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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/01/2026

“What they don’t want you to know is that George Soros and his far-left billionaire friends hired Alex Pretti to act as a dependable, beloved pillar of his community for decades,” said President Donald Trump

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Trump Alleges That Democrats Secretly Paid Alex Pretti To Be Model Citizen

WASHINGTON—Claiming that no one would realistically devote their life to serving others without being funded by nefarious actors, President Donald Trump alleged Monday that Democrats had secretly paid...

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Nice to be remembered! Hope you are going well, Ryan.

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I'm about the same as you are these days. We had some excitement around with brain surgery for my wife in March. That was when I signed off here--not intentionally, but because of what were were facing. That seems to be all passed now, but I found other ways to fill my time subsequently.

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Good to hear from you, Rusty. I am largely off social media these days. Dave and I are still doing the podcast, however. Hope you are well!

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I’ve been quiet here for quite a while. Glad I checked in to see that that nugget is still circulating. Hope you are well, Ryan!

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Not really. My wife had a health situation last Spring; I’ve unplugged from social media since. Still doing the podcast, however. Our email there is PackersTherapy@yahoo.com. In any case, it’s really good to hear from you Harald. Hope you are well. I imagine your daughter is in high school by now!

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Abbey Rhodes @abbeyr28.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Besides its hateful tone, this congresswoman has no idea what she's saying. Due process determines if you violated a law. Otherwise how do you know?

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This will end with kids dying and being left damaged and disabled for life by diseases basic science has cured. RFK Jr will be gone sooner or later (ideally sooner) but nothing will bring those kids back or repair the damage done to their families.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

My impulse was to turn this Brewers game off. But I am now curious to see how many homers NYY can hit. Seven through 2 1/3 is impressive...

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Nester Cortes' theme song for his Brewers debut should be played by Howard Jones...

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

"I can't think of anything else to say..."

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Could have been worse... Hegseth: And here are the secret super plans W: Sir, this is a Wendy's

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story?

Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Their actions would seem to be high crimes and misdemeanors.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Many Dem consultants urge adopting bad GOP positions. Better to adopt proven GOP tactics. Republicans made issues out of nothing through repetition and outrage. A national security breach implying many more (Signal? Not DoD comms?) must be made into an issue by Dems. It won't just become one.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Yep. Federal records. You're supposed to protect them, not delete them.

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Julheb👨🏻‍⚕️🧠🩺🏨///🗽🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇳🇪🇺🇺🇦🌎 @julheb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

On this date in 2001, Randy Johnson hit a bird with his pitch. 😲 In a way, it's a metaphor for America's current situation.

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Randy Johnson Hits Bird

YouTube video by Wyatt Sexton

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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/03/2025

The Trump administration has deported over 200 Venezuelans from the United States to a sprawling prison in El Salvador, even as a federal judge ordered their return to the US reut.rs/4ixFXEU

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Trump administration deports Venezeulans despite court order, says judge has no authority

Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to rapidly deport alleged members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization. A federal judge blocked the law's application a day later.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/03/2025

yep, this is what i think is going on. there is an underlying moral economy where service jobs are feminine and thus undesirable whereas factory jobs are masculine and thus good.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

👇🎯 This. It's a full-blown Article I and Article III constitutional crisis, & the sooner everyone realizes we're already well under way in our collapse into authoritarianism, the better.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Dem senators' cloyingly earnest threads imploring voters to understand that this wasn't the time to fight would ring a lot less hollow if they included the barest shred of a hint that they will actually offer up a fight at some point, any point, over the next four years.

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Northlandlake1. ❌👑 @northlandlake1.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The tyranny of the minority.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

My sense is that the administration has been looking for the optimal case in which to pull an Andrew Jackson — they may think this is it.

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ashlynn_b @ashlynnb.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

As a lawyer, this sort of ignorance/hostility towards the rule of law is so scary. Federal judges have always had ideological leanings, but they fairly interpret & enforce the law far more often than not. Trump and Musk (and Rubio) are telling us they want absolute executive power. Believe them.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Actually, the White House explicitly admitted to violating the order. Their claim is they don’t have to comply with court orders.

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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

No one can ever say that @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social doesn't think things through -- or that he doesn't have a wealth of experience, from which he has learned. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

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Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil show that the culture war is no longer just a culture war.

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Jane McManus @janesports.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This feels like a Star Trek episode where Picard comes across a stone age culture but there is evidence of an advanced civilization from long ago.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 3) Donors make a huge profit. 4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Trump and Musk are basically trying to deskill America: 1) kill all white-collar jobs and replace them with AI 2) kill universities 3) use tariffs to turn the U.S. into an economic island manufacturing, oil and ag hub 4) empty the cities 5) push men into manual labor & women back into the kitchen

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

These people have no standing to be going into federal agencies & looking around, let alone shutting them down & laying off employees. The rest is noise. I don't care what you think the right political strategy about a shutdown vs a CR is. The Article I constitutional crisis needs to end. Full stop.

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Are we about this didn’t come from Turd Ferguson?

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Never fear, the Trump Regime will have these places of “truth,” “learning,” thoughts,” and “ideas”‘either closed down or thinned out real soon…

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on the many implications—all horrifying—of the Trump administration reviving seemingly unconstitutional Red Scare–era laws to abduct and disappear Mahmoud Khalil, without due process, in retaliation against his protected speech. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I want to reiterate something you said, because it's deadly serious: No matter what you think of what Khalil said and did, he was charged with no crime. He was given no notice. He was simply taken from his home and disappeared.
And we have to be really, really afraid when there isn't even an attempt on the part of government lawyers to say there was a crime-when, instead, they simply hang everything on a dusty old statute and a dubious claim that we think he's dangerous to the United States.
Because if they're coming for that, they're coming for all of us.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Fun fact: The "Garrison" noted in the full name of the Paul Weiss firm is Lloyd Garrison, former dean of the University of WI Law School and grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the famous abolishionist. So, yes, the firm has progressive bonafides.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/03/2025

Just a reminder that the the way the Senate was set up is fundamentally undemocratic and broken. And facilitates the rule of a white upper class minority over the working class majority.

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Minority rule is threatening American democracy like never before

The Founding Fathers planted a bomb in the Constitution. Donald Trump lit the fuse.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

“Administration officials have a myriad of feelings toward Musk: they hate him, they’re afraid of him and they think he’s creepy for doing things like sleeping on a cot in his office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where five guards stand outside of his door.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is, indeed, a perennial puzzler...

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

If I hear the term "kitchen table issues" one more time I am going to vomit on my shoes. I am not even sure what that means. It makes it sounds like the cost of things is all that matters, like that is all government should care about. There is a limited amount government can do on COL issues.

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Crichar3 @crichar3.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Dems should have Chuck D as their leader. Now there is a guy who would “fight the powers that be…”

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