Jeff Travis
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Jeff Travis
@balt66.bsky.social
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What’s it going to take?

I think about this every damn day
August 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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No offense to Trump, who tries his best, but Putin is clearly the alpha sociopath of the duo.
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Release the Epstein Files!
August 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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“Saturday morning, officers with vests that said only police tased what appeared to be a deliveryman. The confrontation took place on 14th Street…The officers refused to identify themselves. The incident was caught on video by a person who sent it to The Bulwark.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/watch-trum...
WATCH: Trump’s Masked Officers Tase Delivery Man in D.C.
The confrontation was caught on camera by a bystander and shared with The Bulwark
www.thebulwark.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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🕯️🇺🇦 During the combat mission, 39-year-old Maryna Hrytsenko “Mary” — a combat medic of the 3rd OSHB, the chief custodian of the funds of the Chernihiv Art Museum — died.

Maryna died on the morning of August 7, 2025, along with two comrades, as a result of an attack by a Russian drone.
August 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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August 5, 2025
August 5, 2025 (Tuesday)
Sixty years ago tomorrow, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
A space race to build a nuclear reactor on the moon. Yea, that will end well. #nasa #russia-china #camelot
August 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
@amyklobuchar.com why has Congress not been a check to this point? Follow up question- what makes this time different?
It's funny she thinks Congress will do that...
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Aug 4
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., denounces Trump tariffs and the firing of a senior Labor official, saying Trump needs to "get this under control" or Congress will "be a check on him."
August 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Perhaps unpopular opinion — if you’ve been covering business and the economy for 25 years, you don’t have to cite “economists say” to state the truth — that firing the commissioner of the BLS is a bad thing.
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Also and while I’m at it — if you don’t say tariffs are taxes on US importers and consumers when citing the revenue the government celebrates that hey’ve brought in, you’re not credible.
August 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Deeply unserious
Kevin Hassett: "The president wants his own people there, so that when we see the jobs numbers, they are more transparent and more reliable."
August 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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This is nonsense
August 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell was flagged with a Public Safety Factor (PSF), making her ineligible for a minimum-security camp. That designation was waived?

How does a convicted human trafficker get such special treatment?

When Trump said he’d protect women, no one guessed he meant women like her.
www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That happened here.
EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
www.muellershewrote.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Great work, John Roberts. You’ve played a key role in wrecking our beloved country.
August 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Heartbreaking.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
August 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
August 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.
Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.
August 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I’ve found that people calling Social Security offices wait an average of nearly 1 hour and 45 minutes, with some people waiting over 3 hours for help.

The Social Security Administration isn’t sharing data about the extent of the problem. I’m asking for answers.
thehill.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.
August 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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STOP CALLING THEM
“RECIPROCAL.”
The White House released adjusted reciprocal tariff rates covering imports from a range of trading partners, aimed at narrowing trade deficits and raising revenues. See the full list: bloom.bg/4mHbwhJ

📷: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg
August 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Interestingly, the Board *does have control. Powell only gets one vote

See also: not understanding how the economy works
August 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Another day, another reminder...
August 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM