Scott Paton
@spaton111.bsky.social
Morning MG ride through town and the country.
June 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Morning MG ride through town and the country.
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“Sleeping on the factory floor” again. 🤡
After being antagonistic to media outlets for the better part of the last 12 months, Musk is starting to do interviews with handpicked reporters and online personalities. It’s a strategy that he has turned to in the past (see 2018 Tesla “production hell”) when he wants to change the narrative.
May 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Sleeping on the factory floor” again. 🤡
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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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Liberalism is a fighting faith. Fight for your free liberal democracy. So many already died to create it.
May 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Liberalism is a fighting faith. Fight for your free liberal democracy. So many already died to create it.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
April 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
April 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
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April 13, 2025
April 13, 2025
This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
April 13, 2025
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I agree that this is the logical endpoint, but it is also likely its Kryptonite because then it makes our courts impotent. Courts don’t like giving up their power (see post 9/11). So the endgame, if the courts want to stay relevant, is to say the whole thing is unconstitutional from the jump
Why? Because if Trump can legally say “We can’t bring him home” without having to prove it, that means he doesn’t have to bring anyone home. And if he doesn’t have to bring anyone home, he can send anyone there forever. END/
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I agree that this is the logical endpoint, but it is also likely its Kryptonite because then it makes our courts impotent. Courts don’t like giving up their power (see post 9/11). So the endgame, if the courts want to stay relevant, is to say the whole thing is unconstitutional from the jump
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As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.
April 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.
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Libchella
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
April 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Libchella
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How to Leak to a Journalist: www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-...
How to leak to a journalist
Planning to leak? Read these tips first.
www.niemanlab.org
April 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
How to Leak to a Journalist: www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-...
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The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
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Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.
April 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.
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Can we Americans still spell C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N? And why did this story break today in the Financial Times, a London newspaper?
April 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Can we Americans still spell C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N? And why did this story break today in the Financial Times, a London newspaper?
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Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.
Neither Neurodivergence Nor Mental Illness Made Them Bigots—They're Just Awful People
It's hard to admit your heroes are jerks, but the mentally ill and neurodivergent shouldn't be collateral damage.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.
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I think this is another good time to point out that Trump imposed ZERO tariff on Russia while going after our closest allies. I wonder what Russia was rewarded for
April 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I think this is another good time to point out that Trump imposed ZERO tariff on Russia while going after our closest allies. I wonder what Russia was rewarded for
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Your wallet is being cleaned out by expert pickpockets. This is criminal. Literally criminal. I call for an IMMEDIATE investigation into who knew what, when, and what they did with the info. You can bet the Admin and many here in DC are considerably richer tonight than they were this morning.
April 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Your wallet is being cleaned out by expert pickpockets. This is criminal. Literally criminal. I call for an IMMEDIATE investigation into who knew what, when, and what they did with the info. You can bet the Admin and many here in DC are considerably richer tonight than they were this morning.
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Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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They are are eating the checks; they are eating the balances.
The economy is a wreck, but they are pretending we are in a palace.
At the stroke of midnight the tarriffs will invoke more madness & the only question will be who will keep their lips tight & who will fight
For the people that is!
The economy is a wreck, but they are pretending we are in a palace.
At the stroke of midnight the tarriffs will invoke more madness & the only question will be who will keep their lips tight & who will fight
For the people that is!
April 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
They are are eating the checks; they are eating the balances.
The economy is a wreck, but they are pretending we are in a palace.
At the stroke of midnight the tarriffs will invoke more madness & the only question will be who will keep their lips tight & who will fight
For the people that is!
The economy is a wreck, but they are pretending we are in a palace.
At the stroke of midnight the tarriffs will invoke more madness & the only question will be who will keep their lips tight & who will fight
For the people that is!
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Okay, let me get this right ↙️
- Pissing off moms
- Ripping off consumers
- Taking away voting rights
- Undermining the judiciary
- Tanking the economy
- Gutting Medicaid and
- Blowing a $37T hole in the debt
That is the GOP's agenda this week??? Stellar job guys. 👏
- Pissing off moms
- Ripping off consumers
- Taking away voting rights
- Undermining the judiciary
- Tanking the economy
- Gutting Medicaid and
- Blowing a $37T hole in the debt
That is the GOP's agenda this week??? Stellar job guys. 👏
April 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Okay, let me get this right ↙️
- Pissing off moms
- Ripping off consumers
- Taking away voting rights
- Undermining the judiciary
- Tanking the economy
- Gutting Medicaid and
- Blowing a $37T hole in the debt
That is the GOP's agenda this week??? Stellar job guys. 👏
- Pissing off moms
- Ripping off consumers
- Taking away voting rights
- Undermining the judiciary
- Tanking the economy
- Gutting Medicaid and
- Blowing a $37T hole in the debt
That is the GOP's agenda this week??? Stellar job guys. 👏
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As should have been clear a month go, the Trump administration is not stopping with Columbia. And they won't stop with Northwestern or Cornell.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
April 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
As should have been clear a month go, the Trump administration is not stopping with Columbia. And they won't stop with Northwestern or Cornell.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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They fired Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield—not because she couldn’t do the job, but because she wouldn’t hang up pictures of Trump and Hegseth. This ain’t about merit—it’s about ego.
Trump fires a top US military official to NATO
Conservative media has targeted Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield for comments she made about diversity.
www.politico.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
They fired Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield—not because she couldn’t do the job, but because she wouldn’t hang up pictures of Trump and Hegseth. This ain’t about merit—it’s about ego.
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This week, Pardon Tracker will publish an investigative report on the statements, activities, and networks of the pardoned Capitol Rioters.
This independent investigative journalism and data visualization project is not possible without your support — Donate here:
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Pardon Tracker
Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons charges related ...
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April 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This week, Pardon Tracker will publish an investigative report on the statements, activities, and networks of the pardoned Capitol Rioters.
This independent investigative journalism and data visualization project is not possible without your support — Donate here:
This independent investigative journalism and data visualization project is not possible without your support — Donate here: