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Native Californian, retired attorney, oenophile, environmentalist, news junkie, Berkeley alum (Econ), & slave to the wishes of my rescue cat (not sure who rescued whom).

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Listened live.
Thank you for your service.

11.11.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ADM STAV ON CNN THE ARENA WITH KASIE HUNT 11 11 25
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On @cnn.com with @kasie.bsky.social discussing reports that the UK is withholding intelligence from the US due to concerns over strikes on suspected drug boats. youtu.be/uH5M2QMAhOA

11.11.2025 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But Trump and his spokespersons repeatedly claim that food prices are down!

11.11.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The reactions of PM Netanyahu, many members of his coalition, and many conservative Israelis is sadly reminiscent of many conservative Republicans in the US to the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal in Iraq.

NBC News share.google/vfcEZff2ttqE...

Los Angeles Times share.google/9e9PCYd1SONx...

11.11.2025 20:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Israeli right skewers efforts to prosecute soldiers for wartime abuses The alleged sexual abuse of a Palestinian detainee has ignited a fierce debate over whether soldiers should be immune from prosecution or face justice for misconduct.

The resignation and detention of Israelโ€™s chief military lawyer, after she leaked a video of an incident where soldiers allegedly sexually abused a detained Palestinian, are kindling fierce debate in Israel over the bounds of what is legal in times of war.

11.11.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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CfA - FL + VA Bar Complaint - Lindsey Halligan

NEW: Campaign for Accountability files bar complaint against Lindsey Halligan, alleging that she violated multiple rules of professional conduct related to the prosecution of James Comey and Letitia James.

Read the complaint: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

11.11.2025 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1676    ๐Ÿ” 495    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

True. The US didn't fight any wars between WWI and WWII.

11.11.2025 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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One doesn't need to be an economist or financial genius to realize that promised investments that haven't been made won't need to be refunded if SCOTUS holds that Trump's Liberation Day tariffs aren't valid.

11.11.2025 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump perennially engages in fuzzy math, creative accounting, misrepresentations, and outright lies. Promised investments extorted by Trump via his threats of imposing even higher tariffs are not themselves tariffs, nor have the vast majority of them been made to date.
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11.11.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Critics couldnโ€™t fathom why Democrats would abandon a seemingly winning hand in the government shutdown, but โ€œthis is how the government shutdown was always going to end,โ€ Russell Berman and Jonathan Lemire report. https://theatln.tc/cvMG3bbQ

11.11.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

Mark L. Wolf has resigned as a federal judge in Massachusetts, a position he's held since 1985:
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"My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. Pres. Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes."

11.11.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 640    ๐Ÿ” 261    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Good for the Dutch!

11.11.2025 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for this thread. I was well aware of the racism and segregation of the US military during WWII, but I'm floored and disgusted that no Black soldiers were allowed to join the victory parade through Paris.

11.11.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Black Panthers logo, used by the 761 tank battalion that liberated over 30 French towns.

Black Panthers logo, used by the 761 tank battalion that liberated over 30 French towns.

The 761 Tank Battalion

The 761 Tank Battalion

A soldier from the 761 tank battalion looks out from his tank.

A soldier from the 761 tank battalion looks out from his tank.

Soldiers from the 761st tank battalion.

Soldiers from the 761st tank battalion.

So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis? On brand.

Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.

11.11.2025 10:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 249    ๐Ÿ” 127    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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He campaigned on cutting the cost of living, but he has governed to raise it: regressive tariffs, immigration, fiddling with the Fed, cutting renewable energy, and firing the person whose job was to measure all of this.

11.11.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 719    ๐Ÿ” 287    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.

11.11.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2013    ๐Ÿ” 431    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 66    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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Comeyโ€™s reply brief in his vindictive prosecution motion lays out in a one-sentence nutshell why the indictmentโ€”alleging leaks to Richman โ€œat the FBIโ€โ€”appears to fail. See @annabower on dates Richman was โ€œat the FBIโ€:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...

11.11.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 317    ๐Ÿ” 63    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This week's Economist/YouGov tracker:

Right Track/Wrong Track: 30/61

Trump Job Approval: 39/56

[No issue-specific job approvals this week. But I'll note that only 56% of Trump voters think he's honest.]
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

11.11.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

wow. WOW.

11.11.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2649    ๐Ÿ” 473    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 48    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Bari Weiss is literally eliminating standards at CBS. If there was a unit called "Actual Journalism" she would cut that too.

11.11.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 246    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Bari Weiss wants to take down โ€˜too much powerโ€™ CBS News Standards unit: sources EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

โ€œIโ€™ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, โ€˜Whatโ€™s the point of standards?โ€™โ€ one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

11.11.2025 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1816    ๐Ÿ” 527    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 258    ๐Ÿ“Œ 552

Holy shit. The new spending package has a hidden provision that allows Republican Senators to sue the government for $500K over the phone records searches related to the January 6 riot. How can any Democrat vote for this? How can you argue this is a good deal?

11.11.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 243    ๐Ÿ” 93    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

11.11.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11739    ๐Ÿ” 3960    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 366    ๐Ÿ“Œ 477
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There is NO $2000. Payment.
To be clear, Congress didnโ€™t authorize payments which is required by our constitution.
The sad part is many of the people he screwed over with his budget cuts will still believe his BS.
He is a danger to our country

11.11.2025 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Truth Social's management will no doubt quickly pull their AI search feature until its truthfulness glitch is fixed and it can be trained to respond per the official Trump misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and lies.

11.11.2025 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OK this is amazing.
Trumpโ€™s Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which company debuted a month after Trump signed an exec order to end use of โ€œWoke AIโ€ in federal government.
Here's how it responds to questions about tariffs, who won 2020 election, Jan 6, etc:
www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...

11.11.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 393    ๐Ÿ” 124    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Some Airline CEOs Pushed Trump Officials to Justify Flight Cuts Days before US government-mandated flight cuts went into effect across domestic carriers, some airline executives privately pressed for more information on whether the safety data justified the Trump ...

Did Trump Admin unnecessarily curtail air traffic to put additional pressure on Democrats to agree to reopen the gov't without concessions? Some airline executives thought so!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

11.11.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's incredibly weak and disappointing that @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social has the Treasury Secretary on and he says many faslehoods and they do not push back.

Such as that a tarriff is NOT a tax.
Seriously Econ101 says a tariff is a tax.
@joe-scarborough.bsky.social

11.11.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling A draft five-year plan for offshore oil development proposes selling leases on the West Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

GIFT ARTICLE
Trump's proposal to lease new offshore tracts for oil exploration and possible production off the coasts of Alaska and California must be opposed. Drilling for oil in the Artic is extremely risky for the environment, and California doesn't want new offshore drilling.
wapo.st/4p1sRTx

11.11.2025 10:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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