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The next president should install solar panels in the plot where the East Wing was.
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The next president should install solar panels in the plot where the East Wing was.
Be careful what you say about the parade, lest those squeaky tanks come for you.
June 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Be careful what you say about the parade, lest those squeaky tanks come for you.
Military Parade Reveals Tactic of Boring Enemies to Death
June 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Military Parade Reveals Tactic of Boring Enemies to Death
I was going to post "Mar-a-Taco" on Facebook, but did not when I found that I'm not the originator of the phrase.
May 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I was going to post "Mar-a-Taco" on Facebook, but did not when I found that I'm not the originator of the phrase.
"Republicans spent the four years of Democratic president Joe Biden’s term calling to impeach him for allegedly accepting a $5 million payment from Ukraine. The source for that story later admitted to making it up and pleaded guilty of lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
May 12, 2025
The biggest news over the weekend was silence: the silence of Republicans.
open.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"Republicans spent the four years of Democratic president Joe Biden’s term calling to impeach him for allegedly accepting a $5 million payment from Ukraine. The source for that story later admitted to making it up and pleaded guilty of lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
"DOGE is “racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents.”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
May 7, 2025
Alarm appears to be rising about how the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is consolidating data about Americans.
open.substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"DOGE is “racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents.”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
“Malnutrition is … on the rise. More than 9,000 children have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the beginning of the year.”
www.juancole.com/2025/05/isra...
www.juancole.com/2025/05/isra...
As Israelis Blockade Food to Gaza, 9,000 Children have been Admitted for Acute Malnutrition
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said Friday that “Malnutrition is ... on the rise. More than 9,000 children have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutr...
www.juancole.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Malnutrition is … on the rise. More than 9,000 children have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the beginning of the year.”
www.juancole.com/2025/05/isra...
www.juancole.com/2025/05/isra...
"now the shabby old Apricot Adolf wants to undo Eisenhower’s accomplishments as vanquisher of fascism and upholder of a post-conquest world order to strong-arm Egypt into giving up some of its Suez Canal tolls. At about $16 billion a year, they are one of five major sources of Egypt’s income."
April 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"now the shabby old Apricot Adolf wants to undo Eisenhower’s accomplishments as vanquisher of fascism and upholder of a post-conquest world order to strong-arm Egypt into giving up some of its Suez Canal tolls. At about $16 billion a year, they are one of five major sources of Egypt’s income."
I used to think that the people going into space would be like cool Star Trek characters. Now I think they are just White Lotus characters.
April 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I used to think that the people going into space would be like cool Star Trek characters. Now I think they are just White Lotus characters.
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WATCH: “Oh, really? Oh shit. Ok.”
A CEO realizes Trump tanked his stock live on an earnings call.
A CEO realizes Trump tanked his stock live on an earnings call.
April 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
WATCH: “Oh, really? Oh shit. Ok.”
A CEO realizes Trump tanked his stock live on an earnings call.
A CEO realizes Trump tanked his stock live on an earnings call.
While we are all enjoying "just a little pain," Trump and Mar-a-Lago made bank this weekend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out
The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
While we are all enjoying "just a little pain," Trump and Mar-a-Lago made bank this weekend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
" . . . 3.5% of the population in a society can create great social change. That’s 11.9 million Americans."
www.juancole.com/2025/04/amer...
www.juancole.com/2025/04/amer...
'The American Spring:' Trump is increasingly Like Middle East Rulers who were Overthrown
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Nationwide 'Hands Off!' rallies were held in over 1,200 towns and cities, in every single state of the Union on Saturday, staged by over 150 organizations, including wor...
www.juancole.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
" . . . 3.5% of the population in a society can create great social change. That’s 11.9 million Americans."
www.juancole.com/2025/04/amer...
www.juancole.com/2025/04/amer...
Even The National Review opposed the tariffs. I post this because I don't think most BlueSky users read TNR. www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/amer...
Americans Will Pay the Price for Reckless Tariffs | National Review
As a share of the economy, President Trump’s executive order is likely the largest peacetime tax increase in U.S. history.
www.nationalreview.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Even The National Review opposed the tariffs. I post this because I don't think most BlueSky users read TNR. www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/amer...
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Meanwhile. JD Vance and his wife spent only three hours in Greenland during a visit—entirely on a U.S. military base. Protests and a full business boycott forced them to leave, as locals refused to serve or admit them anywhere.
March 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Meanwhile. JD Vance and his wife spent only three hours in Greenland during a visit—entirely on a U.S. military base. Protests and a full business boycott forced them to leave, as locals refused to serve or admit them anywhere.
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Last week on Fox News.
Kellyanne Conway - Jan. 6th protesters (rioters) "languished in jail for a very long time."
Martha MacCallum - while discussing vandalism at Tesla dealerships "the sentence for domestic terrorism is 15-20 years."
Kellyanne Conway - Jan. 6th protesters (rioters) "languished in jail for a very long time."
Martha MacCallum - while discussing vandalism at Tesla dealerships "the sentence for domestic terrorism is 15-20 years."
March 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Last week on Fox News.
Kellyanne Conway - Jan. 6th protesters (rioters) "languished in jail for a very long time."
Martha MacCallum - while discussing vandalism at Tesla dealerships "the sentence for domestic terrorism is 15-20 years."
Kellyanne Conway - Jan. 6th protesters (rioters) "languished in jail for a very long time."
Martha MacCallum - while discussing vandalism at Tesla dealerships "the sentence for domestic terrorism is 15-20 years."
Former Fox News Host Delivers News for First Time
March 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Former Fox News Host Delivers News for First Time
" . . . among the corpses were 175 children, 89 women, and 32 elderly. Some 6 Hamas leaders were killed, so the Israeli government appears to have murdered from the skies some 84 innocent civilians for every senior target."
www.juancole.com/2025/03/isra...
www.juancole.com/2025/03/isra...
Israel's Renewed Gaza Genocide on Black Tuesday: 420 Dead (175 Children) and 540 Wounded
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli airstrikes shattered the supposed ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday, dropping heaving munitions on inhabited apartment buil...
www.juancole.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
" . . . among the corpses were 175 children, 89 women, and 32 elderly. Some 6 Hamas leaders were killed, so the Israeli government appears to have murdered from the skies some 84 innocent civilians for every senior target."
www.juancole.com/2025/03/isra...
www.juancole.com/2025/03/isra...
"That is, in order to support the total war on Gaza . . . and in order to pursue his monstrous plan to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians of Gaza, Trump is drawn into making war on yet another Middle Eastern country."
www.juancole.com/2025/03/esca...
www.juancole.com/2025/03/esca...
Trump's Air War on Yemen Escalates as Civilian Population Suffers Food Insecurity, Cholera Epidemic
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Trump administration began bombing Yemen last weekend, when the US Air Force launched 47 air raids on at least seven provinces, killing some 53 persons. On Monday th...
www.juancole.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"That is, in order to support the total war on Gaza . . . and in order to pursue his monstrous plan to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians of Gaza, Trump is drawn into making war on yet another Middle Eastern country."
www.juancole.com/2025/03/esca...
www.juancole.com/2025/03/esca...
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‘How gratifying’: Cheers in China as Trump dismantles Voice of America flip.it/ZC20mn
‘How gratifying’: Cheers in China as Trump dismantles Voice of America | CNN
One nationalist influencer called it “truly gratifying.” Another said he was laughing his head off. And a state-media editorial hailed the demise of what it called the “lie factory.”
flip.it
March 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
‘How gratifying’: Cheers in China as Trump dismantles Voice of America flip.it/ZC20mn
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On Tues. and Wed. Jesse Watters unwittingly promoted an Italian shoe brand he thought was American. The shoes are manufactured in several countries outside the United States. He also didn't know if he should use the word 'pair' or 'pairs' for two sets of shoes. youtu.be/DBH6WxRm3K0?...
Jesse Watters Accidentally Promoted an Italian Shoe Brand as American
YouTube video by Juliet Jeske - Decoding Fox News
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March 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
On Tues. and Wed. Jesse Watters unwittingly promoted an Italian shoe brand he thought was American. The shoes are manufactured in several countries outside the United States. He also didn't know if he should use the word 'pair' or 'pairs' for two sets of shoes. youtu.be/DBH6WxRm3K0?...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A reminder that liking posts on Bluesky is useless and does not increase their visibility. Only reposting does that. If you like an item, repost it or no one else will see it.