Yastreblyansky
@yastreblyansky.bsky.social
There is no peace without justice.
Old Democratic blogger at yastreblyansky.blogspot.com and yastreblyansky.substack.com. He/him. Is this where the party is?
Old Democratic blogger at yastreblyansky.blogspot.com and yastreblyansky.substack.com. He/him. Is this where the party is?
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The last president who declared that anything he does is legal was Richard M. Nixon. And we all know how things worked out for him . . .
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The last president who declared that anything he does is legal was Richard M. Nixon. And we all know how things worked out for him . . .
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This Thanksgiving carries weight. People who served with care were forced to rebuild from nothing. Still their work lives on. Still their service matters. Remember that today. 🦃🌾🍁❤️
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This Thanksgiving carries weight. People who served with care were forced to rebuild from nothing. Still their work lives on. Still their service matters. Remember that today. 🦃🌾🍁❤️
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About 76,000 afghans were brought over post 2021, that’s a lot of people to collectively punish for one guy.
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
About 76,000 afghans were brought over post 2021, that’s a lot of people to collectively punish for one guy.
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Trump vows to destroy another national monument in his renovation quest to "fix Washington DC." #RESIST
newrepublic.com/post/203747/...
newrepublic.com/post/203747/...
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Trump vows to destroy another national monument in his renovation quest to "fix Washington DC." #RESIST
newrepublic.com/post/203747/...
newrepublic.com/post/203747/...
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His pursuit of a trillion-dollar payout makes more sense after you learn of his plan to buy controlling interests in Latveria and Wakanda and purge them of wokeness.
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
His pursuit of a trillion-dollar payout makes more sense after you learn of his plan to buy controlling interests in Latveria and Wakanda and purge them of wokeness.
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Venezuelans considering collaboration: take note.
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Venezuelans considering collaboration: take note.
Standard GOP technique of seizing control of the narrative before anybody—including the CIA director—has any information.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Standard GOP technique of seizing control of the narrative before anybody—including the CIA director—has any information.
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
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Ahmed Chalabi 2.0: The Nobelest Prize
NYT reporting that Nobel Laureate María Corina Machado lied to Trump about Maduro´s role in the drug trade to prompt a US invasion... welcome back the WMDs
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Ahmed Chalabi 2.0: The Nobelest Prize
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Why POC collectively hold our breath when there’s a mass shooting or high profile crime before the suspect is even identified:
• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
🧵
• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
🧵
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Why POC collectively hold our breath when there’s a mass shooting or high profile crime before the suspect is even identified:
• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
🧵
• Afghan man shoots a National Guard member:
With zero knowledge of the background or motive, the right screams that Muslims are terrorists and must be deported.
🧵
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Just read, like less than an hour ago, this review by @jdnicoll.bsky.social jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/holy-...
Holy Fool
M. T. Anderson’s 2024 Nicked is a stand-alone historical heist novel.
Bari, an Italian city on the Adriatic, is plagued by 1) Normans, and by 2) disease. While there is no known cure for the first, th...
jamesdavisnicoll.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Just read, like less than an hour ago, this review by @jdnicoll.bsky.social jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/holy-...
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Witkoff doesn't appear to want Russia to stop fighting.
From Anne Appelbaum:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
From Anne Appelbaum:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia’s Side?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Witkoff doesn't appear to want Russia to stop fighting.
From Anne Appelbaum:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
From Anne Appelbaum:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Part of the problem is people think what persuades them is logic and facts.
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Part of the problem is people think what persuades them is logic and facts.
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
In reality, most people's opinions are shaped primarily what they perceive to be the views of the community they're in.
So if you hang out with Nazis all day, it starts to feel "normal."
Right. It's much worse under Miller-Trump than ever before, but the rules completely broke down years ago.
Comprehensive reform is needed, not more cruelty.
Comprehensive reform is needed, not more cruelty.
You know how they say immigration is fine as long as people follow the rules?
Guess what? They’re lying.
