Yuki (was Catherine Rampell for POTUS!)
foreignsubstance.bsky.social
Yuki (was Catherine Rampell for POTUS!)
@foreignsubstance.bsky.social
Refugee (self-deleted) from Elon as of mid-2023.

Why Catherine? A properly functioning moral compass. Sharp as a tack. But you have to want it (not a LOT, but at least a little). I understand.

Color me "Open" right now. But '26 may make '28 meaningless.
Pinned
Once again, because it apparently needs repetition:

We, are social primates. On our own, dead social primates. Some form of 'socialism' then, should be second nature to us.

Were it not for those of extreme privilege who deliberately confuse it with excesses it is only tangentally related to.
At today's GOP presser, Mike Johnson links Mamdani to Obama, "who made health care unaffordable with his own socialist scheme."

Calling subsidized private health insurance a socialist scheme is a quick way to show everyone that when you decry "socialism," you just mean anything that helps people.
Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 36 of Government Shutdown
YouTube video by Speaker Mike Johnson
www.youtube.com
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For those who don't have the time to read my Thiel/Yarvin/Vance thread, here it is in short form:
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Dr. Oz, Trump's FAVORITE Muslim, is strangely silent.
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
@senangusking.bsky.social ... "you stupid, limp, flaccid, old man".

~Olbermann
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream"
Our foreign policy, if that is still the right concept, has three pillars: alienate allies, encourage enemies, and take bribes.
"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal" edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Will Trump start a war to distract us from the Epstein Files? 😳
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My problem is something like atrophy of the left latissimus dorsi, because I don't use it enough. 🤪😂😏
I shot 90 on a real golf course today. Should have been an 86, but I hooked two shots OB. 😥😥😥
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I shot 90 on a real golf course today. Should have been an 86, but I hooked two shots OB. 😥😥😥
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I did 𝒏𝒐𝒕 have "Maybe Lauren Boebert saves America from authoritarianism" on my 2025 bingo card.

Narrator: Cuz you lack imagination! 😲😂
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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They were still hanging out when he was president in 2017 @foreignsubstance.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Wolfe said Epstein told him in person months ago - not just knowing but participating @foreignsubstance.bsky.social @4sight-nc.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Ivanka Trump: "I 'Get Goosebumps' At The White House."

Narrator: Is that what you call those?

Yuki: Clearly, I need to visit the White House. 😲😂
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"And you know, a lot of people, most people actually, say she looks just like Ivanka."
Can you say "Gatsby"?

I knew you could.
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Can you say "Gatsby"?

I knew you could.
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Makes me tempted to try to learn Korean.

"Tempted" is doing a lot of lifting here. I'm well past optimum language acquisition age.
@4sight-nc.bsky.social You know, this woman is helping me knock strokes off my game. The way she teaches is great.

www.youtube.com/@lbygolf/sho...
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
@4sight-nc.bsky.social You know, this woman is helping me knock strokes off my game. The way she teaches is great.

www.youtube.com/@lbygolf/sho...
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈but utter respect!

pca.st/99n6vxcw
The Women Fighting on Ukraine’s Front Lines
pca.st
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It's called Linux. 😂
I would like it if Microsoft had a commerical that explained how to turn their new AI off. Stop bothering me.
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I can't go until Jay Powell is replaced by a Trump sock puppet.

Then the yen will head towards 110. 😂
Japan elementary school travel (group) is a big deal. It's often (almost always) Kyoto, & in the fall.

But it's really difficult now. Then yen is so relatively cheap that the entire country is "on sale" to foreigners. The taxis are all full. Busses can't park in bus parking lots. Etc.
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Japan elementary school travel (group) is a big deal. It's often (almost always) Kyoto, & in the fall.

But it's really difficult now. Then yen is so relatively cheap that the entire country is "on sale" to foreigners. The taxis are all full. Busses can't park in bus parking lots. Etc.
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Surreal.
A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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There is no low
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
But it would shock 𝒎𝒆 if 𝒉𝒆 was getting paid, instead of paying. 😂
It would not shock me if he’s doing Porn on the side
Chris Cuomo is trying to make this atrocious little mustache happen even though it looks like he drew it on with a ballpoint pen
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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OK this is amazing.
Trump’s Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which company debuted a month after Trump signed an exec order to end use of “Woke AI” in federal government.
Here's how it responds to questions about tariffs, who won 2020 election, Jan 6, etc:
www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I notice now that many sports books have eliminated "ties" in over/under bets. It used to be one number. Now it's two numbers. There is no "push" possible. The difference between the two numbers is an additional house advantage, compared to the nearly 5% one they already enjoyed.
The house advantage on a sports bet is very similar to the house bet on a roulette spin (in America, because America has a double-zero, which just about doubles the house advantage).

The more you bet, the more you are going to be, literally and figuratively, a loser.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Gasbag is so impressed with himself, isn't he.
Short-fingered vulgarian spectacularly living up to both parts of his nickname at once.
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM