Rich Osborne
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Trump pardoned this guy? Good, old fashioned dementia or good, old fashioned corruption?
Trump pardoned this guy? Good, old fashioned dementia or good, old fashioned corruption?
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
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November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Trump pardoned this guy? Good, old fashioned dementia or good, old fashioned corruption?
Trump pardoned this guy? Good, old fashioned dementia or good, old fashioned corruption?
The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Exactly: Trump the homicidal arsonist vs Biden who double parked.
Exactly: Trump the homicidal arsonist vs Biden who double parked.
Opinion | The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump
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November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Exactly: Trump the homicidal arsonist vs Biden who double parked.
Exactly: Trump the homicidal arsonist vs Biden who double parked.
On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Impressive analysis from Tom Friedman –
Impressive analysis from Tom Friedman –
Opinion | On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice
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November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Impressive analysis from Tom Friedman –
Impressive analysis from Tom Friedman –
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Must we wait until Trump is gone to start dismantling ICE and Border Patrol, or can these terrorist operations be curtailed if the Democrats get control of one or both houses of Congress next year?
Must we wait until Trump is gone to start dismantling ICE and Border Patrol, or can these terrorist operations be curtailed if the Democrats get control of one or both houses of Congress next year?
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Must we wait until Trump is gone to start dismantling ICE and Border Patrol, or can these terrorist operations be curtailed if the Democrats get control of one or both houses of Congress next year?
Must we wait until Trump is gone to start dismantling ICE and Border Patrol, or can these terrorist operations be curtailed if the Democrats get control of one or both houses of Congress next year?
The list of shameful collaborators-
White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom
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October 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The list of shameful collaborators-
White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
Uncanny, isn’t it, how fascist leaders fancy themselves artists?
Uncanny, isn’t it, how fascist leaders fancy themselves artists?
Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction.
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July 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
Uncanny, isn’t it, how fascist leaders fancy themselves artists?
Uncanny, isn’t it, how fascist leaders fancy themselves artists?
Supreme Court Live Updates: Trump Hails Ruling to Limit Nationwide Injunctions www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Too bad the Supreme Court is more interested in low-towing to Donald Trump than in protecting the constitutional rights of every American.
Too bad the Supreme Court is more interested in low-towing to Donald Trump than in protecting the constitutional rights of every American.
Supreme Court Live Updates: Trump Hails Ruling to Limit Nationwide Injunctions
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June 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Supreme Court Live Updates: Trump Hails Ruling to Limit Nationwide Injunctions www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Too bad the Supreme Court is more interested in low-towing to Donald Trump than in protecting the constitutional rights of every American.
Too bad the Supreme Court is more interested in low-towing to Donald Trump than in protecting the constitutional rights of every American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Very insightful piece from David Brooks-
Very insightful piece from David Brooks-
Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
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April 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Very insightful piece from David Brooks-
Very insightful piece from David Brooks-
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/c...
We are also bringing back steam locomotives. Steam engines were very big back when McKinley was President, and that was our golden age. We will have the biggest, most beautiful steam engines. Make America Smoky Again.
We are also bringing back steam locomotives. Steam engines were very big back when McKinley was President, and that was our golden age. We will have the biggest, most beautiful steam engines. Make America Smoky Again.
Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Reviving U.S. Coal Industry
The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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We are also bringing back steam locomotives. Steam engines were very big back when McKinley was President, and that was our golden age. We will have the biggest, most beautiful steam engines. Make America Smoky Again.
We are also bringing back steam locomotives. Steam engines were very big back when McKinley was President, and that was our golden age. We will have the biggest, most beautiful steam engines. Make America Smoky Again.
Want to join me for this Hands Off event?
March 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Want to join me for this Hands Off event?
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The Canadians are clearly clamoring to join the US, the same way the Czechs and Poles were clamoring to join Germany back in the late 1930s…
The Canadians are clearly clamoring to join the US, the same way the Czechs and Poles were clamoring to join Germany back in the late 1930s…
Canada’s Leader Calls Snap Federal Elections Amid Trump Threats
Mark Carney, who has only been prime minister for 10 days, has called for a general election to be held on April 28.
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March 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The Canadians are clearly clamoring to join the US, the same way the Czechs and Poles were clamoring to join Germany back in the late 1930s…
The Canadians are clearly clamoring to join the US, the same way the Czechs and Poles were clamoring to join Germany back in the late 1930s…
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Very fine piece from Tom Friedman-
Very fine piece from Tom Friedman-
Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before
Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.
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March 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Very fine piece from Tom Friedman-
Very fine piece from Tom Friedman-
A dangerous, damaging civil war at the Justice Department
Pretty damning summary of how Trump’s political appointees are destroying the Department of Justice-
Pretty damning summary of how Trump’s political appointees are destroying the Department of Justice-
February 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
A dangerous, damaging civil war at the Justice Department
Pretty damning summary of how Trump’s political appointees are destroying the Department of Justice-
Pretty damning summary of how Trump’s political appointees are destroying the Department of Justice-
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Pretty impressive how Bondi and the other nominees lied brazenly to the Senate committees before they got confirmed, and then immediately acted just as everyone had feared they would. Talk about weapon department of justice! Wait till she has Patel at the FBI.
Pretty impressive how Bondi and the other nominees lied brazenly to the Senate committees before they got confirmed, and then immediately acted just as everyone had feared they would. Talk about weapon department of justice! Wait till she has Patel at the FBI.
Live Updates: Bondi Praises Adams on Immigration and Says Case Will Soon Be Dismissed
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February 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Pretty impressive how Bondi and the other nominees lied brazenly to the Senate committees before they got confirmed, and then immediately acted just as everyone had feared they would. Talk about weapon department of justice! Wait till she has Patel at the FBI.
Pretty impressive how Bondi and the other nominees lied brazenly to the Senate committees before they got confirmed, and then immediately acted just as everyone had feared they would. Talk about weapon department of justice! Wait till she has Patel at the FBI.
Trump Says Call With Putin Is Beginning of Ukraine Peace Negotiations www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
Sort of like Neville Chamberlain reaching out to Hitler to 'solve' the Czechoslovakia problem at Munich. Trump starts off the second term exactly where he ended the first: kissing Putin's ass.
Sort of like Neville Chamberlain reaching out to Hitler to 'solve' the Czechoslovakia problem at Munich. Trump starts off the second term exactly where he ended the first: kissing Putin's ass.
Trump Says Call With Putin Is Beginning of Ukraine Peace Negotiations
Among the topics the leaders discussed in their first confirmed conversation of President Trump’s second term was ending the war in Ukraine, he said.
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February 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Trump Says Call With Putin Is Beginning of Ukraine Peace Negotiations www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
Sort of like Neville Chamberlain reaching out to Hitler to 'solve' the Czechoslovakia problem at Munich. Trump starts off the second term exactly where he ended the first: kissing Putin's ass.
Sort of like Neville Chamberlain reaching out to Hitler to 'solve' the Czechoslovakia problem at Munich. Trump starts off the second term exactly where he ended the first: kissing Putin's ass.
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Anyone still questioning whether Trump and his gang are fascists? The only question is: how much will the courts, congress and the American people let them get away with.
Anyone still questioning whether Trump and his gang are fascists? The only question is: how much will the courts, congress and the American people let them get away with.
Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump's agenda faces legal pushback
Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Anyone still questioning whether Trump and his gang are fascists? The only question is: how much will the courts, congress and the American people let them get away with.
Anyone still questioning whether Trump and his gang are fascists? The only question is: how much will the courts, congress and the American people let them get away with.
Trump changed the name of the Washington Commanders back to the Washington Redskins, and the Cleveland Guardians are the Cleveland Indians once again. Tired of winning yet?
January 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Trump changed the name of the Washington Commanders back to the Washington Redskins, and the Cleveland Guardians are the Cleveland Indians once again. Tired of winning yet?
apnews.com/article/fauc... Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell him
Trump is despicable.
Trump is despicable.
Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell him
President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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January 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
apnews.com/article/fauc... Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell him
Trump is despicable.
Trump is despicable.
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Nothing tells you more about who Trump is than this petty, vindictive action. Imagine Trump's deranged reaction had Biden stripped Trump of his protection after the shooting incident in Pennsylvania. Trump is pathetic but also dangerous.
Nothing tells you more about who Trump is than this petty, vindictive action. Imagine Trump's deranged reaction had Biden stripped Trump of his protection after the shooting incident in Pennsylvania. Trump is pathetic but also dangerous.
Trump revokes protections for former Secretary of State Pompeo and top aide threatened by Iran
President Donald Trump has revoked government security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aide, Brian Hook.
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January 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Nothing tells you more about who Trump is than this petty, vindictive action. Imagine Trump's deranged reaction had Biden stripped Trump of his protection after the shooting incident in Pennsylvania. Trump is pathetic but also dangerous.
Nothing tells you more about who Trump is than this petty, vindictive action. Imagine Trump's deranged reaction had Biden stripped Trump of his protection after the shooting incident in Pennsylvania. Trump is pathetic but also dangerous.
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It's true, Elon, 'not everyone is HItler.' But those who support fascist candidates here and abroad, endorse fascist positions and give the fascist salute are probably fascists. Look in the mirror, Elon.
It's true, Elon, 'not everyone is HItler.' But those who support fascist candidates here and abroad, endorse fascist positions and give the fascist salute are probably fascists. Look in the mirror, Elon.
Musk's straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant
Many social media users noticed that the gesture looked like a Nazi salute. Musk has only fanned the flames of suspicion by not explicitly denying those claims.
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January 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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It's true, Elon, 'not everyone is HItler.' But those who support fascist candidates here and abroad, endorse fascist positions and give the fascist salute are probably fascists. Look in the mirror, Elon.
It's true, Elon, 'not everyone is HItler.' But those who support fascist candidates here and abroad, endorse fascist positions and give the fascist salute are probably fascists. Look in the mirror, Elon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...
Brooks is exactly right: Trump has identified or at least is taking advantage of real problems, but has no real solutions.
Brooks is exactly right: Trump has identified or at least is taking advantage of real problems, but has no real solutions.
Opinion | How Trump Will Fail
The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.
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January 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Brooks is exactly right: Trump has identified or at least is taking advantage of real problems, but has no real solutions.
Brooks is exactly right: Trump has identified or at least is taking advantage of real problems, but has no real solutions.