S Hawkins
@castlerockfarm.bsky.social
Policy nerd, farmer, native plant enthusiast, wildfire survivor, living where agricultural and environmental policy meet
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Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
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December 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
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They're gutting beloved businesses (like JoAnne's), hollowing out he retail sector while underperforming the S&P 500. Fantastic
"For the past several years, private equity’s annual returns have been lower than the S&P 500’s."
Execs still getting 7 figure salaries though. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...
Execs still getting 7 figure salaries though. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...
Once Wall Street’s High Flyer, Private Equity Loses Its Luster
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
They're gutting beloved businesses (like JoAnne's), hollowing out he retail sector while underperforming the S&P 500. Fantastic
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20 State AGs have sued Russell Vought for trying to starve the CFPB of funding.
Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers.
Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.
Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers.
Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
20 State AGs have sued Russell Vought for trying to starve the CFPB of funding.
Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers.
Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.
Since 2011, the CFPB has returned over $20B to consumers.
Without the Bureau, financial predators and scammers will have an easier time picking your pocket.
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At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions.
Some of these offenders owed money to victims of fraud. Now they won't get their money back.
Some of these offenders owed money to victims of fraud. Now they won't get their money back.
Trump’s pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims
In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president’s clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
At least 20 people who have received clemency from President Trump so far this year were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions.
Some of these offenders owed money to victims of fraud. Now they won't get their money back.
Some of these offenders owed money to victims of fraud. Now they won't get their money back.
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The Justice Dept is refusing to release all the Epstein files today? They are violating a law that Trump signed.
December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Justice Dept is refusing to release all the Epstein files today? They are violating a law that Trump signed.
How many things does this raging narcissist need to slap his name on? Good lord, it's beyond ridiculous
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
How many things does this raging narcissist need to slap his name on? Good lord, it's beyond ridiculous
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JUST IN: Judge Cobb blocks ICE's policy that limited Congress' ability to visit immigration detention facilities, saying it imposed illegal restrictions by requiring 7-day advanced notice and excluding ICE field offices.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
JUST IN: Judge Cobb blocks ICE's policy that limited Congress' ability to visit immigration detention facilities, saying it imposed illegal restrictions by requiring 7-day advanced notice and excluding ICE field offices.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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Couple of things here:
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Couple of things here:
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
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41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
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All the renewable energy projects Trump cancelled would be be bringing energy prices down over the next few years, but instead we'll all pay more to keep polluting the planet. And who will benefit? Evil forces like Exxon-Mobile, Russia and the Saudis.
Suozzi: Prices are up. Why? Because of the tariffs. Prices are going up in health insurance because of the cancellation of the premium tax credits. Prices are going up in energy because there’s new demand for energy at the same time they cut supply.
December 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
All the renewable energy projects Trump cancelled would be be bringing energy prices down over the next few years, but instead we'll all pay more to keep polluting the planet. And who will benefit? Evil forces like Exxon-Mobile, Russia and the Saudis.
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Californians who witness potentially unlawful conduct by federal agents can report what they saw to the state via a new online portal unveiled Wednesday. bit.ly/4iEt90I
📸 Gregory Bull, AP
📸 Gregory Bull, AP
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Californians who witness potentially unlawful conduct by federal agents can report what they saw to the state via a new online portal unveiled Wednesday. bit.ly/4iEt90I
📸 Gregory Bull, AP
📸 Gregory Bull, AP
This should be a much, much bigger story than it is, especially considering the pile on of Biden last year for every little gaff. This man is falling asleep in the middle of the day!
December 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This should be a much, much bigger story than it is, especially considering the pile on of Biden last year for every little gaff. This man is falling asleep in the middle of the day!
When I worked as a Senate staffer, CNN and C-Span were always on in multiple offices. Johnson is outright lying and unfit to be Speaker of the House
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
When I worked as a Senate staffer, CNN and C-Span were always on in multiple offices. Johnson is outright lying and unfit to be Speaker of the House
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Here’s a closer look at efforts aimed at giving endangered coho salmon places to hide from predators and ride-out storms at Muir Woods National Park: nbcbay.com/HuHOb0y
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Here’s a closer look at efforts aimed at giving endangered coho salmon places to hide from predators and ride-out storms at Muir Woods National Park: nbcbay.com/HuHOb0y
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck?!?
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck?!?
Seems like the perfect opportunity for Democrats to relentlessly hammer 47 for being wildly out of touch
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Seems like the perfect opportunity for Democrats to relentlessly hammer 47 for being wildly out of touch
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Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
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Stephen Miller thinks reminding people of their oaths of office is “calling for an insurrection,” which should tell you exactly how he feels about the Constitution
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Stephen Miller thinks reminding people of their oaths of office is “calling for an insurrection,” which should tell you exactly how he feels about the Constitution
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Trump threatening ABC’s broadcast license because a reporter asked about Epstein is exactly the authoritarian tell we’ve all seen coming. When a simple question sends a “president” into meltdown mode, it’s not the press that looks guilty.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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thehill.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Trump threatening ABC’s broadcast license because a reporter asked about Epstein is exactly the authoritarian tell we’ve all seen coming. When a simple question sends a “president” into meltdown mode, it’s not the press that looks guilty.
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
thehill.com/homenews/med...
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
thehill.com/homenews/med...
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.