Chris Lombardi
@chrisblue.bsky.social
Bronx-born Philadelphian. #Journalist. #Author of 'brilliant but disturbing' books from The New Press and Mumblers Press. No longer on Substack; find me on Medium, WagingNonviolence.org, On Watch, and an oped near you. #Disabled from 40 yrs of MS.
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Why hasn't Mamdani condemned QR code menus at restaurants? An anxious public wants to know.
The Mamdani discourse is a lot, but it reflects a general lack of Democratic leadership elsewhere.
With an inspiring Democratic president, powerful leaders in the House and Senate and a charismatic DNC chair, there wouldn't be such focus on the New York City mayor. We don't have any of the former.
With an inspiring Democratic president, powerful leaders in the House and Senate and a charismatic DNC chair, there wouldn't be such focus on the New York City mayor. We don't have any of the former.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
4/ PRC state media signalled support for independence movements on Japan’s Ryukyu islands as part of the CCP coercion of Tokyo. This PRC rhetoric threatens Japanese sovereignty and may be part of an effort to erode Japanese control there.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"Two Trump-appointed judges Neomi Rao and Gregory Katsas spent Monday suggesting that the president can ban journalists from covering him purely because he dislikes their opinions."
I’m a Desert Storm veteran and former journalist. What happened in the courts today is barely being covered. I’m asking you to read this and share it. Press freedom is on life support and the public needs to know. I am asking to please share this.
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Letters From the Edge: When Courts Become Collaborators: How Trump Judges Are Killing Press Freedom
Two Trump-appointed judges just argued that the First Amendment stops where the president’s irritation begins.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"Two Trump-appointed judges Neomi Rao and Gregory Katsas spent Monday suggesting that the president can ban journalists from covering him purely because he dislikes their opinions."
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
As better folk than I have noticed, this is all about gender, and Hegseth's need to "cultivate masculine values."
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Pete Hegseth Has Found the Real Enemy: The Scouts
The Defense secretary is cutting the U.S. military’s ties with the group because it’s too “woke” or something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
As better folk than I have noticed, this is all about gender, and Hegseth's need to "cultivate masculine values."
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Harrowing, unsurprising. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
She Tried to Leave America. She Entered an Immigration Hall of Mirrors.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Harrowing, unsurprising. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"Why the administration has responded so hysterically to this ad is obvious. Trump and Hegseth do not merely believe that they should be free to give illegal orders and that the rank and file should have to follow them." (1)
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump and Hegseth’s Hysterical Reaction to an Ad
For the president and his minions, loyalty is more important than legality.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Why the administration has responded so hysterically to this ad is obvious. Trump and Hegseth do not merely believe that they should be free to give illegal orders and that the rank and file should have to follow them." (1)
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
[email protected] - USPTO Wants To Make Bad Patents Unchallengeable. You Have Until December 2nd To Tell Them No. | Techdirt
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USPTO Wants To Make Bad Patents Unchallengeable. You Have Until December 2nd To Tell Them No.
The US Patent Office is about to gut the only effective tool we have for killing bad patents—and they’re doing it by administrative fiat, without Congress, in a way that would make patent tro…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
[email protected] - USPTO Wants To Make Bad Patents Unchallengeable. You Have Until December 2nd To Tell Them No. | Techdirt
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www.techdirt.com/2025/11/25/u...
Some good tips for Thursday wagingnonviolence.org/2025/11/lets...
Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tools for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Some good tips for Thursday wagingnonviolence.org/2025/11/lets...
[email protected] - Here's the Guardian doing the same thing. And also refusing to use any pronouns for the trans teen victim. bsky.app/profile/theg...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
[email protected] - Here's the Guardian doing the same thing. And also refusing to use any pronouns for the trans teen victim. bsky.app/profile/theg...
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[email protected] A Vance crony with zero diplomatic experience is now leading Ukraine peace talks w. Russia. This is amateur hour at its most dangerous,putting a law school buddy in charge of global security while they negotiate a deal that's like a Putin wish list.
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Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
[email protected] A Vance crony with zero diplomatic experience is now leading Ukraine peace talks w. Russia. This is amateur hour at its most dangerous,putting a law school buddy in charge of global security while they negotiate a deal that's like a Putin wish list.
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Chrisblue - Because punishing BIPOC is more important than knowing who's hurt
[The Washington Post] FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
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[The Washington Post] FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
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FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
The decision to halt disaster assessment work came amid the immigration crackdown in Chicago. Officials worried FEMA’s efforts could put residents and surveyors at risk.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Chrisblue - Because punishing BIPOC is more important than knowing who's hurt
[The Washington Post] FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
[The Washington Post] FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
I can't stop crying about DJT's CECOT joke.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I can't stop crying about DJT's CECOT joke.
Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
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Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
The proposal, which was first detailed in the Wall Street Journal, could harm transgender people even in blue states if it becomes part of the negotiated deal.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Republicans Privately Pushing Anti-Trans Funding Ban For ACA Subsidy Deal After Shutdown Compromise
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They made significantly more criminal arrests this year, but the number of people indicted stayed roughly flat. They opened many fewer “significant cases”—like into global crime syndicates like drug cartels—than the previous year. Human trafficking arrests up, but agents helped 20% fewer victims.
Amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown, special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
@MarjorieCohn writes the sort of piece that I still might write, citing examples from our proud history
Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty truthout.org/articles/sol...
Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty truthout.org/articles/sol...
Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty
I have been called to testify at courts-martial as an expert witness on servicemembers’ duty to disobey unlawful orders.
truthout.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
@MarjorieCohn writes the sort of piece that I still might write, citing examples from our proud history
Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty truthout.org/articles/sol...
Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty truthout.org/articles/sol...
If you’d just serve the people instead of the donor class, you wouldn’t need the donor class. A million $20 donors beats one $10M donor every time.
Schumer & Gillibrand facing mutiny from Dems over their outdated “corporate-friendly” playbook, refusal to back Zohran, etc.
Long overdue. @schumer.senate.gov
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Long overdue. @schumer.senate.gov
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November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Snif
"The very fact that this nefarious, ethically vacant man — a man who wears his venality on his sleeve — could twice win the presidency and in all likelihood retire with billions in ill-gotten gains suggests that America is dangerously close to falling into a political sinkhole."
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Pete Hegseth keeps demanding to be taken seriously and then spends all his time talking down to accomplished military leaders, rebranding his department and renaming ships, engaging in culture wars bullshit, shitting all over the military's sense of ethics and generally making an ass of himself.
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
DOGE May Be Dead, but Its Crimes Live On newrepublic.com/article/2036... via @newrepublic.com
DOGE May Be Dead, but Its Crimes Live On
A now-abolished agency that never was did a remarkable amount of damage—including, surprisingly, to the budget deficit.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
DOGE May Be Dead, but Its Crimes Live On newrepublic.com/article/2036... via @newrepublic.com
🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thanks, West Point grad @charlotteclymer.bsky.social Pete Hegseth's Latest Little Punk-Ass Move charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
Pete Hegseth's Latest Little Punk-Ass Move
The incompetence will continue until morale improves.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thanks, West Point grad @charlotteclymer.bsky.social Pete Hegseth's Latest Little Punk-Ass Move charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
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In the U.S., Nothing Says Human Rights Abuse Like Ensuring Reproductive Freedom!
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
No amount of fearmongering can take away from the fact that Social Security is reliable, timely, efficient, and has never missed a payment in its 90-year history.
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It would be easy for me to pick on RFK Jr. when it comes to autism. But his lies about the CDC is part of a larger rollback on the idea of #Neurodiversity and Autism Acceptance.
OPINION by Eric Garcia, author and senior correspondent for The Independent:
“The current administration focuses on ways autism can be terrible, as if those are the only accurate barometers of a decent life.”
READ MORE:
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“The current administration focuses on ways autism can be terrible, as if those are the only accurate barometers of a decent life.”
READ MORE:
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November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM