@southwest45.bsky.social
Blue dot in Texas. Retired management professor. Proud dad and granddad.
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As someone who actually travels I can not stress this enough, Sean Duffy is dumb as dogshit and has no clue what airports need.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
As someone who actually travels I can not stress this enough, Sean Duffy is dumb as dogshit and has no clue what airports need.
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
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I’m tired. Aren’t you tired America?
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I’m tired. Aren’t you tired America?
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ICE
Without a warrant
Aimed rifles at university students
No warrant
They should have been stopped at the gate
Illegal activities must be stopped before they get on private property
People have rights!
Without a warrant
Aimed rifles at university students
No warrant
They should have been stopped at the gate
Illegal activities must be stopped before they get on private property
People have rights!
ICE stormed a residence hall at Augsburg University, detained an undergrad, and aimed rifles at students and staff then admitted they had no warrant to be on campus.
This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.
This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
ICE
Without a warrant
Aimed rifles at university students
No warrant
They should have been stopped at the gate
Illegal activities must be stopped before they get on private property
People have rights!
Without a warrant
Aimed rifles at university students
No warrant
They should have been stopped at the gate
Illegal activities must be stopped before they get on private property
People have rights!
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Finally a "shadow" hearing. Been wondering since February why Dems never do this.
Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment.
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Blumenthal & Robert Garcia to Hold Forum to Receive Testimony from Five U.S. Citizens Assaulted, Illegally Detained by DHS | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
[WASHINGTON, DC] – On Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 3 PM ET in 216 Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Finally a "shadow" hearing. Been wondering since February why Dems never do this.
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Trump refuses to share pre-holiday inflation report — first skipped month in 12 years
www.rawstory.com/bureau-of-la...
www.rawstory.com/bureau-of-la...
Trump refuses to share pre-holiday inflation report — first skipped month in 12 years
The Bureau of Labor Statistics won't be publishing a delayed report on wholesale price inflation this month.The federal agency will skip the postponed October report on the Producer Price Index and in...
www.rawstory.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump refuses to share pre-holiday inflation report — first skipped month in 12 years
www.rawstory.com/bureau-of-la...
www.rawstory.com/bureau-of-la...
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Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
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The world knows they have them; release the Epstein files now.
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The world knows they have them; release the Epstein files now.
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WHERE ARE THE DAMN UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES?
RELEASE THEM!
NOW!!
RELEASE THEM!
NOW!!
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
WHERE ARE THE DAMN UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES?
RELEASE THEM!
NOW!!
RELEASE THEM!
NOW!!
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December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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Breaking: A dozen FBI agents are suing the bureau, claiming they were unlawfully fired for kneeling during the 2020 George Floyd racial justice protests.
FBI agents fired for taking the knee sue over termination
The wrongful termination suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, names FBI Director Kash Patel as one of the defendants.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Breaking: A dozen FBI agents are suing the bureau, claiming they were unlawfully fired for kneeling during the 2020 George Floyd racial justice protests.
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Column worth reading, by former two-term GOP governor who discovers that Harvard is not the hellscape of intolerance and group-think that the MAGA and its media are constantly telling him about.
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Column worth reading, by former two-term GOP governor who discovers that Harvard is not the hellscape of intolerance and group-think that the MAGA and its media are constantly telling him about.
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Its the White Kremlin.
Ignore the bullshit propaganda coming out of the White House and the Kremlin (which are arguably the same institution these days).
The REALITY is, 62% of American voters believe the USA should give more support to Ukraine and want to see a Ukrainian victory.
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
The REALITY is, 62% of American voters believe the USA should give more support to Ukraine and want to see a Ukrainian victory.
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Its the White Kremlin.
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You know things are bad at SCOTUS when the guy aruging for your side makes things worse than the guy arguing for the other side.
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You know things are bad at SCOTUS when the guy aruging for your side makes things worse than the guy arguing for the other side.
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Jonathan Blitzer: Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the Administration’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy. Because the President had labelled several drug cartels “terrorist organizations” in a series of executive orders, the government simply
The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean
Pete Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the government’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy.
www.newyorker.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Jonathan Blitzer: Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the Administration’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy. Because the President had labelled several drug cartels “terrorist organizations” in a series of executive orders, the government simply
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Tensions within coalition
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Tensions within coalition
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The GOP enacted civil service reform.
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The GOP enacted civil service reform.
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
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The conservatives’ bleating about the big bad bureaucracy gets harder to stomach when juxtaposed w the monarchical presidency they’ve created, making him immune from prosecution for his crimes and now likely putting the entire executive branch under his thrall. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/roberts...
Roberts on Cleanup Duty as Court Prepares to Kill Independent Government Agencies
Chief Justice John Roberts scrambled around with a verbal broom and dustpan...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The conservatives’ bleating about the big bad bureaucracy gets harder to stomach when juxtaposed w the monarchical presidency they’ve created, making him immune from prosecution for his crimes and now likely putting the entire executive branch under his thrall. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/roberts...
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“This is absolutely a racist weaponization of ICE against an entire community.”
U.S. Citizens With Somali Roots Are Carrying Their Passports Amid Minnesota ICE Crackdown
ICE’s crackdown on Minnesota’s Somali community is seen not as an immigration raid, but as a racist intimidation campaign.
interc.pt
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“This is absolutely a racist weaponization of ICE against an entire community.”
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Noem insisted that the suspected shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was vetted for asylum by the Biden administration—despite the fact that it was her department that granted the asylum request in April. trib.al/zyUfEvo
ICE Barbie Panics When Asked About Vetting Alleged Guard Shooter
The man who allegedly shot two National Guard members, one of whom has died, was granted asylum in April.
trib.al
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Noem insisted that the suspected shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was vetted for asylum by the Biden administration—despite the fact that it was her department that granted the asylum request in April. trib.al/zyUfEvo