Susie Madrak Ω
@susiemadrak.bsky.social
Art school dropout, former journalist, and one of the original political bloggers. Yellow dog Democrat, Philly born and raised. Blogs at CrooksandLiars.com and Suburban Guerrilla @ www.susiemadrak.com
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Priest walks from Pope Leo's childhood home to Statue of Liberty in show of solidarity with immigrants
Priest walks from Pope Leo's childhood home to Statue of Liberty in show of solidarity with immigrants
A Catholic priest from Chicago's south suburbs took an interesting journey, walking from Dolton to New York, a trek of more than 50 days, as he sent a message to immigrant families.
www.cbsnews.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Priest walks from Pope Leo's childhood home to Statue of Liberty in show of solidarity with immigrants
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NYT: Most immigrants arrested in a Trump’s authoritarian invasions by his racial profiling goons “have no criminal record”
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December 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
NYT: Most immigrants arrested in a Trump’s authoritarian invasions by his racial profiling goons “have no criminal record”
www.wsmv.com/2025/12/06/l...
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I think this is also why ACB ended up at least as much of a swing vote as Roberts despite being personally further right to start with: she's actually reasonably well-read, and it takes way longer to brain-poison someone who is and continues to be well-read than someone who is already a hack
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I think this is also why ACB ended up at least as much of a swing vote as Roberts despite being personally further right to start with: she's actually reasonably well-read, and it takes way longer to brain-poison someone who is and continues to be well-read than someone who is already a hack
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
One of the really great things about Trump bringing back station wagons is that when this accelerates global warming and the economy melts down, a family of 4 can snuggle up in the back after Mom and Dad lose their jobs and the house is in foreclosure. #MAGA!
December 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
One of the really great things about Trump bringing back station wagons is that when this accelerates global warming and the economy melts down, a family of 4 can snuggle up in the back after Mom and Dad lose their jobs and the house is in foreclosure. #MAGA!
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*taps mic*
Ahem
THE US MILITARY IS NOT APOLITICAL, IT IS NONPARTISAN. BY ITS VERY EXISTENCE IT IS POLITICAL.
Please disseminate to the highest levels because they still aren’t getting it
That is all. Carry on.
Ahem
THE US MILITARY IS NOT APOLITICAL, IT IS NONPARTISAN. BY ITS VERY EXISTENCE IT IS POLITICAL.
Please disseminate to the highest levels because they still aren’t getting it
That is all. Carry on.
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
*taps mic*
Ahem
THE US MILITARY IS NOT APOLITICAL, IT IS NONPARTISAN. BY ITS VERY EXISTENCE IT IS POLITICAL.
Please disseminate to the highest levels because they still aren’t getting it
That is all. Carry on.
Ahem
THE US MILITARY IS NOT APOLITICAL, IT IS NONPARTISAN. BY ITS VERY EXISTENCE IT IS POLITICAL.
Please disseminate to the highest levels because they still aren’t getting it
That is all. Carry on.
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JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
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A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.
Missing in Gaza: CNN investigation points to the Israeli military bulldozing the dead bodies of Palestinians seeking aid | CNN
A CNN investigation into Palestinians who went missing near the Zikim crossing in Gaza this year points to aid seekers being killed and, in some cases, bulldozed into unmarked graves by Israeli forces...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.
Most of the men I know who attended Philly's Central High are fine human beings. And some of them (hello, Ira Einhorn!) are fucking psychos. Guess which kind Alex Karp is?
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Most of the men I know who attended Philly's Central High are fine human beings. And some of them (hello, Ira Einhorn!) are fucking psychos. Guess which kind Alex Karp is?
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worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants
In at least half of the movies and TV shows I've watched recently, alcohol (and getting shitfaced) plays a supporting role -- as a fun, harmless, and expected social activity. A lot of my friends and family, like me, don't drink at all or very little. Are we really that much of a minority?
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
In at least half of the movies and TV shows I've watched recently, alcohol (and getting shitfaced) plays a supporting role -- as a fun, harmless, and expected social activity. A lot of my friends and family, like me, don't drink at all or very little. Are we really that much of a minority?
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NEW: Far-right lawyer and anti-voting activist Cleta Mitchell said she is "praying" DOJ Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon will seize ballots cast in the 2020 election in Georgia to probe for evidence of already debunked voter fraud claims.
Cleta Mitchell ‘Praying’ DOJ Seizes Georgia Ballots in Probe of Debunked 2020 Election Claims
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
NEW: Far-right lawyer and anti-voting activist Cleta Mitchell said she is "praying" DOJ Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon will seize ballots cast in the 2020 election in Georgia to probe for evidence of already debunked voter fraud claims.
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This is the man and the Court that will decide that the Constitution violates the Constitution.
(Which I believe was already proven in Dobbs, but they're feeling their oats now.)
(Which I believe was already proven in Dobbs, but they're feeling their oats now.)
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is the man and the Court that will decide that the Constitution violates the Constitution.
(Which I believe was already proven in Dobbs, but they're feeling their oats now.)
(Which I believe was already proven in Dobbs, but they're feeling their oats now.)
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NEW: Civil rights groups may ask SCOTUS to take up their challenge to Texas’s sweeping voter-suppression law. If the justices agree to hear it, the conservative majority could use the case to make future challenges to restrictive voting laws even more difficult.
Civil Rights Groups Poised to Take Texas’ Voter Suppression Law to Supreme Court
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
NEW: Civil rights groups may ask SCOTUS to take up their challenge to Texas’s sweeping voter-suppression law. If the justices agree to hear it, the conservative majority could use the case to make future challenges to restrictive voting laws even more difficult.
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As Republicans attempt to gerrymander their way to a 2026 election win, they’re encountering one big obstacle: the courts and voters.
Now, the party is waging war on both by attacking voter-approved measures, threatening impeachment and more.
Now, the party is waging war on both by attacking voter-approved measures, threatening impeachment and more.
To Protect Gerrymanders, GOP Lawmakers Target Judges — and Voters
Read more here.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
As Republicans attempt to gerrymander their way to a 2026 election win, they’re encountering one big obstacle: the courts and voters.
Now, the party is waging war on both by attacking voter-approved measures, threatening impeachment and more.
Now, the party is waging war on both by attacking voter-approved measures, threatening impeachment and more.
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Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
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December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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This is why Trump's National Security Strategy is a fantasy.
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is why Trump's National Security Strategy is a fantasy.
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Over/under on Nuzzi becoming a joint Free Press/CBS News roving correspondent?
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Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways
Nuzzi and the magazine will let her contract expire at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Over/under on Nuzzi becoming a joint Free Press/CBS News roving correspondent?
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Q for the armchair lawyers screaming about freedom of speech: Do you want me to translate it into Russian, so you can ask Kremlin why they blocked X in its entirety in 2021?
And while we are at it, here's the whole list of countries to send your grievances to: english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2...
And while we are at it, here's the whole list of countries to send your grievances to: english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2...
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Q for the armchair lawyers screaming about freedom of speech: Do you want me to translate it into Russian, so you can ask Kremlin why they blocked X in its entirety in 2021?
And while we are at it, here's the whole list of countries to send your grievances to: english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2...
And while we are at it, here's the whole list of countries to send your grievances to: english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2...
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I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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even if look past the errors of fact and poor reasoning throughout this piece, you are still left with a massive normative claim that isgur doesn’t even bother to support, which is that the purpose of the executive branch is to execute the president’s will and priorities.
Opinion | Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
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December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
even if look past the errors of fact and poor reasoning throughout this piece, you are still left with a massive normative claim that isgur doesn’t even bother to support, which is that the purpose of the executive branch is to execute the president’s will and priorities.
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Tracy Hoeg is a fraud. She advertises "orthobiologic" therapies on her website, ALL unapproved by FDA. Now she's in charge of CDER. She is a joke. Unqualified. Full-stop.
Tracy Hoeg: Voting to stop universally vaccinating newborns against hep B vaccine would "put us in line with peer countries."
Note: Which peer countries is she talking about? Taiwan began immunizing all babies on first day of life 6 years before the U.S., with huge success.
#ACIP
Note: Which peer countries is she talking about? Taiwan began immunizing all babies on first day of life 6 years before the U.S., with huge success.
#ACIP
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Tracy Hoeg is a fraud. She advertises "orthobiologic" therapies on her website, ALL unapproved by FDA. Now she's in charge of CDER. She is a joke. Unqualified. Full-stop.
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Good morning everyone
I was sent this by a follower
And I have seen other clips from people who work with geriatric patients
This post is from Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager- Dove CA district 37
I find this very interesting
Trump's father suffered Alzheimers and passed at 93
Requires MRI ⬇️
I was sent this by a follower
And I have seen other clips from people who work with geriatric patients
This post is from Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager- Dove CA district 37
I find this very interesting
Trump's father suffered Alzheimers and passed at 93
Requires MRI ⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Good morning everyone
I was sent this by a follower
And I have seen other clips from people who work with geriatric patients
This post is from Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager- Dove CA district 37
I find this very interesting
Trump's father suffered Alzheimers and passed at 93
Requires MRI ⬇️
I was sent this by a follower
And I have seen other clips from people who work with geriatric patients
This post is from Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager- Dove CA district 37
I find this very interesting
Trump's father suffered Alzheimers and passed at 93
Requires MRI ⬇️