John Refior
@johnrefior.bsky.social
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John Refior
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· Aug 3
Trump’s firing of the labor statistics chief is described by the New York Times as a display of “disproportionate intensity.” Get serious, NYT. He’s not just throwing ketchup against the wall — he’s on an autocratic campaign of fraud against the American people.
If a man set fire to NYTimes offices, they would call him a winner and report on the dual nature of his magnificent personality.
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The deal extends funding through January 30, leaving the federal government on a path to keep adding about $1.8 trillion a year to its $38 trillion in debt
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The deal extends funding through January 30, leaving the federal government on a path to keep adding about $1.8 trillion a year to its $38 trillion in debt
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www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
Apart from the substantive damage to the EU's green agenda, this is an extremely worrying development: the centre-right (EPP) is demonstrating its willingness to get into bed with the hard right. This opportunism puts the pro-European, pragmatic coalition at risk.
Apart from the substantive damage to the EU's green agenda, this is an extremely worrying development: the centre-right (EPP) is demonstrating its willingness to get into bed with the hard right. This opportunism puts the pro-European, pragmatic coalition at risk.
EU’s biggest political group bets on far-right support to cut green rules
Push to slash red tape drives an ever-bigger wedge between Europe’s traditional centrist coalition.
www.politico.eu
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
Apart from the substantive damage to the EU's green agenda, this is an extremely worrying development: the centre-right (EPP) is demonstrating its willingness to get into bed with the hard right. This opportunism puts the pro-European, pragmatic coalition at risk.
Apart from the substantive damage to the EU's green agenda, this is an extremely worrying development: the centre-right (EPP) is demonstrating its willingness to get into bed with the hard right. This opportunism puts the pro-European, pragmatic coalition at risk.
Tanzania and the US are headed in opposite directions of development.
Around half of Zanzibar's population of 2 million people live unconnected from the electricity grid. But one program is training local women as solar power technicians to help light up Tanzania.
Zanzibar’s ‘solar mamas’ are trained as technicians to help light up communities
Around half of Zanzibar’s population of 2 million people live unconnected from the electricity grid.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Tanzania and the US are headed in opposite directions of development.
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Current and Then President Trump spent Thanksgiving 2017 with child rapist and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein?!
trump spent thanksgiving 2017 with epstein LOL
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Current and Then President Trump spent Thanksgiving 2017 with child rapist and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein?!
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This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like:
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like:
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
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“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
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This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
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Democratic-led states are inadvertently making their drivers' data available to ICE through a little-understood digital loophole, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and 39 other lawmakers said in letters to state governors reut.rs/43ptjmc
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Democratic-led states are inadvertently making their drivers' data available to ICE through a little-understood digital loophole, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and 39 other lawmakers said in letters to state governors reut.rs/43ptjmc
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The other two Epstein-related emails just released by Oversight Dems: exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein and Michael Wolff regarding Trump from 2019 and 2015.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The other two Epstein-related emails just released by Oversight Dems: exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein and Michael Wolff regarding Trump from 2019 and 2015.
Expose all of Epstein's clients, funders, and "friends." I don't care which party they are. Not just what was shown to the grand jury. Everything the FBI/DOJ has. All of it.
This person was the President of Harvard University, the US Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the National Economic Council of the United States.
Stay classy Larry
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Expose all of Epstein's clients, funders, and "friends." I don't care which party they are. Not just what was shown to the grand jury. Everything the FBI/DOJ has. All of it.
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Everyone is posting this video of a Ukrainian soldier shooting down a Russian Shahed drone with a "minigun," and it’s a great video worth sharing.
I just can’t help thinking that they launch hundreds upon hundreds of those drones at us every single day. Every day!
I just can’t help thinking that they launch hundreds upon hundreds of those drones at us every single day. Every day!
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Everyone is posting this video of a Ukrainian soldier shooting down a Russian Shahed drone with a "minigun," and it’s a great video worth sharing.
I just can’t help thinking that they launch hundreds upon hundreds of those drones at us every single day. Every day!
I just can’t help thinking that they launch hundreds upon hundreds of those drones at us every single day. Every day!
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Over the past 3 decades, high-skill migrants from Asia—especially India and China—have transformed the US economy, fueling innovation, tech, higher ed, and healthcare growth, from Gaurav Khanna www.nber.org/papers/w34449
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Over the past 3 decades, high-skill migrants from Asia—especially India and China—have transformed the US economy, fueling innovation, tech, higher ed, and healthcare growth, from Gaurav Khanna www.nber.org/papers/w34449
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Tonight I will be in NH to talk about what kind of leadership is necessary at this time of crisis for our nation - and what Democrats in the United States Senate need to do to save our democracy. This moment is urgent and we need to act like it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Tonight I will be in NH to talk about what kind of leadership is necessary at this time of crisis for our nation - and what Democrats in the United States Senate need to do to save our democracy. This moment is urgent and we need to act like it.
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OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.
Exclusive: Top Trump administration officials plan to meet today to discuss House efforts to force the release of the Epstein files. https://cnn.it/3WSyk2Y
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.
"Hundreds of representatives are preparing to return Wednesday to Washington after a nearly eight-week absence, carrying a torrent of ideas, proposals and frustrations over work that has stalled when the Republican speaker shuttered the House doors nearly two months ago."
Speaker Johnson faces an unruly House as lawmakers return for shutdown vote
After refusing to convene the U.S. House during the government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson is recalling lawmakers back into session.
apnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"Hundreds of representatives are preparing to return Wednesday to Washington after a nearly eight-week absence, carrying a torrent of ideas, proposals and frustrations over work that has stalled when the Republican speaker shuttered the House doors nearly two months ago."
@kairyssdal.bsky.social
Your conversation with Emily Stewart about the "car" market just seemed so ridiculous to me.
SUVs and trucks aren't cars, folks, they're trucks. They ruin driving and walking and cycling and the environment and pretty much everything, and you should stop buying them.
Your conversation with Emily Stewart about the "car" market just seemed so ridiculous to me.
SUVs and trucks aren't cars, folks, they're trucks. They ruin driving and walking and cycling and the environment and pretty much everything, and you should stop buying them.
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
@kairyssdal.bsky.social
Your conversation with Emily Stewart about the "car" market just seemed so ridiculous to me.
SUVs and trucks aren't cars, folks, they're trucks. They ruin driving and walking and cycling and the environment and pretty much everything, and you should stop buying them.
Your conversation with Emily Stewart about the "car" market just seemed so ridiculous to me.
SUVs and trucks aren't cars, folks, they're trucks. They ruin driving and walking and cycling and the environment and pretty much everything, and you should stop buying them.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
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On the 3rd anniversary of Kherson’s liberation, Zelensky vowed to reclaim every occupied town and village. He recalled the joy, tears, and gratitude when Ukrainian flags returned to the city in 2022.
“We haven’t forgotten Kherson, and we won’t forget any of our occupied lands,” he said.
“We haven’t forgotten Kherson, and we won’t forget any of our occupied lands,” he said.
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
On the 3rd anniversary of Kherson’s liberation, Zelensky vowed to reclaim every occupied town and village. He recalled the joy, tears, and gratitude when Ukrainian flags returned to the city in 2022.
“We haven’t forgotten Kherson, and we won’t forget any of our occupied lands,” he said.
“We haven’t forgotten Kherson, and we won’t forget any of our occupied lands,” he said.
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German court sides with plaintiff in copyright case against OpenAI reut.rs/47FP9D6
German court sides with plaintiff in copyright case against OpenAI
A German court on Tuesday sided with the country's music rights society GEMA in a closely watched copyright case against U.S.-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
German court sides with plaintiff in copyright case against OpenAI reut.rs/47FP9D6
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A powerful car bomb explodes outside a district court in Pakistan’s capital, killing at least 11 people, security officials said.
Two security officials told The Associated Press that a car bomb had caused the explosion. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
Two security officials told The Associated Press that a car bomb had caused the explosion. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
A car bomb outside an Islamabad court kills at least 11 people, Pakistani security officials say
Pakistani security officials say that a powerful car bomb that exploded outside a sprawling district court in Islamabad killed at least 11 people.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A powerful car bomb explodes outside a district court in Pakistan’s capital, killing at least 11 people, security officials said.
Two security officials told The Associated Press that a car bomb had caused the explosion. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
Two security officials told The Associated Press that a car bomb had caused the explosion. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
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EU agrees to relax green rules in farming subsidy reform reut.rs/4hWwTdJ
EU agrees to relax green rules in farming subsidy reform
EU member states and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on an overhaul of the EU's huge farming subsidies, weakening environmental standards as part of plans to cut back regulations and paperwork for farmers.
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
EU agrees to relax green rules in farming subsidy reform reut.rs/4hWwTdJ
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an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic