@twafflehill.bsky.social
Political Junkie following the rise and fall of Oligarchy and the far right. Anti Brexit, Trump, Murdoch, Musk etc. I don’t follow back as I like to keep my timeline manageable.
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Just a reminder: there was a Biden administration investigation into Epstein and Maxwell's co-conspirators. Trump killed it in January, fired the prosecutors, stole the files, & ordered Bondi to open a new sham investigation, led by a handpicked prosecutor, so DOJ wouldn't have to release the files.
Reminder.
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They have another asset in our government!
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
They have another asset in our government!
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In Kenya alone, thousands have already died and as many as 1-million are "at risk of starvation and death."
This more than anything else will define Marco Rubio, along with Donald Trump, Elon Musk & others, as one of the biggest monsters to walk this earth.
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
This more than anything else will define Marco Rubio, along with Donald Trump, Elon Musk & others, as one of the biggest monsters to walk this earth.
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In Kenya alone, thousands have already died and as many as 1-million are "at risk of starvation and death."
This more than anything else will define Marco Rubio, along with Donald Trump, Elon Musk & others, as one of the biggest monsters to walk this earth.
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
This more than anything else will define Marco Rubio, along with Donald Trump, Elon Musk & others, as one of the biggest monsters to walk this earth.
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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you see. this is what happens when esoteric theories developed in the hothouse of ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶a̶d̶e̶m̶y̶ right wing fever swamps meet the hard realities of actual governance
New: The Trump administration had a 4-part plan for the labor market in 2025. None of it worked.
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...
A Year In, the MAGA Labor Market Story Has Fallen Apart
The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and a gendered theory of growth. The data say otherwise.
newsletter.mikekonczal.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
you see. this is what happens when esoteric theories developed in the hothouse of ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶a̶d̶e̶m̶y̶ right wing fever swamps meet the hard realities of actual governance
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This is grim reading — but it is also a non-scientific, small sample (apparently) from Nashville. Contrast with the two young dudes from Minnesota in that video going around today who compared ICE to Nazis. These are about equally representative!
www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
Everyone Wants to Know What Gen Z Republicans Think. We Asked Them.
Twenty GOP Zoomers on Trump, Hitler, dating, racism, politics, the economy, and more
www.city-journal.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is grim reading — but it is also a non-scientific, small sample (apparently) from Nashville. Contrast with the two young dudes from Minnesota in that video going around today who compared ICE to Nazis. These are about equally representative!
www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
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From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
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1) These guys have more moral clarity than a lot of people in Congress and other halls of power. 2) Lol, the captions transcribing ICE as ISIS the second time.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
1) These guys have more moral clarity than a lot of people in Congress and other halls of power. 2) Lol, the captions transcribing ICE as ISIS the second time.
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Here we go ...
![“[The FBI document] is infused with vague and overbroad language, which was exactly our concern about NSPM-7 in the first place. It invites law enforcement suspicion and investigation based on purely first amendment-protected beliefs and activities,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project. “People who are entirely innocent of any wrongdoing can be subjected to surveillance or investigation. That imposes stigma. It can wrongly immesh people in the criminal legal system.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:23jbx3mbesh2ghfcecaxsk6p/bafkreidj64wsa7p6runwns6nm5ngowxxzzd5xmxfr4ah3dfyzk6pkddljy@jpeg)
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Here we go ...
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“Do you think that Trump would be turning Washington into Pyongyang if he believed there was a chance that, during his lifetime, a future Democratic administration would swoop in and undo it all? Humiliating him? I do not.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center
The dystopia everyone said was impossible is already here.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“Do you think that Trump would be turning Washington into Pyongyang if he believed there was a chance that, during his lifetime, a future Democratic administration would swoop in and undo it all? Humiliating him? I do not.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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"Sorry, but we can't release the Epstein Files. We've been too busy tearing down the White House, causing people's healthcare premiums to skyrocket, attacking trans people, causing hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, and renaming an art center, so we haven't had time to redact them."
