Larry Edwards
@fiddlinfriar.bsky.social
Larry M Edwards is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, editor, and he plays fiddle and bass, as well as enjoying bird photography. His most recent book is Chariot Canyon: A Rent Beacham Mystery. https://www.larryedwards.com
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A member of Congress could literally bet on their own vote and profit 10x. A White House aide could bet on a tariff decision before it’s announced. Theres ZERO oversight. This isn’t innovation, it’s legalized insider trading on democracy itself. Ban Kalshi politics
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Kalshi Is a Corruption Time Bomb—and Congress Is Sitting on It
A platform that lets insiders (and legislators) gamble on their own behavior is a threat to democracy.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A member of Congress could literally bet on their own vote and profit 10x. A White House aide could bet on a tariff decision before it’s announced. Theres ZERO oversight. This isn’t innovation, it’s legalized insider trading on democracy itself. Ban Kalshi politics
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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We have a lot in common with the United States right now. We also don’t have a GDP, employment or inflation report to share. Our GDP gross domestic poop (guano) is usually tracked, but our Government shut down for Macaroni Breeding season..a real freak off (bottles of sperm whale oil everywhere)
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
We have a lot in common with the United States right now. We also don’t have a GDP, employment or inflation report to share. Our GDP gross domestic poop (guano) is usually tracked, but our Government shut down for Macaroni Breeding season..a real freak off (bottles of sperm whale oil everywhere)
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If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
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The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
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@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social: Congressional Republicans are stuck with Donald Trump. And they know that it's hopeless. youtu.be/oggi16xiQtQ?...
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social: Congressional Republicans are stuck with Donald Trump. And they know that it's hopeless. youtu.be/oggi16xiQtQ?...
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
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PLEASE CONSIDER THIS YOUR NOT-SO-SUBTLE REMINDER THAT IF YOU WANT A BOOK THAT WILL NOT ADD TO YOUR EXISTENTIAL ANGST *WHILE* SOLVING A MYSTERY DURING THANKSGIVING: IT IS VIVIANA VALENTINE GOES UP THE RIVER. GET IT WHEREVER YOU WANT: tr.ee/1F7L9-CWs8
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
PLEASE CONSIDER THIS YOUR NOT-SO-SUBTLE REMINDER THAT IF YOU WANT A BOOK THAT WILL NOT ADD TO YOUR EXISTENTIAL ANGST *WHILE* SOLVING A MYSTERY DURING THANKSGIVING: IT IS VIVIANA VALENTINE GOES UP THE RIVER. GET IT WHEREVER YOU WANT: tr.ee/1F7L9-CWs8
I’m a Professor. #AI Has Changed My #Classroom, but Not for the Worse. My students’ easy access to #chatbots forced me to make #humanities #instruction even more human — thereby contributing to the comeback of the #bluebook. #education www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’m a Professor. #AI Has Changed My #Classroom, but Not for the Worse. My students’ easy access to #chatbots forced me to make #humanities #instruction even more human — thereby contributing to the comeback of the #bluebook. #education www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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#Trump Drops the Hammer on #Farmworkers: At the end of the season, he cut #wages of 400,000 workers by a third. The wage those workers will be paid when they return next year will three dollars less than they were paid this year. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers
At the end of the season, he cuts wages of 400,000 workers by a third.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#Trump Drops the Hammer on #Farmworkers: At the end of the season, he cut #wages of 400,000 workers by a third. The wage those workers will be paid when they return next year will three dollars less than they were paid this year. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The Real Reason #Trump Is Fawning Over #SaudiArabia’s Ruler: The story begins in the 1970s. He wants to use #energy as a tool for American leverage and, in his case, his own personal power. #BigOil www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | The Real Reason Trump Is Fawning Over Saudi Arabia’s Ruler
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November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Real Reason #Trump Is Fawning Over #SaudiArabia’s Ruler: The story begins in the 1970s. He wants to use #energy as a tool for American leverage and, in his case, his own personal power. #BigOil www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
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did you know you could log into your library app RIGHT NOW and borrow Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man in eBook? you should try it.
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
did you know you could log into your library app RIGHT NOW and borrow Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man in eBook? you should try it.
