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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 59m

Of course he will! And it's worth noting that the speculators include most of his cabinet officials.

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mr. beans for lunch @higham.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah! This guy knows what he’s talking about. She’s a REAL champion of democracy!

Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat.
"I totally support his strategy," Machado said.
"And I've said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It's courageous. It's visionary”

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 1h

NOBEL PEACE PRICE COMMITTEE: WE GIVE THIS AWARD, FOR PEACE

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1h

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1h

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 1h

Also the $20 billion Argentina received from the IMF in APRIL and seems to have already squandered propping up the peso gets only passing mention in paragraph 20 (!)

Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 1h

Hard to cover everything in one article, but you'd think a piece premised on how the bailout will succeed only with a Milei victory in the midterms would at least note the, uh, recent internal developments that make that surpassingly unlikely (Espert, polling, veto overrides, general immiseration).

Travis Waldron @traviswaldron.bsky.social · 1h

For Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right.

The problem is that in Argentina -- a nation with a track record of squandering other people’s money and defaulting on its own debts -- those things have tended to go wrong.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 1h

Did you go to college once and become a rich but disaffected investment banker? The NYT considers you an expert on the entire academic system & will gladly publish your loose collection of gripes about progressive society in an ROI trench coat. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 1h

Hard to cover everything in one article, but you'd think a piece premised on how the bailout will succeed only with a Milei victory in the midterms would at least note the, uh, recent internal developments that make that surpassingly unlikely (Espert, polling, veto overrides, general immiseration).

Travis Waldron @traviswaldron.bsky.social · 1h

For Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right.

The problem is that in Argentina -- a nation with a track record of squandering other people’s money and defaulting on its own debts -- those things have tended to go wrong.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bessent’s Big Gamble on Argentina Has a Narrow Road to Pay Off

For Scott Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right – things that in the past, in Argentina, have tended to go wrong.

www.bloomberg.com

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 3h

It’s probably random and silly that it’s frogs but I like it because of frogs’ role an as indicator species and because it suggests the boiling frogs metaphor

J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 10h

frog semiotics redemption arc 2025

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 2h

The anti-Pepe angle is also a bonus

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 2h

Yup!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3h

But muh Solar Covers Too Much Land.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 18h

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 2h

Finally some situationism!! Been waiting and waiting for it

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 2h

That is undoubtedly the case -- Rubio has been her close ally and advocate for 2 decades.

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 2h

Sadly I think we have a pretty clear record of what MCM would be like in power: she was praising Trump's execution of the fisherman the other week, for example www.dw.com/en/tensions-...

Tensions mount after deadly US strike on Venezuelan boat – DW – 09/06/2025

Following a US attack on a suspected "drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela" that killed 11, Caracas has warned the US against using its military for "regime change." The US has deployed several warship...

www.dw.com

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 2h

no, but sadly the woman who DID get the Nobel Peace Prize has praised those strikes as legitimate pressure www.dw.com/en/tensions-...

Tensions mount after deadly US strike on Venezuelan boat – DW – 09/06/2025

Following a US attack on a suspected "drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela" that killed 11, Caracas has warned the US against using its military for "regime change." The US has deployed several warship...

www.dw.com

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 3h

She is unquestionably the opposition leader now, but that maximalist positions are consistent with her record for decades. As the Times coyly put it in their portrait of her last year... www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/w...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 6h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 13h

Amazing, congrats!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 18h

what did they do to AMERICA is the question ;)

Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 23h

Choi was our provost before going to Mizzou, so all this is very familiar. BUT for all the obvious downsides of his neutrality, he is at least effective and clear about his mission, something that cannot be said of most of the provosts (or presidents!) we have had since.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

These are terrible numbers for Trump (via @pewresearch.org)

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Majorities say trump has used his office improperly; fewer say he has improved government, U.S. standing" (graphs via Pew Research)

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 1d

Another one bites the dust.

🎁⛓️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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