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Peter Schamerhorn
@randchange.bsky.social
· Apr 17
Deep Throat (not that one, the other one from All the President’s Men) gets the prize for most evergreen most multipurpose quote. I literally think it every day these days.
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand”
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand”
It should also be noted that Russia was kicked out of Eurovision in 2022 because of their invasion of Ukraine. So apparently some politics ARE allowed in Eurovision decisions.
Netherlands and Spain taking a stand after Israel allowed to compete in Eurovision.
Netherlands and Spain boycott Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete
There had been calls for Israel to be excluded over the conduct of the war in Gaza.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It should also be noted that Russia was kicked out of Eurovision in 2022 because of their invasion of Ukraine. So apparently some politics ARE allowed in Eurovision decisions.
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For years, I’ve heard Toronto people claim that heritage doesn’t stop new housing. That has always been nonsense.
Now the city is *openly, explicitly* saying a rich area shouldn’t be rezoned because heritage is more important than housing.
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
Now the city is *openly, explicitly* saying a rich area shouldn’t be rezoned because heritage is more important than housing.
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
For years, I’ve heard Toronto people claim that heritage doesn’t stop new housing. That has always been nonsense.
Now the city is *openly, explicitly* saying a rich area shouldn’t be rezoned because heritage is more important than housing.
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
Now the city is *openly, explicitly* saying a rich area shouldn’t be rezoned because heritage is more important than housing.
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
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👀💥‼️ Money over rights?
2 cabinet ministers say money a key factor in using Charter override on teachers
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
2 cabinet ministers say money a key factor in using Charter override on teachers
Two Alberta cabinet ministers say money was a key factor in the United Conservative government’s decision to use the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to override teachers’ rights and shut down a provi...
www.ctvnews.ca
December 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
👀💥‼️ Money over rights?
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He knew better than to follow unlawful orders.
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
He knew better than to follow unlawful orders.
Is he going to pull an Ollie North and lie to Congress until he’s offered immunity? I’m sure in this Admiral’s mind he’s justifying a full pension with claims of ‘the greater good’.
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Is he going to pull an Ollie North and lie to Congress until he’s offered immunity? I’m sure in this Admiral’s mind he’s justifying a full pension with claims of ‘the greater good’.
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A trial balloon for lying to Congress. And not even a remotely-plausible one, just an absolute whopper of a falsehood.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A trial balloon for lying to Congress. And not even a remotely-plausible one, just an absolute whopper of a falsehood.
I’m sure the table is just a side piece…
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m sure the table is just a side piece…
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There is absolutely a sect of Latin American immigrants who fantasize about the US marching into their homelands to unseat the despots and rain down unregulated capitalism but I was just on the phone with my Colombian/Venezuelan family the other day and the sentiment was “when has this ever worked?”
"Appeasing his home state’s exile ring is a rather parochial origin story for an international incursion, but it happens to be true."
Rubio's role in the illegal war on Venezuela (and how that's likely his payoff for handing his job off to Witkoff, Kushner & Putin) is a HUGE story. Dayen is on it.
Rubio's role in the illegal war on Venezuela (and how that's likely his payoff for handing his job off to Witkoff, Kushner & Putin) is a HUGE story. Dayen is on it.
Marco Rubio’s Sales Pitch: War in Venezuela - The American Prospect
Right-wing exiles in South Florida want regime change. Rubio is selling it with a false narrative about drug trafficking.
prospect.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
There is absolutely a sect of Latin American immigrants who fantasize about the US marching into their homelands to unseat the despots and rain down unregulated capitalism but I was just on the phone with my Colombian/Venezuelan family the other day and the sentiment was “when has this ever worked?”
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
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The talking points of these battery project opponents could be plucked from any consultation.
“We are not against …renewable energy, but we are against placing this project in a location that destroys …the rural character of our community,”
ottawacitizen.com/news/battery...
“We are not against …renewable energy, but we are against placing this project in a location that destroys …the rural character of our community,”
ottawacitizen.com/news/battery...
Rural councillors reject rezoning land for controversial battery energy storage system
Proponents say the massive battery will store wind and solar-generated electricity. Opponents say the project doesn't belong on farmland.
ottawacitizen.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The talking points of these battery project opponents could be plucked from any consultation.
“We are not against …renewable energy, but we are against placing this project in a location that destroys …the rural character of our community,”
ottawacitizen.com/news/battery...
“We are not against …renewable energy, but we are against placing this project in a location that destroys …the rural character of our community,”
ottawacitizen.com/news/battery...
This is a most interesting thread, and Don makes some persuasive (and I believe correct) points.
It is astonishing the number of people, progressives included who admire what they perceive as the Trump administration’s effectiveness at “getting things done”
It is astonishing the number of people, progressives included who admire what they perceive as the Trump administration’s effectiveness at “getting things done”
There is such a thirst in some progressive centrist circles that they will look at the Trump administration as a model to get things done. I think its worth addressing the argument. This is from Mark Dunkelman, author of the widely praised "Why Nothing Works."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
Opinion | What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is a most interesting thread, and Don makes some persuasive (and I believe correct) points.
It is astonishing the number of people, progressives included who admire what they perceive as the Trump administration’s effectiveness at “getting things done”
It is astonishing the number of people, progressives included who admire what they perceive as the Trump administration’s effectiveness at “getting things done”
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Every single city they've done these operations in have Black mayors. LA, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans. 3 of which are Black women. This isn't a coincidence.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Immigration Operation Starts in New Orleans
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
At the most fundamental level I don’t understand how Americans aren’t deeply ashamed and embarrassed by this sort of behaviour coming from their elected leader.
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
At the most fundamental level I don’t understand how Americans aren’t deeply ashamed and embarrassed by this sort of behaviour coming from their elected leader.
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he thinks fog of war is literal fog
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 11:43 PM
he thinks fog of war is literal fog
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Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place.
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
‘ICE was here’: Dedham church sparks outrage over nativity scene with political message
A Dedham church is causing controversy over another political statement in their Nativity scene this holiday season.
www.boston25news.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place.
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
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Is there even one GOP congressmember with the temerity to rebuke Trump for his racist attack on Representative Omar? Silence gives consent.
December 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*.
The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us.
We, the people.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Drugs are not weapons.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
This is fundamentally the wrong way to deal with drug problems.
The campaign is built on lies.
The campaign is built on lies.
The White House's lies about the illegal Caribbean boat strikes are so obvious and about such serious matters that they're floundering.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
As @gregsargent.bsky.social and @jenrubin.bsky.social explain, specific strikes are criminal, but even more so, the entire campaign is blatantly illegal and wrong.
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Drugs are not weapons.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
Drug traffickers are not terrorists.
The US wasn't attacked.
Boats on open water far from US coasts aren't a security threat.
There is absolutely no argument for self-defense in Caribbean boat strikes, nor in possible war with Venezuela.
This campaign is lies upon lies.
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At some point, they just need to outright say "Fuck the environment, we have dollar signs to chase."
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
At some point, they just need to outright say "Fuck the environment, we have dollar signs to chase."
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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One of the reasons servicemembers, from admirals and generals to the greenest private, should know “don’t follow illegal orders” is that this administration is a goulash of dishonorable character flaws like cowardice and dishonesty. There is no bus under which these pissants will not throw you.
NYT:
Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike
Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago):
“This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,”
and
“It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”
Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike
Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago):
“This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,”
and
“It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
One of the reasons servicemembers, from admirals and generals to the greenest private, should know “don’t follow illegal orders” is that this administration is a goulash of dishonorable character flaws like cowardice and dishonesty. There is no bus under which these pissants will not throw you.
Behaviour that would embarrass an average 10 year old is just old-hat for this administration.
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Behaviour that would embarrass an average 10 year old is just old-hat for this administration.
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Zen contribution cleanse.
Choreographer, Yoann Bourgeois, appears to move in slow motion, mesmerizing the audience.
Choreographer, Yoann Bourgeois, appears to move in slow motion, mesmerizing the audience.
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Zen contribution cleanse.
Choreographer, Yoann Bourgeois, appears to move in slow motion, mesmerizing the audience.
Choreographer, Yoann Bourgeois, appears to move in slow motion, mesmerizing the audience.