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Trump is the embodiment of political and economic tendencies that began (roughly) in the 1980’s decaying and collapsing in front of our eyes so honestly it tracks to just trot out random 80’s stuff
December 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump is the embodiment of political and economic tendencies that began (roughly) in the 1980’s decaying and collapsing in front of our eyes so honestly it tracks to just trot out random 80’s stuff
important reminder 🧵
US politics make more sense when you recognize that a lot more people are susceptible to delusions than most folks probably assume.
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
important reminder 🧵
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Trump's FTC leaders bad-mouthed Lina Khan when they dropped this lawsuit, claiming that they were cleaning up her mess. Now that it's been unsealed, we can see that was a total lie. This was a coverup to protect Pepsi and Walmart.
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
December 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Trump's FTC leaders bad-mouthed Lina Khan when they dropped this lawsuit, claiming that they were cleaning up her mess. Now that it's been unsealed, we can see that was a total lie. This was a coverup to protect Pepsi and Walmart.
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Are #USMIL Veterans in NorCal aware that 47 and his Goons doused funding for a major new VA health facility in the East Bay? www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Alameda lined up $400 million in federal funds to build a veterans clinic. Then Trump stepped in
Alameda amassed nearly $400 million to transform an ex-naval base into a veterans clinic. The Trump administration torpedoed the project, declaring it dead without telling the people in charge.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Are #USMIL Veterans in NorCal aware that 47 and his Goons doused funding for a major new VA health facility in the East Bay? www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Fascist police states are like that.
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Fascist police states are like that.
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Oh this is a beaut. Perfect.
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Oh this is a beaut. Perfect.
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When you hear folks talk about tax burden in the context of affordability, they don’t mention the massive cost reduction to families that the program is designed to deliver.
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
When you hear folks talk about tax burden in the context of affordability, they don’t mention the massive cost reduction to families that the program is designed to deliver.
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Fucking hell.
Nurses union alleges ICE is allowed to dictate patient care at Legacy Emanuel
The Oregon Nurses Association alleges management told nurses that immigration detainees do not hold the same rights as other patients.
www.opb.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Fucking hell.
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Trump is a dying husk shambling through his presidency.
But he makes an ideal puppet for the wealthy because of his susceptibility to flattery and bribery, his instinct to crush innocent people, his laziness, and lack of loyalty to anything or anyone.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-dying-pu...
But he makes an ideal puppet for the wealthy because of his susceptibility to flattery and bribery, his instinct to crush innocent people, his laziness, and lack of loyalty to anything or anyone.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-dying-pu...
A Dying Puppet: Trump as an Oligarchical Figurehead
We're living in the Mad King era
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Trump is a dying husk shambling through his presidency.
But he makes an ideal puppet for the wealthy because of his susceptibility to flattery and bribery, his instinct to crush innocent people, his laziness, and lack of loyalty to anything or anyone.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-dying-pu...
But he makes an ideal puppet for the wealthy because of his susceptibility to flattery and bribery, his instinct to crush innocent people, his laziness, and lack of loyalty to anything or anyone.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-dying-pu...
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They knew it when they caved and ended the shutdown.
They knew the Republicans weren’t going to negotiate.
It’s eugenics.
Disabled lives are viewed as expendable.
Were seen as “useless eaters”.
We’ve seen this movie before.
They knew the Republicans weren’t going to negotiate.
It’s eugenics.
Disabled lives are viewed as expendable.
Were seen as “useless eaters”.
We’ve seen this movie before.
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
They knew it when they caved and ended the shutdown.
They knew the Republicans weren’t going to negotiate.
It’s eugenics.
Disabled lives are viewed as expendable.
Were seen as “useless eaters”.
We’ve seen this movie before.
They knew the Republicans weren’t going to negotiate.
It’s eugenics.
Disabled lives are viewed as expendable.
Were seen as “useless eaters”.
We’ve seen this movie before.
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ICE queries Waldport resort, prompting city to pass resolution in opposition https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/11/waldport-oregon-ice-facility-immigration/
ICE queries Waldport resort, prompting city to pass resolution in opposition
More than 100 people packed a Waldport City Council meeting Wednesday night to express opposition to even the possibility of an ICE detention facility in the city.
www.opb.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
ICE queries Waldport resort, prompting city to pass resolution in opposition https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/11/waldport-oregon-ice-facility-immigration/
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One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
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Most of us don't see cars and the raging rivers of asphalt all around us because that is the sea we swim in.
Choosing cars as our main transportation has pulled the life out of our future and our children's future: our health, money, nature are depleted.
We have a choice 🚲
Choosing cars as our main transportation has pulled the life out of our future and our children's future: our health, money, nature are depleted.
We have a choice 🚲
Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.
December 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Most of us don't see cars and the raging rivers of asphalt all around us because that is the sea we swim in.
Choosing cars as our main transportation has pulled the life out of our future and our children's future: our health, money, nature are depleted.
We have a choice 🚲
Choosing cars as our main transportation has pulled the life out of our future and our children's future: our health, money, nature are depleted.
We have a choice 🚲
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NW Natural has wasted substantial amounts of money on false solutions to the climate crisis as an expensive PR campaign to convince credulous regulators to delay necessary regulation.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
NW Natural partners Modern Hydrogen have laid off almost all employees, and Tyson closed factory where NW natural made “renewable natural gas.” Oregon’s largest gas utility facing headwinds in decarbonizing energy supply since collaborators falter: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/11/n...
NW Natural alternative fuel projects face uncertain future as partners falter • Oregon Capital Chronicle
NW Natural partnerships with Tyson and Modern Hydrogen on fuel projects could be impacted by layoffs and factory closures.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
NW Natural has wasted substantial amounts of money on false solutions to the climate crisis as an expensive PR campaign to convince credulous regulators to delay necessary regulation.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
We told you it was a con & now it's not even facially possible.
Great reporting by @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social.
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At this point AI expansion and fossil fuel growth are basically the same thing.
And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy.
Read more at @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy.
Read more at @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel age
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
At this point AI expansion and fossil fuel growth are basically the same thing.
And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy.
Read more at @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy.
Read more at @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
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Heavy rains from storm Byron flooded streets & drenched tent encampments in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are trying to seek shelter.
In western Gaza City, near the port, emergency crews struggled to drain the floods as displaced Palestinians faced the biting cold...
In western Gaza City, near the port, emergency crews struggled to drain the floods as displaced Palestinians faced the biting cold...
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Heavy rains from storm Byron flooded streets & drenched tent encampments in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are trying to seek shelter.
In western Gaza City, near the port, emergency crews struggled to drain the floods as displaced Palestinians faced the biting cold...
In western Gaza City, near the port, emergency crews struggled to drain the floods as displaced Palestinians faced the biting cold...
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Excellent stuff from @sifill.bsky.social. "The assault on the 14th Amendment has not generated the kind of moral panic that politicians, journalists, and tech bros successfully created over their claims of First Amendment abuses several years ago..."
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
December 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Excellent stuff from @sifill.bsky.social. "The assault on the 14th Amendment has not generated the kind of moral panic that politicians, journalists, and tech bros successfully created over their claims of First Amendment abuses several years ago..."
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-...
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I try REALLY hard to get this right as a practitioner. Poli sci and data sci are both helpful, we read and use elements of both. But they're inputs in to strategy that happens with a much larger context, not strategies themselves.
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I am shadow-banned and was previously banned-banned for quoting Johnny Cash lyrics. Now I've quoted a dark TS Eliot poem and fear my Bluesky account may implode. If you like this article, please share it! Thank you sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bell-fount...
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am shadow-banned and was previously banned-banned for quoting Johnny Cash lyrics. Now I've quoted a dark TS Eliot poem and fear my Bluesky account may implode. If you like this article, please share it! Thank you sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bell-fount...
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Nick Walden Poublon is the strongest candidate in this field. Period.
He's district-tested.
Strong health care background.
Deep roots in the issues HD52 voters are pleading for help with. Nick's the total package.
https://loom.ly/AUZJEcQ #ImWithNick
He's district-tested.
Strong health care background.
Deep roots in the issues HD52 voters are pleading for help with. Nick's the total package.
https://loom.ly/AUZJEcQ #ImWithNick
Democratic primary heats up for one of Oregon’s few truly competitive House seats • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Only one Republican has thrown their hat in the ring for Oregon’s 52nd House District primary, while three Democrats are running so far.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Nick Walden Poublon is the strongest candidate in this field. Period.
He's district-tested.
Strong health care background.
Deep roots in the issues HD52 voters are pleading for help with. Nick's the total package.
https://loom.ly/AUZJEcQ #ImWithNick
He's district-tested.
Strong health care background.
Deep roots in the issues HD52 voters are pleading for help with. Nick's the total package.
https://loom.ly/AUZJEcQ #ImWithNick
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Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
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This is what I am saying. They are criminals and sociopaths.
So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
December 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
This is what I am saying. They are criminals and sociopaths.
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Everyone here is in hell, and there's no ice water on the way. defector.com/everyone-los...
Everyone Loses In The Liverpool-Mo Salah Clash
Of all of the ways Liverpool’s no-good season could have gotten worse, I don’t know if anyone expected this. On Saturday, after the Pool Boys blew both a 2-0 and a 3-2 lead to freakin’ Leeds United,…
defector.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Everyone here is in hell, and there's no ice water on the way. defector.com/everyone-los...
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America is the bad guy, more openly than ever before. The world looks at Americans as villains. You and I and our fellows citizens are bad people to the rest of planet Earth. There was no Good German, and there is no Good American. Merry fucking Christmas.
“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
America is the bad guy, more openly than ever before. The world looks at Americans as villains. You and I and our fellows citizens are bad people to the rest of planet Earth. There was no Good German, and there is no Good American. Merry fucking Christmas.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.