John Petro
@petrojohn.bsky.social
Policy analyst, consultant to state and local governments. Live in Key West. Musician YouTube.com/@jackytides
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"President Trump is expected to announce a new type of ship for the Navy on Monday, according to a Pentagon official who requested anonymity to preview the plan. The official said the Navy was expected to call the new vessels Trump-class battleships."
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Is Said to Plan New Class of Battleships Named for Him
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December 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"President Trump is expected to announce a new type of ship for the Navy on Monday, according to a Pentagon official who requested anonymity to preview the plan. The official said the Navy was expected to call the new vessels Trump-class battleships."
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JD Vance is the most unlikable person imaginable
Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, said Turning Point USA, the group her husband founded, would work to elect JD Vance president in 2028 as infighting over the future of the GOP took center stage.
Kirk’s widow endorses Vance as MAGA infighting rages
Erika Kirk told a Turning Point USA conference that she would work to elect JD Vance president in 2028, at an event in which MAGA divisions were on full display.
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
JD Vance is the most unlikable person imaginable
the Trump MBS meeting is sickening, but not surprising
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
the Trump MBS meeting is sickening, but not surprising
tariffs tamp down supply, and stimulus checks increase demand. what a great inflation-reduction strategy.
President Donald Trump, embattled by America’s growing affordability problems, has once again floated a unique solution: Sending Americans rebate checks for the tariffs that his administration has collected.
It’s a bold promise with several significant complications: https://cnn.it/3LtdswV
It’s a bold promise with several significant complications: https://cnn.it/3LtdswV
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
tariffs tamp down supply, and stimulus checks increase demand. what a great inflation-reduction strategy.
Is that OJ's Bronco?
Hahaha. I cannot see this truck with thinking back to 1994. And watching Knicks-Rockets at my buddy Jason’s place.
Andrew Cuomo being driven around at low speeds in a white Bronco seems fitting for this great respecter of women. Where did he even find a white Bronco in NYC?
November 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Is that OJ's Bronco?
is the lesson that cuomo would almost win if silwa dropped out, or that silwa would almost win if Cuomo dropped out?
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
is the lesson that cuomo would almost win if silwa dropped out, or that silwa would almost win if Cuomo dropped out?
so many better ways to blow $1.5 million
New: Mike Bloomberg didn't just give $1.5M to the pro-Cuomo Fix the City super PAC this week.
He also made an even larger $3.5M contribution to an anti-Mamdani super PAC called For Our City, making him the general election cycle's largest single donor. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/31/b...
He also made an even larger $3.5M contribution to an anti-Mamdani super PAC called For Our City, making him the general election cycle's largest single donor. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/31/b...
Bloomberg pumped $5M into anti-Mamdani super PACs this week, making him the cycle’s largest donor
Michael Bloomberg donated a combined $5 million to a couple of anti-Zohran Mamdani super PACs earlier this week, making the billionaire ex-mayor the general election cycle’s single largest po…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
so many better ways to blow $1.5 million
really don't see the point of looser monetary policy right now. seems to be plenty of cash sloshing around. just look at companies burning cash for AI
Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by another quarter point, dropping its benchmark lending rate to the lowest level in three years. https://cnn.it/43zCfFA
October 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
really don't see the point of looser monetary policy right now. seems to be plenty of cash sloshing around. just look at companies burning cash for AI
why is CNN giving legs to this non-story?
In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
why is CNN giving legs to this non-story?
these folks definitely among the most culpable
If major U.S. law firms had not so quickly surrendered to Donald Trump, this spring, his lawlessness might have been curbed, Fabio Bertoni writes.
What if the Big Law Firms Hadn’t Caved to Trump?
It’s not inconceivable that, had the firms resisted the President’s executive orders, his momentum for lawlessness might have been curbed.
www.newyorker.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
these folks definitely among the most culpable
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A fence post at New York’s Bowling Green still showing the rough saw marks where, in July 1776, colonists cut off the crowns that used to adorn the tops.
Colonists also pulled down a statute of King George III that once stood where the fountain is today.
Colonists also pulled down a statute of King George III that once stood where the fountain is today.
October 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A fence post at New York’s Bowling Green still showing the rough saw marks where, in July 1776, colonists cut off the crowns that used to adorn the tops.
Colonists also pulled down a statute of King George III that once stood where the fountain is today.
Colonists also pulled down a statute of King George III that once stood where the fountain is today.
Tish is really just a great person.
While the Trump admin has accused state AG Letitia James of using a Virginia house as an "investment property" to rent out rather than a second home, The New York Times reports that she a house for her grandniece, who lives in it rent-free. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Tish is really just a great person.
this is my main point. if we're gonna throw money at "urban crime" there are so many better ways to spend it
In Opinion | If President Trump wanted to help Portland, “there are many ways he could do so with the $10 million that was the estimated cost of his deployment of the Oregon National Guard,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
Opinion | Our Beautiful Portland Hellscape
With the millions being used to deploy troops to Portland, Trump could help with treatment for substance use, with emergency housing, with education.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
this is my main point. if we're gonna throw money at "urban crime" there are so many better ways to spend it
the rhetoric gets more and more desperate
Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."
October 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
the rhetoric gets more and more desperate
i'd say about 3-5% of voters still check the box for Adams
The race to lead New York City has tightened since Mayor Eric Adams' departure, but Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, maintains a 13-point lead a month before Election Day, according to a poll released on Thursday.
Mamdani Maintains 13-Point Lead as Cuomo Gains Ground After Adams’s Exit
While former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo benefited from Mayor Eric Adams’s departure, Zohran Mamdani still enjoyed a sizable lead in the Quinnipiac University poll.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
i'd say about 3-5% of voters still check the box for Adams
this gonna make Tish more popular
October 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
this gonna make Tish more popular
so the takeaways from hegseth's speech are "we're gonna be manly" and "no more fat troops" rather than "we are going to commit more war crimes"
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
so the takeaways from hegseth's speech are "we're gonna be manly" and "no more fat troops" rather than "we are going to commit more war crimes"
GDP growth of 3.8% is great, but how much of that is companies just shoveling cash into AI projects? definitely feeling a coming AI bubble. pop!
September 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
GDP growth of 3.8% is great, but how much of that is companies just shoveling cash into AI projects? definitely feeling a coming AI bubble. pop!
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Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.
if we have the money to send the national guard to cities, we should have the money for mental health services and affordable housing
September 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
if we have the money to send the national guard to cities, we should have the money for mental health services and affordable housing
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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using the dark side of the force
Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
September 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
using the dark side of the force
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“Intel is a failing company,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote to Commerce Secretary Lutnick, in a letter obtained exclusively by the Prospect. Warren argues that Trump’s equity stake in Intel is a reward for bad behavior, with no strings attached. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/6o9opN8
Trump Deal Lets Intel Move Factories Overseas, Sen. Warren Explains
In a letter to the Commerce Department, Warren blasts the actual deal between the Trump administration and Intel, even as she supports the concept of equity stakes.
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September 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Intel is a failing company,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote to Commerce Secretary Lutnick, in a letter obtained exclusively by the Prospect. Warren argues that Trump’s equity stake in Intel is a reward for bad behavior, with no strings attached. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/6o9opN8
feds reportedly spending $1M a day on US Guard deployment to DC. I think any city would be glad to have $1M a day to fight crime and address street homelessness and vagrancy. but I think $1M a day would be better spent on mental health, substance abuse programs, and, yes, housing the homeless
September 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
feds reportedly spending $1M a day on US Guard deployment to DC. I think any city would be glad to have $1M a day to fight crime and address street homelessness and vagrancy. but I think $1M a day would be better spent on mental health, substance abuse programs, and, yes, housing the homeless