@spectacullama.bsky.social
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BOB COSTAS: “Certain things are just true… there really isn’t two sides.”
Amen. Hope local media who unanimously vote to keep us out of the “Capitol Hill Press Corps” — helping Sexton & McNally ban us from their pressers — will let this in. (They won’t) www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...
Amen. Hope local media who unanimously vote to keep us out of the “Capitol Hill Press Corps” — helping Sexton & McNally ban us from their pressers — will let this in. (They won’t) www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...
June 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
BOB COSTAS: “Certain things are just true… there really isn’t two sides.”
Amen. Hope local media who unanimously vote to keep us out of the “Capitol Hill Press Corps” — helping Sexton & McNally ban us from their pressers — will let this in. (They won’t) www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...
Amen. Hope local media who unanimously vote to keep us out of the “Capitol Hill Press Corps” — helping Sexton & McNally ban us from their pressers — will let this in. (They won’t) www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...
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i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
April 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
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“Republican Sens. Paul & McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined Democrats in voting against Trump’s tariffs on 🇨🇦”
Tennessee’s @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty obedient voted for them.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Tennessee’s @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty obedient voted for them.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
April 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“Republican Sens. Paul & McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined Democrats in voting against Trump’s tariffs on 🇨🇦”
Tennessee’s @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty obedient voted for them.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Tennessee’s @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty obedient voted for them.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
March 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
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February 16, 2025
February 16, 2025
The sixty-first Munich Security Conference, the world’s leading forum for talking about international security policy, took place from February 14 to February 16 this year.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
February 16, 2025
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I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)
Elon Musk’s Bureaucratic Coup
Welcome to the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of the United States government.
www.theatlantic.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)
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I want to stress something important.
I know about the Times’ owner, and his interference in the Ed page (and maybe more).
But without the LAT, you would only know what the White House told you about this.
Support journalists and journalism.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
I know about the Times’ owner, and his interference in the Ed page (and maybe more).
But without the LAT, you would only know what the White House told you about this.
Support journalists and journalism.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.
www.latimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I want to stress something important.
I know about the Times’ owner, and his interference in the Ed page (and maybe more).
But without the LAT, you would only know what the White House told you about this.
Support journalists and journalism.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
I know about the Times’ owner, and his interference in the Ed page (and maybe more).
But without the LAT, you would only know what the White House told you about this.
Support journalists and journalism.
www.latimes.com/environment/...
“In the Name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” Budde stated.
Bishop rebukes Trump at service, asks him to ‘have mercy’ on LGBT people, illegal immigrants
An Episcopal Church bishop directly addressed President Donald Trump at a worship service held at Washington National Cathedral Tuesday, where she pleaded with him to have mercy on LGBT individuals
www.christianpost.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“In the Name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” Budde stated.
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Eventually, the fires in Southern California will subside and while the grieving process will continue, the rebuilding of people’s lives will have to begin.
Here’s what @lizzporter.bsky.social wishes she’d known when she was evacuating and came back to a destroyed home.
Here’s what @lizzporter.bsky.social wishes she’d known when she was evacuating and came back to a destroyed home.
I lost everything in a California wildfire. Here’s what people in L.A. need to know now
As a Bay Area native, the threat of wildfires has always been in the landscape. I just never though they would reach my doorstep.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Eventually, the fires in Southern California will subside and while the grieving process will continue, the rebuilding of people’s lives will have to begin.
Here’s what @lizzporter.bsky.social wishes she’d known when she was evacuating and came back to a destroyed home.
Here’s what @lizzporter.bsky.social wishes she’d known when she was evacuating and came back to a destroyed home.
“I don’t think Americans understand what’s coming,” she said. “I would bet a majority of Americans would be shocked when some of their friends are deported. Or the parents of the best friend of their child. I want those stories told, too.”
The Media Isn’t Ready for Trump’s Mass Deportation Moment
“This is not a border story—it’s a national story.”
www.thebulwark.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“I don’t think Americans understand what’s coming,” she said. “I would bet a majority of Americans would be shocked when some of their friends are deported. Or the parents of the best friend of their child. I want those stories told, too.”
