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Michael Legrande
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Retired Automotive Technician and Shop Foreman, loves Peace and Quiet and Big Sur.☮♥️😏
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BILL MCKIBBEN/THE CRUCIAL YEARS
DECEMBER 5, 2025

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Pouring Literal Gasoline on the Flames of Hate
Not a metaphor, not at all
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December 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Civilians engaged in trade—even illicit trade—are not enemy combatants. For that matter, the public, so far, has seen no hard evidence but only heard the administration’s claim that the boats are engaged in drug trafficking.

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
DECEMBER 5, 2025
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December 4, 2025
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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"Almost all of Trump’s acts of clemency have been pardons. This is significant because those he has pardoned owed more than $1.3 billion in restitution to victims and to the American people. That money now will never be paid."

DAN RATHER/STEADY
DECEMBER 5, 2025

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Pardon Me?
Trump's abuse of the presidential pardon is undermining the rule of law
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December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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"For Donny and his cronies, everything is amazing. not one of these obscenely wealthy fuckfaces ever worries about the price of anything. they don’t have to."

JEFF TIEDRICH
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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panicked Republicans to Dozy Donny: ‘it’s the economy, fuckwit’
even they can see there’s a blue wave coming
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December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
mdtmike.bsky.social
"But not to worry, for Big Oil’s lobbyists assure us gabillions of plastic bags, bottles, and such are being recycled, keeping them out of our landfills, water, bodies, etc. Swell! Except… they’re lying."

JIM HIGHTOWER/THE LOWDOWN
DEC4, 2025

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Big Oil’s Slick Attempt to Greenwash Its Massive Plastic Pollution
Let’s all sing the holiday classic: “All I want for Christmas… Is Something Not Made of Plastic.”
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December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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AMY GOODMAN/DEMOCRACY NOW
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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Headlines for December 04, 2025
Senate War Powers Resolution Seeks to Block Trump from Unilaterally Attacking Venezuela; Admiral to Brief Lawmakers About U.S. Boat Strikes Condemned by Human Rights Groups as “Murder”; New York Times...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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THE LEFT HOOK
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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Standing Up For Somalis, Immigrants, Muslims and a Multicultural America
The majority must loudly reject and call out MAGA's embrace of Nazi rhetoric and anti-immigrant hate and stand up for Somali and Muslim immigrants who are the latest scapegoat of the sinking GOP.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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A broad majority of Somalis have “no interest” in immigrating to a country led by what they termed a “shithole president.”

THE BOROWITZ REPORT
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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Somalis Express No Interest in Immigrating to Country with Shithole President
“When I travel abroad, I don’t have to be embarrassed when people ask me where I’m from," one Somali said.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
mdtmike.bsky.social
"But he did, in just a few sentences, make it clear that he is absolutely unqualified — intellectually and morally — to be Fed chair."

PAUL KRUGMAN
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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Eggs, Lies and Gasoline
The unbearable lightweightness of being Kevin Hassett
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December 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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"Sorry, Ms. Leavitt. This goes way beyond frankness and openness. Trump is now saying things nobody in their right mind would say, let alone the president of the United States."

ROBERT REICH
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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The clearest symptom yet of Trump’s mental decline
His brain is turning into sh*t
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December 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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"In the beforetimes, it would have been unthinkable for a president to engage in racist hate speech in the Oval Office in front of reporters. Today, that fact did not make the front page of the New York Times."

ROBERT B. HUBBELL
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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We need to talk about Trump’s hate speech.
December 4, 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
mdtmike.bsky.social
"Trump insisted yesterday that “affordability” doesn’t mean anything to anybody,” but most Americans would disagree."

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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December 3, 2025
Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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JENNIFER RUBIN/THE CONTRARION
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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Republicans are ‘Nowhere on Healthcare’
Political disaster looms for MAGA
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December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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ALLISON GILL/THE BREAKDOWN
DECEMBER 4, 2025

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Is Pam Bondi Trying to Use the Courts to Justify Withholding Epstein Files?
Trump's Justice Department is re-asking the courts to release Epstein and Maxwell grand jury testimony pursuant to the new Transparency Act, but is it smoke and mirrors? Yes. The answer is yes.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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RELEASE THE TRUMPSTEIN FILES!!!
#TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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BREAKING: WELL, WELL, WELL! Newly unearthed footage shows Pete Hegseth saying EXACTLY what the six Democrats said in their video that prompted Trump and Hegseth to hysterically smear them as traitors!
You must refuse illegal orders.
December 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Atlantic publishes entire Houthi airstrikes chat, appearing to undercut White House claims | CBC News
The Atlantic released the entire Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials Wednesday, showing that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact times of warplane launches, strike...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Spotify needs to remove the ICE recruitment ads. If you hear one, make sure to give it a thumbs down.
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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#ReleaseEpsteinFiles
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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TRUTHOUT
DECEMBER 3, 2025

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Microsoft Faces Reckoning for Assisting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
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December 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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PRO TIP: If you're going to lash out at reporters for questioning your stamina, don't fall asleep mid-rant.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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"This man was not resting his eyes. He was not thinking deeply. He was gone. Astral projecting into whatever rotting carnival of imagery his mind cooks up when left unattended."

JOJOFROMJERZ/ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
DECEMBER 3, 2025

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Night Night For Narcoleptic Napoleon
Don Snoreleone needs a nap.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM