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@velvetundergrd.bsky.social
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There is a pattern in the destruction of all the legal guardrails established in a society that assumes we would not have a criminal in office. Add to this the record pace of pardons to friends, drug dealers and crypto pals.

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Hitler’s Judiciary and the Fall of Legal Autonomy
Explore how Hitler’s regime dismantled Germany’s judiciary, destroying legal autonomy and bending courts to the will of the Third Reich.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
freedom of speech... dont forget what HAS happened before under 'communist' label pretext.

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TV and film writers say they’ve faced increasing censorship threats under Trump
Attempts to curtail free speech present an existential threat to the Writers Guild of America’s 11,000 members, who are still finding their footing amid an industry-wide contraction
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December 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Coming to America. Labor, govt and business need to grab ahold of this before it destroys the workers economy. It can't be stopped, but must find ways to protect redirect workers. Coupled w AI a massive transformation is underway.

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Inside China's 'dark factories' where robots run the production lines
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December 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It would be great for some serious publication to publicize the volume of pardons and their specific criminal natures.

This graph does not include the massive volume of Jan 6 pardoned insurrectionists. As many know now, this includes serious high level drug dealers and crypto fin criminals.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
@ms.now Broaden your coverage. We do not need all talking heads to cover ONE story however important. All day Hegsteh is hard to watch. What what is happening at dept of ED, Environment, details on ravages of DOGE, health care with local focus. D's also need a broader message than affordability.
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Truman- "A billionaire is much greater in these days in the eyes of the people than the public servant who works for the public interest. It makes no difference if the billionaire rode to wealth on the sweat of little children and the blood of underpaid labor. "

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A vignette from David McCullough’s biography “Truman”
In his very excellent book Truman, David McCullough remembered two of the first speeches backwater, back bench clubhouse pol Harry S. Truman delivered on the Senate floor in 1937. Speeches to do with ...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
There is no mideast cease fire. Next up Ukraine.
The media is overwhelmed with the misinformation, lies, and assault on our country's values, norms, and laws by the Trump Admin.

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The Gaza “Ceasefire” is a Total Fraud
The fire has not, in fact, ceased, and there have to be meaningful penalties for Israel’s violations.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Thr racist reality
"October 1 through November 15, 73% had no criminal convictions."

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'This Is the Scandal': DHS Data Show ICE Mostly Targeting People With No Criminal Convictions | Common Dreams
"I've spoken to dozens of people held inside ICE detention centers in Arizona and this tracks," said Democratic Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This battle is at the core of every issue. One pillar of any D platform MUST include national election district , gerrymander reform w independant commissions. Electoral college reform. Repeal of Citizens United. We must empower democracy.

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North Carolina Can Use Republican-Friendly Congressional Map, Court Says
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November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
@squawkstreet.bsky.social Willfull blindness discussion. RE DE earnings and impact of tariffs that rolling back ag tariffs and farm 'help' (12 bil) omitting that it is almost entirely the RESULT of the admins policies!!! You can't credit them for digging out of THEIR tariff madness! Call them out!!
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
So bombing little Venezuelan boats , spending millions ti change the name of DOD to DOW os not enough...Hegseth now wages war on the internal enemy...The Boy Scouts. About time these little DEI rascals got their come uppance!

Pentagon preparing to sever ties with Scouts

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U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We need MORE nurses....and this is Trumps and R's plan. Deny education support, limit access for new nurses education.
Purely insane. Maybe we should call them national security health helpers and equip them with guns and masks?

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Outrage after Trump’s bill reclassifying nursing as not a ‘professional degree’
Nursing organizations warn limiting access to student funding ‘threatens the very foundation of patient care’
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November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Contact your congressperson! This isn't making anything great again. It is the fulfillment of a Proj 2025 goal to dismantle the Dept of Ed. This harms our future and our children.

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Workers inside Department of Education say Trump’s latest bid to dismantle agency ‘makes no sense’
‘Morale is completely lost,’ say workers as Trump administration strips some programs and transfers others
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November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Trump /Republican plan for jobs and prices... cut the lowest earners minimum wages.

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Trump claims California's $20 fast-food minimum wage hurts businesses. The truth is a lot more complicated
The restaurant industry predicted disaster after California instituted a $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, but data shows that hasn't happened.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
SCOTUS reform must be a priority. This group has simply become the Trump court, blatantly political and no longer serves justice and the American people.

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Anne Deysine, law expert: 'The greatest obstacle to judges resisting Donald Trump is the Supreme Court itself'
OP-ED. In this op-ed for Le Monde, the US affairs specialist discusses how the highest court in the United States has so far granted nearly all of the requests made by the president and his administra...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The real Deep State. The powers behind Project 2025, and pushing Trump.

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Heritage report blasts Trump's record on deportations
"The American people voted for mass deportations. They're getting mass communications instead."
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November 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
If we dont clean this up and address the pushing of fake news enabled by remote billionaires we are doomed! At the same time the admin destroys the dept of Ed, Health, Science, push bibles instead of history!

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Mark Zuckerberg's hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram as millions watch Hitler speeches and Holocaust denial | Fortune
The hottest far right influencer right now isn't Nick Fuentes — it's Hitler. And his videos are appearing next to JPMorgan and US Army ads
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November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
While all eyes are on the Epstein cover up, the real leaders of the admin termite the Depts of Education, Health, Justice and Enviroment.
Measles outbreaks, boat bombings, agent firings, Enviro protection roll backs... the illegal hollowing out of Americas govt marches on.

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‘Selling off the Department of Education for parts’: The agency’s major overhaul faces fierce backlash
The Trump administration’s restructuring plan will create “more confusion, more mistakes and more barriers” for students and families in need of support, advocates say.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A moment of reflection on the murder of J Khashoggi. The President demeans the United States grovellng to the Saudi leader for his own family benefit.
Trump gives restricted planes jeopordizing US security and disgraces himself and country with his public lies.

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Jamal Khashoggi: All you need to know about Saudi journalist's death
Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Here's what we know.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM