@billr5.bsky.social
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The impacts of the Trump Administration's "let them eat cake" foreign policy outlined in grim detail
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The impacts of the Trump Administration's "let them eat cake" foreign policy outlined in grim detail
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Trump shared this on Truth Social this morning. He was president all of 2020.
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Trump shared this on Truth Social this morning. He was president all of 2020.
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“We don’t know where he is.”
Trump’s ICE goons grabbed their landscaper dad who committed no crime and asked if they were “wetbacks”- Racists with badges
Trump’s ICE goons grabbed their landscaper dad who committed no crime and asked if they were “wetbacks”- Racists with badges
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“We don’t know where he is.”
Trump’s ICE goons grabbed their landscaper dad who committed no crime and asked if they were “wetbacks”- Racists with badges
Trump’s ICE goons grabbed their landscaper dad who committed no crime and asked if they were “wetbacks”- Racists with badges
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"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
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Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
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6. More on how RFK Jr. is undermining confidence in the measles vaccines in today's Popular Information
As measles ravages South Carolina, RFK Jr. undermines the vaccine
There is a massive measles outbreak spreading rapidly in Upstate South Carolina.
popular.info
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
6. More on how RFK Jr. is undermining confidence in the measles vaccines in today's Popular Information
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1. Measles is ravaging South Carolina.
Over 100 people infected, and hundreds more in quarantine.
In response, RFK Jr., the nation's top public health official, has been SILENT
But it's much worse than that. RFK Jr. and his allies are undermining confidence in the vaccine
Over 100 people infected, and hundreds more in quarantine.
In response, RFK Jr., the nation's top public health official, has been SILENT
But it's much worse than that. RFK Jr. and his allies are undermining confidence in the vaccine
As measles ravages South Carolina, RFK Jr. undermines the vaccine
There is a massive measles outbreak spreading rapidly in Upstate South Carolina.
popular.info
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
1. Measles is ravaging South Carolina.
Over 100 people infected, and hundreds more in quarantine.
In response, RFK Jr., the nation's top public health official, has been SILENT
But it's much worse than that. RFK Jr. and his allies are undermining confidence in the vaccine
Over 100 people infected, and hundreds more in quarantine.
In response, RFK Jr., the nation's top public health official, has been SILENT
But it's much worse than that. RFK Jr. and his allies are undermining confidence in the vaccine
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"Every single act of gun violence is 100% preventable."
Brown University student Mia Tretta talks about the fear and uncertainty of living through Saturday's mass shooting on campus. It was her second school shooting after she survived being shot in the stomach at age 15.
Brown University student Mia Tretta talks about the fear and uncertainty of living through Saturday's mass shooting on campus. It was her second school shooting after she survived being shot in the stomach at age 15.
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Every single act of gun violence is 100% preventable."
Brown University student Mia Tretta talks about the fear and uncertainty of living through Saturday's mass shooting on campus. It was her second school shooting after she survived being shot in the stomach at age 15.
Brown University student Mia Tretta talks about the fear and uncertainty of living through Saturday's mass shooting on campus. It was her second school shooting after she survived being shot in the stomach at age 15.
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Look, there’s a simple solution to private equity buying up and enshittifying the software that keeps us safe: a handful of municipal fire/rescue departments should team up, collaboratively build and share better software, and release it into the public domain. This is a common pattern!
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Look, there’s a simple solution to private equity buying up and enshittifying the software that keeps us safe: a handful of municipal fire/rescue departments should team up, collaboratively build and share better software, and release it into the public domain. This is a common pattern!
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This is how its done
The Bulgarian people have spoken loud and clear against a corrupt regime. The government has resigned.
December 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is how its done
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Using door dash for the first time ever because I genuinely do not feel well enough to walk a block (not to mention I don't want to expose anyone)
Among other things, am getting a flu a/b test because now I'm genuinely curious what could knock normally healthy me out this badly.
Among other things, am getting a flu a/b test because now I'm genuinely curious what could knock normally healthy me out this badly.
December 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Using door dash for the first time ever because I genuinely do not feel well enough to walk a block (not to mention I don't want to expose anyone)
Among other things, am getting a flu a/b test because now I'm genuinely curious what could knock normally healthy me out this badly.
Among other things, am getting a flu a/b test because now I'm genuinely curious what could knock normally healthy me out this badly.
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@gregsargent.bsky.social tackles Stephen Miller from a whole new angle, contrasting his extremist worldview with his grandmother's previously unpublished family memoir about their experience as Russian Jews who immigrated to the US and thrived.
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
@gregsargent.bsky.social tackles Stephen Miller from a whole new angle, contrasting his extremist worldview with his grandmother's previously unpublished family memoir about their experience as Russian Jews who immigrated to the US and thrived.
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Must read piece from @gregsargent.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Must read piece from @gregsargent.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Trump: The election was rigged in 2020. We have all the ammunition, all this stuff, and you'll see it come out. It’s coming out in truckloads.
December 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Trump: The election was rigged in 2020. We have all the ammunition, all this stuff, and you'll see it come out. It’s coming out in truckloads.
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There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.
Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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“We would win California by a lot” — a delusional Trump claims he won California in 2024
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“We would win California by a lot” — a delusional Trump claims he won California in 2024
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Trump keeps making batshit crazy comments, and the media keep deciding it’s the new normal — not news.
“We would win California by a lot” — a delusional Trump claims he won California in 2024
December 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Trump keeps making batshit crazy comments, and the media keep deciding it’s the new normal — not news.
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Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
December 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
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Trump is also threatening the Pope.
The POPE.
The POPE.
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Trump is also threatening the Pope.
The POPE.
The POPE.
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i mean...
uh...
well...
lordy.
this defies summation. incredible story.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
uh...
well...
lordy.
this defies summation. incredible story.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
i mean...
uh...
well...
lordy.
this defies summation. incredible story.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
uh...
well...
lordy.
this defies summation. incredible story.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump: We’re building an arc like the Arc de Triomphe. It will be like the one in Paris but it blows it away.
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Trump: We’re building an arc like the Arc de Triomphe. It will be like the one in Paris but it blows it away.
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One possible flaw in Bari Weiss's plan to remake CBS News in her image is that she is a bad and boring journalist and nobody actually likes her.
Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk
variety.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
One possible flaw in Bari Weiss's plan to remake CBS News in her image is that she is a bad and boring journalist and nobody actually likes her.