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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He loves throwing those rolls of toilet paper into the crowd, doesn’t he. Paper towels, whatever. youtu.be/kEe7_zgZbuI?... —————— www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Trump's $90 payments are en route to 20 million seniors
Nearly 21 million seniors are receiving $90 after direct deposits and checks started going out Thursday in President Trump's latest midterm giveaway.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Olympic curling competition of motor sports. ——— Tight Competition: The Contest to Name Philly’s Best Parallel Parker www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Tight Competition: The Contest to Name Philly’s Best Parallel Parker (Gift Article)
Out of more than 900 applicants, 15 were chosen to compete in three rounds, including “Tight Squeeze” and “Under Duress.”
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Once it was the bully pulpit. Now it’s just another sniper tower. Here’s Senator Cotton’s Cell Number, Trump Says, in Dispute Over Daylight Saving Bill www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Here’s Senator Cotton’s Cell Number, Trump Says, in Dispute Over Daylight Saving Bill
The president urged people to call Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and accused him of blocking a bill to cement daylight saving time.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here’s the latest. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09... “Mr. Trump made a remark about how the Chinese had the friendliest press corps.” How deeply he hates this country.
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Here’s the latest.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Live Updates: CNN, Politico and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09... That’s not his house.
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Live Updates: CNN and MS NOW Reporters Denied White House Access After Trump Announces Ban (Gift Article)
President Trump announced a ban on Friday on three outlets whose coverage he deems unfair, a move that will likely be challenged in court.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/... And STILL, RFK has not forsworn personal profit from his share in lawsuits against vaccine makers. He PROFITS directly by his attacks on vaccine safety. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w... THIS SHUD BE IN EVERY STORY ABOUT RFK. Why ain’t it?
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Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous
The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This Is Really Bad www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o... ——— The worst thing about this — how all hope of finding intelligent life in the universe must now be tempered w/ the likelihood that those long awaited aliens will just be more fucking AI.
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Opinion | This Is Really Bad
We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump threatens to halt some trade unless the Fed cuts rates www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/b... ——— As a former CEO who led companies into bankruptcy numerous times, and bragged about it, he is behaving like the professional crook that he is. He should be wearing an ankle monitor.
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Trump Threatens to Halt Some Trade Unless the Fed Cuts Rates
The president said he could halt trade between the United States and countries with which it has a trade deficit if the central bank doesn’t do his bidding.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In the current Atlantic, this masterpiece of compassion-fatigue-journalism is nestled back-to-back with “The Great Romance Slump,” an article about fewer people finding love. Could there be a connection? Is there a mass oxytocin gap happening here? ———— www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
——— Trump “threatens”? Who is threatened? The Illegal Aid Society? The Republican senators who know they could become targets too if they so much as scrawl HELP in the sand? —— Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
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Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination
President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
——- The Illegal Aid Society. ——— Blanche Was a Driving Force in Retribution Campaign, Emails Show www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...
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Blanche Was a Driving Force in Retribution Campaign, Emails Show
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
——— In 10,000 words of drek, this line encapsulates the fuzzy-headedness of these pseudo-thinkers: —— “if you know any exorcists and have spent time with them, you know how real this stuff is….” Jee-zus, NYT.. —— ‘ I’m Worried About Weimar America’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...
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Opinion | ‘ I’m Worried About Weimar America’
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I dont usually write emails like this. But I have some bad news. My opponents have totally eaten my morale. Yes, they are eating the morale. They are eating the Hope. They are outspending me in the race for a win, any win, anywhere. (1/2)
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
He makes everything he touches worse. Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...
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Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dogged reporting! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/n... “..the Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory, on Monday identified two of the three remains as being Brian Cash and Sally Ann Cash..” “Attempts to reach the Cashes …were unsuccessful.”
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Remains of 3 People Are Found in Foreclosed House After Its Sale
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The squandering of our national life, our treasure, our morale, our patience with the cupidity and vulgarity of these gangsters — that’s the legacy so far. And 2 1/2 yrs to go.. Trump Says Vandals Sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. Internal Documents Raise Doubts. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...
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Trump Says Vandals Sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. Internal Documents Raise Doubts.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If money is speech, as Citizens United suggests, his exercise of his first amendment rights — already profane — will be deafening and physically nauseating.. At the very least. Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire on SpaceX’s First Day of Trading www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
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Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire on SpaceX’s First Day of Trading
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This confirms my lifelong worst suspicions about the inherent violence of accumulated wealth. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
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Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire on SpaceX’s First Day of Trading
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
NBA-wise…Spurs throw balls up in the air, eyes closed, they go in. Knicks have wide open shots, they miss. Conclusion: Clearly, San Antonio’s nuns have more clout than NY’s in this NBA finals.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Q. “The ironies here are myriad,” says David Remnick, on the oligarch would-be dictator Trump standing as a ‘populist’ hero. “How do the Democrats find a vocabulary” to deal with this? A. For starters, David, please stop saying things like “the ironies here are myriad.”
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Great obituary for an American master. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Sonny Rollins, ‘saxophone colossus’ of jazz, dies at 95
The tenor saxophonist was one of America’s most renowned jazz musicians, embracing tradition and innovation for six decades.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Times’ Pope story, where he says “a society that guarantees employment to only a small fraction of the population, despite having a high level of technical development, risks exposing many to forced inactivity," ran next to an ad for Deloitte, promising to help u improve productivity through AI.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
— “Bracing for Chaos!” — was the banner headline in my local paper yesterday. It was about a railroad strike, since settled. But until further notice, I think “Bracing for Chaos!” should be the banner across the top of the New York Times every single day.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Washington Post’s creepy and weird editorial page under the ham-handed ownership of (the creepy and weird) Jeff Bezos. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Zohran Mamdani’s ‘creepy and weird’ attack on success
"To put any citizen in harm’s way is just inappropriate for one of our political leaders."
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“A new litmus test for status” — Who gets a wedge of security when gunfire breaks out, and who doesn’t. —— www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Column | I cannot stop thinking about Cheryl Hines at the correspondents’ dinner
Watching video clips from the aftermath of the gunfire was a surreal glimpse into the mundanity of gun violence in the United States.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Funny how the two stabilizing political institutions in the world today are a king and a pope. —- At a Moment of Chaos in Trump’s Washington, the Royals Come to Town www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
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At a Moment of Chaos in Trump’s Washington, the Royals Come to Town
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#NBABluesky you know it’s bad when you only breathe during commercial breaks. God save the Knicks.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Knowing nothing about diplomacy, the only reference I have here is interpersonal: if someone has you over a barrel, AND HATES YOU FOR CAUSE, you are a dead duck. Iran War Live Updates: Trump Calls Off Witkoff and Kushner’s Travel to Pakistan for Peace Talks www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Iran War Live Updates: Trump Calls Off Witkoff and Kushner’s Travel to Pakistan for Peace Talks
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If our political guardrails keep crumpling, many good citizens will leave here rather than be implicated in this govt’s cruel and criminal behavior. Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...
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Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b... And this… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w... Sum up this administration’s values: which are to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
‘Latin’ is not in the approved Wordle word list. This is conclusive proof of the inhumanity of man to man.
Latin is not in the Wordle word list.Conclusive  proof of the inhumanity of man to man.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
#NBA in game 1 of OKC v. Phoenix, Thunder players so relaxed and cheery, like they’re at a cocktail party/pick-up game.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
At what point did “turn-of-the-century” come to mean the late 1990s/ early 2000s? This is a culture shock for me, but also, possibly, the end of the world as I know it.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A flawed, pre-fab “think piece” that ignores two dead in Minneapolis and widespread confrontations over Israeli overreach in Gaza. What’s the matter with the once brilliant Thomas Edsall? Why Aren’t the Kids Out Protesting Against Trump? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...
