Jack Pondit
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Jack Pondit
@jackpondit.bsky.social
· Apr 20
In addition to giving the contract to himself and so stealing public money the very concept of this thing is a crazy level boondoggle www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield
Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.
www.reuters.com
We are going to spend trillions on military boondoggles while limiting our civil rights all in the name of ‘national security’ while decimating all the things like health care, cancer research, vaccines, and food safety that actually do protect us.
Trump is not at all ‘tough on crime’. He supports using the criminal justice system to advance his own agenda, enrich himself, and cement his power.
NEWS: President Trump has issued a *second* pardon for Jan. 6 defendant Dan Wilson.
Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Trump is not at all ‘tough on crime’. He supports using the criminal justice system to advance his own agenda, enrich himself, and cement his power.
The single biggest reason Trump won was our degraded and thoroughly compromised media environment. The situation has become even worse since 2024, but Democrats have made exactly zero effort to protect existing independent media sources, much less build up their own media.
From @jeffbradynews.bsky.social
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The single biggest reason Trump won was our degraded and thoroughly compromised media environment. The situation has become even worse since 2024, but Democrats have made exactly zero effort to protect existing independent media sources, much less build up their own media.
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Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”
@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
@mediaite.com #GA14
www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised
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"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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November 14, 2025
November 14, 2025
In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
November 14, 2025
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This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.
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It’s really something. The greatest country in the history of the world twice elected the most stupid, most ignorant, biggest idiot in the history of the world.
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It’s really something. The greatest country in the history of the world twice elected the most stupid, most ignorant, biggest idiot in the history of the world.
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It’d be nice to have a public health agency that believes in science right about now
A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before. https://cnn.it/4oIRswI
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
It’d be nice to have a public health agency that believes in science right about now
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Just reupping this big investigation @jamespwest.bsky.social did into Trump's modeling company: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Just reupping this big investigation @jamespwest.bsky.social did into Trump's modeling company: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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This is extremely dangerous.
If you’re a journalist, politician, artist, or public figure, or anyone with a platform, you need to stop using X.
You’re not helping by remaining on the platform. You can say you’re fighting where the people are, but you won’t beat the algorithm.
Lead people off X.
If you’re a journalist, politician, artist, or public figure, or anyone with a platform, you need to stop using X.
You’re not helping by remaining on the platform. You can say you’re fighting where the people are, but you won’t beat the algorithm.
Lead people off X.
NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
indicator.media
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This is extremely dangerous.
If you’re a journalist, politician, artist, or public figure, or anyone with a platform, you need to stop using X.
You’re not helping by remaining on the platform. You can say you’re fighting where the people are, but you won’t beat the algorithm.
Lead people off X.
If you’re a journalist, politician, artist, or public figure, or anyone with a platform, you need to stop using X.
You’re not helping by remaining on the platform. You can say you’re fighting where the people are, but you won’t beat the algorithm.
Lead people off X.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Pedophile protector Alaska Representative Nick Begich 3 refuses to sign the petition to #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Pedophile protector Alaska Representative Nick Begich 3 refuses to sign the petition to #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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A growing number of House Democrats are calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to step aside from leadership, with several telling Axios in exclusive interviews that he has overstayed his welcome.
Scoop: More House Democrats call for Chuck Schumer to resign over shutdown deal
"People are frustrated," said one House Democrat. "A constant theme is: 'We need something different.'"
www.axios.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A growing number of House Democrats are calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to step aside from leadership, with several telling Axios in exclusive interviews that he has overstayed his welcome.
There is absolutely no limit to how these people will debase themselves and everything they claim to stand for just to prop up and defend this miserable little man.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
There is absolutely no limit to how these people will debase themselves and everything they claim to stand for just to prop up and defend this miserable little man.
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I need y'all to help me today. Zach Wahls is running for the U.S. Senate to replace Joni Ernst. He has a good size following on other social media platforms but hasn't gotten much traction here yet.
We can change that today!
Give @zachwahls.bsky.social a follow and repost this, please. Ty! 💙🌊
We can change that today!
Give @zachwahls.bsky.social a follow and repost this, please. Ty! 💙🌊
I'm Zach Wahls. A sixth-generation Iowan and a new generation of Democrat.
And I'm running for U.S. Senate to defeat Joni Ernst.
And I'm running for U.S. Senate to defeat Joni Ernst.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I need y'all to help me today. Zach Wahls is running for the U.S. Senate to replace Joni Ernst. He has a good size following on other social media platforms but hasn't gotten much traction here yet.
We can change that today!
Give @zachwahls.bsky.social a follow and repost this, please. Ty! 💙🌊
We can change that today!
Give @zachwahls.bsky.social a follow and repost this, please. Ty! 💙🌊
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This is the story I've been waiting to read ever since @josepagliery.bsky.social and @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social busted Gaetz four years ago...
www.thedailybeast.com/gaetz-paid-a...
www.thedailybeast.com/gaetz-paid-a...
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is the story I've been waiting to read ever since @josepagliery.bsky.social and @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social busted Gaetz four years ago...
www.thedailybeast.com/gaetz-paid-a...
www.thedailybeast.com/gaetz-paid-a...
Republicans have enshittified the country over the last 45 years to the point where many other countries have a higher quality of life—safer, healthier and more free to live your life.
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Republicans have enshittified the country over the last 45 years to the point where many other countries have a higher quality of life—safer, healthier and more free to live your life.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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It really would be nice to have some serious discussion of this or other mechanisms to support independent (non-rich) media. It is nuts that people apparently think campaign ads can influence elections, but what people see between the ads doesn't.
Economists Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social often goes into detail of an idea of how to do this, via a tax credit.
cepr.net/publications...
cepr.net/publications...
Fixing the Media and Campaign Spending by the Rich
Explore the issue of media spending by the rich and its impact on democracy. Discover potential strategies for addressing this problem.
cepr.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It really would be nice to have some serious discussion of this or other mechanisms to support independent (non-rich) media. It is nuts that people apparently think campaign ads can influence elections, but what people see between the ads doesn't.
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Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015
She lies with an ease that would make Baghdad Bob blush.
CBS News' Weijia Jiang: "Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with a victim?"
Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
She lies with an ease that would make Baghdad Bob blush.