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Would you like to listen to a good Presidential speech about America? Attend: In 2015, Rudy Giuliani, some time before he was disbarred, said, “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America.” www.politico.com/story/2015/0...
Giuliani: Obama doesn't love America
The former New York mayor makes his remarks at a Scott Walker event.
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A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year
Good news here. At a time when the US is forfeiting its leadership in so many areas, I’m glad China is still doing science.
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3mo agoChinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
This is a sleeper issue all Democrats should embrace. Fits on a bumper sticker: Same product, same price.
Mallory McMorrow@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying. This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you. In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.
This made me feel good about my Irish roots. ☘️
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5mo agoHappy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
We will take your guns.
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 6mo agoMAGA personalities are furious after Jeanine Pirro appeared on her former network to warn even licensed, “law-abiding gun owners” that if they “bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail and hope you get the gun back.” Read more: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Great thread. In 1775 it was Boston. Today Minneapolis is the center of resistance.
Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · 7mo agoI came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
The Constitution is very clear: War powers belong to Congress, not the White House. Contact your senators and demand that they check the regime’s lawless violence — or there’s no telling where this will end.
Tell Congress: No War With Venezuela
The Trump regime has been amassing forces in the Caribbean as it threatens war against Venezuela. Over the past few months, they’ve bombed small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific that they claim were...
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For Christmas Eve, enjoy a supercut of my favorite tradition — Darlene Love on Letterman
Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" Supercut | Letterman
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
Beat up on them all you want, it’s good we still have a media outlet with reporters on the ground in Kabul. D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
Craig Harrington@craigipedia.bsky.social · 9mo agoAmerica... boy, I dunno.
This is a hell of a piece.
Rick Wilson@therickwilson.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
About time the Resistance got some new music. Thanks Zach
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10mo ago👂LISTEN — (U.S. Navy veteran) country Singer Zach Bryan’s lyrics about ICE that triggered the White House
Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.
See, WV, you could’ve said no like Vermont did.
An example of two of the most important aspects of this moment: Established programs that were central to the economy and lives of specific populations, ones you probably never knew about, are being destroyed by people who didn’t know about them either and..: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
From Food Aid to Dog Chow? How Trump’s Cuts Hurt Kansas Farmers.
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