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Opinion | Why Aren’t the Kids Out Protesting Against Trump?
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Cassandra here: We hurtle toward an emergency of our own making but the ‘emergency’ isn’t about Iran. (He could never explain his war.) It’s about emergency powers. He wants them. Trump Calls to Wipe Out a ‘Whole Civilization’ as Iranians Reject Threats www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Iran War Live Updates: Trump Calls to Wipe Out a ‘Whole Civilization’ as Iranians Reject Threats
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
All this means is that Trump has successfully lowered the national IQ by a couple of dozen points. Aren’t we sick of this mind numbing crap? C’mon America. grow the fuck up. For Democrats, the Era of the Girl Dad and Male Ally Is Over www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/o...
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Opinion | For Democrats, the Era of the Girl Dad and Male Ally Is Over
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u... The NYT has published more articles about “Love Story” on FX — about 20 in the last 2 months — than it has in the past year on the (ho-hum) mass protests against the systematic rape of American democracy.
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A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Always was fuzzy about what the ‘subjunctive’ form meant in grammar. Now, come to realize it’s where I lived most of my life.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
‘Who is paying this guy?’ Would be the obvious question — but we already know — www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... Who? Here you go: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Trump administration to pay $1 billion to stop two East Coast wind farms
The Interior Department reached a settlement to pay France’s TotalEnergies not to pursue two offshore wind farms but direct the investments toward fossil fuels.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I admire the earnestness and measured tone of this editorial. But it’s based on an absurd conceit: that he will change. Editorials need to be addressed to the American people. It’s our behavior that needs fixing. Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Innocents killed in West Absurdistan by THEIR cluster bombs? A demonic war crime. Innocents killed in East Absurdistan by OURS? Well, things happen. Admiral’s Comments Undercut Pentagon’s Cluster Munition Policy www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/u...
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Admiral’s Comments Undercut Pentagon’s Cluster Munition Policy
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Is there any cruelty he can resist? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump divulges congressman’s terminal illness, says doctors said he could be ‘dead by June’
Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Florida), who is not seeking reelection, had not previously publicly disclosed that he is battling a terminal illness.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Until the very very few have so much access to ‘resources and freedoms’ that the rest of us, to quote the patrioticide Trump, ‘will never have to vote again.’
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
From a box of old newspapers emerges this 1983 column (right hand side) by the late Sydney Schanberg, documenting the sleazy, ever-vulgar, sneering, immutable Trump, a man who never changes because…he has always been the worst thing he could possibly be.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Persian Gulf…now known as The Gulf of Trump’s Second Term. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Explosions reported on two foreign vessels in the Gulf, authorities say
Pressure has intensified on the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important shipping lanes, since Israel and the US attacked Iran last month.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I miss the Winter Olympics.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The only régime change Trump wants is the overthrow of America’s 250-year-old tradition of constitutional democracy www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
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Live Updates: Iran retaliates after U.S.-Israel strikes; Trump calls for regime change
The U.S. and Israel are attacking Iran, which is responding with attacks on U.S. bases in the region, as President Trump confirms "major combat operations."
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Does anyone remember this from 2 days ago? Luckily,making war on Iran— and the inevitable ‘terrorism’ it will trigger— couldn’t possibly count as an ‘emergency’ justifying Trump’s election-rigging bullshit in time for the midterms. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency
Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... When war on Iran results inevitably in ‘terrorist’ attacks against Americans on U.S. soil, Trump will have his emergency, won’t he.
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Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency
Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
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Paul Vitello @pvitello.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I love the Marseillaise: “Tremble, tyrants and ye traitors The disgrace of all parties, Tremble! Your parricidal schemes Will finally receive their prize! Everyone is a soldier to fight you, If our young heroes fall, The earth will produce new ones, Ready to fight against you!” #olympics
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