Banquosghost
@banquosghost.bsky.social
#Writer, Chapel Hill expatriate, #againstfascism, #poetry out via dzanc books & plays guitar/instigator w/ sunfaders (ex- diecast cars & 81 mulberry) (opinions solely mine) https://bnd.link/sunfaders
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"Not since Watergate has a president so intently focused on, and risked his political capital by, keeping a set of documents secret. Being repeatedly confronted with stark evidence he was actually at the side of Epstein is causing a political fissure Trump cannot undo." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social
The lame duck dictatorship
Trump is fighting his "war within" on multiple fronts and losing them all.
www.publicnotice.co
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Not since Watergate has a president so intently focused on, and risked his political capital by, keeping a set of documents secret. Being repeatedly confronted with stark evidence he was actually at the side of Epstein is causing a political fissure Trump cannot undo." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social
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Secretary of Commerce "Lutnick has twisted the arms of American allies, dangling policy favors in exchange for investments in U.S. industrial projects. At times, these tactics have created opportunities for his family’s clients to gain access to much-needed foreign capital, The Times found."
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Secretary of Commerce "Lutnick has twisted the arms of American allies, dangling policy favors in exchange for investments in U.S. industrial projects. At times, these tactics have created opportunities for his family’s clients to gain access to much-needed foreign capital, The Times found."
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It was only a matter of time and that time appears to be now: Winsconsin and Michigan have proposed laws to ban or severely curtail the use of VPNs, which could result in a cascade default ban everywhere.
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Pr...
www.eff.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
It was only a matter of time and that time appears to be now: Winsconsin and Michigan have proposed laws to ban or severely curtail the use of VPNs, which could result in a cascade default ban everywhere.
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Sick child of young couple who migrated to Oregon from Amarillo, Texas, five months ago. Their home is now this house trailer. Mother says "He's been ailin all his life, you might say." FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp, Merrill, Klamath […]
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![This black and white photograph depicts a young child lying on an unmade bed within what appears to be the interior of a trailer. The setting suggests modest living conditions with wooden walls, a window draped partially by curtains, and minimal furnishings aside from the mattress where the child rests. A refrigerator is visible in the foreground, indicating limited space for food storage or preparation.
The expressionless face of the sleeping child conveys vulnerability and potential discomfort. The overall atmosphere of the image evokes a sense of hardship or struggle associated with rural life during what could be interpreted as a historical period of migration and economic challenge, particularly given the mention of "Farm Security Administration" (FSA), which was part of efforts to support agriculture in America.
The photograph is labeled with handwritten annotations indicating it's from an FSA mobile camp. The specific location mentioned is Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, suggesting a connection to rural communities and their living conditions during the time period when such images were commonly produced for documentation purposes by government programs like FSA that focused on farm workers' lives.
The visual elements of the photograph—the child's peaceful repose against a backdrop of sparse, utilitarian surroundings—could be interpreted as reflecting themes related to migration, survival, and resilience withi [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ls2ap3pxsotp3pgwjf7o633l/bafkreicljkck6vhiucjk3jzk2xzhuhnhj26ju74nyopcze7u66hc5fth3e@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Sick child of young couple who migrated to Oregon from Amarillo, Texas, five months ago. Their home is now this house trailer. Mother says "He's been ailin all his life, you might say." FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp, Merrill, Klamath […]
[Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]
[Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]
One of the most influential albums of my life.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
One of the most influential albums of my life.
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These bills mask themselves in “child safety” but are far-reaching attacks on the first amendment that could also serve to ban all sorts of protected content online. From anatomy textbooks to romance novels and more. The overreach is egregious and endangers everyone online.
VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law
The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" would force internet service providers to monitor and block VPN connections
www.techradar.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
These bills mask themselves in “child safety” but are far-reaching attacks on the first amendment that could also serve to ban all sorts of protected content online. From anatomy textbooks to romance novels and more. The overreach is egregious and endangers everyone online.
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"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Scooplet: the Texas State Board of Education signed an emergency contract to hire Tim Davis, former general counsel of the Tarrant County GOP and now candidate for chairman. I previously reported that four local school boards taken over by well-financed right wing candidates also hired Davis.
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Scooplet: the Texas State Board of Education signed an emergency contract to hire Tim Davis, former general counsel of the Tarrant County GOP and now candidate for chairman. I previously reported that four local school boards taken over by well-financed right wing candidates also hired Davis.
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Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit
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BREAKING: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin.
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
New, at Law Dork:
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
www.lawdork.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
BREAKING: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin.
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
New, at Law Dork:
“I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1.
