@ejholstein.bsky.social
UW, retired and former US State Dept FSO. Malinois lover who enjoys x-c skiing with my canine pal in the PNW.
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No one has yet to do a deep dive into her/her father’s religious cult. (Science of Identity Foundation led by Chris Butler)
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This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is very good
Ohio needs to do better. Despicable.
Just an edgy joke by kids, no doubt
EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.
“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.
October 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Ohio needs to do better. Despicable.
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People seem surprised that the narcissistic psychopath, who creates his own reality with lies, fabrications, magical thinking, and grandiose delusions, has trouble discerning between fact and fiction, objective reality versus AI-generated conspiracy and propaganda.
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
People seem surprised that the narcissistic psychopath, who creates his own reality with lies, fabrications, magical thinking, and grandiose delusions, has trouble discerning between fact and fiction, objective reality versus AI-generated conspiracy and propaganda.
Another decent man forced out of job he was committed to. The sickness of this regime is a metastasizing cancer.
July 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Another decent man forced out of job he was committed to. The sickness of this regime is a metastasizing cancer.
This enrages me. Now we’re going to round up Iranian Christians in LA? Iranian Jews next? When will people rise up against this insanity?
The country is being run by sadists.
I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
June 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This enrages me. Now we’re going to round up Iranian Christians in LA? Iranian Jews next? When will people rise up against this insanity?
This clip needs to be shared far and wide. Seniors in wheel chairs being zip tied for protesting cuts to medicaid.
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
June 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This clip needs to be shared far and wide. Seniors in wheel chairs being zip tied for protesting cuts to medicaid.
I love this young man.
June 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I love this young man.
American Gestapo in action
Masked men with AR-15’s mounting suppressors to pick up cooks at a Mexican restaurant? This has nothing to do with detaining immigrants. It’s to terrorize us.
I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.
Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.
June 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
American Gestapo in action
The horror being inflicted on foreign scholars is a crime. People need to wake up. You are next.
Just listened to this interview. SO glad he’s been released.
His detention—in three different facilities over two months—is the stuff of nightmares. Packed conditions, cold, infrequent meals.
UW lab tech Lewelyn Dixon has also been released. 🥳
These are important wins.
Keep pushing back!!
His detention—in three different facilities over two months—is the stuff of nightmares. Packed conditions, cold, infrequent meals.
UW lab tech Lewelyn Dixon has also been released. 🥳
These are important wins.
Keep pushing back!!
Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri on his detention and release
Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri was detained for nearly two months by immigration agents. Suri is one of a number of international scholars and students tangled up in the Trump admini...
www.wbur.org
May 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The horror being inflicted on foreign scholars is a crime. People need to wake up. You are next.
A tiny victory in a sea of evil
A HAPPY UPDATE! Mahmoud Khalil was allowed a "contact" visit—without plexiglass divider—with his wife and newborn son this morning before his immigration hearing, ACLU tells me, so I think we can safely assume that he was finally able to hold his child for the first time.
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys urgently ask Judge Farbiarz to order ICE to permit Khalil to hold his newborn son today "for the most elementary human reasons." ICE has so far denied the request, despite his wife and child having made the 1,500-mile trip. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A tiny victory in a sea of evil
Can anyone explain why 17 members of El Chapo’s family were permitted to enter the US a few days ago? Journalists? Former/current DEA employees? Immigration officials?
May 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Can anyone explain why 17 members of El Chapo’s family were permitted to enter the US a few days ago? Journalists? Former/current DEA employees? Immigration officials?
Another enraging arrest and detention of an academic with a valid visa. (Maybe DT wants to trade her for a friend/fellow criminal being held in Russia?). Harvard: where’s a statement re your researcher’s detention?
Federal prosecutors allege Kseniia Petrova violated customs law by failing to declare preserved frog embryos in her luggage, in a case that's raised questions over her detention.
Harvard scientist facing deportation is charged with smuggling
Federal prosecutors allege Kseniia Petrova violated customs law by failing to declare preserved frog embryos in her luggage, in a case that's raised questions over her detention.
nbcnews.to
May 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Another enraging arrest and detention of an academic with a valid visa. (Maybe DT wants to trade her for a friend/fellow criminal being held in Russia?). Harvard: where’s a statement re your researcher’s detention?
Read everything Masha Gessen has written.
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Masha Gessen, who lived under Russia’s secret police, is sounding the alarm: the U.S. is now echoing those same authoritarian patterns. Raids, surveillance, fear tactics—it’s not theoretical anymore.
We are watching a police state take root in real time.
#OnYourSide
@mashagessen.bsky.social
Masha Gessen, who lived under Russia’s secret police, is sounding the alarm: the U.S. is now echoing those same authoritarian patterns. Raids, surveillance, fear tactics—it’s not theoretical anymore.
We are watching a police state take root in real time.
#OnYourSide
@mashagessen.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Read everything Masha Gessen has written.
Absolute insanity re Harvard in a letter from the ‘Secretary of Education’ today. This administration is embarrassing in its incompetence.
Just a remarkably embarrassing government
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.
Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
May 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Absolute insanity re Harvard in a letter from the ‘Secretary of Education’ today. This administration is embarrassing in its incompetence.
Another outrage committed by our regime
A Harvard Med researcher is approaching her 3rd month in a crowded (90 women to a room) Louisiana detention center, supposedly because she didn't declare frog embryos as she was re-entering the US.
She fears for her safety if she's deported to her native Russia.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
She fears for her safety if she's deported to her native Russia.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
HMS Researcher Denies Lying To Border Patrol Officials | News | The Harvard Crimson
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher detained by Customs and Border Patrol officials in February, denied lying to authorities about the contents of her luggage in a Thursday statement.
www.thecrimson.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Another outrage committed by our regime
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Fire and brimstone from the fourth circuit 🔥
NEW: Fourth Circuit shoots down the Trump administration’s efforts to appeal Judge Xinis’s order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
“We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”
“We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”
April 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Fire and brimstone from the fourth circuit 🔥
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This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri.
This is not my America, and the world is aghast.
This is not my America, and the world is aghast.
April 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri.
This is not my America, and the world is aghast.
This is not my America, and the world is aghast.
Unbelievable. The level of incompetence is staggering.
Senior officials in Trump’s admin—Waltz, Hegseth, Rubio, Vance—accidentally added the editor of @theatlantic.com to a signal chat detailing plans to attack Yemeni rebels, a conversation that should never have occurred on that platform. Wild, reckless, incompetence www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Unbelievable. The level of incompetence is staggering.
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Now, just like folks in Russia and China, Venezuela, Iran, Belarus and North Korea, these Americans are being forced to use VPNs, the Tor browser and other means to view independent news.
NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Now, just like folks in Russia and China, Venezuela, Iran, Belarus and North Korea, these Americans are being forced to use VPNs, the Tor browser and other means to view independent news.
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Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
February 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
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No way, we are just magically buying Elon’s products? I’m shocked to discover this is about Elon making money.
SCOOP: Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade of the information technology networks that support the US Federal Aviation Administration’s national airspace system
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk Seeks to Install Starlink Terminals in US Airspace Network
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade of the information technology networks that support the US Federal Aviation Administration’s...
www.bloomberg.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
No way, we are just magically buying Elon’s products? I’m shocked to discover this is about Elon making money.
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Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."
This is extortion of an ally: “The terms of the new proposal … call for Ukraine to relinquish half of its revenues from natural resources, including minerals, gas and oil, as well as earnings from ports and other infrastructure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...
U.S. Pressing Tough Demands in Revised Deal for Ukraine’s Minerals
The Trump administration appears to be insisting that Ukraine relinquish half of its revenues from natural resource extraction, with no security guarantee in exchange.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."