@tedgehring.bsky.social
Broadly: this is the problem all over. It’s the voters.
The problem is not the pardon power. The problem is us. We weren't supposed to elect a crook as POTUS. If we did, the people we elected in Congress are supposed to do something about it. We're idiots, so we've elected crooks & cowards all the way up the line.
The problem is us. We need to fix us.
The problem is us. We need to fix us.
Giving the president the pardon power was a mistake. The most corrupt president in American history is conducting a jailbreak for his fellow criminals.
December 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Broadly: this is the problem all over. It’s the voters.
Why can’t he sit? 🤔
i kind of hate how much these guys can’t be bothered to dress themselves well or even visibly take care of themselves
The CEO of Palantir.
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Why can’t he sit? 🤔
A lot of people trashed @timmiller.bsky.social for interviewing her. But it put a light on her. And she looked awful. Now this.
So…what happened with the Times? What explains this story now?
So…what happened with the Times? What explains this story now?
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A lot of people trashed @timmiller.bsky.social for interviewing her. But it put a light on her. And she looked awful. Now this.
So…what happened with the Times? What explains this story now?
So…what happened with the Times? What explains this story now?
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He’s not covered by the pardon because of how it was technically phrased, but an obvious question to ask at his next press gaggle would be why Trump isn’t pardoning the pipe bomber, another of his violent supporters who apparently had the same motive as all the other Jan 6-ers he pardoned.
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
He’s not covered by the pardon because of how it was technically phrased, but an obvious question to ask at his next press gaggle would be why Trump isn’t pardoning the pipe bomber, another of his violent supporters who apparently had the same motive as all the other Jan 6-ers he pardoned.
My guess is late Trump term they’ll start trying to earn back credibility by ruling here and there against him. And they’ll expect a Democrat to honor it all as legitimate.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
My guess is late Trump term they’ll start trying to earn back credibility by ruling here and there against him. And they’ll expect a Democrat to honor it all as legitimate.
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Jiffy Lube just made me their Poet Laureate?
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Jiffy Lube just made me their Poet Laureate?
It’s fascinating how there’s just no subtlety here at all. Using his own sexuality as a dig at Fuentes, calling him a horror. And yes, Fuentes *is* a horror. But not because he may or may not be gay.
Milo Yiannopoulos tells Tucker Carlson that one of his regrets is “mainstreaming homosexuality in the GOP”
He adds that something that keeps him up at night is the “gay horrors” he’s given birth to: Nick Fuentes and Lady MAGA (a drag queen).
Fuentes regularly refers to Milo as a “Jewish pedophile”
He adds that something that keeps him up at night is the “gay horrors” he’s given birth to: Nick Fuentes and Lady MAGA (a drag queen).
Fuentes regularly refers to Milo as a “Jewish pedophile”
December 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It’s fascinating how there’s just no subtlety here at all. Using his own sexuality as a dig at Fuentes, calling him a horror. And yes, Fuentes *is* a horror. But not because he may or may not be gay.
Stranger still: health/age was THE issue in the last election. But only for one guy. And it continued to be an issue and continues to be one now. A bigger issue than this.
It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Stranger still: health/age was THE issue in the last election. But only for one guy. And it continued to be an issue and continues to be one now. A bigger issue than this.
It was crazy she got another job to begin with. But this would have been a fireable offense and major scandal for any other administration.
Overall, our standards are declining.
Overall, our standards are declining.
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It was crazy she got another job to begin with. But this would have been a fireable offense and major scandal for any other administration.
Overall, our standards are declining.
Overall, our standards are declining.
They’re thrill killings. Murders by psychopaths for psychopaths.
They’re not trying to justify the killings to themselves. They don’t care. The ability to just will without justification because you can is where they get the thrill.
They’re not trying to justify the killings to themselves. They don’t care. The ability to just will without justification because you can is where they get the thrill.
Extrajudicial killing as fan service.
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
They’re thrill killings. Murders by psychopaths for psychopaths.
They’re not trying to justify the killings to themselves. They don’t care. The ability to just will without justification because you can is where they get the thrill.
They’re not trying to justify the killings to themselves. They don’t care. The ability to just will without justification because you can is where they get the thrill.
The combination of things here suggests the US is currently engaged in serial thrill killings.
1) We have no idea if they’re smuggling drugs
2) killing them wouldn’t be legal if they were.
