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Bonus Foggy Bottom Line Podcast! Special Guest @mikemcgirr.bsky.social joins us for a wide-ranging discussion of rural politics, economic development in southwest Virginia, and the Virginia Democratic Party. Check it out, and don't forget to subscribe to the channel!
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Foggy Bottom Line Bonus Episode: Politics in Rural Virginia FT Mike McGirr
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December 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Bonus Foggy Bottom Line Podcast! Special Guest @mikemcgirr.bsky.social joins us for a wide-ranging discussion of rural politics, economic development in southwest Virginia, and the Virginia Democratic Party. Check it out, and don't forget to subscribe to the channel!
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New Foggy Bottom Line Episode up...Scott and I discuss the WaPo article on the first boat attack. Yes, this was a war crime.
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Foggy Bottom Line Episode 16: Hegseth and War Crimes
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December 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
New Foggy Bottom Line Episode up...Scott and I discuss the WaPo article on the first boat attack. Yes, this was a war crime.
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Foggy Bottom Line Podcast Episode 14: Campaign Finance and the Montana Plan | R. Stanton Scott
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Went live this morning for the first time:
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#NickFuentes #MegynKelly #EpsteinFiles #Gambling
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#NickFuentes #MegynKelly #EpsteinFiles #Gambling
First Foggy Bottom Line Stream
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November 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Went live this morning for the first time:
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#NickFuentes #MegynKelly #EpsteinFiles #Gambling
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#NickFuentes #MegynKelly #EpsteinFiles #Gambling
Woke up this morning to see that Senate Dems, including Virginia's Tim Kaine, caved on the shutdown and protecting ACA subsidies and Medicaid funding. I think this is a terrible idea - here's an FBL spot report with my thoughts. Check out our other content on YouTube.
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Foggy Bottom Line Spot Report: Dems Cave on Shutdown
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Woke up this morning to see that Senate Dems, including Virginia's Tim Kaine, caved on the shutdown and protecting ACA subsidies and Medicaid funding. I think this is a terrible idea - here's an FBL spot report with my thoughts. Check out our other content on YouTube.
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Scott and I discuss yesterday's elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York...what we used to call an After Action Review back in the day. Episode 12 is up on YouTube and Spotify.
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Foggy Bottom Line Podcast Episode 12: Elections After Action Review
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November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Scott and I discuss yesterday's elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York...what we used to call an After Action Review back in the day. Episode 12 is up on YouTube and Spotify.
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My thoughts on the Sears campaign's "Silence Says it All" ad: youtu.be/LDFLIL1ndmI
FBL Spot Report: Sears' TV ad: "Silence Says it All"
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November 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My thoughts on the Sears campaign's "Silence Says it All" ad: youtu.be/LDFLIL1ndmI
I joined @electscottkhd59.bsky.social in Ashland this morning at the @abigailspanberger.com bus tour stop - Scott introduced her! - and we had a few thoughts on the event after it concluded. #CenteroftheUniverse #2025ElectionsInVirginia
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Spot Report: Abigail Spanberger Bus Tour in Ashland
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October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I joined @electscottkhd59.bsky.social in Ashland this morning at the @abigailspanberger.com bus tour stop - Scott introduced her! - and we had a few thoughts on the event after it concluded. #CenteroftheUniverse #2025ElectionsInVirginia
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Episode 11 of the FBL podcast is up. @electscottkhd59.bsky.social shares his expertise on election processes and lets us know what goes on behind the scenes during the last week before the election. Check us out on YouTube here: youtu.be/cKR9nLzQHRs. We're also on Spotify.
Foggy Bottom Line Podcast Episode 11: Election Processes
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October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Episode 11 of the FBL podcast is up. @electscottkhd59.bsky.social shares his expertise on election processes and lets us know what goes on behind the scenes during the last week before the election. Check us out on YouTube here: youtu.be/cKR9nLzQHRs. We're also on Spotify.
Episode 10 of the Foggy Bottom Line podcast is up on YouTube and Spotify. @electionyoda.bsky.social and I discuss the No Kings rallies and the right's preactions and reactions. youtu.be/2rlmIdI8Yvw
Foggy Bottom Line Podcast Episode 10: No Kings!
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October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Episode 10 of the Foggy Bottom Line podcast is up on YouTube and Spotify. @electionyoda.bsky.social and I discuss the No Kings rallies and the right's preactions and reactions. youtu.be/2rlmIdI8Yvw
Let’s get this to $150K.
☀️That feeling when your wildest dream of helping 27 heroic Va. (D) state house candidates is vastly exceeded by the generosity & understanding of hundreds of small dollar donors & 19 Va. (D) elected officials !! 😮 @charlesgaba.com🌟
🚨The original goal was $135k; but, $142,934 has been raised.
