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Retired newspaper editor.

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LadyBlue4evr💙Radical Liberal Scum @ladyblue4evr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well, there you have it.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump has checked out on Iran. He's letting his toadies run the war while he concentrates on important issues, such as collecting bribes, alienating allies, praising dictators, building tacky monuments to himself, undermining elections and posting A.I. images of himself as the leader he'll never be.
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Oil Hits $100 a Barrel as Turmoil Intensifies in Middle East (Gift Article)
The cost of crude has risen 40 percent since the start of the war in Iran, pushing up the price of gasoline, diesel and other refined fuels.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reads like a Pentagon press release. Not one sailor or Marine quoted. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/w...
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In Thailand, Weary U.S. Warship Crew Gets First Break in Months
Thousands of sailors and Marines serve on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which came into the spotlight because of a tough deployment in the war in Iran.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The 20th century taught us that appeasing a madman merely invites more demands. How was this lesson lost by so many who should know better? The tide may be turning, but it's inexcusable that it has taken so long.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Everybody now sees America as less than it was before.” He views Trump’s travails as part of a “precipitous collapse of American power and American prestige” and says “once this war is over, the U.S. is going to find the rest of the world much more difficult to herd around any coherent policy.”
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
By putting this information in their court filings, they're announcing to the world that a full-throttle campaign against dissent is under way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A drone strike on a U.S.-owned tanker in Egypt; Houthis firing on Red Sea shipping; the Saudis and Iraqi militias trading attacks; Iran attacking U.S. troops in Jordan; China and Russia arming Iran. Trump's war is morphing into the regional conflict many feared it would become. Nice job, Donnie.
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Trump Encounters a More Determined Iran as War Widens
With Iran flexing its might, President Trump appears to be weighing military options again, after rejecting plans to escalate.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/07/2026
Breaking News: President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran.
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Trump Holds Off on Major War Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise Concerns
Among the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions in the Middle East.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
His war killed them, and now he's putting words into their corpses' mouths as though these corpses are ventriloquist dummies. There's no low to which this reprehensible bag of shit won't stoop to feed his insatiable ego.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump said before the WC final: “I would say that it’s hard to bet against (Lionel) Messi.” The curse lives.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
In the least surprising news ever, the flying bribe is a security nightmare and President Deals is trying to intimidate the journalists reporting on it www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It should be clear by now that DHS believes it has free rein to kill people without consequences. Its self-investigations are farces or nonexistent, and its lawyers have been called out by judges for lying in court filings. This is a deep and bloody stain on America inflicted by the MAGA cult.
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Witnesses of ICE Killing in Houston Dispute the Official Account
The agency said a Mexican immigrant driving a van tried to ram agents before they shot him dead. A lawyer for three passengers said that was untrue.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
They earned it, and the orange dumbshit deserves the mockery.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
Four states are standing in the way of a water rights deal that tribes say would help them build more housing, grow sustainable economies and better protect public health. “It’s a fundamental human rights issue,” said one law professor. w/ @kjzz.org
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Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 06/07/2026
The Trump administration is paying Duke Energy $129 million in taxpayer dollars to stop its North Carolina offshore wind farm. Trump has now paid over $2.5 billion to terminate offshore wind projects that would have provided affordable energy to millions. He's enriching Big Oil at our expense.
Photo of TrumpImage of oil refinery/plant
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Apparently, this is what he means by "saving America from communism."
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Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/06/2026
Trump and his team keep claiming the agreement with Iran includes details it definitely doesn’t. trib.al/9Bl6YxZ
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Trump Spirals as Iran Exposes His Lies About the Deal
Trump and his team keep claiming the agreement with Iran includes details it definitely doesn’t.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Here's the context you won't find in corporate media: Trump is done with Iran. He never cared about it or the Middle East, he wanted glorious victory. Now he's furious. He's told Vance to get him the hell out of there. Meanwhile he continues to mutter vile threats. presswatchers.org/2026/06/pres...
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Press corps still gets Trump’s motivation all wrong | Press Watch
The only thing Trump cares about is Trump
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Call Me Jasper @callmejasper.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Withdrawing a bill to end the war because it may actually pass is MAGA/GOP perversity writ large.
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G.O.P. Pulls Measure to End Iran War, Lacking Votes to Defeat It
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/05/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is Trump in huckster mode, solicitous to the point of fawning. World leaders have seen enough of him to know that he has no friends. Xi may humor Trump's phony bonhomie, but he won't fall for it.