3) We’re pardoning drug traffickers left and right here.
4) We’re killing survivors (witnesses) who…
1) We have no idea if they’re smuggling drugs
2) killing them wouldn’t be legal if they were.
3) We’re pardoning drug traffickers left and right here.
4) We’re killing survivors (witnesses) who…
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The combination of things here suggests the US is currently engaged in serial thrill killings.
1) We have no idea if they’re smuggling drugs
2) killing them wouldn’t be legal if they were.
3) We’re pardoning drug traffickers left and right here.
4) We’re killing survivors (witnesses) who…
1) We have no idea if they’re smuggling drugs
2) killing them wouldn’t be legal if they were.
3) We’re pardoning drug traffickers left and right here.
4) We’re killing survivors (witnesses) who…
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Hearing that Bessent is up for the National Hockey League-Hellman’s Mayo Prize in Economics.
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Hearing that Bessent is up for the National Hockey League-Hellman’s Mayo Prize in Economics.
This is pretty much it for the Court. The Court’s legitimacy is at stake.
The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is pretty much it for the Court. The Court’s legitimacy is at stake.
That’s the end of democracy. Not just the gerrymandering. The threats of violence as part of the electoral process.
Indiana state House Republicans have passed a new congressional gerrymander intended to turn their 7-2 majority into 9-0.
It’s unclear whether they have the votes to pass it in the Senate, where many Republican holdouts have been swatted or received bomb threats from Trump supporters
It’s unclear whether they have the votes to pass it in the Senate, where many Republican holdouts have been swatted or received bomb threats from Trump supporters
December 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
That’s the end of democracy. Not just the gerrymandering. The threats of violence as part of the electoral process.
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Indiana state House Republicans have passed a new congressional gerrymander intended to turn their 7-2 majority into 9-0.
It’s unclear whether they have the votes to pass it in the Senate, where many Republican holdouts have been swatted or received bomb threats from Trump supporters
It’s unclear whether they have the votes to pass it in the Senate, where many Republican holdouts have been swatted or received bomb threats from Trump supporters
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Indiana state House Republicans have passed a new congressional gerrymander intended to turn their 7-2 majority into 9-0.
It’s unclear whether they have the votes to pass it in the Senate, where many Republican holdouts have been swatted or received bomb threats from Trump supporters
It’s unclear whether they have the votes to pass it in the Senate, where many Republican holdouts have been swatted or received bomb threats from Trump supporters
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One thing you can say about Trump, he’s undeniably useful for exposing the moral rot and patronage that sustains elite cosmopolitan society.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
One thing you can say about Trump, he’s undeniably useful for exposing the moral rot and patronage that sustains elite cosmopolitan society.
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
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ok but he hasn’t lost his companies money, he has that money due to not paying taxes and deregulation…americans invested that money in him and he lost all of it
we are not getting a return on investment and im sick of it
we are not getting a return on investment and im sick of it
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ok but he hasn’t lost his companies money, he has that money due to not paying taxes and deregulation…americans invested that money in him and he lost all of it
we are not getting a return on investment and im sick of it
we are not getting a return on investment and im sick of it
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The fact that both the unsigned 6–3 majority opinion and Alito's concurrence (for Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) open with a reference to California's redistricting leaves one with the strong impression that this decision, like California's, is about tit for tat.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A608
GREG ABBOTT, ET AL. v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[December 4, 2025]
With an eye on the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, several States have in recent months redrawn their congressional districts in ways that are predicted to favor the State's dominant political party. Texas adopted the first new map, then California responded with its own map for the stated purpose of counteracting what Texas had done. North Carolina followed suit, and other States are also considering new maps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreib7k7524ynq3rfb7daons5fqmxc5wx75ga3gihx45fxq5xwlgk4dq@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The fact that both the unsigned 6–3 majority opinion and Alito's concurrence (for Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) open with a reference to California's redistricting leaves one with the strong impression that this decision, like California's, is about tit for tat.
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New in PN: A war criminal without a war
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
New in PN: A war criminal without a war
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
"We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."
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It’s almost trite to say this but if any other country was doing what we’re doing right now there would be no hesitation in calling it a terrorist state*
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It’s almost trite to say this but if any other country was doing what we’re doing right now there would be no hesitation in calling it a terrorist state*
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just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.
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It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.
there is no more shared reality. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.