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JB Holston
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CEO, Sr. Advisor, former Engineering and Comp Sci Dean, F100 exec, entrepreneur. Sustainable, Inclusive Growth https://jbholston.substack.com/ . Colorado, Maine, London. @jbholston on Threads.
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Under-discussed implication of the upcoming Red Regime ; America just hit peak population, and the population mix will be way older, way faster. Why, and what are the implications? 🧵 1/
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🇫🇷 Avec le retour au pouvoir de Trump, la droite radicale américaine s'est engagée dans une offensive idéologique hors de ses frontières, notamment en France où les autorités surveillent de près les manoeuvres d'influence de cette nébuleuse.

➡️ u.afp.com/Shgo
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Reminder: "Everything about the way the United States under Trump negotiated with the Taliban signaled desperation for a deal" Tim Weiner, The Mission, 2025
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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– Physician practices are paid ~10% less for encounters with Black or Hispanic patients overall, and ~15% less for visits with Black or Hispanic children. These comparisons exclude payment differences associated with differences in visit content (e.g. RVUs,) or geographic market... (4/7)
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Groovy …
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Palantir worth 4x Lockheed … at 1/19th the revenue … ?!?
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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“..Trump in his second term has started scheduled events in the afternoon on average, at 12:08 p.m. .. The number of Mr. Trump’s total official appearances has decreased by 39 percent.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Uttter abuse of power.
I'm old enough to remember when Republicans got very upset about DOJ investigating lawmakers. I think it was as long ago as last week?

www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi...
FBI scheduling interviews with 6 lawmakers who encouraged military members to refuse 'illegal orders'
www.foxnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Abuse of ‘authority’.
WaPo - Pentagon launches an investigation into Mark Kelly after purportedly receiving “serious allegations of misconduct” against the Democratic senator from Arizona — an extraordinary use of authority to investigate a combat veteran and prominent critic of the Trump administration. wapo.st/4oVyTW1
Pentagon says it will investigate Sen. Mark Kelly after controversial video
The Department of Defense announced it would investigate Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) for “serious allegations of misconduct” after his participation in a viral video.
wapo.st
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Neo-impressionists; National Gallery, London.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Good moment to revisit this excellent piece of research from my @brennancenter.org colleagues:

Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The Polish prime minister reacts
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Guess what movie I saw last night & LOVED from start to finish...

#Wicked4GoodBeyondGREAT
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Department of Regime 'Justice': "It was strongly suggested to me that Mel Gibson is someone who had a personal relationship with the president and that really should be all I needed to know." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Awwww.... "Denver science museum uses 1.5 million Lego bricks to tell the planet’s story" denverite.com/2025/11/21/d...
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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To the Coast Guard leadership signing off on this: You are trading your honor for political favor. By bowing to an administration that flirts with neo-Nazis, you are destroying the integrity of the service. If you can't define a swastika as hate, you aren’t fit to command. Period.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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David Bier (of Cato) tweeted that CBP apparently instructed agents to threaten witnesses with arrest for recording arrests. Now it's blowing whistles and horns. "There are a number of nearly identical instances of this exact threat.” It continues in North Carolina.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/20/o...
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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JARED BERNSTEIN: “.. Manufacturing is in a real slump, with emp down 5 months in row, down 94K over past year. We haven’t seen such trends outside of recessions for years.

“.. Trump’s fingerprints are on this trend. It turns out that making factory production more expensive is bad for jobs.”
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM