Chad Averett
@caverett.bsky.social
Science geek. Avid board gamer.
Posts will have a little bit of Louisiana flavor.
Posts will have a little bit of Louisiana flavor.
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Witkoff and Co. priorities in “peace” negotiations:
1) Make money
2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1
3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine
And that’s apparently it.
Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
1) Make money
2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1
3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine
And that’s apparently it.
Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Witkoff and Co. priorities in “peace” negotiations:
1) Make money
2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1
3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine
And that’s apparently it.
Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
1) Make money
2) Get Putin what he wants in Ukraine, which will facilitate 1
3) Get connected Americans a piece of the spoils in Ukraine
And that’s apparently it.
Not priorities: freedom, security, justice, law, US allies, avoiding future war
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Macaulay Culkin Has a Great Idea for a HOME ALONE Sequel and It Needs to Get Made
Macaulay Culkin Has a Great Idea for a HOME ALONE Sequel and It Needs to Get Made
The Home Alone franchise has lived rent free in the holiday season for more than thirty years, and now Macaulay Culkin is stirring up fresh excitement with a sequel idea that could actually work. During...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Macaulay Culkin Has a Great Idea for a HOME ALONE Sequel and It Needs to Get Made
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Steve whitkoff is an actual traitor
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Steve whitkoff is an actual traitor
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
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BP partially restarts Olympic Pipeline after leak identified reut.rs/48dmtSh
BP partially restarts Olympic Pipeline after leak identified
BP said on Tuesday it had partially restarted the 400-mile Olympic Pipeline after crews identified the source of a leak of refined products east of Everett, Washington.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
BP partially restarts Olympic Pipeline after leak identified reut.rs/48dmtSh
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@pablo.show published an investigative report into Riley Gaines with a video, “What Is Riley Gaines Hiding? We Investigated,” inciting a social media tit-for-tat with the subject herself. Pablo gives us the details.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-evolutions-of-a-grifter-former
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-evolutions-of-a-grifter-former
The Evolutions of a Grifter, Former Journalist, and NFL Girlfriend: Offsides with Pablo Torre
"There is a fake problem that Donald Trump is using to win elections, and he's doing it at the risk of truly stripping t
contrarian.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@pablo.show published an investigative report into Riley Gaines with a video, “What Is Riley Gaines Hiding? We Investigated,” inciting a social media tit-for-tat with the subject herself. Pablo gives us the details.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-evolutions-of-a-grifter-former
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-evolutions-of-a-grifter-former
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"LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center Just Gave Anti-Vax Hype a Home," new by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center Just Gave Anti-Vax Hype a Home
Pennington's appointment of a notorious anti-vaxxer, Robert Malone, gives him a prestigious LSU title that the CDC now amplifies, while university officials spin the move as routine and harmless.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center Just Gave Anti-Vax Hype a Home," new by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
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This is what you see when you die
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is what you see when you die
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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NEW: Pro-democracy organizers filed a new lawsuit Thursday accusing Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) of using wildly deceptive ballot language to tilt a referendum in favor of the GOP’s mid-decade gerrymander. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri Organizers Challenge GOP’s ‘Inaccurate and Biased’ Gerrymander Referendum Language
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
NEW: Pro-democracy organizers filed a new lawsuit Thursday accusing Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) of using wildly deceptive ballot language to tilt a referendum in favor of the GOP’s mid-decade gerrymander. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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New in PN: Lindsey Halligan's bad bad week
"It was already painfully obvious that Trump’s pet prosecutor is entirely out of her depth, with both of her big splashy political prosecutions spiraling out of control. This week, though, it became clear she'd be overmatched prosecuting a jaywalker."
"It was already painfully obvious that Trump’s pet prosecutor is entirely out of her depth, with both of her big splashy political prosecutions spiraling out of control. This week, though, it became clear she'd be overmatched prosecuting a jaywalker."
Lindsey Halligan's bad bad week
Look out, Lionel Hutz.
www.publicnotice.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New in PN: Lindsey Halligan's bad bad week
"It was already painfully obvious that Trump’s pet prosecutor is entirely out of her depth, with both of her big splashy political prosecutions spiraling out of control. This week, though, it became clear she'd be overmatched prosecuting a jaywalker."
"It was already painfully obvious that Trump’s pet prosecutor is entirely out of her depth, with both of her big splashy political prosecutions spiraling out of control. This week, though, it became clear she'd be overmatched prosecuting a jaywalker."
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Updated this post on Kash Patel's taint (the legal kind, not THAT kind, you perverts!!), with a list of the shadow prosecution team that have written various filings.
There's a guy at Main DOJ and (seemingly) FBI OGC doing the nastiest work here.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/19/k...
There's a guy at Main DOJ and (seemingly) FBI OGC doing the nastiest work here.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/19/k...
Kash Patel's Taint - emptywheel
The Jim Comey prosecution seems more focused on clearing up the taint arising out of their fishing expedition into Comey's privileged communications that it is on actually convicting him in this parti...
www.emptywheel.net
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Updated this post on Kash Patel's taint (the legal kind, not THAT kind, you perverts!!), with a list of the shadow prosecution team that have written various filings.
There's a guy at Main DOJ and (seemingly) FBI OGC doing the nastiest work here.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/19/k...
There's a guy at Main DOJ and (seemingly) FBI OGC doing the nastiest work here.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/19/k...
The recent Epstein emails released by his estate are equivalent to chat conversations done in today's social apps. Full of gross conversations between icky people who really didn't break any laws besides common decency. The Epstein files in DOJ possession are Stringer Bell's notebook from The Wire.
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The recent Epstein emails released by his estate are equivalent to chat conversations done in today's social apps. Full of gross conversations between icky people who really didn't break any laws besides common decency. The Epstein files in DOJ possession are Stringer Bell's notebook from The Wire.
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“I think that many of these college journalists are laser-focused on their beats, are developing great sources among administrators, faculty and students, and are unfazed by the possibility that their stories might piss off a valued source or two” — Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“I think that many of these college journalists are laser-focused on their beats, are developing great sources among administrators, faculty and students, and are unfazed by the possibility that their stories might piss off a valued source or two” — Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin
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Louisiana families see health insurance plan costs go up by several thousand dollars per year as Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire. Story from @emilywoodruff.bsky.social
www.nola.com/news/healthc...
www.nola.com/news/healthc...
A Louisiana family paid $300 a month for health insurance. Now it's $2,000 as ACA credits expire.
A New Orleans live audio engineer opened his ACA renewal link to find his family’s monthly premium jumping from $300 to $2,000. He’s not alone.
www.nola.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Louisiana families see health insurance plan costs go up by several thousand dollars per year as Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire. Story from @emilywoodruff.bsky.social
www.nola.com/news/healthc...
www.nola.com/news/healthc...
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The Pedophile Protection Party
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Pedophile Protection Party
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BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
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Democrats have released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein suggested that Donald Trump was aware of the financier's sexual abuse and definitely "knew about the girls." Trump has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the sex-trafficking activities of his former friend, who died by suicide in 2019
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Democrats have released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein suggested that Donald Trump was aware of the financier's sexual abuse and definitely "knew about the girls." Trump has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the sex-trafficking activities of his former friend, who died by suicide in 2019
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"A coach, athletic director and president working in [alignment], free of interference from the governor’s mansion, is the dream.
LSU’s alignment consists of a couple of newbies, a meddling governor and a governor-appointed board of supervisors."
LSU’s alignment consists of a couple of newbies, a meddling governor and a governor-appointed board of supervisors."
This is brutal. Fair, but brutal. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Only a band of idiots could screw up LSU football. Introducing the buffoons on the bayou
The LSU job’s so good, it would take a band of idiots to screw up a coaching search so badly as to make it unattractive. Well, strike up the band!
www.usatoday.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"A coach, athletic director and president working in [alignment], free of interference from the governor’s mansion, is the dream.
LSU’s alignment consists of a couple of newbies, a meddling governor and a governor-appointed board of supervisors."
LSU’s alignment consists of a couple of newbies, a meddling governor and a governor-appointed board of supervisors."
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That’s just it. In the Democratic Party, the question isn’t moderate or leftist right now. It’s whether or not a dem understands that the old political playbook for dealing with the right is obsolete.
One point worth emphasizing here: The punditry has been saying Sherrill (and Spanberger) represent the sane centrist wing of the party versus the left. Well, okay, but here Sherrill is urging more fight. Again, the results show that anti-Trump + affordability can *unite* the party. This shows how.
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
That’s just it. In the Democratic Party, the question isn’t moderate or leftist right now. It’s whether or not a dem understands that the old political playbook for dealing with the right is obsolete.
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What the hell are we doing?
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What the hell are we doing?
Republicans adjusted the budget with only 50 votes then asking others to keep paying that same budget without having the 60 votes.
So yes it is basic math. They never had the 60 votes to begin with.
Change the filibuster to get 50 votes or change the adjustments to get 60 votes.
So yes it is basic math. They never had the 60 votes to begin with.
Change the filibuster to get 50 votes or change the adjustments to get 60 votes.
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Republicans adjusted the budget with only 50 votes then asking others to keep paying that same budget without having the 60 votes.
So yes it is basic math. They never had the 60 votes to begin with.
Change the filibuster to get 50 votes or change the adjustments to get 60 votes.
So yes it is basic math. They never had the 60 votes to begin with.
Change the filibuster to get 50 votes or change the adjustments to get 60 votes.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM