Prospero
@prospero53.bsky.social
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A tape of the October 14 conversation has been leaked to Bloomberg. That’s how we know Witkoff suggested to Ushakov that Putin call Trump.’
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Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia’s Side?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A tape of the October 14 conversation has been leaked to Bloomberg. That’s how we know Witkoff suggested to Ushakov that Putin call Trump.’
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
As progressive orthodoxy weakens, academe’s most influential conservative warns of a growing illiberalism on the right.
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Robert P. George and the Great Campus Vibe Shift
As progressive orthodoxy weakens, academe’s most influential conservative warns of a growing illiberalism on the right.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
As progressive orthodoxy weakens, academe’s most influential conservative warns of a growing illiberalism on the right.
www.chronicle.com/article/robe...
www.chronicle.com/article/robe...
‘Robert Frost’s poetry has a way of lifting its gaze – with a heightening of register, a grand image, a weighty allusion – and seeming to dare you to shake your head in disbelief. “You think this is incongruous?” it says. “You think this didn’t happen?”’
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Clare Bucknell · Discord and Fuss: Robert Frost’s Ugly Feelings
Robert Frost’s poetry has a way of lifting its gaze – with a heightening of register, a grand image, a weighty...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
‘Robert Frost’s poetry has a way of lifting its gaze – with a heightening of register, a grand image, a weighty allusion – and seeming to dare you to shake your head in disbelief. “You think this is incongruous?” it says. “You think this didn’t happen?”’
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University among nation’s first institutions to partner with serial arsonist on fire safety programs.
University of Kentucky among nation’s 1st institutions to partner with Microsoft on responsible AI innovation
The University of Kentucky and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership to advance the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and strengthen learning, innovation and care across the Comm...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Leading the lemmings: ‘The AI and quantum industries are skyrocketing, explained UConn President Radenka Maric to hundreds of attendees. Connecticut is well suited to make advancements, with the potential for massive positive impact.’
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UConn, State Embrace AI and Quantum Potential - UConn Today
Economics Forum in Stamford underscores UConn’s role as educator and driver of next generation workforce.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Leading the lemmings: ‘The AI and quantum industries are skyrocketing, explained UConn President Radenka Maric to hundreds of attendees. Connecticut is well suited to make advancements, with the potential for massive positive impact.’
today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
today.uconn.edu/2025/11/ucon...
‘Trump’s most outrageous innovation was dispensing with the pretense that he needed to provide reasons for his positions. His greatest apostasy was not his rejection of any particular set of ideas, but his categorical rejection of the whole notion of ideas.’
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The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
‘Trump’s most outrageous innovation was dispensing with the pretense that he needed to provide reasons for his positions. His greatest apostasy was not his rejection of any particular set of ideas, but his categorical rejection of the whole notion of ideas.’
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Real power is being able to cut them off from their revenue stream.
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What is the latest Black Friday boycott – and will it work?
While others scramble for deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, activists hope to leverage shopping behavior for societal change
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November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Real power is being able to cut them off from their revenue stream.
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‘The past 25 years have taught us that the contemporary economy and media will not prioritize creative invention. The question is: Will you?’
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Make Culture Weird Again
Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than the boring stuff.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
‘The past 25 years have taught us that the contemporary economy and media will not prioritize creative invention. The question is: Will you?’
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lol the judge who disqualified lindsay halligan as us atty for edva included this footnote, citing a guy who agrees with him (or used to!?!?)
!["... From 1986 to 2006, section 546 was identical to its current form. [n14] ...
[n14] Three days after Congress enacted the 1986 law, an Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) memorandum ***authored by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General Samuel Alito*** concluded the statute does not allow “the Attorney General [to] make another appointment pursuant to [subsection (a)] after the expiration of the 120-day period.” Memorandum from Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Deputy Assistant Att’y Gen., Off. of Legal Couns., to William P. Tyson, Dir., Exec. Off. for U.S. Att’ys 3 (Nov. 13, 1986), available at https://perma.cc/SD5Q-7CPH. “The statutory plan,” Alito reasoned, “discloses a Congressional purpose that after the expiration of the 120-day period further interim appointments are to be made by the court rather than by the Attorney General.” Id. ..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zltqtmydso6kikzw7wafpj4p/bafkreigkwkvuujja3pmwgsodn3affc4dup3cei2t5tywjorfyfdrgcegw4@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
lol the judge who disqualified lindsay halligan as us atty for edva included this footnote, citing a guy who agrees with him (or used to!?!?)
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Trump to announce an alleged extension of ACA tax credits for two years, proving definitively that the entire shutdown was only about preventing release of the Epstein files.
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Trump to announce an alleged extension of ACA tax credits for two years, proving definitively that the entire shutdown was only about preventing release of the Epstein files.
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Here goes a 24 points plan from Europe
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Here goes a 24 points plan from Europe
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NEW: Indictment against LETITIA JAMES has also been DISMISSED because of the unlawful appointment of Lindsey Halligan storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order on Motion to Dismiss – #140 in United States v. James (E.D. Va., 2:25-cr-00122) – CourtListener.com
ORDER AND ADJUDGED as follows: (1) The appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. (2) All actions flowing from ...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
NEW: Indictment against LETITIA JAMES has also been DISMISSED because of the unlawful appointment of Lindsey Halligan storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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BREAKING: The indictment of Comey has been DISMISSED because Halligan was unlawfully appointed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#213 in United States v. Comey (E.D. Va., 1:25-cr-00272) – CourtListener.com
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED as follows: (1) The appointment of Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney violated 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. (2) All actions flowing fro...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
BREAKING: The indictment of Comey has been DISMISSED because Halligan was unlawfully appointed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ex Trump WH Lawyer Ty Cobb: “The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a President as evil as Trump, whose desire is to accumulate & abuse power - total authoritarianism… lawyers, judges, the military don’t have to follow illegal orders even though they have been rampantly.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Ex Trump WH Lawyer Ty Cobb: “The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a President as evil as Trump, whose desire is to accumulate & abuse power - total authoritarianism… lawyers, judges, the military don’t have to follow illegal orders even though they have been rampantly.”
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DC jury acquitted the Sandwich Guy. Lindsay Halligan can’t even bring an indictment because she’s not legit. Jeanine Pirro couldn't get a conviction because she’s incompetent.
As the judge pointed out, incompetent Pam Bondi completely screwed up the appointment of Halligan in violation of the law.
As the judge pointed out, incompetent Pam Bondi completely screwed up the appointment of Halligan in violation of the law.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
DC jury acquitted the Sandwich Guy. Lindsay Halligan can’t even bring an indictment because she’s not legit. Jeanine Pirro couldn't get a conviction because she’s incompetent.
As the judge pointed out, incompetent Pam Bondi completely screwed up the appointment of Halligan in violation of the law.
As the judge pointed out, incompetent Pam Bondi completely screwed up the appointment of Halligan in violation of the law.
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"The Attorney General of the United States has set a new low for this committee," Whitehouse said.
Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"The Attorney General of the United States has set a new low for this committee," Whitehouse said.
Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
@schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Here is what caving in and compromise got you.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
@schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Here is what caving in and compromise got you.
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The Catholic Church where my daughter is going to get her first communion had a 2 page pro immigration statement in the bulletin today.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Catholic Church where my daughter is going to get her first communion had a 2 page pro immigration statement in the bulletin today.
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In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
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She terrorized David Hogg. Made a mockery of the SOTU Address. Fuck that.
Oh hell NO! She screamed at Biden during SOTU! absolutely not
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
She terrorized David Hogg. Made a mockery of the SOTU Address. Fuck that.