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Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter)

@pat120.bsky.social
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Liberal, lifelong follower of US politics; BA Poli Sci. Firmly on Earth 1. Interested in DEMOCRACY, legal issues, voting rights. Reader of books. Quilter. Anglophile. Do not obey in advance!!! Support Ukraine! No DMs, thx.

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Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter) @pat120.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I hate that @msnowcomms.bsky.social thinks it has to broadcast this illegally taxpayer-funded propaganda that Trump is pumping out ahead of the midterms. - As the saying goes, thank you for your attention to this matter! @deadlinewh.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins explains in detail why her fraudulent donor had to create a shell company in order to send her his illegal payments JACKSON: And that's why Mr. Kao created a shell company to run his corporation, PACs, through to get to Sen. Collins's PAC COLLINS: And that's why he's in jail today
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.
nytimes.com
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter) @pat120.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social www.wsj.com/lifestyle/sp...
wsj.com
Essay | For the Love of God, Please Put on Headphones
Using speakerphone to watch videos and take phone calls—or ‘loudcasting’—is turning public spaces into open-air podcasts. A writer begs for silence.
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jimtragos.bsky.social @jimtragos.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
And this is how @nytimes.com characterized Trump's unhinged interview. Not a word came out of his mouth that wasn't a lie; lies that undermine our elections, our law enforcement and our judicial process. But the feckless Times sanitizes it in order to hide from reporting his pathology.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“Leave Armageddon to God, Hegseth.” The @redstateupdate.bsky.social boys in MURFREESBORO on reports people in Trump’s regime view this as a Holy War to bring about Jesus’ return — as Trump’s other reasons for war keep shifting
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/01/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump bought $1M in Netflix, Warner Bros. bonds after merger announcement
The president bought the bonds days after saying he’d be “involved” in deciding whether to approve the $83 billion deal.’
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Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter) @pat120.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
(c)BS News (aka See BS News) is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump, Inc.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota in a post on Truth Social.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Those are the words of a dictator.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/01/2026
Don't let this Jan 6th point get lost: Jack Smith testified to Congress he had "proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election." In other words, he could prove in court that Trump attempted a coup.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Can't say I'm surprised. But wow.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Wes Smith Ω 🧢 @wessmith123.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The lawless criminal in the Oval Office loses again. 👉 Another grand jury refuses to indict Leticia James. abcnews.go.com/US/2nd-time-...
abcnews.go.com
For 2nd time, grand jury refuses to indict New York AG Letitia James: Sources
For a second time in a week, a federal grand jury in Virginia has refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud, sources say.
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Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter) @pat120.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#KingCon
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Gavin's latest troll
Gavin's latest all caps troll
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Anyone who thinks our beef with Venezuela is about drugs is in for a crude awakening
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Trump is gonna mess around and organize this entire country for the resistance. Unintended consequences can be brutal.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I really can't recommend 'Who Goes Nazi?' by Dorothy Thompson highly enough. Published in 1941 & as relevant now as it was then.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
people.com
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
👀 @WPLN asking the right questions! @GovBillLee is playing hunger games with Tennessee families
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CNN @cnn.com · 24/10/2025
It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade. cnn.it/4o5pBGv
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Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter) @pat120.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Will no one point out to her or to him that it's not HIS house, and he's doing this without the input or consent of its actual owners???? And what are those donors getting in return? Cause those guys don't give money for nothing.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
When Trump announces federal aid to a state and in the same breath notes that the state voted for him, he's signaling that states must vote for him if they want federal aid. It's not a presidency, it's a Mafia-style protection racket.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Matt Hildreth from @ruralorganizing.bsky.social: We’re seeing the very early stages of a political shift in rural America. People who never questioned Trump are starting to wonder if he’s really on their side ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/trumps-arg...
ruralorganizing.substack.com
Trump's Argentine Beef Plan Creates Rift with American Cattle Ranchers
We’re seeing the very early stages of a political shift in rural America. People who never questioned Trump are starting to wonder if he’s really on their side.
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Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter) @pat120.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It makes me so sick to know that they've just taken a wrecking ball to this beautiful space.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I thought the tariffs were paying for that.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It always comes back to Obama. www.wonkette.com/p/sure-trump...
wonkette.com
Sure, Trump Tearing Down White House, But At Least Is Not Black Man With Feet On Resolute Desk
It's about respecting America and We the People's House, and not being Barack Obama.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
When Trump or his goons talk about "antifa," they might as well be talking about demons or leprechauns. But this fake threat shows how the Trump administration has fully absorbed real organized criminal gangs. Yep, echoes of Nazi history in this. www.salon.com/2025/10/22/h...
salon.com
How the Proud Boys invented antifa
The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump's White House
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/10/2025
“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”
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Dave Min @daveminca.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Title 10, which gives the president limited authority to federalize the National Guard, does not provide the president with plenary (i.e. absolute and unchecked) authority. Stephen Miller is claiming the powers of a tyrant. We must have oversight. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking
Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Trying to help get the word out
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This morning's Portland post from Trump, finally, came less than 20 hours after the Supreme Court, yet again, gave Trump still more room to do what he pleases. Telling a tyrant he can take lawless steps, unsurprisingly, will lead that tyrant to take more lawless steps.
lawdork.com
SCOTUS's Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid
Justice Kagan, dissenting for the Democratic appointees, noted the majority's "preliminary" order means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“
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Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter) @pat120.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social How about this for at least part of the reason he’s doing this?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you want a fun, nerdy read, check out Judge Nathan's (six-judge) concurrence in Öztürk on why the Second Circuit *isn't* going en banc to review the denials of stays to DOJ in the Öztürk and Mahdawi immigration cases. It's smart, thoughtful, and sharply critical of Judge Menashi's contrary take:
ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Trump has done more to establish a unitary executive than all the judges or legal scholars in the world could ever do. And Trump has done more to discredit and expose the unitary executive theory as lawless authoritarianism than any judge or legal scholar could ever do.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Do yourself a favor and read the judge's order tossing Trump's lawsuit against the @nytimes.com because it was so badly written. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Even under the most generous and lenient application of Rule 8, the complaint is decidedly improper and impermissible. The pleader initially alleges an electoral victory by President Trump “in historic fashion” — by “trouncing” the opponent — and alludes to “persistent election interference from the legacy media, led
most notoriously by the New York Times.” The pleader alludes to “the halcyon
days” of the newspaper but complains that the newspaper has become a “fullthroated mouthpiece of the Democrat party,” which allegedly resulted in the “deranged endorsement” of President Trump’s principal opponent in the most recent
presidential election. The reader of the complaint must labor through allegations,
such as “a new journalistic low for the hopelessly compromised and tarnished ‘Gray
Lady.’” The reader must endure an allegation of “the desperate need to defame with
a partisan spear rather than report with an authentic looking glass” and an allegation
that “the false narrative about ‘The Apprentice’ was just the tip of Defendants’ melting iceberg of falsehoods.” Similarly, in one of many, often repetitive, and laudatory
(toward President Trump) but superfluous allegations, the pleader states, “‘The...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"It’s why her unblinking shamelessness is so unnerving. "On some level, no matter what she tells herself at night, she is participating in the cover-up of details related to a reported sex trafficking ring." www.salon.com/2025/09/12/e...
salon.com
Even Leavitt can't spin the joke check to Epstein from "DJTrump"
The press secretary's feeble deflection can't hide the experiences of multiple women
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
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dylanbyers.bsky.social @dylanbyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Scoop @puck.news: Carol Leonnig, a 25-year veteran of The Washington Post, is leaving the paper and joining MSNBC. The latest in the long and extensive exodus of Washington Post journalists under CEO Will Lewis.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Senior Administration official re Maxwell transfer: “Any false assertion this individual was given preferential treatment is absurd. Prisoners are routinely moved in some instances due to death threats, and significant safety and danger concerns.” Got it. What about true assertions?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Mike Flood’s town hall erupts in boos after he claims that Republicans protected Medicaid
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The official account of the United States Department of Defense. What a fucking joke we’ve become with these ass clowns running the government.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist." More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...
status.news
Applebaum on Autocracy
Anne Applebaum warns that Sudan’s descent into chaos shows what happens when institutions fail—and why a free press is essential to prevent America from following the same path.
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Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter) @pat120.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
WTAF? WHY????
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