Doug
@ex-fso.bsky.social
🇯🇵🇹🇼🇻🇳🇱🇺🇬🇾🇧🇳🇫🇷🇨🇦Former Foreign Service (30 years), Civil Service (12 years), and Uniformed (4 years). FDR on Republicans- https://youtu.be/S3RHnKYNvx8?si=DjzN5NfIjfSPxOf7
Photo: @Art Shay
Photo: @Art Shay
Some families fracture over questions of politics or family finance. Even child rearing. But the central divide in my family is - Ocean Spray jellied, or something else.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Some families fracture over questions of politics or family finance. Even child rearing. But the central divide in my family is - Ocean Spray jellied, or something else.
@aliroginpbs.bsky.social Great interview tonight aired on @pbsnews.org .
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
@aliroginpbs.bsky.social Great interview tonight aired on @pbsnews.org .
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Thanks, New Yorker
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thanks, New Yorker
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Since the recalls, I've seen a lot of takes that the results are rebukes to the Lai administration from society as a whole. But that seems very wrong to me, these were constituencies that voted pan-Blue last time, hence why recalls could be organized there
"Recalls Indicate Failure to Flip Pan-Blue Territory, Not Public Opinion Siding with the KMT" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Recalls Indicate Failure to Flip Pan-Blue Territory, Not Public Opinion Siding with the KMT | New Bloom Magazine
With the defeat of the “Great Recall Movement” over the weekend, it is notable to observe that some claims in media discourse have sought to frame the results as a rebuke to the DPP…
newbloommag.net
July 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Since the recalls, I've seen a lot of takes that the results are rebukes to the Lai administration from society as a whole. But that seems very wrong to me, these were constituencies that voted pan-Blue last time, hence why recalls could be organized there
@pbsnews.org For a while I thought Stephanie Sy was interviewing Larry Wilmore about Steven Colbert.
July 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
@pbsnews.org For a while I thought Stephanie Sy was interviewing Larry Wilmore about Steven Colbert.
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One of the most important cartoons for the AI era. From: marketoonist.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
One of the most important cartoons for the AI era. From: marketoonist.com
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“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
July 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”
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Yet, Project 2025 continues to get implemented. Kevin Roberts at Heritage Foundation is watching his revolution continue "bloodless, because the left allows it". The Heritage cronies like Russell Vought are dismantling, eroding, and weakening gov't through executive orders, DOGE, and now Congress.
July 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Yet, Project 2025 continues to get implemented. Kevin Roberts at Heritage Foundation is watching his revolution continue "bloodless, because the left allows it". The Heritage cronies like Russell Vought are dismantling, eroding, and weakening gov't through executive orders, DOGE, and now Congress.
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"Trumpcare" is the way to go in attacking the wreckage Trump is inflicting on the health care system, and I'll note here that this was @brianbeutler.bsky.social's idea first:
“This is Trumpcare. And Trumpcare means 15 to 17 million Americans more not having coverage. It means rural hospitals closing across this country. And when you decimate a critical leg of the health care stool, you are impacting all patients who will see higher premiums, see longer wait times.”
'I think it's bulls---': Dem Rep. slams GOP spin on tax bill
Democratic Congresswoman Sarah McBride slams Republicans’ framing of deep cuts to the social safety net—and why she says the American people shouldn’t buy it on The Weeknight.
www.msnbc.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"Trumpcare" is the way to go in attacking the wreckage Trump is inflicting on the health care system, and I'll note here that this was @brianbeutler.bsky.social's idea first:
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An I the only person alarmed that the U.S. military thinks a “show of presence” of heavily armed soldiers in a park in Los Angeles where kids play soccer is just fine and dandy?
Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.
After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.
After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.
July 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
An I the only person alarmed that the U.S. military thinks a “show of presence” of heavily armed soldiers in a park in Los Angeles where kids play soccer is just fine and dandy?
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Christians praying for the passage of a bill that will hurt the poor, sick and children to help the rich....
July 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Christians praying for the passage of a bill that will hurt the poor, sick and children to help the rich....
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Feb: the US approves the sale of 3000 Hellfire missiles to Israel
June: the US stops the transfer of 142 Hellfire missiles to Ukraine because 'stockpiles are low'
June: the US stops the transfer of 142 Hellfire missiles to Ukraine because 'stockpiles are low'
July 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Feb: the US approves the sale of 3000 Hellfire missiles to Israel
June: the US stops the transfer of 142 Hellfire missiles to Ukraine because 'stockpiles are low'
June: the US stops the transfer of 142 Hellfire missiles to Ukraine because 'stockpiles are low'
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Trump Launches America’s First Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully…
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully…
Trump Launches America’s First Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully toured the hastily constructed concentration camp in the Florida Everglades, obnoxiously referred to as Alligator Alcatraz, in reference to (1) the infamous island prison in San Francisco that Trump is obsessed with and (2) the number of alligators (and crocodiles — the one place in the world that has both) that live in and around the Everglades.
www.techdirt.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trump Launches America’s First Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully…
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully…
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump’s ex-wife Ivana wasn’t an American citizen until 1988. She gave birth to Don Junior in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984. — Let’s cancel their birthright citizenship first.
June 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump’s ex-wife Ivana wasn’t an American citizen until 1988. She gave birth to Don Junior in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984. — Let’s cancel their birthright citizenship first.
Next thing I guess is to start charging troops for their lodging. No more free barracks!
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Upcharging on Food, Selling Booze: The Army's Plan to Privatize Dining
The Army is preparing to overhaul its food service system in a move that could strip away government-run dining facilities and hand operations to private, for-profit companies.
www.military.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Next thing I guess is to start charging troops for their lodging. No more free barracks!
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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My brain is breaking a little. The Cato Institute us saying ICE is going too far
65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions
ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics ...
www.cato.org
June 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My brain is breaking a little. The Cato Institute us saying ICE is going too far
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Ever since Tim McVeigh, US leaders have pretended all this right-wing domestic terrorism is made up of “lone wolves." They’re not. They’re foot soldiers. Violence like the Minnesota shooting is what Trump wants—he wants an opposition too scared to stop him. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-s-no...
There's no such thing as a right-wing "lone wolf"
Let's be clear: The Trump administration wants political violence in America
www.doomsdayscenario.co
June 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Ever since Tim McVeigh, US leaders have pretended all this right-wing domestic terrorism is made up of “lone wolves." They’re not. They’re foot soldiers. Violence like the Minnesota shooting is what Trump wants—he wants an opposition too scared to stop him. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-s-no...
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NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...
Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
www.wired.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...
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Well, that didn't last long. DHS told staff it was reversing guidance issued last week that agents were not to conduct immigration raids at farms, hotels and restaurants.
Shadow President Stephen Miller wins again.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Shadow President Stephen Miller wins again.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Trump officials reverse guidance exempting farms, hotels from immigration raids
ICE agents have been advised to continue conducting workforce enforcement operations on agricultural businesses despite concerns the raids will negatively impact the food industry.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Well, that didn't last long. DHS told staff it was reversing guidance issued last week that agents were not to conduct immigration raids at farms, hotels and restaurants.
Shadow President Stephen Miller wins again.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Shadow President Stephen Miller wins again.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Should be renamed the Coen Brothers Plot, to be honest. Let's just call it what it is.
June 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Should be renamed the Coen Brothers Plot, to be honest. Let's just call it what it is.
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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
May 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
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If The SENATE passes this bill, The Courts CANNOT hold him in contempt.
HE.. CAN.. DO.. WHATEVER..HE.. WANTS..
HE.. CAN.. DO.. WHATEVER..HE.. WANTS..
May 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If The SENATE passes this bill, The Courts CANNOT hold him in contempt.
HE.. CAN.. DO.. WHATEVER..HE.. WANTS..
HE.. CAN.. DO.. WHATEVER..HE.. WANTS..