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John R Raymond 🚫👑
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#BelieveWomen "Trump is Putin's puppet."

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Dear #BlueWizards, I know it is scary to conceive, but Trump wants to have personal kills squads. All signs point that way...

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Calling It Now: Trump Wants ICE/CBP to Act as His Personal Kill Squads
Kill squads are not novel in the world. They are the oldest language of regimes that have decided persuasion is too slow, law is too…
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January 29, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, My minimax diagnostic of @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is not good. I honestly wish it was better.

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My Minimax Read of Jefferies Is Not Good
PRIMARY THESISMy minimax read of Hakeem Jeffries is not good because his most visible “opposition” moves map cleanly onto the regime’s pressure-management needs, not onto the public’s need for binding...
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January 29, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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Dear #BlueWizards, Understanding the need for audience hygiene is no substitute for actual war analysis.

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Audience Hygiene Is Fine, But It Doesn’t Substitute for Minimax Analysis When Engaged in Warfare
Audience hygiene matters. In a polluted information environment, people need tools to think clearly: how to distinguish speculation from evidence, how to resist doomscrolling distortions, how to keep ...
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January 29, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Dear #BlueWizards, @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social lack of commitment to answering questions about Trump is the opposite of courage...

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Dear Kyle Kulinski, The Question of Trump Being a Manchurian Candidate Isn’t About the Existence of…
Kyle Kulinski’s “Manchurian Candidate” framing functions as a permission slip for intellectual non-commitment. It signals seriousness while…
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January 28, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, Make no mistake about it, Putin isn't looking for peace. He only wants #Ukraine to surrender to his demands.

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Minimax and why Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy Reminds Western Leaders That Russia Isn’t Looking for Peace in Its Latest Posture
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not “being difficult” when he tells Western leaders that Russia is not looking for peace; he is stating the only rational conclusion available under minimax ...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, It shouldn't be this way, but moderate and corporate Democrats are proving they are way, way out of touch...

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Moderate and Corporate Democrats Are Looking Increasingly Out of Touch
The problem is no longer that moderate and corporate Democrats are saying the wrong things. The problem is that their entire operating system is calibrated for a world that is no longer here. They spe...
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January 28, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is flailing...

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Hakeen Jefferies Is Standing Up a Show of Opposition
The demand to remove Kristi Noem is being sold as resistance. It is not. It is theater. Worse, it is theater that materially benefits the…
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January 28, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Thank you, @realjakebroe.bsky.social for your latest video. It was really good.

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Ukraine is Gamifying the Elimination of Russians with Drones
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January 28, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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Dear #BlueWizards, While the war is hot in Ukraine, there is hidden action that Putin didn't account for in his evasion plan...

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Putin’s Miscalculation of Ukraine Is Worse Than You Might Think
The standard story about Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is that he miscalculated Ukrainian resistance. That is true, but it is not the whole truth, and it is not the most dangerous truth. The ...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, I don't want anyone to get the wrong point... Trump miscalculating is not something to celebrate.

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Year One of Trump 2.0: Nothing More Than a Full Year of Miscalculation
Year One of Trump 2.0 was not a year of strategy. It was a year of cumulative miscalculation — miscalculation born not of ignorance, but…
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January 27, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, Yes, it feels really weird having to explain how power works in this new world to @barackobama.bsky.social.

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Does Obama Really Think We Can Bargain with Trump’s Terrorist Regime?
Barack Obama’s short Medium statement, “A Wake-Up Call for Every American,” is morally lucid about the symptom—federal agents “acting with impunity,” public narratives “directly contradicted by video ...
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January 27, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, No offense to his fans, but @petebuttigieg.bsky.social's latest video is unproductive.

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You Will Never Catch Me Saying What Pete Is Saying in His Latest Video
There is a style of political communication that mistakes emotional management for strategy. It responds to brutality by offering uplift: the suggestion that “the ground is shifting,” that “glimmers” ...
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January 27, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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Dear #BlueWizards, I know people want her to be an ally, but #MGT is NOT our friend. She is still the enemy.

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In Politics, Your Enemy’s Enemy Is Not Always Your Friend
The most persistent tactical delusion in democratic politics is the reflex to treat any fracture on the right as a coalition opportunity on the left: if someone breaks with President Trump, they must ...
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January 27, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Dear #BlueWizards, With Greg Bovino's job in "superposition," I offer an explanation as to what we are trying to measure here...

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Bovino and the Neutrino — Why Greg Bovino’s Demotion Is the Smallest Quantum of Accountability
Greg Bovino’s reported demotion is not accountability in the ordinary sense. It is accountability in the regime sense: the smallest…
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January 27, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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Dear #BlueWizards, Though we should be, we are not quite at the "let them eat cake" moment yet.

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Not “Let Them Eat Cake” Quite Yet
The phrase “let them eat cake” endures because it captures a specific kind of regime failure: not cruelty, not propaganda, not even contempt, but detachment—an elite class so insulated by its own fict...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Dear #BlueWIzards, I hate having to apologize for Trump or for my fellow Americans, but after his Davos speech here we are...

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I Am Apologizing, But I Am Not Making Excesses for Trump’s Anti-American Davos Appearance
I am apologizing to Europe — not because Europe needs my pity, and not because Europe is fragile, but because I am an American and I know…
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January 26, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, I step out onto a limb with my latest analysis of Trump-Davos, Trump-EU/NATO, and Trump-Putin.

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Backlash, Not Democratic Outmaneuvering
Democrats did not engineer President Trump’s current weakness. They have, in the main, been absent—reactive, fragmented, and too often content to let the news cycle substitute for strategy. If there i...
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January 26, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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Dear #BlueWizards, It is entirely possible that Ukraine has already decided that #Viktor #Orban will not enjoy another term in office

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Viktor Orbán Is Skating on the Thinnest of Thin Ice
Viktor Orbán is operating under assumptions that no longer hold. He behaves as though the post–Cold War rules that insulated disruptive…
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January 25, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, Mark #Rutte needs to correct course for the betterment of #NATO and #Ukraine.

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The Math Doesn’t Lie — A Simulation on Why Rutte Needs to Correct Course
We are going to concede some ground at the start, because the argument is stronger when it is forced to survive inside another’s premise……
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January 25, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, I've said it before but it bares repeating. Listening to Joe Rogan makes one a total fucking idiot.

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Joe Rogan Is So So Painfully Stupid It Hurts to Think About All the Idiots Who Still Listens to Him
Joe Rogan’s stupidity is not “he does not know a lot.” It is worse than that. It is the kind of stupidity that cannot tell the difference between a fact and a good story. It is the kind that hears a c...
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January 24, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, #ICE, #Trump, #MAGA really are as stupid as they seem. Read on to understand how stupid they really are.

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Trump, MAGA, and ICE Have Forgotten That Opening Pandora’s Box Does Not Mean They Get to Command…
President Trump, MAGA, and the federal immigration apparatus have chosen escalation as governance: mass deployment, street-level coercion…
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January 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Dear #BlueWizardsm, Sorry, but @adamkinzinger.substack.com is a non-analyst/dumbass who should probably shut the hell up...

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Adam Kinzinger Doesn’t Understand Trump’s Attacks on Jack Smith
Adam Kinzinger’s recurring mistake is not that he fails to notice what President Trump is doing. It is that he keeps insisting on a personality-based explanation—narcissism—for behavior that is more s...
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January 24, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Dear #BlueWizards, We don't yet know for sure, but this year might be the year where the backlash against Trump takes shape...

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Year One of Trump 2.0 Saw Trump and MAGA Lashing Out—Year Two Looks Like the Year for Backlash
A tipping point is not a mood. It is a change in behavior—specifically, the moment when a threat stops being treated as rhetoric and begins to be treated as an operational variable that must be counte...
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January 24, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Dear #BlueWizards, Davos revealed Gavin Newsom to be little more than a slicked-back clown and a smarmy prick.

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Slicked-Back Clown Gavin Newsom Heading to Davos to Act Like a Smarmy Prick Was Counterproductive
Gavin Newsom’s Davos trip was a category error: he treated a strategic communications problem as if it were a stage-performance…
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January 23, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Dear #BlueWizards, Trump-Greenland is part of a pattern, not an exception.

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What Trump-Greenland Really Showed — Trump Is a Terminal Case of Hemorrhoids
The Trump-Greenland episode did not reveal a novel policy dispute, a misunderstood negotiating tactic, or a personality quirk. It revealed…
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January 23, 2026 at 9:20 PM