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Vernster™️
@vernster.bsky.social
Patriot, veteran (USAF), former Fed Manager (NNPP). I've been around awhile, learned some things, have opinions, and a low tolerance for bullshit.

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇲🇽 PNW OGAntifa WokeAF (He/Him)
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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
I have long thought Chomsky a fool, this underscores that he is way more than just an annoying asshole.
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Sorry, ~the public~ this is a pretty niche ranger post.

Though if you like tea 🫖 and are curious what the administration is up to these days, including potentially illegal actions disguised as bureaucratic 🏛️paper 📋 pushing, we welcome you to read on.
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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when I shook too many hands and should have put on a bandaid
December 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Properly cleaning a property after a flood is essential to prevent further damage or spread of illness.
WA floods: Tips to keep you safe when you return to clean your property
www.seattletimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Note: Katy Tur's husband is the nightly news reader at CBS.
This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
December 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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New in PN: We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.

"If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, this National Security Strategy is what it would spit out."
We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
www.publicnotice.co
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Swiss singer Nemo, who won the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, has decided to return the winners' trophy.
Eurovision champion Nemo returns the winner's trophy to protest Israel's inclusion
Swiss singer Nemo, who won the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, has decided to return the winners' trophy.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”

Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
From the US Embassy in London today.
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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BREAKING: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gutted an AI regulation bill awaiting her signature and replaced it wholesale with a weaker version sought by Big Tech firms. At least two of the groups lobbying on the bill held fundraisers for Hochul in recent weeks.
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...
Hochul Caves to Big Tech on AI Safety Bill - The American Prospect
A bill that passed the New York legislature was completely gutted and substituted with language perceived as friendlier to the industry.
prospect.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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The New Arab just ran a headline saying our work has helped usher in an era of “no more fear” of AIPAC.

They report that US public positions on Palestine & Israel are shifting fast, & quoted a leading scholar saying clearly that “AIPAC is on the ropes” & losing its hold on the American public.
December 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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It’s me. I didn’t tell you how hard you’d laugh and tear up at this sweet golden who is told to BE GENTLE when receiving his banana…

It’s so bleak out here, this will make you forget for a few seconds…💙
December 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The United States & Israel need to be cut from shared military & intelligence programs immediately. Removing these pariah states from our security infrastructure is not a political or diplomatic disagreement but a matter of national security. Our people are in danger the longer we turn a blind eye.
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
*Nutlick
Lutnick: "The president sleeps less than me. I sleep 5 hours a night. The president sleeps 4 hours a night! And he's working all the time. He calls me late at night, he wants to talk about the day. He's on it all the time. It is the most impressive thing you've ever seen."
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Yep.
As much as I love to see people not from the US visiting the US, My advice is: Don't come here.

We are an incredible mess. Our house is not in order. We are ashamed of what has happened to us. We are trying to find our way, but until we do, please don't come here.
I guarantee you an exception will be made for FIFA World Cup fans, players, coaches, and team officials. Bookmark it.
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Six members of Congress are traitors for saying the military shouldn’t follow illegal orders. A Republican congresswoman is a traitor for leaving the MAGA chorus. The media are traitors for asking questions about Trump’s health.

In a fascist government, everyone is a traitor eventually.
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I've activated the National Guard to respond to flooding. By tonight, we'll have 100 National Guard service members staging, ready to respond to requests for help.

Tomorrow, we'll have 300.

I'm grateful for all who are standing up to respond in this challenging moment.
December 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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@warren.senate.gov publishes a report listing all the $$ that Congress gave to DOD to do DOD things that DOD instead spent on Stephen Miller's snatch and grab.

As you look at these numbers, think how much cancer research could have been funded.

www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
*Nutlick
Usually you've got to buy somebody at least two Amstel Lights to get them to eat your ass out like this.
Lutnick on the $1 million Trump Gold Card: "It's a gift to the United States of America to help America be great again under Donald Trump."
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
@atrupar.com: Hold my beer!

Seriously, thankful for your service, @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social. It's got to be exhausting
This is a great service though I worry that @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social is risking her mental health watching so much Fox.
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Whole of the American economy is now piracy.
WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Translation: Kiss Trump's sphincter or get his cabinet grifters to do it for you.
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Katy Tur just announced that her husband will be the new anchor on the Nightly Trump Propaganda Report, aka CBS News.
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM