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phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h
Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:
My father and mother, Mark Hortman and Melissa Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, were killed by a man who believed conspiracy theories and fake news. Words matter. Sharing fake news is dangerous. One part of my grief journey has been understanding the last conversation with my mother. She loved her job. People respected her job and what she did at her job. When I called her after the legislative session ended, I asked why she voted for the bill mentioned in the video shared by President Trump, and she wept. That bill and her vote had nothing to do with fraud. She voted for that bill because it was the only way to avoid a government shutdown. She had seen the impact of shutdowns: people lose their health care, their jobs, and in some cases, from a story she told me, have taken their own lives. She was in a very tough position on that vote. She had never really voted against her conscience like that. It was emotional and extremely difficult. Her struggle with that vote makes this conspiracy all the more painful for me. I am asking President Trump to remove the video that he shared and apologize to me and my family for posting this misinformation and for using my mother's own words to dishonor her memory. My sister Sophia Hortman (Sophie) asked me to share this on her behalf, she is off social media: "The video shared by President Donald Trump on Truth Social is a painful, false twisting of my mother's final vote. The vote she made was incredibly difficult for my mother; it was not a vote made lightly or with malice in her heart. She made the decision to prevent a government shutdown because she believed our great state protects and helps Minnesotans. We must create a society in which we do not harbor hatred and violence toward our political opponents, and this video promotes a false narrative which fuels the flames of political division. The video being shared by the president is another hurdle our family must overcome in grieving the loss of my parents, Mark and Melissa, and their beloved Gilbert. I ask President Trump to please consider the pain and sadness we have faced, and to honor the spirit of the holidays we have just spent without our parents by taking down the post on Truth Social." Please share our message and help us ask the President to take this down.
January 5, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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#americaisNOTyourfuckingchurch #SeparationOfChurchAndState #democracyNOTtheocracy #ChristianNationalismIsUNAMERICAN #freedomOFreligion #freedomFROMreligion
January 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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January 4, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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“Thus may poor fools believe false teachers; though those that are betray'd do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe.”
—Shakespeare

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January 3, 2026 at 1:18 PM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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"Let us start today to build a year of peace, disarming our hearts and refraining from all violence."
—Pope Leo XIV

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January 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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It’s “historic” when a country has a bill of rights that guarantees freedom of religion all because a guy doesn’t use a Christian bible? Let this sink in. Shouldn’t this be normal in such a country?

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#America

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Zohran Mamdani begins his term as NYC mayor with an historic swearing in
Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor of New York City. He was sworn in around midnight Thursday. He is the city’s first Muslim mayor, its first of South Asian descent and the first to be born in Africa.
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January 1, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Read Jack Smith's full deposition on the decision to indict Trump
The 255-page document, released on the last day of 2025, accounts for some eight hours of testimony.
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January 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d
The industries of the future are remaking the world
owasow.bsky.social Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 6d
“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:
December 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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These "Officials" answer to #WeThePeople!
They're takg our money, & using our taxdollars to for illegal & unConstitutional actions. We demand answers.
You can't claim to be patriotic & demand #FreeSpeech, but ignore #FreedomOfReligion or From Religion, a #FreePress is essential to our democracy too!
December 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d
Another dozen or so authors could request a correction like this. "In Covid's Wake" egregiously misrepresents research and ignores the scientific consensus throughout. Embarrassing that it's being praised by credible outlets.
yoyoel.com Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 8d
Requested a correction from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Let's see what happens.
December 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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bbcstever.bsky.social Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 7d
How does Moscow view Donald Trump at the end of 2025? One Russian paper today: “The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World…he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold to be destroyed…” #ReadingRussia youtu.be/7EwZNk6KgHU
"Russian industry has entered a perfect storm" warns Russian paper.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Paper collage with the words, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of the people to peaceably assemble.”
December 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 9d
“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” Timothy W. Ryback wrote in January.

Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/UvwCdoBh
December 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
paulinepark.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1657, residents of Flushing (Queens) addressed the #FlushingRemonstrance to Peter Stuyvesant demanding religious freedom in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, articulating the principle of #FreedomOfReligion for the first time in US history:
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December 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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brennancenter.org Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10d
The president has no authority to change election rules, requiring passports to vote, attempting to abolish mail-in voting, or decertifying voting machines. Listen to experts discuss how we challenged these efforts on the latest episode of The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/48SQYPc
December 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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The left claim that Donald Trump is a fascist and literally Hitler, but it was the Biden Administration which tried to restrict our #FreedomOfSpeech, #FreedomOfThePress, #FreedomOfReligion & #RightOfAssembly.

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“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” ― William F. Buckley
I will admit it: there was a strong feeling of amusement among sensible people when the simpleton from Sweden was arrested for protesting in support of the British pro-terrorism group. Greta Thunbe…
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December 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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#FreedomOfReligion is our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, as are freedom of speech, freedom of the press. The extreme right wingers in power are trying to eliminate our rights to take absolute power.
sethabramson.bsky.social Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10d
This is profoundly un-American.

No—that's not right.

It's *anti*-American.

It's hatred of the United States and its founding documents and all its people and all its traditions.

The person who wrote and approved this is a weirdo who detests everything that America stands for.
December 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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"...all oppression shall cease..."
O Holy Night
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December 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's Christmas Eve 1941 address.
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Christmas Eve Message to the Nation. | The American Presidency Project
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December 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13d
Bari Weiss doesn't want you to see this unless it includes "the other side" from an administration official
bubbaprog.xyz Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 13d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
truevoiceman.bsky.social
Bullshit the Founding Fathers foresaw this charade and that's why they gave us #FreedomOfReligion to believe in any faith or way we choose.

America is not a #Theocracy !!
December 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14d
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14d
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
fatalpolitics.bsky.social
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“Peace be with you!...A peace that is unarmed and disarming, humble and persevering.”
—Pope Leo XIV

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December 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM