Tara Reilly
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Tara Reilly
@tarareilly.bsky.social
· Nov 18
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 6, 1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 6, 1941
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PIIE: “.. If tariffs stay at current levels, they will impose an annual tax increase of $1,700 for an average household .. the largest tax increase on US households since 1982 as a share of GDP ..”
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December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
PIIE: “.. If tariffs stay at current levels, they will impose an annual tax increase of $1,700 for an average household .. the largest tax increase on US households since 1982 as a share of GDP ..”
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U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history
The proposal would affect travelers from countries on the visa waiver program, including Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and South Korea.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Universal Healthcare, w/ the option to add an affordable private option, would be the ultimate goal but, Medicare for All would be a great FIRST STEP.
It would take a few years to adjust but our society would be so much healthier knowing they can get services whenever they need without going broke.
It would take a few years to adjust but our society would be so much healthier knowing they can get services whenever they need without going broke.
December 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Universal Healthcare, w/ the option to add an affordable private option, would be the ultimate goal but, Medicare for All would be a great FIRST STEP.
It would take a few years to adjust but our society would be so much healthier knowing they can get services whenever they need without going broke.
It would take a few years to adjust but our society would be so much healthier knowing they can get services whenever they need without going broke.
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China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Leavitt: "President Trump convinced President Xi to continue purchasing again American soybeans, which is something China wasn't doing under the last administration because they had no respect for President Biden or the country at the time."
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Your health care bill is about to explode.
If affordability feels like a crisis, it’s because it is.
Your Health Care Bill Is About to Explode
If affordability feels like a crisis, it’s because it is.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Your health care bill is about to explode.
If affordability feels like a crisis, it’s because it is.
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Trump rushed his budget through Congress just to extend his tax cuts for his billionaire buddies.
But now Trump and the GOP majorities in Congress are just sitting by while ACA tax credits expire- letting health care premiums skyrocket for 24 million Americans.
But now Trump and the GOP majorities in Congress are just sitting by while ACA tax credits expire- letting health care premiums skyrocket for 24 million Americans.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Trump rushed his budget through Congress just to extend his tax cuts for his billionaire buddies.
But now Trump and the GOP majorities in Congress are just sitting by while ACA tax credits expire- letting health care premiums skyrocket for 24 million Americans.
But now Trump and the GOP majorities in Congress are just sitting by while ACA tax credits expire- letting health care premiums skyrocket for 24 million Americans.
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I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
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NEW: A D.C. Circuit three-judge panel “paves the way to autocracy,” upholding Trump’s firings of two officials at independent agencies: Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox.
Court ‘Paves Way to Autocracy’ by Upholding Trump’s Independent Agency Firings
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
NEW: A D.C. Circuit three-judge panel “paves the way to autocracy,” upholding Trump’s firings of two officials at independent agencies: Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox.
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BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw?
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw?
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
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GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."
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Drug trafficking is not an act of war. This whole idea that these boats can kill millions of Americans is fantasy land. It's based on a fake statistic about fentanyl. And they're not going to the US and they're not carrying fentanyl.
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Drug trafficking is not an act of war. This whole idea that these boats can kill millions of Americans is fantasy land. It's based on a fake statistic about fentanyl. And they're not going to the US and they're not carrying fentanyl.
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Just for muscle memory's sake, it would be fun if everyone thought of one way to make political hay over this. Got a GOP MoC? Call them out for being the party of crime publicly. Got a MAGAt family member? Call and ask why they're freeing cocaine traffickers.
So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon
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December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Just for muscle memory's sake, it would be fun if everyone thought of one way to make political hay over this. Got a GOP MoC? Call them out for being the party of crime publicly. Got a MAGAt family member? Call and ask why they're freeing cocaine traffickers.
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On this day ten years ago, two people armed with AR-15 rifles, 9mm pistols, and high capacity magazines entered a work training event at Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California and opened fire, killing 14 people and wounding 22 others.
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
On this day ten years ago, two people armed with AR-15 rifles, 9mm pistols, and high capacity magazines entered a work training event at Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California and opened fire, killing 14 people and wounding 22 others.
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We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges.
But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.
But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges.
But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.
But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.
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No wonder Trump and his minions freaked out over D congressmen and senators’ video advising military personnel not to follow illegal orders. It’s not Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) who should be investigated, but those threatening retribution for raising the red flag.
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War Crime...or Murder?
Killing shipwreck survivors is patently illegal and morally abhorrent
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December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
No wonder Trump and his minions freaked out over D congressmen and senators’ video advising military personnel not to follow illegal orders. It’s not Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) who should be investigated, but those threatening retribution for raising the red flag.
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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A new post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth just a couple hours after President Trump said he wouldn’t have wanted a second strike on alleged narco boats and that Hegseth said he didn’t order second strikes.
December 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A new post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth just a couple hours after President Trump said he wouldn’t have wanted a second strike on alleged narco boats and that Hegseth said he didn’t order second strikes.
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There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
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Kaine: "These two Guard members should've been at home at Thanksgiving celebrating Thanksgiving with their families, not deployed in a political deployment to do law enforcement in DC that the DC police and other local law enforcement agencies can do ... I mourn for them."
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Kaine: "These two Guard members should've been at home at Thanksgiving celebrating Thanksgiving with their families, not deployed in a political deployment to do law enforcement in DC that the DC police and other local law enforcement agencies can do ... I mourn for them."
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There is no state in America where the average gas price is below $2.34 / gallon.
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There is no state in America where the average gas price is below $2.34 / gallon.
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"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
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November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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4 killed, 10 injured in shooting at family celebration in California
The shooting, in Stockton, occurred near a children’s theater and a Dairy Queen. At least one child was killed, the mayor said. A suspect has not been arrested.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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This is also true about RFK Junior
Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is also true about RFK Junior
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So the war on drugs is to kill the fishermen and release the kingpins. Makes perfect sense. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
So the war on drugs is to kill the fishermen and release the kingpins. Makes perfect sense. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...