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Curt Milton
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Long-time journo (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, MSN News), now kinda retired (editing a podcast). Very into photography.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cdmilton/
Isn’t Trump supposed to be the anti-drug president? Looks like he saw a fellow ex-president in legal trouble (like himself) and decided to help out.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I’m old enough to remember… oh never mind. These hypocrites don’t give a damn about their hypocrisy. They spend years falsely accusing various members of “the left” of doing what they have absolutely no problem and no shame doing themselves. The “censorship industrial complex” scam.
The White House web site now includes a "media bias" tracker with a leaderboard and an offender hall of shame. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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In case you didn’t realize SNAP is corporate welfare.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Photos from a Black Friday protest in Seattle on Nov. 28. A dedicated group braved the chill to deliver an anti-Trump and anti-consumerist message.

@maddow.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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people big mad at president psychomoron
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25

President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Joining MSNOW at 3 to discuss this, among other things
Hegseth is a dude-bro sporting some questionable tattoos, a creation of television who’s acting as if he won "The Apprentice: The Nuclear-Weapons Season."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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The irony of these people complaining about the invented dangers of immigrants and then welcoming brain pollution from overseas hustlers.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Sunrise takeoff from Providence, RI

#photography
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The horror! 😉
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Bad bus fire eastbound on the Tappan Zee Bridge just now. Traffic is a mess.
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Congratulations to Donald Trump for surpassing Barack Obama.
Donald Trump has now officially passed Obama's eight-year total of rounds of golf — in less than five years. I've added a chart to my tracker of Trump's golf/property visits to show just how far past Obama he's getting.
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Dementia J. Trump can’t even get through a sentence when all he has to do is read it. This is guy is sundowning pretty fast. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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A preliminary discussion to have a meeting to seek a consensus to begin forming the concepts of a plan.
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Trump has mostly avoided the effects of his administration’s most damaging decisions, aided by the media bubble that surrounds him. But the shutdown, already a GOP liability, is becoming harder to dismiss.
www.pbump.net/o/the-shutdo...
The shutdown is no longer ignorable
You can see why President Trump might not have been particularly worried about the government shutting down last month. During his first term in office, the government shutdown twice, once setting a n...
www.pbump.net
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Suspect the SNAP issue is going to become increasingly problematic both for Trump and Congressional Republicans because of the demographic skew of SNAP recipients bsky.app/profile/dese...
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
From the poll:

More broadly, 63 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s management of the federal government, up from 57 percent in April and 54 percent in February.
Breaking news: More Americans blame President Trump and Republicans in Congress than Democrats for the nearly month-long government shutdown, according to a Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
Americans blame Trump and GOP more than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds
Independents hold Trump and Republicans responsible for the shutdown by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos.
wapo.st
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Good to have @pbump.com back doing his weekly newsletter. Chapter 1 in this week's edition about the changing racial makeup of the U.S. is especially illuminating.
In case you were out of pocket yesterday afternoon: the second edition of my free newsletter came out. It’s ostensibly about data visualization, but the charts are a Trojan horse for commentary and jokes.

Perhaps you’ll enjoy it!
www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-ebbs-and...
The ebbs and flows of the nation
Prologue About that picture As you are likely aware, this newsletter is the resurrection of one that I wrote for years while I was at The Washington Post. That means that I am adjusting my muscle mem...
www.howtoreadthisch.art
October 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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President Trump posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media showing him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. He shared the video on Saturday, the same day that protesters participated in mass “No Kings” demonstrations.
Trump Posts Fake A.I. Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters
President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.
nyti.ms
October 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Organizers said more than 7 million people rallied across the country at 2,700+ 'No Kings' protests against the Trump admin in all 50 states.
October 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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No Kings 10.18.25 Seattle, WA
October 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM