@alwaysthinking.bsky.social
Always thinking-nonfiction-reading fiction writer. Reduce GHGE, tax the oligarchy, end mis/disinfo. Stop reaching across the aisle to a party that wants your annihilation. Fight with the ruthlessness of the enemy but with the moral center of a democracy.
Real talk about lobbyists buying the Justice Department. The USA--it's all for sale.
The Department of Justice called for a breakup of Live Nation’s business lines, so it couldn’t leverage them to get better deals at the expense of promoters, venues, artists, and fans. But MAGA’s lobbying machine was already on its way to another win.
Trump Justice Department Poised to Preserve Ticketmaster Monopoly - The American Prospect
Settlement talks on a monopolization case against Live Nation are under way, with Kellyanne Conway and other MAGA lobbyists seeking a sweetheart deal.
buff.ly
February 16, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Real talk about lobbyists buying the Justice Department. The USA--it's all for sale.
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There’s no single panacea that can turn around the shrinking job numbers in the rest of the economy. buff.ly/TqpJmCD
Our Sick Economy
The number of jobs in health care continues to grow. Almost everywhere else, they’re shrinking.
buff.ly
February 16, 2026 at 10:45 AM
There’s no single panacea that can turn around the shrinking job numbers in the rest of the economy. buff.ly/TqpJmCD
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Denying baseline annual funding is still a substantial cut for ICE and CBP, and the longer it persists, the deeper the funding reduction will be. Democrats should stick to this line. buff.ly/vlEu2vN
The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded
Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.
buff.ly
February 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Denying baseline annual funding is still a substantial cut for ICE and CBP, and the longer it persists, the deeper the funding reduction will be. Democrats should stick to this line. buff.ly/vlEu2vN
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It’s absolutely POURING here in midcity LA. I hope everyone who has to go out in this stays safe. Be careful at intersections and in the rightmost lanes, that’s where the flooding is generally worst.
February 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
It’s absolutely POURING here in midcity LA. I hope everyone who has to go out in this stays safe. Be careful at intersections and in the rightmost lanes, that’s where the flooding is generally worst.
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Friends: for the last four years, my friend Adam has been helping a family evacuated from Kabul. The dad served alongside US military. Their green cards stalled and they now face deportation. We’re raising funds for legal help to file asylum and keep them safe.
Please consider giving and sharing:
Please consider giving and sharing:
Donate to Support Legal Aid for Afghan Family's Asylum, organized by Adam Goldstein
The Afghan family of five I have been working with since 2021 needs help. … Adam Goldstein needs your support for Support Legal Aid for Afghan Family's Asylum
www.gofundme.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Friends: for the last four years, my friend Adam has been helping a family evacuated from Kabul. The dad served alongside US military. Their green cards stalled and they now face deportation. We’re raising funds for legal help to file asylum and keep them safe.
Please consider giving and sharing:
Please consider giving and sharing:
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If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
February 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Tomorrow on my live podcast: History Matters:
CONTEMPT AND POWER
Wednesday's Bondi hearing was a 2-hour display of open contempt for We the People.
The USA has a long history of contempt's use as a political weapon.
Join us for more
Friday 10:00 AM ET
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1v...
CONTEMPT AND POWER
Wednesday's Bondi hearing was a 2-hour display of open contempt for We the People.
The USA has a long history of contempt's use as a political weapon.
Join us for more
Friday 10:00 AM ET
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1v...
Contempt and Power
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Tomorrow on my live podcast: History Matters:
CONTEMPT AND POWER
Wednesday's Bondi hearing was a 2-hour display of open contempt for We the People.
The USA has a long history of contempt's use as a political weapon.
Join us for more
Friday 10:00 AM ET
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1v...
CONTEMPT AND POWER
Wednesday's Bondi hearing was a 2-hour display of open contempt for We the People.
The USA has a long history of contempt's use as a political weapon.
Join us for more
Friday 10:00 AM ET
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1v...
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Pam Bondi didn’t show up to serve the public, she showed up to perform for Donald Trump. I break it down in my new essay.
