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Enthusiastic lurker and hella re-poster for democracy.
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gene4va.bsky.social
The only thing keeping Pete Hegseth in office is his devotion to Trump — and he shows it by attacking anyone who dares disagree.

Our troops deserve competence, not chaos.

It’s time for him to go: firehegseth.com
Sign the Petition to Fire Hegseth!
Pete Hegseth has put our troops in harm's way and failed the American people. He needs to go and we need your help.
firehegseth.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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hartmannreport.com
The convergence of pro-Kremlin policy, tech giveaways to rivals, and rising domestic repression is a five-alarm warning that we ignore at our own peril…

hartmannreport.com/p/is-trumps-...
Is Trump’s Embrace of Russia the Greatest Betrayal in American History?
The convergence of pro-Kremlin policy, tech giveaways to rivals, and rising domestic repression is a five-alarm warning that we ignore at our own peril…
hartmannreport.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Donald Trump and his administration's depravity have made it harder for Illinoisans to learn, work, or even seek care.

Here in Illinois, we are trying to protect our people and institutions — we have chosen the path of solidarity and support.
Illinois Governor Signs Bill Imposing New Limits on Immigration Enforcement
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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npr.org
The native of El Salvador and resident of Maryland has become a symbol of the Trump administration's policy of mass deportations after he was mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador in the spring. n.pr/4q8gHsK
Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released from ICE custody
The native of El Salvador and resident of Maryland has become a symbol of the Trump administration's policy of mass deportations after he was mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador in the spring.
n.pr
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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atrupar.com
Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
Did you know: Omaha, Nebraska, has the largest residential lead cleanup site in the U.S. BUT... this year, the Trump admin tripled the amount of lead that had to be in the soil to warrant a potential cleanup, meaning many families may be out of luck. @chrisbowling.bsky.social
The EPA Was Considering a Massive Lead Cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump Shifted Guidance.
The Trump administration says it will speed cleanups, but residents of the largest residential lead Superfund site worry fewer properties will be remediated.
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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atrupar.com
Noem leaves the hearing and is heckled as she departs the room
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
Don Jr's secretive MAGA and business elite club reportedly costs $500K a year to join, with members sworn to secrecy about everything that happens inside.
Wild Secrets of Don Jr.’s MAGA Millionaire Club Exposed
It reportedly costs $500K a year to join, with members sworn to secrecy about everything that happens in the Georgetown hideaway.
trib.al
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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qasimrashid.com
Mubasher is a U.S. citizen and ICE fascists kidnapped him. This denial of due process is the fascism Trump is enabling. We cannot tolerate this. This is indefensible.

I’m continuing to speak up and sound the alarm. Support my human rights advocacy at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
US citizen kidnapped by ICE
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
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December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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atrupar.com
"Unsurprisingly, the White House is trying to lie its way through it. The only explanation offered so far for Trump's mangled hand is a laughable one about 'frequent handshaking.' And president now says it's 'treasonous' to report on his health."
A band-aid on a festering hand wound
Something's up with Trump's health and we should really find out what it is.
www.publicnotice.co
December 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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atrupar.com
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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timmarchman.bsky.social
This is a really disturbing story on several levels and certainly anyone who interacts with the Pentagon specifically or the administration more generally should read it:
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?

Noem: We have not deported military veterans.

Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
B. No Order of Removal Exists for Abrego Garcia No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia. When Abrego Garcia was first wrongly expelled to El Salvador, the Court struggled to understand the legal authority for even seizing him in the first place. At the first hearing in Abrego I, the Court inquired of Respondents’ counsel: The Court: I want to ask, though, the very specific question, if there is a final order of removal, what . . . document got this process started? There is no warrant for his arrest by an order of removal. There is no statement of probable cause. There’s no charge. There’s no report that says that anyone saw Mr. Abrego Garcia doing anything illegal or criminal. So what is the actual document that gave these officers the authority to start this process? Counsel: That is not in the record, and the government has not put that into the record. And that’s the best I can do. Abrego I, ECF No. 33 at 21:11–22. The Court continued to press counsel about the existence of a removal order and was told plainly that none can be found: The Court: Okay. So if there’s a Title 8 removal order, there would be an order of removal that’s being executed, and we don’t have one for Mr. Abrego Garcia, right? . . . Do you have that order? . . . Is it in the record? Counsel: I do not have that order. It is not in the record. Id. at 23:7–24:4. Since that time, Respondents have never produced an order of removal despite Abrego Garcia hinging much of his jurisdictional and legal arguments on its non-existence. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 68–69; ECF No. 32 at 10, 15–17, 27; ECF No. 87 at 11–12. Indeed, Respondents twice sponsored the testimony of ICE officials whose job it is to effectuate removal orders, and who candidly admitted to having never seen one for Abrego Garcia. See ECF No. 107 at 30:16–22 (testimony of Cantú) (“Q: Based upon your many years of experience you described to us, you know what a final order of removal looks like, right, sir? Cantú: I do. Q: And have you seen a final order of removal in regard to Mr. Abrego Garcia? Cantú: I have not.”). See also Abrego I, ECF No. 234 at 46:6–12 (testimony of interim Assistant Director for ICE Removal Operations, Thomas Giles (“Giles”)) (“Q: You have not seen the final order of removal, have you, sir? Giles: What do you mean by that? Q: I mean, you have not seen a piece of paper that represents the final order of removal vis-a-vis Mr. Abrego Garcia, correct? Giles: No, I have not.”).15 Based on this, the Court concludes that no order of removal exists.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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jamellebouie.net
there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.
emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d
The way Trump talks about the problems he caused by unilaterally imposing tariffs is fairly insane, even by his standards.

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump: We ... we wouldn’t have much of an economy. We make a lot of money with these countries. Now in the past, these countries all ripped us off. If you go back, uh, during Biden, if you go back, uh, during Obama, they were ripping us off like nobody’s ... no country’s ever been ripped off. That’s why we owe $38 trillion. I mean, we owe it for a reason. But just remember, uh, when I had ... when we had a problem with China very recently, I was able to work that out. You don’t work that out by not talking to people, by, you know, not answering. With the magnets, with the rare earth, it was a big problem. Burns: And y ... and you’re looking to have impact here back home so ... Trump: Well, no, no. Impact? We would’ve been shut down. China would’ve been shut down. The whole world would’ve been shut down.
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
WTAF is wrong with people?🤦‍♀️
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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wajali.bsky.social
How Trump and the GOP are Aligning with Putin and Betraying Our Allies

Putin continues playing Trump as Steve Witkoff is being sent to affirm a "peace plan" engineered in Moscow that will abandon Ukraine and US allies.

With @levparnas.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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gregolear.bsky.social
We are in the heyday of traitors being easy to spot.

If the Putin-fluffing bootlicker had a shred of dignity he would resign, but then, if he had a shred of dignity, he wouldn't be fluffing Putin.

#FuckoffWitkoff
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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kylec.bsky.social
9NEWS has obtained a copy of the Trump DOJ's request to take custody of Tina Peters.

Colorado's Department of Corrections redacted a large portion of the request, claiming its disclosure would be "contrary to public interest."
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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utopia-defer.red
old enough to remember when a bunch of white guys in the beltway said the occupations and ethnic pogroms weren’t a big deal in July of this year
davidjbier.bsky.social David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 16d
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
Scoop: The new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns.
The current Surgeon General of Louisiana has made headlines recently, including for allegedly burying a whooping cough outbreak.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer.

w/ @joshgerstein

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: new emails CONFIRM my reporting that there are TRAINING VIDEOS instructing FBI personnel on how to review the Epstein Files. Plus, a lot more…
jasonleopold.bsky.social Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 15d
The emails reveal the special training given to FBI personnel working on what it called the “Epstein Transparency Project.” In some instances they referred to it as the “Special Redaction Project.” The training entailed PowerPoint slide presentations and video instruction on how to review the files.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM