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"How does a country burst? To answer this question, it helps to see matters as do the president and the vice-president: from inside a grift bubble."
19.11.2025 23:59 — 👍 593 🔁 172 💬 5 📌 10He’s got a point and his team is doing hugely valuable work
20.11.2025 02:09 — 👍 719 🔁 122 💬 12 📌 1The people who presently run Texas are afraid of letting their own people vote. Illegal says the court — but let’s add shameful and cowardly.
20.11.2025 02:10 — 👍 882 🔁 198 💬 8 📌 1Extraordinary that the Texas government would be so corrupt that it would have to black out more than 80% of its emails with Elon Musk.
20.11.2025 02:19 — 👍 1791 🔁 706 💬 42 📌 16We should get serious about sanctions. Russian missiles that kill Ukrainian civilians contain parts made in the West. And this repeated mass murder of civilians by Moscow should bring total boycotts on Russian gas and oil. And the Ukrainians should get everything they need to defend themselves
20.11.2025 02:30 — 👍 1339 🔁 425 💬 34 📌 15
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
A CDC website that previously said vaccines do not cause autism has walked back that statement. It now repeats the skepticism that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voiced about the safety of vaccines.
20.11.2025 12:55 — 👍 71 🔁 31 💬 28 📌 22
Data on race and ethnicity has put us on the cusp of breakthroughs in treating kidney failure, which disproportionately affects Black Americans. But the Trump administration has halted that data collection as part of its war on supposed "DEI." Important new story from @laylaayanna.bsky.social
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“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”
20.11.2025 05:58 — 👍 4886 🔁 1975 💬 267 📌 124
NEW: The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again.
With @startribune.com
It is always about the grift. Corrupt to the core
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Murphy: "Congress doesn't work the way it used to. It used to be you could negotiate with Senate Republicans and they would stick to the agreement. Today all that matters is what Trump believes, so you really can't negotiate w/ Republicans bc they are just waiting for Trump to tell them what to do"
20.11.2025 13:14 — 👍 1517 🔁 370 💬 49 📌 25An entire argument dismantled in two words.
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Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.
20.11.2025 12:27 — 👍 4775 🔁 1597 💬 338 📌 131
Page One in Iowa.
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🎯🎯Must read piece on how John Roberts created the conditions for Trump’s rise and has enabled his criminality at every turn by @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
20.11.2025 11:48 — 👍 373 🔁 145 💬 16 📌 8
Yard sign that says "ICE kidnapping happened here"
Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free
20.11.2025 12:22 — 👍 915 🔁 260 💬 13 📌 13When you shoot your own puppy and become the head of HLS… 🫢
19.11.2025 20:17 — 👍 4535 🔁 1428 💬 155 📌 9HAYES: “2 female reporters asking obviously totally newsworthy Q’s — one gets called ‘PIGGY’ the other gets called ‘INSUBORDINATE’ because she didn’t bow and scrape to the Saudi King.”
19.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 14247 🔁 4516 💬 676 📌 253
Trump loves MBS. "Your closest friends are a mirror"
with @milestaylor.bsky.social
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"An argument that didn't work for Calley at My Lai, an argument that didn't work for the Nazis at Nuremberg."
19.11.2025 22:07 — 👍 309 🔁 91 💬 20 📌 1
Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said they were teaming up with Saudi Arabia’s artificial-intelligence company, Humain, to build a data center.
19.11.2025 17:59 — 👍 50 🔁 41 💬 38 📌 30If Jesus said his disciples would be known by their love for others, then when we claim to follow him but we are known for our bullying, our mockery, our callousness, and our contempt for others, we are actively taking his name in vain.
Love must be our reputation.
A new March of Dimes report card placed Alabama among U.S. states with the worst maternal health outcomes, citing high mortality and preterm birth rates.
19.11.2025 13:19 — 👍 114 🔁 47 💬 7 📌 5
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Admitting you got it wrong would be confession that you’r a patsy, a liar, or both, but it would also that you’ve hurt many Americans. No wonder MAGA Republicans would prefer the security of nonsensical lies to the gnawing discomfort that facts provoke.
Trump’s brand of economic nationalism echoes policies that led to two world wars and the rise of authoritarian regimes across the globe.
19.11.2025 13:30 — 👍 75 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 6
Donald Trump told a journalist, “Quiet, piggy,” when she asked him about Epstein—continuing his pattern of demeaning women, @isabelfattal.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:
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The WSJ Editorial Board thinks that the Heritage Foundation’s embrace of Tucker Carlson, who has embraced antisemite/white nationalist Nick Fuentes, doesn’t taint MAGA or Trump.
Who did Tucker campaign for in 2024?
Trump.
Has Trump disavowed Tucker during this scandal? No. The opposite.
. By systematically engaging in selective and vindictive prosecutions, handing out galling pardons, and appointing stooges to the Department of Justice, Trump has underscored that the throughline is corruption of our legal system
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