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wfulford.bsky.social
@wfulford.bsky.social
Twitter refugee, lover of history, lifelong learning, fact-based discussions and respect for all human beings. Law, humor, government, sports, movies, thriller/spy novel and craft brew enthusiast. Double IU grad. Maybe kindness now is the real punk rock.
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Raskin wrote in his letter, “President Trump increasingly appears to be exercising direct control over CBS’s editorial decisions, destroying CBS’s ‘journalistic integrity’ while violating its right to be free from governmental coercion and manipulation.” deadline.com/2025/12/trum...
Jamie Raskin Files Complaint To CBS News Ombudsman Over ‘60 Minutes’ Edits To Donald Trump Interview
Jamie Raskin filed a formal complaint over the way that CBS News edited its Donald Trump interview.
deadline.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Institutionalized regression in consumer protection.

Next, they’ll make seat belts optional in the name of “choice”. 🤡
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Murdered, just say it… murdered!
GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Trump: “Our economy is so hot”

Our economy:
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Jacob Frey on Minneapolis's Somali community: "These are people that have benefitted Minneapolis in a really beautiful way, and to just go after a whole community indiscriminately -- it's unconstitutional, it's flat out un-American, but I guess that's what we've become accustomed to w/ Donald Trump"
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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6. Meanwhile, free the major drug kingpins that share your far right ideology.
Trump/Hegseth instruction manual:
1. Invent a war where none exists.
2. Kill people by blowing up boats that aren’t attacking you.
3. Violate your own rules of war.
4. Call in the lawyers to explain why the clear violations are not really violations.
5. Blame it on “the fog of war.”
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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For those perplexed why #Trump is angling for war in #Venezuela and seeking to oust #maduro let this image be your guide:
December 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The CEOs of both Ford and Stellantis, who are there to celebrate the rollback of vehicle emissions standards (which will drive climate change), are standing right behind Trump as he makes these racist comments.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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The CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, as well as senior executives from other auto manufacturers, standing beside him while Trump goes off on another vicious racist rant about African immigrants. Not one of them had the courage or the dignity to walk away.
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Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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That’s not “fog of war.” That’s one small sunk boat overflown by close surveillance, with survivors visibly hanging on to wreckage.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said “a couple of hours” passed before he was made aware that a military strike he authorized required an additional attack to kill two survivors, further distancing himself from an incident now facing congressional inquiry.
Hegseth, citing ‘fog of war,’ says he learned of survivors hours after strike
The defense secretary’s remarks were the most extensive public accounting yet of his involvement in the military’s lethal attack on alleged drug smugglers on Sept. 2.
wapo.st
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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This man ripped off teachers, nurses, small business owners - people from all walks of life and professions. Some lost their life savings. Not only did Trump let him out of prison, he also doesn’t have to pay back the victims.
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Trump and Republicans promised to lower costs on day one—and as we can see, that was a lie. Prices shot up, and health care will spike again because they refuse to extend the ACA credits.

Now they claim “affordability” is a con job. Since when is feeding your family or seeing a doctor a scam?
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.

Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Breaking on MS NOW: The Signalgate report contradicts Pete Hegseth's claims he did nothing wrong. It shows he "violated policy by using a non-approved device," a source who read the report says.

Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Trump’s economy sucks. 32,000 jobs were lost in the private sector last month.

The policies of Trump and rubber stamp Republicans are crushing the American people.

And what is Trump focused on? Making his Great Gatsby ballroom even bigger. And sleeping at Cabinet meetings.
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Trump's cuts to federal science funding mean researchers might not discover the next cancer breakthrough or solutions to the climate crisis.

Trump's making Americans sicker, poorer, and less prepared for the future.
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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50 days
*stares in Adelita Grijalva*
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The secret police are now trying to black bag blonde white women in broad daylight. You think you're special? You think you're somehow excepted from this? Think again

How tamed have we become by the police state that this is normal? dozens if not hundreds of folks can drive by & say this is ok?
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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If you’re rich enough, all “affordability” concerns are a “scam”.
Sarah Matthews: "Americans are concerned about the rising costs of everything…Trump can't wrap his head around that because this is a man who is a billionaire. He's never had to imagine a world in which he can't afford something."
December 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Tho can happen to any of us.
WTF are we even doing anymore.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"An unexpected loss of jobs" -- Maria Bartiromo and company cope with grim jobs numbers and pivot to touting rate cuts before quickly moving on

(This is the only time the ADP numbers have been mentioned on Fox Business this morning)
December 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Mike Johnson, second in line to the presidency and its role as commander-in-chief, has spent the last two months repeatedly claiming not to have heard of various big news topics including the ongoing, nearly two-dozen strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. Either he's lying or ignorant.
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?

MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Trump calls human beings “vermin,” “garbage,” “diseases,” “poison,” and “animals.”

Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds.

Give me a break.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM