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King Bandit, The First of His Name
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Infosec/devops manager/engineer 🔐, neoliberal sellout 🌐, dystopia enthusiast 💣 - ♟️, 🏀, various rants.
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ericschmeltzer.com
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Revolting.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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katemckean.bsky.social
I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.
screenshot of a post from X by the Mirriam-Webster account. Their tweet says Words step up when numbers fail. They are retweeting a post from @david_arid that reads: There was a computer flitch at the end of tonight's Nuggets game that erased all the players' stats, which led to this fantastic screengrab from the post-game show. Then there is a blurry picture from a men's basketball game and the chyron says: Time Hardaway Jr. Stats are down but he played great."
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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atrupar.com
Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
kingbandit.bsky.social
Well there's no way this story can possibly get more ridiculous now. Right? Right???
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Mr Burns speaking harshly to a crowd captioned with a Troy Nehls tweet: I'll be voting NO on the Epstein Hoax. Smithers whispers in Burns's ear Mr. Burns shoos Smithers away a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd captioned with a Troy Nehls tweet: Today, I voted YES to release the Epstein files.
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
kingbandit.bsky.social
Are we healthy again yet? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Shit.
A skeet from me, from 4 days ago. Some things are best watching on the wall of Plato's social media cave. Mark Sanford's Appalachian Trail presser was the first of those, for me. Nuzzi is undoubtedly another. A NYP headline, Ryan Lizza claims then-girlfriend Olivia Nuzzi cheated on him with GOP presidential candidate Mark Sanford in 2020
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
kingbandit.bsky.social
What the fuck is wrong with people?
juliet-turner.bsky.social Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 1d
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket.

Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
kingbandit.bsky.social
I just can't get over how terrible a writer she is. Who pays someone six figures to shit out garbage like this?
seamas.bsky.social The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d
Not even going to get in to the weeds of how self-pitying Nuzzi's "I Did A Shit With My Clothes On: A Survivor's Tale" press tour is, OR that she landed another six-figure salary at a legacy publication ten months later.

Look at this prose. If my mag got sent this, we'd have the writer arrested.
You cannot outrun your life on fire. I would take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment. A politician’s greatest trick is to convince you that he is not one. And what is a politician? Any man who wants to be loved more than other men and through his pursuit reveals why he cannot love himself. People ask me now about anger. About my lack of it. How? How could I not be enraged? I think this over. I scan the terrain of my body. My chest, my spine, behind my belly button. I look for pale pulses of idle fury, waiting for the alarm to sound at the trip wire of my veins. There is nothing there. There is nothing there because I loaded a gun. I loaded a gun and set it on my nightstand. Like all men but more so, he was a hunter. In a literal sense, he used not a bullet but a bird. It was not about a chase but about a puzzle of logic and skill that amounted to a test of his self-mastery. He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his own pleasure and torment. He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself. I understood this just as I came to understand the range of his kinks and complexes and how they fit within what I thought I understood of his soul.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Like clockwork. ⏰

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/c...
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
He pretends that sexually assaulting women is normal…

That cheating on your taxes is normal…

taking bribes is normal…

corruption is normal…

racism is normal…

fascism is normal…

Now, that pedophilia is normal.

None of it is normal.
Why Trump can't make the Epstein scandal go away
His ordinary scandal management techniques are not working.
www.publicnotice.co
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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sarahspain.com
👇🏻👇🏻
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Think about how much the press obsessed over Barack Obama’s “relationship” with former Weatherman Bill Ayers, a relationship that consisted of their serving on the same nonprofit board of directors for three years.
larryglickman.bsky.social Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d
It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
This is true! Other than the vague claim he was “dirty,” Epstein did not accuse Trump of any wrongdoing.

He merely said Trump knew about the hundreds of underage women that Epstein was sexually exploiting and abusing, and maintained a close personal relationship with Epstein anyway. Nothing BAD
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Kate Bolduan: "The president has not been accused of any crimes or wrongdoing as it relates to Jeffrey Epstein or these files even with these emails being released. That's one thing we need to make clear. There's no accusations of any wrongdoing so far."
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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johnbull.wtf
Ah yes, you've heard of single payer, but have you heard of, you pay us and then we pay you so then you can pay them?
out5p0ken.bsky.social Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 1d
Trump comes up with a concept of a healthcare plan : give Americans money to buy their own insurance which props up big insurers, keeps costs insane, and lets them deny whatever they want while never having to fix this system.
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Trump doesn’t have to call on House Republican to vote to release the file.

Trump can order Bondi and Patel to release the files. Tomorrow.

The question is, has he already ordered Bondi and Patel to destroy some of the files after they went through them months ago.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat “Shutdown.” The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the Public on “Epstein,” are looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON’T CARE! All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT, which is the Economy, “Affordability” (where we are winning BIG!), our Victory on reducing Inflation from the highest level in History to practically nothing, bringing down prices for the American People, delivering Historic Tax Cuts, gaining Trillions of Dollars of Investment into America (A RECORD!), the rebuilding of our Military, securing our Border, deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens, ending Men in Women’s Sports, stopping Transgender for Everyone, and so much more! Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory. Some “members” of the Republican Party are being “used,” and we can’t let that happen. Let’s start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein “TRAP,” which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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vtben.bsky.social
Every Chicago Bears game is an existential journey
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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aaronschatz.com
Chicago is 7-3 with negative point differential.
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
kingbandit.bsky.social
a black bear sitting on a bench with the letters ins on the bottom right
ALT: a black bear sitting on a bench with the letters ins on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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tonyreast.bsky.social
Bennedict Mathurin has been upgraded to questionable for Pacers-Pistons tomorrow with his right great toe sprain.
November 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM