Old Bushwick Bob
@floatinghead.bsky.social
Architect. 1896 was not the zenith of American culture.
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Today the NYT story is framed with "Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Con Job." Followed by "President Trump is growing frustrated." There are facts about the economy. Who cares what trump says about affordability? That NYT thinks we should know that Trump is frustrated is lousy journalism.
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today the NYT story is framed with "Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Con Job." Followed by "President Trump is growing frustrated." There are facts about the economy. Who cares what trump says about affordability? That NYT thinks we should know that Trump is frustrated is lousy journalism.
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Trump embraced Zohran Mamdani even after Mamdani called him a fascist. Why? Because Mamdani understands Trump only respects strength—and strength means taking away the voters who fuel his power. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social breaks down the strategy: lnk.thebulwark.com/4iALUlB
What Mamdani Gets About Trump
When New York’s mayor-elect met with the authoritarian president, he didn’t waste time with denunciations. But he didn’t exactly hold back.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Trump embraced Zohran Mamdani even after Mamdani called him a fascist. Why? Because Mamdani understands Trump only respects strength—and strength means taking away the voters who fuel his power. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social breaks down the strategy: lnk.thebulwark.com/4iALUlB
I could see Trump being a bridging figure between russian mob and the cartel. That makes a lot of sense.
I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I could see Trump being a bridging figure between russian mob and the cartel. That makes a lot of sense.
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Hey just a public service announcement that President Biden is still not senile and never was and this is going to be true no matter how many journalists totally fucked over the country in the most unethical disturbing ways. You can keep posting it but it's still bullshit so go fuck yourself.
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Hey just a public service announcement that President Biden is still not senile and never was and this is going to be true no matter how many journalists totally fucked over the country in the most unethical disturbing ways. You can keep posting it but it's still bullshit so go fuck yourself.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
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ALL the far-right parties in Europe are Russian-funded, using offshore accounts in order to dodge campaign finance laws: this came out in the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020.
Putin pays grifters to rabble rouse & undermine democracy abroad.
Details:
Putin pays grifters to rabble rouse & undermine democracy abroad.
Details:
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
ALL the far-right parties in Europe are Russian-funded, using offshore accounts in order to dodge campaign finance laws: this came out in the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020.
Putin pays grifters to rabble rouse & undermine democracy abroad.
Details:
Putin pays grifters to rabble rouse & undermine democracy abroad.
Details:
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He was aware. Predator Trump #Patterns bsky.app/profile/chri...
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
He was aware. Predator Trump #Patterns bsky.app/profile/chri...
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“Abolish ICE” is a trickier thing, both politically and logistically.
But a Congress sworn in on Jan 1, 2028 could have a Day One bill sitting on a Dem POTUS’s desk that dissolves DHS and moves everything around to departments w more civilian-like control.
But a Congress sworn in on Jan 1, 2028 could have a Day One bill sitting on a Dem POTUS’s desk that dissolves DHS and moves everything around to departments w more civilian-like control.
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“Abolish ICE” is a trickier thing, both politically and logistically.
But a Congress sworn in on Jan 1, 2028 could have a Day One bill sitting on a Dem POTUS’s desk that dissolves DHS and moves everything around to departments w more civilian-like control.
But a Congress sworn in on Jan 1, 2028 could have a Day One bill sitting on a Dem POTUS’s desk that dissolves DHS and moves everything around to departments w more civilian-like control.
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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
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One of the worst PEDOPHILES in recorded history thinks/knows Trump, another pedophile, is the worst person on the planet without a single redeeming quality. MAGAs love their pedophiles!
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jeffrey epstein thinks donald trump is the worst person he has ever met. he's right.
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
One of the worst PEDOPHILES in recorded history thinks/knows Trump, another pedophile, is the worst person on the planet without a single redeeming quality. MAGAs love their pedophiles!
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jeffrey epstein thinks donald trump is the worst person he has ever met. he's right.
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
jeffrey epstein thinks donald trump is the worst person he has ever met. he's right.
Exactly this. The best case is so bad it’s absolutely criminal.
Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it.
Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators.
Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators.
Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Exactly this. The best case is so bad it’s absolutely criminal.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
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Also, DHS is nothing but a 20-yr old org chart.
It’s not a “thing” that has to exist: it was just a post-9/11 reorg of agencies that had been elsewhere, brought under one over-militarized leadership.
We could abolish DHS tomorrow and relocate all its pieces to less military agencies.
It’s not a “thing” that has to exist: it was just a post-9/11 reorg of agencies that had been elsewhere, brought under one over-militarized leadership.
We could abolish DHS tomorrow and relocate all its pieces to less military agencies.
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Also, DHS is nothing but a 20-yr old org chart.
It’s not a “thing” that has to exist: it was just a post-9/11 reorg of agencies that had been elsewhere, brought under one over-militarized leadership.
We could abolish DHS tomorrow and relocate all its pieces to less military agencies.
It’s not a “thing” that has to exist: it was just a post-9/11 reorg of agencies that had been elsewhere, brought under one over-militarized leadership.
We could abolish DHS tomorrow and relocate all its pieces to less military agencies.
Sums him up pretty well.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Sums him up pretty well.
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well resourced paper Op/Ed sections should could be an amazing space to platform strange, wonderful, and intelligent ideas by artists, activists, scientists, and scholars you've never heard of
instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm
instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
well resourced paper Op/Ed sections should could be an amazing space to platform strange, wonderful, and intelligent ideas by artists, activists, scientists, and scholars you've never heard of
instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm
instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm
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Trump’s economy suuuuucks.
🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Trump’s economy suuuuucks.
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We are SOOOOOO back!! 👊
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We are SOOOOOO back!! 👊
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Everyone: Ross Douthat’s opinion is less significant than he thinks.
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Everyone: Ross Douthat’s opinion is less significant than he thinks.
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
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DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf