Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson
@jastucaz.bsky.social
Former U.S. Ambassador, retired career Foreign Service officer, still writing that long-delayed biography of Tudor humanist Mildred Cooke Cecil, helped by the cat. Not as diplomatic as I once was.
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I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
He really is a shit.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
He really is a shit.
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It's Republican policy to encourage the spread of measles in the United States. But don't worry, RFK Jr will use some incantations, eye of newt, toe of frog, etc., to cure the deadly disease magically.
Thanks RFK and Trump.
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
It's Republican policy to encourage the spread of measles in the United States. But don't worry, RFK Jr will use some incantations, eye of newt, toe of frog, etc., to cure the deadly disease magically.
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Larry Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
This.
CIA cannot be a global intel service. It would need 10x the people, language skills, country knowledge it has. It relies on liaison with 60+ foreign services, some in nations decidedly not allies. And liasion with NATO nations is crumbling -- openly. It's all about trust. And trust has been broken.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This.
Always.
The world's most mediocre white men are allowed to rise and fail in this Trump Administration.
www.axios.com/2025/11/17/f...
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FEMA head resigns months after deadly Texas floods
He had no experience managing natural disasters.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Always.
Yes.
“They’re trying to make the loss of life invisible,”
This May Be the Cruelest, Most Senseless Thing Trump Has Done
A conversation with Atul Gawande about the human toll of the dismantling of foreign aid.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Yes.
They willfully killed one of the best things we have ever done. A program that saved people’s lives around the world. And at home.
Bastards.
Bastards.
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
They willfully killed one of the best things we have ever done. A program that saved people’s lives around the world. And at home.
Bastards.
Bastards.
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Great! Do that instead, and maybe stop stealing copyrighted ideas to fuel your energy-guzzling sycophancy engine that hallucinates fake facts and endangers vulnerable users? Just a thought…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Great! Do that instead, and maybe stop stealing copyrighted ideas to fuel your energy-guzzling sycophancy engine that hallucinates fake facts and endangers vulnerable users? Just a thought…
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
The best of us.
WCK founder @chefjoseandres.bsky.social was named one of @USnews.com Best Leaders of 2025.
At WCK, leadership isn’t about speaking the loudest—it’s about listening the closest. #ChefsForTheWorld
Read more here: https://www.usnews.com/news/leaders/articles/best-leaders-2025-jose-andres
At WCK, leadership isn’t about speaking the loudest—it’s about listening the closest. #ChefsForTheWorld
Read more here: https://www.usnews.com/news/leaders/articles/best-leaders-2025-jose-andres
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The best of us.
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This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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America's network of democratic alliances was a jewel. Never before had a great power relied on cultivating voluntary relationships, leading to the richest, most powerful country in history, and benefitting the world relative to the alternative.
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
America's network of democratic alliances was a jewel. Never before had a great power relied on cultivating voluntary relationships, leading to the richest, most powerful country in history, and benefitting the world relative to the alternative.
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Molly will do anything for a treat.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Molly will do anything for a treat.
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#adelita #grijalva #arizona
A great article on her first day in DC as our District 7 rep. She's the real deal.
A great article on her first day in DC as our District 7 rep. She's the real deal.
“Adelante, mi gente.”
This is just the start for Grijalva … Tucson on the hook for homeless camp … And is that your final answer Mike Johnson?
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November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇
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I think it’s important that impunity be the takeaway from these emails. Epstein, Trump and the rest act with indifference to morality and the law, because they do not believe they will ever face consequences. They are right to believe that. Decades of elite effort have assured them of it.
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I think it’s important that impunity be the takeaway from these emails. Epstein, Trump and the rest act with indifference to morality and the law, because they do not believe they will ever face consequences. They are right to believe that. Decades of elite effort have assured them of it.
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ICE tried to deport an Indigenous woman:
Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona's Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix.
She was pulled over for a traffic violation and her license was suspended and so that night ICE was preparing to deport her.
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Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona's Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix.
She was pulled over for a traffic violation and her license was suspended and so that night ICE was preparing to deport her.
(1/2)
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
ICE tried to deport an Indigenous woman:
Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona's Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix.
She was pulled over for a traffic violation and her license was suspended and so that night ICE was preparing to deport her.
(1/2)
Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona's Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix.
She was pulled over for a traffic violation and her license was suspended and so that night ICE was preparing to deport her.
(1/2)
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this dweeb doesn't even seem to be a US citizen. He's a student from the UK. hard to prove from the evidence online that he's not naturalized. (even then the below would be pretty rich). But he seems to be some posh brit here on a student visa.
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
this dweeb doesn't even seem to be a US citizen. He's a student from the UK. hard to prove from the evidence online that he's not naturalized. (even then the below would be pretty rich). But he seems to be some posh brit here on a student visa.
Oh, for crying out loud. Why can’t he just go play goddamn video game in the basement like the rest of his cohorts.
⚠️ Hegseth announces what he calls “Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR” and claims the entire Western Hemisphere is “America’s neighborhood.”
(It is unclear what exactly this will entail and is so broadly defined as to be potentially used to justify military operations targeting any number of countries.)
(It is unclear what exactly this will entail and is so broadly defined as to be potentially used to justify military operations targeting any number of countries.)
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Oh, for crying out loud. Why can’t he just go play goddamn video game in the basement like the rest of his cohorts.
Best damn city in the world. So happy to be back again.
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Best damn city in the world. So happy to be back again.
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I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons
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E-mails showing that Epstein was advising the Russians on how to manipulate Trump should be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Notice I said, “should be.”
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
E-mails showing that Epstein was advising the Russians on how to manipulate Trump should be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Notice I said, “should be.”