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Trump now says his ballroom will cost $400 million (it was supposed to cost $250 million less than two months ago)
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Trump now says his ballroom will cost $400 million (it was supposed to cost $250 million less than two months ago)
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This is what I’ve been talking about for months now:
Behind the scenes, MAGA leaders warn Trump he’s losing his base.
Predictably, instead of changing anything about his policies, his solution is to hold more rallies.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Behind the scenes, MAGA leaders warn Trump he’s losing his base.
Predictably, instead of changing anything about his policies, his solution is to hold more rallies.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
MAGA leaders warn Trump the base is checking out. Will he listen?
President Donald Trump is taking criticism from supporters for not addressing cost-of-living issues while focusing too much on foreign policy and billionaires.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is what I’ve been talking about for months now:
Behind the scenes, MAGA leaders warn Trump he’s losing his base.
Predictably, instead of changing anything about his policies, his solution is to hold more rallies.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Behind the scenes, MAGA leaders warn Trump he’s losing his base.
Predictably, instead of changing anything about his policies, his solution is to hold more rallies.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Wow. Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson called out Trump’s grotesqueness too. Seems there is a post-Trump movement gaining traction.
I am trying to think of a time when so many right-wing Christian folks have come out as strongly against Trump as they currently are re: his Rob Reiner comments.
December 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Wow. Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson called out Trump’s grotesqueness too. Seems there is a post-Trump movement gaining traction.
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Over six years ago, I published an 11,000 word article in The Atlantic (gift link below) explaining how Donald Trump was, beyond any question, mentally ill and unfit to hold any office of public trust.
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Over six years ago, I published an 11,000 word article in The Atlantic (gift link below) explaining how Donald Trump was, beyond any question, mentally ill and unfit to hold any office of public trust.
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
He has proven these points virtually every day since.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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President Trump’s truth social post about the death of the Reiners stands in stark contrast… 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
President Trump’s truth social post about the death of the Reiners stands in stark contrast… 1/2
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2/2 … with how Rob Reiner responded to the death of Charlie Kirk:
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
2/2 … with how Rob Reiner responded to the death of Charlie Kirk:
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This is a real headline on the New York Times website.
Support independent media.
Support independent media.
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is a real headline on the New York Times website.
Support independent media.
Support independent media.
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“Words fail me when I read that Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach with his wife of 57 years, also a Holocaust survivor. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/shock-horr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/shock-horr...
Shock. Horror. Tragedy.
Murder and terror at opposite ends of the world.
www.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Words fail me when I read that Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach with his wife of 57 years, also a Holocaust survivor. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/shock-horr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/shock-horr...
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"We should take over the oil fields. It's very easy to do."
Donald Trump promised to be a peacetime president. So why is he preparing for a regime change war in Venezuela?
Donald Trump promised to be a peacetime president. So why is he preparing for a regime change war in Venezuela?
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"We should take over the oil fields. It's very easy to do."
Donald Trump promised to be a peacetime president. So why is he preparing for a regime change war in Venezuela?
Donald Trump promised to be a peacetime president. So why is he preparing for a regime change war in Venezuela?
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We could have had a sane president.
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We could have had a sane president.
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Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Not that it's not appalling enough, but this is an official US Government post, paid for by our federal tax dollars.
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"...this was ah, a school problem. They had their own, ah, guards. They had their own police. They had their own everything. But you'd have to ask that question really to the school, not to the FBI. We came in after the fact. And, ah, the FBI will do a good job, but they came in after the fact."
December 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"...this was ah, a school problem. They had their own, ah, guards. They had their own police. They had their own everything. But you'd have to ask that question really to the school, not to the FBI. We came in after the fact. And, ah, the FBI will do a good job, but they came in after the fact."
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DISGUSTING: Trump doubled down on his widely criticized attack of the late film director Rob Reiner, expressing no regret nor offering an apology for comments that even some Republican supporters have since denounced.
'Bad for our country.' Trump doubles down on attack of late Rob Reiner
Trump expressed no regret nor offered an apology for comments about the late Rob Reiner, which even some Republican supporters have since denounced.
www.aol.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
DISGUSTING: Trump doubled down on his widely criticized attack of the late film director Rob Reiner, expressing no regret nor offering an apology for comments that even some Republican supporters have since denounced.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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No one in their right mind who currently lives in a civilized country would have any desire to move here now.
December 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
No one in their right mind who currently lives in a civilized country would have any desire to move here now.
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Armed Parkland police officers ran away
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Armed Parkland police officers ran away
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
Armed Uvalde police officers refused to act
Unarmed Arab Muslim Ahmed el Ahmed took 2 bullets to protect Jewish neighbors & stopped the mass shooter with his bare hands
Never forget: A good guy w/o a gun had more courage than 100s of cops with unlimited guns
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I’m going to put this image out here to combat the ugliness of this day…because it captures the pure joy that emanated from his great big smile. RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner💔
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’m going to put this image out here to combat the ugliness of this day…because it captures the pure joy that emanated from his great big smile. RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner💔
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Pulitzer Prize Board members filed court documents in Okeechobee County, Florida, on Thursday, containing a litany of broad discovery demands in an attempt to beat back Trump's defamation lawsuit over Russia probe reporting awards.
He has 30 days to respond.
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
He has 30 days to respond.
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
Pulitzer Prize Board members seek discovery of Trump finances, psych records, prescription meds
Pulitzer Prize Board members filed a litany of broad discovery demands in an attempt to beat back Trump's defamation suit over Russia probe reporting awards.
lawandcrime.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Pulitzer Prize Board members filed court documents in Okeechobee County, Florida, on Thursday, containing a litany of broad discovery demands in an attempt to beat back Trump's defamation lawsuit over Russia probe reporting awards.
He has 30 days to respond.
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
He has 30 days to respond.
lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
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As a 43-year-old Muslim man, I already felt like I gotta do more to serve humanity, and now another 43-year-old Muslim man named Ahmed Al Ahmed one ups me to infinite by literally saving all humanity🤯
This, after a 33-year-old Muslim man won the mayorship of NYC!
Smh...I gotta get my butt in gear.
This, after a 33-year-old Muslim man won the mayorship of NYC!
Smh...I gotta get my butt in gear.
December 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As a 43-year-old Muslim man, I already felt like I gotta do more to serve humanity, and now another 43-year-old Muslim man named Ahmed Al Ahmed one ups me to infinite by literally saving all humanity🤯
This, after a 33-year-old Muslim man won the mayorship of NYC!
Smh...I gotta get my butt in gear.
This, after a 33-year-old Muslim man won the mayorship of NYC!
Smh...I gotta get my butt in gear.
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President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.
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Trump has made America great against unless you're black, brown, yellow, female, gay, poor or middle-class.
December 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Trump has made America great against unless you're black, brown, yellow, female, gay, poor or middle-class.
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"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
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WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
new postcard from the anthropocene bsky.app/profile/bnon...