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NewportWonk

@newportwonk.bsky.social
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Views are entirely own +anti-racist, anti-bigotry, pro: #democracy, US #Constitution + #ruleoflaw

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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Boooooooooooooo (a once-proud alum)
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Sheila Scarborough @theseafarer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
⏰️🚨
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is not courageous to take rights away from + endanger the lives of women It’s the oldest crap in the world
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meaning… they plan to unleash aggressive actions just as soon as it’s too late for ignorant voters to do anything about govt abuses of power (after the election) Bad faith by govt = malicious intent Act NOW #VOTEthemOUT
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Truckers, farmers, teamsters, etc. There’s a cost to voting A price the whole world is now paying Nobody feels sorry for you, who voted for this Generations of Americans will be paying for the hate + idiocy YOU elected (Also, we warned you) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
nytimes.com
Truckers Are ‘Just Trying to Hang On’ When a Fill-Up Tops $1,000
Truckers are among the hardest hit by the soaring cost of diesel fuel. High prices are forcing some to stay on the road for months and others to park their rigs.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mystery Flock cameras discovered in Florida community: "Meanwhile, some residents in St. Lucie County have been dismayed to learn an unknown entity might have been watching them." wapo.st/4ACHFOZ
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Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner
Officials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Little 📕 OBE
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US economy US judicial system US journalism US higher ed US military US free society Used to be the envy of the world All rapidly pissed away Wasted, abused + corrupted by those who neither understand US greatness nor the values, rules, norms + sacrifices that allowed US to be great
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey @americanbar.org why are infants + toddlers defending themselves in court ?!? What went so wrong with the US legal system that this is acceptable as US law + practice ? It is evil + unjust. They are children. They are victims being victimized by US law & lawyers www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
cnn.com
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s a loyalty test, just like all the other name changes Making America like North Korea, whose leader is a “good friend”, president says Remember who supported/voted for all of this — they are the problem Until and unless they have the temerity to fight for liberty over sycophancy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This gives “banana republic” a bad name A term, btw, meant to belittle others but 1) bananas a great 2) dictatorship-like political show-trial prosecutions without cause are not 3) USA used to be better than this 4) Congress: let us read his report ! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Jack Smith, Former Special Counsel, Will Appear Before Congress (Gift Article)
Mr. Smith’s testimony will be the latest public clash over the use of prosecutorial power in American politics.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The sickest, saddest thing I’ve read in a long while Women — don’t debase yourselves. Stand up! We are more than half of humanity. Act like it! If yr job requires you to be humiliated, find a different job www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her.
Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model “groypettes,” but a vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the biggest stories of 2027 will be the savagery of the GOP's Medicaid cuts. But the most indefensible cruelty has already begun, with disabled kids being ripped from their homes and sent to asylums, @matthewcort.land told me.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Completely predictable at this point This administration is not the least bit serious abt the challenges China poses apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says
The U.S. ambassador to China says President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5
Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
lol www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad
The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw these in Rome - very moving and a stark reminder on how evil humans can be…and be again
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes! The least We the People can do to protest the cruelty + unlawful behavior of this regime is to boycott their supporters and STOP being polite to or friendly with anyone who supports this president #choices
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Settle” = Surrender to a military aggressor, war criminal, Russian dictator ? Pass #SupportUkraine
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I see… govt much like Kim Jong Un’s North Korea then (Pro tip: despite its name, the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea (DPNK) is neither democratic nor a republic — it is a one-party, one-person dictatorship)
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Where is the Democratic Party ?? Do they have any leaders ?? Can most Americans even name them ? Does media ever interview them ? Leaders only have followers if have someone to follow www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/t...
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Trump Courted Xi. MAGAworld Stewed.
White House aides say the president has been tougher on China than any recent administration.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“An administration that violated the Constitution and evaded democratic accountability in launching the war was now evading democratic accountability for its conduct of the war.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Opinion | What Hegseth Is Hiding (Gift Article)
Soldiers want to tell their stories, and we need to hear them.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 24/09/2026
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We have a trailer for Musk documentary Elon called a "hit piece"
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney focuses on the world's wealthiest man.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/09/2026
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓
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Elon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New Doc
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk.
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/09/2026
A data breach of the Pentagon's vast HR system has exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information of current and former military personnel, raising counterintelligence concerns among national security experts. cnn.it/3VwCAaU
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Congress makes the laws. The Executive implements them…not the ones they like…ALL of them OR…someone shd be going to prison Law > policy Congress represents the people (At least in a representative democracy like USA once was…) Vote for members of Congress who will use its powersv lawbreakers
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026
Breaking news: The Pentagon’s public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased by 37 without explanation from the Defense Department. That includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to the Pentagon’s database.
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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
She’s right
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🤷🏼
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jon Husted has now voted 14 times to continue the Iran war. That’s 14 votes causing record high gas and grocery prices, and Ohioans are paying the price.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tonight’s state dinner guests at the White House with President Xi include: • Chief Justice John Roberts, • Jane Sullivan Roberts, Spouse • Justice Amy Coney Barrett • Jesse Barrett, Spouse • Justice Brett Kavanaugh • Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, Spouse
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Assist” voter registration? Are you %}^%} kidding me?! The Supreme Court majority just came out as being a threat to US democracy — which is state-run by design TO PREVENT TYRANNY www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Terrible idea but fits with White House desire for spheres of influence — where USA surrenders our global power + influence to dictatorships in Russia (Europe) + China (Asia)
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Easily boycotting them all !
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ALL Republicans (except a few up for close re-election) voted FOR: Continuing the #Iran War Continued high gas prices+ oil prices Continued inflation Continued Congressional spinelessness Against the #ruleoflaw v illegal war of choice #vote
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Israel’s current govt has squandered the moral high ground that had underpinned Israel’s past security — foolish + dangerous
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump’s net worth hit $7 billion in 2026. That’s triple where it was in early 2024, according to Forbes data.
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump literally rolling out the red carpet — and US state-run “news” channel— for China’s Xi #FAIL www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxSK...
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LIVE: President Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi to US
YouTube video by Reuters
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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Don’t let maga claim they ‘didn’t vote for this’ when complaining about gas prices, inflation, Iran war + costs of living THIS racist bigotry, white nationalism is what they voted for…despite the obvious risks to the US economy, security, global reputation + civil rights that 1st term made clear
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