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Longtime DC scribe, covering three presidencies (DC is fine, but I prefer the United States). Reflections on democracy, First Amendment, Boston sports, and jam bands. Simple approach: trusted source intel + research & data + analysis = smart solutions.

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NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker admits "there's some truth" to the criticism that Putin hasn't made a single concession during negotiations

25.11.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3629    πŸ” 977    πŸ’¬ 322    πŸ“Œ 118

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) β€” Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.

25.11.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1961    πŸ” 341    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 180
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Here are just a few of the things the Boring Company may not have wanted to be asked about at an actual β€œtown hall” β€” instead opting for a virtual audio-only Spaces event about the nashville tunnel they then immediately deleted.

25.11.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1043    πŸ” 498    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 16

To anyone who thinks it’s an β€œexaggeration” that the rule of law is in danger…

U.S. Senator Mark Kelly is being investigated for the β€œcrime” of telling people not to commit crimes.

We’ve fallen far.

25.11.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4758    πŸ” 1307    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 39
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President Trump may have had enough of Kash Patel, according to sources The president is weighing whether to oust the FBI director after scrutiny of Patel's stewardship of bureau resources, including his girlfriend’s security detail and use of a government jet.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: β€œPresident Trump is considering removing Kash Patel as FBI director in the coming months, as he and his top aides have grown increasingly frustrated by the unflattering headlines Patel has recently generated.”
www.ms.now/news/trump-k...

25.11.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 274    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 55

If you’d just serve the people instead of the donor class, you wouldn’t need the donor class. A million $20 donors beats one $10M donor every time.

25.11.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2308    πŸ” 555    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 30
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Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

25.11.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 502    πŸ” 235    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 26

They picked the wrong veteran to screw with.

25.11.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2471    πŸ” 529    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 11
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Zelensky ready to meet Trump over Thanksgiving to finalize deal, top aide tells Axios U.S. and Ukrainian officials have agreed in principle on most aspects of the plan.

"I think it now looks very solid," Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak told Axios. "I think it's a historical decision of President Trump and the United States to issue these strong security guarantees, which Ukraine never had before."

25.11.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive | Speaker Johnson Warns White House GOP Is Wary of Trump’s Healthcare Push The top House Republican said of little GOP support for extending the expiring ACA subsidies.

ACA will be extended if Trump really wants to avoid another Republican-owned economic-based healthcare crisis -- because he already has the bipartisan votes.

And are we really going to pretend meager Mike Johnson has the berries to take on Trump (who really can't afford to lose this one)? Cmon.

25.11.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."

25.11.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10082    πŸ” 2820    πŸ’¬ 164    πŸ“Œ 101
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Here it comes: the crisis wave of Americans making the tough choice to drop coverage β€” in the face or rising premiums.

@reuters.com $XLV
www.reuters.com/world/americ...

24.11.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2799    πŸ” 993    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 59
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Retailers Brace For An Uncertain Holiday Season As Consumers Pull Back Today’s Forbes Daily is all about the holiday shopping season: From tariffs to inflation to the K-shaped economy. Here’s a preview of retail’s biggest months of 2025.

Retailers Brace For An Uncertain Holiday Season As Consumers Pull Back

24.11.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1568    πŸ” 414    πŸ’¬ 288    πŸ“Œ 102
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What is the latest Black Friday boycott – and will it work? While others scramble for deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, activists hope to leverage shopping behavior for societal change

"We’re hoping that the millions of people that participate in this will have a higher level of consciousness of that we have choice, that our money gives us choice,” Brown said. β€œThat means that we have power and that we can make choices to demand better.”

#BlackFriday
#Boycott

25.11.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a β€˜Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats

Wow β€” Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."

They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.

25.11.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5823    πŸ” 1065    πŸ’¬ 234    πŸ“Œ 358
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Analysis: Pentagon move against war hero Kelly shows Trump’s quest for vengeance is endless | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s political retribution campaign just took two embarrassing steps back and one giant leap forward.

It may "backfire" on Trump, writes Stephen Collinson.

"After all, a commander in chief who never served in the military is now using his power in pursuit of a hero who flew combat jets off a US carrier over Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War and who showed the right stuff by blasting into space."

25.11.2025 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Defense Department says it's opening an investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly The investigation is related to the Arizona senator's participation in a video Democratic lawmakers made urging members of the military not to comply with "illegal orders."

Multiple references in the military code of conduct address illegal orders, orders in conflict with the Constitution. Statements made by Sen. Mark Kelly and other honorably discharged individuals are in no way actionable. This effort to discredit any true hero(ine) is not just wrong, it's shameful.

25.11.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.

24.11.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6933    πŸ” 614    πŸ’¬ 709    πŸ“Œ 107
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FBI Director Kash Patel under scrutiny for use of SWAT teams to protect his girlfriend - The Boston Globe Patel’s heavy use of taxpayer-funded resources during his first nine months on the job has raised questions about whether it exceeds the bounds of standard practice.

Stuff comes to light when you make as many enemies as Kash and the Trump stooges have. Paranoia eventually becomes reality. They really don't know who is with them and who is out to get them. It will only get worse for the regime.

24.11.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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CNBC: My understanding is the White House said that China was gonna buy 12 million tons of soybeans from the US by January. That's approaching and they've only purchased 332,000. China has not confirmed that pledge.

BROOKE ROLLINS: Your point is salient. We've got a significant way to go

24.11.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5596    πŸ” 1596    πŸ’¬ 485    πŸ“Œ 207
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Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash

Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

24.11.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1590    πŸ” 745    πŸ’¬ 251    πŸ“Œ 107
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She’s been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security.

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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed

24.11.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7327    πŸ” 1817    πŸ’¬ 801    πŸ“Œ 440
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I’m sure these two things have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with each other.

24.11.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2601    πŸ” 679    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 27

Prescient.

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A federal judge didn’t β€œsteal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powersβ€”she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.

23.11.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 13602    πŸ” 4134    πŸ’¬ 597    πŸ“Œ 201

The targeting of Mark Kelly isn’t politics...it’s the sick new normal created by a movement that can’t win arguments, only intimidate. When public servants become targets, freedom isn’t next in line… it’s already in danger. Fortunately, the outrage is intensifying rapidly.

#HOLDFAST

24.11.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4935    πŸ” 1585    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 61
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What to know about the crypto selloff The price of bitcoin has plunged by nearly a third over recent weeks.

β€œTech stocks and crypto tend to be highly correlated when they’re going down because they’re both risky assets and investors treat them similarly in their portfolios,” Bryan Armour, the director of passive strategies research at financial firm Morningstar, told ABC News.

#Bitcoin
#AI

24.11.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hegseth gets cut out of Russian-Ukraine talks, scrambles to find ways to please the King and save his pathetic ass.

24.11.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 574    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 3
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Putin’s plan for Ukrainian surrender does not serve American national interests Ukrainians and their democratically elected leaders will have to assess how to deal with Putin’s latest 28-point proposal for Ukrainian surrender β€” sometimes referred to as β€œTrump’s peace plan.” It’s...

kyivindependent.com/putins-plan-...

23.11.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

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