Allen Gathman
@agathman.bsky.social
Retired genetics professor. I spend my time birding, reading, growing native plants, cooking, singing in a community chorus, playing mountain dulcimer, biking, kayaking. My wife and I are blue dots in very red SE Missouri. He/him.
“Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, posted: “Foreign nations now have to deal with rival factions of the U.S. government who keep major policy initiatives secret from each other and some of which work with foreign powers”
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, posted: “Foreign nations now have to deal with rival factions of the U.S. government who keep major policy initiatives secret from each other and some of which work with foreign powers”
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The Trump admin keeps making things worse as they try to lie their way out of the crisis around the so-called Ukraine “peace plan.” We break it all down, and dissect all the weekend’s news, in today’s bulletin. We’ve made this one 100% paywall free: www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The Trump admin keeps making things worse as they try to lie their way out of the crisis around the so-called Ukraine “peace plan.” We break it all down, and dissect all the weekend’s news, in today’s bulletin. We’ve made this one 100% paywall free: www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...
Breaking news! Well-known misogynistic asshole acts like misogynistic asshole!
Trump faces criticism for referring to female Bloomberg reporter as ‘piggy’
Critics accuse the US president of trying to ‘shut women journalists up’ with ‘demeaning language’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Breaking news! Well-known misogynistic asshole acts like misogynistic asshole!
Sunrise in SE Missouri.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Sunrise in SE Missouri.
Maybe someone needs to tell him that there’s no “Nobel War Prize.”
President Trump has escalated his attacks on Nigeria as he threatened to invade Africa’s most populous country and “wipe out” Islamist groups killing Christians
Trump threatens to ‘wipe out’ Islamic terrorists in Nigeria invasion
www.thetimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Maybe someone needs to tell him that there’s no “Nobel War Prize.”
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November 4, 2025
November 4, 2025 (Tuesday)
So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
November 4, 2025
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Krugman on how Trump lost the trade war paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-we-los...
How We Lost the Trade War
Tariff uncertainty may be waning, but the damage will persist
paulkrugman.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Krugman on how Trump lost the trade war paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-we-los...
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Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
20 Billion dollars for Argentina, and Trump won’t spend the 6 billion available for food stamps. But you get a huge ballroom for rich donors.
October 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
20 Billion dollars for Argentina, and Trump won’t spend the 6 billion available for food stamps. But you get a huge ballroom for rich donors.
Look out, sailor. Dawn in SE Missouri.
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Look out, sailor. Dawn in SE Missouri.
Remind me, when did Congress declare war on Venezuela? Or authorize the President to take military action against them?
The US is ordering an aircraft carrier strike group to the Caribbean region, defense secretary says, as Trump ramps up pressure campaign https://cnn.it/47k1A7t
October 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Remind me, when did Congress declare war on Venezuela? Or authorize the President to take military action against them?
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WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
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“If People See the Capitol Going On, It Is a Sign That We Intend the Union Shall Go On.”
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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“If People See the Capitol Going On, It Is a Sign That We Intend the Union Shall Go On.”
Lincoln completed the construction of the Capitol Building during the Civil War. Trump is tearing down "The People's House" during a federal shutdown.
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“If People See the Capitol Going On, It Is a Sign That We Intend the Union Shall Go On.”
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.
“This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement.”
“This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement.”
Opinion | Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.
“This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement.”
“This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement.”
Sunrise at Pioneer Forest Virgin Pine - Randolph Tract, Shannon County, MO.
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Sunrise at Pioneer Forest Virgin Pine - Randolph Tract, Shannon County, MO.
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Trump just upped his bail-out for Argentina from $20 billion to $40 billion. Argentina has government run healthcare that's available to all Argentinians.
Yet Trump has shut down the American government while trying to take healthcare away from millions of Americans.
What say you, Republicans?
Yet Trump has shut down the American government while trying to take healthcare away from millions of Americans.
What say you, Republicans?
October 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Trump just upped his bail-out for Argentina from $20 billion to $40 billion. Argentina has government run healthcare that's available to all Argentinians.
Yet Trump has shut down the American government while trying to take healthcare away from millions of Americans.
What say you, Republicans?
Yet Trump has shut down the American government while trying to take healthcare away from millions of Americans.
What say you, Republicans?
My dad (left) and uncle in their Antifa uniforms, 1941.
October 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
My dad (left) and uncle in their Antifa uniforms, 1941.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Gov. Pritzker: "The Insurrection Act is called the Insurrection Act for a reason — there has to be an insurrection in order for [Trump] to be allowed to invoke it. He can say anything he wants, but if the Constitution means anything...the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked."
October 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Gov. Pritzker: "The Insurrection Act is called the Insurrection Act for a reason — there has to be an insurrection in order for [Trump] to be allowed to invoke it. He can say anything he wants, but if the Constitution means anything...the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked."
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October 5, 2025
October 5, 2025
On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
October 5, 2025
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Dude what is wrong with you. It is completely and explicitly illegal. The letter of the law can't be more clear.
It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
By Alan Rappeport
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Dude what is wrong with you. It is completely and explicitly illegal. The letter of the law can't be more clear.
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October 3, 2025
Although President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM