NPP Teri
@surfcitysocal.bsky.social
NPP (No Party Preference) since 6/2016 when my former party officially abandoned principled conservatism. “It’s a republic, if you can keep it.” Right now, I’m not optimistic we can. #Constitution #Checks&Balances 🇺🇦
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NPP Teri
@surfcitysocal.bsky.social
· Jan 24
In 55 days, this building will become the epicenter of corruption on our planet.
And here we are.
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I realize it’s easy to say from here but service members on the ground should refuse to carry out these orders.
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Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I realize it’s easy to say from here but service members on the ground should refuse to carry out these orders.
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Our kids are watching.
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Our kids are watching.
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We are not lacking for justifications for impeaching our president, but here is another one: he called for 6 Democratic lawmakers to be hanged.
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Trump Accuses Democrats of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death,’ Over Message to the Military
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November 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
We are not lacking for justifications for impeaching our president, but here is another one: he called for 6 Democratic lawmakers to be hanged.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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Turns out that the $16MM payoff ABC made to Trump bought them only a few months' reprieve. Weird how that happens.
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Turns out that the $16MM payoff ABC made to Trump bought them only a few months' reprieve. Weird how that happens.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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ABC Mary Bruce deserves a Pulitzer Prize for asking the Saudi Prince this question:
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
ABC Mary Bruce deserves a Pulitzer Prize for asking the Saudi Prince this question:
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Calling the ABC reporter’s question “insubordinate” explains everything about how Trump sees press freedom.
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Calling the ABC reporter’s question “insubordinate” explains everything about how Trump sees press freedom.
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The Xmas recess will allow it to die w/o a signature...pocket veto.
WATCH: Speaker Johnson says he’s “deeply disappointed” the senate passed a bill he voted for 🤔
@rokhanna.bsky.social : “Johnson looks frazzled. He’s lost it, attacking a bill the survivors wanted without talking to them… that he voted for. He has lost the confidence of half his caucus.”
@rokhanna.bsky.social : “Johnson looks frazzled. He’s lost it, attacking a bill the survivors wanted without talking to them… that he voted for. He has lost the confidence of half his caucus.”
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Xmas recess will allow it to die w/o a signature...pocket veto.
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Diversity is the United States' greatest strength
It's also what Republicans seem to fear the most
It's also what Republicans seem to fear the most
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Diversity is the United States' greatest strength
It's also what Republicans seem to fear the most
It's also what Republicans seem to fear the most
“A thin-skinned Trump instinctively reaches for the cudgel of state power to punish a journalist who commits a flagrant act of journalism.”
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Great Moments in Presidential Rhetoric
“These things happen.” — referring to the assassination and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“A thin-skinned Trump instinctively reaches for the cudgel of state power to punish a journalist who commits a flagrant act of journalism.”
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
#HuntingtonBeach’s former elected maga city attorney, Michael Gates, resigned to take a position in 47’s DOJ, fired for cause (creating a hostile work environment), came back, rehired by the city—😂 put his name to the letter that sank Texas’s gerrymandering. Incompetence at every level. 🤦🏼♀️
The news coverage focuses on the DOJ letter from Harmeet Dhillon that needlessly injected racial gerrymandering allegations which ended up sinking the maps instead of providing political cover for them.
What hasn't been widely reported is that Michael Gates was the co-sender of that letter.
2/6
What hasn't been widely reported is that Michael Gates was the co-sender of that letter.
2/6
November 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
#HuntingtonBeach’s former elected maga city attorney, Michael Gates, resigned to take a position in 47’s DOJ, fired for cause (creating a hostile work environment), came back, rehired by the city—😂 put his name to the letter that sank Texas’s gerrymandering. Incompetence at every level. 🤦🏼♀️
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It's both ironic and delicious that it may have been Gates of all people who screwed the Texas maps. :-)
But sure, let's invite Gates back to represent the city. What's the worst that could happen? LOL
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But sure, let's invite Gates back to represent the city. What's the worst that could happen? LOL
6/6
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
It's both ironic and delicious that it may have been Gates of all people who screwed the Texas maps. :-)
But sure, let's invite Gates back to represent the city. What's the worst that could happen? LOL
6/6
But sure, let's invite Gates back to represent the city. What's the worst that could happen? LOL
6/6
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That letter was controversial from the moment it was sent in early July, causing significant pushback from Texas which threw DOJ under the bus, saying that Dhillon and Gates were flat out wrong. But no matter, Texas pressed ahead, but it was all irrevocably tainted from the start.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
That letter was controversial from the moment it was sent in early July, causing significant pushback from Texas which threw DOJ under the bus, saying that Dhillon and Gates were flat out wrong. But no matter, Texas pressed ahead, but it was all irrevocably tainted from the start.
5/6
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But Gates put his name on the letter, associating this fiasco to him for the remainder of his days as an attorney.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
But Gates put his name on the letter, associating this fiasco to him for the remainder of his days as an attorney.
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It's impossible to know whether the very idea of sending such a letter originated from Dhillon or Gates, or who was the primary author making so many shoddy legal arguments that were torn to shreds in today's ruling.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
It's impossible to know whether the very idea of sending such a letter originated from Dhillon or Gates, or who was the primary author making so many shoddy legal arguments that were torn to shreds in today's ruling.
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The news coverage focuses on the DOJ letter from Harmeet Dhillon that needlessly injected racial gerrymandering allegations which ended up sinking the maps instead of providing political cover for them.
What hasn't been widely reported is that Michael Gates was the co-sender of that letter.
2/6
What hasn't been widely reported is that Michael Gates was the co-sender of that letter.
2/6
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The news coverage focuses on the DOJ letter from Harmeet Dhillon that needlessly injected racial gerrymandering allegations which ended up sinking the maps instead of providing political cover for them.
What hasn't been widely reported is that Michael Gates was the co-sender of that letter.
2/6
What hasn't been widely reported is that Michael Gates was the co-sender of that letter.
2/6
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Plot twist -- former HB city attorney and former DOJ attorney Michael Gates ineptly sank the 2025 Texas redistricting maps which were struck down by a three-judge panel today:
tinyurl.com/nhe6er4j
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Trump DOJ’s ‘Ham-Fisted’ Letter Key to Ruling Blocking Texas Gerrymander
Read more here.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Plot twist -- former HB city attorney and former DOJ attorney Michael Gates ineptly sank the 2025 Texas redistricting maps which were struck down by a three-judge panel today:
tinyurl.com/nhe6er4j
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All Hands and Hearts clearing roads to reconnect communities in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa.
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AH&H’s Brandi is reporting from Jamaica, where our teams are working with the Disaster Arborist Response Team UK to clear the roads connecting the mountain villages around New Hope back to the town ce...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:45 AM
All Hands and Hearts clearing roads to reconnect communities in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa.
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A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not just the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not just the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
He never saw himself as elected to a public office. In his mind he acquired America.
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Wow. Watching statements from the House members re: vote today and the chamber’s gavel-holder tells members to “not personalize statements toward the president.”
In other words, don’t criticize der leader.
They just postponed…
In other words, don’t criticize der leader.
They just postponed…
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Wow. Watching statements from the House members re: vote today and the chamber’s gavel-holder tells members to “not personalize statements toward the president.”
In other words, don’t criticize der leader.
They just postponed…
In other words, don’t criticize der leader.
They just postponed…
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He never saw himself as elected to a public office. In his mind he acquired America.
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
He never saw himself as elected to a public office. In his mind he acquired America.
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One thing in my mind that must happen is that the next Democratic President can't just do business as usual in not looking backwards, but this time prosecute and if necessary permit extradition to hold the Trump Administration and Trump himself accountable for their crimes.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
One thing in my mind that must happen is that the next Democratic President can't just do business as usual in not looking backwards, but this time prosecute and if necessary permit extradition to hold the Trump Administration and Trump himself accountable for their crimes.