Jason Kuznicki
@jkuznicki.bsky.social
A gay dad cultivating his garden in Puna, Hawaii. Now working on some big projects for the future.🍍🌴🌱📖🌐☸️
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Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3319839950/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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Elon Musk: “The UK really needs a race war.”
A whole lot of you folks: “I’m staying on X, the Everything App.”
In the nineteenth century, abolitionists used honey instead of sugar, which came from enslaved labor.
A whole lot of you folks: “I’m staying on X, the Everything App.”
In the nineteenth century, abolitionists used honey instead of sugar, which came from enslaved labor.
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White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
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I imagine this must work on some people, but as a phishing attempt, it's hobbled by the fact that its core claim is proven false by the very fact that I'm able to see the phishing attempt.
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I imagine this must work on some people, but as a phishing attempt, it's hobbled by the fact that its core claim is proven false by the very fact that I'm able to see the phishing attempt.
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If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.
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Maybe the next time the Democrats shut down the government they should have a goal worth not folding for, like saving the US Constitution.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Maybe the next time the Democrats shut down the government they should have a goal worth not folding for, like saving the US Constitution.
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I can help with this!
Yes, it makes perfect sense that in an *emergency*, e.g. a pandemic, you might need to do something like stop all trade while the same provision cannot be invoked punitively for non-emergencies, e.g. Canada quoting Ronald Reagan in an ad you don’t like
Yes, it makes perfect sense that in an *emergency*, e.g. a pandemic, you might need to do something like stop all trade while the same provision cannot be invoked punitively for non-emergencies, e.g. Canada quoting Ronald Reagan in an ad you don’t like
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I can help with this!
Yes, it makes perfect sense that in an *emergency*, e.g. a pandemic, you might need to do something like stop all trade while the same provision cannot be invoked punitively for non-emergencies, e.g. Canada quoting Ronald Reagan in an ad you don’t like
Yes, it makes perfect sense that in an *emergency*, e.g. a pandemic, you might need to do something like stop all trade while the same provision cannot be invoked punitively for non-emergencies, e.g. Canada quoting Ronald Reagan in an ad you don’t like
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UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
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The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
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"It’s a look that has long been associated with authoritarian regimes and secret police" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Why They Mask
Veteran ICE officers know face coverings are a bad look. But they’re not coming off anytime soon.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"It’s a look that has long been associated with authoritarian regimes and secret police" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Here's a fundraising email I received for some reason.
Turning Point is really embracing the civil, non-incendiary discourse we were told Charlie Kirk championed.*
(*He didn't really champion those things, and I'm sure he would have been fine with this email.)
Turning Point is really embracing the civil, non-incendiary discourse we were told Charlie Kirk championed.*
(*He didn't really champion those things, and I'm sure he would have been fine with this email.)
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Here's a fundraising email I received for some reason.
Turning Point is really embracing the civil, non-incendiary discourse we were told Charlie Kirk championed.*
(*He didn't really champion those things, and I'm sure he would have been fine with this email.)
Turning Point is really embracing the civil, non-incendiary discourse we were told Charlie Kirk championed.*
(*He didn't really champion those things, and I'm sure he would have been fine with this email.)
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Greetings, Bluesky!
I am an investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune, with extensive experience covering city government and suburban corruption. If you have tips about people being hurt by their government, healthcare or business, I’m gpratt@chicagotribune.com. Signal: 312-292-8481
I am an investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune, with extensive experience covering city government and suburban corruption. If you have tips about people being hurt by their government, healthcare or business, I’m gpratt@chicagotribune.com. Signal: 312-292-8481
November 13, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Greetings, Bluesky!
I am an investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune, with extensive experience covering city government and suburban corruption. If you have tips about people being hurt by their government, healthcare or business, I’m gpratt@chicagotribune.com. Signal: 312-292-8481
I am an investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune, with extensive experience covering city government and suburban corruption. If you have tips about people being hurt by their government, healthcare or business, I’m gpratt@chicagotribune.com. Signal: 312-292-8481
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Has enough time passed for me to say that I think people concluding the vice president of the USA was having an affair because a woman touched his hair was completely insane
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Has enough time passed for me to say that I think people concluding the vice president of the USA was having an affair because a woman touched his hair was completely insane
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The pardon power definitely needs to be taken out of the president's hands.
Perhaps we should have a federal pardon commission with members appointed by the president and both houses of Congress, serving for a relatively long, set term.
But the point is that no one person should have this power.
Perhaps we should have a federal pardon commission with members appointed by the president and both houses of Congress, serving for a relatively long, set term.
But the point is that no one person should have this power.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The pardon power definitely needs to be taken out of the president's hands.
Perhaps we should have a federal pardon commission with members appointed by the president and both houses of Congress, serving for a relatively long, set term.
But the point is that no one person should have this power.
Perhaps we should have a federal pardon commission with members appointed by the president and both houses of Congress, serving for a relatively long, set term.
But the point is that no one person should have this power.
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This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
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Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It doesn’t look like much, but this might be the most important plant picture I’ve ever shown. 🌱🌴🧵
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It doesn’t look like much, but this might be the most important plant picture I’ve ever shown. 🌱🌴🧵
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just to review, last month:
🚩 musk calls for overthrow of uk government & violence (again)
🚩tories adopt an ethnic cleansing policy
🚩 trump wh bullies bbc into changing leadership
🚩 musk calls for overthrow of uk government & violence (again)
🚩tories adopt an ethnic cleansing policy
🚩 trump wh bullies bbc into changing leadership
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
just to review, last month:
🚩 musk calls for overthrow of uk government & violence (again)
🚩tories adopt an ethnic cleansing policy
🚩 trump wh bullies bbc into changing leadership
🚩 musk calls for overthrow of uk government & violence (again)
🚩tories adopt an ethnic cleansing policy
🚩 trump wh bullies bbc into changing leadership
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one of the things that comes up in matranga's "the ant and the grasshopper" is that, going by skeletal evidence, the average pre-agriculture human experienced ~11 episodes of severe starvation *before adulthood*. agriculture brings this down to ~4
www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...
www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
one of the things that comes up in matranga's "the ant and the grasshopper" is that, going by skeletal evidence, the average pre-agriculture human experienced ~11 episodes of severe starvation *before adulthood*. agriculture brings this down to ~4
www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...
www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...
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It is amazing to me that 'Americans have an insane conception of how much we spend on foreign aid and what we could do with that money' has been a common knowledge around me, regularly referenced, since my *high school lunch table* and yet it remains true and an effective tactic of demagoguery.
The entire project here is so cynical. "We have to end foreign aid until we fix unemployment and bad schools!"
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It is amazing to me that 'Americans have an insane conception of how much we spend on foreign aid and what we could do with that money' has been a common knowledge around me, regularly referenced, since my *high school lunch table* and yet it remains true and an effective tactic of demagoguery.
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A Reagan appointee stepping down from senior status because he’s personally disgusted with the corruption and flagrant illegality of the a Trump administration, as a judge doesn’t trust SCOTUS, and wants to actively support litigation against the administration.
A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A Reagan appointee stepping down from senior status because he’s personally disgusted with the corruption and flagrant illegality of the a Trump administration, as a judge doesn’t trust SCOTUS, and wants to actively support litigation against the administration.
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This is obscene.
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
This is obscene.
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Yes, Nikki Haley’s son, your early to mid-20s can be very hard. I was making $12-$15/hour until I was 28. At no point did I think “seal the borders,” “no more foreign aid,” etc.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Yes, Nikki Haley’s son, your early to mid-20s can be very hard. I was making $12-$15/hour until I was 28. At no point did I think “seal the borders,” “no more foreign aid,” etc.
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People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical: His generation inherited insecurity.
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical
unherd.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.
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Conventicle Act 1664 (16 Cha. 2. c. 4)
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Conventicle Act 1664 (16 Cha. 2. c. 4)