J. Gibson
@finessedressage.bsky.social
Rider, trainer, Mom. Optimist. Pragmatist.
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Give this guy a medal
July 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Give this guy a medal
Trump Administration Live Updates: Republicans Advance Appeals Court Nomination After Democrats Walk Out www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Republicans Advance Appeals Court Nomination After Democrats Walk Out
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July 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Trump Administration Live Updates: Republicans Advance Appeals Court Nomination After Democrats Walk Out www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
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NEW: Nike says most of the 1.1M people making its products earn 1.9X their local minimum wage. We obtained a payroll ledger for a Cambodian factory that supplied Nike for two years.
1% of the workforce earned that much.
Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
1% of the workforce earned that much.
Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much.
Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one ...
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April 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
NEW: Nike says most of the 1.1M people making its products earn 1.9X their local minimum wage. We obtained a payroll ledger for a Cambodian factory that supplied Nike for two years.
1% of the workforce earned that much.
Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
1% of the workforce earned that much.
Team effort with @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
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April 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our cover this week.
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Here’s how new U.S. rules will affect Canadian snowbirds
Just STOP travelling to the US
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Just STOP travelling to the US
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Here’s how new U.S. rules will affect Canadian snowbirds
New U.S. rules cracking down on illegal immigration will affect many Canadian snowbirds who travel south of the border, requiring them to register for the first time, says an immigration lawyer.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Here’s how new U.S. rules will affect Canadian snowbirds
Just STOP travelling to the US
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Just STOP travelling to the US
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Across Ukraine, many people were shocked and blindsided at how a deal between the U.S. and the country on critical minerals fell apart and how President Trump treated Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. They also said they wouldn’t stop fighting, even if the U.S. walked away.
Ukrainians Blindsided by Deal’s Breakdown and by Trump’s Actions
Some said they felt the U.S. president was disrespectful and that they were proud of their leader for standing up to him.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Across Ukraine, many people were shocked and blindsided at how a deal between the U.S. and the country on critical minerals fell apart and how President Trump treated Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. They also said they wouldn’t stop fighting, even if the U.S. walked away.
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Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊
February 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊
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If you haven’t already, please consider following @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social — organizations I co-founded to help counter myths and disinformation about the economy and politics.
I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.
I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.
November 12, 2024 at 7:45 PM
If you haven’t already, please consider following @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social — organizations I co-founded to help counter myths and disinformation about the economy and politics.
I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.
I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.
Standing with Ukraine…
February 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Standing with Ukraine…
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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Who needs nuclear secrets in government when the only real secrets in government are:
Who is doing things at DOGE?
What is DOGE doing?
And
How many laws is DOGE going to break?
Who is doing things at DOGE?
What is DOGE doing?
And
How many laws is DOGE going to break?
February 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Who needs nuclear secrets in government when the only real secrets in government are:
Who is doing things at DOGE?
What is DOGE doing?
And
How many laws is DOGE going to break?
Who is doing things at DOGE?
What is DOGE doing?
And
How many laws is DOGE going to break?
February 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
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This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
February 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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January 30, 2025
January 30, 2025
Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.
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January 31, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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The military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines regional jet appears to have been flying too high and outside its approved flight path at the time of the crash, according to four people briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly.
Army Helicopter in D.C. Plane Crash Might Have Been Flying Higher Than Approved
The Army Black Hawk also might have been outside of its flight path when it collided with a commercial passenger jet at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines regional jet appears to have been flying too high and outside its approved flight path at the time of the crash, according to four people briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly.
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NEW: The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.
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Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.
The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.
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December 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.
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In Opinion
“I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care,” writes Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive.
“I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care,” writes Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive.
Opinion | I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.
Shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at health insurance companies.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:31 PM
In Opinion
“I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care,” writes Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive.
“I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care,” writes Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive.
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Syria funded their government AND Hezbollah by secretly manufacturing tons of speed.
Then they went to their neighbors and said, 'Let us back in the Arab League, and we will help you fight drug smugglers.'
Assad's regime was the drug company.
Then they went to their neighbors and said, 'Let us back in the Arab League, and we will help you fight drug smugglers.'
Assad's regime was the drug company.
Assad’s Fall Upends the Middle East’s Largest Drug Empire — The Wall Street Journal
Captagon helped sustain the Syrian regime, and fueled war and addiction across the region
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December 18, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Syria funded their government AND Hezbollah by secretly manufacturing tons of speed.
Then they went to their neighbors and said, 'Let us back in the Arab League, and we will help you fight drug smugglers.'
Assad's regime was the drug company.
Then they went to their neighbors and said, 'Let us back in the Arab League, and we will help you fight drug smugglers.'
Assad's regime was the drug company.
Free range dressage horse… #dressage #finessedressage
December 17, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Free range dressage horse… #dressage #finessedressage