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"Sorry, but we can't release the Epstein Files. We've been too busy tearing down the White House, causing people's healthcare premiums to skyrocket, attacking trans people, causing hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, and renaming an art center, so we haven't had time to redact them."
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We can trust Trump's judgment!
After all, when has he ever been wrong about the guilt of people for whom he's demanded a death penalty?
After all, when has he ever been wrong about the guilt of people for whom he's demanded a death penalty?
December 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We can trust Trump's judgment!
After all, when has he ever been wrong about the guilt of people for whom he's demanded a death penalty?
After all, when has he ever been wrong about the guilt of people for whom he's demanded a death penalty?
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“That is the most insidious corruption…Trumpism gets its defenders to insist terrible things could never happen…Until Trump does the thing. At which point these same people insist the thing which could never happen must happen. That it is right, good and necessary.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center
The dystopia everyone said was impossible is already here.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“That is the most insidious corruption…Trumpism gets its defenders to insist terrible things could never happen…Until Trump does the thing. At which point these same people insist the thing which could never happen must happen. That it is right, good and necessary.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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I’m old enough to remember when Mitt Romney said the problem was that 47% of America didn’t pay taxes and wanted to be freeloaders. But I welcome him to the resistance.
Mitt Romney is in the New York Times saying we should tax the rich.
December 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I’m old enough to remember when Mitt Romney said the problem was that 47% of America didn’t pay taxes and wanted to be freeloaders. But I welcome him to the resistance.
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People are finding out where ICE agents are staying and giving them hell all night long in Minnesota
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
People are finding out where ICE agents are staying and giving them hell all night long in Minnesota
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responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
December 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.
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a month ago
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
a month ago
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We had Clinton, Blinken… I cannot physically imagine them.. anyway.
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We had Clinton, Blinken… I cannot physically imagine them.. anyway.
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Russian will love it.
December 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Russian will love it.
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Everything’s fine…
December 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Everything’s fine…
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yelling that Trump is doing something "against the law" is meaningless if there are no consequences
December 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
yelling that Trump is doing something "against the law" is meaningless if there are no consequences
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IF YOU READ NO OTHER PORTION OF THE EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT, read this one.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
IF YOU READ NO OTHER PORTION OF THE EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT, read this one.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
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Guess we're not shocked to discover that this guy is a supporter of Nick "When I Turn 30, I'm Going To Marry A 16-Year Old" Fuentes.
December 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Guess we're not shocked to discover that this guy is a supporter of Nick "When I Turn 30, I'm Going To Marry A 16-Year Old" Fuentes.
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Despite being routinely ignored by governments when inconvenient, the fact remains that collective punishment is illegal under international humanitarian law, prohibited by the Geneva Conventions and customary international law.
The admin is wasting no crisis... Sec. Kristi Noem said she is suspending the diversity visa lottery program (DV-1) after the Brown University suspect entered the U.S. through it in 2017.
December 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Despite being routinely ignored by governments when inconvenient, the fact remains that collective punishment is illegal under international humanitarian law, prohibited by the Geneva Conventions and customary international law.
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Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."
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“This is nothing more than a cover up to protect Donald Trump from his ugly past.”
Jeffrey Epstein: Dems say DOJ breaking law with plan to release files over time
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/j...
Jeffrey Epstein: Dems say DOJ breaking law with plan to release files over time
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/j...
Jeffrey Epstein: Dems say DOJ breaking law with plan to release files over time
President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November.
www.cnbc.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“This is nothing more than a cover up to protect Donald Trump from his ugly past.”
Jeffrey Epstein: Dems say DOJ breaking law with plan to release files over time
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/j...
Jeffrey Epstein: Dems say DOJ breaking law with plan to release files over time
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/j...
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domestic use of this power is next on his list
Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
domestic use of this power is next on his list