Let's call this #ClimateGate

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

"A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming."

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January of 1933 was the year Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Over the next six months, he did many of the same things Trump is doing, but essentially unopposed. In 2025, Americans resolve is stronger as is our Constitution. That makes all the difference! Republicans will fail!

This is a great idea.

If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground.

At least three weeks

Yeah, I wasn't clear, I now realize. What I meant was, those who were in on shifting to the right at the beginning, but who pulled back early, can be appreciated in a more positive light than those who stuck through Trump 1.0 and are still MAGA in Trump 2.0.

And, they also can not be trusted (at this point), and their transgression against society can not be forgotten or forgiven.

Right-wing media escalate attacks on young women voters following Democratic election wins across the country In the wake of Democrats’ sweeping election victories across the country on November 4, right-wing media quickly focused their ire on young women, who voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates. F...

Right-wing media have focused their ire on young women, who voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates last week.

💯. It wasn't about just the ACA subsides—it was about those and … everything else.

Schumer and the Hateful Eight Betray America A new low for the Democratic Senate

@TheRickWilson : "The Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, “We killed Obamacare at last!”" open.substack.com/pub/therickwilson/p/schu...

Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.

BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling. The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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We used to talk about a War on Hunger. Now we have a War on the Hungry.

Big takeaway #2 (for future reference): Mamdani is now on the list that includes Hillary Clinton, Ilhan Omar, Nancy Pelosi, and AOC. The GOP's bogymen.

(Thoughts adapted from current POS, "Revenge of the Libs.")

The big takeaway #1: Most of the Dem victories yesterday involved YOUNGER PEOPLE KICKING BOOMER ASS.

"Mamdani won 9% of 2024 Trump voters ... these NYC people pulled the lever for Trump one year ago, and yesterday, they pulled it for an immigrant Democratic Socialist mayor."

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None of it is a distraction. Stop saying it is a distraction. Stop throwing one group or another under the bus because of your own shifting outrage. Let the outrage shift but don't take ANYTHING off the table.

Airports say they won’t play Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints Travelers in Seattle, Phoenix and other cities will not see the video, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight disruptions.

Multiple airports around the country said they won’t display a video in which DHS Sec. Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown and related travel delays.

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Americans want the shutdown to end, but not if it means leaving millions without health care Polling report on how to talk about the shutdown fight.

By a 13-point margin, Americans say Trump and Republicans in Congress are more to blame for the government shutdown than Democrats.

Top concern for Democrats, independents, and persuadables: stopping cuts to Medicaid and the ACA.

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The American people know full well that this is Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans' government shutdown, and say so by a 13-point margin. h/t @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social

Listening to #SistersinLaw and it occurs to me that the conversation about Trump's enemies tends to speak of them as "left-leaning." That is correct, but "centrists" are just as much in the cross-hairs of Trump and his cronies. Maybe "People in America" is a better term.

Yes! What would you have them say?

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Literally look at any Media Matters story tagged with his name and you'll get his disgusting comments in full context. Miss me with this "I find that [his views] have been inaccurately or incompletely reported," you ghoul.