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. Not as diplomatic as I once was.
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Props to NPR for leading the newscast w/ the president's racist post. But, c'mon...they're not false narratives. They're lies. Words matter (Once again, don't give me the 'but we don't know what he knows or is thinking.')
February 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Props to NPR for leading the newscast w/ the president's racist post. But, c'mon...they're not false narratives. They're lies. Words matter (Once again, don't give me the 'but we don't know what he knows or is thinking.')
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Refugees International has a devastating report on what Trump's gutting of USAID has done.
www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...
www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...
A Generational Collapse: Tracking the Toll of Trump’s Humanitarian Aid Cuts - Refugees International
The consequences of these cuts have been deadly and devastating and are now coming into focus. Will humanitarian funding ever rebound?
www.refugeesinternational.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Refugees International has a devastating report on what Trump's gutting of USAID has done.
www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...
www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...
Who knew indeed?
In a different world, Poland would declare this grifting asshole persona non grata and throw him out. But it won’t happen.
In a different world, Poland would declare this grifting asshole persona non grata and throw him out. But it won’t happen.
Turns out firing career diplomats and replacing them with Trump loyalists who learned international relations from Truth Social has consequences. Who knew. #holdfast
February 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Who knew indeed?
In a different world, Poland would declare this grifting asshole persona non grata and throw him out. But it won’t happen.
In a different world, Poland would declare this grifting asshole persona non grata and throw him out. But it won’t happen.
But perhaps, you know, not classified or national security material.
Duh.
Duh.
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nyti.ms
February 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM
But perhaps, you know, not classified or national security material.
Duh.
Duh.
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BREAKING: An Arizona state court permanently blocked several abortion restrictions, including a law forcing patients to make two trips to a provider and a ban on telemedicine abortion.
This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.
This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.
February 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
BREAKING: An Arizona state court permanently blocked several abortion restrictions, including a law forcing patients to make two trips to a provider and a ban on telemedicine abortion.
This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.
This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.
Of course.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Thursday released a document that appeared to direct the blame for intelligence and security failings before the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, onto other officials.
Netanyahu Suggests Top Officials to Blame for Oct. 7 Failings
In a document released on Thursday night, the Israeli leader sought to distance himself from responsibility for intelligence and security failings before the Hamas-led attack.
nyti.ms
February 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Of course.
So it can be done.
February 6, 2026 at 4:18 PM
So it can be done.
This.
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
This.
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The BBC reports this morning that police are searching the home of Mandelson, an advisor to Kier Starmer, exposed by the Epstein File release. Our DOJ lies and shields criminals while abusing the victims.
substack.com/@rawstory/no...
substack.com/@rawstory/no...
Raw America (@rawstory)
FINALLY, a Republican who tells the truth! Thomas Massie: “I am sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to Rape Island.” “Some of them will be embarrassed,...
substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The BBC reports this morning that police are searching the home of Mandelson, an advisor to Kier Starmer, exposed by the Epstein File release. Our DOJ lies and shields criminals while abusing the victims.
substack.com/@rawstory/no...
substack.com/@rawstory/no...
Just what you’d expect from a Torygraph alum.
Looks like Will Lewis was too busy taking in the festivities ahead of the Super Bowl to address his staff after gutting the newsroom.
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Just what you’d expect from a Torygraph alum.
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Despicable, evil soulless monsters.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Despicable, evil soulless monsters.
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And it's only February...
February 6, 2026 at 3:35 AM
And it's only February...
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“You are one pathetic loser!” Lloyd Christmas
February 6, 2026 at 3:42 AM
“You are one pathetic loser!” Lloyd Christmas
The Washington Post is dead.
Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C
February 6, 2026 at 4:08 AM
The Washington Post is dead.
Of course.
Bastard.
Bastard.
Revealed: Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank
Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel Aviv
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Of course.
Bastard.
Bastard.
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One year ago today Gavin Kliger and his fellows at DOGE locked me and my colleagues out of our usaid.gov accounts as we attempted to push millions of $$ of aid to Gaza. The week that followed was chaotic, traumatizing, and so incredibly stupid. But we got that money out.
February 2, 2026 at 6:23 PM
One year ago today Gavin Kliger and his fellows at DOGE locked me and my colleagues out of our usaid.gov accounts as we attempted to push millions of $$ of aid to Gaza. The week that followed was chaotic, traumatizing, and so incredibly stupid. But we got that money out.
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Does anyone sell subatomic sized violins?
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Does anyone sell subatomic sized violins?
This administration must be so proud.
Remember the big foreign aid cuts? Estimates are that more than 760,000 people, including 500,000 children, have died over the past year since American assistance suddenly vanished - figures cited by Senate appropriations member Sen. Schatz.
February 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This administration must be so proud.
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they're really testing god here
February 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
they're really testing god here
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We’ve warned repeatedly about the threat of autocracy under Donald Trump. It looks like we’re not the only ones sounding the alarm. #holdfast
February 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
We’ve warned repeatedly about the threat of autocracy under Donald Trump. It looks like we’re not the only ones sounding the alarm. #holdfast
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INBOX: @khoureld.bsky.social, the former Washington Post East Africa Bureau Chief who was laid off yesterday, did not mince words on Twitter/X:
"To the arms dealers, liars, thieves, killers of children: I’m keeping my files."
"To the arms dealers, liars, thieves, killers of children: I’m keeping my files."
February 5, 2026 at 3:03 PM
INBOX: @khoureld.bsky.social, the former Washington Post East Africa Bureau Chief who was laid off yesterday, did not mince words on Twitter/X:
"To the arms dealers, liars, thieves, killers of children: I’m keeping my files."
"To the arms dealers, liars, thieves, killers of children: I’m keeping my files."
Why not?
The International Olympic Committee had to ask fans not to boo the U.S. delegation led by JD Vance and Marco Rubio during the opening ceremony.
Olympic Committee Begs Fans to Be Nice to JD Vance
There is talk of the U.S. delegation potentially being jeered at the opening ceremony.
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Why not?
I have to wonder if anybody notices anymore.
I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We hit 'em. And we want to hit 'em right, sir, and we want to hit them from the top! East, west, north, south. Sir, they won't know what the hell! And we'll knock them out. We did it politically correct. Five years."
February 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I have to wonder if anybody notices anymore.
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Why the arts matter. Why classics are just that. #Shakespeare’s “The Stranger’s Case” speech from the unpublished,unperformed, possibly censored play “Sir Thomas More”. London sheriff Thomas More’s response to riots against #immigrants in London in May 1517.
“And this your mountainish inhumanity”
“And this your mountainish inhumanity”
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Why the arts matter. Why classics are just that. #Shakespeare’s “The Stranger’s Case” speech from the unpublished,unperformed, possibly censored play “Sir Thomas More”. London sheriff Thomas More’s response to riots against #immigrants in London in May 1517.
“And this your mountainish inhumanity”
“And this your mountainish inhumanity”