Arryn Groom
@arryngroom.bsky.social
Seeking a peaceful existence filled with abundance and well being for EVERYONE.
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I had just published a deep dive 🧵 on X today when the transcript of the insane phone call between Steve Witkoff & Yuri Ushakov leaked today.
It did not come as a surprise for me, as I had been working on this thread for a few days already.
It’s very clear who Witkoff is.
It can find it here:
It did not come as a surprise for me, as I had been working on this thread for a few days already.
It’s very clear who Witkoff is.
It can find it here:
Thread by @IneBackIversen on Thread Reader App
@IneBackIversen: 1: Let’s talk about Steve Witkoff, because I think the narrative of him being a “useful idiot” is a dangerous trap to walk in. It’s darker than that. Witkoff has spent three decades s...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I had just published a deep dive 🧵 on X today when the transcript of the insane phone call between Steve Witkoff & Yuri Ushakov leaked today.
It did not come as a surprise for me, as I had been working on this thread for a few days already.
It’s very clear who Witkoff is.
It can find it here:
It did not come as a surprise for me, as I had been working on this thread for a few days already.
It’s very clear who Witkoff is.
It can find it here:
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The number of immigrants in detention without criminal records has surged by over 2,000% since Trump reentered the White House.
Nearly half of all detainees have no criminal charges or conviction.
Trump was always lying about going after the “worst of the worst.”
Nearly half of all detainees have no criminal charges or conviction.
Trump was always lying about going after the “worst of the worst.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The number of immigrants in detention without criminal records has surged by over 2,000% since Trump reentered the White House.
Nearly half of all detainees have no criminal charges or conviction.
Trump was always lying about going after the “worst of the worst.”
Nearly half of all detainees have no criminal charges or conviction.
Trump was always lying about going after the “worst of the worst.”
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Give Trump the splashy headline and credit then wait five paragraphs to mention these deals were only possible because of Biden's legislation. Paper of Record! 🙄
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Give Trump the splashy headline and credit then wait five paragraphs to mention these deals were only possible because of Biden's legislation. Paper of Record! 🙄
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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"In a more sensible and serious world (and, yes, I know this is not the one we live in right now), Hegseth would be fired—and Kelly would take Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"In a more sensible and serious world (and, yes, I know this is not the one we live in right now), Hegseth would be fired—and Kelly would take Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Retailers use marketing techniques to get you to spend more, like creating a false sense of urgency or creating artificial discounts. Outsmart the gimmicks with these tips. n.pr/4irpN0W
4 marketing tricks to not fall for this holiday season
Retailers use marketing techniques to get you to spend more, like creating a false sense of urgency or creating artificial discounts. Outsmart the gimmicks with these tips.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Retailers use marketing techniques to get you to spend more, like creating a false sense of urgency or creating artificial discounts. Outsmart the gimmicks with these tips. n.pr/4irpN0W
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Utah of all places blazing a trail for solar uptake, we love to see it. the vote was unanimous in the legislature too
Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
What's the deal with balcony solar?
Cora Stryker joins me to explain how "plug-in" solar took Europe by storm and is finally, via Utah (?), making its way to America.
www.volts.wtf
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Utah of all places blazing a trail for solar uptake, we love to see it. the vote was unanimous in the legislature too
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To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback.
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback.
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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In Trump’s first term, he wanted to recall retired military veterans to active duty for court-martial proceedings, because they said things about him that he didn’t like.
In Trump’s second term, the idea has apparently now returned to the fore. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
In Trump’s second term, the idea has apparently now returned to the fore. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The disturbing precursor to Team Trump’s offensive against Sen. Mark Kelly The disturbing precursor to Team Trump’s offensive against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly
In the president’s first term, he wanted to recall his veteran critics to active duty for court-martial proceedings. The idea has now returned to the fore.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In Trump’s first term, he wanted to recall retired military veterans to active duty for court-martial proceedings, because they said things about him that he didn’t like.
In Trump’s second term, the idea has apparently now returned to the fore. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
In Trump’s second term, the idea has apparently now returned to the fore. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Donald Trump broke his biggest campaign promise, and it’s about to send the cost of your Thanksgiving dinner soaring. Watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQy...
How Trump Ruined Thanksgiving
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Donald Trump broke his biggest campaign promise, and it’s about to send the cost of your Thanksgiving dinner soaring. Watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQy...
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"Before they drove him away, Carlos started to tear up. Carreto told him, 'Don’t cry. I don’t know how, but I’ll get you back. Understand?'" www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Before they drove him away, Carlos started to tear up. Carreto told him, 'Don’t cry. I don’t know how, but I’ll get you back. Understand?'" www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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The proof this is a bad deal is that it is an ultimatum. If it offered Ukraine salvation, why would Donald Trump have to force it on Volodymyr Zelensky? Why are European allies scrambling to stall it?
Donald Trump’s peace plan would be bad for Ukraine, Europe and America
It is a sad mix of naked opportunism and strategic myopia
econ.st
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The proof this is a bad deal is that it is an ultimatum. If it offered Ukraine salvation, why would Donald Trump have to force it on Volodymyr Zelensky? Why are European allies scrambling to stall it?
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Unchecked wealth and corporate power have led many to doubt that our system is fair,” Tim Wu writes. The ruling in the Meta antitrust case “only fortifies the impression that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations are above the law.”
“Unchecked wealth and corporate power have led many to doubt that our system is fair,” Tim Wu writes. The ruling in the Meta antitrust case “only fortifies the impression that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations are above the law.”
Opinion | How Can Anyone Seriously Doubt Meta Is a Monopoly?
All you need is common sense.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Unchecked wealth and corporate power have led many to doubt that our system is fair,” Tim Wu writes. The ruling in the Meta antitrust case “only fortifies the impression that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations are above the law.”
“Unchecked wealth and corporate power have led many to doubt that our system is fair,” Tim Wu writes. The ruling in the Meta antitrust case “only fortifies the impression that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations are above the law.”
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It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.
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The "peace president" threatens to execute people who object to his war crimes.
The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The "peace president" threatens to execute people who object to his war crimes.
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Do you or someone you know suffer from Pecan Pie Deprivation Syndrome because of a nut allergy? With oats, chocolate, and a gooey salted caramel, there's nothing even a little second place about this.
smittenkitchen.com/2015/03/blac...
smittenkitchen.com/2015/03/blac...
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Do you or someone you know suffer from Pecan Pie Deprivation Syndrome because of a nut allergy? With oats, chocolate, and a gooey salted caramel, there's nothing even a little second place about this.
smittenkitchen.com/2015/03/blac...
smittenkitchen.com/2015/03/blac...
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#Pinks #ProudBlue
Presidents are not allowed to keep gifts over $480. Here’s how normal, real Presidents have dealt with expensive gifts in the past. Trump plans on keeping all the things he has received for himself even though it’s illegal.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Presidents are not allowed to keep gifts over $480. Here’s how normal, real Presidents have dealt with expensive gifts in the past. Trump plans on keeping all the things he has received for himself even though it’s illegal.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A bicycle, pencil sharpener, 300lb of raw meat: US presidential gifts and the rules governing them
Reports that Donald Trump’s administration is planning to accept a jet valued at $400m from Qatar have raised ethical questions over gifts from foreign leaders
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Presidents are not allowed to keep gifts over $480. Here’s how normal, real Presidents have dealt with expensive gifts in the past. Trump plans on keeping all the things he has received for himself even though it’s illegal.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Presidents are not allowed to keep gifts over $480. Here’s how normal, real Presidents have dealt with expensive gifts in the past. Trump plans on keeping all the things he has received for himself even though it’s illegal.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I hope everyone understands that this means that many people who are undocumented will no longer come to any court hearings on any matter.
Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.
Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.
"At New York's Varick Immigration Court, ICE agents on Wednesday began checking the documents of everyone who left."
"They are indeed checking individuals off lists and attempting to detain them once they leave court."
"Immigration courts should be spaces of justice — not traps."
#USA #Deportation
"They are indeed checking individuals off lists and attempting to detain them once they leave court."
"Immigration courts should be spaces of justice — not traps."
#USA #Deportation
ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests
The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.
theintercept.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I hope everyone understands that this means that many people who are undocumented will no longer come to any court hearings on any matter.
Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.
Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
[ TINY ICICLES ] found at leave rim on recent #lawnpatrol for #bnwmacro G’morning all ☕️ #artchallenges #photographersofbluesky #macromonday #monochrome #macrophotography #blackanwhitephotography #blackandwhite #closeupphotography #blueskyartshow #photography #ClassicMono #leicaphoto #lovelydeadcrap
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Let’s go. Blow up their phones ☎️
Rep Al Green from Texas is reintroducing articles of Impeachment against the criminal Donald Trump.
Green tried earlier this year but all other reps were too chickenshit to back him. Support him this time. Call your reps & tell them to join him. #3E #EndImpunity
Green tried earlier this year but all other reps were too chickenshit to back him. Support him this time. Call your reps & tell them to join him. #3E #EndImpunity
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Let’s go. Blow up their phones ☎️
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We're chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike. interc.pt/485R3NM
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We're chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike. interc.pt/485R3NM
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