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The irony here is, he’s inheriting a pretty robust economy & Wall Street is irrationally exuberant about Republican control. All he has to do for his term to be seen as an economic success is… nothing. But, of course, he can’t help himself.
oh my god
November 27, 2024 at 1:53 PM
The irony here is, he’s inheriting a pretty robust economy & Wall Street is irrationally exuberant about Republican control. All he has to do for his term to be seen as an economic success is… nothing. But, of course, he can’t help himself.
“When you buy a faucet, no water comes out because they want to preserve, even in areas that have so much water you don't know what to do, it's called rain, it comes down from heaven. No water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip.”
Trump addresses my top issues: Renaming Gulf of Mexico and invading Greenland | Opinion
I voted for Trump because I wanted us to militarily overtake the largely inhospitable Danish territory of Greenland and rename the Gulf of Mexico.
www.usatoday.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“When you buy a faucet, no water comes out because they want to preserve, even in areas that have so much water you don't know what to do, it's called rain, it comes down from heaven. No water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip.”
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A meme page backend perspective on why your social media feed has gone to slop, a thread… 🧵 🪡
January 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A meme page backend perspective on why your social media feed has gone to slop, a thread… 🧵 🪡
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This is what the Trump Campaign and the GOP spent hundreds of millions on scaring people over.
January 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is what the Trump Campaign and the GOP spent hundreds of millions on scaring people over.
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You should watch the opening to the Press Conference given by President-Elect Trump right now, just to understand what we're going to experience as a nation on an daily basis starting in two weeks.
President-Elect Trump Delivers Remarks to the Press
President-elect Trump delivers remarks to the press from Mar-a-Lago a day after the 2024 election results were certified by Congress and following a New York judge's decision to reject a request to de...
www.c-span.org
January 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
You should watch the opening to the Press Conference given by President-Elect Trump right now, just to understand what we're going to experience as a nation on an daily basis starting in two weeks.
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I could not sit silent while an elected official who spreads hate & lies that are getting trans people killed pretends to care about the future of the Internet. So I spoke up during Rep Nancy Mace's speech at the Project Liberty Summit & I would do it again www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11...
November 21, 2024 at 8:46 PM
I could not sit silent while an elected official who spreads hate & lies that are getting trans people killed pretends to care about the future of the Internet. So I spoke up during Rep Nancy Mace's speech at the Project Liberty Summit & I would do it again www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11...
The Rev. William J. Barber II has long been one of America’s most persistent and eloquent spokespersons for poor and working-class Americans.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...
www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...
This fiery evangelical pastor offers a blueprint for Democrats’ revival in Trump’s second term | CNN
The Rev. William Barber, the prominent Black spiritual leader who supported Kamala Harris, suggests a way forward for left-leaning Americans who are struggling in the wake of the election.
www.cnn.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:52 PM
The Rev. William J. Barber II has long been one of America’s most persistent and eloquent spokespersons for poor and working-class Americans.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...
www.cnn.com/2024/11/24/u...
There is a bigger game afoot, though, than the current attack on the Department of Education. As Thomas Jefferson recognized, education is fundamental to democracy, because only educated people can accurately evaluate the governmental policies that will truly benefit them.
November 16, 2024
One of President-elect Trump’s campaign pledges was to eliminate the Department of Education.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
There is a bigger game afoot, though, than the current attack on the Department of Education. As Thomas Jefferson recognized, education is fundamental to democracy, because only educated people can accurately evaluate the governmental policies that will truly benefit them.
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Why do o keep picturing the Democrats alone, confused sitting inside the burning institutions and looking around wondering if they might have heard a fire alarm, but too polite to mention it.
November 15, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Why do o keep picturing the Democrats alone, confused sitting inside the burning institutions and looking around wondering if they might have heard a fire alarm, but too polite to mention it.
Well, I'm here. *looking around* Definitely feels much better than that OTHER place.
November 14, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Well, I'm here. *looking around* Definitely feels much better than that OTHER place.