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May I bring compassion and equanimity to the events of my life
and the events of the world.
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These two images of Chinese train driver Han Junjia were taken less than 30 years apart.
Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.
Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.
December 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
These two images of Chinese train driver Han Junjia were taken less than 30 years apart.
Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.
Transformative change is possible when it is relentlessly pursued.
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Literally had to go double-check, after seeing the reference to “dismal ticket sales” alongside the demand for $1 million in supposed damages, to confirm: It was a free concert.
December 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Literally had to go double-check, after seeing the reference to “dismal ticket sales” alongside the demand for $1 million in supposed damages, to confirm: It was a free concert.
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Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
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All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
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“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on
December 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on
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Our tax dollars could be going toward support systems for traumatized health care workers. Instead that money goes to ICE agents, who exist to cause more societal trauma.
it’s like the people in charge want everyone to be miserable.
it’s like the people in charge want everyone to be miserable.
My neighbor is a nurse who sees a lot of death and frequently comes home from her overnight shifts wrecked with trauma and I just think our health care workers need more support because they can’t be expected to carry all this while they all have PTSD from the pandemic
Why can’t we help them
Why can’t we help them
December 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our tax dollars could be going toward support systems for traumatized health care workers. Instead that money goes to ICE agents, who exist to cause more societal trauma.
it’s like the people in charge want everyone to be miserable.
it’s like the people in charge want everyone to be miserable.
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Are you guys getting it? There isn’t some magic formula that makes a president impeachable, no specific bar that must be reached. If the House and Senate want him out, he’s gone.
Why do I keep hammering on this? Because I want to make clear that 🤡 isn‘t the problem. Congress is the problem.
Why do I keep hammering on this? Because I want to make clear that 🤡 isn‘t the problem. Congress is the problem.
Does anyone know the exact text of the impeachment article that got Andrew Johnson impeached?
Here it is:
"Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors."
That's it.
Here it is:
"Resolved, That Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors."
That's it.
December 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Are you guys getting it? There isn’t some magic formula that makes a president impeachable, no specific bar that must be reached. If the House and Senate want him out, he’s gone.
Why do I keep hammering on this? Because I want to make clear that 🤡 isn‘t the problem. Congress is the problem.
Why do I keep hammering on this? Because I want to make clear that 🤡 isn‘t the problem. Congress is the problem.
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Time for the best Christmas post
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Time for the best Christmas post
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Treason for the Season
December 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Treason for the Season
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Author Sarah Kendzior on the power of us, the work of seeking truth and the courage to know yourself.
#ThePowerOfUs #SeekingTruth
#ThePowerOfUs #SeekingTruth
December 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Author Sarah Kendzior on the power of us, the work of seeking truth and the courage to know yourself.
#ThePowerOfUs #SeekingTruth
#ThePowerOfUs #SeekingTruth
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It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's incredible how much of this stuff is just out in the open, but because Trump said "Russiagate hoax!" 5000 times, the media was brainwashed into treating it like a nothing story instead of one of a ten alarm scandal
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
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I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
Context for Trump withdrawing dozens of ambassadors
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
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Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
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Hi @mcuban.bsky.social what if instead of fighting with @nerdjpg.com you funded the Museum of the Earth. Less Musk more Mellon for 2026
@mcuban.bsky.social it would cost $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the US, which is considerably less than it would cost to create Jurassic Park.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
An Engine of Fossil Discovery Fights Its Own Extinction
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Hi @mcuban.bsky.social what if instead of fighting with @nerdjpg.com you funded the Museum of the Earth. Less Musk more Mellon for 2026
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Good. Every one of those places is a spy center. Get 'em out.
🇵🇱 Poland closed Russia’s last consulate in Gdańsk, leaving only the embassy in Warsaw.
December 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Good. Every one of those places is a spy center. Get 'em out.
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Another awesome thread (and follow)
Remembering Yousuf Karsh on his birthday 🎂
A self-portrait with Kermit & Jim Henson, 1990
"Yousuf Karsh, in his powerful portraits, transforms the human face into legend."
- Peter Pollack
A self-portrait with Kermit & Jim Henson, 1990
"Yousuf Karsh, in his powerful portraits, transforms the human face into legend."
- Peter Pollack
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Another awesome thread (and follow)
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1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
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The inaugural Kennedy Center Honors gala was hosted by Leonard Bernstein. The honorees were Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers, and Arthur Rubinstein. Something to think about tonight as we salute the artists behind "Love Gun" and "Stop! Or My Mom WIll Shoot!"
December 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The inaugural Kennedy Center Honors gala was hosted by Leonard Bernstein. The honorees were Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers, and Arthur Rubinstein. Something to think about tonight as we salute the artists behind "Love Gun" and "Stop! Or My Mom WIll Shoot!"
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"As a side note, I find it amusing that some commentators decry Bluesky is left-coded when by default it is purely chronological. Far right ideas have no popular traction — they only exist with billionaire subsidies."
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Fascintern Media
We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet...
berjon.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"As a side note, I find it amusing that some commentators decry Bluesky is left-coded when by default it is purely chronological. Far right ideas have no popular traction — they only exist with billionaire subsidies."
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berjon.com/fascintern-m...
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This is probably the most important legal case over whether the new Missouri congressional map is in effect for the 2026 election cycle.
Just in: We filed a lawsuit on behalf of Missouri voters against the State for violating Missourians’ right to referendum by enacting the HB1 congressional maps before voters have the opportunity to approve or reject the measure as provided by the state constitution.
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is probably the most important legal case over whether the new Missouri congressional map is in effect for the 2026 election cycle.
Individual postmasters will now be able to influence elections.
NEW: Ohio has just restricted mail voting, banning the so-called 'grace period' that allows mail ballots to come in the day after Election Day as long as they've been postmarked in time.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Individual postmasters will now be able to influence elections.
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The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.
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First concerning thought: The US is giving Grok access to Pentagon systems? The exchange unavoidably goes both ways, so they’re handing an Elon Musk company tons of valuable, sensitive data.
Second concerning thought: That already happened with DOGE.
Second concerning thought: That already happened with DOGE.
Pentagon taps Musk's xAI to boost sensitive government workflows, support military operations
Pentagon partners with Elon Musk's xAI to deploy Grok AI across military systems, giving 3 million personnel advanced AI tools by 2026 for sensitive tasks.
www.foxnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
First concerning thought: The US is giving Grok access to Pentagon systems? The exchange unavoidably goes both ways, so they’re handing an Elon Musk company tons of valuable, sensitive data.
Second concerning thought: That already happened with DOGE.
Second concerning thought: That already happened with DOGE.