Mark Potts
@markpotts.bsky.social
Skating to where the puck is going, especially if it's headed for AI. Strategy/product consulting, mentoring and investing. This gun for hire. Recovering journalist: ex-WaPo, AP, ChiTrib, SF Examiner. Tramps like us. #Natitude
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Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
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The @nytimes.com @wsj.com @apnews.com all have stories that fail to mention this!! Madness! He’s playing them all for fools.
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The @nytimes.com @wsj.com @apnews.com all have stories that fail to mention this!! Madness! He’s playing them all for fools.
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Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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Remember those national guard troops sent to Chicago by Texas Gov Greg Abbott? They went home after sitting at a suburban training facility doing nothing for a month. Abbott's little stunt cost taxpayers at least $12M. What an abuse of power.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Remember those national guard troops sent to Chicago by Texas Gov Greg Abbott? They went home after sitting at a suburban training facility doing nothing for a month. Abbott's little stunt cost taxpayers at least $12M. What an abuse of power.
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bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
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That WaPo would publish a piece about MBS without mentioning that he was responsible for murdering one of the paper’s contributors and having his corpse dismembered with a bone saw speaks volumes.
Democracy doesn’t need darkness to perish if its institutions willingly wear blinders.
Democracy doesn’t need darkness to perish if its institutions willingly wear blinders.
Opinion | As Trump and MBS meet, a longtime partnership faces new realities
Mideast and global energy issues are steadier when Washington and Riyadh act in concert.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
That WaPo would publish a piece about MBS without mentioning that he was responsible for murdering one of the paper’s contributors and having his corpse dismembered with a bone saw speaks volumes.
Democracy doesn’t need darkness to perish if its institutions willingly wear blinders.
Democracy doesn’t need darkness to perish if its institutions willingly wear blinders.
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That the political system has been so impotent for so long on both positive and negative behaviors inoculated the American public as to the consequences of elections, and - in that way - the system was not in service to them. I think about this quite a bit. The stove had never been hot enough before
November 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
That the political system has been so impotent for so long on both positive and negative behaviors inoculated the American public as to the consequences of elections, and - in that way - the system was not in service to them. I think about this quite a bit. The stove had never been hot enough before
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Fury over Me Too/frantic cover up for child sex trafficker now seem to be very much of one piece.
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Fury over Me Too/frantic cover up for child sex trafficker now seem to be very much of one piece.
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We did it in 2020, and people just voted by huge margins in CA, NJ, VA
Fair, but it’s also incredibly hard, if not impossible to vote out authoritarians. Which would you agree that this is authoritarian territory we are in right now with Trump & his administration?
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
We did it in 2020, and people just voted by huge margins in CA, NJ, VA
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From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
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Always speak truth to power. Always call out corruption. Always stand up for human rights. Always.
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Always speak truth to power. Always call out corruption. Always stand up for human rights. Always.
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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If you told me there was this amazing essay about Simon & Garfunkel & a horse farm I *needed* to read, I'd--well, I wouldn't. But damn, this is it, by Cassidy Exner, latest in series of young writers approaching the Trumpocene slant rhyme. callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/eddie-wher...
Eddie, Where Are You Calling From?
Evidence of the moment from a most peculiar archive
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November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you told me there was this amazing essay about Simon & Garfunkel & a horse farm I *needed* to read, I'd--well, I wouldn't. But damn, this is it, by Cassidy Exner, latest in series of young writers approaching the Trumpocene slant rhyme. callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/eddie-wher...
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The function of HR is not to enforce civil rights law, but to make sure that employees have very few avenues to actually win discrimination suits. Literally no one seems to understand this.
November 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The function of HR is not to enforce civil rights law, but to make sure that employees have very few avenues to actually win discrimination suits. Literally no one seems to understand this.
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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Please remember the initial claim was that Trump wasn’t in the files at all
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Please remember the initial claim was that Trump wasn’t in the files at all
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The whategy?
if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The whategy?
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Hear me out …
I think there’s a chance Trump might be losing his mind.
I think there’s a chance Trump might be losing his mind.
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Hear me out …
I think there’s a chance Trump might be losing his mind.
I think there’s a chance Trump might be losing his mind.
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Also worth remembering:
-Bill Clinton was in the White House in the previous *century.*
-Donald Trump (who is two months older than Clinton) is in office right now.
-Bill Clinton was in the White House in the previous *century.*
-Donald Trump (who is two months older than Clinton) is in office right now.
The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Also worth remembering:
-Bill Clinton was in the White House in the previous *century.*
-Donald Trump (who is two months older than Clinton) is in office right now.
-Bill Clinton was in the White House in the previous *century.*
-Donald Trump (who is two months older than Clinton) is in office right now.
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The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.
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If your church is turning away people who show up to your doors in good faith, you don't have a church. You have a very expensive book club with scarcely any wine.
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If your church is turning away people who show up to your doors in good faith, you don't have a church. You have a very expensive book club with scarcely any wine.
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It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Literally describing Mar-a-Lago staffing here.
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Literally describing Mar-a-Lago staffing here.