Mary Geddry

The Man Who Solved Nine Wars (And Other Fairy Tales) Inside a holiday week where Trump disappeared, the economy cracked, the GOP detonated, and the tech titans paid tribute.

Trump’s “light holiday schedule” consists of pardoning two turkeys and hiding from every crisis he created. The Magnificent Seven bubble is about to pop, GOP members are eyeing the exits, and Trump’s #Ukraine “peace plan” turns out to be… Russia’s. #uspolitics
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The Day the Kakistocracy Tripped Over Its Own Feet How Trump’s fake prosecutors, bad appointments, and worse lawyering blew up the Comey and James cases

A federal judge just nuked Trump’s indictments of James Comey and Letitia James, not on the facts, but because the “prosecutor” Trump sent in was never legally a U.S. Attorney at all.

It’s peak #kakistocracy #uspolitics #authoritarianism
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Democracy on the Ropes, Capitalism on Steroids Trump’s foreign-influenced peace plan, DHS interference, extrajudicial military orders, and a political class terrified of the word “socialism.”

Kremlin-flavored “peace plans,” #DHS meddling for Andrew Tate, foreign-run #MAGA bots, Trump targeting Somali refugees, the military seeking legal advice on illegal orders, corporate food poisoning us, Ty Cobb warning Trump is too evil. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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The Air Is Getting Thin From the Amazon to Washington, a week of institutional sabotage, global humiliation, and a kakistocracy determined to finish the job.

#COP30 fumbles the forests, Sudan’s riches fuel collapse, the #CDC caves to conspiracy, McConnell bans #hemp, and Trump boycotts the #G20 over a debunked #Musk myth. The air is literally getting thin. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
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When Confidence Replaces Competence The parallel fantasies of Musk and Trump, and the enormous cost of believing them

#ElonMusk is selling robo-taxis he can’t legally build, #Trump is selling an economy that exists only in his head, and both rely on the same messiah-myth confidence game. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
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The Great American Runaround SCOTUS freezes democracy in Texas, Cop30 freezes climate ambition in Brazil, MTG freezes herself out of Congress, and Trump briefly thaws for Zohran Mamdani.

Alito props up Texas’s #gerrymander, #Cop30 melts down, #MTG exits Congress on the eve of Jan 6, and Trump suddenly loves #ZohranMamdani?? #uspolitics
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Welcome to the Fire Sale Republic Hedge-fund economics, health-care hostage taking, offshore drilling, and the steady and inevitable collapse of the Trump regime

Trump’s regime is juggling hate symbols, health-care cliffs, offshore drilling, economic Rube Goldberg chaos, and a quiet push to force #Ukraine into surrender. Meanwhile the #Epstein files clock is ticking. #uspolitics #sustainability #authoritarianism
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The Man Who Pardoned 1,600 Insurrectionists Says We’re the Traitors Veteran lawmakers remind the troops about illegal orders, and Trump proves their point in real time

Imagine pardoning 1,600 Jan 6 rioters, including convicted seditionists, then claiming veterans quoting the UCMJ are the real traitors.
#Trump did that today. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Full Self-Drive Toward the Abyss As America’s institutions swerve into oncoming traffic, Trump rewrites science, diplomacy, law, and even the Epstein saga, with all the stability of a Molotov cocktail sommelier.

#Trump takes a victory lap for a bill he tried to bury, the #CDC rewrites #vaccine science to flatter #RFKJr., the White House pushes a #Ukraine “peace plan” that’s basically surrender. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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America’s First DIY Indictment Kit Trump’s Justice Department couldn’t persuade a grand jury, so they apparently just edited the indictment themselves, and now the whole prosecution is going up in smoke on the record.

Trump’s #DOJ admitted in court that the grand jury never saw the #jamesComey indictment, the one they charged him with. They literally cut-and-pasted a new version and had the foreperson sign it in a side room. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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Trump and MBS: A Love Story in an Office That Deserves Better A trillion-dollar promise, a fistful of grievances, and a masterclass in how not to run an international partnership.

Just covered Trump’s #OvalOffice spectacle with #MBS a trillion-dollar bromance featuring imaginary economics, a lecture on magnets, Assad rehab, F-35 hedging, & a full meltdown at an ABC reporter. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Water, Warplanes, and Whatever Trump Was Saying About Tartar Sauce A world on fire, a capital running dry, Epstein fallout expanding, and a president still rambling about faucets.

#Trump rambling about tartar sauce at McDonald’s while prepping to hand MBS a fleet of F-35s, #LarrySummers retreating after #Epstein emails, and Iran facing a drought so severe Tehran is talking evacuation. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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Prioritized Appointment Scheduling System for Madness Trump’s latest press conference offered equal parts delusion, deflection, and accidental self-parody.

What started as a press event about soccer spiraled into a fever dream of tariffs, #Epstein denial, and imaginary naval warfare.

“I was shouting at people because they were stupid.”
“Which country?”
“Why would I say that to you?”
#uspolitics #authoritarianism
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A Very Stable Thanksgiving Turkey up 40%, truth down 100%, Trump’s America serves us another helping of fiction.

