Rick Mazzoli
@rickmazzoli.bsky.social
West Point '75 (BS Engineering); Infantry officer (retired); Attorney, JD/MBA; Investor.
Son of Italian immigrants.
Dad to best kids. I got lucky.
Duty, Honor, Country.
Louisville
Son of Italian immigrants.
Dad to best kids. I got lucky.
Duty, Honor, Country.
Louisville
Pinned
Rick Mazzoli
@rickmazzoli.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I am tired of my kids telling me, "Dad, that's not funny." (eye roll)
They are wrong.
They are wrong.
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Throwback Thursday: in 2022, host Olga Skabeeva shouted at journalist Dmitry Galkin, who predicted that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would cause thousands of deaths per day. Skabeeva said the war will be over the moment Russian troops set foot in Ukraine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AIg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AIg...
February 22, 2022 — Olga Skabeeva predicts an instant victory for Russian troops
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Throwback Thursday: in 2022, host Olga Skabeeva shouted at journalist Dmitry Galkin, who predicted that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would cause thousands of deaths per day. Skabeeva said the war will be over the moment Russian troops set foot in Ukraine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AIg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AIg...
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Based on the rapid pace of Trump’s mental decline, which only exacerbates his malignant narcissism, repulsive behavior, megalomania, and habitual lying, 2026 is going to be a rough year.
December 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Based on the rapid pace of Trump’s mental decline, which only exacerbates his malignant narcissism, repulsive behavior, megalomania, and habitual lying, 2026 is going to be a rough year.
Noem lies. Or is woefully uninformed. She's in over her head.
Worse, the entire trump kakistocracy, time and again, has demonstrated they don't give a shit about veterans.
Worse, the entire trump kakistocracy, time and again, has demonstrated they don't give a shit about veterans.
Magaziner: “How many United States military veterans have you deported?”
Noem: “Sir, we have not deported US citizens or military veterans.”
Magaziner: “Sae Joon Park is a U.S. Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country…Can you please tell Mr. Park why you deported him?”
Noem: “Sir, we have not deported US citizens or military veterans.”
Magaziner: “Sae Joon Park is a U.S. Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country…Can you please tell Mr. Park why you deported him?”
December 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Noem lies. Or is woefully uninformed. She's in over her head.
Worse, the entire trump kakistocracy, time and again, has demonstrated they don't give a shit about veterans.
Worse, the entire trump kakistocracy, time and again, has demonstrated they don't give a shit about veterans.
stock picker?
BRK recent Q3 2025 13F shows it holds 42 stocks.
Only one new stock added, GOOGL. One closed out, DHI.
Many stocks held for years (AAPL), some for decades (AXP, KO, et al).
What stock picker?
All I hear is how BRK has a boatload of cash.
What am I missing?
BRK recent Q3 2025 13F shows it holds 42 stocks.
Only one new stock added, GOOGL. One closed out, DHI.
Many stocks held for years (AAPL), some for decades (AXP, KO, et al).
What stock picker?
All I hear is how BRK has a boatload of cash.
What am I missing?
Berkshire Hathaway stock picker Todd Combs to leave for JPMorgan on.ft.com/3KDsi3C
Berkshire Hathaway stock picker Todd Combs to leave for JPMorgan
Warren Buffett announces leadership shake-up at conglomerate
on.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
stock picker?
BRK recent Q3 2025 13F shows it holds 42 stocks.
Only one new stock added, GOOGL. One closed out, DHI.
Many stocks held for years (AAPL), some for decades (AXP, KO, et al).
What stock picker?
All I hear is how BRK has a boatload of cash.
What am I missing?
BRK recent Q3 2025 13F shows it holds 42 stocks.
Only one new stock added, GOOGL. One closed out, DHI.
Many stocks held for years (AAPL), some for decades (AXP, KO, et al).
What stock picker?
All I hear is how BRK has a boatload of cash.
What am I missing?
trump's strategy of appeasement is dangerous to the national security of the US and Europe.
US Permanent Representative to NATO Whitaker:
We are the only world superpower,we are the only ones -especially, President Trump is the only one - that can bring both sides to the table& work with them to mediate a resolution
If the USA walks away,the likelihood of peace dramatically diminishes
We are the only world superpower,we are the only ones -especially, President Trump is the only one - that can bring both sides to the table& work with them to mediate a resolution
If the USA walks away,the likelihood of peace dramatically diminishes
December 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
trump's strategy of appeasement is dangerous to the national security of the US and Europe.
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Farmers get a bail out in the face of the costs they've born from Trump's trade war. Quite an admission that his policies have hurt Americans.
Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
December 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Farmers get a bail out in the face of the costs they've born from Trump's trade war. Quite an admission that his policies have hurt Americans.
Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
another bailout to farmers needed because of the trump swamp disastrous tariffs.
recall, farmers needed a bail out in trump1 because of ... trump's disastrous tariffs then too.
trump is unwilling or unable to learn.
kakistocracy.
recall, farmers needed a bail out in trump1 because of ... trump's disastrous tariffs then too.
trump is unwilling or unable to learn.
kakistocracy.
Trump to unveil $12 billion aid package for farmers hit by trade war reut.rs/4rL5Y8S
Trump to unveil $12 billion aid package for farmers hit by trade war
U.S. President Donald Trump will unveil a $12 billion aid package for American farmers affected by his trade policies on Monday, two White House officials said.
reut.rs
December 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
another bailout to farmers needed because of the trump swamp disastrous tariffs.
recall, farmers needed a bail out in trump1 because of ... trump's disastrous tariffs then too.
trump is unwilling or unable to learn.
kakistocracy.
recall, farmers needed a bail out in trump1 because of ... trump's disastrous tariffs then too.
trump is unwilling or unable to learn.
kakistocracy.
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"We've seen tariffs that have raised costs. We've seen a big rise in deportations, making it difficult for farmers to bring in their crops. We've seen health insurance premiums rise as Congress has fiddled with Obamacare..."
"Affordability is the direct result of the actions of the White House."
"Affordability is the direct result of the actions of the White House."
December 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"We've seen tariffs that have raised costs. We've seen a big rise in deportations, making it difficult for farmers to bring in their crops. We've seen health insurance premiums rise as Congress has fiddled with Obamacare..."
"Affordability is the direct result of the actions of the White House."
"Affordability is the direct result of the actions of the White House."
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The president who watched Jan. 6 violence on TV and responded to Kevin McCarthy's desperate call from inside the Capitol with "well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you" doesn't think death threats against anyone even a little in his way is a bad thing?
Huh.
Huh.
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The president who watched Jan. 6 violence on TV and responded to Kevin McCarthy's desperate call from inside the Capitol with "well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you" doesn't think death threats against anyone even a little in his way is a bad thing?
Huh.
Huh.
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The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.
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The Pentagon has fired multiple times on different drug boats to remove them as potential hazards. Yet legal experts argue that is a legally dubious rationalisation in a case where survivors are present
Lawmakers demand answers about Pete Hegseth’s boat-bombing campaign
A deadly strike raises stark questions about America’s anti-drug war
econ.st
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Pentagon has fired multiple times on different drug boats to remove them as potential hazards. Yet legal experts argue that is a legally dubious rationalisation in a case where survivors are present
trump told them what he was going to do,
they voted for him anyway.
now he's doing what he said he was going to do,
and they have buyer's remorse.
you can't fix stupid.
they voted for him anyway.
now he's doing what he said he was going to do,
and they have buyer's remorse.
you can't fix stupid.
Trump would rather play for the nativist vote than grow his own political coalition and reward his own voters. lnk.thebulwark.com/4pkjMWj
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
trump told them what he was going to do,
they voted for him anyway.
now he's doing what he said he was going to do,
and they have buyer's remorse.
you can't fix stupid.
they voted for him anyway.
now he's doing what he said he was going to do,
and they have buyer's remorse.
you can't fix stupid.
this is another really good docuseries by ken burns & company.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The American Revolution,” Ken Burns’s new docuseries, “is intelligently self-critical history of a kind most people worldwide are deprived of,” John McWhorter writes. “Showing us what the era entailed for all different kinds of early Americans isn’t woke; it’s accurate.”
“The American Revolution,” Ken Burns’s new docuseries, “is intelligently self-critical history of a kind most people worldwide are deprived of,” John McWhorter writes. “Showing us what the era entailed for all different kinds of early Americans isn’t woke; it’s accurate.”
Opinion | ‘The American Revolution’ Is Not Woke. It’s Magnificent.
Don’t be shocked: There were Black people and Native Americans during the colonial era.
nyti.ms
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
this is another really good docuseries by ken burns & company.
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George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
this trump administration is an onagrocracy.
Kristi Noem: “You've saved hundreds of millions of lives with the cocaine you've blown up in the Caribbean.”
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
this trump administration is an onagrocracy.
the continuing saga of the trump kakistocracy.
Court disqualifies Trump ally Habba as top New Jersey federal prosecutor reut.rs/48xdnA8
Court disqualifies Trump ally Habba as top New Jersey federal prosecutor
A federal appeals court determined on Monday that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, was unlawfully appointed as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey and disqualified her from supervising cases in a decision rebuking the Republican president.
reut.rs
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
the continuing saga of the trump kakistocracy.
just part of the continuing kleptocracy of the trump (convicted felon himself) administration.
Trump releases fraudster executive days into prison sentence
Trump releases fraudster executive days into prison sentence
The former investment manager was convicted of defrauding thousands of investors.
www.bbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
just part of the continuing kleptocracy of the trump (convicted felon himself) administration.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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Truth by @justinglawe.bsky.social in PN:
"Trump and Republicans are lying. Lie after desperate, confusing, and impossible lie, all aimed at an impossible goal: erasing history and the many deep and troubling ties between Epstein and Trump."
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-epst...
"Trump and Republicans are lying. Lie after desperate, confusing, and impossible lie, all aimed at an impossible goal: erasing history and the many deep and troubling ties between Epstein and Trump."
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-epst...
MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable
To believe anything they say requires a complete suspension of common sense.
www.publicnotice.co
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Truth by @justinglawe.bsky.social in PN:
"Trump and Republicans are lying. Lie after desperate, confusing, and impossible lie, all aimed at an impossible goal: erasing history and the many deep and troubling ties between Epstein and Trump."
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-epst...
"Trump and Republicans are lying. Lie after desperate, confusing, and impossible lie, all aimed at an impossible goal: erasing history and the many deep and troubling ties between Epstein and Trump."
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-epst...
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It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
"Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago. Was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice, at the restaurant ..."
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago. Was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice, at the restaurant ..."