jobelenus
@jobelenus.bsky.social
Engineering Leader. Pronouns are he/him. Greater Boston.
https://jobelenus.dev/
The politics will continue until the fascists have been put back into the pages of history.
https://jobelenus.dev/
The politics will continue until the fascists have been put back into the pages of history.
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Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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Rebranding inflation as “the affordability crisis” is a gift to Trump as it makes this out to be a new problem as opposed to the problem he claimed he was going to solve but instead made worse.
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Rebranding inflation as “the affordability crisis” is a gift to Trump as it makes this out to be a new problem as opposed to the problem he claimed he was going to solve but instead made worse.
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It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord
Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate summit reached a deal that didn’t include a road map to curtail use of fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
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The fascist right doesn’t believe that American Jews belong in America. They want us to live in our own ethno-state—not here.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The fascist right doesn’t believe that American Jews belong in America. They want us to live in our own ethno-state—not here.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
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AP is back in court today to defend itself and the right to speak freely without government retaliation.
Why AP is standing for your right to speak freely
The executive editor of The Associated Press says the news organization is fighting for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
AP is back in court today to defend itself and the right to speak freely without government retaliation.
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
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DOGE investigations and prosecutions are already overdue
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
DOGE investigations and prosecutions are already overdue
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
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Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America.
Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*
Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*
Someone is having concerns about Twitter privacy all of a sudden
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America.
Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*
Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*
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When asked why they make up lies for the right-wing instead of the left, the fake news creators said, "Look man. We tested everything. We write made-up stories for the right and the left. The left is not gullible enough."
Hateful people are self-selected for gullibility. 🤷🏿♂️
Easy marks.
Hateful people are self-selected for gullibility. 🤷🏿♂️
Easy marks.
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
When asked why they make up lies for the right-wing instead of the left, the fake news creators said, "Look man. We tested everything. We write made-up stories for the right and the left. The left is not gullible enough."
Hateful people are self-selected for gullibility. 🤷🏿♂️
Easy marks.
Hateful people are self-selected for gullibility. 🤷🏿♂️
Easy marks.
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Everyone forgets that the term "fake news," originally referred to made up stories about Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, spread by supposed Trump supporters for racist reasons. But it turned out to just be profit motive by non-US individuals looking to get racist American weirdos to click on ads🤷🏿♂️
Macedonia's Fake News Factories | AJ+
YouTube video by AJ+
m.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Everyone forgets that the term "fake news," originally referred to made up stories about Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, spread by supposed Trump supporters for racist reasons. But it turned out to just be profit motive by non-US individuals looking to get racist American weirdos to click on ads🤷🏿♂️
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Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
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"... sometimes NOT doing an extreme thing is extremist, and the difference depends on circumstances, on recognizing whether or not an emergency is occurring, and what the immediacy of the emergency is, and who is at risk."
www.the-reframe.com/a-foolish-pr...
www.the-reframe.com/a-foolish-pr...
A Foolish Proposal
On the purpose of persuasion, Proclamation 95, and the difference between extreme and extremist.
www.the-reframe.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"... sometimes NOT doing an extreme thing is extremist, and the difference depends on circumstances, on recognizing whether or not an emergency is occurring, and what the immediacy of the emergency is, and who is at risk."
www.the-reframe.com/a-foolish-pr...
www.the-reframe.com/a-foolish-pr...
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It's not a matter of whether or not we'll have such tribunals. It's whether or not we can still manage to have them in prosecution of fascist Republicans for crimes against humanity. If we can't, fascist Republicans will eventually hold them against everyone else for the crime of humanity.
Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Hey look POTUS calling for military tribunals
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It's not a matter of whether or not we'll have such tribunals. It's whether or not we can still manage to have them in prosecution of fascist Republicans for crimes against humanity. If we can't, fascist Republicans will eventually hold them against everyone else for the crime of humanity.
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Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Might I suggest @theflytrapmedia.com
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Might I suggest @theflytrapmedia.com
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Add up all the polluted media incl. CBS, FB, Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times—not even counting Murdoch or Sinclair—and you start to see the scale of the problem
p.s. subscribe to
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@defector.com
@theflytrapmedia.com
@hearingthingsco.bsky.social
p.s. subscribe to
@flaminghydra.com
@defector.com
@theflytrapmedia.com
@hearingthingsco.bsky.social
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Add up all the polluted media incl. CBS, FB, Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times—not even counting Murdoch or Sinclair—and you start to see the scale of the problem
p.s. subscribe to
@flaminghydra.com
@defector.com
@theflytrapmedia.com
@hearingthingsco.bsky.social
p.s. subscribe to
@flaminghydra.com
@defector.com
@theflytrapmedia.com
@hearingthingsco.bsky.social
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The destruction of the federal government disproportionately affects black women. The federal civil service has long been a good career option because of the strong equal opportunity enforced in the civil service that has historically blunted the double discrimination that black women face.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The destruction of the federal government disproportionately affects black women. The federal civil service has long been a good career option because of the strong equal opportunity enforced in the civil service that has historically blunted the double discrimination that black women face.
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Accidentally correct in one regard: the Republicans did not decide they hated America. They already believed that Democrats have no place in America and took actions designed to neutralize and/or purge them
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Accidentally correct in one regard: the Republicans did not decide they hated America. They already believed that Democrats have no place in America and took actions designed to neutralize and/or purge them
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This is so good! You need to watch this interview from The Palestine Festival of Literature. Rare Baconi and Ta-Nehisi Coates talking about Baconi’s queer Palestinian memoir: youtu.be/eYW0Iy5jUcw?...
Tareq Baconi in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about "Fire in Every Direction"
YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is so good! You need to watch this interview from The Palestine Festival of Literature. Rare Baconi and Ta-Nehisi Coates talking about Baconi’s queer Palestinian memoir: youtu.be/eYW0Iy5jUcw?...
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One last thing I’d add is that Posobiec asked his question not from a position of strength, but because he was absolutely seething about how his commie crushing Emperor God Trump was engaging in a love fest with a guy Jack would deport (or worse) tomorrow if he could. bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One last thing I’d add is that Posobiec asked his question not from a position of strength, but because he was absolutely seething about how his commie crushing Emperor God Trump was engaging in a love fest with a guy Jack would deport (or worse) tomorrow if he could. bsky.app/profile/larr...
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Anyway, I’m sure the President’s antisemitism task force will be looking into how a Denis Fahey admirer like Posobiec has managed to rise to such a position of influence in Trump’s movement.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Anyway, I’m sure the President’s antisemitism task force will be looking into how a Denis Fahey admirer like Posobiec has managed to rise to such a position of influence in Trump’s movement.
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That would be this, antisemitic and white nationalist activist, who was a cohost of The Charlie Kirk show.
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
That would be this, antisemitic and white nationalist activist, who was a cohost of The Charlie Kirk show.
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Mark Kelly will never be president.
Again,
1) Police treat Black people worse than ICE treats immigrants. Much worse.
2) Winning as a Dem requires both massive Black voter turnout, and about 90% of Black people to vote for you.
3) Mark Kelly is super pro-cop.
So no, that ain't happening.
Again,
1) Police treat Black people worse than ICE treats immigrants. Much worse.
2) Winning as a Dem requires both massive Black voter turnout, and about 90% of Black people to vote for you.
3) Mark Kelly is super pro-cop.
So no, that ain't happening.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Mark Kelly will never be president.
Again,
1) Police treat Black people worse than ICE treats immigrants. Much worse.
2) Winning as a Dem requires both massive Black voter turnout, and about 90% of Black people to vote for you.
3) Mark Kelly is super pro-cop.
So no, that ain't happening.
Again,
1) Police treat Black people worse than ICE treats immigrants. Much worse.
2) Winning as a Dem requires both massive Black voter turnout, and about 90% of Black people to vote for you.
3) Mark Kelly is super pro-cop.
So no, that ain't happening.
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detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...