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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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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · Nov 12

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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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 5h

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
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Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 17h

We will see if the 1%/ Trump corrupt cronies and family can hold up the American economy on their own.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17h

www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

Consumer outlook for household finances falls to lowest in over a decade: Survey

The University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment survey showed households feel glum amid concerns about unemployment and inflation.

www.nbcnews.com

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17h

www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

Consumer outlook for household finances falls to lowest in over a decade: Survey

The University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment survey showed households feel glum amid concerns about unemployment and inflation.

www.nbcnews.com

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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 21h

Incompetent sadism.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. All corruption all the time. At the American taxpayers’ expense.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 1d

'Stable'coins ... ...

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 1d

"Tariffs have impacted an item that originally cost about $100, including shipping, to get to his store. When the new fees were tacked on, the item was $200." www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

'Heartbreaking': Once thriving Calif. downtown is on the brink

"Our city only cares about their image. They will not admit they're wrong."

www.sfgate.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

More and more people are saying it:
SCOTUS is a reactionary monarchist vanguard against all the rest of the courts, who would prefer that law and their lives mean something www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 1d

Highly recommend . Origins of many important Colorado initiatives including @coloradosun.com Colorado Media Project , and more

Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 1d

"Hedge fund Alden Global Capital gobbles up newspapers across America and guts them. No one knows why, until journalist Julie Reynolds investigates. Her findings trigger journalist rebellions at Alden-owned newspapers nationwide."

Full documentary streaming at @pbs.org.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Andrew Flanagan @af68.bsky.social · 1d

tRump awarded $1.26B contract to build & operate new tent city detention center in Texas to company, Acquisition Logistics, so small it operated out of single-family home in Richmond, Virginia

Acquisition Logistics had no prior incarceration experience.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

www.motherjones.com

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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 1d

"Tech leaders enjoyed a decade’s worth of free money, used it to build up unprecedented wealth, and, when suddenly presented with a bill in the form of a cryptocurrency crash and a potential tech slowdown, allied with Republicans to keep the good times rolling."

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 1d

"Changpeng Zhao, the crypto entrepreneur who managed to somehow go to prison for charges related to money laundering and then emerged with his wealth and reputation seemingly intact."

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 1d

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

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

www.bloomberg.com

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 1d

"(They) share an admiration of authoritarian politics, a comfort with foreign influence (especially from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states) and a desire to wring dollars out of the federal gov't via contracts and favorable tax policy. Many are weapons manufacturers/ aspire to sell weapons to DoD."

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 1d

Too polite ; this was another $200 million of taxpayer money wasted on regime vanity. But, no health care for you.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

“The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million…”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 2d

“Unnamed group “ … likely Andreessen, Thiel , perhaps Ellison .

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 2d

Perfect.

Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 2d

As a U.S. senator last year, Marco Rubio supported María Corina Machado's Nobel Prize nomination @schmidtsam.bsky.social and Steve Hendrix report

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www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader, wins Nobel Peace Prize

The prize honored Machado, who is in hiding, for keeping “the flame of democracy burning,” but the White House accused the Nobel jury of “placing politics over peace.”

www.washingtonpost.com

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Friday! New lionesses at the Denver Zoo. courtesy @denverite.bsky.social @kevinjbeaty.bsky.social denverite.com/2025/10/09/d...

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 2d

Clarion call for folks to attend.

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 2d

Prediction; Tr*** will create a "Noble Peace Prize" and award it to himself in the new gilded ballroom. It will be delivered in a huge crate by beefy ICE dudes wearing white gloves, a la the Stanley Cup. CBS will air the ceremony in prime time. Lee Greenwood will sing the national anthem.

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 2d

Running for the exits as the gyre widens... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CoreWeave Insiders Sold $1 Billion Post-IPO as AI Rich Cash Out

Leaders at AI computing company CoreWeave Inc. sold shares worth more than $1 billion after a lockup on the stock lifted in mid-August, putting them among the top 10 individual insider sellers of the ...

www.bloomberg.com

JB Holston @jholston.bsky.social · 2d

"Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady, has spent the last year living in hiding after her political movement was widely believed to have beaten the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, in the July 2024 presidential election." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Opponent of Maduro regime receives award and praise for keeping ‘flame of democracy burning’