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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
CNN Headline:"Washington Keeps Fueling Inflation" - and here I thought Trump was blaming it on Biden and Obama, not Washington cnn.com
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We all are aware of the Strait of Hormuz, and how its closure has affected trade. What about the Welland Canal? Every ship entering or leaving the Great Lakes has to transit the canal, which is entirely located within and controlled by Canada. What happens if that closes to US bound ships?
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"When the President Does It, that Means It’s Not Illegal.” I"m old enough to remember when almost everyone thought this was an absurd statement.
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cmg22.bsky.social @cmg22.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Simple: GOP and Trump: Competing ideas on how best to continue siphoning revenue and resources of the American people into the coffers of billionaires. Democrats and DSA: Competing ideas on how best to restore government's resources and role in serving the American people.
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
He makes Miss Teen South Carolina seem like an incisive, erudite expert in foreign policy. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Morning Kitten “The perfect box does not exis—“
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, CBS, and CNN all have Trump-aligned owners. Here’s why US media has a liberal bias problem.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
So there’s no regime change, we lift all sanctions against them going back decades, they retain missile and drone capabilities, they control the strait and can charge tolls, and keep their enriched uranium. So much for “unconditional surrender.”
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It's really hard to overstate the catastrophic failure of legacy media to present the ascendancy of a psychotic criminal to the presidency for what it was. Time and again, they normalized, sanitized, sane-washed and thus assisted a madman as he seized and began to serially abuse awesome power.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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b9a1baa8.bsky.social @b9a1baa8.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is a war but it's not. We already won, but it might be 2 or 6 more weeks or who knows? Our goal now is to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that closed because we never thought this could happen. Also, everyone else needs to do it, not us. They have no air defenses, but we just lost an F-35 and A-10.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Breaking character: Every so often, I like to remind people that Trump has a serious personality disorder that makes his decision-making different from a normal person's. The media doesn't explore this, which makes their reporting on him useless, but my friend Nick Carmody does.
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Does this explain the Iran invasion? When a player hates losing, and the losses start to pile up, they make more aggressive and risky plays in the hopes of recouping their losses in one, big bet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_(p...
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Tilt (poker) - Wikipedia
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
SCOTUS upholds lower court rulings against tariffs. This is a "big fucking deal" www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
1 Many like the the Emperor's new outfit 2 Others think he should wear nice clothes 3 The last ones clothing was controversial 4 People who support a grand outfit have qualms if it is TOO grand. 5 Other countries citizens disagree with the choices of their leader. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Five Basic Truths About America’s Most Polarizing Policy Debate
Lawmakers need to acknowledge these realities about immigration if they want to implement policy that is both popular and in the nation’s best interest.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It’s like Donald Trump has declared war on smart people and you don’t even have to be that smart to be qualified as smart people
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Here's my list of the essential truths about our current crisis that are routinely missing from New York Times coverage: presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-...
What are those seminal truths that supply essential context to the daily news report? Here’s my list:

That the United States has become an authoritarian state, with armed soldiers on city streets; immigrant neighbors abducted and disappeared by masked agents; the state seizing stakes of companies; political opponents targeted with criminal probes; educational institutions extorted into obedience; media organizations paying tribute to the ruler. This is reality.
That Trump is personally deranged and debilitated. That he operates almost entirely in a bubble world of lies and fantasies. That he makes things up, is misled by his staff, and often doesn’t know what they are doing.
That white Christian nationalism and virulent racism are primary drivers in this administration.
That misinformation and lies are not coincidental to the Trump agenda, they are essential to it.
That Trump is engaged in a massively corrupt scheme to enrich himself, his family, and his oligarch friends.
That Trump is leading what is effectively a criminal enterprise – openly violating the law at almost every turn.
That the Trump administration is systemically diminishing hard-fought civil and human rights for women, for immigrants, for brown people, and for trans people.
That the Republican Party of the past no longer exists. It is no longer serious or credible.
That the nation’s historic checks and balances, through the separation of powers, have collapsed.
That the federal government – especially the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security – has been so weaponized against Trump’s political opponents that nothing it says can be trusted without evidence.
That Trump’s cruelty and racism have been fully embraced by the MAGA movement and by federal agents terrorizing and abducting immigrants.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The Trump apologist checklist after Trump or his administration does something awful: 1. Fake news, it didn’t happen. 2. It might’ve happened, but it would be OK if it happened. 3. So it happened, so what. 4. Whatabout [insert names of various presidents here]
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Sometimes, some of these folks seem to get it.
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Who made the bigger howler? Alito: "...all Article III judges are vulnerable to an occupational disease, which is the disease of thinking that I am right and I can do whatever I want." Roberts: "Is there any reason in this particular litigation that we would be unable to act expeditiously?"
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We need a new word - something like "amoral" but for intelligence instead of morality. i.e. a word for someone having or showing no concern about whether their argument is smart or stupid. It would describe those in Trump's orbit who are trying to justify the tariffs. Maybe "atelligent"?
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Tomorrow in the NYT: I voted for Donald Trump because I hate the people he hates and wanted to see them suffer. Now that I am suffering, why can’t you find it in your heart to be sympathetic? RUDE
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Summer of 2025: A crop of newly-hired Assistant U.S. Attorneys arrive at the United States Courthouse for their first hearings on the top side of the "v."
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/01/2025
Over on Whatever, a brief(ish) examination of my expectations for the incoming Administration. whatever.scalzi.com/2025/01/17/w...
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What I’m Expecting From the New Administration
Nothing great! I was going to write a longer and more serious piece about this, and who knows, later I might, but right now I’m behind on a book deadline and it has priority. Nevertheless, I …
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ah...Clem @ah-clem.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This seems like as good a first post as any... jabberwocking.com/pearls-of-wi...
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Pearls of wisdom, all for you - Kevin Drum
Here it is: the distilled wisdom of 66 years on planet Earth. The list is numbered so you can mock them in comments more easily. Enjoy. Crime didn't skyrocket in the '70s and '80s because of drugs or ...
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