Annette
@kunzman1.bsky.social
Former Managing Director at Oaktree Capital Management. Gave up career to parent my medically complex children belatedly diagnosed on the FASD spectrum. Co-founder & now President of FASD Network of SoCal and Director of FASDNow!, a CA alliance.
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“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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"Trump is still Trump, but what a difference it is, nonetheless, to go from a President who felt it necessary to deny that he had said 'shithole countries' to one who, eight years later, is celebrating the fact that he said it," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The Curse of Trump 2.0
What does it say that the President doesn’t even feel he needs to hide his most profane and radical views anymore?
www.newyorker.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"Trump is still Trump, but what a difference it is, nonetheless, to go from a President who felt it necessary to deny that he had said 'shithole countries' to one who, eight years later, is celebrating the fact that he said it," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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This presidential “pardon,” as it’s for a state crime, is the equivalent of digital toilet paper, only flimsier and serving a less useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This presidential “pardon,” as it’s for a state crime, is the equivalent of digital toilet paper, only flimsier and serving a less useful purpose.
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The Trump Administration got the Romanian government to lift the travel restrictions on the Tate brothers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The Trump Administration got the Romanian government to lift the travel restrictions on the Tate brothers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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A University of Colorado Denver engineering professor said the analysis used to justify the changes would receive a failing grade in his classroom.
'Like a C-': Engineering professor says Anschutz-backed Alameda plan not as safe as original
"If I had a project in my safety class where the students have to do a safety analysis, like this one would not get a good grade," Marshall said. "I'd give it a C-."
www.9news.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A University of Colorado Denver engineering professor said the analysis used to justify the changes would receive a failing grade in his classroom.
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And, yes, we most certainly do deport veterans. We have for decades. It’s a shameful practice and we do it after dangling citizenship before them as an incentive to join the military. I know because I’ve interviewed them on the topic.
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We Deport Veterans
For decades, we’ve deported military veterans — legal residents of the United States — while dangling citizenship before them
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December 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
And, yes, we most certainly do deport veterans. We have for decades. It’s a shameful practice and we do it after dangling citizenship before them as an incentive to join the military. I know because I’ve interviewed them on the topic.
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Trump’s National Security Strategy: An Incoherent Disaster Filled With Grievance That Punishes Allies and Cedes Terrain and Initiative to Enemies
www.avindman.com/p/trumps-nat...
www.avindman.com/p/trumps-nat...
Trump’s National Security Strategy
An Incoherent Disaster Filled With Grievance That Punishes Allies and Cedes Terrain and Initiative to Enemies
www.avindman.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Trump’s National Security Strategy: An Incoherent Disaster Filled With Grievance That Punishes Allies and Cedes Terrain and Initiative to Enemies
www.avindman.com/p/trumps-nat...
www.avindman.com/p/trumps-nat...
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BREAKING: Albuquerque's Democratic Mayor Tim Keller has won his reelection bid.
Immigration emerged as one key contrast in this race. Keller earlier this year issued an executive order limiting local collaboration with ICE, while challenger Darren White said he'd roll it back.
Immigration emerged as one key contrast in this race. Keller earlier this year issued an executive order limiting local collaboration with ICE, while challenger Darren White said he'd roll it back.
December 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
BREAKING: Albuquerque's Democratic Mayor Tim Keller has won his reelection bid.
Immigration emerged as one key contrast in this race. Keller earlier this year issued an executive order limiting local collaboration with ICE, while challenger Darren White said he'd roll it back.
Immigration emerged as one key contrast in this race. Keller earlier this year issued an executive order limiting local collaboration with ICE, while challenger Darren White said he'd roll it back.
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It's vile to kill people with no actual legal justification and also vile to joke about killing those people.
Trump: "The problem is nobody wants to go fishing anymore. They don't want to get in boats. They don't want anything to do with boats. I think we've destroyed the boat market. Other than that it's been very effective."
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It's vile to kill people with no actual legal justification and also vile to joke about killing those people.
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Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
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Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
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A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.
And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.
When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.
And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.
When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.
And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.
When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.
And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.
When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.
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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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This seems exceptionally unhinged, even for Trump.
August 31, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This seems exceptionally unhinged, even for Trump.
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bleak:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
August 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
bleak:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...
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FUCK ISRAEL…
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
It should be outrageous enough when the Israeli military, or any military for that matter, launches strikes on a hospital. The world has allowed that to become routine in Gaza, however, to our great shame. But what the Israeli military did Monday
It should be outrageous enough when the Israeli military, or any military for that matter, launches strikes on a hospital. The world has allowed that to become routine in Gaza, however, to our great shame. But what the Israeli military did Monday
Killing Medics and Journalists: What Impunity for Genocide Looks Like
Israel’s Monday morning strike on a Gaza hospital—a so-called “double-tap” assault—was designed for maximum killing. When is enough?
newrepublic.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
FUCK ISRAEL…
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The American Academy of Pediatrics is urging that children as young as six months and up to 23 months old receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
US pediatric organization diverges from CDC in Covid-19 vaccine advisory for children
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August 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The American Academy of Pediatrics is urging that children as young as six months and up to 23 months old receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
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This time last year, Donald Trump was swearing through his teeth that he wasn’t affiliated with Project 2025. But little more than half a year into his second administration, 115 proposals are “complete” out of the project’s 317 total.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This time last year, Donald Trump was swearing through his teeth that he wasn’t affiliated with Project 2025. But little more than half a year into his second administration, 115 proposals are “complete” out of the project’s 317 total.
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“The most surprising aspect of the investigation is how far outside of compliance that the Titan was operating and for how long,” investigation chair Jason Neubauer said.
Read more: www.wired.com/story/us-coa...
Read more: www.wired.com/story/us-coa...
US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush
A report on the death of five people in the Titan submersible blames design, maintenance, and inspection flaws for its failure. “It all came back to Mr. Rush,” the head of the investigation told WIRED...
www.wired.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“The most surprising aspect of the investigation is how far outside of compliance that the Titan was operating and for how long,” investigation chair Jason Neubauer said.
Read more: www.wired.com/story/us-coa...
Read more: www.wired.com/story/us-coa...
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Authoritarians go wrong because they replace competent officials with toadies and yes men. The upshot is that a leader doesn't get sound advice and does stupid things, and eventually he and his country pay a price. For starters, no one will trust Trump's BLS figures from now on.
REPORTER: Why did you fire the head of the bureau of labor statistics?
TRUMP: Because I thought her numbers were wrong
TRUMP: Because I thought her numbers were wrong
August 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Authoritarians go wrong because they replace competent officials with toadies and yes men. The upshot is that a leader doesn't get sound advice and does stupid things, and eventually he and his country pay a price. For starters, no one will trust Trump's BLS figures from now on.
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MAGA went from wanting the death penalty for child rapists to being apologists for sending them to do their time in a minimum security club fed.
All for their hero. Maxwell can hurt Trump, so she gets what she wants. And none of them will say a word about it.
All for their hero. Maxwell can hurt Trump, so she gets what she wants. And none of them will say a word about it.
August 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
MAGA went from wanting the death penalty for child rapists to being apologists for sending them to do their time in a minimum security club fed.
All for their hero. Maxwell can hurt Trump, so she gets what she wants. And none of them will say a word about it.
All for their hero. Maxwell can hurt Trump, so she gets what she wants. And none of them will say a word about it.
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No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.
In a new statement, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) says he's done supporting any aid to Israel amid Gaza's nutrition and humanitarian crisis.
"My litmus test will be simple: no aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.”
"My litmus test will be simple: no aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.”
July 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.
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Two prominent Israeli human rights organizations released reports Monday that concluded their government’s actions in the Gaza Strip amounted to genocide
July 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Two prominent Israeli human rights organizations released reports Monday that concluded their government’s actions in the Gaza Strip amounted to genocide