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Gilda Werner Reed PhD

@gildareed.bsky.social
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Happily married mom of 7: 5 biological & 2 adopted w special needs. Grandmom X16. Teacher of 1000's. 3 generations Navy. PhD in Applied Biological Psyc. Ran for Congress vs Scalise. Author of "Hectic Happiness". Stiil Feelin' the Bern.

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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 12h
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Pete Hegseth is obsessed with men and power
Early yesterday morning, the United States Secretary of "War," Pete Hegseth, stepped up to the podium at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and stood directly under a desecrated version of the ...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Donald Trump is cornered
At 7:45 tonight, Donald Trump experienced what appeared to be a serious mental health crisis while on stage campaigning for Republicans in Ohio. He had just arrived at the High School Activity Center ...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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“President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation”
At 9:39 this morning, a true patriot and countryman stood before members of Congress while a barrage of flashes exploded in his face from the swarm of photographers sitting on the ground in the crowde...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense
Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Winter is a way of life
And we need to hold on to it as long as we can
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump’s war is on the VERGE of a major escalation open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Trump’s war is on the VERGE of a major escalation
Trump and his naive policies have disrupted the entire world, and it's on the brink of getting far worse.
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“It’s also hard to imagine a dumber move. These outrageous attacks only demonstrate how scared he is of an informed public.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump is scared of the truth
At 3:29 this afternoon, Donald Trump held a strategic press conference in the Oval Office right before he left to spend a secluded weekend at Camp David away from the eyes of the press and the public....
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No more free press and free speech. Dictator Dementia Don is making sure of it. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump says he is banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House
President Donald Trump said Friday that he was banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage, and threatened that more such media prohibitions could b...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Profit — greed. To hell with bald eagles, ducks, wildlife and national parks. open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump is clueless
At 7:01 tonight, the president of the United States stepped out of the Oval Office wearing an ill-fitting, oversized suit at the exact same time as Lee Greenwood’s "God Bless the USA" started blasting...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Like a 6-year-old who kicks over the card table when he’s losing a game, Trump would rather demolish the Kennedy Center than endure the public humiliation of having his name removed from it." Trump’s Worst Fear robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-gre...
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Trump’s Worst Fear
His vanity, narcissism, vainglory, and vindictiveness are mere symptoms
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“To destroy things he can’t possess or control is his essential nature.” September 16, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 16, 2026
Yesterday U.S.
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Kash Patel is not going to like this post
At exactly 9:30 this morning, the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, stood in front of photojournalists, members of Congress, and their staff, wearing a deep blue suit with a delicate pastel pink tie. W...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Donald Trump’s High IQ Hoax
At 9:58 this morning, Donald Trump was locked away deep inside the White House when he began panicking online in front of the entire world. Over the course of almost 10 hours, the President posted on social media 7 times about the exact same thing, spiraling out of control over artificial intelligence, with each post growing more unhinged than the next. He started by telling us all that our president has everything under control because of his genius-level intelligence: “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Before later saying it is all a hoax anyway, just like the other things our own government has warned us about, “I am the Hoax Buster” and that all warnings about AI are just a hoax, even wilder than “RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, or the Global Warming Scam. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Donald Trump is always looking for someone else to blame
At 6:19 pm, somewhere between Shannon, Ireland, and Washington, DC, the President of the United States barged into the press cabin on Air Force One. Still wearing the deep navy suit and now-wrinkled w...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Donald Trump can’t hide from the world
At 11:50 this morning, the President of the United States made a special stop on his way to promote his private golf course in Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland. For exactly 35 minutes, a rambling Donald...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Beware of the GOP. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 12, 2026
On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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The president wants to buy our votes
At 8:09 PM tonight, the President of the United States walked onto the stage at the first-ever Republican midterm convention and slowly made his way over to the podium, stopping along the way to catch...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Publicity hog and his fictitious claims. open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump thinks he's the hero of 9/11
At 2:35 this Labor Day afternoon, Donald Trump was still on vacation at his private golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, when he posted a video of himself with the words, “What Donald Trump saw at… ...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Undeniable dementia. Alarming. open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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The President is a reckless madman
At 9:10 this morning, after spending the entire weekend hiding inside his Bedminster golf club, avoiding the waiting press and their cameras, Donald Trump posted his first social media post of the day...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ICE will one day pay. But will those who pay them? open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Today I became part of the story
Just after 8:00 this morning, while I was still in my pajamas and working on my computer, I heard a crashing sound and men screaming right outside my bedroom window. I struggled to understand exactly ...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Lincoln understood that once you give up the principle of equality, you have given up the whole game. You have admitted the principle that people are unequal, and that some people are better than others." August 29, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-29-...
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August 29, 2026
On Thursday, August 27, Tolouse Olorunnipa reported on the attempts of Republican lawmakers to restrict the ability of naturalized and dual citizens to run for office.
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"The United States spent decades telling the world that sovereign nations had the right to determine their own futures and control their own resources. Then we used military force, got the oil, and Donald Trump called it a deal." Donald Trump is losing control open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump is losing control
At 4:42 PM yesterday, Air Force One touched down at Joint Base Andrews after the president’s events in Houston earlier in the day. Exactly 13 minutes later, Donald Trump stepped off the plane as repor...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Trump is selling out our national security in exchange for his own wealth maximization.” Corruption on steroids. August 27, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-27-...
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August 27, 2026
This morning, a headline in the Guardian read: “RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.” The story by Michelle R.
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Bernie--“The American people don’t want to rename Lake Ontario...They want affordable healthcare,childcare,housing, education...you have massively cut in order to pay for your $1 trillion tax break to the top 1%.” Donald Trump is petty, childish, and unfit to lead open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump is petty, childish, and unfit to lead
At 1:20 p.m. this afternoon, the White House press pool entered the Oval Office, where the President of the United States was already seated behind the Resolute Desk. As the cameras zoomed in, he fidd...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The dream they couldn’t kill steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-dream-...
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The dream they couldn’t kill
On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi.
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.” The man is bonkers. Next he wants to rename an ocean. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' in the United States
President Donald Trump said Thursday he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as "Lake America" in the United States as he exacerbates his trade war with Canada. The Republican president signed an exe...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Newest article from grandson with guest contribution from his PhD advisor. borealcompass.substack.com/p/the-myster...
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The mystery of fire in the Boundary Waters
What the past tells us and what the future might hold
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Nice country you got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-...
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August 25, 2026
Trump started the morning on social media saying: “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to [be] doing much bus...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our PhD environmentalist grandson in MN. borealcompass.substack.com/p/an-entire-...
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Why have an entire Substack on climate in northeastern Minnesota and the Quetico-Superior ecosystem?
Bold choice! Let’s see if it pays off
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Nobody actually likes Donald Trump
At 2:37 p.m., a visibly frail Donald Trump emerged from the White House and slowly made his way down the corridor, his eyes fixed on the ground beneath him through nearly every careful step. Wearing a...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Cage fight and car race—Geez. A ninny baby with extravagant delusions of a juvenile while prices soar and our allies are bullied. open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump is racing to ruin our country
Just after 1 pm this afternoon, with Melania Trump standing beside him, clapping and beaming with joy, the President of the United States strained as he used his still bruised hand to twirl a green fl...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Most voters want to elect leaders who are not simply trying to rebuild the past, but trying to create something new and better.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-22-...
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August 22, 2026
On Tuesday, August 18, during a debate for a runoff to win the South Carolina Republican senatorial primary, Senator Darline Graham (R-SC) answered a question about Taiwan and the importance of the So...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“What Trump did, which will end up hurting him more than he can even imagine, is that he united much of Canada together against a shared enemy.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Someone finally said no to Trump
Yesterday, right as negotiations with our closest ally were collapsing, Donald Trump appeared to have no cares in the world as he posed for glamour shots for his new presidential headshots. In a compi...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"In 1831, southern lawmakers tried to create a white nation by making it a crime to educate Black Americans. In 2026 the intent to exclude certain Americans ...remains the same, only less explicit." August 21, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-21-...
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August 21, 2026
On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about 70 of his enslaved and free Black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slaveholding and t...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"They fired three people from Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper that has served American troops since the Civil War. The reason they were fired is the part that concerns me the most." The president is falling apart open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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The president is falling apart
At 7:05 tonight, Donald Trump was seen offstage through a slit in the curtain, wearing a deep navy suit and bright red tie as he made his first pass at the stage. Not even a minute later, he emerged, ...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Republican mantra—Healthcare only for those with enough money. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-20-...
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August 20, 2026
On Saturday, August 15, the New York Times editorial board published an op-ed noting that the Republicans are trying to hide the cuts they have made to health care in the U.S.
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
H D Reese—“According to Forbes, Trump’s net worth went from approximately $2.3 billion in 2024 to roughly $6.5 billion. His personal fortune has nearly tripled. His income in 2025 alone exceeded $2.2 billion.”
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This and much more----"He laughed, and the room laughed as the President of the United States told the child who nearly died that he probably would not have saved him." Donald Trump is out of control open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump is out of control
At 1:51 this afternoon, the president of the United States grew increasingly frantic for the entire world to see on live TV. Seated in the Oval Office, with gold lame medallions glued on the walls beh...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This (and much much more)----"For other drugs, experts say the price drop comes from the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Democrats without a single Republican vote in 2022, during the Biden administration." August 17, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-17-...
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August 17, 2026
From Friday through Sunday, Trump continued his now-habitual weekend flooding of social media with fantasies that he is smart, beloved, and powerful.
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“We have never had a president who openly sided with a nuclear-armed dictator over our democratic ally. “ open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump doesn't know what it means to be an American
At 2:21 this afternoon, the White House press pool traveling with Donald Trump while he vacationed at his private golf club in Bedminster was told they would not be seeing the president today after al...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Corrupt grifter. open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump loves dictators
At 11:49 AM this morning, eleven minutes before their scheduled start time, the President of the United States' entire traveling press corps was sent away, cutting off all access to Donald Trump for t...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Liar with a capital L. open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Trump is dragging the whole country down with him
After days spent largely hiding away from the public view, the President of the United States finally reemerged this afternoon for a campaign rally at the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City, ...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Pete Hegseth has no idea what he’s doing
Earlier today, wearing a slim-cut blue blazer and a blue-and-white striped dress shirt, with the upper buttons stretched wide open, the Secretary of Defense stood beside the guided-missile destroyer U...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
While our dictator plays golf. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Senators demand inquiry into conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
Congressional Democrats demanded answers Wednesday about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, following reports of food shortages, broken plumbing and mental health crises during the aircraft ca...
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Gilda Werner Reed PhD @gildareed.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Truth and Trump —total opposites. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-12-...
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August 12, 2026
In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell, the former chief executive officer of MyPillow, lost the Republican primary for governor to Republican state house speaker Lisa Demuth.
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