WOW !
🚨The original goal was $135k; but, $142,934 has been raised.
WOW !
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Let’s get this to $150K.
We're in the shape we're in because a political faction, neoconservatives, figured out that it could control the US Government, and implement any policy and political programs they like, if they could stack the US Supreme Court with fellow travelers. They started this project in the 1980s.
October 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We're in the shape we're in because a political faction, neoconservatives, figured out that it could control the US Government, and implement any policy and political programs they like, if they could stack the US Supreme Court with fellow travelers. They started this project in the 1980s.
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It’s not easy being green.
October 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It’s not easy being green.
Who knew the institution fascism in America would rest on would be the United States Supreme Court?
Must admit I didn't have that on my 250th Anniversary of American Independence bingo card.
Must admit I didn't have that on my 250th Anniversary of American Independence bingo card.
October 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Who knew the institution fascism in America would rest on would be the United States Supreme Court?
Must admit I didn't have that on my 250th Anniversary of American Independence bingo card.
Must admit I didn't have that on my 250th Anniversary of American Independence bingo card.
So the Trump Administration agreed to betray the informants helping them go after MS-13 in the US so he could get an agreement with Bukele to let him send MS-13 members to an El Salvador prison.
Sounds about right.
#Fascism #StupidFascism
Sounds about right.
#Fascism #StupidFascism
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
So the Trump Administration agreed to betray the informants helping them go after MS-13 in the US so he could get an agreement with Bukele to let him send MS-13 members to an El Salvador prison.
Sounds about right.
#Fascism #StupidFascism
Sounds about right.
#Fascism #StupidFascism
These people are making America everything but Great or Healthy.
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
October 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
These people are making America everything but Great or Healthy.
Yesterday I spoke at the No Kings rally in Williamsburg, VA. I saw a very diverse crowd, and every one of them showed up without getting paid to protest the direction our country is going under Trump.
#Indivisibles #NoKingsDayOct18th #Fascism
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#Indivisibles #NoKingsDayOct18th #Fascism
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My Remarks at the Williamsburg/James City County No Kings Rally
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October 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Yesterday I spoke at the No Kings rally in Williamsburg, VA. I saw a very diverse crowd, and every one of them showed up without getting paid to protest the direction our country is going under Trump.
#Indivisibles #NoKingsDayOct18th #Fascism
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#Indivisibles #NoKingsDayOct18th #Fascism
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My thoughts on the shutdown and why I think Republicans are to blame. Check out more politics videos at the Foggy Bottom Line Media YouTube channel.
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FBL Spot Report: Government Shutdown
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
My thoughts on the shutdown and why I think Republicans are to blame. Check out more politics videos at the Foggy Bottom Line Media YouTube channel.
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
Episode 9 of the FBL podcast is up on YouTube. Scott and discuss his campaign, including some thoughts on campaign finance in Virginia and who funds Buddy Fowler's campaign. Check it out and let us know what you think!
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Foggy Bottom Line Podcast Episode 9
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October 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Episode 9 of the FBL podcast is up on YouTube. Scott and discuss his campaign, including some thoughts on campaign finance in Virginia and who funds Buddy Fowler's campaign. Check it out and let us know what you think!
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Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die
Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law
A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die
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@abigailspanberger.com is running for Governor to put Virginia families first. Winsome Earle-Sears is running for Governor to put Trump first.
October 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
@abigailspanberger.com is running for Governor to put Virginia families first. Winsome Earle-Sears is running for Governor to put Trump first.
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@abigailspanberger.com has plans
Earle-Sears? Wedge issues, 24/7
Maybe that's why Abigail continues to lead in every poll
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Earle-Sears? Wedge issues, 24/7
Maybe that's why Abigail continues to lead in every poll
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Spanberger answers questions about policy. Earle-Sears does not.
Spanberger answers questions about policy. Earle-Sears does not.
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This fits a pattern where Earle-Sears has avoided taking about most issues. Her silence on issues is unprecedented in modern Virginia history.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
@abigailspanberger.com has plans
Earle-Sears? Wedge issues, 24/7
Maybe that's why Abigail continues to lead in every poll
@804thepeople.bsky.social @indivisibleva.bsky.social @50501virginia.bsky.social
@neighbors4change.bsky.social
Earle-Sears? Wedge issues, 24/7
Maybe that's why Abigail continues to lead in every poll
@804thepeople.bsky.social @indivisibleva.bsky.social @50501virginia.bsky.social
@neighbors4change.bsky.social