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THIS.
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Does anyone have a list of the reporters that were in that gaggle where he said, "Quiet, Piggy"?

You know, the ones who refused to support their colleague?

I'd like to know who they are because they should be named and shamed.
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Personalized gold bars from the Swiss.
Used jumbo jet from Qatar.
Huge amounts of $$$ from crypto.

The amount of corruption in the White House is at unconscionable levels. We need some real serious ethics across the federal government.
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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📣 Bob Woodward has receipts on Trump & M Bone Saw 🪚 & how he got Congressional heat off of the blood-soaked Saudi leader re: Khashoggi.

Woodward has extensive interviews (w/tapes) w/Trump & it seems the press has also forgotten about it (or won't bring this up) to throw back in Trump's face.
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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“Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018. He never walked out. 15 Saudi agents killed him, cut up his body, and got rid of it in some way we still don’t know.

And on Tuesday, the President of the United States scolded a reporter for being rude enough to mention it.”
Trump Honors the Man Who Had Jamal Khashoggi Killed
The president called the murdered journalist "controversial," said MBS "knew nothing about it" despite U.S. intelligence findings, and attacked the reporter who dared to ask about it.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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My statement on Trump’s defense of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman after he was asked about the murder of journalist and Northern Virginia resident Jamal Khashoggi:
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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This is what America looks like without an Attorney General. This is what America looks like when the Justice Department is the President’s private law firm.
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Texas A&M is no longer a "university". It's a Vacation Bible School with a football team and parking problems.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Bovino’s rant fits the authoritarian indicators in our assessment: empowered security forces acting with impunity, militarized immigration raids, executive overreach through federalized enforcement, and loyalty-driven ops unmoored from oversight. His tone isn’t an outlier but a symptom.
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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👇👇
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Can the next please dear God can the next interviewer ask MTG about oh I don’t know January 6th etc before we keep pretending she found politics Jesus
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.

So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.

If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Attacking a federal district judge as an “activist” for issuing a lawful ruling is an assault on judicial independence. A democracy cannot function when executive agencies denigrate judges for doing their jobs.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Worth a thousand words and whatnot. And just a reminder from Uncle George. It's never too late to admit your ass got played.
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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pro tip: innocent people don't work this hard to keep the files that prove their innocence a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Precisely this.

#TrumpShutdown
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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BUY SOMETHING!

Is it truly social media anymore? Or is it more like selling media? It invades everything.

It's obvious to wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet don't care for nature, climate, the earth or the universe.

So I painted the invasive nature of ads in nature.
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
USDA must use the SNAP contingency fund to keep food assistance programs funded during the government shutdown as is required by law and has been done in every other government shutdown in modern history. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop Playing Politics With Food Assistance Programs
USDA must use the SNAP contingency fund to keep food assistance programs funded during the government shutdown as is required by law and has been done in every other government shutdown in modern hist...
sign.moveon.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals.
The DOJ has been firing judges with immigrant defense backgrounds
NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:

First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.

Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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To him, defunding SNAP is about creating a bargaining tool and punishing Democrats.

It’s about him.

The human suffering simply doesn’t matter.
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Our Assessment discusses executive overreach and self-dealing as an autocratic indicator. Trump wine on sale at Coast Guard Exchanges fuses state power with personal profit. The military shouldn’t be a marketplace for the commander-in-chief’s brand.

www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
Trump Wines Sold At Coast Guard Stores On Federal Property
Exchanges in Washington, D.C., and Virginia have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider, allowing his family’s business to earn revenue from sales on federal property.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Fish in Michigan are getting smaller.
Warming water, agriculture runoff, microplastics, and chemical toxins now flow through every tributary, every gill, every egg.

Climate change heats the surface. Pollution poisons the depths. Between them, the lakes are starving.
apple.news/AhaipZbCLT5G...
Researchers studied fish from 1,497 lakes in Michigan. What they found is concerning — BBC Wildlife Magazine
Since 1945, many of Michigan's lake fish species have reduced in size, new research finds. November 6, 2025 A new study has revealed that changes in climate are causing fish in Michigan’s inland lakes...
apple.news
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM