Yoni Blumberg
@yblumberg.bsky.social
💭 how might we foster (r)evolution towards a more loving and just world?
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committed to collective wellbeing and ecological justice 🌱💛🌏
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chaotic good 🥸🙂
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committed to collective wellbeing and ecological justice 🌱💛🌏
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chaotic good 🥸🙂
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Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement
Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
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This administration can’t pretend it cares about anti-trust only when it helps allies.
If Netflix is too big to own Warner Bros, then so is Paramount/Skydance.
If Netflix is too big to own Warner Bros, then so is Paramount/Skydance.
The Orban playbook: use the regulatory powers of the state to ensure media is owned by your allies who turn it into propaganda for the regime.
Here’s Trump intervening to help his ally Ellison’s bid for Warner Bros (and CNN).
Here’s Trump intervening to help his ally Ellison’s bid for Warner Bros (and CNN).
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This administration can’t pretend it cares about anti-trust only when it helps allies.
If Netflix is too big to own Warner Bros, then so is Paramount/Skydance.
If Netflix is too big to own Warner Bros, then so is Paramount/Skydance.
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The Orban playbook: use the regulatory powers of the state to ensure media is owned by your allies who turn it into propaganda for the regime.
Here’s Trump intervening to help his ally Ellison’s bid for Warner Bros (and CNN).
Here’s Trump intervening to help his ally Ellison’s bid for Warner Bros (and CNN).
December 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Orban playbook: use the regulatory powers of the state to ensure media is owned by your allies who turn it into propaganda for the regime.
Here’s Trump intervening to help his ally Ellison’s bid for Warner Bros (and CNN).
Here’s Trump intervening to help his ally Ellison’s bid for Warner Bros (and CNN).
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A lot of what Trump is doing can be called next-level awful, at least in its egregiousness.
But one thing he's about to do that no president has ever done. And it's something Republicans have dreamt about doing forever.
Millions of Americans are about to be intentionally uninsured by the GOP.
But one thing he's about to do that no president has ever done. And it's something Republicans have dreamt about doing forever.
Millions of Americans are about to be intentionally uninsured by the GOP.
For the first time in US history, the GOP is intentionally uninsuring millions of Americans
Paul Ryan's wettest dream is about to come true. And it's everything Ted Cruz tried to prevent.
www.thefarce.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
A lot of what Trump is doing can be called next-level awful, at least in its egregiousness.
But one thing he's about to do that no president has ever done. And it's something Republicans have dreamt about doing forever.
Millions of Americans are about to be intentionally uninsured by the GOP.
But one thing he's about to do that no president has ever done. And it's something Republicans have dreamt about doing forever.
Millions of Americans are about to be intentionally uninsured by the GOP.
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President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”
Reporter: You have made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the US—
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”
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Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
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No kidding!
"Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
"Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
No kidding!
"Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
"Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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There’s a lot of angst about climate not being at the forefront anymore but this issue is squarely a climate issue and every climate person should be able to make that case/link.
And, hell yeah, public power!
And, hell yeah, public power!
Electricity is the new price of eggs.
Voters need your political position on the price of electricity and utility bills.
A real solution? Publicly-owned utilities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Voters need your political position on the price of electricity and utility bills.
A real solution? Publicly-owned utilities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
There’s a lot of angst about climate not being at the forefront anymore but this issue is squarely a climate issue and every climate person should be able to make that case/link.
And, hell yeah, public power!
And, hell yeah, public power!
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Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
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An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
Jamie Dimon says JPM hasn't given to the ballroom because "anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful about how anything is perceived." Adds "And also how the next DOJ is going to deal with."
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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Then prosecuted. Time to start saying it.
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Then prosecuted. Time to start saying it.
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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This is explicitly confirming the allegation: that he's ordering the killings for their own sake. The logical implication of which is hit them again if there are any survivors, which is both exactly what the Post reported and a cold-blooded textbook war crime.
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This is explicitly confirming the allegation: that he's ordering the killings for their own sake. The logical implication of which is hit them again if there are any survivors, which is both exactly what the Post reported and a cold-blooded textbook war crime.
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Another Indiana Republican Senator makes it clear he’s still opposing the GOP push to re-gerrymander the state. dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Another Indiana Republican Senator makes it clear he’s still opposing the GOP push to re-gerrymander the state. dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
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Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
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They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!
"They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted and passed medical exams. None had criminal records. None had entered the country illegally. They had already been granted employment authorization." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!