@andyh649.bsky.social
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Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Jared Kushner and BlackRock boss Larry Fink. “In fact, this could be considered the first meeting of the group that will work on a document concerning reconstruction and economic recovery of Ukraine.”
www.ft.com/content/cc83...
www.ft.com/content/cc83...
Zelenskyy talks Ukraine postwar plan with Scott Bessent, Jared Kushner and Larry Fink
Discussions on reconstruction come as Donald Trump seeks end to Russian invasion
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Jared Kushner and BlackRock boss Larry Fink. “In fact, this could be considered the first meeting of the group that will work on a document concerning reconstruction and economic recovery of Ukraine.”
www.ft.com/content/cc83...
www.ft.com/content/cc83...
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"When you ask AI what the meaning of life is, you concede that it must be AI: how else could AI respond, for what does it know of being human?" The latest from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
New article! On cemeteries, serendipity, and the battle against AI. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bell-fount...
Bell Fountain Retreat
Wandering a cemetery to dodge ghosts in the machine.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"When you ask AI what the meaning of life is, you concede that it must be AI: how else could AI respond, for what does it know of being human?" The latest from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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A tanker? We just doing straight up piracy now?
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A tanker? We just doing straight up piracy now?
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blatantly a violation of both the rules on Congress solely having the power to collect taxes, duties, excises, and so forth and also that such a new collection of federal revenue must originate as a bill in the House of Representatives, Madison wrote a bunch about it, the Constitution still matters?
Trump says the Gold Card proceeds will go "an account where we can do things positive for the country. Many billions of dollars"
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
blatantly a violation of both the rules on Congress solely having the power to collect taxes, duties, excises, and so forth and also that such a new collection of federal revenue must originate as a bill in the House of Representatives, Madison wrote a bunch about it, the Constitution still matters?
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Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?
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"He's not interested in uniting the country."
Spencer Cox: "I disagree with Congresswoman Omar. I think she should be voted out of it. I think I can do that without attacking her religion or race or ethnic background. I know that the president disagrees with me ... he's not interested in uniting the country."
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"He's not interested in uniting the country."
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RFK Jr. keeps pushing the conspiracy that SSRIs cause mass shootings.
The evidence? Doesn’t exist.
Data show mass shooters are less likely to have taken antidepressants than the general public.
Gun laws, not medicines, explain the uniquely American scale of gun violence.
#WhopperOfTheWeek
The evidence? Doesn’t exist.
Data show mass shooters are less likely to have taken antidepressants than the general public.
Gun laws, not medicines, explain the uniquely American scale of gun violence.
#WhopperOfTheWeek
Whopper of the Week: No, RFK, Antidepressants Do Not Cause Mass Shootings | Defend Public Health
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK) has repeatedly said that antidepressant medications may be linked to mass shootings. Ignoring the considerable evidence that there are no links between antidepre...
www.defendpublichealth.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
RFK Jr. keeps pushing the conspiracy that SSRIs cause mass shootings.
The evidence? Doesn’t exist.
Data show mass shooters are less likely to have taken antidepressants than the general public.
Gun laws, not medicines, explain the uniquely American scale of gun violence.
#WhopperOfTheWeek
The evidence? Doesn’t exist.
Data show mass shooters are less likely to have taken antidepressants than the general public.
Gun laws, not medicines, explain the uniquely American scale of gun violence.
#WhopperOfTheWeek
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Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
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"While countries naturally adjust their foreign policy, the sudden descent into boorishly insulting behavior by US officials strikes Europeans—both leaders and average citizens—as simply astounding."
America First = America Alone, and anyone who thinks we're better off alone is profoundly ignorant.
America First = America Alone, and anyone who thinks we're better off alone is profoundly ignorant.
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"While countries naturally adjust their foreign policy, the sudden descent into boorishly insulting behavior by US officials strikes Europeans—both leaders and average citizens—as simply astounding."
America First = America Alone, and anyone who thinks we're better off alone is profoundly ignorant.
America First = America Alone, and anyone who thinks we're better off alone is profoundly ignorant.
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I think the 80% of farmers who voted for Trump are complete morons but these Republicans obviously think that they’re a lot dumber than I do. I mean, Trump’s been pretty vocal about his trade war and I’m pretty sure these folks know when the soybean orders stopped coming.
KEILAR: “Farmers say they’re hurting from tariffs.” 🧑🌾
REP. ALFORD: “Biden drove up prices.”
KEILAR: “That’s not what this farmer told you.”
REP. ALFORD: “Well that’s what I’m telling you…” 🤔 *rambles like a psycho to drown her out*
REP. ALFORD: “Biden drove up prices.”
KEILAR: “That’s not what this farmer told you.”
REP. ALFORD: “Well that’s what I’m telling you…” 🤔 *rambles like a psycho to drown her out*
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I think the 80% of farmers who voted for Trump are complete morons but these Republicans obviously think that they’re a lot dumber than I do. I mean, Trump’s been pretty vocal about his trade war and I’m pretty sure these folks know when the soybean orders stopped coming.
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You won’t want to, but you have to see this. Thanks to @jesscraven101.bsky.social
AMNESTY REPORT LINK HERE:
www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/u...
youtu.be/JZ01drk-FWk
AMNESTY REPORT LINK HERE:
www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/u...
youtu.be/JZ01drk-FWk
This is SICK and DISTRESSING
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
You won’t want to, but you have to see this. Thanks to @jesscraven101.bsky.social
AMNESTY REPORT LINK HERE:
www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/u...
youtu.be/JZ01drk-FWk
AMNESTY REPORT LINK HERE:
www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/u...
youtu.be/JZ01drk-FWk
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“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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Very annoyed at this.
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos
Lawmakers quietly stuck the requirement into their must-pass annual defense policy bill.
www.politico.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Very annoyed at this.
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
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Silenced by China, Hong Kong struggles to voice its grief over the Tai Po fire disaster | Antony Dapiran
Silenced by China, Hong Kong struggles to voice its grief over the Tai Po fire disaster | Antony Dapiran
The pain is visceral, but civil society, media and the creative community have been in retreat since the 2019 pro-democracy protests, says author Antony Dapiran
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Silenced by China, Hong Kong struggles to voice its grief over the Tai Po fire disaster | Antony Dapiran
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No community should be forced to bear the weight of a system that profits from human suffering.
Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system.
Period.
Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system.
Period.
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
No community should be forced to bear the weight of a system that profits from human suffering.
Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system.
Period.
Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system.
Period.
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Perhaps…not a true change of heart, then? Gosh
LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Perhaps…not a true change of heart, then? Gosh
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Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
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Trump's "order" is also at directly odds with the Supreme Court's own rulings, commencing with United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898); and the order's attempts to distinguish the 1898 decision are makeweight. But the Trumped Court has little respect for its own precedents....
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Trump's "order" is also at directly odds with the Supreme Court's own rulings, commencing with United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898); and the order's attempts to distinguish the 1898 decision are makeweight. But the Trumped Court has little respect for its own precedents....
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This video features 2 young white kids from an Anglican family tracking ICE movements. First time I've heard of them.
Rather impressed.
youtu.be/-yKSgM0G1xQ?...
Rather impressed.
youtu.be/-yKSgM0G1xQ?...
Meet the teen brothers tracking ICE
YouTube video by The News Movement
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This video features 2 young white kids from an Anglican family tracking ICE movements. First time I've heard of them.
Rather impressed.
youtu.be/-yKSgM0G1xQ?...
Rather impressed.
youtu.be/-yKSgM0G1xQ?...
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In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations
(RNS) — 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.
religionnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
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This is revealing, but not in the way he thinks.
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
Imagine you're overseeing the termination of clinical trials, the destruction of people's livelihoods, the dismantling of scientific research in the US, and you're complaining that Twitter didn't give you a blue check 4 years ago.
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is revealing, but not in the way he thinks.
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
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dark, dark story, upshot of which is that leavitt is a terrible person on many levels and trumpers generally are awful. wapo.st/48qWW9C
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
wapo.st
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
dark, dark story, upshot of which is that leavitt is a terrible person on many levels and trumpers generally are awful. wapo.st/48qWW9C
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What people are not talking about: Russian drones were circling a French nuclear submarine yesterday. France shot them down.
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What people are not talking about: Russian drones were circling a French nuclear submarine yesterday. France shot them down.