New, at Law Dork:
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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⚖️TODAY⚖️
A federal court will hear Black and Latino voters’ request to block North Carolina’s newly enacted congressional gerrymander. The voters argue the new map cracks and packs the state’s minority voters and entrenches its white majority.
https://bit.ly/4r8iaAq
A federal court will hear Black and Latino voters’ request to block North Carolina’s newly enacted congressional gerrymander. The voters argue the new map cracks and packs the state’s minority voters and entrenches its white majority.
https://bit.ly/4r8iaAq
🚨 Williams v. Hall
Read more here.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
⚖️TODAY⚖️
A federal court will hear Black and Latino voters’ request to block North Carolina’s newly enacted congressional gerrymander. The voters argue the new map cracks and packs the state’s minority voters and entrenches its white majority.
https://bit.ly/4r8iaAq
A federal court will hear Black and Latino voters’ request to block North Carolina’s newly enacted congressional gerrymander. The voters argue the new map cracks and packs the state’s minority voters and entrenches its white majority.
https://bit.ly/4r8iaAq
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Congratulations to Donald Trump for surpassing Barack Obama.
Donald Trump has now officially passed Obama's eight-year total of rounds of golf — in less than five years. I've added a chart to my tracker of Trump's golf/property visits to show just how far past Obama he's getting.
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Congratulations to Donald Trump for surpassing Barack Obama.
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Personalized gold bars from the Swiss.
Used jumbo jet from Qatar.
Huge amounts of $$$ from crypto.
The amount of corruption in the White House is at unconscionable levels. We need some real serious ethics across the federal government.
Used jumbo jet from Qatar.
Huge amounts of $$$ from crypto.
The amount of corruption in the White House is at unconscionable levels. We need some real serious ethics across the federal government.
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Personalized gold bars from the Swiss.
Used jumbo jet from Qatar.
Huge amounts of $$$ from crypto.
The amount of corruption in the White House is at unconscionable levels. We need some real serious ethics across the federal government.
Used jumbo jet from Qatar.
Huge amounts of $$$ from crypto.
The amount of corruption in the White House is at unconscionable levels. We need some real serious ethics across the federal government.
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Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
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Chief Justice John Roberts rigged our democracy, helped Trump retake power, and is now discarding legal and constitutional constraints on Trump's actions.
But Roberts needs Trump, too. This symbiotic relationship means there is no hope for course correction.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
But Roberts needs Trump, too. This symbiotic relationship means there is no hope for course correction.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Chief Justice John Roberts rigged our democracy, helped Trump retake power, and is now discarding legal and constitutional constraints on Trump's actions.
But Roberts needs Trump, too. This symbiotic relationship means there is no hope for course correction.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
But Roberts needs Trump, too. This symbiotic relationship means there is no hope for course correction.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
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19 November 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Vischschoonmaker, was born in Amsterdam.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection together with his mother Sara.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection together with his mother Sara.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
19 November 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Vischschoonmaker, was born in Amsterdam.
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection together with his mother Sara.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection together with his mother Sara.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
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Sad ABC looking from the outside in
New in PN: CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win
"Paying the blackmailer makes you look like a cowardly mark — both to your audience and to the guy grabbing you by the wallet. And with courts announcing they won’t be part of Trump's extortion racket, media outlets need to toughen up"
"Paying the blackmailer makes you look like a cowardly mark — both to your audience and to the guy grabbing you by the wallet. And with courts announcing they won’t be part of Trump's extortion racket, media outlets need to toughen up"
CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win
Take this grift and shove it.
www.publicnotice.co
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sad ABC looking from the outside in
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Whoa, this is wild.
Either Thune played Johnson or Johnson tried to play us and failed. Either way, Johnson looks like a fool and Trump has lost his grip on Congress.
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social just blew it open 🔥
Either Thune played Johnson or Johnson tried to play us and failed. Either way, Johnson looks like a fool and Trump has lost his grip on Congress.
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social just blew it open 🔥
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Whoa, this is wild.
Either Thune played Johnson or Johnson tried to play us and failed. Either way, Johnson looks like a fool and Trump has lost his grip on Congress.
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social just blew it open 🔥
Either Thune played Johnson or Johnson tried to play us and failed. Either way, Johnson looks like a fool and Trump has lost his grip on Congress.
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social just blew it open 🔥
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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If ICE agents can’t operate without masks and no IDs, maybe the problem isn’t California, it’s whatever you’re trying to hide.
📌 The Trump administration is suing California over its new laws banning ICE from hiding behind masks and forcing them to show IDs while they run operations in the state.
📌 The Trump administration is suing California over its new laws banning ICE from hiding behind masks and forcing them to show IDs while they run operations in the state.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
If ICE agents can’t operate without masks and no IDs, maybe the problem isn’t California, it’s whatever you’re trying to hide.
📌 The Trump administration is suing California over its new laws banning ICE from hiding behind masks and forcing them to show IDs while they run operations in the state.
📌 The Trump administration is suing California over its new laws banning ICE from hiding behind masks and forcing them to show IDs while they run operations in the state.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...