Trump: “Prices are down!”
Reality: Turkey +40%, beef +15%, canned goods climbing his #tariffs. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Make America Affordable Again (Terms and Conditions Apply) As Trump sells pardons and burns his own movement, even the climate files for revenge.

Clemency, collapse, and cold fronts. Trump’s golden age just froze solid. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Bananas, Beef, and Bond Villains Trump lowers tariffs, raises suspicion, and blames everyone but himself as the Epstein walls close in.

Trump’s melting down again calling the #Epsteinfiles a “hoax” while his own name shows up in half the emails. Add #KristiNoem’s $200M #DHS ad grift, tariffs flipped on bananas & beef, and the foreign policy circus from hell. #uspolitics
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Bananas, Bombs, and the Bleaching of the Republic From Trump’s tariff tango to Florida’s dying reefs, the empire keeps finding new ways to sink.

#Tariffs down, sea levels up. The #DOJ calls murder “maritime policy,” and Florida’s coral reefs officially quit. #uspolitics #climate #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Carpe Momentum: The Price of Breath How capitalism turned life itself into a commodity, and why sustainability now means resistance.

#ElonMusk just pocketed a $1 trillion payday for accelerating planetary collapse while hedge funds buy up aquifers and call it innovation.
#Sustainability is the new resistance. #uspolitics
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Make Extortion Great Again Trump reopens the government, rewrites math, and reminds us why truth still needs a discharge petition.

The government reopens, the truth leaks out, and Trump brags that groceries cost less because there’s less to buy. Adelita signs, #Epstein’s ghost returns, and Justin Wolfers calls the math what it is: delusion. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Invasive Species From warships off Venezuela to an empty seat at COP30, Trump’s America spreads like a blight across the hemisphere.

Warships off #Venezuela, an empty U.S. seat at #COP30, #MAGA in meltdown, and the Epstein files stirring again. Gavin Newsom calls Trump an “invasive species.” #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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Today, on Veterans Day, I’m sharing something deeply personal, a video version of my Carpe Momentum essay, Revoke Consent.

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#VeteransDay #OathOfOffice #USPolitics

The Pardon Bazaar and the Pepper-Spray Patrol ICE eyes Newport, Congress reopens for business, and the authoritarian clearance sale continues.

Trump’s America: pardons for sale, pepper spray for the public, and an #ICE camp planned for the #Oregon Coast. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy

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The Longest Shutdown Ends Where It Began Eight Democrats cross the aisle, Trump redeems his disciples, and America mistakes exhaustion for governance.

Forty days of shutdown, eight Dems cave, and Trump celebrates by pardoning the architects of his own coup. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
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The Napkin and the Noose How Laffer’s curve, Piketty’s math, and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago feasts turned America into a banquet for billionaires and a breadline for everyone else.

#SNAP is frozen, the ACA’s collapsing, and Mar-a-Lago’s serving snow crab. From Laffer’s napkin to Milei’s karaoke mic, America’s banquet of greed is in full swing. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #governmentshutdown #kakistocracy
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When the present feels impossible to navigate, look backward. History is not a mirror-it's a map. Every rupture we face has its echoes, and every echo holds a choice: rebuild or repeat.

Palm Beach Noir: The Billionaires, the Judges, and the Nation That Moved On Epstein’s buried billions still haunt the Justice Department, Trump’s empire rots from within, and Canada quietly reminds the world how grown-ups run a country.

Epstein’s buried billions, Trump’s Russian cash pipeline, two judges who actually did their jobs, and a #Canada that remembered how to build things.

America clings to nostalgia; the rest of the world moves on. #uspolitics #governmentshutdown #kakistocracy
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The Budapest Bromance Trump and Orbán hold a “bilateral” that’s really a mutual admiration society for illiberal strongmen, complete with imaginary trade deals and zero crime in fantasyland.

Trump and Orbán’s “bilateral” was less diplomacy, more bromance. Zero crime, zero migrants, $950B in imaginary trade deals, and one very real crush on authoritarian power. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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The Hunger Games: Trump Edition A president ordered by a judge to feed his citizens, an economy that only works in his imagination, and Epstein’s ghost haunting every gilded room.

A judge had to order him to feed 42 million hungry Americans.
The White House brags about a Walmart report and Trump stares blankly while the country burns. #uspolitics #governmentshutdown #SNAPbenefits

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The Kakistocracy vs. The Constitution Trump’s pirates, his plumbers, and the last sane adults in the room, the legal eagles saving America one injunction at a time.

Day 37 of the #GOVERNMENTshutdown, Trump’s starving the poor, the markets are melting, and #SCOTUS might finally say “enough.” #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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State of the Delusion: Trump Declares Victory Over Reality In a single speech, the former president ends rare-earth crises, bans mail-in voting, and demands his cabinet sit up straighter.

Trump says he solved a rare-earth crisis “in 20 minutes,” wants his cabinet to sit like Xi’s soldiers, and blames Democrats for geology. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy
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