@jms-msn.bsky.social
Dog loving health care professional & Biotech exec. Perpetually nauseated from 2016-2020 and (sadly) again Jan ‘25 until a certain someone’s DOD. Clots and prayers
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This Year’s Layoff Tally Nears 1.2 Million, Highest Since Pandemic
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This Year’s Layoff Tally Nears 1.2 Million, Highest Since Pandemic
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December 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.
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Koh: I think what we are seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point.
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Koh: I think what we are seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point.
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listen
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
listen
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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Teressa found herself raging at what she labeled the insurance company’s “weaponized incompetence.”
Fax numbers were wrong.
Key records were no longer available online.
The insurer wouldn’t even give her access to her husband’s medical records.
(Published Sept. 2025)
Fax numbers were wrong.
Key records were no longer available online.
The insurer wouldn’t even give her access to her husband’s medical records.
(Published Sept. 2025)
“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
www.propublica.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Teressa found herself raging at what she labeled the insurance company’s “weaponized incompetence.”
Fax numbers were wrong.
Key records were no longer available online.
The insurer wouldn’t even give her access to her husband’s medical records.
(Published Sept. 2025)
Fax numbers were wrong.
Key records were no longer available online.
The insurer wouldn’t even give her access to her husband’s medical records.
(Published Sept. 2025)
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A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
popular.info
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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In a new @gallup.com survey, 33% of Americans say it's a good time to find a quality job. That's the lowest percentage since the final days of Trump's first term, during the pandemic. news.gallup.com/poll/699311/...
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In a new @gallup.com survey, 33% of Americans say it's a good time to find a quality job. That's the lowest percentage since the final days of Trump's first term, during the pandemic. news.gallup.com/poll/699311/...
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That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.
ACIP may end universal Hep B vaccination today.
Hep B prevention is Cassidy's passion, as he made clear during RFK Jr's confirmation hearings.
But let's not forget... his vote to confirm RFK Jr. got us into this mess!
He needs to use every lever of power he has in the Senate to fix it.
Hep B prevention is Cassidy's passion, as he made clear during RFK Jr's confirmation hearings.
But let's not forget... his vote to confirm RFK Jr. got us into this mess!
He needs to use every lever of power he has in the Senate to fix it.
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.
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You can decrease the amount of microplastics in your food if you take a closer look around your kitchen. Also in this edition of our newsletter, geothermal energy is booming, bosses just don’t get their employees, and could this actually be the end of social media as we know it?
Eating fewer microplastics, bosses are mostly clueless, and is this the end of social media?
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December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
You can decrease the amount of microplastics in your food if you take a closer look around your kitchen. Also in this edition of our newsletter, geothermal energy is booming, bosses just don’t get their employees, and could this actually be the end of social media as we know it?
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But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
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December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So, you know how people say stuff like, "just repost this & you'll have supported journalism"?
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Trump: “Our economy is so hot”
Our economy:
Our economy:
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Trump: “Our economy is so hot”
Our economy:
Our economy:
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A first-of-its-kind Texas law takes effect today. It aims to dam the flood of abortion pills into the red state — by letting people sue one another.
@daniellestephens.bsky.social and I went deep on the new law for a special episode of Politics Weekly America.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
@daniellestephens.bsky.social and I went deep on the new law for a special episode of Politics Weekly America.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
Has a Texas law created ‘abortion bounty hunters’? – podcast
In this special episode, the Guardian US reproductive health and justice reporter Carter Sherman speaks to people who are using, providing and protecting abortion pills and those fighting against them...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A first-of-its-kind Texas law takes effect today. It aims to dam the flood of abortion pills into the red state — by letting people sue one another.
@daniellestephens.bsky.social and I went deep on the new law for a special episode of Politics Weekly America.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
@daniellestephens.bsky.social and I went deep on the new law for a special episode of Politics Weekly America.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
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Skip it and watch John Oliver's exposé on Bari Weiss, her billionaire-bankrolled 'university', and her Free Press employing two worthless hires in what looks to be mostly empty office space.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Skip it and watch John Oliver's exposé on Bari Weiss, her billionaire-bankrolled 'university', and her Free Press employing two worthless hires in what looks to be mostly empty office space.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
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Sean Duffy: "I hear President Trump talk publicly and privately -- he cares about affordability for the American consumer." (Trump literally called affordability a "hoax" just yesterday!)
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Sean Duffy: "I hear President Trump talk publicly and privately -- he cares about affordability for the American consumer." (Trump literally called affordability a "hoax" just yesterday!)
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"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."
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Gavin Newsom lit into an audience full of financial power brokers today, criticizing what he cast as their complicity with Trump’s agenda. He told attendees of the New York Times DealBook Summit that they should look into the kneepads he’s selling, in parody, to those “groveling to Trump’s needs.”
'Some of you are probably fine with it’: Newsom confronts business elite on Trump
The California governor used financial power brokers as a foil during an interview in New York City.
www.politico.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Gavin Newsom lit into an audience full of financial power brokers today, criticizing what he cast as their complicity with Trump’s agenda. He told attendees of the New York Times DealBook Summit that they should look into the kneepads he’s selling, in parody, to those “groveling to Trump’s needs.”
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Wow, an extraordinary generous offer from a Bolts reader:
Russ is offering to match any contribution you make to Bolts (just let him know)!
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Russ is offering to match any contribution you make to Bolts (just let him know)!
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December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wow, an extraordinary generous offer from a Bolts reader:
Russ is offering to match any contribution you make to Bolts (just let him know)!
And he'll also throw in an additional $$ for each repost of his post, or each new follow @boltsmag.org gets. So at least smash those share or follow buttons!
Russ is offering to match any contribution you make to Bolts (just let him know)!
And he'll also throw in an additional $$ for each repost of his post, or each new follow @boltsmag.org gets. So at least smash those share or follow buttons!
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Breaking: DOD IG finds Hegseth’s Signal chats endangered troops. Join me LIVE at 2p ET on Substack: substack.com/@thefrankfig... open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
New: Hegseth’s Signal chats endangered troops: Join me LIVE at 2p ET
Breaking: Per CNN, DOD IG finds Hegseth endangered troops in Signal chats:
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Breaking: DOD IG finds Hegseth’s Signal chats endangered troops. Join me LIVE at 2p ET on Substack: substack.com/@thefrankfig... open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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“Messages sent from Hegseth’s Signal account to the group chat included material from documents marked classified at the time they were sent, and offered specific, real-time updates about planned military strikes. One even read: ‘This is when the first bombs will drop.’”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
Watchdog finds Hegseth risked endangering troops by sharing of sensitive war plans on Signal, sources say | CNN Politics
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information, which could have endangered American troops and mission objectives, when he used Signal in March of this year to s...
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Messages sent from Hegseth’s Signal account to the group chat included material from documents marked classified at the time they were sent, and offered specific, real-time updates about planned military strikes. One even read: ‘This is when the first bombs will drop.’”
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
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Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments.
Seems like a key detail!
Seems like a key detail!
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments.
Seems like a key detail!
Seems like a key detail!
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“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.”
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
WATCH: The Veteran Who ICE Abducted — and Is Fighting Back
Here’s how we’re counter-programming DHS’s propaganda ads.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.”
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
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Why can't reporters ask why not single payer, i.e. what every other developed country does to get better healthcare at lower cost?
December 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Why can't reporters ask why not single payer, i.e. what every other developed country does to get better healthcare at lower cost?