative lawyers to stand up for their principles | CNN Politics
Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh delivered a pep talk to conservatives on Thursday night, telling an audience of right-leaning legal leaders and students in Washington, DC, they should s...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Um, that ship has sailed. You're on record as having no principles.
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"Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality."
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality."
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It's all on us now. We're the last remaining guardrail.
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It's all on us now. We're the last remaining guardrail.
In case more evidence was needed establishing that the GOP is now and has been for a while a party of lies and disinformation.
"PolitiFact ruling: False. The MSNBC footage Cruz was referring to was real and showed the Oct. 18 'No Kings' rally in Boston."
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"PolitiFact ruling: False. The MSNBC footage Cruz was referring to was real and showed the Oct. 18 'No Kings' rally in Boston."
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Fact check: Cruz said Dems shared 2017 footage and claimed it was 'No Kings'
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said Democrats are "dishonestly sending around a video from 2017" and claiming it showed an Oct. 18 "No Kings" rally in Boston.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
In case more evidence was needed establishing that the GOP is now and has been for a while a party of lies and disinformation.
"PolitiFact ruling: False. The MSNBC footage Cruz was referring to was real and showed the Oct. 18 'No Kings' rally in Boston."
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"PolitiFact ruling: False. The MSNBC footage Cruz was referring to was real and showed the Oct. 18 'No Kings' rally in Boston."
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The rot is bone deep in the GOP. Has been for decades.
"Peter Giunta, chief of staff to Mike Reilly, a New York assemblyman, posted, 'I Love Hitler'."
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"Peter Giunta, chief of staff to Mike Reilly, a New York assemblyman, posted, 'I Love Hitler'."
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Republicans Face Fallout From Racist and Homophobic Texts
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October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The rot is bone deep in the GOP. Has been for decades.
"Peter Giunta, chief of staff to Mike Reilly, a New York assemblyman, posted, 'I Love Hitler'."
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"Peter Giunta, chief of staff to Mike Reilly, a New York assemblyman, posted, 'I Love Hitler'."
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"Trumpism can also be seen as a multipronged effort to amputate the higher elements of the human spirit—learning, compassion, science, the pursuit of justice—and supplant those virtues with greed, retribution, ego, appetite."
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America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"Trumpism can also be seen as a multipronged effort to amputate the higher elements of the human spirit—learning, compassion, science, the pursuit of justice—and supplant those virtues with greed, retribution, ego, appetite."
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One America News is the only "news" outlet that signed Hegseth's first-amendment-crippling loyalty oath. OAN also happens to already have a government contact to provide propaganda to the Trump-gutted Voice of America. It's just corruption all the way down.
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
One America News is the only "news" outlet that signed Hegseth's first-amendment-crippling loyalty oath. OAN also happens to already have a government contact to provide propaganda to the Trump-gutted Voice of America. It's just corruption all the way down.
"Anderson’s newest film takes a distinct step in the Pynchon canon in that it more-clearly depicts what’s encoded in every Pynchon text: The war between the powerful and the powerless."
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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time
Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…
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October 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"Anderson’s newest film takes a distinct step in the Pynchon canon in that it more-clearly depicts what’s encoded in every Pynchon text: The war between the powerful and the powerless."
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I'm attending a No Kings's event, “Durham No Kings, No Billionaires!” www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Durham No Kings, No Billionaires! · Mobilize
Hello activism warriors!! October 18th is the next national mobilization date. We will gather at Central Park (501 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701 by the Farmer's Market) from 2pm-4pm. We plan to have a l...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I'm attending a No Kings's event, “Durham No Kings, No Billionaires!” www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
In ways large and small, the Trump administration is gaslighting us to keep concealed the truth of its unpopularity and incompetence.
"Our mole in the Kennedy Center tells us that the near-full houses at National Symphony Orchestra concerts are a deception."
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"Our mole in the Kennedy Center tells us that the near-full houses at National Symphony Orchestra concerts are a deception."
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DC exclusive: Kennedy is papering its concerts - Slippedisc
Our mole in the Kennedy Center tells us...
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October 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
In ways large and small, the Trump administration is gaslighting us to keep concealed the truth of its unpopularity and incompetence.
"Our mole in the Kennedy Center tells us that the near-full houses at National Symphony Orchestra concerts are a deception."
slippedisc.com/2025/10/wash...
"Our mole in the Kennedy Center tells us that the near-full houses at National Symphony Orchestra concerts are a deception."
slippedisc.com/2025/10/wash...
Just saw this. Verdict: hell yes. Not only is it a great movie, it's the movie we need right now. And btw, we are currently being ruled--not governed--by a real-life version of the Christmas Adventurers Club. Watch the film and you'll see what I mean.
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One Battle After Another (2025) ⭐ 8.4 | Action, Crime, Drama
2h 41m | R
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October 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Just saw this. Verdict: hell yes. Not only is it a great movie, it's the movie we need right now. And btw, we are currently being ruled--not governed--by a real-life version of the Christmas Adventurers Club. Watch the film and you'll see what I mean.
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Eager to hear Kimmel tonight address the circumstances under which the Trump administration engineered the suppression of his free speech.
September 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Eager to hear Kimmel tonight address the circumstances under which the Trump administration engineered the suppression of his free speech.
Not only has Trump faithfully followed the authoritarians playbook, in some ways he's writing a revised edition to help future fascists more effectively suppress dissent and persecute political opponents.
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Trump calls on Attorney General Bondi to use power of the Justice Department more aggressively | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump increased pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi to bring criminal charges against several political foes, calling her out by name Saturday as he noted he had reviewed statement...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Not only has Trump faithfully followed the authoritarians playbook, in some ways he's writing a revised edition to help future fascists more effectively suppress dissent and persecute political opponents.
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This is a good, concise summary of violence and violent rhetoric by the right, shining a spotlight on MAGAt Nation's hypocrisy.
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Analysis: Trump’s cherry-picked claims on political violence ignore his own rhetoric | CNN Politics
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s plea for people to stop turning Charlie Kirk’s assassination into a political food fight appear to have fallen on deaf ears among many on the right.
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September 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is a good, concise summary of violence and violent rhetoric by the right, shining a spotlight on MAGAt Nation's hypocrisy.
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Trump's authoritarian administration continues its effort to rewrite and even disappear vast sections of reality. Let's make sure they fail.
"The National Institute of Justice study, which was based on research spanning three decades..."
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"The National Institute of Justice study, which was based on research spanning three decades..."
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US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence
Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website
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September 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Trump's authoritarian administration continues its effort to rewrite and even disappear vast sections of reality. Let's make sure they fail.
"The National Institute of Justice study, which was based on research spanning three decades..."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The National Institute of Justice study, which was based on research spanning three decades..."
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After screaming for years about how "the left" was comprehensively shutting down free speech in the United States, the right is comprehensively shutting down free speech in the United States.
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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
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September 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
After screaming for years about how "the left" was comprehensively shutting down free speech in the United States, the right is comprehensively shutting down free speech in the United States.
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Love that Colbert won the Emmy for the Late Night Show. CBS can take a long walk off a short pier.
September 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Love that Colbert won the Emmy for the Late Night Show. CBS can take a long walk off a short pier.