When the Nation’s Top Lawyer Treats Ethics as Optional
How a decade of ethical evasion paved the way for Pam Bondi’s partisan performance
andrewweinstein.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Pam Bondi didn’t show up to serve the public, she showed up to perform for Donald Trump. I break it down in my new essay.
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Glorious.
So the LAPD Police Chief Jim McDonnell said he wasn't going to enforce the law in California that requires #ICE to unmask.
Here's some of the response.
What do you think about what's being said by Angelinos like Catie Laffoon
⚠️ Warning ⚠️
Strong language
Here's some of the response.
What do you think about what's being said by Angelinos like Catie Laffoon
⚠️ Warning ⚠️
Strong language
February 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Glorious.
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AOC to @premthakker.bsky.social: Pam Bondi was behaving so erratically at a hearing today because she knows she’s implicated in a cover-up to protect a pedophile ring by redacting perpetrators’ names, withholding files, and unexplainably transferring Ghislaine Maxwell to a cushy facility.
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
AOC to @premthakker.bsky.social: Pam Bondi was behaving so erratically at a hearing today because she knows she’s implicated in a cover-up to protect a pedophile ring by redacting perpetrators’ names, withholding files, and unexplainably transferring Ghislaine Maxwell to a cushy facility.
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"RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES COULD COLLAPSE THE WHOLE SYSTEM!"
ME: "Yeah... and?"
ME: "Yeah... and?"
February 12, 2026 at 12:44 AM
"RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES COULD COLLAPSE THE WHOLE SYSTEM!"
ME: "Yeah... and?"
ME: "Yeah... and?"
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I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?
"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
February 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?
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ICYMI: “KAMPALA, Uganda -- Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya, with cattle-keeping communities in the northeast the hardest hit, according to the United Nations and others.” abcnews.com/Internationa... - ABC News
#Africa #Drought #Kenya
#Africa #Drought #Kenya
Animals dying in Kenya as drought conditions leave many hungry
Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya
abcnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:11 AM
ICYMI: “KAMPALA, Uganda -- Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya, with cattle-keeping communities in the northeast the hardest hit, according to the United Nations and others.” abcnews.com/Internationa... - ABC News
#Africa #Drought #Kenya
#Africa #Drought #Kenya
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Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says
Poland will launch an investigation into possible links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence, as well as any impact on Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tues...
www.reuters.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
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Just sent this out, mostly free. The Epstein files show just how close he was to Russian sources. They also make it clear that Epstein represented a historic opportunity to collect Kompromat on the rich and famous. Nothing would terrify a narcissist more. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Why Does A Narcissist Accept Humiliation? Epstein Might Be The Answer.
Doe the Risk of Greater Humiliation Loom...
open.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Just sent this out, mostly free. The Epstein files show just how close he was to Russian sources. They also make it clear that Epstein represented a historic opportunity to collect Kompromat on the rich and famous. Nothing would terrify a narcissist more. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
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Refreshing to see criminal and journalistic investigations go forward in Norway. The scandal is meaningful and there is a meaningful response. All of us should do so well.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Two senior Norwegian diplomats being investigated over Epstein links
Financial crimes squad investigate husband and wife in connection to alleged relationship with late sex offender
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Refreshing to see criminal and journalistic investigations go forward in Norway. The scandal is meaningful and there is a meaningful response. All of us should do so well.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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A grand jury in Washington, D.C. has refused to indict six members of Congress, delivering another blow to Donald Trump’s revenge agenda. This is proof that the legal system is still working, thanks to citizens standing strong against the abuse of power. youtube.com/shorts/rWBwq...
Another blow to the Trump revenge agenda
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:13 AM
A grand jury in Washington, D.C. has refused to indict six members of Congress, delivering another blow to Donald Trump’s revenge agenda. This is proof that the legal system is still working, thanks to citizens standing strong against the abuse of power. youtube.com/shorts/rWBwq...
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Hegemonic suicide.
National Laboratory of the Rockies lays off 130 employees #energysky -- via pv-tech:
National Laboratory of the Rockies lays off 130 employees
The National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), previously known as the National Renewable Energy Lab, has laid off 134 employees.
www.pv-tech.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Hegemonic suicide.
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Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...