Bill Hine
@billhine.bsky.social
Reposted by Bill Hine
Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
"If peace becomes a subscription service managed by international lenders, sovereignty dissolves into contract law. Ukraine’s tragedy would then mark the transition from kinetic warfare to financial trusteeship—a pattern...wherever infrastructure can be privatized."
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Peace Money
How the U.S. Rebranded China’s Peace Plan as a Profitable Corporate Takeover
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November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"If peace becomes a subscription service managed by international lenders, sovereignty dissolves into contract law. Ukraine’s tragedy would then mark the transition from kinetic warfare to financial trusteeship—a pattern...wherever infrastructure can be privatized."
open.substack.com/pub/morganc0...
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"US taxpayers are paying, according to government estimates, an average of $17,121 to deport each illegal immigrant, and the cost may well be higher."
Lost taxes paid by affected workers.
Depressed business activity.
Is this round-up worth it?
open.substack.com/pub/dkotok/p...
Lost taxes paid by affected workers.
Depressed business activity.
Is this round-up worth it?
open.substack.com/pub/dkotok/p...
The Coming ICE-Age Recession
Incoming data shows the damage to the US economy from ICE and Border Patrol activities. Recent activity in Charlotte, NC, provides a case study.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"US taxpayers are paying, according to government estimates, an average of $17,121 to deport each illegal immigrant, and the cost may well be higher."
Lost taxes paid by affected workers.
Depressed business activity.
Is this round-up worth it?
open.substack.com/pub/dkotok/p...
Lost taxes paid by affected workers.
Depressed business activity.
Is this round-up worth it?
open.substack.com/pub/dkotok/p...
"Kelly appeared across cable news to tell his personal story as a veteran, a pilot, and an astronaut...Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and her message, was suddenly everywhere. These are career-defining spotlights that Trump once wielded to punish. Now they operate as spotlights that elevate."
Trump’s attacks used to pack a punch. Now they’re a gift. - The Boston Globe
What once kept Democrats and Republicans up at night is now what gets them on prime-time TV.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"Kelly appeared across cable news to tell his personal story as a veteran, a pilot, and an astronaut...Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and her message, was suddenly everywhere. These are career-defining spotlights that Trump once wielded to punish. Now they operate as spotlights that elevate."
"Museum visitors will be able to walk through the railcar. From outside the museum, passersby will see people enter the railcar, but not exit - a visible reminder of the millions of Jews who were transported to their deaths in railcars just like this one"
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
Historic railcar installed at Holocaust Museum Boston - The Boston Globe
The railcar was believed to have been used to transport Jews to camps in Europe. Construction of the Holocaust Museum Boston will continue around the installed car.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Museum visitors will be able to walk through the railcar. From outside the museum, passersby will see people enter the railcar, but not exit - a visible reminder of the millions of Jews who were transported to their deaths in railcars just like this one"
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
"Many immigrants have been stopped and detained in Northern New England, including people with valid work authorization who were shocked to be taken into custody while traveling to or from job sites in Maine and New Hampshire."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
Attorneys warn immigrants about interstate travel risks: ‘Avoid going to New Hampshire’ - The Boston Globe
With the rollout of President Trump’s mass deportations agenda, some attorneys in Massachusetts are now advising their undocumented clients to avoid crossing state lines.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"Many immigrants have been stopped and detained in Northern New England, including people with valid work authorization who were shocked to be taken into custody while traveling to or from job sites in Maine and New Hampshire."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
Classic Carlin.
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Classic Carlin.
"Some of these parents [who home-school or microschool] identify as being part of an 'unschooling' movement, in which they believe that school has done more harm than good for their children."
"Starting in the 1980s, a metrics-obsessed regime took over American education and profoundly altered the expectations placed on children, up and down the class ladder. In fact, it has altered the experience of childhood itself.'
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"Some of these parents [who home-school or microschool] identify as being part of an 'unschooling' movement, in which they believe that school has done more harm than good for their children."
"Our entire safety net is designed to catch people at the very bottom, but it sets a trap for anyone trying to climb out. As income rises from $40,000 to $100,000, benefits disappear faster than wages increase. I call this The Valley of Death."
Must read.
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Must read.
www.yesigiveafig.com?utm_source=n...
Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets from Michael Green | Michael W. Green | Substack
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November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Our entire safety net is designed to catch people at the very bottom, but it sets a trap for anyone trying to climb out. As income rises from $40,000 to $100,000, benefits disappear faster than wages increase. I call this The Valley of Death."
Must read.
www.yesigiveafig.com?utm_source=n...
Must read.
www.yesigiveafig.com?utm_source=n...
The president of solutions? Be serious.
Scott Bessent on the administration's affordability plan: "We'll see. He's the president of solutions, and I'm sure that we will have a solution to this."
(Note the complete lack of pushback to this by Rebecca Quick and contrast with her recent attempted ambush of Hakeem Jeffries)
(Note the complete lack of pushback to this by Rebecca Quick and contrast with her recent attempted ambush of Hakeem Jeffries)
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The president of solutions? Be serious.
"Starting in the 1980s, a metrics-obsessed regime took over American education and profoundly altered the expectations placed on children, up and down the class ladder. In fact, it has altered the experience of childhood itself.'
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Starting in the 1980s, a metrics-obsessed regime took over American education and profoundly altered the expectations placed on children, up and down the class ladder. In fact, it has altered the experience of childhood itself.'
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
Powerful and poignant. A clarion call for sensitive public policy. Caregivers need help.
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Opinion | ‘We Had No Idea What Was Coming’: Caring for My Aging Father
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Powerful and poignant. A clarion call for sensitive public policy. Caregivers need help.
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
When it's all over, I wonder if these grifters will consider it to have been worth it: a few years of unearned privilege for a permanently trashed reputation.
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
When it's all over, I wonder if these grifters will consider it to have been worth it: a few years of unearned privilege for a permanently trashed reputation.
That 0.5% will pay for the move, yeah? No? It won't?
Ladies and gentlemen, that's our Treasury Secretary doing the math.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's our Treasury Secretary doing the math.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
That 0.5% will pay for the move, yeah? No? It won't?
Ladies and gentlemen, that's our Treasury Secretary doing the math.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's our Treasury Secretary doing the math.
Starmer's phone calls won't do it. He needs to appear at the White House gate bearing gifts.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “We're making some changes to the peace plan after talks with Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, Starmer has spoken to Trump twice in the last 24 hours to try to influence events.
Meanwhile, Starmer has spoken to Trump twice in the last 24 hours to try to influence events.
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Starmer's phone calls won't do it. He needs to appear at the White House gate bearing gifts.
2-point plan.
K.I.S.S.
K.I.S.S.
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
2-point plan.
K.I.S.S.
K.I.S.S.
Great piece. Needs to be shared widely.
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Great piece. Needs to be shared widely.
The 28-point plan, proclaimed as Trump's, is a joke, fed to a Kremlin tool, the masterful Steve Witkoff.
Witkoff can F*ckoff.
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Witkoff can F*ckoff.
wapo.st/4ohhjea
Opinion | Zelensky may never have faced a more agonizing choice
U.S. officials tell me Trump’s peace plan is flexible, but a painful decision lies at its core.
wapo.st
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The 28-point plan, proclaimed as Trump's, is a joke, fed to a Kremlin tool, the masterful Steve Witkoff.
Witkoff can F*ckoff.
wapo.st/4ohhjea
Witkoff can F*ckoff.
wapo.st/4ohhjea
Whatever drug cocktail was administered to POTUS prior to the Mamdani tête-à-tête seems to have worn off. Up the dosage, please.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Whatever drug cocktail was administered to POTUS prior to the Mamdani tête-à-tête seems to have worn off. Up the dosage, please.
"The threat from Vladimir Putin’s despotic, expansionist regime calls for Churchillian resolution, unity and strength on the part of the transatlantic alliance. Instead, Neville Chamberlain-style irresolution and confusion reigns on both sides of the Atlantic."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Ukraine needs Russia’s frozen $200 billion immediately, Europe
With Trump seeking Kyiv’s capitulation to Russia, now is the moment for decisive European action.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"The threat from Vladimir Putin’s despotic, expansionist regime calls for Churchillian resolution, unity and strength on the part of the transatlantic alliance. Instead, Neville Chamberlain-style irresolution and confusion reigns on both sides of the Atlantic."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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It was quite a change for Donald to go from being surrounded by people who never stop saying stupid things to being with someone smart enough to know when to keep quiet.
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It was quite a change for Donald to go from being surrounded by people who never stop saying stupid things to being with someone smart enough to know when to keep quiet.
Reposted by Bill Hine
There are so many disgraceful features of the Trump Administration, but its embrace of Putin & betrayal of Ukraine is the very worst of them, and is likely to have the most dire long-term consequences. Why trust the U.S. any longer?
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump Issues an Ultimatum to Ukraine
His latest peace offer fulfills Vladimir Putin’s wishes and leaves Kyiv with a terrible choice.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
There are so many disgraceful features of the Trump Administration, but its embrace of Putin & betrayal of Ukraine is the very worst of them, and is likely to have the most dire long-term consequences. Why trust the U.S. any longer?
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
Reposted by Bill Hine
‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Reposted by Bill Hine
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...