Forbestonow
@forbestonow.bsky.social
It has taken a long time...
Don't follow me as my interests are so varied I'll just confuse you and even the bots will get bored.
Don't follow me as my interests are so varied I'll just confuse you and even the bots will get bored.
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Meet unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles. swt.bio/tytan
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Meet unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles. swt.bio/tytan
Do it for this reason alone. Make it a woman and Donald would be referring to her as Nancy Pelosi within a week. Guaranteed.
If nothing else, a new minority leader would force Trump to learn a new name.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Do it for this reason alone. Make it a woman and Donald would be referring to her as Nancy Pelosi within a week. Guaranteed.
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In a world where the incumbent president bowed to pressure and stepped aside, it doesn’t seem like such a monumental ask to switch minority leaders.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
In a world where the incumbent president bowed to pressure and stepped aside, it doesn’t seem like such a monumental ask to switch minority leaders.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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11 November 1927 | Czech Jewish boy, Felix Arnstein, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
11 November 1927 | Czech Jewish boy, Felix Arnstein, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz
Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
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I just voted NO on the bill that fails to prevent the looming health care crisis and fails to rein in Trump’s lawless actions, but I won’t give up — and I urge the American people to stay in the fight despite this disappointing outcome.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I just voted NO on the bill that fails to prevent the looming health care crisis and fails to rein in Trump’s lawless actions, but I won’t give up — and I urge the American people to stay in the fight despite this disappointing outcome.
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ONG! The comeback. ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
ONG! The comeback. ❤️
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There’s working on behalf of criminals and then there’s working for criminals.
Bad management at DOJ leading to staff exit & trouble hiring.
Synchronized withdrawal of labor. Collapse of labor supply.
Reduced administration's capacity.
Not a strike but also not not a strike.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Synchronized withdrawal of labor. Collapse of labor supply.
Reduced administration's capacity.
Not a strike but also not not a strike.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
There’s working on behalf of criminals and then there’s working for criminals.
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UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
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In addressing whether removing Senator Schumer as leader should be an issue in Democratic primaries, Senator Sanders broadens the focus: "We need to take on the Democratic establishment all over this country."
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
In addressing whether removing Senator Schumer as leader should be an issue in Democratic primaries, Senator Sanders broadens the focus: "We need to take on the Democratic establishment all over this country."
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The hero of the working class.
Trump on Newsom: "He did something even worse than that. He's now taking a big section of Palisades or some area and he's gonna build low income income where they used to have luxury housing."
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The hero of the working class.
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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The best way to control a narcissist is to *recognize* his manipulative behavior and then set and *maintain* appropriate boundaries. Note: all of his behavior is manipulative and self-serving, so *maintaining* appropriate boundaries is the only way forward. If not, we all lose.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The best way to control a narcissist is to *recognize* his manipulative behavior and then set and *maintain* appropriate boundaries. Note: all of his behavior is manipulative and self-serving, so *maintaining* appropriate boundaries is the only way forward. If not, we all lose.
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One word: discovery
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
One word: discovery
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He really wants to lose the midterms.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
He really wants to lose the midterms.
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Disgusting
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Disgusting
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Again, Comey citing Abrego.
![Not only does President Trump have the ultimate power to cause a prosecution, but the
sequence of events that led to Mr. Comey’s prosecution leaves no doubt that he exercised that
power here. After forcing out the incumbent United States Attorney, Erik Siebert, because of his
reticence to bring this and other cases against the President’s perceived political enemies, the
President posted on social media a message to the Attorney General excoriating her for failing to
prosecute those enemies—including Mr. Comey—and directing that “JUSTICE MUST BE
SERVED NOW.” See id. at 10-11. In the same message, he praised Ms. Halligan’s legal ability,
and, within 48 hours, Ms. Halligan was appointed and four days later went to the grand jury to
indict Mr. Comey. See id. at 11-12. One does not need to connect these dots: they form an
unmistakable arrow from the President’s bow to Mr. Comey as the target. If “[t]he motivations
of the people who place the file on the prosecutor’s desk are highly relevant when considering a
motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution,” Abrego, 2025 WL 3002840, at *1 (emphasis
added), the motivations of the President who installed the prosecutor as U.S. Attorney after
publicly calling for Mr. Comey’s prosecution are compelling proof of his role in engineering the
indictment. The basis for imputation here is clear.1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreidwb2azb6okmjcdiec5xfvqtrae2kz4ldpreutbif43q4gwgw4gra@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Again, Comey citing Abrego.
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The former FBI Director, Jim Comey, cites the case of an undocumented immigrant, Kilmar Abrego, in his vindictive prosecution arg.
There's an important commonality between these cases.
There's an important commonality between these cases.
![indictments. United States v. Dickerson, 975 F.2d 1245, 1251 (7th Cir. 1992) (declining to
impute alleged animus of FBI agents and state police officers); see United States v. Spears, 159
F.3d 1081, 1087 (7th Cir. 1998) (declining to impute alleged animus of a state prosecutor and
investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms); United States v. Gilbert, 266
F.3d 1180, 1187 (9th Cir. 2001) (declining to impute alleged animus of IRS investigators);
United States v. Cooper, 617 F. App’x 249, 251 (4th Cir. 2015) (per curiam) (declining to impute
alleged animus of local law enforcement). Those cases are readily distinguishable from this one,
where the animus springs from the head of the Executive Branch who has supervisory authority
over all federal prosecutors and who exercised that power in this case. people who place the file on the prosecutor’s desk are highly relevant when considering a motion
to dismiss for vindictive prosecution.” United States v. Abrego, No. 25-cr-00115, 2025 WL
3002840, at *1 (M.D. Tenn. Oct. 27, 2025) (citing Adams, 870 F.2d at 1146). And the
government itself acknowledges that when an individual harboring animus “displace[s]” the
prosecutor as “‘the ultimate decision-maker’” in bringing a prosecution, that individual’s animus
can be imputed to the prosecutor. See ECF No. 138 at 20 (citing United States v. Gomez-Lopez,
62 F.3d 304, 306 (9th Cir. 1995)).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreihmvvjm5idxwua2oqrvnlb6pot35v4xuuxehick44dlvqq3eo363y@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The former FBI Director, Jim Comey, cites the case of an undocumented immigrant, Kilmar Abrego, in his vindictive prosecution arg.
There's an important commonality between these cases.
There's an important commonality between these cases.
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Onto Comey's vindictive and selective prosecution argument. This ¶ is super important, bc it gets to how inapt exist precedents on whether related investigators can be source of animus. A president is different.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Onto Comey's vindictive and selective prosecution argument. This ¶ is super important, bc it gets to how inapt exist precedents on whether related investigators can be source of animus. A president is different.
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Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
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The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.
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A Tufted Titmouse perched in a Tamarack tree. Tamarack trees are the only conifers that shed their needles in the winter, which turn yellow before dropping.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A Tufted Titmouse perched in a Tamarack tree. Tamarack trees are the only conifers that shed their needles in the winter, which turn yellow before dropping.
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So, we're fucked.
VAN SUSTEREN: Is the Republican healthcare solution going to go into effect at midnight on Dec. 31? Because people are gonna get sticker shock
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So, we're fucked.
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM