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Want to make sense of all the news?
Keep it simple.
The GOP has lost all credibility (forever)
easy.
Remember this?
Keep it simple.
The GOP has lost all credibility (forever)
easy.
Remember this?
✅ SANITY CHECK ✅
Do you remember ONE YEAR AGO this week, when The Economist magazine declared our economy "the envy of the world"?
Now, we rip farmers out of the world market with tariffs, and at the same time give other countries billions of taxpayer dollars, who were our direct competitors ... ?
Do you remember ONE YEAR AGO this week, when The Economist magazine declared our economy "the envy of the world"?
Now, we rip farmers out of the world market with tariffs, and at the same time give other countries billions of taxpayer dollars, who were our direct competitors ... ?
The envy of the world | Oct 19th 2024 | The Economist
The envy of the world. Special reports from The Economist. You've seen the news, now discover the story.
www.economist.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Want to make sense of all the news?
Keep it simple.
The GOP has lost all credibility (forever)
easy.
Remember this?
Keep it simple.
The GOP has lost all credibility (forever)
easy.
Remember this?
Worth a read. I didn’t realize Citizens United could be neutered so straightforwardly .
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Worth a read. I didn’t realize Citizens United could be neutered so straightforwardly .
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Here's the Navy itself describing "atrocities" against survivors of naval strikes in World War II including subs firing at lifeboats www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Here's the Navy itself describing "atrocities" against survivors of naval strikes in World War II including subs firing at lifeboats www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...
Any presidential candidate who calls for stricter legislative limits on executive authority is in the lead for my vote.
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Any presidential candidate who calls for stricter legislative limits on executive authority is in the lead for my vote.
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GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is Republican “leadership” - a guy who wanted and took the job and is now continuously whining about how hard it is.
What did he expect?!
Likely, just more perks with no price.
Surprise, Mr. Speaker!!! FAFO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
What did he expect?!
Likely, just more perks with no price.
Surprise, Mr. Speaker!!! FAFO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is Republican “leadership” - a guy who wanted and took the job and is now continuously whining about how hard it is.
What did he expect?!
Likely, just more perks with no price.
Surprise, Mr. Speaker!!! FAFO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
What did he expect?!
Likely, just more perks with no price.
Surprise, Mr. Speaker!!! FAFO.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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By his own standards and his insistence on scapegoating and blaming, Trump should either explain why he and his administration granted Asylum to the DC shooter suspect SEVEN MONTHS AGO, fire Noem and Homan and apologize - or Trump should resign
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
By his own standards and his insistence on scapegoating and blaming, Trump should either explain why he and his administration granted Asylum to the DC shooter suspect SEVEN MONTHS AGO, fire Noem and Homan and apologize - or Trump should resign
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How heartbreaking & angering is this?
It'll be weiners and beans in jail - BOTH kinds!
It'll be weiners and beans in jail - BOTH kinds!
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
How heartbreaking & angering is this?
It'll be weiners and beans in jail - BOTH kinds!
It'll be weiners and beans in jail - BOTH kinds!
Fired Employees Say Government Won’t Rehire Them After Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Facts matter…
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Facts matter…
There is no Republican “good faith offer” on the ACA if it includes additional abortion restrictions.
Let’s hope the “infamous eight” don’t sell that red line down the F’ing river like they did the shutdown. Which, of course, is what precipitated this show down.
Let’s hope the “infamous eight” don’t sell that red line down the F’ing river like they did the shutdown. Which, of course, is what precipitated this show down.
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There is no Republican “good faith offer” on the ACA if it includes additional abortion restrictions.
Let’s hope the “infamous eight” don’t sell that red line down the F’ing river like they did the shutdown. Which, of course, is what precipitated this show down.
Let’s hope the “infamous eight” don’t sell that red line down the F’ing river like they did the shutdown. Which, of course, is what precipitated this show down.
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He just keeps claiming Biden's accomplishments.
Sad little, lying, ignorant man doesn't have any of his own. 💥💯💥🖕🖕🖕🖕
Sad little, lying, ignorant man doesn't have any of his own. 💥💯💥🖕🖕🖕🖕
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
He just keeps claiming Biden's accomplishments.
Sad little, lying, ignorant man doesn't have any of his own. 💥💯💥🖕🖕🖕🖕
Sad little, lying, ignorant man doesn't have any of his own. 💥💯💥🖕🖕🖕🖕
Cassidy’s new healthcare “plan” appears to ignore the well established laws of risk sharing in exchange for cash for HSAs that we all f’ing know middle and lower class families cannot & will not afford with their tight finances. Again, solutions that help the rich.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Cassidy pitches new health care plan in line with Trump's
The Senate HELP chair’s proposal comes after the president has said he wants to send federal dollars to consumers instead of funding enhanced ACA subsidies.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Cassidy’s new healthcare “plan” appears to ignore the well established laws of risk sharing in exchange for cash for HSAs that we all f’ing know middle and lower class families cannot & will not afford with their tight finances. Again, solutions that help the rich.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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My constituent, Vicente Ventura Aguilar, has been missing for over a month after being snatched by immigration officials in South Los Angeles.
Yet, CBP and ICE claim he was never in their custody. I’m demanding answers. Please share this—we must find Vicente.
Yet, CBP and ICE claim he was never in their custody. I’m demanding answers. Please share this—we must find Vicente.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
My constituent, Vicente Ventura Aguilar, has been missing for over a month after being snatched by immigration officials in South Los Angeles.
Yet, CBP and ICE claim he was never in their custody. I’m demanding answers. Please share this—we must find Vicente.
Yet, CBP and ICE claim he was never in their custody. I’m demanding answers. Please share this—we must find Vicente.
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Ok, pretty funny of Zohran’s people to put out the absolute model of the sort of statement that drives Bluesky absolutely *insane* to be studiously ignored On Here because of the source
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Ok, pretty funny of Zohran’s people to put out the absolute model of the sort of statement that drives Bluesky absolutely *insane* to be studiously ignored On Here because of the source
Tell you what, Sean, you get airlines to return to the seat size, leg room, and service of the 60s, and we’ll consider adopting the dress code of the 60s.
Hard to dress up for a flight when you need to squeeze into sardine-can seats.
Fuckwit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
Hard to dress up for a flight when you need to squeeze into sardine-can seats.
Fuckwit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
Sean Duffy Wants You to Stop Wearing PJs on the Plane
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Tell you what, Sean, you get airlines to return to the seat size, leg room, and service of the 60s, and we’ll consider adopting the dress code of the 60s.
Hard to dress up for a flight when you need to squeeze into sardine-can seats.
Fuckwit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
Hard to dress up for a flight when you need to squeeze into sardine-can seats.
Fuckwit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
What the actual f-ck?!!
Now RFKJr is actually posting anti-vax propaganda on the CDC site.
Where TF are Cassidy & Barassos?! Too busy working in a plan to undermine our health insurance plan to attend to the little JFKJr disaster they enabled?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
Now RFKJr is actually posting anti-vax propaganda on the CDC site.
Where TF are Cassidy & Barassos?! Too busy working in a plan to undermine our health insurance plan to attend to the little JFKJr disaster they enabled?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
What the actual f-ck?!!
Now RFKJr is actually posting anti-vax propaganda on the CDC site.
Where TF are Cassidy & Barassos?! Too busy working in a plan to undermine our health insurance plan to attend to the little JFKJr disaster they enabled?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
Now RFKJr is actually posting anti-vax propaganda on the CDC site.
Where TF are Cassidy & Barassos?! Too busy working in a plan to undermine our health insurance plan to attend to the little JFKJr disaster they enabled?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
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ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.
So, for THIS we need to write a big story, but let’s not look “over there” where trump administration officials and family are engaging in open graft and corruption.
apple.news/A40chsX0sR5C...
apple.news/A40chsX0sR5C...
Former Fed Governor Kugler's trading activity scrutinized, documents show — Reuters
Adriana Kugler, a Federal Reserve governor who abruptly resigned her position in August, filed a financial disclosure form for investments that the central bank’s ethics officer declined to certify.
apple.news
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So, for THIS we need to write a big story, but let’s not look “over there” where trump administration officials and family are engaging in open graft and corruption.
apple.news/A40chsX0sR5C...
apple.news/A40chsX0sR5C...
I think there are 8 senators who owe snap recipients a big f’ing apology.
1st, republicans reply to the passage of the CR by proposing the ACA should bar abortion.
Now, they’re torturing the snap recipients dems caved to “save”.
We could never have predicted this!
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
1st, republicans reply to the passage of the CR by proposing the ACA should bar abortion.
Now, they’re torturing the snap recipients dems caved to “save”.
We could never have predicted this!
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits
Food aid recipients are already required to recertify their information regularly. But the move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the program.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I think there are 8 senators who owe snap recipients a big f’ing apology.
1st, republicans reply to the passage of the CR by proposing the ACA should bar abortion.
Now, they’re torturing the snap recipients dems caved to “save”.
We could never have predicted this!
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
1st, republicans reply to the passage of the CR by proposing the ACA should bar abortion.
Now, they’re torturing the snap recipients dems caved to “save”.
We could never have predicted this!
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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UPDATE: Person infected with bird flu in Washington state has H5N5. It's the first time H5N5 has been found in a human
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
UPDATE: Person infected with bird flu in Washington state has H5N5. It's the first time H5N5 has been found in a human
The math on the republicans’ stupid ACA alternative proposal doesn’t really “math”.
What about PE conditions, older insureds, sex differences, etc…?
And the “high risk pool” shit didn’t work before the ACA, won’t work now.
apple.news/AZX8b4xTpTuS...
What about PE conditions, older insureds, sex differences, etc…?
And the “high risk pool” shit didn’t work before the ACA, won’t work now.
apple.news/AZX8b4xTpTuS...
Republicans’ Plan To Redirect Obamacare Subsidies Takes Shape — Forbes
If implemented, a Republican plan to redirect Affordable Care Act subsidies to individuals who can use them for health savings accounts could erode the law's foundation.
apple.news
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The math on the republicans’ stupid ACA alternative proposal doesn’t really “math”.
What about PE conditions, older insureds, sex differences, etc…?
And the “high risk pool” shit didn’t work before the ACA, won’t work now.
apple.news/AZX8b4xTpTuS...
What about PE conditions, older insureds, sex differences, etc…?
And the “high risk pool” shit didn’t work before the ACA, won’t work now.
apple.news/AZX8b4xTpTuS...
Republicans have used this legislation to bypass the civil court system that would make a lawsuit - the way their constituents would have to challenge something like this - untenable.
In other words , “the legal system is for thee and not for me”.
apple.news/AIryf-JEKQg6...
In other words , “the legal system is for thee and not for me”.
apple.news/AIryf-JEKQg6...
Senators distance themselves from controversial payout provision — POLITICO
Only one Republican senator has public plans to sue under new legislative language House Republicans are now seeking to scrap.
apple.news
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Republicans have used this legislation to bypass the civil court system that would make a lawsuit - the way their constituents would have to challenge something like this - untenable.
In other words , “the legal system is for thee and not for me”.
apple.news/AIryf-JEKQg6...
In other words , “the legal system is for thee and not for me”.
apple.news/AIryf-JEKQg6...
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