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yarkot.bsky.social @yarkot.bsky.social · Nov 19
“Don’t it always seem to go
You don’t know what you’ve got
‘Till it’s gone…”

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Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
YouTube video by RetroTop10
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the-independent.com
A Border Patrol-led immigration crackdown is coming to southeast Louisiana. Here's what to know
A Border Patrol-led immigration crackdown is coming to southeast Louisiana. Here's what to know
A Border Patrol-led immigration crackdown is coming to southeast Louisiana. Here's what to know
www.independent.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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chickenlady.bsky.social
What's a Russian to do, then travel to Russia?
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Witkoff (“who hasn't traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week”) spoke on the record to the Journal to extol the promise of his business negotiations with Putin

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
"Russia has so many vast resources, vast expanses of land," Witkoff told The Wall Street Journal, describing at length his hopes that Russia, Ukraine and America would all become business partners. "If we do all that, and everybody's prospering and they're all a part of it, and there's upside for everybody, that's going to naturally be a bulwark against future conflicts there. Because everybody's thriving. Witkoff, who hasn't traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week and will again meet Putin. He insisted he isn't playing favorites. "Ukrainians have fought heroically for their independence," said Witkoff, who has tried to inspire Ukrainian officials with the idea of soldiers disarming to earn Silicon Valley-scale salaries operating American built AI data centers. "It is now time to consolidate what they have achieved through diplomacy," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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mollymckew.bsky.social
As I wrote about the “peace” deal, it was a plan for Russia & the US to divide up resources that should go to Ukraine in a sweeping attempt to comprise American security

Today’s WSJ has the goods on how people who only believe in money are the most dangerous people:

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Dmitriev was pushing a plan for U.S. companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for U.S.-Russian investment projects and a U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian companies could join to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic. There were no limits to what two longtime adversaries could achieve, Dmitriev had argued for months: Their rival space industries, which raced one another during the Cold War, could even pursue a joint mission to Mars with Elon Musk's SpaceX. For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump's inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials. By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe —while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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mollymckew.bsky.social
There’s nothing new about this plan from the Kremlin.

It’s just so no other American administration in history was so devoid morals and a belief in American values and an understanding of American security to pursue it with such vigor

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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mollymckew.bsky.social
I mean how utterly incompetent and detached from reality do you have to be to say something like this out loud

It’s a real mystery why our European allies aren’t sharing intelligence with us anymore
By the time Zelensky arrived, Trump had spoken to Putin a day earlier and decided not to offer the Tomahawks. Instead, Witkoff encouraged Ukrainian officials to try another tack: What good was a handful of missiles going to accomplish? Instead, he encouraged Ukraine to ask Trump for a 10-year tariff exemption. It would supercharge their economy, he said. "I'm in the deal settlement business. That's why I'm here," he told the Journal. "We keep on knocking at the door and coming up with ideas."
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
>> bsky.app/profile/moll...
mollymckew.bsky.social Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d
I mean how utterly incompetent and detached from reality do you have to be to say something like this out loud

It’s a real mystery why our European allies aren’t sharing intelligence with us anymore
By the time Zelensky arrived, Trump had spoken to Putin a day earlier and decided not to offer the Tomahawks. Instead, Witkoff encouraged Ukrainian officials to try another tack: What good was a handful of missiles going to accomplish? Instead, he encouraged Ukraine to ask Trump for a 10-year tariff exemption. It would supercharge their economy, he said. "I'm in the deal settlement business. That's why I'm here," he told the Journal. "We keep on knocking at the door and coming up with ideas."
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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ellenwapo.bsky.social
SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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atrupar.com
a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats
As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland. As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be “lethal, kinetic strikes.” The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people. Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization. The Biden administration preferred the kid gloves approach, allowing millions of people — including dangerous cartels and unvetted Afghans — to flood our communities with drugs and violence. The Trump administration has sealed the border and gone on offense against narco-terrorists. Biden coddled terrorists, we kill them. Our current operations in the Caribbean are lawful under both U.S. and international law, with all actions in compliance with the law of armed conflict—and approved by the best military and civilian lawyers, up and down the chain of command. Our warriors in SOUTHCOM put their lives on the line every day to protect the Homeland from narco-terrorists — and I will ALWAYS have their back.
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Hope matters, but without a clear map of how the system is failing, it can’t change anything. The slide happens because core democratic functions are weakening under real structural pressures. Naming that isn’t surrender, it’s the work required to understand what has to be rebuilt.
November 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company. One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Five-byline alert: 🚨

“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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eejbro.bsky.social
In 2008 FM Steinmeier in a speech in Yekaterinburg described Germany’s plan for a “partnership of modernization” with Russia. It would work for the benefit of both sides, reminiscent of the envisioned Dim-Wit-scheme. In 2014 Russia annexed Crimea and occupied parts of eastern Ukraine. Any lessons??
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"

Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder

www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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senseidai.bsky.social
Is there anyone in the Convicted Felon Donald Trump regime who isn't corrupt? Remember, it starts at the top. 🎁

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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sbagen.bsky.social
And of course Trump is gutting the watchdogs designed to provide a check on this sort of atrocious behavior. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Meanwhile, Ukrainian sea drones disabled two of the "shadow fleet" tankers carrying Russian oil. No doubt the start of a campaign
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-na...
'Successful' Ukrainian naval drone strike disables 2 Russian shadow fleet tankers, source says
The operation targeted ships that, according to the source, could have transported nearly $70 million worth of oil and helped Moscow bypass international sanctions.
kyivindependent.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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patti3333.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/beec...

Meet Mike
He is in West Virginia
He is 64 works in PR
He pays $400 a month for Healthcare Insurance he just got notice same plan will jump to $1,965 a month
A 400% increase!!
THIS IS ALL OVER AMERICA
REPUBLICANS REFUSE TO NEGOTIATE
Call your reps !!
202 224-3121
‘A full-blown crisis’: Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs
West Virginia is at the epicentre of a looming disaster over rising insurance premiums as affordability concerns soar
www.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...
abc7chicago.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
karoline.bsky.social Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 16h
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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harrypotterresists.bsky.social
Since trump’s re-election a year ago, warnings that his use of the presidency to advance his personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder.

#TheTrumpCrimeFamily is currently operating a corruption system for their own benefit.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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corq.bsky.social
Political Theater of the Absurd: Putin’s Parallel Universe of ‘Peace’
What Russia is doing right now is not negotiation. It’s performance and manipulation. It is the behavior of a power that knows it cannot win militarily and therefore tries to win on paper.
www.kyivpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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democracyblue.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM