MNehlsta
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MNehlsta
@mnehlsta.bsky.social
· Jun 27
Cosign from above 40. Retirement is off the table. We fear for our aged parents, our children, our communities. Oligarchs are in charge, breaking rules and doing their best to accelerate disasters across wealth, health, and world.
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Some context: Trump is referring to those who fight and die for their country in military service. Those he told John Kelly were “suckers” and “losers.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Some context: Trump is referring to those who fight and die for their country in military service. Those he told John Kelly were “suckers” and “losers.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Many are calling for Chuck Schumer's resignation. What hasn't been reported until now is that any Senate Democrat can offer a motion to challenge his leadership position, and it would have to get a vote within 7 days. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:
prospect.org/2025/11/11/o...
prospect.org/2025/11/11/o...
One Weird Trick to Get Rid of Chuck Schumer - The American Prospect
Multiple Democratic groups, House members, and candidates say it’s time for the Senate minority leader to go. It turns out any single Senate Democrat can force a vote on Schumer’s job.
prospect.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Many are calling for Chuck Schumer's resignation. What hasn't been reported until now is that any Senate Democrat can offer a motion to challenge his leadership position, and it would have to get a vote within 7 days. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:
prospect.org/2025/11/11/o...
prospect.org/2025/11/11/o...
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The government trying to play its own game
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The government trying to play its own game
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If you're looking around thinking "if Trump & the Republicans cause enough suffering, there will be backlash & accountability," I would direct your attention to the UK. Hard to think of any country in history so clearly, demonstrably, theatrically fucked by a single party ... and yet.
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If you're looking around thinking "if Trump & the Republicans cause enough suffering, there will be backlash & accountability," I would direct your attention to the UK. Hard to think of any country in history so clearly, demonstrably, theatrically fucked by a single party ... and yet.
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Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
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The corruption is off the charts and tied to our rule of law crisis. But it’s also so disheartening to see who and what reap economic rewards, and who and what get neglected.
"In the first half of this year, the Trump Organization’s income soared 17-fold to $864 million from $51 million a year earlier, according to Reuters calculations." Wild. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine
The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
www.reuters.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The corruption is off the charts and tied to our rule of law crisis. But it’s also so disheartening to see who and what reap economic rewards, and who and what get neglected.
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not to name names but John Fetterman, Tim Kaine, Angus King, Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan. And most of all Chuck Schumer.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
not to name names but John Fetterman, Tim Kaine, Angus King, Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan. And most of all Chuck Schumer.
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Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
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Happy Veterans Day.
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Has Forced Out An Alarming Number Of Federal Workers — And Now We Have An Exact Number
“The performance of our government across the board is being diminished,” warned Max Stier, CEO of Partnership for Public Service.
www.huffpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Happy Veterans Day.
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.
Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Thugs supporting each other
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thugs supporting each other
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It's the "Magnificent Mile"; crime in Chicago is down significantly; vacancy rates on the Magnificent Mile are improving from 34% two years ago (obviously this problem is hardly solved, of course)
Other than that, spot on.
Other than that, spot on.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It's the "Magnificent Mile"; crime in Chicago is down significantly; vacancy rates on the Magnificent Mile are improving from 34% two years ago (obviously this problem is hardly solved, of course)
Other than that, spot on.
Other than that, spot on.
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AI is going to consume 13-15% of the nation's energy in 3-5 years. For what? For what?
AI Data Center Mania is 'Epic Bubble,' Says Brad Conger
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
AI is going to consume 13-15% of the nation's energy in 3-5 years. For what? For what?
Projection alert. Never fails
Trump: "We fired thousands of people who didn't take care of our great veterans. They were sadists, they were sick people, they were thieves, they were everything you want to name. When Biden came in he hired them back."
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Projection alert. Never fails
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can confirm
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
can confirm
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They're really having fun with it on tiktok.
November 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
They're really having fun with it on tiktok.
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it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
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HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down
QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?
HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down
QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?
HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals
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OH REALLY.
Let's recall that between 2010-2017, House Republicans voted 100 times to repeal the ACA. 100! And repealing the ACA was one of Trump's top priorities when he was elected in 2016. He's railed against it ever since. The GOP will not help Americans with health care. Nope, not ever.
Let's recall that between 2010-2017, House Republicans voted 100 times to repeal the ACA. 100! And repealing the ACA was one of Trump's top priorities when he was elected in 2016. He's railed against it ever since. The GOP will not help Americans with health care. Nope, not ever.
BREAKING: Johnson won't guarantee House vote on extending health care tax credits. @alivitali.bsky.social reports.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
OH REALLY.
Let's recall that between 2010-2017, House Republicans voted 100 times to repeal the ACA. 100! And repealing the ACA was one of Trump's top priorities when he was elected in 2016. He's railed against it ever since. The GOP will not help Americans with health care. Nope, not ever.
Let's recall that between 2010-2017, House Republicans voted 100 times to repeal the ACA. 100! And repealing the ACA was one of Trump's top priorities when he was elected in 2016. He's railed against it ever since. The GOP will not help Americans with health care. Nope, not ever.
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Maybe ask Dan Rather why standards are so important.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Maybe ask Dan Rather why standards are so important.
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This is total word salad as one expects from Bessent. The truth is that in recent years the Exchange Stabilization Fund has been used only to provide dollar-based loans to other countries. What Bessent/Trump did was buy Argentinian pesos with US dollars, exposing US taxpayers to Arg currency risk.
MSNBC: How does a $20b bailout of Argentina help Americans?
BESSENT: Do you know what a swap line is? Why would you call it a bailout? The US government made money
BESSENT: Do you know what a swap line is? Why would you call it a bailout? The US government made money
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is total word salad as one expects from Bessent. The truth is that in recent years the Exchange Stabilization Fund has been used only to provide dollar-based loans to other countries. What Bessent/Trump did was buy Argentinian pesos with US dollars, exposing US taxpayers to Arg currency risk.
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New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
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So many layers to this. One, we already expect all AI chatbots to express the lying biases of its owners. Two, when they do not, we marvel, though they are chatbots and cannot know "the truth," and all we're really seeing is a failure to program around the dataset to ensure bias is expressed.
You have got to check out this item in today's Morning Shots in which we demonstrated that Truth Social's own AI widget actually tells the truth about Donald Trump and his policies www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
So many layers to this. One, we already expect all AI chatbots to express the lying biases of its owners. Two, when they do not, we marvel, though they are chatbots and cannot know "the truth," and all we're really seeing is a failure to program around the dataset to ensure bias is expressed.
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You have got to check out this item in today's Morning Shots in which we demonstrated that Truth Social's own AI widget actually tells the truth about Donald Trump and his policies www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You have got to check out this item in today's Morning Shots in which we demonstrated that Truth Social's own AI widget actually tells the truth about Donald Trump and his policies www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...