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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
When Admiral Alvin Holsey raised concerns about the legality of the strikes on the alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, Pete Hegseth gave him an ultimatum. “You’re either on the team or you’re not,” Hegseth reportedly told Holsey. “When you get an order, you move out fast and don’t ask questions.”
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Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and Adm. Alvin Holsey had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 03/12/2025
OPINION by @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social: “Trump’s pretext for his attacks near Venezuela was never believable, given the tiny amount of drugs that flow through Venezuela into the States. But now that pretext is an obvious farce.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Trump's pardon of a convicted drug kingpin reveals the lie of his 'war on drugs'
Zeeshan Aleem: How we know Trump's 'war on drugs' is a farce
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2025
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/11/2025
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
wsj.com
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
In 2022, Biden earmarked billions of dollars to help former coal communities. It was the largest investment in Appalachia since LBJ's 1960s’ war on poverty. But Trump won West Virginia 70% to 28% in 2024. And now he's taking away the funding Biden gave them. When are they going to learn?
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‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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Headline:  Honduran president planned to shove drugs "right up the noses of the 'gringos'," according to witness in New York drug case

Subhead: President Juan Orlando Hernandez allegedly sought access to a cocaine lab run by Geovanny Fuentes, an accused drug trafficker who is due to go on trial in New York in March.

By: Jeff Ernst
Published January 9, 2021 - 06:09 PM EST.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:
NYT headline: Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Hondurass president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/11/2025
I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities. I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️ Now let's talk cop killings
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Baltimore Streets
YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
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Politico @politico.com · 26/11/2025
Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
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Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
The judges ruled that the president’s arguments “were indeed frivolous.”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
NEW: An unanimous appeals court panel — authored by conservative Judge William Pryor and joined by Trump appointee Andrew Brasher — upheld a $1 million sanction againt Trump/Habba for filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“Washington, DC is now a totally safe city. And you can walk down any street in Washington, and you’re going to be just fine. And I want to thank the National Guard.” – Trump yesterday, lying that Washington, DC hasn’t had a murder in 6 months. There had been 62 murders in DC the last six months.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID. I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 23/11/2025
The long-delayed Sept jobs report is out and it confirms the economic anxiety people are feeling. “If we have this slowing growth, rising unemployment & creeping higher prices, that’s not a good place for the U.S. economy,” says @calebsilver.bsky.social alongside @justinwolfers.bsky.social #Velshi
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This is Trump’s economy. And the new data is ‘not telling a really good story’
The delayed September jobs report shows a slowing labor market – with Black women suffering most from the Trump administration policies. But persistent inflation has been costing everyone and Chief Business Editor for People Inc., Caleb Silver argues that rising prices combined with slowing growth and sluggish hiring has the U.S. economy facing “stagflation.” Trump’s tariff regime has in part been responsible for the hiked cost of living, with the president claiming it’ll revive U.S. factory jobs. Economist Justin Wolfers asks if we even want a manufacturing renaissance, saying factory workers he’s spoken with say those jobs were meant to be a pathway to the middle class.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"The unemployment rate has reached a four-year high, job openings are at a four-year low, and leading members of Trump’s own economic team have gone so far as to concede in recent weeks that parts of the U.S. economy are already in recession..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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The White House’s celebration of the weak job market makes no sense
Job growth in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term is on pace to be the worst since the Great Recession. So why is his team bragging?
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 22/11/2025
"No amount of him walking it back undoes that the President of the United States called for the death of six members of Congress," says @houlahan.house.gov. "The result is that his minions, his supporters, are responding and intimidating all of us in the way that they uniquely can." #Velshi
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Rep. Houlahan: “The President of the United States called for the death of six members of Congress."
President Trump called for the execution of six Democratic lawmakers, after they released a video urging U.S. military service members to “refuse illegal orders.” Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, who grew up in a military family, says her father taught her that unlawful orders must always be questioned. Trump’s unhinged reaction is “exactly the reason why, frankly, many of us put out this video.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Trump has put together the whitest presidential administration of the 21st century — 91 percent of his confirmed appointees are white. www.brookings.edu/articles/tra...
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
BREAKING: Newly released data from the federal government shows 91,000 Black women became unemployed in September 2025. www.bls.gov/news.release...
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Politico @politico.com · 20/11/2025
Rising Obamacare premiums are a political headache, but an even bigger affordability crisis is looming. Premiums for the 165 million Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance could spike by up to 7% — likely outpacing most people’s pay raises.
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Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with health insurance through work
It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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Truthout @truthout.org · 20/11/2025
A new U.S. Coast Guard policy, set to take effect next month, will no longer classify imagery of swastikas or nooses as hate symbols, downgrading the level of scrutiny needed to order their removal from Coast Guard facilities.
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Swastikas and Nooses Are No Longer Hate Symbols Under New Coast Guard Rules
The new policy also prevents Coast Guard officers from immediately removing white supremacist symbols upon discovery.
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Hearsay @hearsay.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
SCOTUS be like, "well did he murder them in his official capacity?"
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19/11/2025
If Halligan pulled a grand jury switcheroo, and did not inform the court, this could be her deepest trouble yet.
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Justice Dept. acknowledges full grand jury never saw final Comey indictment
The acknowledgement came during a hearing in which a federal judge heard the former FBI director’s arguments that he is the target of a vindictive prosecution.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Experts have called the possibility of losing elimination status for measles 'deeply embarrassing' for a wealthy country with the medical resources of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
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C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
He’s not the problem…
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Politico @politico.com · 19/11/2025
Appeals court panel mulls $1M penalty for Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
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Appeals court panel mulls $1M penalty for Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
One of the judges said the president’s effort to revive the lawsuit his one-time personal attorney Alina Habba brought violated federal court rules.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Remember when there was an entire political party worried about big government and Big Brother?
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby. 🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
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This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”
He noted that during her grand jury presentation she appears to have misrepresented a basic tenet of the law by suggesting that Mr. Comey did not have the right, under the Fifth Amendment, to avoid testifying at his own trial.
She also appears to have made another astonishing error, Judge Fitzpatrick said.
In his ruling, he pointed out that she told grand jurors that they did not have to rely solely "on the record before them" to return an indictment against Mr. Comey, but instead "could be assured the government had more evidence - perhaps better evidence - that would be presented at trial."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/11/2025
When Jason Reding Quiñones was hired in 2018 as a federal prosecutor in Florida, he flunked out of the office’s boot camp for new hires and left the office in 2024. A year later, President Trump tapped him to lead the U.S. attorney’s office.
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The Trump prosecutor probing former top Obama administration officials
Jason Reding Quiñones, U.S. attorney in Miami and a favorite prosecutor for the Trump administration, is pursuing a broad investigation into former Obama officials.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 18/11/2025
MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
A Phil Williams NC5 Investigates report on a neo-Nazi targeting kids online, telling them to prepare for a 'race war'
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race."
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
After months of fighting the release of the Epstein Files, Trump now realizes he’s going to lose the vote in the House so he tries to pretend he wants the House to vote to release it. If Trump wanted the files released, he could RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES TODAY. He doesn’t have to wait on Congress.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents. They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..." abc7.com/post/ontario...
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Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario
A citizens group in Ontario is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving ICE agents detaining and arresting undocumented immigrants.
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Politico @politico.com · 13/11/2025
Senate Republicans run from politically toxic payout provision designed just for them
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Senate Republicans run from politically toxic payout provision designed just for them
Only one Republican senator has public plans to sue under new legislative language House Republicans are now seeking to scrap.
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 10/11/2025
Trump’s sham Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, announced a mass pardon of at least 77 people involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results. This is another unprecedented and extremely dangerous use of the pardon power. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/cHkqw...
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Trump’s mass pardon of election deniers
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
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Politico @politico.com · 10/11/2025
Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election
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Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election
Pardon recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman and dozens more.
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Politico @politico.com · 10/11/2025
Appeals court rules Trump administration can be forced to pay full SNAP benefits
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Appeals court rules Trump administration can be forced to pay full SNAP benefits
But the decision is on hold due to a prior Supreme Court order.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game. (Video: Marisa Schultz)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
At least some people’s lives have improved in Donald Trump’s America.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"This Week in Democracy – Week 42: Trump Pardons Crooks, Ignores Courts, and Threatens War" Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term. Read/share/subscribe:
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This Week in Democracy – Week 42: Trump Pardons Crooks, Ignores Courts, and Threatens War
Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 10/11/2025
This sucks dude. EVEN if Thune isn’t lying to you about the vote, the House won’t hold a vote. You got nothing, and just proved to the public that the shutdown was your fault. And you proved to Republicans that they can weaponize hunger. You negotiated with terrorists
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
No health care, no deal.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.
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