Ken
@crankyoldvet.bsky.social
Former military intelligence, I did the job that involves talking to people.
I took an oath to defend the constitution from enemies, both foreign and domestic. That includes the current republican regime. They are all my enemies.
I took an oath to defend the constitution from enemies, both foreign and domestic. That includes the current republican regime. They are all my enemies.
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US House rejected the impeachment of Trump in a 237-140 vote.
23 House Democrats voted to block the measure by voting "No", and 47 others voted "present", they excused themselves by claiming there is no "investigative process" and their priority is "affordability."
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025322
23 House Democrats voted to block the measure by voting "No", and 47 others voted "present", they excused themselves by claiming there is no "investigative process" and their priority is "affordability."
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025322
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
US House rejected the impeachment of Trump in a 237-140 vote.
23 House Democrats voted to block the measure by voting "No", and 47 others voted "present", they excused themselves by claiming there is no "investigative process" and their priority is "affordability."
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025322
23 House Democrats voted to block the measure by voting "No", and 47 others voted "present", they excused themselves by claiming there is no "investigative process" and their priority is "affordability."
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025322
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BLITZ: “.. the Fed and Treasury balance sheets are essentially one .. What Bessent/Trump want is cheap funding – flood the short end and starve the long end .. Today, the Fed announced it will be there to buy the short end. Put this one in the column for why inflation will be higher in 2026.”
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
BLITZ: “.. the Fed and Treasury balance sheets are essentially one .. What Bessent/Trump want is cheap funding – flood the short end and starve the long end .. Today, the Fed announced it will be there to buy the short end. Put this one in the column for why inflation will be higher in 2026.”
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Once again we see the Trump ethos that says simply being rich makes you “the best.”
You don’t need to have earned that money yourself or even done anything ethical to get it; if you’ve got cash in your bank account, that’s good enough for him to trust you and think you’re special.
You don’t need to have earned that money yourself or even done anything ethical to get it; if you’ve got cash in your bank account, that’s good enough for him to trust you and think you’re special.
Lutnick: "We should be bringing in the best and brightest, and that's what Donald Trump is changing about our immigration system. Let's expedite the best and brightest who are gonna give a million dollars to the US to prove they're at the top of the list."
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Once again we see the Trump ethos that says simply being rich makes you “the best.”
You don’t need to have earned that money yourself or even done anything ethical to get it; if you’ve got cash in your bank account, that’s good enough for him to trust you and think you’re special.
You don’t need to have earned that money yourself or even done anything ethical to get it; if you’ve got cash in your bank account, that’s good enough for him to trust you and think you’re special.
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Trump and his MAGA followers have been calling for journalists to be killed for an entire decade. It is unfathomable to me why every journalistic organization in the country doesn't treat them as the enemies that they are, let alone ignores that it's their rhetoric that incites people to violence.
Calling the press “fake news” is harmful. Calling them “seditious, perhaps even treasonous” for publishing reporting is something else entirely. Treason is a capital crime. Suggesting journalists should face it for exercising their First Amendment rights and doing their jobs is dangerous.
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Trump and his MAGA followers have been calling for journalists to be killed for an entire decade. It is unfathomable to me why every journalistic organization in the country doesn't treat them as the enemies that they are, let alone ignores that it's their rhetoric that incites people to violence.
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It’s not surprising that Trump is bribe-able but it is a little shocking at how cheap it is to bribe him
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 1:31 PM
It’s not surprising that Trump is bribe-able but it is a little shocking at how cheap it is to bribe him
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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“.. 'What does [6G] do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody’s skin?' he mused today, live on TV, right in front of Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, who did not bother to correct him."
$QCOM
$QCOM
Donald Trump reminds the entire world he has no idea what 6G means
www.theverge.com/policy/84208...
www.theverge.com/policy/84208...
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“.. 'What does [6G] do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody’s skin?' he mused today, live on TV, right in front of Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, who did not bother to correct him."
$QCOM
$QCOM
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NATO Chief Rutte: "We need to be ready. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured."
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NATO Chief Rutte: "We need to be ready. Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured."
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JOHN DEERE: "Our US market has been the one under the most pressure . . . based on what’s happened with trade flows, what’s happened with tariffs .." We'll build "half as many tractors this year as we did two years ago."
@financialtimes.com $DE
www.ft.com/content/523a...
@financialtimes.com $DE
www.ft.com/content/523a...
Donald Trump’s tariffs intensify strain on US farmers, Deere warns
Farming equipment giant is scaling back production at flagship tractor plant in Iowa
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
JOHN DEERE: "Our US market has been the one under the most pressure . . . based on what’s happened with trade flows, what’s happened with tariffs .." We'll build "half as many tractors this year as we did two years ago."
@financialtimes.com $DE
www.ft.com/content/523a...
@financialtimes.com $DE
www.ft.com/content/523a...
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This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.
There's nothing illegal about killing nazis. It's the heroic, honorable, thing to do.
Death to Trump
Death to Maga
Death to Republicans
Death to Trump
Death to Maga
Death to Republicans
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
There's nothing illegal about killing nazis. It's the heroic, honorable, thing to do.
Death to Trump
Death to Maga
Death to Republicans
Death to Trump
Death to Maga
Death to Republicans
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When will American Oligarchs start “falling” out of windows?
they will eventually learn what the russian oligarchs learned the hard way from putin: having the leader's favor is great right up until it disappears
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
When will American Oligarchs start “falling” out of windows?
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AUTHERS: “.. Mortgage rates have risen since the Fed resumed cutting in September. … In recent history, it’s unprecedented for a cutting cycle as aggressive as this one has been to overlap with rising 10-year yields.”
@johnauthers.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
@johnauthers.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
AUTHERS: “.. Mortgage rates have risen since the Fed resumed cutting in September. … In recent history, it’s unprecedented for a cutting cycle as aggressive as this one has been to overlap with rising 10-year yields.”
@johnauthers.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
@johnauthers.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Trump is a traitor
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Trump is a traitor
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These creeps love telling women what they must do with their bodies.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
These creeps love telling women what they must do with their bodies.
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A world in which this regime can kill anyone it chooses with no legal justification of any kind is a world in which none of us are safe.
Tell your Members of Congress to demand investigations into Pete Hegseth’s murderous strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific.
Tell your Members of Congress to demand investigations into Pete Hegseth’s murderous strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific.
Demand a Congressional Investigation Into Hegseth’s Extrajudicial Killings
Over the last few months, the Trump regime has orchestrated the bombings of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific that it claims are trafficking drugs bound for the US. They’ve provided no legal ju...
act.indivisible.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A world in which this regime can kill anyone it chooses with no legal justification of any kind is a world in which none of us are safe.
Tell your Members of Congress to demand investigations into Pete Hegseth’s murderous strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific.
Tell your Members of Congress to demand investigations into Pete Hegseth’s murderous strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific.
Trump is a traitor
“.. It’s the latest example of Trump putting national security controls once deemed off limits in trade talks on the negotiating table with China. That reversal will test how the US president handles other contentious issues .. even America’s position on Taiwan ..”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trump is a traitor
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“.. It’s the latest example of Trump putting national security controls once deemed off limits in trade talks on the negotiating table with China. That reversal will test how the US president handles other contentious issues .. even America’s position on Taiwan ..”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“.. It’s the latest example of Trump putting national security controls once deemed off limits in trade talks on the negotiating table with China. That reversal will test how the US president handles other contentious issues .. even America’s position on Taiwan ..”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Commentary: The top issue facing Ohio schools isn’t a shortage of bus drivers or scarce substitute teachers. It’s near-universal private school vouchers devastating the long-range viability of public education and diverting more than $1 billion annually ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/08/o...
Ohio School Boards Association conference reveals growing reaction against vouchers and lawmakers • Ohio Capital Journal
The top issue facing Ohio schools isn’t a shortage of bus drivers or scarce substitute teachers. It’s the expanded universal private school voucher program that is devastating the long-range…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Commentary: The top issue facing Ohio schools isn’t a shortage of bus drivers or scarce substitute teachers. It’s near-universal private school vouchers devastating the long-range viability of public education and diverting more than $1 billion annually ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/08/o...
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WATCH: An ICE agent pushes away a home security camera as she approaches a house.
This is what a police state looks like.
This is what a police state looks like.
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
WATCH: An ICE agent pushes away a home security camera as she approaches a house.
This is what a police state looks like.
This is what a police state looks like.
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Paramount's entire sales pitch is the US government will do our bidding AND they are paying the president's son-in-law: Trump Family's corruption is magnitudes more than anything else in US history.
Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Paramount's entire sales pitch is the US government will do our bidding AND they are paying the president's son-in-law: Trump Family's corruption is magnitudes more than anything else in US history.
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“.. Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice,” said Kathleen Engel, a Suffolk University law professor and leading expert on mortgage finance.
@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“.. Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice,” said Kathleen Engel, a Suffolk University law professor and leading expert on mortgage finance.
@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Can't wait for Bugs Bunny's new owners: Jared Kushner and the Saudi Arabian, Abu Dhabi and Qatari sovereign wealth funds.
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Can't wait for Bugs Bunny's new owners: Jared Kushner and the Saudi Arabian, Abu Dhabi and Qatari sovereign wealth funds.