Alex de Soto
@alexdesoto.bsky.social
Retired advertising strategist and creative director.
Trump Is Trying to Force Americans to Unlearn What We Know www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | Trump's Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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Latino voters for Trump look to back PA Governor Shapiro.
The logic here.... "Vehicles are dangerous 2-ton weapons, so we're going to pull them over for specious reasons and terrorize the drivers to see what happens..."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHoman: "It's only a matter time when you weaponize that two ton vehicle where an officer is not going to be able to react in time and we're burying an ICE officer ... so the vehicle stops are back on"
www.ms.now/news/us-serv... 📌HEARTBREAKING NEWS TWO AMERICAN SERVICE MEMBERS HAVE BEEN KILLED ONE MISSING In Jordan defending Iranian missiles and drone attack at airbase TRUMP'S WAR KILLS THIS IS ALL ON TRUMP
2 U.S. service members killed in Jordan and 1 missing after Iranian attacks, CENTCOM says
The names of the killed troops were being withheld until 24 hours after their families have been notified, U.S. Central Command said.
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DHS has published its Final Rule to eliminate "duration of status" for F, J & I nonimmigrants. One of the most significant changes to international student, exchange visitor & foreign media programs in decades, it will be costly, cause chaos, and cut legal immigration.
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Argentina players celebrate with Falkland Islands banner
Giovanni Lo Celso has brought out a banner saying ‘Las Malvinas son Argentinas’ — ‘The Malvinas are Argentine.’He held it with Nicolas Otamendi and then briefly put it away before laying it out on the...
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An American Politician is Blocked by Israeli Settlers in the West Bank (Gift Article)
Representative Ro Khanna was barred from leaving for 90 minutes. Where past U.S. leaders toured the region to show support for Israel, today’s Democratic presidential aspirants are going to bolster th...
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Trump Administration Fires Members of Independent Election Group (Gift Article)
The firings and a resignation render the Election Assistance Commission useless. The moves come as President Trump seeks to impose control over how ballots will be counted in the midterms.
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"An otherwise law-abiding high school student—who loved his welding and carpentry classes, had braces and a girlfriend, and spent weekends playing soccer at the park with his nieces and nephews—was thrown into detention & put on a path toward deportation." https://bit.ly/4vSW9Ym
These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Please speak up. Record your objection. This is crucially important.
Save America Movement@saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · last mo.Russ Vought — the Project 2025 architect — is rewriting an OMB rule to seize control of $1T+ in federal grants: roads, hospitals, fire departments, food banks, elections. By law, public comments must be read & answered. Yours matters.
DOOCY: Why not stick around for the signing ceremony of this Iran peace deal? TRUMP: I might. But this is a memorandum of understanding. It might not be the kind of document I should be signing. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD.
Trump’s comments on Iran at the G7 summit were “desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
Trump Does Not Understand What He’s Saying About the Middle East
The president’s comments at the G7 summit revealed that he doesn’t understand the war he started—or the words that come out of his own mouth.
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