Joseph Cappadonia
@josephcappadonia.bsky.social
Mountain biking, cycling, hiking,hunting and camping. North PA and Western NY
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My friend Tina is a blue dot in a red sea. She's looking for some like minded friends. Anyone care to give her a follow?
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Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
Right-Wingers Are Calling For Military Intervention, Violence to Free Tina Peters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
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🚨BREAKING: An Indiana House committee voted 8-5 Tuesday to approve a new GOP-backed congressional map, advancing the measure over the objections of Democrats and members of the public who called the plan a racial gerrymander.
Indiana House Committee Advances Map, Despite Racial Gerrymandering Allegations
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
🚨BREAKING: An Indiana House committee voted 8-5 Tuesday to approve a new GOP-backed congressional map, advancing the measure over the objections of Democrats and members of the public who called the plan a racial gerrymander.
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I can find no news reports about the Venezuela meeting that was supposed to happen in the Oval Office last night? Is it all just swamped by the Hegseth news?
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I can find no news reports about the Venezuela meeting that was supposed to happen in the Oval Office last night? Is it all just swamped by the Hegseth news?
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One reason this & other information failures about operations in the Caribbean matter: even if you are keeping decisions close to the vest, basic, boring briefings (attendance?) about meetings you announced, or dry military readouts after publicized operations, give words credibility when it counts.
I can find no news reports about the Venezuela meeting that was supposed to happen in the Oval Office last night? Is it all just swamped by the Hegseth news?
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
One reason this & other information failures about operations in the Caribbean matter: even if you are keeping decisions close to the vest, basic, boring briefings (attendance?) about meetings you announced, or dry military readouts after publicized operations, give words credibility when it counts.
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Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Another reason the damage from this administration will long outlive it.
Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Another reason the damage from this administration will long outlive it.
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""With customers delaying purchases until tariff policies stabilize, ISM leaders say there’s little near-term relief in sight, even as inventory drawdowns and quicker supplier deliveries hint at some underlying recalibration." www.businessreport.com/article/what...
What US factory activity is signaling about the manufacturing sector
U.S. factory activity slid deeper into contraction in November, underscoring a manufacturing sector still stuck in a long slump, Bloomberg writes. The Institute for Supply Management, or ISM, index…
www.businessreport.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
""With customers delaying purchases until tariff policies stabilize, ISM leaders say there’s little near-term relief in sight, even as inventory drawdowns and quicker supplier deliveries hint at some underlying recalibration." www.businessreport.com/article/what...
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Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.
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I don’t know what the right way to cover this madness is, and I recognize that what’s being attempted here is journalistically correct dry understatement, but it’s a bit too under-.
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I don’t know what the right way to cover this madness is, and I recognize that what’s being attempted here is journalistically correct dry understatement, but it’s a bit too under-.
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NARRATOR: It wasn't the fog of war.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
NARRATOR: It wasn't the fog of war.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Officials preparing immigration operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants, AP source says.
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Officials preparing immigration operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants, AP source says.
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New Orleans prepares for Border Patrol’s planned immigration tactics.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
New Orleans prepares for Border Patrol’s planned immigration tactics.
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I believe in my heart Franklin supported my undercover operation.
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I believe in my heart Franklin supported my undercover operation.
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Did not have Costco being the strongest American institution on my bingo card (I’ll take it)
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Did not have Costco being the strongest American institution on my bingo card (I’ll take it)
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this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to file a lawsuit against a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao
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For this situation specifically, Bradley was the only one in the entire chain who could have refused at essentially zero risk to himself. So no, he shouldn’t get credit for saying “but Pete told me to” when it all comes out.
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
For this situation specifically, Bradley was the only one in the entire chain who could have refused at essentially zero risk to himself. So no, he shouldn’t get credit for saying “but Pete told me to” when it all comes out.
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They deserve the backlash for being stupid enough to think the drunk Fox News host and co. weren’t going to throw them under the bus
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
They deserve the backlash for being stupid enough to think the drunk Fox News host and co. weren’t going to throw them under the bus
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I do appreciate @sodrock.bsky.social hammering this whole bullshit apolitical military stuff. If following the law becomes partisan then either you join the party of the law you are supposed to apolically follow or be forced by the other party to break it
What being an apolitical military professional does to a mofo
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I do appreciate @sodrock.bsky.social hammering this whole bullshit apolitical military stuff. If following the law becomes partisan then either you join the party of the law you are supposed to apolically follow or be forced by the other party to break it
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I’m not asking these guys to be partisan liberal cucks, just to actually read the political terrain and Clausewitz who stated that “No major proposal required for war can be worked out in ignorance of political factors”
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’m not asking these guys to be partisan liberal cucks, just to actually read the political terrain and Clausewitz who stated that “No major proposal required for war can be worked out in ignorance of political factors”
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Let’s just say he refuses the order, okay, they try to court martial him, okay, he literally has the easiest defense ever, and worst case, he gets drummed out but you’re a decorated special ops 3 star, I think you’d do fine in retirement if that’s what you’re worried about
For this situation specifically, Bradley was the only one in the entire chain who could have refused at essentially zero risk to himself. So no, he shouldn’t get credit for saying “but Pete told me to” when it all comes out.
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Let’s just say he refuses the order, okay, they try to court martial him, okay, he literally has the easiest defense ever, and worst case, he gets drummed out but you’re a decorated special ops 3 star, I think you’d do fine in retirement if that’s what you’re worried about
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The thing that is annoying about Bradley and the American officer corps at large is that if they actually read what Clausewitz wrote about the intersection of politics and war, they’d realized they have actual political cover to push back against the administration…
If they read theory, maybe these morons at the pentagon and DOD would have thought about that beforehand
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The thing that is annoying about Bradley and the American officer corps at large is that if they actually read what Clausewitz wrote about the intersection of politics and war, they’d realized they have actual political cover to push back against the administration…
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Me calling jake tapper
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Me calling jake tapper
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Sleepy Don
JD Vance: "Why did homes get so unaffordable? Because we had 20 million illegal aliens in this country taking homes that ought by right go to American citizens."
December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Sleepy Don
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From the F-16 squadron commander’s Silver Star citation reported on here, it sounds like besides all the downed Reapers, the Air Force narrowly avoided losing one or more manned fighter jets to Houthi air defenses over Yemen during Operation Rough Rider last March
F-16 Pilot Awarded Silver Star for Harrowing Middle East Mission
An F-16 pilot was awarded a Silver Star for a mission in which he dodged surface-to-air missiles during an operation against Houthis in Yemen.
www.airandspaceforces.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
From the F-16 squadron commander’s Silver Star citation reported on here, it sounds like besides all the downed Reapers, the Air Force narrowly avoided losing one or more manned fighter jets to Houthi air defenses over Yemen during Operation Rough Rider last March