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criminy-k.bsky.social
Roscosmos has said the damage will be repaired soon, but that sounds optimistic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kgI...
Russia Loses Ability for Manned Space Missions After Collapse of Launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome
YouTube video by Suchomimus
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
i like how the one example we have of mass scale homeschooling was the pandemic and it was a complete disaster that burnt out every parent on earth and resulted in half a generation being socially and intellectually stunted forever
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
Just by coincidence, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's old firm is having its most lucrative year ever.
The firm is run by Lutnick's sons. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Howard Lutnick’s Sons Score Record Year as Cantor Denies Trump Conflicts
As it pushes back on suggestions of conflicts of interest, the financial boutique is on track for its most lucrative year ever.
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
“No firm has closer ties to Noem’s political operation … It played a central role in her 2022 South Dakota gubernatorial campaign. Corey Lewandowski, her top adviser at DHS, has worked extensively w/the firm. And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS, Tricia McLaughlin.”
jeisinger.bsky.social Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · Nov 14
NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.

We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.

@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/kris...
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House Reconciliation Bill (Preliminary)
budgetlab.yale.edu
May 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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WELKER: When does it become the Trump economy?

TRUMP: It partially is right now. I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy
May 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
The notion that the US has been “ripped off” — even as it crushed the entire planet on cross-border fund flows for the past five years — is absolutely hilarious. 🤡

(via GS desk/Pasquariello)
April 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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jameeljaffer.bsky.social
The State Department is outraged that people are being rounded up and threatened with deportation based on their political speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
American Is Arrested in Thailand on Charges of Criticizing Royalty
The U.S. State Department said it was alarmed at the arrest of Paul Chambers, a lecturer in civil-military relations, under Thailand’s strict lèse-majesté laws.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, which he calls the pathological irony of crisis: "if you lose your credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wit...
April 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
criminy-k.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
www.propublica.org
April 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
he's going after JPOW
the demi lovato "GET A JOB—STAY AWAY FROM HER" posts
March 31, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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thebulwark.com
"The American nuclear umbrella has been the most effective nonproliferation policy imaginable." It's always tempting to mistake a thing working for a thing not being necessary.
America’s Nuclear Umbrella Is Open and Must Stay Open
There’s no alternative to the American deterrent—not for the United States, and not for Europe.
www.thebulwark.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
...topics such as the Civil War..."???

It literally became a national cemetery *because of the Civil War.

We're not a serious country. Or, more accurately, this isn't a serious government
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Mar 14
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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strutheo.bsky.social
the modern day equivalent to privateering is having your citizens set up crypto rugpulls targeted toward other countries
March 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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mckay4senate.bsky.social
I don't know how we're going to be able to share a country with the people who shackle Christian refugees in front of their children and send them to camps in a foreign jungle.
It was Ms. Ghasemzadeh who sent a reporter the text saying “only a miracle can save us.” She said she was an English teacher who, in Iran, had converted to Christianity in an underground church. According to Iran’s Islamic Shariah law, converting from Islam is considered apostasy and is a crime punishable by death. She left Iran in December, she said, hoping to build a new life in the United States. She knew that Mr. Trump was deporting migrants, she added, but thought, “I’m not a criminal, I am educated, I will show them my qualifications, my conversion to Christianity papers.” Ms. Ghasemzadeh took a series of flights to Mexico, she said, and then headed for the southern border, paying a smuggler around $3,000 to help her climb over the border wall. She was soon picked up by border officials. After five days in federal custody, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said, all the deportees except for the children had their hands tied and their feet shackled by U.S. authorities. Her group was placed on a gray military airplane — more than 100 people from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, China and other nations, according to the Panamanian government. Once on board, an Uzbek women who was with her two young children fainted, according to Ms. Ghasemzadeh and a couple who were sitting next to them. The children were crying. A member of the U.S. military who was on board came to Ms. Ghasemzadeh and asked for her help in translating, because she was asking questions in English. He asked why the Uzbek woman was so scared. “I said it was because we had no idea where we were being taken — can you please tell us?” Ms. Ghasemzadeh said. “He hugged me gently,” she continued, “whispered into my ear that we were going to Panama, and asked me not to tell anyone about it.” On Sunday morning, after another deportee attempted suicide at the hotel in Panama, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said, all glass and sharp objects were confiscated from the rooms. A spokesman for the International Organization for Migration said the group was “facilitating returns where safe to do so” and was not involved “in the detention or restriction of movement of individuals.” According to a senior U.N. official who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, the U.N. was providing Panama with humanitarian and technical support, but the Panamanians were tightly managing the deportees and the process they were following was not entirely clear. The deportees at the hotel will soon be sent to a camp at the edge of a jungle called the Darién Gap, according to Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino. Built just a few years ago to house migrants headed north to the United States, the camp will now handle a reverse migration wave. It is unclear how long the migrants will be held there. In the past, the camp, called San Vicente, consisted of just a few shacks in a muddy expanse, and officials often kept migrants penned inside. Dengue fever is a common danger in the region. At the Decapolis hotel, a man in his 50s with the surname Wang wrote “China” on a window. In a phone call, he said he had come to the United States alone, “for freedom.” He’d left behind his wife and children, he said. Just a few days before, he had crossed into the United States, where he was detained, cuffed and put on a plane to Panama. “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.” As far as his home country went, he said, “I would rather jump off a plane than go back to China.” On the military plane ride from California to Panama, Mona, a 32-year-old Iranian Christian convert, said her 8-year-old son cried, terrified to see his parents shackled. To calm him down, she told him that this was like overcoming the challenges in a video game, and that once the plane landed they would be free. Her son asked if she would make his favorite Persian dish after the plane landed. Her husband, Mohammad, 33, said that throughout the flight, when his wife and son cried, he reminded them about a Christian teaching they often recited. “Jesus has said, ‘If you don’t take your eyes off me, I won’t take mine off you.’ So I was constantly signaling that to my wife, saying, keep your eyes on him,” he said.
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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michaelrstrain.bsky.social
Liberal society — free people, individual rights, government by the consent of the governed, equality under the law, free markets, peace, and prosperity — is an accomplishment.

It can be lost.

Serious people do not take it for granted.
February 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Lest you think this leaves the news soon we have two weeks to reach some other made up excuse to delay 25% tariffs again, one month to avoid a trade spat over aluminum/steel, and like a month and a half to avoid a trade spat over cars.
February 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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asslatam.bsky.social
LIBRA, the memecoin that President Milei supported yesterday, has collapsed in just a few hours.
February 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Brian - have you *ever listened to Marketplace? C’mon, man
brianwhite.bsky.social Brian White @brianwhite.bsky.social · Feb 16
Kai - Media outlets obscure *tariffs*, by not calling them what they are: direct taxes on American businesses. If business media simply called them what they are, maybe it would help change the perspective. The current proposed taxes may be the largest tax increase on American businesses in history.
February 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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katiephang.bsky.social
“Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs…”

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate
Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Not just pardons - directing DOJ to dismiss pending cases. How long until he starts directing them to file cases?
January 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Universal 25% tariffs on Canada & Mexico would hit ~$900B of US imports, ~30% of all goods brought into the country, including pretty devastating impacts on US energy, vehicle, & food supply chains

Prices for gas & groceries like tomatoes/beer/cabbages would jump significantly
a graph of Top US imports from Mexico and Canda, showing Crude Oil, Cars/Light Trucks, Vehicle Parts, Freight Trucks, and Computers are Major imports, with Live Cattle, Tomatoes, Canola Oil, Particle Board, and Cars/Light Trucks as goods America is highly dependent on Mexico and Canada for.
January 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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bencasselman.bsky.social
The unemployment rate has been more or less flat for the past several months, but it has gradually drifted up from its historic lows earlier in the pandemic recovery. The long period of sub-4% unemployment is behind us.
December 6, 2024 at 1:53 PM