@scotthudson4.bsky.social
Nature loving, politics and current affairs junky who has been lucky enough to end up in the Czech Republic after years of being a teacher in NYC, a human rights activist in Latin America and a book lover wherever I've gone.
If even half of Witkoff's peace plan is true, then the US has completed its betrayal of Ukraine since DJT returned to office. Zelenskyy has to at least try & buy time with the hope that DJT's mind - or at least what's left of it - can be changed...again. Total BS. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
21.11.2025 06:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The twisted logic of Russia's Duma about the EU's seizure of frozen assets as "a violation of its sovereign rights" is beyond Orwellian. So Russia can invade & annex parts of Ukraine w/o violating its sovereign rights somehow? Says volumes about Russia, none of it good. www.kyivpost.com/post/64652
20.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Republicans went after Biden for Hunter's relationship with Burisima based on influence pedaling for years. Now that DJT's kids, Witkoff son Zach, & Howard's Lutnick's sons are taking in billions, not a peep. It's worse than Watergate everyday. Total hypocrites. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
20.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The NY Times often softens the language it uses on certain topics, but sending DJT's buddy Witkoff to Moscow to get Russian talking points is not 'reviving diplomatic efforts.' Witkoff is a sick joke. His junkets to Russia have nothing to with diplomacy or effort. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
20.11.2025 05:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Beyond that, it shows unprecedented and spectacular spinelessness to obfuscate the murder by a foreign power of a journalist who worked in your country, in your capital, for a newspaper associated with news about your government. (2/2)
20.11.2025 02:32 — 👍 1206 🔁 149 💬 21 📌 2Unprincipled and weak. The murder of journalists is perhaps the single most direct violation of the right to freedom of speech. (1/2)
20.11.2025 02:32 — 👍 2663 🔁 613 💬 72 📌 12This is a pedophilephile administration with a predator at the top.
18.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 1100 🔁 301 💬 45 📌 10The use of terror is not a byproduct of Trumpian politics: it is central to how he governs.
17.11.2025 02:15 — 👍 1515 🔁 513 💬 34 📌 9Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
13.11.2025 00:25 — 👍 28686 🔁 5939 💬 373 📌 208Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
10.11.2025 09:34 — 👍 1936 🔁 476 💬 63 📌 40
As obvious as it is to almost all who care about the rule of law & what the US Constitution stands for, it was impressive to read Mark Wolf's piece on why as a career judge he could no longer serve under DJT & thus resigned. Please read & keep up the good fight. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
09.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hard to make a deal with a compulsive lying autocrat & the craven, cowardly party that protects him. Even if the mass firing were reversed, DJT could break the deal whenever he felt like it & fire them again. Without trust & good faith, negotiations are impossible. www.politico.com/live-updates...
06.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday many places in the US voted against DJT and his minions for what they are - incompetent autocrats trying to drag America back to a fictional past. The Dems have a lot to build on from their victories. Predictably, DJT claims its all due to voter fraud again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
05.11.2025 11:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Huge Democratic party win across the board, but a lot of European newspapers are just reporting on Mamdami
05.11.2025 06:01 — 👍 3749 🔁 511 💬 167 📌 49Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
31.10.2025 04:13 — 👍 9374 🔁 3388 💬 384 📌 167
Trump bungled China policy so badly he had to run to Xi to beg forgiveness and surrender. Everyone knows it. In the "deal", America gets nothing, not even a return to status quo.
Trump has now totally abandoned his promise to "get tough" on China.
Over the last 9 months, many prominent conservatives from the last 40 years have warned about how far DJT has gone to unravel democracy in the US. Dems & Independents have also. While the midterms will say a lot, what the US does before them might say even more. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
29.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A year ago, I launched my book #OnFreedom in a war zone – in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 35 seconds from Russian artillery. Today, I'm launching the paperback in Portland, Oregon. Which is NOT a war zone. There is a difference in the real world between what's a war and what is not, and between truth and lies.
28.10.2025 21:46 — 👍 2120 🔁 502 💬 39 📌 36Thank you Will Bunch
28.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 1300 🔁 392 💬 26 📌 7
Democracy depends on people willing to stand up, for our rights, our democracy, and the rule of law
Authoritarianism wins only if we stay silent
Proud to share this new video from us at @democracydefendersaction.org & @publiccitizen.bsky.social: youtube.com/watch?v=XrDW...
The tragic saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia says volumes about the moral vacuum & bottomless cruelty of the DJT regime. The amount of time, resources & govt manpower used to persecute an ordinary individual, rather than admit they made a mistake, is horrifying. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
28.10.2025 06:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Generally a fan of David Brooks, but his latest piece is massively flawed. The current shutdown is 45 yrs in the making, going from Reagan to Gingrich, the Tea Party to DJT. The Democrats have their problems, but only one side has gutted public discourse & democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
27.10.2025 08:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
It's telling that the man-child who has posted several AI generated videos designed to troll entire nations and groups of people has cut off trade negotiations with US's 2nd largest trade partner over a TV ad. Someone check grandpa's meds. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
24.10.2025 05:24 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a post by Bernie Sanders. It lists money that Donald Trump has received in 2025. $3 billion: mostly from crypto $940 million: law firms $400 million plane: Qatar $36 million: CBS $25 million: Meta $24 million: YouTube $16 million: ABC $10 million: X Now $230 million from DOJ?
That we know of.
23.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 1509 🔁 565 💬 49 📌 25the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
21.10.2025 20:27 — 👍 10935 🔁 3688 💬 221 📌 134I'm going to start a thread with examples of how the NYT uses euphemism to painfully avoid saying that Trump is committing blatantly unconstitutional and lawless acts.
Let's start with this one... "stretched the limits of his spending powers"
His generation learned that the famous words of 250 years ago no longer mean anything and probably never did. The older generations took everything for themselves & left nothing for the young. Why fight for your country if all it stands for is power and greed? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
21.10.2025 04:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
18.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 89436 🔁 29072 💬 2321 📌 1864