#Piggy Gets Polite: #Trump, remarkably, finds a new low. Trump loves to call people who annoy him “pigs” and “dogs,” and in the case of his inamorata #StormyDaniels, “horseface.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Piggy Gets Polite
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November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
#Piggy Gets Polite: #Trump, remarkably, finds a new low. Trump loves to call people who annoy him “pigs” and “dogs,” and in the case of his inamorata #StormyDaniels, “horseface.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
The Real #Epstein Cover-Up: Once again, we see how far this country will go to maintain the power of men at the expense of #women’s bodies. #Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up
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November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Real #Epstein Cover-Up: Once again, we see how far this country will go to maintain the power of men at the expense of #women’s bodies. #Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
#Trump’s #NevilleChamberlainPrize: If #Ukraine is, indeed, forced to surrender to the specific terms of this “deal” by then, #Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday. It will become a #Russian holiday. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize
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November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#Trump’s #NevilleChamberlainPrize: If #Ukraine is, indeed, forced to surrender to the specific terms of this “deal” by then, #Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday. It will become a #Russian holiday. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Stream These 5 Movies and TV Shows Before They Leave Netflix in December www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
Stream These 5 Movies and TV Shows Before They Leave Netflix in December
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November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Stream These 5 Movies and TV Shows Before They Leave Netflix in December www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
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10/10 no notes 🤣
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
10/10 no notes 🤣
The #AI Boom Is Driving the Economy. What Happens if It Falters? A windfall for companies that build #datacenters and their suppliers is overshadowing weakness in other industries. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
The A.I. Boom Is Driving the Economy. What Happens if It Falters?
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November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The #AI Boom Is Driving the Economy. What Happens if It Falters? A windfall for companies that build #datacenters and their suppliers is overshadowing weakness in other industries. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
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@kristenklopez.bsky.social and i joke that the unofficial sponsor of our podcast(s) is JSTOR because honestly, it’s the best academic “google” out there.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@kristenklopez.bsky.social and i joke that the unofficial sponsor of our podcast(s) is JSTOR because honestly, it’s the best academic “google” out there.
The #AI Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries? It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous. #artificialintelligence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
The A.I. Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries?
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November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The #AI Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries? It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous. #artificialintelligence www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
A Film About #UnidentifiedAerialPhenomena Gets a Congressional Audience: “The Age of Disclosure,” a documentary featuring government and military officials, was screened for a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives. #UAP www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/m...
A Film About Unidentified Phenomena Gets a Congressional Audience
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November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A Film About #UnidentifiedAerialPhenomena Gets a Congressional Audience: “The Age of Disclosure,” a documentary featuring government and military officials, was screened for a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives. #UAP www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/m...
New Book: Operation Masquerade: A Rent Beacham Mystery, second in the series. December 15, 2025. A cold-case homicide leads investigative journalist Rent Beacham into the murky depths of AI avatars and deepfakes as election day looms. www.larryedwards.com/news/pr-oper...
New Book - Operation Masquerade - A Rent Beacham Mystery - December 2025 - Larry M. Edwards - Wigeon Publishing
New Book - Operation Masquerade - A Rent Beacham Mystery, second in the series, by award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Larry M. Edwards. December 2025. A cold-case homicide leads investiga...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New Book: Operation Masquerade: A Rent Beacham Mystery, second in the series. December 15, 2025. A cold-case homicide leads investigative journalist Rent Beacham into the murky depths of AI avatars and deepfakes as election day looms. www.larryedwards.com/news/pr-oper...
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"... asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations, to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis.
"Work they were told to abandon — investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and white-collar fraud..."
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"Work they were told to abandon — investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and white-collar fraud..."
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60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"... asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations, to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis.
"Work they were told to abandon — investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and white-collar fraud..."
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"Work they were told to abandon — investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and white-collar fraud..."
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I have a new story up this week at #PistolJimPress! This was my first short acceptance ever. I'm really proud to have two shorts up this month. #noir #mystery #shortfiction pistoljimpress.substack.com/p/polished-b...
Polished by Emily J. Edwards
from Nails in the Coffin: a Pistol Jim Press series
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November 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I have a new story up this week at #PistolJimPress! This was my first short acceptance ever. I'm really proud to have two shorts up this month. #noir #mystery #shortfiction pistoljimpress.substack.com/p/polished-b...