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P.J. Trombley

@ptrombley.bsky.social
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1. Fox "news" is the anchor of a multi-billion dollar propaganda machine. 2. SLAVA UKRAINI! 3. Dogs rule. 4. Avid member of The Bulwark 5. TB Lightning HOCKEY! 6. Florida Water Family, Gulf of Mexico

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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 15h
‘Trump Is the Picasso of Corruption’ www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-t...
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‘Trump Is the Picasso of Corruption’
The grift is relentless, the conflicts are everywhere, and the public keeps getting stuck with the tab.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nuke... this. "We have had ten years to become connoisseurs of presidential grotesquery. At this point, the man could fart into the Resolute Desk while strangling a bald eagle and half the country would ask whether the eagle had been sufficiently patriotic." open.substack.com/pub/longmemo...
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Nuke... this.
Trump may have thought he was funny. The remarks reveal something considerably more troubling.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Veteran Interior Department lawyer resigns in protest, warns of President Convicted Felon's "assault on the rule of law" www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d... via @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
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Veteran Interior Department lawyer resigns in protest, warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BUT shear will play a major factor. Shear can be Boom or Bust! We discuss what that means and how much shear will weaken the #Gulf #Storm as it moves onshore!
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🌀 New: Tropical Storm #Isaias is now forecast to reach 110 mph, 1 mph short of a MAJOR Cat 3 #Hurricane and the track has shifted slightly east, closer to the Google AI model tracks, putting the #Florida panhandle in the most severe part of the storm… 1/
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Pauline Davis @huffandpuff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Byron Donalds violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, by failing to disclose over 100 stock trades, omitting key financial liabilities & assets on his annual reports, and more.
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Florida Phoenix @floridaphoenix.com · 07/10/2026
“Floridians should take this time to get disaster plans in place and ensure their hurricane supply kit is stocked.” floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/06/d...
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DeSantis issues a state of emergency for 25 counties as tropical depression heads toward Florida • Florida Phoenix
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order Tuesday night declaring a state of emergency for 25 Florida counties in advance of a rapidly developing tropical depression heading toward northwest Florida...
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Justice Alito’s New Book and His Hypocritical Emergency Docket Defense "...in deciding so many high-profile cases with so little explanation ...rulings were motivated more by political preferences than by the faithful application of neutral legal principles." open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
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256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense
Justice Alito‘s book purports to answer the Court’s critics—by rebutting a caricature and ignoring the ways in which his own behavior contradicts his claims.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
substack.com/@ilysehogue/... A Trump third term? An explanation of Supreme Court rulings that make this very possible - in direct violation of the 22nd Amendment. "By now, America should have learned that the Constitution does not enforce itself."
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Ilyse Hogue (@ilysehogue)
Too many people treat Trump’s antics like an obvious joke, rather than him testing the elasticity of constitutional boundaries that is his bread and butter. @Voices of the Atoll gets it. Worth a serio...
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Doomsday Scenario Even if Democrats crush the midterms, we're in a world of trouble. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doomsd...
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The Doomsday Scenario
Even if Democrats crush the midterms, we’re in a world of trouble.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something I’ve heard about during my trip to the Gulf? War profiteering. Often by U.S. companies. Let me tell you what I learned. And why a Democratic Congress should do something about it
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026
INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out
Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is a better post about Rufo than Chait's, promise. emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/c...
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Christopher Rufo Whines about Being Named as the Propagandist Who Rationalized Alleged Klan Act Violence - emptywheel
The lawsuit by Renee Good's family likens the mask Jonathan Ross wore the day he killed Renee Good to hooded Klan terrorism prohibited by the Klan Act.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Public Flat Earth In 2016, shortly b4 Trump became the Republican nominee, CBS president Les Moonves gloated about how profitable his run was for cable news. “Bring it on, Donald. Keep going. It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
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A Public Flat Earth
How paywalls killed the public sphere.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seven reflections on Heated’s Miami real estate “secret shopper” piece by @ethanfletcher.bsky.social climatechangeandyourhome.substack.com/p/seven-refl...
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Seven reflections on Heated’s Miami real estate “secret shopper” piece
Teasing out lessons from Emily Atkin’s great reporting on climate risk and real estate
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In case you missed it, Polish FM Sikorski addressed the Russian ambassador directly at the UN a few days ago. Nothing new, but the delivery landed like a slap in slow motion. He could have been President of Poland, had his party not gone with the safe option, Trzaskowski, in the 2024 primary.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Piney Point Disaster nears end of taxpayer-funded cleanup www.bradenton.com/news/local/a...
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Piney Point caused crisis on Florida’s Gulf Coast. When will its cleanup end?
Cleanup of a former phosphate processing plant that caused a public emergency and environmental disaster in Tampa Bay is nearing a pivotal moment.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Elissa Slotkin Spots a Big Warning Sign for Trump’s GOP | Command Post, The Bulwark REMARKABLE INTERVIEW! TOO SHORT! Sen. Slotkin lays out a plan to rescue us from Trumpism... good Lord, she is brilliant. www.thebulwark.com/p/elissa-slo...
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Elissa Slotkin Spots a Big Warning Sign for Trump’s GOP | Command Post
Sen.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans continue to prove they don’t care that Trump committed crimes and tried to end our democracy 🇺🇸
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Paid for by the U.S. Government - Three different commercials extolling the Dear Leader thecycle.substack.com/p/paid-for-b...
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Paid for by the U.S. Government
Donald Trump is making taxpayers foot the bill for a bizarre government propaganda campaign—six weeks before the midterm elections.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-...
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This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research
Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nationalizing the AI sector might be the best-case scenario, but only after the crash so the taxpayers get the assets at fire sale prices.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
msnow is currently doing a segment about hasan piker being a problem for dems
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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He's really good at this.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Alex Wagner NUKES Alito’s Defense of the Trump Election Power Grab www.thebulwark.com/p/alex-wagne...
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Alex Wagner NUKES Alito’s Defense of the Trump Election Power Grab
JVL is joined by Alex Wagner to trace how four conservative power brokers built the legal machine that would reshape the Supreme Court decades later, and how that project helped create the politics we...
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Impeach Them. All of Them. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-th...
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Impeach Them. All of Them.
Hegseth is only the beginning.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How a St. Petersburg marina became an unlikely haven for big band jazz www.tampabay.com/culture/ente...
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How a St. Petersburg marina became an unlikely haven for big band jazz
Billy Joel’s trumpet player, Carl Fischer, is bringing jazz veterans, students and fans together in a monthly music series.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/09/2026
Stephen Colbert wins the Emmy for best variety series!
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A Resilient Seagrass Species Could Help Reshape Coastal Restoration in Florida's Indian River Lagoon By Gisele Galoustian From Florida Atlantic University www.fau.edu/newsdesk/art...
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A Resilient Seagrass Species Could Help Reshape Coastal Restoration
FAU Harbor Branch researchers found a resilient seagrass that survives environmental stress and regenerates from seeds, offering new hope for restoring degraded habitats in the Indian River Lagoon.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The groove of this song is wicked, wicked bad! What a freakin' horn section! "I'm The President" by the band Knower. youtu.be/tuhe1CpHRxY?...
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I'm The President - KNOWER
YouTube video by KNOWER MUSIC
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fox News likes Trumpism a lot more than it likes Trump (A chuckle at the end re: the NY Times' "Euphemism Desk") open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...
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Fox News likes Trumpism a lot more than it likes Trump
Bartiromo’s ouster shows the Murdochs protecting themselves from the reckless president
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/09/2026
Raskin: “You don’t see any MAGA hats anywhere in the country anymore. The support for the Republicans is melting away.” Trump “pulled the plug on Medicaid” and ACA tax credits, leaving rural hospitals and three maternity clinics in one Michigan district shut down.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Where’s the Beef (Coming From)? Video and transcript. By Paul Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wheres-the...
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Where’s the Beef (Coming From)?
Meat and freedom!
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow "We are all mad at the billionaires and whatnot but let’s be very clear about the mechanism driving all of this..." by Hamilton Nolan open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
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Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow
Capitalism or humanity, but not both.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Machine Was Always Running This is JVL-level analysis. johanuniverseends.substack.com/p/the-machin...
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The Machine Was Always Running
By Johan
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Translation: It is simple: we do not agree with the cabinet's plans to cut billions from ordinary people, while the very richest get ever richer. No way. It must be fairer. We will keep fighting for that.
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Lawless Fed quick read... the Federal Reserve refuses to implement the law... prospect.org/2026/09/03/f...
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The Lawless Fed - The American Prospect
The central bank specializes in not following laws meant to restrain Wall Street.
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Simon @simon437.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The ultimate glitch in the system: we’ve optimized the economy to the point where the "small business owner" and the "unhoused" are now the same person. The hardware is failing, but the OS keeps insisting everything is functioning as intended.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Met a gun owner on my walk who wanted to talk to me about protecting the 2nd Amendment but she also believes in universal background checks and required training and was shocked to learn the NRA opposes all that - and this is a conversation I have with gun owners all the time.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/09/2026
There was no "censorship industrial compex" under the Biden administration. But the MAGA officials who continue to believe in it have done a lot of damage. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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MAGA’s Imaginary Censorship-Industrial Complex
The conspiracy theory that persists even though no evidence supports it
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P.J. Trombley @ptrombley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
LYRV&B! Newsletter – August 2026 loveyourrv.substack.com/p/lyrv-and-b...
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LYRV&B! Newsletter – August 2026
South to Find Summer and Warm Water in Desolation Sound
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Enlighten Moi 😎💨💨 @elite99thc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Check out this article from USA TODAY: USS Abraham Lincoln limps into Thailand after 286 days at sea… www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Thailand after 286 days at sea
The aircraft carrier's lengthy deployment in the Middle East led to reports of mental health concerns and deteriorating conditions on board.
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cashmerecoco.bsky.social @cashmerecoco.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Is there a poll that says “Canadians won’t bend the knee to a convicted rapist whose name is redacted thousands of times in the Epstein pedophile Files?” Republicans can hate us - We don’t care.
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