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Once again, the ads in the print edition of @theonion.com are worth the price alone
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Earlier this week he said “fake news” as he often does when he doesn’t like the input/question of a journalist, who simply reiterated a documented quote from him of 5 days earlier w/respect to the 9/2 boat bombing. With all the mirrors that surround him, he should realize he is losing.
Trump says reporting on his health is "seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean 'THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.' They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it."
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“In an administration that runs on chaos +cruelty, Hegseth’s arrogant incompetence is a liability to the nation +the world. But Trump’s support of Hegseth is tied to the…defense secretary’s willingness to carry out the president’s demands—no matter how extreme.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/09/o...
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This extreme economic inequality is what is terribly wrong with our country. Yet this is what Trump values and promotes.

The three billionaires are also among the worst. They line up in groveling support of the most unfit president in our history.
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Senator Elizabeth Warren is always working for we the people. POTUS is working (or golfing) to benefit himself, his family and his lackeys. He is and has been an embarrassing disgrace.
Good Point, Ms. Warren.......
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Yes, I heard both replies in real time: not a surprise and definitely incriminating.
December 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Beware of Trump’s interest in Paramount’s rival bid—
David Zaslav of WB must honor the offer of Netflix, a public company.
Paramount launches rival bid for Warner Bros Discovery - BBC News
The Hollywood battle to buy Warner Bros Discovery is shaping up to be a blockbuster.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
And the meltdown continues…
President Trump accused a group of Democratic lawmakers of sedition when they told members of the military that they must refuse unlawful orders. But Pam Bondi, the attorney general, said the same thing last year.
Must the Military Disobey Unlawful Orders? Pam Bondi Has Said Yes.
As a lawyer for a conservative think tank, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members who followed such orders were committing crimes.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Trump and his effort to use the military for everything.
December 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Kudos to the law firm of @marcelias.bsky.social for taking on the first 8 DOJ cases referred to here.
But first Elias of Democracy Docket argues before the Supreme Court tomorrow on yet another assault on our democracy by this administration: NRSC v. Federal Election Commission.
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is our government.

Trump comments on Somali Americans, “When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country,” JD Vance pounded in the table in agreement when House press secretary Karoline Leavitt praised the remarks as an “epic moment.”
‘This is my country’: Somalis in Maine are angered, insulted by Trump’s scorn - The Boston Globe
The president’s tirade has left Lewiston's Somali population angry, anxious, and in disbelief.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
To see his lunacy in print as the US security strategy is yet another sharp edge upon which a call for his impeachment should be. Yet the silence from Republicans in Congress is deafening.
December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
HCR explains how US history (share.google/JCS4VbRoax7L...) +world history (Letters below) brought us to where we are today +the urgency to speak up. “…Trump +his cronies have abandoned the principles of democracy +openly embraced the hierarchical society the US fought against in World War.”
December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The evidence against Hegseth+Trump is overwhelming. Our government has murdered 82 human beings. Yet congressional Republicans are repeating Hegseth’s lies or hiding in elevators. Staggering.
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Spot on.
at least when i was a child and we would play make-believe games and have make-believe medals, we knew that it was all made up and not reality. we have a president who has less sense than a child.
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Yes, this is the Trump administration way with everything. #impeach
There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video.

They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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There is no such thing as a "unitary executive". There is only a lawless President with a compliant Congress.

They could impeach/convict Trump today if they wanted, or any President claiming "unitary" powers not written in the Constitution.
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Herein summarizes how happenings of the past week alone would be enough to impeach Trump. He is clearly unfit to be president. He pardons hardened criminals like Hernández yet calls hardworking Somali American citizens in Minneapolis “garbage” +the press stupid if he doesn’t like the question.
A Honduran president/drug kingpin. A murderous Saudi prince. Putin. Ruthless billionaires. "These are the kinds of people Trump loves. The rich. The powerful. The corrupt. The murderous. Everyone else he barely tolerates if not openly despises."
www.americaamerica.news/p/president-...
President for the Rich and Powerful
Trump proves that stopping the drug trade means nothing when there's a chance to pardon a dirty politician who made millions by helping to bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
www.americaamerica.news
December 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“Normally…you’d have the FEC +the Solicitor General vigorously defending the existing law….That is what both Democrats +Republican administrations have done—successfully—in the past… Instead, the Trump Administration is actively arguing that the law should be struck down.”
Five Questions with Elias Law Partner David Fox
. . . about the Supreme Court and your voting rights
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Once a bully always a bully, regardless of the most unfortunate fact that Trump is president. While he has continuously bullied Indiana Republicans into supporting his “gerrymandering blitz,” the Senate has reported it doesn’t have the votes: let’s hope it stays that way.
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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It would be all too easy to overlook this case with everything else that's going on, but it's too important to miss, so I wrote a rare midday post. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM