Trish Pääkkönen
@trishpaak.bsky.social
American educator w/ keen interest in immunology, pregnant inmate advocacy, Lyme Disease, Russian history, chess /coffee addict-mom of 5, grandmother of 12. Yale 79/ Davenport.
All scammer accts immediately blocked. I am here for information .
All scammer accts immediately blocked. I am here for information .
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I sent out this piece yesterday. Trump's final plan is basically Russia's plan, which would legitimize Russian conquests and provide Russia the best possible situation in which to rebuild its military--while giving Ukraine nothing. Europe needs to stand with Ukraine now.
OK, sent out this free piece on the details of the Trump "final" plan for Ukraine that has been seen by Axios. The 5 points have basically been dictated by Putin. They set up a process which would allow Russia to expand into all of its neighbors.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Trump "Final" Proposal For Ukraine
Phillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
open.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I sent out this piece yesterday. Trump's final plan is basically Russia's plan, which would legitimize Russian conquests and provide Russia the best possible situation in which to rebuild its military--while giving Ukraine nothing. Europe needs to stand with Ukraine now.
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Andry Hernandez Romero, the Venezuelan makeup artist sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison, claimed asylum in the US because he was persecuted as a gay man.
Chris Van Hollen met in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Andry lived in San Diego—why hasn’t Alex Padilla or Adam Schiff met with him? 🤨
Chris Van Hollen met in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Andry lived in San Diego—why hasn’t Alex Padilla or Adam Schiff met with him? 🤨
April 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"I think we made the right decision" -- Tom Homan on the deportation of a Maryland dad to a gulag in El Salvador that the administration has already admitted was a mistake
April 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"I think we made the right decision" -- Tom Homan on the deportation of a Maryland dad to a gulag in El Salvador that the administration has already admitted was a mistake
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This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.
April 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.
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Tomorrow he’ll do the exact opposite.
🚨Trump says he’s raising tariffs on China to 125% and reducing tariffs on other countries to 10% for 90 days.
April 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Tomorrow he’ll do the exact opposite.
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The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
April 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
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I know this is woke DEI, but could we have a national economic policy that's something other than the minute-by-minute whims of a deranged and malevolent old man?
TL;DR: The new U.S. tariff rate against our two largest trading partners is either 10%, 25% or 35%, and so far no one I've reached out to at the White House is able to tell me which.
So the White House says the 10% baseline tariff also applies to Canada & Mexico. It has not said whether that's the effective new rate itself; whether it adds to the 25% fentanyl tariff, making the new rate 35%; or whether it kicks in only if the fentanyl tariff falls away
April 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I know this is woke DEI, but could we have a national economic policy that's something other than the minute-by-minute whims of a deranged and malevolent old man?
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Many Donald Trump supporters “claimed that this was the plan all along, suggesting that dropping the tariffs against the rest of the world would only further isolate Beijing,” but Trump himself gave away the game, @jonlemire.bsky.social and @russellberman.bsky.social write:
The Art of the Retreat
Trump’s abrupt pivot from his planned global trade war was touted by allies as grand strategy. The president’s own words suggested otherwise.
bit.ly
April 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Many Donald Trump supporters “claimed that this was the plan all along, suggesting that dropping the tariffs against the rest of the world would only further isolate Beijing,” but Trump himself gave away the game, @jonlemire.bsky.social and @russellberman.bsky.social write:
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Firing a DOJ lawyer for admitting a government error when the lawyer’s duty to the court requires exactly that admission is about as wrong as anything can be.
Only in the lawless, topsy-turvy world of Trump and Vance is such absurdity imaginable.
Yet here we are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Only in the lawless, topsy-turvy world of Trump and Vance is such absurdity imaginable.
Yet here we are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Justice Department Lawyers Are Struggling to Defend Trump’s Policies in Court
Inside the department’s civil division, litigators are squeezed between judges demanding answers and bosses’ instructions to protect the Trump agenda at all costs.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Firing a DOJ lawyer for admitting a government error when the lawyer’s duty to the court requires exactly that admission is about as wrong as anything can be.
Only in the lawless, topsy-turvy world of Trump and Vance is such absurdity imaginable.
Yet here we are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Only in the lawless, topsy-turvy world of Trump and Vance is such absurdity imaginable.
Yet here we are!
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
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Every person working at UPenn just had their security clearance suspended, apparently.
Mad king behavior.
Mad king behavior.
April 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Every person working at UPenn just had their security clearance suspended, apparently.
Mad king behavior.
Mad king behavior.
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Susman Godfrey, Chris Krebs, Miles Taylor, the president is openly targeting his political enemies with what his party once projected and called ‘lawfare’. It’s openly authoritarian. And we can’t say we weren’t warned. This is what fascism looks like.
Trump has signed an executive order targeting Susman Godfrey, the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain its $787 million settlement from Fox for the network's 2020 election lies.
April 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Susman Godfrey, Chris Krebs, Miles Taylor, the president is openly targeting his political enemies with what his party once projected and called ‘lawfare’. It’s openly authoritarian. And we can’t say we weren’t warned. This is what fascism looks like.
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EOs targeting 2 former Trump officials aren’t getting enough attention. In invoking treason, Trump puts death penalty on table for Miles Taylor. In revoking security clearances for Penn because Taylor taught there, he gives Penn a choice: suffer or join the punishment by banning Taylor.
April 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
EOs targeting 2 former Trump officials aren’t getting enough attention. In invoking treason, Trump puts death penalty on table for Miles Taylor. In revoking security clearances for Penn because Taylor taught there, he gives Penn a choice: suffer or join the punishment by banning Taylor.
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“Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man's point”
~ Miles Taylor
~ Miles Taylor
April 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man's point”
~ Miles Taylor
~ Miles Taylor
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If you are not furious at what our government did to these people, there’s something wrong with you.
“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.”
Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S.
MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...
Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S.
MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...
April 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If you are not furious at what our government did to these people, there’s something wrong with you.
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I don’t even know what to say here. We’re talking about a generational posting crashout. Lmfao NOW you’re concerned about conflicts of interest.
April 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I don’t even know what to say here. We’re talking about a generational posting crashout. Lmfao NOW you’re concerned about conflicts of interest.
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I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S.
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S.
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff
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If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
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I didn’t want this to happen.
I voted for the smart black lady.
I voted for the smart black lady.
April 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I didn’t want this to happen.
I voted for the smart black lady.
I voted for the smart black lady.
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10 of the 11 worse crashes were associated with the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression.
Stock markets have nowhere near bottomed out yet.
Stock markets have nowhere near bottomed out yet.
April 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
10 of the 11 worse crashes were associated with the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression.
Stock markets have nowhere near bottomed out yet.
Stock markets have nowhere near bottomed out yet.
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NEW: The Fourth Circuit UPHOLDS Judge Xinis’s order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US by midnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NEW: The Fourth Circuit UPHOLDS Judge Xinis’s order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US by midnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Social Security website "has crashed repeatedly in recent weeks, with outages lasting anywhere from 20 minutes to almost a day...Even when the site is back online, many customers have not been able to sign in to their accounts" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff
The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Social Security website "has crashed repeatedly in recent weeks, with outages lasting anywhere from 20 minutes to almost a day...Even when the site is back online, many customers have not been able to sign in to their accounts" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Ackman: It's not Trump's fault! It's his stupid advisors who were appointed by ...
April 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Ackman: It's not Trump's fault! It's his stupid advisors who were appointed by ...
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It really is no longer comprehensible within a reality-based framework.
April 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It really is no longer comprehensible within a reality-based framework.