Michael Huggins
@michaelhugg2591.bsky.social
DWM, technical writer, skeptic, avid reader, never-Trump conservative who votes Democratic, Renaissance and Baroque music, walking for fitness, museums, historic sites.
20 U.S. Boat Strikes in Three Months - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
20 U.S. Boat Strikes in Three Months
The Trump administration is trying to treat its extrajudicial killings at sea as routine, even as more concerns emerge from the people who know the most about them.
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
20 U.S. Boat Strikes in Three Months - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Epstein emails: Megyn Kelly says she didn't consider Epstein pedophile earlier as victims had hit puberty - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/eps...
Epstein emails: Megyn Kelly says she didn't consider Epstein pedophile earlier as victims had hit puberty - The Times of India
US News: Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly made a disturbing defence for Jeffrey Epstein as she suggested that she did not initially believe that Epstein wa.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Epstein emails: Megyn Kelly says she didn't consider Epstein pedophile earlier as victims had hit puberty - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/eps...
Reposted by Michael Huggins
Megyn Kelly has law degree and was an attorney at Jones Day
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Megyn Kelly has law degree and was an attorney at Jones Day
Reposted by Michael Huggins
The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal
When QAnon meets Veep
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November 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"[The Epstein letters] are a skeleton key for understanding the dynamics of Donald Trump’s America, one in which the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved." - The Atlantic
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
"[The Epstein letters] are a skeleton key for understanding the dynamics of Donald Trump’s America, one in which the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved." - The Atlantic
"In other words, the Trump administration has likely cut the country’s expansion by a third or more and its annual employment gains in half—for nothing."
Is This the End of the Trade War? - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Is This the End of the Trade War? - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Tariffs Did
Is this the end of the trade war?
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November 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"In other words, the Trump administration has likely cut the country’s expansion by a third or more and its annual employment gains in half—for nothing."
Is This the End of the Trade War? - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Is This the End of the Trade War? - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"and cost the economy close to half a million jobs. Moody’s Analytics estimates the hit to real GDP growth to be 0.8 percentage points.
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"and cost the economy close to half a million jobs. Moody’s Analytics estimates the hit to real GDP growth to be 0.8 percentage points.
"The Yale Budget Lab estimates that the tariffs have depressed real GDP growth by 0.5 percentage points this year, lifted the unemployment rate by 0.3 percentage points,
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"The Yale Budget Lab estimates that the tariffs have depressed real GDP growth by 0.5 percentage points this year, lifted the unemployment rate by 0.3 percentage points,
"The better policy would have been no policy at all. Imagine what the economy would look like right now if Trump had never started the trade war.
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"The better policy would have been no policy at all. Imagine what the economy would look like right now if Trump had never started the trade war.
Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now? - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now?
The White House’s responses get curiouser and curiouser.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now? - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth announces operation ‘Southern Spear’ to quash ‘narco-terrorists’ thehill.com/policy/defen...
thehill.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Pete Hegseth announces operation ‘Southern Spear’ to quash ‘narco-terrorists’ thehill.com/policy/defen...
Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap That Ensnared Biden www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...
Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap That Ensnared Biden
Republicans learned nothing from how badly Dems bungled inflation.
www.thebulwark.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap That Ensnared Biden www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...
The 9 most shocking revelations in the Epstein docs - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The 9 most shocking revelations in the Epstein docs
The emails, released by the House Oversight Committee, include exchanges with dozens of prominent individuals spanning over a decade.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The 9 most shocking revelations in the Epstein docs - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
"and a sober understanding of scale, legality, alliance cohesion, and long-term consequences.
"Because Venezuela is not small, and it won’t be simple."
No, Venezuela Is Not a ‘Small Latin American Country’ www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
"Because Venezuela is not small, and it won’t be simple."
No, Venezuela Is Not a ‘Small Latin American Country’ www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
No, Venezuela Is Not a ‘Small Latin American Country’
And talk of a quick invasion and easy ‘regime change’ is dangerously misleading.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"and a sober understanding of scale, legality, alliance cohesion, and long-term consequences.
"Because Venezuela is not small, and it won’t be simple."
No, Venezuela Is Not a ‘Small Latin American Country’ www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
"Because Venezuela is not small, and it won’t be simple."
No, Venezuela Is Not a ‘Small Latin American Country’ www.thebulwark.com/p/no-venezue...
"cannot be slipped past either Congress or the American public as an extension of drug policy. It requires congressional oversight
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"cannot be slipped past either Congress or the American public as an extension of drug policy. It requires congressional oversight
"while reaffirming the norms that have long distinguished American leadership from the behavior of revisionist powers.
"A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people
"A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"while reaffirming the norms that have long distinguished American leadership from the behavior of revisionist powers.
"A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people
"A campaign that could evolve into bombing a nation thirty times the size of Panama, larger than Ukraine, and home to nearly 30 million people
"and remaking this mission’s profile with increased diplomacy and a legitimate law-enforcement framework, which requires re-engaging allies through transparency and legal clarity
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"and remaking this mission’s profile with increased diplomacy and a legitimate law-enforcement framework, which requires re-engaging allies through transparency and legal clarity
"one that risks civilian casualties, regional backlash, a busted alliance system, and a long-term conflict against a country larger than Ukraine and vastly more complex than Panama. The other path requires stepping back from escalation
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"one that risks civilian casualties, regional backlash, a busted alliance system, and a long-term conflict against a country larger than Ukraine and vastly more complex than Panama. The other path requires stepping back from escalation
"WITH THE ARRIVAL of the Ford Carrier Strike Group in the area, the United States will reach a strategic decision point. One path leads toward a creeping, undeclared war justified by an elastic 'narco-terrorist' doctrine—
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"WITH THE ARRIVAL of the Ford Carrier Strike Group in the area, the United States will reach a strategic decision point. One path leads toward a creeping, undeclared war justified by an elastic 'narco-terrorist' doctrine—
There will be zigs and zags, some Democratic stumbles and occasional Trump upticks, but the trend for Trump is more likely than not to continue down..."
He’s Acting Pretty Damn Guilty www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting...
He’s Acting Pretty Damn Guilty www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting...
He’s Acting Pretty Damn Guilty
Trump usually acts like a guy with something to hide. But his Epstein behavior is on another level.
www.thebulwark.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There will be zigs and zags, some Democratic stumbles and occasional Trump upticks, but the trend for Trump is more likely than not to continue down..."
He’s Acting Pretty Damn Guilty www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting...
He’s Acting Pretty Damn Guilty www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting...
"More Epstein revelations, rising health care and electricity costs, a slowing economy, Trump’s prosecution of an unpopular mass deportation agenda, his increasingly Mad King George persona—all of this makes me very doubtful we’ll see much of a Trump rally in near future.
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"More Epstein revelations, rising health care and electricity costs, a slowing economy, Trump’s prosecution of an unpopular mass deportation agenda, his increasingly Mad King George persona—all of this makes me very doubtful we’ll see much of a Trump rally in near future.
"So Trump has lost about a point a month in 2025. That’s frustratingly slow for many of us. But a percentage point a month adds up.
"Is Trump’s decline in public approval—if not quite at that rate—likely to continue? I think so.
"Is Trump’s decline in public approval—if not quite at that rate—likely to continue? I think so.
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"So Trump has lost about a point a month in 2025. That’s frustratingly slow for many of us. But a percentage point a month adds up.
"Is Trump’s decline in public approval—if not quite at that rate—likely to continue? I think so.
"Is Trump’s decline in public approval—if not quite at that rate—likely to continue? I think so.
"Donald Trump started his second term with an average approval rating of 51.6 percent, a bit above his 49.8 percent of the vote in November 2024. He’s now at a 41.4 percent average approval rating.
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Donald Trump started his second term with an average approval rating of 51.6 percent, a bit above his 49.8 percent of the vote in November 2024. He’s now at a 41.4 percent average approval rating.