Bill Rubin
@mwrubin.bsky.social
Anti-fascist | grassroots organizer | reformed lawyer | Obama alum | adopted Pittsburgher | Go Celtics, Bruins, Patriots, Red Sox
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias
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November 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Ratcliffe is an embarrassment. Why would anyone help the CIA ever again if they knew that someone like him would throw them under the bus at the first opportunity?
Once CIA saw itself as above politics. But Ratcliffe is a political animal. CIA trained the shooter to kill and evacuated him and tens of thousands of others who served the US in Afghanistan. They will now be collectively punished by the POTUS who signed a surrender agreement with the Taliban.
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Ratcliffe is an embarrassment. Why would anyone help the CIA ever again if they knew that someone like him would throw them under the bus at the first opportunity?
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Thanksgiving in Mauritania a few years later, I gathered with eight or nine PCVs and a pair of embassy folks in search of adventure. We roasted a pea hen, and a baker on the team made pie. We drank ourselves stupid on smuggled Senegalese gin, and the embassy folks dropped $50 to make it happen.
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Thanksgiving in Mauritania a few years later, I gathered with eight or nine PCVs and a pair of embassy folks in search of adventure. We roasted a pea hen, and a baker on the team made pie. We drank ourselves stupid on smuggled Senegalese gin, and the embassy folks dropped $50 to make it happen.
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Maybe I’ll tell y’all about Thanksgiving in Uzbekistan, where I was in the peace corps 2000-2001.
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Maybe I’ll tell y’all about Thanksgiving in Uzbekistan, where I was in the peace corps 2000-2001.
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
No reason to believe this was a false flag operation but something like this was obviously contemplated as part of Trump’s dry run for when he seizes total power. Deployment of National Guard to DC was phase 1 of the dry run. Now we get to see phase 2. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Live Updates: Two National Guard Members Shot Near White House
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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
No reason to believe this was a false flag operation but something like this was obviously contemplated as part of Trump’s dry run for when he seizes total power. Deployment of National Guard to DC was phase 1 of the dry run. Now we get to see phase 2. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
ChatGPT: “You emailed last Friday. Today is Thursday — only three business days have passed (Mon/Tue/Wed). That is way too soon to be concerned.”
Me: “I think today is Wednesday.”
ChatGPT: “Ha! Yes — today is Wednesday…”
Me: “I think today is Wednesday.”
ChatGPT: “Ha! Yes — today is Wednesday…”
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
ChatGPT: “You emailed last Friday. Today is Thursday — only three business days have passed (Mon/Tue/Wed). That is way too soon to be concerned.”
Me: “I think today is Wednesday.”
ChatGPT: “Ha! Yes — today is Wednesday…”
Me: “I think today is Wednesday.”
ChatGPT: “Ha! Yes — today is Wednesday…”
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The $2000 rebate checks “are a budgetary shell game. Tariffs have already cost American families nearly that much — an average of $1,800 .. Don’t look for logic here. There is none.”
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November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The $2000 rebate checks “are a budgetary shell game. Tariffs have already cost American families nearly that much — an average of $1,800 .. Don’t look for logic here. There is none.”
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I will repeat this every single day for the next three years: Any Democrat running for president in 2028 must pledge to immediately tear down/bulldoze/demolish Trump’s ballroom and fully restore the East Wing and any other piece of the People’s House Trump has or will destroy.
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I will repeat this every single day for the next three years: Any Democrat running for president in 2028 must pledge to immediately tear down/bulldoze/demolish Trump’s ballroom and fully restore the East Wing and any other piece of the People’s House Trump has or will destroy.
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He’s a psychopath. He’s humanly incapable of empathy.
With the government shut down, flights cancelled, and hungry people going without SNAP benefits, Trump leaves his newly gilded palace for another weekend of golf and parties in Palm Beach.
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
He’s a psychopath. He’s humanly incapable of empathy.
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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social You really have to be at the top of your game to out-satirize the actual headlines: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
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November 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social You really have to be at the top of your game to out-satirize the actual headlines: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
@mattyglesias.bsky.social Just read your 11 takeaways. Two things: the margins for Spanberger and Sherrill were nearly identical, 14.6% for Spanberger, 13% for Sherrill. And candidate quality on the other side also matters: Ciattarelli was a much stronger opponent than Earle-Sears.
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@mattyglesias.bsky.social Just read your 11 takeaways. Two things: the margins for Spanberger and Sherrill were nearly identical, 14.6% for Spanberger, 13% for Sherrill. And candidate quality on the other side also matters: Ciattarelli was a much stronger opponent than Earle-Sears.
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Bari Weiss gets the Trump endorsement, the logical endpoint of her fearless independent journalism at the Free Press
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Bari Weiss gets the Trump endorsement, the logical endpoint of her fearless independent journalism at the Free Press
As much as it would help the Pats if KC wins this game, I’m rooting for the Bills.
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
As much as it would help the Pats if KC wins this game, I’m rooting for the Bills.
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
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Weak men like Bill Ferguson need to learn to fight fire with fire, or let stronger people lead the way.
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Weak men like Bill Ferguson need to learn to fight fire with fire, or let stronger people lead the way.
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“We are not in an armed conflict with these cartels. And so this is just murder,” Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, told The Intercept.
Trump Administration Admits It Doesn’t Know Who Exactly It’s Killing in Boat Strikes
Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“We are not in an armed conflict with these cartels. And so this is just murder,” Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, told The Intercept.
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In the past two weeks, at least three WaPo editorials have taken on matters in which Jeff Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake (David Folkenflik/NPR)
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October 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In the past two weeks, at least three WaPo editorials have taken on matters in which Jeff Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake (David Folkenflik/NPR)
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"I put the star in the star hole. A lot of people can't do that. They try to put it in the hexagon hole. But I put it in the star hole, and it only took me three attempts. I'd like to see AOC do that."
October 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"I put the star in the star hole. A lot of people can't do that. They try to put it in the hexagon hole. But I put it in the star hole, and it only took me three attempts. I'd like to see AOC do that."
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social I think you guys need to up your game. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
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October 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social I think you guys need to up your game. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
@popville.bsky.social While everyone has been focused on the White House tear down, no one seems to have paid any attention to the act of vandalism Trump is carrying out at the Kennedy Center. 3/4 of the columns have now been painted over. It looks hideous.
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
@popville.bsky.social While everyone has been focused on the White House tear down, no one seems to have paid any attention to the act of vandalism Trump is carrying out at the Kennedy Center. 3/4 of the columns have now been painted over. It looks hideous.
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Sometimes the symbolism feels like it’s just too obvious; too much on the nose.
Trump is vandalizing the White House to build his gaudy Liberace-on-steroids ballroom, using cash from his serial shakedowns of the rich and spineless.
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Trump is vandalizing the White House to build his gaudy Liberace-on-steroids ballroom, using cash from his serial shakedowns of the rich and spineless.
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Vandalizing the White House
And other tales of Trump 2.0
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October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Sometimes the symbolism feels like it’s just too obvious; too much on the nose.
Trump is vandalizing the White House to build his gaudy Liberace-on-steroids ballroom, using cash from his serial shakedowns of the rich and spineless.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Trump is vandalizing the White House to build his gaudy Liberace-on-steroids ballroom, using cash from his serial shakedowns of the rich and spineless.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...