Norm Borden
@normbord.bsky.social
Superannuated database and web developer. Former goat wrangler. I can be found just a little to the left of Bernie Sanders. Fan of the Oxford comma. Charter member, ANTIFA.
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I still can’t figure out why the taxpayers of this country have to pay for FBI security details for the girlfriend of the Director.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I still can’t figure out why the taxpayers of this country have to pay for FBI security details for the girlfriend of the Director.
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
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The so-called Environmental Protection Agency at work today:
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
wapo.st
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The so-called Environmental Protection Agency at work today:
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This is important. What's the difference between the Dmitriev-Witkoff plan from Nov 2025 and the Ukraine peace plan that Manafort produced with his GRU handler Konstantin Kilimnik in October 2016? There isn't any.
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This is important. What's the difference between the Dmitriev-Witkoff plan from Nov 2025 and the Ukraine peace plan that Manafort produced with his GRU handler Konstantin Kilimnik in October 2016? There isn't any.
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The U.S. attorney in Miami, who is running an investigation into former officials who investigated Trump, was granted an unusual request to convene an extra grand jury in Fort Pierce, Fla.
The location ensures that one judge will oversee it: Aileen Cannon. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
The location ensures that one judge will oversee it: Aileen Cannon. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
As Trump’s Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The U.S. attorney in Miami, who is running an investigation into former officials who investigated Trump, was granted an unusual request to convene an extra grand jury in Fort Pierce, Fla.
The location ensures that one judge will oversee it: Aileen Cannon. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
The location ensures that one judge will oversee it: Aileen Cannon. 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
With eight months left on its charter, DOGE no longer exists
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11...
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11...
With eight months left on its charter, DOGE no longer exists
Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor has confirmed that the Department of Government Efficiency is no longer a “centralized entity.”
www.japantimes.co.jp
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
With eight months left on its charter, DOGE no longer exists
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11...
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11...
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Putin's sock puppet does what Putin's sock puppet always does.
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Putin's sock puppet does what Putin's sock puppet always does.
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From Le Monde's interview with Fiona Hill
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
From Le Monde's interview with Fiona Hill
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Charlatans on the march. Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs mingled with top US government officials, including the head of the NIH, at an exclusive event steps from the White House last week. The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States.
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Charlatans on the march. Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs mingled with top US government officials, including the head of the NIH, at an exclusive event steps from the White House last week. The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Meet Trump wing man Drew Horn, who suddenly turns up on every street corner in Greenland. A former US Special Forces soldier, Trump-world insider, businessman and political messenger—all wrapped in one. He says he's prepared to invest billions, that he doesn't have, in Greenland. In fact Horn
Business-update: Tidligere Trump-rådgiver vil investere ti milliarder i Grønland
Amerikansk interesse for den grønlandske undergrund, dansk økonomi i hopla og sanktioner mod den russiske skyggeflåde. Det er blot nogle af overskrifterne i dagens Update fra Berlingske Business.
www.berlingske.dk
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Meet Trump wing man Drew Horn, who suddenly turns up on every street corner in Greenland. A former US Special Forces soldier, Trump-world insider, businessman and political messenger—all wrapped in one. He says he's prepared to invest billions, that he doesn't have, in Greenland. In fact Horn
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Change in the number of ICE detainees at identified "threat levels" from October 2024 vs. November 2025.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Change in the number of ICE detainees at identified "threat levels" from October 2024 vs. November 2025.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...
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The US now has the Thiel-Vance foreign policy, the Steve Witkoff foreign policy, the Jared Kushner foreign policy, the Marco Rubio foreign policy, and once in a blue moon the Donald Trump foreign policy... and Putin and Netanyahu plus Saudi, UAE & Qatar drive most of it.
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The US now has the Thiel-Vance foreign policy, the Steve Witkoff foreign policy, the Jared Kushner foreign policy, the Marco Rubio foreign policy, and once in a blue moon the Donald Trump foreign policy... and Putin and Netanyahu plus Saudi, UAE & Qatar drive most of it.
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Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News
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This is correct. But keep in mind that Vance is Peter Thiel's man, and FBI agents revealed that Thiel was the subject of a decade-long RIS influence or recruitment operation run by Putin himself which Putin thought highly successful.
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is correct. But keep in mind that Vance is Peter Thiel's man, and FBI agents revealed that Thiel was the subject of a decade-long RIS influence or recruitment operation run by Putin himself which Putin thought highly successful.
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The entire West comes together to reject the Dmiriev 28-point plan to which Trump affixed his name. This would appear to mark the absolute modern low point of US diplomatic influence on he world stage.
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The entire West comes together to reject the Dmiriev 28-point plan to which Trump affixed his name. This would appear to mark the absolute modern low point of US diplomatic influence on he world stage.
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For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
wrd.cm
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
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So Bezos is in them too then?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So Bezos is in them too then?
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This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Stochastic terrorism.
BREAKING:
Sen. Elissa Slotkin says police responded to her home tonight in response to a bomb threat. Slotkin wasn't at home at the time.
This is two days after Trump said Slotkin and other Democrats committed "seditious conspiracy, punishable by death."
Sen. Elissa Slotkin says police responded to her home tonight in response to a bomb threat. Slotkin wasn't at home at the time.
This is two days after Trump said Slotkin and other Democrats committed "seditious conspiracy, punishable by death."
November 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Stochastic terrorism.
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I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
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November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Ladies and gents, the weekly newsletter comes out in a mere 12 hours. This week, I talked to the people behind one of my favorite social media accounts. I also made Maps™ and Charts™ of events current and past.
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In her resignation statement, MTG breaks very dramatically with the secret-plan conspiracy theorists about what’s happening in DC.
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In her resignation statement, MTG breaks very dramatically with the secret-plan conspiracy theorists about what’s happening in DC.
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If a person dressed as Batman was on the Milan metro, 67% of passengers offered their seat to a pregnant woman vs 38% without him there.🦇
44% of helpers said they didn’t notice Batman suggesting subconscious effect. buff.ly/mkWz3Jb
44% of helpers said they didn’t notice Batman suggesting subconscious effect. buff.ly/mkWz3Jb
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
If a person dressed as Batman was on the Milan metro, 67% of passengers offered their seat to a pregnant woman vs 38% without him there.🦇
44% of helpers said they didn’t notice Batman suggesting subconscious effect. buff.ly/mkWz3Jb
44% of helpers said they didn’t notice Batman suggesting subconscious effect. buff.ly/mkWz3Jb
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The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology.
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology.