Laddeeinred
@laddeeinred.bsky.social
Human fighting hard for democracy every day. Kindness matters. My filter is fraying at the edges. Friend to almost all (Not MAGA or any Republican). Democrat. Veteran. No DMs.
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Troy Nehls just bailed on Congress, the 6th Texas Republican to run for the exits. They can read the writing on the wall: the era of safe GOP seats is cracking!
Another opening.
Another fight.
Another chance to flip Texas blue, one abandoned seat at a time.
Another opening.
Another fight.
Another chance to flip Texas blue, one abandoned seat at a time.
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Troy Nehls just bailed on Congress, the 6th Texas Republican to run for the exits. They can read the writing on the wall: the era of safe GOP seats is cracking!
Another opening.
Another fight.
Another chance to flip Texas blue, one abandoned seat at a time.
Another opening.
Another fight.
Another chance to flip Texas blue, one abandoned seat at a time.
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This is also true about RFK Junior
Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is also true about RFK Junior
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“Is this shit legal?”
How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized
How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“Is this shit legal?”
How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized
How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized
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The White House launched a page on its website, titled the “Hall of Shame,” devoted to naming and shaming media outlets and reporters that publish stories Trump disagrees with.
“Misleading. Biased. Exposed,” the site reads.
“Misleading. Biased. Exposed,” the site reads.
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports that the president disagrees with, coming after Trump voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times ...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The White House launched a page on its website, titled the “Hall of Shame,” devoted to naming and shaming media outlets and reporters that publish stories Trump disagrees with.
“Misleading. Biased. Exposed,” the site reads.
“Misleading. Biased. Exposed,” the site reads.
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She f*cken warned us.
Damn you who didn’t listen.
Damn you who didn’t listen.
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
She f*cken warned us.
Damn you who didn’t listen.
Damn you who didn’t listen.
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First Marjorie Taylor Greene, now Troy Nehls. Another Republican is leaving Congress, and the GOP exits will just keep coming.
#GOPExodus
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
www.alternet.org/trump-republ...
#GOPExodus
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
www.alternet.org/trump-republ...
'Rumors were true' as another Republican quits Congress after Greene
The suspicion that other Republican lawmakers might follow MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene out of Congress appears to have some foundation. U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) announced on Satur...
www.alternet.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
First Marjorie Taylor Greene, now Troy Nehls. Another Republican is leaving Congress, and the GOP exits will just keep coming.
#GOPExodus
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
www.alternet.org/trump-republ...
#GOPExodus
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
www.alternet.org/trump-republ...
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The NYPD is acting as crowd control for ICE in response to an attempted kidnapping operation near Canal Street in New York City
12/ 29/2025
12/ 29/2025
November 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The NYPD is acting as crowd control for ICE in response to an attempted kidnapping operation near Canal Street in New York City
12/ 29/2025
12/ 29/2025
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31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
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NEWS: A group of military lawyers issue statement concluded Pete Hegseth has committed war crimes, murder, or both.
This comes as Trump moves America closer to war with Venezuela.
An important update this afternoon. Subscribe to support my work: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
This comes as Trump moves America closer to war with Venezuela.
An important update this afternoon. Subscribe to support my work: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
NEWS: Group of Military Lawyers Conclude Hegseth Committed War Crimes, Murder, or Both
A group of former military lawyers have concluded, in a new statement, that Hegseth and anyone under him, have committed war crimes, murder, or both.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
NEWS: A group of military lawyers issue statement concluded Pete Hegseth has committed war crimes, murder, or both.
This comes as Trump moves America closer to war with Venezuela.
An important update this afternoon. Subscribe to support my work: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
This comes as Trump moves America closer to war with Venezuela.
An important update this afternoon. Subscribe to support my work: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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Stop what you’re doing and read this excellent piece. All of it.
Powerful, Earl - thank you! 🙏🏽
Powerful, Earl - thank you! 🙏🏽
📌"I have typed before, and will until my last breath, that Black voters are America’s TRUE patriots, and the only voting bloc that overwhelmingly and consistently gets it right.
How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."
How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."
WHITE COWER
Like it or not, Donald Trump's vulgar presidency is very much a black-and-white issue ...
dearlstephens.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Stop what you’re doing and read this excellent piece. All of it.
Powerful, Earl - thank you! 🙏🏽
Powerful, Earl - thank you! 🙏🏽
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Oh good. The wag the dog begins in earnest
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Oh good. The wag the dog begins in earnest
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
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🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...
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Whoever leaked this information served Hegseth up in a platter. Good.
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Whoever leaked this information served Hegseth up in a platter. Good.
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Talking about vetting all asylum seekers. They should have vetted the president and his right wing fascists. Apparently they can run our country into the ground…killing people without any reason and knowledge…
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Talking about vetting all asylum seekers. They should have vetted the president and his right wing fascists. Apparently they can run our country into the ground…killing people without any reason and knowledge…
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Cold blooded murder.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Cold blooded murder.
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It shouldn’t take a slur that impacts you personally, or losing your healthcare or SNAP, or being forced to sell your farm, or having to watch a loved one get unjustly detained and deported...to walk away from a madman.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
It shouldn’t take a slur that impacts you personally, or losing your healthcare or SNAP, or being forced to sell your farm, or having to watch a loved one get unjustly detained and deported...to walk away from a madman.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
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Nearly four years into Russia’s invasion, women in Ukraine are increasingly taking on combat roles.
Now, Ukraine’s first all-women drone unit stakes its place in a male-dominated military.
Now, Ukraine’s first all-women drone unit stakes its place in a male-dominated military.
‘We won’t win this war without women’
An art student, an accountant, a sniper, an acrobat and a journalist: Ukraine’s all-women drone unit stakes its place in a male-dominated military.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Nearly four years into Russia’s invasion, women in Ukraine are increasingly taking on combat roles.
Now, Ukraine’s first all-women drone unit stakes its place in a male-dominated military.
Now, Ukraine’s first all-women drone unit stakes its place in a male-dominated military.
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A Ukrainian delegation is heading to the US for further discussions over a peace plan pushed by President Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Ukrainian Team Heads to US for Talks With Trump Envoy Witkoff
A Ukrainian delegation is heading to the US for further discussions over a peace plan pushed by President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter.
bloom.bg
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A Ukrainian delegation is heading to the US for further discussions over a peace plan pushed by President Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Commentary: U.S. retrenchment creates a vacuum of global governance leadership — one that China is eager to fill.
Beijing’s ‘globalist’ agenda under Trump 2.0
China is leveraging the Global Governance Initiative to expand its influence in the U.N. and Global South as U.S. retrenchment under Trump creates a leadership vacuum.
ebx.sh
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Commentary: U.S. retrenchment creates a vacuum of global governance leadership — one that China is eager to fill.
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Trump can barely fog a mirror, his approval is in the toilet and other institutions have showed that bending the knee only brings them back for more but standing up to them often gets results.
And yet:
And yet:
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Trump can barely fog a mirror, his approval is in the toilet and other institutions have showed that bending the knee only brings them back for more but standing up to them often gets results.
And yet:
And yet:
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“What happened in D.C. was horrible. But let’s not punish an entire faith for the actions of 1 person. @SenTuberville’s bill is Islamophobic. Let’s stop this.”
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat Suara says questioning the loyalty of 🇺🇸 Muslims is wrong.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRnyswp...
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat Suara says questioning the loyalty of 🇺🇸 Muslims is wrong.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRnyswp...
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“What happened in D.C. was horrible. But let’s not punish an entire faith for the actions of 1 person. @SenTuberville’s bill is Islamophobic. Let’s stop this.”
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat Suara says questioning the loyalty of 🇺🇸 Muslims is wrong.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRnyswp...
NASHVILLE councilwoman Zulfat Suara says questioning the loyalty of 🇺🇸 Muslims is wrong.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRnyswp...
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National Guard Member Sarah Beckstrom, Who Passed Away, Believed Her D.C. Deployment With ICE Was Pointless
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
National Guard Member Sarah Beckstrom, Who Passed Away, Believed Her D.C. Deployment With ICE Was Pointless