adepsis
@adepsis.bsky.social
We are not locked in here with them. They are locked in here with us.
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adepsis
@adepsis.bsky.social
· Mar 26
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
The news media *in particular* needs to remember this and report on them accordingly instead of like some royal edict that becomes objective reality before the ink dries.
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RFK Jr described by those who know him best:
"A liar and a terrible human being"
"Messianic self-regard"
"Sadly off his rocker"
"A predator addicted to attention and power"
"Sickening and destructive"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
"A liar and a terrible human being"
"Messianic self-regard"
"Sadly off his rocker"
"A predator addicted to attention and power"
"Sickening and destructive"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Most Powerful Man in Science
Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so convinced he’s right?
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
RFK Jr described by those who know him best:
"A liar and a terrible human being"
"Messianic self-regard"
"Sadly off his rocker"
"A predator addicted to attention and power"
"Sickening and destructive"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
"A liar and a terrible human being"
"Messianic self-regard"
"Sadly off his rocker"
"A predator addicted to attention and power"
"Sickening and destructive"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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A Democrat's Democrat.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A Democrat's Democrat.
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Trump wasn’t involved, couldn’t have known, isn’t at fault for the awful Ukraine plan negotiated by his envoy, VP, and son in law?
He’s the president! And the plan fits his longrunning Putin-sympathetic stance!
I second @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Making excuses for Trump is insane and harmful.
He’s the president! And the plan fits his longrunning Putin-sympathetic stance!
I second @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Making excuses for Trump is insane and harmful.
Just sent out this free piece. When the stories of the 28-point plan were first written, too many people went into overdrive to try and make excuses for Trump (He was not informed! He was not involved!). open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
We Seem Intent On Making Excuses For Trump Until He Destroys Us
Phillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Trump wasn’t involved, couldn’t have known, isn’t at fault for the awful Ukraine plan negotiated by his envoy, VP, and son in law?
He’s the president! And the plan fits his longrunning Putin-sympathetic stance!
I second @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Making excuses for Trump is insane and harmful.
He’s the president! And the plan fits his longrunning Putin-sympathetic stance!
I second @phillipspobrien.bsky.social. Making excuses for Trump is insane and harmful.
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"The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Anti-socialism update:
Anti-socialism update:
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Anti-socialism update:
Anti-socialism update:
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By the way, Ken Burns’ next documentary series is apparently in the can — LBJ & The Great Society
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
LBJ & the Great Society - Ken Burns
This three-part, six-hour series will chronicle the life and times of Lyndon B. Johnson, one of the most capable, colorful, and controversial men ever to occupy the White House. A figure of extraordin...
kenburns.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
By the way, Ken Burns’ next documentary series is apparently in the can — LBJ & The Great Society
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
kenburns.com/films/lbj-th...
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SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”
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“Let’s drop the honorific “Mr. President” when we’re addressing or discussing a man who defiles the Constitution, blows up every norm, and torments Americans,” writes Jen Rubin in her latest.
Words & Phrases We Can Do Without
‘Mr. President’? Not for this brute.
contrarian.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“Let’s drop the honorific “Mr. President” when we’re addressing or discussing a man who defiles the Constitution, blows up every norm, and torments Americans,” writes Jen Rubin in her latest.
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Time to write the script for a John Wick Christmas movie where he runs a small-town bakery. His brusque demeanor belies his delicate and delicious pâte à choux and he helps the locals find true love over hot chocolate and pâtisserie.
Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson charm in Tinsel Town, a winsome holiday comedy about a faded action hero learning to love the season again.
‘Tinsel Town’ Review: Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson Charm in an Overstuffed but Winsome Holiday Comedy
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when you can’t walk into a multiplex or turn on your television (especially the Hallmark Channel) without encountering a movie determined to make you feel good about the holidays. It can all make you feel as Scrooge-like as washed-up Hollywood action movie star Brad Mac, the protagonist in Chris Foggin’s new addition to the overcrowded genre. It’s no spoiler to reveal that by the end of Tinsel Town (a cute punning title), Brad has learned to embrace the holiday, even if it means having to appear in a British pantomime show.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Time to write the script for a John Wick Christmas movie where he runs a small-town bakery. His brusque demeanor belies his delicate and delicious pâte à choux and he helps the locals find true love over hot chocolate and pâtisserie.
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Dear America,
You know how I know you don’t know how to run the whole government and you need experts to do most of it for you? I can’t even get a handful of people in the entire country to *read their municipal budget.* And that’s fine, until we let morons carve up your government.
❤️,
LocalGov
You know how I know you don’t know how to run the whole government and you need experts to do most of it for you? I can’t even get a handful of people in the entire country to *read their municipal budget.* And that’s fine, until we let morons carve up your government.
❤️,
LocalGov
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Dear America,
You know how I know you don’t know how to run the whole government and you need experts to do most of it for you? I can’t even get a handful of people in the entire country to *read their municipal budget.* And that’s fine, until we let morons carve up your government.
❤️,
LocalGov
You know how I know you don’t know how to run the whole government and you need experts to do most of it for you? I can’t even get a handful of people in the entire country to *read their municipal budget.* And that’s fine, until we let morons carve up your government.
❤️,
LocalGov
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It is unsettling. What’s her name?
Deeply unsettled by this older photo of Mike Johnson with a beard.
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It is unsettling. What’s her name?
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Not sure if it's journalistic best practice to frame "proof of involvement in a decades-long ring of powerful child rapists" as "the greatest challenge to his legacy."
Unless you're trying to actively help him overcome it, I think it should rightly be framed as the final word on his legacy.
Unless you're trying to actively help him overcome it, I think it should rightly be framed as the final word on his legacy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Not sure if it's journalistic best practice to frame "proof of involvement in a decades-long ring of powerful child rapists" as "the greatest challenge to his legacy."
Unless you're trying to actively help him overcome it, I think it should rightly be framed as the final word on his legacy.
Unless you're trying to actively help him overcome it, I think it should rightly be framed as the final word on his legacy.
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
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DOGE’s goals included genocide: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
DOGE’s goals included genocide: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
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Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro received a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt. Relatives of the 700,000 COVID-19 dead say his conviction, though separate to the pandemic, offers vindication. n.pr/4pmyAU4
Bolsonaro's conviction brings vindication for some Brazilians who lost loved ones to COVID-19
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro received a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt. Relatives of the 700,000 COVID-19 dead say his conviction, though separate to the pandemic, offers vindication.
n.pr
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro received a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt. Relatives of the 700,000 COVID-19 dead say his conviction, though separate to the pandemic, offers vindication. n.pr/4pmyAU4
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For the journalism schools:
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
For the journalism schools:
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
It is real:
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
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November 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The New York Times and other news outlets often write generic headlines on their fact checks instead of stating what their reporting found. In this case, the NYT story says flat-out that Trump is claiming falsely that consumer prices are down. Say that in the headline!
Fact-Checking Trump’s Latest Claims on Affordability
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The New York Times and other news outlets often write generic headlines on their fact checks instead of stating what their reporting found. In this case, the NYT story says flat-out that Trump is claiming falsely that consumer prices are down. Say that in the headline!
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👇👇👇 Of course he did.
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
👇👇👇 Of course he did.