Read these heartbreaking stories:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Guess what? They’re lying.
Read these heartbreaking stories:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Right. It's much worse under Miller-Trump than ever before, but the rules completely broke down years ago.
Comprehensive reform is needed, not more cruelty.
Comprehensive reform is needed, not more cruelty.
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You know how they say immigration is fine as long as people follow the rules?
Guess what? They’re lying.
Read these heartbreaking stories:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Guess what? They’re lying.
Read these heartbreaking stories:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
You know how they say immigration is fine as long as people follow the rules?
Guess what? They’re lying.
Read these heartbreaking stories:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Guess what? They’re lying.
Read these heartbreaking stories:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Sorry, I'm wrong about this. Nicholas of Myra is correctly known as Nicholas of Bari, not that he had anything personally to do with Bari (on the Adriatic coast of southeastern Italy) but because 800 years after his death a company of Bari merchants stole his relics from the church in Myra...
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sorry, I'm wrong about this. Nicholas of Myra is correctly known as Nicholas of Bari, not that he had anything personally to do with Bari (on the Adriatic coast of southeastern Italy) but because 800 years after his death a company of Bari merchants stole his relics from the church in Myra...
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No contract, no coffee.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
No contract, no coffee.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
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James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
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If you’re wondering why there’s a lull in the Epstein files discussion, it’s because the law that just passed gave Pamela Jo 30 days to release the files. So we’re all waiting to see how she tries to sabotage it. The discussion will pick back up in earnest on December 20th.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you’re wondering why there’s a lull in the Epstein files discussion, it’s because the law that just passed gave Pamela Jo 30 days to release the files. So we’re all waiting to see how she tries to sabotage it. The discussion will pick back up in earnest on December 20th.
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Trump take beer school
Trump’s immigration policies have cost Chicago a world famous brewing school
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal
“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”
World-famous brewing institution leaving U.S. for Canada
A renowned American beer brewing school is heading north and getting ready to settle in at a new address in Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Trump take beer school
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My ranking of Star Wars films, from best to worst:
The Seven Samurai
The Wrath of Khan
The Magnificent Seven
Coriolanus
The Big Sleep
King Lear
Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle
Star Wars
The Seven Samurai
The Wrath of Khan
The Magnificent Seven
Coriolanus
The Big Sleep
King Lear
Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle
Star Wars
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
My ranking of Star Wars films, from best to worst:
The Seven Samurai
The Wrath of Khan
The Magnificent Seven
Coriolanus
The Big Sleep
King Lear
Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle
Star Wars
The Seven Samurai
The Wrath of Khan
The Magnificent Seven
Coriolanus
The Big Sleep
King Lear
Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle
Star Wars
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Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30
Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30
Indigenous and tribal fishing communities on Brazil's Amazon coast, their survival and livelihoods depends on fishing
dlvr.it
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Accelerating Climate Change and Global Inequality: Indigenous People were the Heroes of COP30
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The end of this is revealing: if you have the resources to file a federal lawsuit, they might give up and give you your green card.
Otherwise you're probably screwed.
Otherwise you're probably screwed.
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The end of this is revealing: if you have the resources to file a federal lawsuit, they might give up and give you your green card.
Otherwise you're probably screwed.
Otherwise you're probably screwed.
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I guess somebody forget to tell Kash that they had the suspect in custody because he kept droning on that they would stop at nothing to find the perpetrator.
What an embarrassment he is...
What an embarrassment he is...
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I guess somebody forget to tell Kash that they had the suspect in custody because he kept droning on that they would stop at nothing to find the perpetrator.
What an embarrassment he is...
What an embarrassment he is...
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Trump’s net worth has grown by $3 billion since he took office. That’s not a coincidence.
bit.ly/4oV46sG
bit.ly/4oV46sG
A New Era of Crony Capitalism
Washington hasn’t seen graft like this for at least a century.
www.brennancenter.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump’s net worth has grown by $3 billion since he took office. That’s not a coincidence.
bit.ly/4oV46sG
bit.ly/4oV46sG