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The Republican Party is bucking, and Trump is losing his grip on the reins.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/indiana-senate-redistricting-republicans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/indiana-senate-redistricting-republicans.html
Indiana Lawmakers Reject Trump’s New Political Map
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Republican Party is bucking, and Trump is losing his grip on the reins.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/indiana-senate-redistricting-republicans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/indiana-senate-redistricting-republicans.html
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BREAKING: Donald Trump claims he has granted a “full pardon” to Tina Peters — the Colorado election denier serving a state sentence.
Presidents cannot pardon state crimes. His statement has no legal force.
Presidents cannot pardon state crimes. His statement has no legal force.
Trump Grants Tina Peters a Legally Meaningless 'Pardon'
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
BREAKING: Donald Trump claims he has granted a “full pardon” to Tina Peters — the Colorado election denier serving a state sentence.
Presidents cannot pardon state crimes. His statement has no legal force.
Presidents cannot pardon state crimes. His statement has no legal force.
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Anyone who disparages the future of NATO or the importance of the American role in the alliance is strategically short sited.
My latest in @thebulwark.com
My latest in @thebulwark.com
NATO is not an alliance that can be judged by a single election cycle or a single strategy document. It must be understood in decades. And over those decades, NATO has always pulled through periods of tension or "alliance fatigue." lnk.thebulwark.com/4pAE7qK
This Isn’t the End of NATO
There’s a reason every previous prediction of the alliance’s dissolution was wrong.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Anyone who disparages the future of NATO or the importance of the American role in the alliance is strategically short sited.
My latest in @thebulwark.com
My latest in @thebulwark.com
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And now DOJ has failed a second time to re-indict Tish James. They are in the middle of a total shit show and just don’t have the good sense to leave. Remarkable public rebuff, unprecedented I would say.
December 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
And now DOJ has failed a second time to re-indict Tish James. They are in the middle of a total shit show and just don’t have the good sense to leave. Remarkable public rebuff, unprecedented I would say.
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A gerrymander is not a sure thing…
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A gerrymander is not a sure thing…
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The sorting process is so clear.
If Indiana Republicans cave to Trump today and agree to rig the 2026 elections, both Illinois and Maryland are in line to respond, notes @nicolelafond.bsky.social. Cites our interview with Rep Jamie Raskin pushing State Sen prez to drop his bizarre opposition:
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
If Indiana Caves to Trump on Redistricting, Maryland May be Ready
All Eyes On Indiana Republican members of Indiana’s state Senate are expected...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The sorting process is so clear.
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Donald Trump is a dinosaur. And his cultists are part of a dying breed. Yes, they are having their moment in power. But the world is changing and their white supremacy vision will not endure.
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Donald Trump is a dinosaur. And his cultists are part of a dying breed. Yes, they are having their moment in power. But the world is changing and their white supremacy vision will not endure.
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The military leaders going along with these illegal orders to murder people and commit piracy are not only not covering themselves with glory. It is important to the future of this country that they be held accountable for violating their oaths of office.
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The military leaders going along with these illegal orders to murder people and commit piracy are not only not covering themselves with glory. It is important to the future of this country that they be held accountable for violating their oaths of office.
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immigrants, citizenship, barriers to green cards, and steep new fees on researcher’s visas all threaten to displace America as the world’s academic science leader. Now Canada is making an aggressive effort to attract H-1B visa holders in the U.S. Our brain drain will be Canada’s gain.
December 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
immigrants, citizenship, barriers to green cards, and steep new fees on researcher’s visas all threaten to displace America as the world’s academic science leader. Now Canada is making an aggressive effort to attract H-1B visa holders in the U.S. Our brain drain will be Canada’s gain.
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40% of the US Nobels in the sciences this century (and the US has by far won the most) are immigrants. In almost every case, they are not just winning a prize for themselves, but for work that benefits the health and well-being of millions of Americans. The Trump administration’s crackdown on
December 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
40% of the US Nobels in the sciences this century (and the US has by far won the most) are immigrants. In almost every case, they are not just winning a prize for themselves, but for work that benefits the health and well-being of millions of Americans. The Trump administration’s crackdown on
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Anyone listening to Donald Trump’s speech last night could see that he simply does not get what Americans are struggling through.
He is trapped in his billionaire bubble.
He is trapped in his billionaire bubble.
December 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Anyone listening to Donald Trump’s speech last night could see that he simply does not get what Americans are struggling through.
He is trapped in his billionaire bubble.
He is trapped in his billionaire bubble.
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Your donors and voters aren't motivated because they supported a feeble, aging con man for President who pretended he cared about them and high costs and then when he won turned the White House in a 24/7 grift machine to enrich himself, his family and his friends.
December 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Your donors and voters aren't motivated because they supported a feeble, aging con man for President who pretended he cared about them and high costs and then when he won turned the White House in a 24/7 grift machine to enrich himself, his family and his friends.
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"There’s nothing remotely ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game that they’ve created. They want to essentially declare Congress Republican before a single vote is cast."
Raskin calls out MD senate prez's infuriating opposition to redistricting to counter GOP:
Raskin calls out MD senate prez's infuriating opposition to redistricting to counter GOP:
Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act:
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"There’s nothing remotely ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game that they’ve created. They want to essentially declare Congress Republican before a single vote is cast."
Raskin calls out MD senate prez's infuriating opposition to redistricting to counter GOP:
Raskin calls out MD senate prez's infuriating opposition to redistricting to counter GOP:
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What @normeisen.bsky.social said!
The supposed legal justifications for these boat strikes just don't make sense
Even in war you can’t target civilians
Experts across party lines agree: this looks like murder
We need the memo, the full video & an investigation
I explained on @ms.now 👇
Even in war you can’t target civilians
Experts across party lines agree: this looks like murder
We need the memo, the full video & an investigation
I explained on @ms.now 👇
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What @normeisen.bsky.social said!
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Bonkers to the nth power
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Bonkers to the nth power
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Sen. Padilla called for another investigation into the Trump administration, arguing it has “been clearly and openly engaged in a political campaign to gain seats for the Republican Party in Congress” in violation of federal law.
Trump’s 'Repeated, Blatant' Hatch Act Violations Over Gerrymandering Must Be Investigated, Sen. Padilla Demands
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sen. Padilla called for another investigation into the Trump administration, arguing it has “been clearly and openly engaged in a political campaign to gain seats for the Republican Party in Congress” in violation of federal law.
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The jig is up.
Brutal for Trump: Republicans are now openly warning that his corrupt 2026 rigging is backfiring, because MAGA coalition is collapsing and GOPers in seats made less safe by redrawn maps will be in real peril.
On the pod, Rep Jamie Raskin unleashes bigly on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
On the pod, Rep Jamie Raskin unleashes bigly on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Trump Erupts in Fury as GOPers Humiliatingly Defy His Plot to Rig 2026
As Republicans fear Trump’s effort to rig the midterms is backfiring, Rep. Jamie Raskin talks about the need to counter GOP gerrymandering—and about his new plan to reform the system with ranked choic...
newrepublic.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The jig is up.
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If Indiana Republicans cave to Trump and gerrymander their state in keeping with his corrupt 2026 rigging scheme, the pressure will grow very intense on the Maryland state senate president to drop his bizarre, inexplicable opposition to redistricting there:
Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act:
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If Indiana Republicans cave to Trump and gerrymander their state in keeping with his corrupt 2026 rigging scheme, the pressure will grow very intense on the Maryland state senate president to drop his bizarre, inexplicable opposition to redistricting there:
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Trump can go to Pennsylvania, mock the topic of affordability, lie that prices are way down, but that won’t change the trajectory. Holding a rally with supporters laughing along with him about affordability doesn’t make him look any less untethered from reality & the actual struggles of Americans.
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Trump can go to Pennsylvania, mock the topic of affordability, lie that prices are way down, but that won’t change the trajectory. Holding a rally with supporters laughing along with him about affordability doesn’t make him look any less untethered from reality & the actual struggles of Americans.
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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He knows very little on most subjects, and I will go to my grave never understanding how this petty corrupt man ever was elected not only once, but twice, when there were two QUALIFIED candidates running against him each time.
Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
He knows very little on most subjects, and I will go to my grave never understanding how this petty corrupt man ever was elected not only once, but twice, when there were two QUALIFIED candidates running against him each time.
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In the richest country in the history of the world, you should be able to afford to see a doctor when you get sick.
But Republicans are doing nothing to stop rising health insurance costs or to help people pay them. Republican indifference will have deadly consequences for our people.
But Republicans are doing nothing to stop rising health insurance costs or to help people pay them. Republican indifference will have deadly consequences for our people.
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
In the richest country in the history of the world, you should be able to afford to see a doctor when you get sick.
But Republicans are doing nothing to stop rising health insurance costs or to help people pay them. Republican indifference will have deadly consequences for our people.
But Republicans are doing nothing to stop rising health insurance costs or to help people pay them. Republican indifference will have deadly consequences for our people.
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It’s day 26 of the Starbucks strike. These workers are NOT backing down. No contract, No Starbucks!
Today is the 4 year anniversary of our first union victory! Since then, we've won over 650 union elections.
It's been 4 years without a contract, and 4 years of union busting. That's why we're on day 26 of our national ULP strike - and we won't back down.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/b...
It's been 4 years without a contract, and 4 years of union busting. That's why we're on day 26 of our national ULP strike - and we won't back down.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/b...
Starbucks workers are still without a labor deal four years after their first union win. Here’s why | CNN Business
The Starbucks union organizing campaign has been one of the biggest successes in the American labor movement over the past few years. But despite momentum, there is still no first labor contract, a ke...
www.cnn.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It’s day 26 of the Starbucks strike. These workers are NOT backing down. No contract, No Starbucks!
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Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse.
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Trump’s Mental Decline Is a Danger to Us All
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse.
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Honduras and Brazil are showing the world how democracy works! Unlike Trump and his Supreme Court who are destroying American democracy and freedom.
December 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Honduras and Brazil are showing the world how democracy works! Unlike Trump and his Supreme Court who are destroying American democracy and freedom.