Alan
@alanteew.bsky.social
It's like a revolving door or something www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme
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November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It's like a revolving door or something www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
Advent Will Not Be Televised
An Advent playlist for 2025
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November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
October 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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"Buckley is an apt figure to study at a time when leading conservatives exhibit scant charm while adopting a no-enemies-to-the-right policy—and when conservatism itself, as he would have recognized it, has ceased to be a force in American politics."
What’s Left of William F. Buckley Jr.
The conservative movement he built is now besotted with the kinds of characters and urges he repudiated.
www.thebulwark.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Buckley is an apt figure to study at a time when leading conservatives exhibit scant charm while adopting a no-enemies-to-the-right policy—and when conservatism itself, as he would have recognized it, has ceased to be a force in American politics."
"Hamilton may have convinced its audience that the Revolution was a New York story. But a closer listen to its lyrics and a stroll through Philly’s historic streets will remind you that [PHILADELPHIA] shoulders the nation’s founding." share.inquirer.com/SQTOdk
Hamilton doesn’t mention Philly once. Here is every shot it threw away
For Hamilton’s 10th anniversary, we rounded up the historical events that actually took place here
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September 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Hamilton may have convinced its audience that the Revolution was a New York story. But a closer listen to its lyrics and a stroll through Philly’s historic streets will remind you that [PHILADELPHIA] shoulders the nation’s founding." share.inquirer.com/SQTOdk
{"Many of our biggest private institutions are now focused on selling the privileged a markedly better experience, leaving everyone else to either give up — or fight to keep up."} www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class
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August 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
{"Many of our biggest private institutions are now focused on selling the privileged a markedly better experience, leaving everyone else to either give up — or fight to keep up."} www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
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Call of Duty: Waiting Around Edition.
August 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Call of Duty: Waiting Around Edition.
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“Thoughts and prayers.”
“There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” -Miroslav Volf
“There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” -Miroslav Volf
August 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“Thoughts and prayers.”
“There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” -Miroslav Volf
“There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” -Miroslav Volf
REGAL Cinema commercials are getting ridiculous, 20-35m before most movies. I will gladly go to independent or AMC cinemas every time.
August 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
REGAL Cinema commercials are getting ridiculous, 20-35m before most movies. I will gladly go to independent or AMC cinemas every time.
"As President Trump posed .."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
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In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"As President Trump posed .."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
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{"By contrast with central Washington, residents of Ward 8 in the city's southeast - the area with the highest crime rate - said there was not a guardsman in sight."} www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump crime crackdown deploys troops in Washington's safest sites
Hundreds of National Guard soldiers in military fatigues and combat boots mingled with tourists, posed for selfies, and treated themselves to ice cream from food trucks on Thursday along Washington's National Mall, one of the safest parts of America's capital.
www.reuters.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
{"By contrast with central Washington, residents of Ward 8 in the city's southeast - the area with the highest crime rate - said there was not a guardsman in sight."} www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Active shooter at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. One victim with gunshot wound reported.
August 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Active shooter at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. One victim with gunshot wound reported.
On Twix, not here, @dkthomp.bsky.social ? We need good news here, too!
August 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
On Twix, not here, @dkthomp.bsky.social ? We need good news here, too!
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The MAGA energy agenda is pretty simple.
It's about combining the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s. And it's about trying so hard to own the libs at any cost, you raise electricity prices everywhere.
derekthompson.substack.com/p/american-e...
It's about combining the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s. And it's about trying so hard to own the libs at any cost, you raise electricity prices everywhere.
derekthompson.substack.com/p/american-e...
American Energy Policy Cannot Afford to Be This Dumb
While China builds the economy of the future, Trump’s agenda combines the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s.
derekthompson.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The MAGA energy agenda is pretty simple.
It's about combining the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s. And it's about trying so hard to own the libs at any cost, you raise electricity prices everywhere.
derekthompson.substack.com/p/american-e...
It's about combining the energy policy of the 1980s with the trade policy of the 1880s. And it's about trying so hard to own the libs at any cost, you raise electricity prices everywhere.
derekthompson.substack.com/p/american-e...
WHY did Harris lose? Because 2020 Biden voters DID NOT VOTE. (source: Pew).
(Do not spout any hacked-election theories here, or be blocked.)
(Do not spout any hacked-election theories here, or be blocked.)
August 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
WHY did Harris lose? Because 2020 Biden voters DID NOT VOTE. (source: Pew).
(Do not spout any hacked-election theories here, or be blocked.)
(Do not spout any hacked-election theories here, or be blocked.)
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August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So much for the myth of pro-business Republicans.
{"Production plummeted by almost 70 percent. Most of the work force was gone. Half of the maintenance crew...more than 50 employees were being held at a detention facility in rural Nebraska."}
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
{"Production plummeted by almost 70 percent. Most of the work force was gone. Half of the maintenance crew...more than 50 employees were being held at a detention facility in rural Nebraska."}
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
So much for the myth of pro-business Republicans.
{"Production plummeted by almost 70 percent. Most of the work force was gone. Half of the maintenance crew...more than 50 employees were being held at a detention facility in rural Nebraska."}
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
{"Production plummeted by almost 70 percent. Most of the work force was gone. Half of the maintenance crew...more than 50 employees were being held at a detention facility in rural Nebraska."}
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
Follow the money
{"[Private equity] managers collect a 2% overall fee, as well as 20% of any gains. In contrast, the mutual funds that today make up the lion's share of 401(k) plan assets offer fees that average a mere 0.26%."} www.reuters.com/business/fin...
{"[Private equity] managers collect a 2% overall fee, as well as 20% of any gains. In contrast, the mutual funds that today make up the lion's share of 401(k) plan assets offer fees that average a mere 0.26%."} www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Trump's 401(k) order offers retirement savers crypto, private assets, but also higher fees and more risk
While investments in private equity, crypto or privately held companies could offer higher returns, critics say they lack the same disclosures and carry higher fees than traditional retirement plans.
www.reuters.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Follow the money
{"[Private equity] managers collect a 2% overall fee, as well as 20% of any gains. In contrast, the mutual funds that today make up the lion's share of 401(k) plan assets offer fees that average a mere 0.26%."} www.reuters.com/business/fin...
{"[Private equity] managers collect a 2% overall fee, as well as 20% of any gains. In contrast, the mutual funds that today make up the lion's share of 401(k) plan assets offer fees that average a mere 0.26%."} www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Follow the data
{"The number of illegal reentry prosecutions filed in Philadelphia’s federal courthouse this year is at its highest level in at least two decades."} share.inquirer.com/Zn1zSs
{"The number of illegal reentry prosecutions filed in Philadelphia’s federal courthouse this year is at its highest level in at least two decades."} share.inquirer.com/Zn1zSs
To find people to deport, ICE is increasingly turning to old, low-level arrests by local police
The number of illegal reentry prosecutions filed in Philadelphia’s federal courthouse this year is at its highest level in at least two decades, data show.
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August 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Follow the data
{"The number of illegal reentry prosecutions filed in Philadelphia’s federal courthouse this year is at its highest level in at least two decades."} share.inquirer.com/Zn1zSs
{"The number of illegal reentry prosecutions filed in Philadelphia’s federal courthouse this year is at its highest level in at least two decades."} share.inquirer.com/Zn1zSs
Republicans consider this a victory
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/h...
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Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Republicans consider this a victory
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/h...
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A pastor protesting Trump’s deportations outside the White House
August 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A pastor protesting Trump’s deportations outside the White House