Bluefolk ☕️📻📝🌏
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Any Federal spending at this point should be directed by a bankruptcy judge.
The Trump administration should have no ability to make decisions to prioritize spending one way or the other.
A judicial panel should direct and prioritize based on public health and safety.
The Trump administration should have no ability to make decisions to prioritize spending one way or the other.
A judicial panel should direct and prioritize based on public health and safety.
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In an interview about Wednesday's Northwest DC shooting, a National Guard veteran said, "Had this deployment not happened, the shooting wouldn't have happened."
National Guard veteran speaks on Wednesday's shooting in Northwest DC | INTERVIEW
YouTube video by WUSA9
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
In an interview about Wednesday's Northwest DC shooting, a National Guard veteran said, "Had this deployment not happened, the shooting wouldn't have happened."
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DC shooter suspect approved for asylum in April 2025
CNN on the D.C. shooter: He came here from Afghanistan in 2021. He applied for asylum in December 2024, went through another vetting process, and was approved for asylum in April of this year under the Trump administration.
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
DC shooter suspect approved for asylum in April 2025
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By his own standards and his insistence on scapegoating and blaming, Trump should either explain why he and his administration granted Asylum to the DC shooter suspect SEVEN MONTHS AGO, fire Noem and Homan and apologize - or Trump should resign
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
By his own standards and his insistence on scapegoating and blaming, Trump should either explain why he and his administration granted Asylum to the DC shooter suspect SEVEN MONTHS AGO, fire Noem and Homan and apologize - or Trump should resign
Trump sounds to be in pretty rough shape in the video.
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Trump sounds to be in pretty rough shape in the video.
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Olivia Nuzzi used to follow me on Twitter and I wonder if I had only tweeted more about ethics in journalism if we could have avoided ever seeing RFK Jr’s poetry. Alas.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Olivia Nuzzi used to follow me on Twitter and I wonder if I had only tweeted more about ethics in journalism if we could have avoided ever seeing RFK Jr’s poetry. Alas.
OK, admittedly I’m in some kind of a mood today. Let it be known that I’m blocking all of the crappy anime and other drawings that come up in the feed.
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
OK, admittedly I’m in some kind of a mood today. Let it be known that I’m blocking all of the crappy anime and other drawings that come up in the feed.
The frustrating thing about Bluesky and other social media is I can’t just get the straight story about Ariana Grande licking donuts. I just get all these clever sideways comments referring to it. Search engines aren’t any more help since they funnel you to clickbait and ragebait sites.
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The frustrating thing about Bluesky and other social media is I can’t just get the straight story about Ariana Grande licking donuts. I just get all these clever sideways comments referring to it. Search engines aren’t any more help since they funnel you to clickbait and ragebait sites.
So far the reaction to the National Guard shooting is about what you would predict.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
So far the reaction to the National Guard shooting is about what you would predict.
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2016 happened. Russia did support Trump’s campaign. Good reporters were on it at the time. I wrote it up within the larger context of global oligarchy and neo-fascism in "Road to Unfreedom."
9 years ago,House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Speaker to be Kevin McCarthy had a recorded conversation in which McCarthy says, "There are two people that I think Putin pays, (Representative Dana) Rohrbacher and Trump. Swear to God."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio0...
Washington Post: House majority leader said in 2016, "Putin pays" Trump
YouTube video by CBS News
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
2016 happened. Russia did support Trump’s campaign. Good reporters were on it at the time. I wrote it up within the larger context of global oligarchy and neo-fascism in "Road to Unfreedom."
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Twitter, after they turned on the location visibility feature.
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Twitter, after they turned on the location visibility feature.
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We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
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Why is everyone suddenly scrutinising something that happened when I was at school forty odd years ago? It’s almost as though I was trying to be Prime Minister and people want to know who they fuck they would be letting run the country.
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Why is everyone suddenly scrutinising something that happened when I was at school forty odd years ago? It’s almost as though I was trying to be Prime Minister and people want to know who they fuck they would be letting run the country.
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Trump tried to extort Brazil to drop the case against Bolsonaro by slapping a 50% tariff on the country
He also personally sanctioned Alexandre de Moraes-the judge overseeing this case-and his wife
Of course it didn’t work. Prices in the US increased instead
Now Trump has been humiliated
Again
He also personally sanctioned Alexandre de Moraes-the judge overseeing this case-and his wife
Of course it didn’t work. Prices in the US increased instead
Now Trump has been humiliated
Again
Breaking:
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Trump tried to extort Brazil to drop the case against Bolsonaro by slapping a 50% tariff on the country
He also personally sanctioned Alexandre de Moraes-the judge overseeing this case-and his wife
Of course it didn’t work. Prices in the US increased instead
Now Trump has been humiliated
Again
He also personally sanctioned Alexandre de Moraes-the judge overseeing this case-and his wife
Of course it didn’t work. Prices in the US increased instead
Now Trump has been humiliated
Again
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Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.
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Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup. This is what Trump should be doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup. This is what Trump should be doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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"A Brazilian judge has ordered ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to begin a 27-year jail sentence for plotting a coup d’état after his 2022 election loss."
THAT's how it's done. US et al: take note.
THAT's how it's done. US et al: take note.
Jair Bolsonaro to start 27-year sentence for Brazil coup plot
Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes finds all of former president’s legal appeals had been exhausted
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"A Brazilian judge has ordered ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to begin a 27-year jail sentence for plotting a coup d’état after his 2022 election loss."
THAT's how it's done. US et al: take note.
THAT's how it's done. US et al: take note.
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A bit bittersweet watching Bolsonaro go to prison for doing the exact same thing Shitler got away with doing.
At the time he initially got busted for it, I got told that it's good our process is slow.... And yet here we fucking are.
At the time he initially got busted for it, I got told that it's good our process is slow.... And yet here we fucking are.
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
A bit bittersweet watching Bolsonaro go to prison for doing the exact same thing Shitler got away with doing.
At the time he initially got busted for it, I got told that it's good our process is slow.... And yet here we fucking are.
At the time he initially got busted for it, I got told that it's good our process is slow.... And yet here we fucking are.
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Too simplistic, but shouldn’t the basis of the Russian peace plan be “go home, pay for what you broke”.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Too simplistic, but shouldn’t the basis of the Russian peace plan be “go home, pay for what you broke”.
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Don't. Post. Twitter. Screenshots. Here.
Post. Here.
Post. Here.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Don't. Post. Twitter. Screenshots. Here.
Post. Here.
Post. Here.
Southwest airlines pre boarding bag check pleas sounding like a PBS pledge drive. “We just need 4 more volunteers” “we just need 3 more volunteers” “check this carry on bags for free”
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Southwest airlines pre boarding bag check pleas sounding like a PBS pledge drive. “We just need 4 more volunteers” “we just need 3 more volunteers” “check this carry on bags for free”
Fully 80% of my flight is wearing slacker sweatpants tonight. Counted less than 10 wearing jeans. Maybe the same in travel chinos. Fascinating.
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Fully 80% of my flight is wearing slacker sweatpants tonight. Counted less than 10 wearing jeans. Maybe the same in travel chinos. Fascinating.
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Bloomberg has obtained the transcript of a call between Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and a senior aide to Vladimir Putin — in which Witkoff advised the aide — a Russian aide — on how Putin should go about pitching Trump on a pro-Russian peace plan aimed at bringing an end to the Ukraine war.
Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Bloomberg has obtained the transcript of a call between Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and a senior aide to Vladimir Putin — in which Witkoff advised the aide — a Russian aide — on how Putin should go about pitching Trump on a pro-Russian peace plan aimed at bringing an end to the Ukraine war.