Jami Alene

Jami Alene

@jamialene.bsky.social

Firm believer in ‘Primum non nocere’. She/her in blurple area of red state. Semi retired FM provider. Comments and reactions are my own, not those of present or past employers.

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Tapper: "I just looked at the State Department's website. They have a Level 4 'Do Not Travel' advisory for Haiti…That doesn't sound safe to me." Mullin: "That advisory is to American citizens traveling to Haiti, not Haitians going back home." Tapper: "It doesn't sound safe."

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Conservatives used to remind us every 20 minutes that Reagan never took off his jacket in the Oval Office because he had so much reverence for the White House.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

looking pretty stormy at the White House right now

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If you told me in 2021 after J6 that one day Trump would have a $1.776 billion slush fund of taxpayer $$ to hand out to his fellow insurrectionists who committed a heinous crime against America, I wouldn’t have believed it. But the story of Trump has always been a crime story with many accomplices.

Shame of them for not doing right by the graduates!

Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social

As I told a reporter last week, nearly all convocation brouhahas boil down to a single issue: Students, even normie non-radical students, rightly understand graduation as a day that is for them, and about them, and which belongs to them. You fuck with that at your peril.

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This is the raving of a delusional man who is unfit and unable to discharge the duties of his office. Every member of his cabinet and Congress who choose to look the other way or deny the danger are complicit.

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If the corporate media weren't so damn incompetent, they could just look back over the last 6 Sunday's and see what Axios dutifully reports every fuc&ing time. It's a goddamn market manipulation every Sunday night. It's embarrassing how bad the media is. @cnn @nytimes @washingtonpost.com

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

They run back the same playbook with the same players every Sunday.

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Trump’s Iran war summary: 13 Americans killed and more than 500 wounded, 1,600 Iranian civilians killed, $45 billion in our tax dollars spent and what did Trump get is return? The Strait of Hormuz that was 100% open before Trump’s war—and was only closed because of Trump’s attacks--is back open.

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My leader on how our food supply relies heavily on fossil fuels, which means the war on Iran will lead to soaring prices We need to decouple farming from fossil fuels, to reduce emissions from farming as well as to make us less vulnerable to food shocks www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

newscientist.comThe Iran war is exposing the huge risks in our food systemNo matter where you get your food from, a good chunk of your diet is ultimately reliant on fossil fuels. We already need to change this to tackle climate change, but the Iran war and resulting oil sho...

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Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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SCOOP: A long-time State Department staffer tells me they're "outraged" by the Easter proselytizing. And they're not alone. Secretary Rubio and the department itself asserted Christian beliefs as fact on their official accounts... ...the way they didn't for Passover.

jonathanlarsen.substack.comRubio Rankles Staff with Easter ProselytizingUpset workers include one long-timer “outraged” at Christian messaging by Rubio and an official department account

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Erratic. Can’t finish sentences. Often confused. Illogical train of thought. Word finding difficulties. Developing and worsening gradually over time. The President is exhibiting all the signs of dementia.

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Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

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You have an inviolable First Amendment right to dress like a penis at a protest

The Intercept@theintercept.com

“What Renea has been saying all along is that it’s not so much about her. It’s the Constitution and the First Amendment that are on trial.” interc.pt/4bOfB0Q

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His Easter morning post. And just 2 days ago, one of his “religious advisors” compared him to Jesus Christ. He will forever be a stain on this country. And the world. 25th Amendment. Now. And to everyone else who, unlike Trump, understands & celebrates today - Happy Easter.

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UNREAL!! Trump plans to spend $550 million on White House residence renovations! Americans can't afford health insurance, groceries, gas and more. But "King" Trump is going to spend a half BILLION dollars in our money to make his palace look nicer! IMPEACH & REMOVE! www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

politico.comTrump plans spending $377M on executive residence renovations – plus $174M moreThe fiscal 2027 budget shows a jump — from $39 million to $377 million — for renovations to the White House living space and possibly other areas.

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This clown preps for his daily Fox appearances by scanning a collection of right-wing talking points on social media which he subsequently clips and scrambles in his head then spews them out in an incoherent word salad. Fox’s useful idiot.

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Nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz: • paid himself $5M as a “ghost employee” • diverted tens of millions owed to taxpayers & employees • failed to pay at least 3 multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families He also received a Trump pardon.

propublica.orgA Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

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I'm someone who was there at the midnight releases of the Harry Potter books and movies. Watching this show puts money in the pockets of J.K. Rowling. And if you do that, you're helping fund a deadly worldwide campaign of hate against trans people. Consult your conscience.

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This is very very big. Like a big deal and massive cuts. These can’t even be seen as budgetary since you don’t get much savings in the context of trillions budget. They want the US out of R&D out of science research.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

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War, what is it good for? 🙌🏽 Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼

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A mother is dead. Her young children watched it happen. Another argument involving guns, another life gone in seconds. Every 18 hours, someone is shot and wounded or killed in an incident of road rage in America. We refuse to accept this as normal.

khou.comWoman shot and killed in front of her kids during roadside confrontation in Katy area, sheriff saysA woman was shot and killed in front of her kids during a roadside confrontation in a Katy-area neighborhood.

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BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

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We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

propublica.orgThe Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention CenterProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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They're just an older, more credentialed version of the DOGE boys -- performing little tricks for their partisan masters because it's all just a fun little intellectual game to them, something that gets them attention, while the real-world pain will be felt by people they couldn't give a shit about.

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

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There were more voters who didn’t vote in ‘24 than there were those who voted for Trump. Remember: You don’t have to waste your time or breath on MAGA cult members. They are lost. Focus on the apathetic. 

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WSJ: An Iranian missile struck the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia on Friday, wounding 10 American servicemembers, two seriously, and damaging several U.S. refueling aircraft, according to U.S. and Saudi officials familiar with the strike.