Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Donald Trump isnāt afraid of Iran having a nuclear weapon. Heās afraid of an even bigger bombshell that might drop right on his cotton candy noggin.
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He opened his mouth and lies came out and bombs fell and people started dying
The only difference between the way George W.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/he-opened-his-mouth-and-lies-came
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I canāt wait for Paramount and Warner Brothers under the ownership of the Ellisons to start generating right-wing red hat crap for the masses. Youāll be able to ski down the graphs of their companiesā profits and ratings. Itās harder than it looks.
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Paramount-Warner Bros. deal: They think theyāre buying a casino. They should ask Trump how that worked out.
There is nothing that Hollywood likes better than making a meal out of amateur lunch meat, and thatās what happened today when Paramount/Skydance bought Warner Brothers Discovery for a reported $110 b...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/paramount-warner-bros-deal-they-think
2 days ago
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Republicans questioned Hillary Clinton for six hours about a man she had never met and did not know. Why arenāt they interested in talking to a whole bunch of men who did know him, who traveled with him, who stayed overnight at his properties?
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What the hell was the House Oversight Committee doing questioning Hillary Clinton today?
Hereās the story: House Republicans eager to kiss the ass of Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton to be questioned about Jeffrey Epstein today in Chappaqua, New York.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-was-the-house-oversight
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Now the DOJ is scrambling to re-insert some, but not all, of the ā302ā interviews back into the Epstein files, but they are still withholding the interviews with victims that mention Trump.
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Reflections of Trump in the Epstein files wilderness of mirrors
This is a story about how difficult it is to maintain a coverup and what happens when it begins to unravel.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/reflections-of-trump-in-the-epstein
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he awarded the goalie a Presidential Medal of Freedom. That got another flood of applause. He was on a roll, so he also gave out two Medals of Honor, and he probably would have thrown a Bible up there to someone if he had thought of it.
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That SOB's voice was in these things for almost two hours
I watched the speech on my phone so you didn't have to.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/that-sobs-voice-was-in-these-things
5 days ago
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Trump has said his speech tonight will be at least two hours long and could go to three hours, getting into Khrushchev and Castro territory, which is fitting for an authoritarian full of shit-shoveler like Donald Trump.
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Will Trump announce attack on Iran tonight at SOTU?
They call the State of the Union speech the ābiggest stage in the world.ā But of course that is what politicians do, especially Donald Trump ā pat themselves on the back, exaggerate, posture, lie, and...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/will-trump-announce-attack-on-iran
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Tomorrow night, Trump is going to do what he always does when heās mad, and heās mad as hell right now: Heās going to double down. He just did it on tariffs, and heāll brag about that.
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On the eve of Trump's State of the Union, Americans are in a foul mood
We just had a power outage here at the Truscott-Harris Manse, now restored, and it has caused a late start, so Iām going to write about two recent polls tonight, and then Iām going to tell you what I ...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/on-the-eve-of-trumps-state-of-the
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Good luck to you, if youāre in the path of the storm. Stay safe, stay warm, and watch your step.
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The storm is here.
Weāre still in a blizzard warning, and there are several different predictions for snowfall, anywhere from 6 inches to 16.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-storm-is-here
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So, buckle up. Heās going to spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on his insane plans, and if weāre luckyā¦very very luckyā¦he wonāt get a new crop of young Americans killed in the process.
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Donald Trumpās air-conditioned war on Iran
The Trump administration has been engaged in a massive military buildup in and around the Middle East preparing for an expected attack on Iran.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-air-conditioned-war
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So, buckle up. Heās going to spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on his insane plans, and if weāre luckyā¦very very luckyā¦he wonāt get a new crop of young Americans killed in the process.
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Donald Trumpās air-conditioned war on Iran
The Trump administration has been engaged in a massive military buildup in and around the Middle East preparing for an expected attack on Iran.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-air-conditioned-war
8 days ago
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What a day. Three card monte tariffs turn into global tariffs as the most criminally corrupt administration in our history continues to accrue wealth for its Master and Commander.
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Wa-a-a-a-a-ah!
Donald Trumpās Supreme Court surprised him today by taking away the emergency tariff power heās been playing with since taking office last year.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/wa-a-a-a-a-ah
9 days ago
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The Trump administration took down the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument across Christopher Street from where it all began. What they really want to do is turn back the clock to the day before Stonewall.
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The day before Stonewall
The Trump administration took down the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument across Christopher Street from where it all began.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-day-before-stonewall
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I guess it will remain a mystery why Elon Musk did not bar Russian use of Starlink technology right from the start, since he is the one who makes all the decisions about how Starlink is used and by whom. But heās done it now.
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Has Elon suddenly grown a conscience?
Stick with me.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/has-suddenly-elon-grown-a-conscience
11 days ago
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There is strength in numbers. There is strength in talent. Put both together, and we can turn these assholes and their hate inside out with their jealousy and anger.
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The Boss strikes back!
Iām going to do some cheerleading tonight, and let me tell you right now that I am not ashamed of it.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-boss-strikes-back
12 days ago
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Have you had a look at the pantload Trump has nominated to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations? His name is Jeremy Carl, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, a parking garage for right-wing fools and outright racists.
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A balmy 43 and sunny!
Our glorious Gracie taking advantage of the glorious day in the sun room.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-balmy-43-and-sunny
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We canā¦hereās that phrase againā¦reach out. To our families. To our friends. To people we know casually, people we work with, even to people we encounter in our daily lives. Pick up the phone, write an email, send a text.
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Reach out
As a lifelong cynic, I have always hated feel-good pieces like the one Iām about to write.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/reach-out
16 days ago
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MAGA or no MAGA, this is not a fascist country. Fascism doesnāt work. Trumpās refusal to learn this is going to cost him dearly.
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Minneapolis showed us why Trump and his fascists will lose
Trumpās Stupidity Czar, Tom Homan, announced today that the āsurgeā in Minneapolis is over.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/minneapolis-showed-us-why-trump-and
17 days ago
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ICE and Border Patrol agents are beyond the reach of the law and the courts. Masks and not displaying names are violations of the Constitutionās provisions against unreasonable searches and seizures and guarantee of the protections of due process of law.
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Halloween for cowards
Here are two things that definitely donāt belong together: guns and masks.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/halloween-for-cowards
18 days ago
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When youāve lost Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom have had a look at the unredacted Epstein files, you have a whole lot to worry about. Trump is cornered by the life of sexual abuse he led in the past.
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How many more times will we have to read the words, āItās way worse than you think?ā
That phrase was uttered this time by, of all people, Marjorie Taylor Greene after she had visited the ultra-secure room in the Department of Justice where members of Congress can read, but not copy, t...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-many-more-times-will-we-have
19 days ago
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Coming at the end of the week that Trump posted the video showing Barack and Michelle Obama as apes... Going to war with Bad Bunny is like a comma on his racism, spreading it beyond Black people to specifically include those with Brown skin.
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The suicidal politics of trashing Bad Bunny
Let me begin by revealing a truth about myself: I donāt have any tattoos, not even one, but if ever I get the desire for a tattoo, itās going to be āBad Bunny.ā
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-suicidal-politics-of-trashing
20 days ago
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Somehow Ruby and I will survive another day of āround zero temps while the other four feline furries and Tracy await our return from the cold with hot coffee and love. Life right now in Pennsylvania in February is cold, but good.
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It's 1 degree and howling outside and I'm just in from walking Ruby and I'm taking the night off
Here we are in full outdoor regalia: Down vest and down jacket for me; two layered dog jackets for Ruby.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-1-degree-and-howling-outside
22 days ago
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6,000 years of history has taught that racism is like rust. The soul of civilization is eaten away by its evil. He thinks itās a joke. Itās not. Donald Trump and his blatant and prideful racism has put us in danger.
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Afraid for my country
I was going to use āNo Wordsā as the title for this column and run the picture of Michelle and Barack Obama depicted as apes, but I decided not to reproduce that disgusting racist image from the loath...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/afraid-for-my-country
23 days ago
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Donāt listen to Donald Trump when he farts up the Oval Office. Heās so full of shit, heās about to blast off from the Resolute Desk on a blue flame, and we should be treating him like weāre watching the lift-off and laughing at his increasing desperation.
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Optimism, not despair
Here is what we should do: We need to figure out another way to deal with Donald Trump at night, and Donald Trump in the morning.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/optimism-not-despair
24 days ago
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You wish that you could say itās what money does to them. You wish it could be ascribed to people with wealth that is inherited, or wealth that has been recently come by, but people from both groups are among them.
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They are different from you and me
You wish that you could say itās what money does to them, and that can be part of it, but itās not all.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/they-are-different-from-you-and-me
25 days ago
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These men ā Trump and Attia and others in the Epstein network of partying and getting āmassagesā -- can slough off criticism of their behavior in years past because today, the Trump Department of Justice has said officially that they did nothing wrong.
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āItās not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein.ā
Bari Weiss, who recently took over the helm of CBS News, the storied network of Edward R.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-not-a-crime-to-party-with-jeffrey
26 days ago
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That is why āthere is nothing on meā is a lie, and yet when it comes to the law, it is true. Proof is neither truth nor evidence of a lie. It is legal and cold and naked.
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Proof and truth and lies
Buckle up.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/proof-and-truth-and-lies
27 days ago
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That is what the so-called Epstein files are about. Itās why Trump feels itās necessary to tell the lie that the files āabsolve me.ā Theyāre about men raping children. The files absolve no one. Donāt let anyone tell you any different.
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The child-rape files
The millions of pages of documents the Department of Justice has released ā more than a month late ā are not about who was on the private jet, or who was invited to dinner or when they sent emails or ...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-child-rape-files
28 days ago
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Sore neck and back from installing hand rails in basement stairs and stairs to Tracyās third floor studio.
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I didn't write today, but I worked.
I did something today that Tracy and I have been talking about for monthsā¦well, in truth since we moved here.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-didnt-write-today-but-i-worked
29 days ago
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As in almost all wars, the struggle is lopsided in terms of weapons in favor of one side against the other. But the war in the streets against Trump and Stephen Miller and ICE is being won in the court of public opinion
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Self defense against fascism: Phones vs. guns
Maybe the most emblematic photo of the ICE/Border Patrol assault on Minneapolis will turn out to be the one above of Alex Pretti holding up his phone as he confronts a Border Patrol agent on the stree...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/self-defense-against-fascism-phones
30 days ago
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We now have secret police paid by our tax dollars committing crimes against the Constitution on a daily basis. We have seen the enemy, and he is us.
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Secret police
Letās call Trumpās rampaging federal agents what they are: Secret police.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/secret-police
about 1 month ago
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This is Tiger, the neighborhood stray we took in on Christmas night. The vet tells us she is about 12 years old. She has four teeth. Now she lives inside with us and our four cats and Ruby. See the look on her face? Thatās the way I feel right now.
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Taking a night off
This is Tiger, the neighborhood stray we took in on Christmas night.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/taking-a-night-off
about 1 month ago
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Greg Bovino isnāt gone. They moved him back to El Centro, California. Kristi Noem isnāt gone, and she hasnāt atoned for the vicious, ugly lies she told about Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Sheās still canoodling with Corey Lewandowski
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Donāt be distracted by Trumpās lies and three-card monte games with immigration. He's hiding something bigger.
Greg Bovino isnāt gone.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/dont-be-distracted-by-trumps-lies
about 1 month ago
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Be of good heart. Our votes are out there waiting for us to cast them. The deaths of Good and Pretti will not be in vain. We are going to win this thing for them, for ourselves, for our country.
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But my ballroom!
Although I do not know each and every one of you, dear readers, I know enough about you by now to realize that you donāt need any more evidence that our scattered, childlike president is losing his sh...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/but-my-ballroom
about 1 month ago
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What this means is that the people of Minneapolis, the city police, and the Minnesota National Guard will be on one side of the struggle, with agents allied with Donald Trump and his authoritarian regime on the other side.
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First step in a civil war
This is an image of the Minnesota National Guard moving into Minneapolis to assist local police in enforcing the law.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/first-step-in-a-civil-war
about 1 month ago
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The turning point weāve reached in Minneapolis is more profound than we thought. The First and Second Amendments must apply to everyone, or they have no meaning at all.
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The First and Second Amendments were not meant to be a deadly combination
They are arranged next to each other in the Constitution ā the First Amendment and its guarantee of free speech and religion, and the Second Amendment, as currently interpreted, with its guarantee of ...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-first-and-second-amendments-were
about 1 month ago
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The people demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis are putting their lives on the line. One of them gave his life today. It is up to us to ensure that the loss of Alex Prettiās life will not be in vain.
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Murder in Minneapolis: Itās even worse than it looked at first
The New York Times has obtained another video of the killing ā letās call it what it is, the murder ā of a man who turns out to be not only an American citizen, but an ICU nurse at the Veterans Affair...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/murder-in-minneapolis-its-even-worse
about 1 month ago
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Trump has declared war on an American city
Still from an ICE shooting this morning in Minneapolis.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-has-declared-war-on-an-american
about 1 month ago
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In the end, he is losing because taken together, what has resulted from all his big authoritarian moves is that he looks weak. Panic is setting in. There arenāt enough needles and ānot vitamin Bā in the world to keep this staggering act going.
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He's losing
Where I sit tonight -- probably the same place as a lot of you right now -- is in the path of the largest winter storm in years.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/hes-losing
about 1 month ago
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You end up asking yourself, does he know he hasnāt been wheeled out in front of a high-school auditorium filled with JD Vanceās alleged tobaccy-chawinā relatives? Looking out at his audience in Davos, he was probably asking himself, where are all the red hats?
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Key money
I listened to Trumpās Davos rant so you donāt have to
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/key-money
about 1 month ago
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Everyone who has ever had a baby will understand exactly what Iām about to say. If you havenāt experienced the delight and terror at the birth of a new human being, you should pay attention, because Iām going to describe our president, Donald Trump.
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Where are his attendants?
Everyone who has ever had a baby will understand exactly what Iām about to say.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/where-are-his-attendants
about 1 month ago
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Can you imagine how sad it is to be Donald Trump? It must be why he falls asleep all day sitting in his chair. If I were him for even a moment, I wouldnāt want to be awake either.
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With Trump, trying to make sense of the senseless doesnāt make sense anymore
Have you seen Trumpās letter, or text message, or whatever it was that he wrote to Prime Minister Jonas Gahr StĆøre of Norway yesterday?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/with-trump-trying-to-make-sense-of
about 1 month ago
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Which reporters and writers will they be coming for next? Who will be the next to die at the hands of these masked bandits bent on stealing constitutional rights and peopleās sanity?
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Why we feel the way we feel
Theyāre getting closer, or at least it feels that way.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-we-feel-the-way-we-feel
about 1 month ago
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This is why I'm taking the day off
The view from my desk this morning.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-why-im-taking-the-day-off
about 1 month ago
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Hepatitis B study ended in Africa.
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Cancelled!
The Africa Centers for Disease Control announced today that the randomized control study of the Hepatitis B vaccine by the two āresearchersā in Guinea-Bissau has been cancelled on the basis that vacci...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/cancelled
about 1 month ago
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We havenāt dealt with Trump's movement of an aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East in preparation for another attack on Iran. Thatās why I feel overwhelmed tonight. We are living in dark times, and I donāt see the sun coming up anytime soon.
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It's overwhelming
I sat down tonight to write a column that I was going to call something like, āTrumpās bad faith pardons.ā The New York Times reported today that Trump just pardoned a woman, Adriana Camberos, whom he...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-overwhelming
about 1 month ago
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If Trump tells you heās not lying, heās lying. If he tells you he wonāt do something, heāll do it. If he tells you he was never on Jeffrey Epsteinās private jet, he was on it. If he tells you he wonāt try to cancel the midterm elections, heāll try it.
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A big day for fascism
We have a president who, on a day he was not playing golf, threatened to invade and seize the territory of an American ally, deposited a check for $500 million from selling Venezuelan oil into an acco...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-big-day-for-fascism
about 1 month ago
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Trump hasnāt threatened to bomb Minneapolis yet, but itās only the middle of the month of January, giving him about three years to think it over.
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Another day of Trumpian madness and idiocy here and abroad
All the usual suspects are in the news this evening, plus Greenland and Iran.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/another-day-of-trumpian-madness-and
about 2 months ago
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This is what it has come down to. The president sees being anti-fascist as illegal. There may be law no against protesting yet, but if you attend the next No Kings rally, if you show up to protest ICE roundups, they will be watching.
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We are all domestic terrorists now
Within a few hours of the killing of Renee Nicole Good, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem accused her of refusing to obey commands of ICE agents to get out of her car and then she said Good h...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/we-are-all-domestic-terrorists-now
about 2 months ago
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Trump is doing the equivalent of hiring the people he pardoned for crimes committed on January 6 and giving them guns and vests and helmets and masks and turning his mob loose not on the Capitol this time, but on us.
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Trump has given up on the National Guard in favor of his ICE stormtroopers
Have you seen any photographs in your newsfeed recently of National Guard troops on the streets of American cities?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-has-given-up-on-the-national
about 2 months ago
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