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Trump Calls Xi a ‘Friend.’ But He Left China Without Any Breakthroughs.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
From NYT: "The Pentagon put the cost of the war on Iran at 'closer' to $29 billion, roughly $4 billion more than two weeks ago." For the arithmetically challenged, that's $2 billion a week added to the national debt, and that's only if they're not low-balling the cost. Your tax dollars pissed away.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Another weak and futile attempt to keep oil prices under control.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Given the hideous alternative, I'm willing to give Bluesky the benefit of the doubt.
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Bill Clayton @wordforce.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It's important to keep in mind that we're funding Trump's needless war at $2 billion a day AND Republicans are letting him do it. Vote them all out. Every single one of them.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
“I have the best plan of all,” Trump said. “But I’m not going to tell you what my plan is.” Anybody who believes such infantile bullshit from a lifelong conman has to be dumb beyond belief. He's the most prolific liar to ever walk the earth and too lazy and stupid to create any sort of real plan.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is COVID 2.0: Just keep claiming that it will end soon, and eventually you'll be correct. This time, however, he controls how it ends, and it's clear he has no idea how to do it. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...
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Trump Pledged a Quick End to the Iran War, but He Hasn’t Explained How
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Trump and his clown chorus may keep saying the war will end in weeks, not months, but it's not their call anymore. He's a moron, and his clowns are worse, more worried about who he'll scapegoat than in being honest.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It's bad enough that the IC has surrendered its authority to make honest assessments. But it has done so to a decrepit old man who cares only about his wealth and his image. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
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On Iran, Gabbard Turned Intelligence Duties Over to Trump
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Many people talking about how gasoline prices at the pump have already jumped. But what should really terrify Republicans is RBOB — the futures price on wholesale gasoline. This is up 75 cents a gallon since its low earlier this year.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Off the cliff goes his core appeal to voters.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The projection monster strikes again.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Now that they have power again, the Trumpists will never give it up willingly.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Way to punish SCOTUS, Donnie! Make American consumers and businesses pay an even bigger tax than the 10 percent you charged us yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...
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Trump Says He Will Raise Global Tariff to 15 Percent
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Trump's corruption is out of control. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Another day, another disgusting chapter of the GOP's enormous coverup for the unaccountable elite is revealed.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I never thought I'd see a U.S. attorney general treat congressional questioners with such contempt. Pam Bondi's angry invective in response to legitimate questions today is a nauseating new low for the DOJ and provides more evidence that an epic coverup is under way.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Never in his life has Trump wanted honesty in anything. He wants a whitewash. In the meantime, he's trying to bullshit his way out of taking blame for sponsoring state terrorism.
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Minneapolis Live Updates: Trump Faults Pretti for Carrying Gun but Says He Wants ‘Honest’ Inquiry
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
How can it be an insurrection when the only people being shot are the alleged insurrectionists?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.
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NPR @npr.org · 20/12/2025
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world's cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate. n.pr/44ykAyM
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Pope Leo summons cardinals for a key assembly to help him govern Catholic Church
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world's cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A new world order based on the mafia economic model: Any crime is OK as long as you kick up to the boss.
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Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
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Linda Tolladay @moonlight59.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Well thank you for elevating the speculation of idiots to a false equivalency with, you know, folks who went to school to learn how comets work. You should be embarrassed NYT.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Can't decide whether this is another grift, or that they know something the rest of us don't.
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Trump Officials Move Into Military Residences in D.C. Area
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The health-care conflagration is upon us. www.facebook.com/share/v/1CQT...
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Redirecting...
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This will never replace "I won in 2020" in the pantheon of Trump lies, but "the ballroom will be separate from the East Wing" has to be up there with it. Not since the War of 1812 has the White House sustained so much damage. The man is pestilence personified.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The colonel has a right to choose his path, but the problem is that Trump will now fill his post with someone less devoted to his constitutional oath and more devoted to Trump. It's same process that helped MAGAtize Congress.
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Marine colonel quits after 24 years citing concern for future of US under Trump
Resignation, coinciding with Hegseth’s partisan speech, was over Trump flouting constitution, Doug Krugman writes
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Are the Streets of Chicago Showing Us the Future of American Democracy? open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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Are the Streets of Chicago Showing Us the Future of American Democracy?
When federal agents turn weapons on citizens, it’s not just a local scandal — it’s a national reckoning.
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Quadling @quadling.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"Plenary" means absolute, as in power without any restrictions. Miller froze because he realized he gave away the plan. Dictatorship isn't simply an accusation anymore. It's the administration's guiding principle.
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Stephen Miller Says Trump Has 'Plenary Authority'
YouTube video by HuffPost
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