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🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.

Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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spockresists.bsky.social
This year feels like the first year we are talking about the real issue.

Something we’ve known for years.

It’s the billionaires.

People are beginning to get it.

The culture war was created by them to divert the real issue.

Their greed. Their absolute and grotesque greed.
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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tvmojoe.bsky.social
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.

For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”

For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
The good news for Trump is that his overall approval hasn't fallen as steeply. The new poll found that 36% of Americans approve of the way he's handling his job as president, which is down slightly from 42% in March. That signals that even if some people aren't happy with elements of his approach, they might not be ready to say he's doing a bad job as president. And while discontent is increasing among Republicans on certain issues, they're largely still behind him. That 34% figure is even lower than his overall approval rating of 41%, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Biden's approval figures have barely moved for the past year and a half, a source of concern for a president pursuing a second term on his ability to govern and focus on workers. He wants voters to connect local roads and bridge projects, factory construction and the rise of electric vehicles and renewable energy to the millions of dollars in initiatives he signed into law during the first two years of his administration.
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
This is huge, right? They just Trump-proofed the Fed.
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
LOLOL. @dfriedman.bsky.social found that the Goodreads page tied to an email of a key Whiskey Pete advisor: it sandwiched Whiskey Pete's book between books about wife swapping!

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Screen cap of a Goodreads page. The six titles are: The Key West Wife Swap The War on Warriors Memoir of a Peacetime Soldier American Warfighter Living in Thailand 2 Thai Wife Sharing
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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molly.wiki
Dear Judge Engelmayer, Your Honor, I stand here today not just as a victim of financial fraud, but as a daughter whose world was irrevocably shattered. I ask you to look beyond the cold, hard numbers (i.e., the staggering sum of money that vanished) and see the human cost and lifelong agony that UST's depegging has caused. I am asking you to read these words not with professional detachment, but with the empathy I pray resides within the heart of any person witnessing such profound devastation. I remember the exact moment. It was May 2022, several days after my birthday. Suddenly, I saw a notification flash across my screen: UST had depegged from its $1 parity. In an instant, the value of everything I had worked for, everything my father had saved for, just obliterated into nothing. The shock was a physical blow. I felt my breath leave my body. Your Honor, I didn't think about my own savings at first. The first thought, the only thought, was of my father. And that is what almost drove me to end my own life. I did not consider taking my life over my own money loss, but over the catastrophic failure I brought upon my father...the man who deserved the world. He put $100k of his retirement savings into Anchor Protocol (due to my advice)...and now he is over 70 years old and he cannot fully retire. Because if he stops working, he can no longer afford to live. My father is a good man. A diligent man. For over sixty years, he worked tirelessly, building a modest nest egg for himself and my mother. He's an accountant by trade, a man of integrity, but he always yearned for more for his family. He tried to launch businesses (e.g., a laundromat franchise), but fate, or perhaps just cruel luck, always intervened. I remember when he entrusted a "friend," a supposed partner, with $50,000 for a business venture. The friend fled. Nothing came of it. My father was left to pick up the pieces, never once complaining, simply working harder. He saved for retirement through sheer, relent… My father, who had suffered a string of failed businesses, who carried the weight of a mortgage that pains him every single month. All I ever wanted, Your Honor, was to become successful enough to spoil him. To pay off his debt. To give him the happy retirement he earned and deserved. When I saw the depegging, that vision of a happy future was crushed. I felt the absolute, sickening certainty that I had failed him. I had delivered his lifelong savings into the hands of a scam. My father lost about $70,000 from his $100k savings. That number, $70,000, represents decades of his life, wiped out in the span of a single week! I wanted to crush myself into a ball, to vanish, to take away the pain I had caused him. Years later, the suffering continues. I am 35 years old now, engaged to be married, but I cannot afford the down payment on a home. I cannot afford a wedding. I cannot afford children. As much as it hurts me, I've come to terms with the fact that I can't financially support children nor own my own home. My father is continuing to freelance as an accountant. He's always fantasized about retiring in his 60s, but now that's a distant dream. And what's most miraculous, Your Honor, is that my father has never yelled at me or anything of the sort as someone who advised him about Anchor Protocol. He never blamed me for anything. He never complained. And oddly, that makes me feel even worse. He's just taking things day by day, and somehow, he still loves me ... and finds it in his heart to smile through the pain. His attitude is what kept me alive, Your Honor. If he lost $70k and he's still smiling (despite not having enough years left to recoup that money with hard work), I can lose over $30k and still be alright. Like all the other victims, I seek closure from this nightmare. I do not know exactly what that looks like. But perhaps Do Kwon's imprisonment may help bring some semblance of closure...an acknowledgment from the justice system that the harm done to families …
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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atrupar.com
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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look at this goofy shit
time’s 2025 “person of the year” cover is a terrible homage to “lunch atop a skyscraper” but with the “architects of ai” including elon, zuck, altman, the nvidia dude, and a bunch of other freaks in business suits. all of their bodies are horribly proportioned and the image generally looks like an awful photoshop, but we all know it’s probably genai
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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benjaminjriley.bsky.social
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." - Cory Doctorow

Entire speech is well worth reading.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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cascoinfoundation.org
“He’s joking.”

He talks about Jerome Powell and the Fed everyday.

“I know, but SCOTUS said no.”

Yeah, that doesn’t seem to stop him.

“Yeah, but he cares about markets.”

He doesn’t understand markets at all. Looks at tariffs.

“Okay true, but he has advisors.”

Who also don’t understand markets.
August 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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atrupar.com
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Jimmy Fallon with a Bored Ape NFT
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
Today, inspired by a WSJ story about rich people seeking exclusive, private experiences which keep them from having to interact with others, I wrote about how wealthy people are basically trying to buy their way out of civil society. That's bad, folks! www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
What gets me ranting about this stuff is not the mere fact that super rich people have crazy luxuries, because super rich people have always had crazy luxuries. It's more about how, these days, super rich people – and, increasingly, some not super rich people – are able to insulate themselves from the rest of society and avoid all of the things, be they bad or good, that create shared civic experiences. Almost every company or product offers elite status, a VIP section, or a priority line. We have political and economic incentives which increasingly encourage those with the means to take advantage of concierge healthcare plans and private schools. Those with even moderately good means can shop, dine, bank, and even vote without interacting with the public. Or, at the very least, the part of the public that is unlike themselves. Meanwhile, the instances in which people come together in commons spaces has decreased dramatically. Once upon a time just about everyone had to go to the main gate at the airport, the train station, the post office, hospitals, libraries, public schools, or any number of other places where the stuff of society happens and interact with people as rough equals irrespective of financial means. It's this very coming together in the public sphere that makes a society a society, and it's rapidly disappearing. To be sure, there have always been some very rich people who have been able to keep themselves separate and apart from the masses. The Gilded Age is probably the quintessential example of this. But it's going into overdrive in the new Digital Gilded Age in which we're living, with more and more people than ever being able to check out of civic society. Back in the day it was just the factory owner or the banker and their wastrel children living on a separate plane of existence. These days, however, the dynamic has spread into the lower executive and professional ranks, to where a great many people have siloed themselves off from the sort of everyday life almost all citizens once lived. What's more, there was once a time when holding oneself above, separate, and/or apart from everyone else like that would be something downplayed by the wealthy out of modesty or due to an obligatory nod to the conceit that the United States is not a class-based society. Today, however, being able to buy oneself out of the public sphere is considered a hallmark of success. An aspiration which is encouraged by an entire media and consumer ecosystem. I'm not above this. I've spent some time in airport lounges and VIP sections at concerts in recent years. I order more and more things online than I once did. There have been a handful of occasions when I've been able to take advantage of a private dining experience or some premium product or another, the primary selling point of which is skipping the line or avoiding the crowds. I've enjoyed it, but I feel ambivalent about it. Mostly because, however pleasant such exclusive experiences are for me in the moment, I feel that they're harmful. At least when exclusivity ceases to be a rare decadent treat and becomes the organizing principle of people's lives. I think the rise of this class apart is bad for a society which at least likes to think of itself as classless, democratic, and equal. I think that, because of it, the public sphere of life has broken down in many important respects. I think it's bad that we do not come together as a society across economic classes in anything approaching the way we did even as recently as the early 1980s, let alone the way we did in previous decades. I think it's bad for democracy and social health. It's bad because when we do not interact with others in meaningful ways, we are no longer truly stakeholders in the whole of society and we cease to be invested in our fellow man. The social and political ramifications of such a state of affairs are pretty obvious. When something is out of sight it falls out of mind. That includes other people. And when other people are an afterthought, that leads to some very dark places.
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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darkdementus.bsky.social
Sticking with Texas, State Rep James Talarico is a powerhouse communicator to keep an eye on

Very talented, very bright. A legitimate chance of being a future Senator and maybe even president one day

Here's a short, representative clip:
July 9, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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followtheh.bsky.social
It’s a $20 trillion robotics play
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 5d
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Inclusionary zoning* is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing shortage and drives up housing prices. It’s bad policy and we should stop doing it.
annepaulson.bsky.social Anne Paulson @annepaulson.bsky.social · 5d
The city of Los Altos charges an inclusionary fee $255,000 per unit for 1500 sq ft townhouses.
City of Los Altos Resolution charging $106 psf for multi-family rental units, $115 psf for condos, $170 psf for townhouses.
December 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
Thing Bad @Merman_Melville Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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cavandy.bsky.social
these ppl are very dumb
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
a graph showing the results described in the text
December 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
a graph showing the results described in the text
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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lordbusinessman.bsky.social
Honestly all of these guys being obviously high off of their gourds and the fact that he's going to die soon are the two points of optimism I have about America. These guys aren't titans of industry, they're just dudes on ket
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d
The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM