BLF
@blf7.bsky.social
retired educator, painter, ukulele player, amateur photographer, lover of democracy
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The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr.
Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr.
Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered.
www.politico.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr.
Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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No one knows the Russians the way Ukrainians know Russians. There’s a thousand years of history between them. For hundreds of years, Ukraine has been fending off Russian political and cultural domination.
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March 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
No one knows the Russians the way Ukrainians know Russians. There’s a thousand years of history between them. For hundreds of years, Ukraine has been fending off Russian political and cultural domination.
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Bezos announced WaPo opinions will “be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” There are deep problems with such an approach. Here I propose to the WaPo an oped about just what it would mean to support freedom
snyder.substack.com/p/positive-f...
snyder.substack.com/p/positive-f...
Positive freedom for the Post
An actual submission, this time
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Bezos announced WaPo opinions will “be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” There are deep problems with such an approach. Here I propose to the WaPo an oped about just what it would mean to support freedom
snyder.substack.com/p/positive-f...
snyder.substack.com/p/positive-f...
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Trump isn’t just rootin’ for Putin; he’s puttin’ out for Putin.
New: “It was a sickening spectacle: the man who tried to upend democracy bullying the man who is fighting for democracy.”
#MaureenDowd @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
#MaureenDowd @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Rootin’ for Putin
Trump and Vance in a gross betrayal of the West.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Trump isn’t just rootin’ for Putin; he’s puttin’ out for Putin.
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Trump is simply repeating a Putin talking point here. Russia has insisted on intervening in basic issues of Ukrainian sovereignty for more than a decade. Now Trump is doing Putin’s PR work, making unsustainable arguments for an unjustifiable invasion.
www.axios.com/2025/02/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/02/18/t...
Trump levels stunning criticisms against Zelensky after Russia talks
Trump's comments about Ukraine's domestic politics will likely put more pressure on Zelensky ahead of possible negotiations to end the war.
www.axios.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Trump is simply repeating a Putin talking point here. Russia has insisted on intervening in basic issues of Ukrainian sovereignty for more than a decade. Now Trump is doing Putin’s PR work, making unsustainable arguments for an unjustifiable invasion.
www.axios.com/2025/02/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/02/18/t...
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Trump is just there to provide moral cover for Putin by musing about invading neighbors.
Trump’s musings about Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal startled America’s allies and delighted foreign foes. In Russia, they were interpreted to mean that he isn’t really opposed to foreign wars of conquest after all.
My latest for @thedailybeast:
www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-insi...
My latest for @thedailybeast:
www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-insi...
Kremlin Insiders Reveal How Trump Is Already Secretly Helping Putin
Putin’s top propagandists highlight yet more similarities between Putin and Trump and explain how the President-elect is already helping the Kremlin.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Trump is just there to provide moral cover for Putin by musing about invading neighbors.
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If it wasn't for the Bush Administration and Trump, we wouldn't be in debt.
December 30, 2024 at 2:04 AM
If it wasn't for the Bush Administration and Trump, we wouldn't be in debt.
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December 23, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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An important point.
December 29, 2024 at 7:58 PM
An important point.
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[Hitler's] rules were: NEVER ALLOW the PUBLIC (MAGA) to COOL OFF; never admit a wrong; never concede good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; blame the enemy for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie; repeat www.salon.com/2022/02/03/t...
The psychological reason that so many fall for the "Big Lie"
There's a counterintuitive explanation for why big lies may be easier to believe than small ones
www.salon.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:31 AM
[Hitler's] rules were: NEVER ALLOW the PUBLIC (MAGA) to COOL OFF; never admit a wrong; never concede good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; blame the enemy for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie; repeat www.salon.com/2022/02/03/t...
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Trump has made it ABSURDLY easy to buy influence. Here's a guy under SEC investigation who just happened to buy $30 million of Trump's new crypto token
November 30, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Trump has made it ABSURDLY easy to buy influence. Here's a guy under SEC investigation who just happened to buy $30 million of Trump's new crypto token
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The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.
November 27, 2024 at 11:26 PM
The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.
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Everyone should read this. Especially journalists.
November 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Everyone should read this. Especially journalists.
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Starting a phony transgender bathroom debate and hiding behind the guise of “protecting women” to distract from your attempts to push through the confirmations of alleged rapists, sex traffickers, and fraudsters at the highest levels of government is peak Republican Party.
November 21, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Starting a phony transgender bathroom debate and hiding behind the guise of “protecting women” to distract from your attempts to push through the confirmations of alleged rapists, sex traffickers, and fraudsters at the highest levels of government is peak Republican Party.
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Once you realize that Trump isn’t nominating cabinet members to RUN agencies but DESTROY them, it makes more sense.
November 20, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Once you realize that Trump isn’t nominating cabinet members to RUN agencies but DESTROY them, it makes more sense.
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Shame on every journalist that amplified Trump's Project 2025 denials- especially the fact checkers that took Democrats to task on this topic. You all knew Trump was lying to mislead & confuse voters and now there are at least 3 P2025 authors in the Trump admin.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...
November 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Shame on every journalist that amplified Trump's Project 2025 denials- especially the fact checkers that took Democrats to task on this topic. You all knew Trump was lying to mislead & confuse voters and now there are at least 3 P2025 authors in the Trump admin.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...
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More importantly, was only a few weeks before successful vaccine trial results (which everyone properly looking at prelim data was optimistic about). Baffling to propose a ‘let’s have a massive epidemic’ strategy at this point (especially as some signatories claimed immunity waned very quickly).
"Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal," wrote Jay Bhattacharya, right before the largest COVID death wave. In the year following his "Declaration," there were >510,000 more COVID deaths, more than double the total when he published it.
November 16, 2024 at 11:46 PM
More importantly, was only a few weeks before successful vaccine trial results (which everyone properly looking at prelim data was optimistic about). Baffling to propose a ‘let’s have a massive epidemic’ strategy at this point (especially as some signatories claimed immunity waned very quickly).
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Moon dressed up as Uranus
November 17, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Moon dressed up as Uranus
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In 1949, Albert Einstein wrote WHY SOCIALISM.
Here is an extract.
Here is an extract.
November 12, 2024 at 2:47 PM
In 1949, Albert Einstein wrote WHY SOCIALISM.
Here is an extract.
Here is an extract.
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3 years ago Twitter suppressing deadly covid misinformation was viewed as a partisan attack on Republicans that generated months of performative outrage and resulted in congressional hearings. Today the owner of the platform literally took a job in the Trump administration. 🤔
November 13, 2024 at 12:58 AM
3 years ago Twitter suppressing deadly covid misinformation was viewed as a partisan attack on Republicans that generated months of performative outrage and resulted in congressional hearings. Today the owner of the platform literally took a job in the Trump administration. 🤔
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Let me state this is bluntly as I can, as a biographer of both Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Vladimir Putin is now inside the U.S. government, with visibility into absolutely everything. He has that access through Trump, Musk, and David Sacks.
We are fully infiltrated. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...
We are fully infiltrated. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...
Elon Musk Puts His Imprint on the Trump Transition at Mar-a-Lago
He’s on the patio. He’s on the golf course. Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world’s richest man.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Let me state this is bluntly as I can, as a biographer of both Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Vladimir Putin is now inside the U.S. government, with visibility into absolutely everything. He has that access through Trump, Musk, and David Sacks.
We are fully infiltrated. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...
We are fully infiltrated. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...